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That's a great point, thanks for looking it up I hadn't even thought of looking at it in pure dollar terms.

I was actually talking about this: 'Government employment is now 1.9 percent lower than it was at the start of the recovery, a drop of 430,000 jobs. In contrast, government employment rose by 1.1 percent (or 232,000 jobs) during the equivalent part of the last recovery.'

Pretty much anytime government employment is going DOWN, it is hard to argue that the response has been in any way keynesian.

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Yes. Disconnecting autopilot is among the first few items a pilot does in that situation. From the AOPA Guide to In-Flight Emergencies:

http://www.aopa.org/pilot/features/inflight9905.html

Otherwise, the plane will fight against the storm in ways that are detrimental to the flight.
that's exactly what he was saying.
And your faith that small companies actually use patents to defend themselves against big ones is a bit naive, too. If anything the big companies use their vast amount of patents to crush small startups that compete against them, even if they managed to get 2-3 puny patents. But the truth is many of them can't even afford to buy a lot of patents.
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I agree that in general open source hardware does not make sense. In the case of printers, though, there are a few companies like Kodak and Brother already using the "make money on the printer and don't try to make it back on toner" business model.
I am following the Minecraft story with interest. I think it is the best example of a game made with Agile developing practices: Individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, responding to change.

Notch has been in very close contact with the players of the game throughout development, and has a keen sense of what this mass of people is looking for.
We run it for mixcloud.com its awesome, saved us hundreds of hours of dev time easily.
Where are the 'successful startups' the post refers to? I don't think we can consider Pandora or Spotify/GrooveShark/Mog/Slacker/etc/etc successful as yet.

Even though Pandora is now a publicly traded company, it is not yet profitable, and it's 6 month stock chart is not exactly inspiring...
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I helped watch a friend's kid last weekend who has a remote-controlled insulin pump. The remote control refuses to dose without a recent blood-sugar test. Kid wants to eat, