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I'm really pleased you mentioned stretching your wrists. I used to work for a university in New Zealand, which had a number of people off work because of RSI injuries. As New Zealand is a welfare state, the university was paying near-full wages to these ineffective workers, and some of them didn't come back for months or years.

They hired a nurse just for RSI injuries. The first and most important rule was "Muscles don't rebuild if you don't use them, so if they are hurting, you have to use them, not protect them." Everyone had been putting their wrists into wrist supports (which is what you would do if it was a broken bone or broken skin), and the pain wouldn't go away because the wrists weren't active, and thus weren't healing.

Whenever I see someone wearing a wrist support, I bite my tongue and try not to tell them to get it off, as its making it worse. I think I just sound like a self-important jerk, so I try not to.

Going to the gym, exercising my shoulders and wrists, is the best RSI medicine I've ever found.
Wondering about this stat, 'Oddly enough, a new entrepreneur is more likely to get funded by a VC firm (compared to a tried and true one.)'

Is this just because their are more first time entrepreneurs pitching, and therefore more of them are getting funded? or their really is a higher likelyhood of first timers getting funded?
As someone who works in Government in Australia in a non-IT area this is a huge deal.

So much of what we do is simple database - form type applications. To be able to develop these in a more agile, less pay IBM a billion dollars type way, will revolutionise IT in Government.
You can write it either way in CS. Anyway, saying that CS is a huge improvement over JS doesn't imply that every single feature of CS is better than its JS counterpart.
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Compressing/decompressing large quantities of data is, at the very least.
Or just look for identical CC text on multiple shows/channels.
I've been typing away on computers for fifteen years now and, knock on wood, never had any wrist problems. Split keyboards help a lot.

However, in the last few years, I've had increasing difficulty with my neck and shoulders, one one side mostly. I am also an avid whitewater kayaker, and the first time my shoulder cried out in protest, I put it down to making some wrong moves while playboating. Physical therapy and a break from the water took care of it eventually. So naturally I stopped the exercises, and the shoulder pain came back with a vengeance the first time I was back on the water.

Now paying attention to my posture, and doing neck and shoulder stretches several times a day, is slowly improving my condition. So don't forget to not only support your wrists, but also to support your whole lower arm, either by sitting very close to the table or by having a decent ergonomic chair with adjustable arm rests. It prevents your shoulders from hunching up and developing all sorts of knots in your shoulder and back muscles. Your neck will thank you.
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A revolution in the way we pay?
AMA. ;-)
I pay $50/month for my line and another $35 for my wife. I don't spend a lot of time on the phone and I don't text at all, but I have unlimited data. More importantly, I barely bother to look at my bill because I know what it's going to be in advance. The lack of admin more than makes up for any minor economic inefficiencies - I don't grudge the phone company making a profit off my relative underuse of the voice service.
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How on earth did you manage to ship three Rails releases on the single nicest day of the year here in Seattle?

Also, serious question: is there a target release date for Rails 3.1.0?
Reminds me of a ME310 project we did at Stanford. Problem statement was so vague but it was around disabilities and keeping people active in the winter. What was my first reaction? Step into a wheelchair and spend the next 4 days in it completely playing the role. 100% immersion! Then made a list of every possible experience i could go through in this situation and did as many as i possibly could. Now that is immersion my friends and it was key to our team really understanding the problems and building rapport with some of our users. I have to say it was also a magical, eye opening experience.
This statement relates to the support support personnel and customers being ITAR compliant.
Fantastic video, but doesn't apply in the case of the OP, who was doing work for a client in China, where the legal system doesn't work the same way.

In China, if you have an ironclad contract and no other leverage, you have no leverage.

In cases such as this, it's best to take payment up-front for a portion of the work, either in the form of a deposit (for fixed-bid), or a retainer (for hourly work).

This means you get money up front, which is nice. More importantly, you get something I like to call fiscal inertia -- namely, if a client has paid once, they're far more likely to pay in the future.
Haha! I am a glutton for punishment, that is how. Also I plan to drink beer shortly.

Yes, as long as there are no crazy problems, I plan to release the final on August 30th.

EDIT: I meant to say the 30th! :-(

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core/msg/f47f9e4a...
Of course not. That's the whole point: it's an ongoing, cascading issue. The longer humanity exists, the better our medicine, the more effective our agriculture, the more poverty allows the population to boom without solving the larger problems of what to do for all these new humans once they arrive in much less than ideal circumstances. As time goes on, more and more people exist with fewer and fewer opportunities to access and leverage useful skills, decreasing the average effectiveness of the population overall.

It's all terribly Malthusian, I know – I look forward to a Dwarf Wheat-esque event that's beyond our ability to see right now.
If businesses aren't hiring, it's because they don't see the benefits of a new hire exceeding the costs of a new hire. Begging businesses to please please ignore the costs in the spirit of amity and, ahem, not proving the numerous policies the NYT has agitated for that have the effect of raising the cost of an employee a bad idea (a full listing of which would take quite a while!), isn't going to work. Any business foolish enough to do so will simply find itself outcompeted. It turns out employers are not in fact a font of endless money that can be without cost harnessed for the purposes of social engineering by the government. Cost/benefit analyses can never be ignored.
It's interesting how easily people mistake orders of magnitude when they are using different units of measure simultanously -- in the article you linked, first they say:

give it a mark-up from 0.03p to 95p per half litre;

and then:

In other words, Dasani is less healthy than regular tap water, but at more than thirty times the price.

It's not thirty times the price -- it's three thousand.

It reminds me of a Verizon Math story[1].

[1] - http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
As well as Rails 3.1.0.rc6
http://aws.amazon.com/federal/ says they support FISMA Low, but http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/08/new-aws-govcloud-us-regio... says FISMA Moderate. Which is it?
Where did you read Frederick Taylor say "More hours are better"? He advocated getting the most done in the shortest time possible actually. This goes against what he preached.
Most of the problems can be eliminated with...

1. Use a standup desk
2. Use a vertical keyboard (http://safetype.com/)
3. Stretch every 4 hours

Using a wristguard really doesn't do anything to prevent long term problems.
As a user, I'd certainly prefer for apps that I download to use the built in system functionality (like C2DM). One of the advantages of C2DM is a standard listener that used by all apps, rather than have multiple listeners (each potentially causing battery life impact). If the C2DM API is hard to use, it makes a hell of a lot more sense to write a helper wrapper around it, rather than add another listener.
Aaron, we're privileged to have you as a maintainer. Keep up the great work.
His real identity becoming more widely known quite possibly had something to do with his disappearance.
Thanks. I'm doing my best! :-)
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Well, this program is essentially spitting out probabilities, so I guess it's a question of how predictive it actually is and how probable "probable cause" needs to be.

Another question is: how will criminals respond if/when this becomes widespread?
I've read many of your comments below, and you seem absolutely convinced that the only way to get coverage is by having contacts in the industry, or by being in Silicon Valley.

Well, I can tell you as somebody who is definitely not in Silicon Valley, has never raised money, has no contacts with tech blogs and has been featured on TechCrunch, TechRadar and others, that it isn't only about connections.

You are absolutely convinced that your app should be covered by these blogs, but the blogs are covering apps that are new/different/special.

I don't mean to be harsh, and it doesn't mean that your app doesn't have a market, but the 'features' you are touting about text-only, less data usage, less costs, etc. Aren't selling points for the general population. I live in Canada where data usage costs are MUCH higher than in the US so you'd think that I should care about these things. But the plain facts are that css, images, etc. are barely a minor percentage of data usage. Video uses data, music to a lesser extent, skype, etc. These are the data hogs. You've created a product that might fit a very small niche, and you sound like you are trying to get the major outlets to cover it. That isn't going to happen unless you can pitch them a story about why it matters, and where it has made a difference.

Think about how your app has actually helped somebody do something that they couldn't do otherwise. What is the true benefit of text-only web? Make it personal.

By the sounds of things you may be trying to pitch your app based on 'features' which rarely matter. Twitter wasn't the blog darling because they only allowed 140 characters, they got all the attention because they allowed you to communicate quickly with a large group of people, and the brevity made the content easy to digest. 'Tell your friends about the great band that's playing at xyz, with Twitter'. What would your headline be? Is it interesting and would anybody care?

You've got to work on your marketing, though I also think you need to work on the reason your product exists.
Wrist supports are one of the worst things you could buy for yourself. All you're doing is further weakening the supporting muscles, and making the injury worse.

Buy yourself a set of climbing shoes, a chalk bag, and a membership to a climbing gym. Your wrists, not to mention your whole body, will get a lot stronger, and RSI will become a thing of the past.

Completely anecdotal, but I used to climb a lot, before moving to Tokyo, and since I've been here, haven't been out once... and you know what? Wrist pain.

Exercise. Your body needs it.
As an university researcher (faculty at University of Miami) I agree that efficiency of spending is very important - what is interesting is that researchers are often unaware that by making use of economies of scale that exist at specialized core facilities it is often cheaper than conducting experiments in house (a good example is cloning).

In some fields salaries might comprise the majority of lab costs but in biology this is not the case - experimental costs which can be spent as the researcher sees fit comprise the majority of costs. These costs can be outsourced to pay core facilities (currently $2B is spent outsourcing experiments to core facilities annually in the US).

While i agree that it is possible for researchers to establish where specialized equipment resides by reading papers and chatting with colleagues at conferences this is obviously inefficient and an incomplete record of potential providers. A centralized marketplace is a more efficient method for identifying providers.
I'm not sure. I can't install Lion because it doesn't have Spaces.
Now this is how you do outage responses & notifications.

I'm not even a Linode customer but this kind of clarity and response is exactly what I want to see from my actual service providers.
It'll take a management change and some serious actions.

Let's make no mistake, the company has been compeltely and 100% opposed to Linux for a very long time now. What exactly would it take to constitue a change of heart? Seriously? I would think they could extend patent amnesty to all Linux distributions. They could embrace the Mono project. They could acutally release some software on Linux. How about media player codecs? When they come up with something like JPEG-XR or VC1, how about an MIT or BSD or GPL licensed reference implementation?

Short of porting a major application to Linux (Office?) I think a sizable contingent would never believe them. As others have mentioned, if you're building web apps, how do they even matter other than having a crappy browser that you have to code for?
Comparing rails and nodejs isn't really a fair fight. Rails has a ton of shiny bits that bare node simply doesn't. Comparing the two on speed alone isn't going to be overly productive.
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>tv has nothing to do with it.

...k? I'm making the case for vapid content on television being symptomatic of declining intelligence/skills. It's not causal.

As to African Americans, well, okay. But my experience surrounds Latinos. In Latino culture, we've got Catholicism encouraging as much reproduction as possible while declaring contraception sinful. There's also a lot of cultural misogyny, which entitles men to take what they want, while robbing women of the agency necessary to assert their own needs. (I was spared all of this because my mom is gay. Who knows how many siblings I'd have otherwise)

I don't really see a way out of that for several more generations at least. And I'm not terribly surprised you don't see those trends – statistically, if you're on Hacker News, you're very unlikely to have had an upbringing where you got to see any of this firsthand. And that's the point.
Yes but consider how dependent governments have become on software like MS Office. If Amazon gets governments overly dependent on it, then they become a massive cash-cow. It's probably more than worth the risk to non-classified data from Amazon's POV.
iTunes has iTunes University where a lot of educational videos can be found. If I'm not mistaken you can find the same videos on YouTube at Stanford's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity
Looks fantastic! Great work.
Until i read "the library depends on ARC for memory management" - unfortunately that'll rule out its use for me :(
Having said that, i look forward to one-day-when i get to use this in an ARC app :)
I'm not a fan of wrist supports for everyday use. My strategy:

1) Kinesis keyboard
2) trackball on left and right side of keyboard, to balance mousing
3) lift weights 3 times/week
4) fish oil supplements once a day (mild anti-inflammatory)
5) standing desk

Having trackballs on both sides of the keyboard while standing lets you CODE LIKE A BOSS.
As of right now, there are 6 open issues marked for the 3.1 milestone: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues?milestone=1&state=...

That number has fluctuated over the last few weeks, and there is essentially only one "old" one in there still (opened prior to June 16).

It's getting close...
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Can you use it to make belgian beer?
We actually launched a very similar website with the same goal earlier this year which is cool because it validates our idea. Works almost the same way! http://zombal.com/
This is probably off-topic, but after the fuss that was raised about the staleness of the english Ruby site (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839580), why does ruby-forum.com still look terrible?

The bottom of this page even has a "Powered by RForum" link that 404s. I know the forums aren't meant to be "public facing", but every time I get a ruby-forum link from google, I almost immediately hit back and move on to the next link (even though a lot of the times, ruby-forum has exactly what I'm looking for -- just buried under a wall of mono-spaced text).
Saw this, figured that on the off-chance this saves me some aggravation that that aggravation would be worth $3.99. Saw the words "my store" and realized that in all likelihood I'd have to type out my entire credit card number, billing address, email address, potentially create a password, and came to the conclusion that that level of immediate aggravation would offset the potential of saving me future aggravation. Went to the App Store hoping that I could pay you there with a sum effort of maybe 25 key presses, total. Found that I couldn't and was disappointed. Please get this on the App Store, let me give you my money.
Even if -they- never aggregated the data, does that really mean that nobody aggregated the data? If the clients get raw data, couldn't they (privately) swap data with another client? I assume that if it can be done, it will be done.
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There's a difference between bad and empty.

Even "bad" storytelling can require historical context or reasonable attention span to consume.

On the other hand, celebrity reporting and the rise of reality TV require absolutely no mental commitment or understanding of anything outside of what is immediately presented. I assert that, as the number of people whose economic circumstances prevent any sort of useful education grows, demand for empty content grows accordingly. There just won't be enough people with enough mental furniture to make use of anything more sophisticated.
QVGA (320x480) is a different aspect ratio than most Android phones which are 480x800 or 480x854. The size makes it look bad, but the aspect ratio makes designing a layout that looks good on all handsets really hard. Guess which one will get left out.
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Thanks for taking the time to look over the tests in such detail!

MySQL's EXPLAIN output says that it's using the indexes. PostgreSQL's EXPLAIN output says that it's _not_ (and from what I can tell so far, this is a deliberate design decision by PostgreSQL developers). r17 "loses" to MySQL on one query and "wins" on the other. So I agree that r17 has a much harder job competing against indexed data...but with r17 you didn't have to wait to create the index....not such a big deal for OLTP, a much bigger deal with OLAP.

I would like to redo the bakeoff(s) with compressed InnoDB tables but as they can take several days to run and life is short, first I should focus on Hadoop as we both agree that is more relevant.

Re the data size issue: the 54GB raw data set compresses to 28GB. The data generator I use creates data that's more random than the "real world" and so doesn't compress very well...makes life harder for r17, which is what I want. The smaller data set for the SSD test compresses to about 13GB, which isn't ideal I agree...I should have bought a larger SSD, I didn't think that MySQL would make so many large temporary files :). To mitigate this issue I ensured that the data set was _not_ cached before I ran the r17 script.

I am very keen to find out the truth about r17's usefulness, thanks for your part in that. For the next bakeoff I'll provide more details about methods and machine behavior.
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Design patents also cannot protect functional elements of a design.
Not that bad, but only with US salary. Take into account average family income in Kenya.
> ...the tricky thing is to correlate the etag of the tracker resource with the rest of the requests that a user makes...

Not tricky though. Just put 1-pixel Etagged gif on every page. It gets requested on each page. Or just associate (server-side or client-side) the user's session cookie with the Etag.
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I'm seriously considering moving my instance to another data-center. The Fremont facility has seen some disproportionate down-time these past few months.
One thing that Chrome doesn't do is even when there are zero windows open, you still have to hold down Command-Q to quit. If no windows are open, there doesn't appear to be any danger in quitting right away--after all, the major mis-press is when you try to hit Command-W to close a window and instead hit Command-Q, but if there are no windows open, there's no reason to be hitting Command-W.
He prepared 'em several days ago, but was waiting on CVE numbers for the vulnerabilities the three releases fix.
Here is the relevant piece:

There's a section in Popular Crime where you create a mathematical system that could be used by juries in order to deduce an accused person's guilt, built around a list of criteria. It's basically a weighted point system. The example you use is Lizzie Borden,6 who you feel was not guilty (as least according to this point system). However, two murders were committed that day, and there does not appear to be any potential suspect except Lizzie Borden. She seems to be the only real option. So what do you make of Sherlock Holmes' fictional axiom that states, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"? If there is no other explanation for the Borden murders, what else are we supposed to conclude?

That Sherlock Holmes line is very, very interesting. It's false, and extremely arrogant, and very dangerous. That's not a real way to think about the world. This concept of eliminating the impossible — we could never do that. The whole idea of Sherlock Holmes is dangerous because it encourages people to think that — if they're intelligent enough — they could put all the pieces together in absolute terms. But the human mind is not sophisticated enough to do that. People are not that smart. It's not that Sherlock Holmes would need to be twice as smart as the average person; he'd have to be a billion times as smart as the average person.
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It's a nice gesture by Foster, for sure, but she'd have better used her money on other space projects.

The Alan Array of the Seti Institute will only be of much use if they can build out to 350 Arrays from the current 42. Supporting just $200,000 to keep the 42 operational isn't going to do anything but keep the pretty useless current array working!

Also just so you know SETI @ home doesn't rely on the Allan Array - they're separate.

The SETI Institute was pretty much a boondoggle: Alan gave them money to build an array of 350 telescopes, but they screwed up and only built 42, essentially wasting the funds. Here's other info: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/resources/seti/3304581.html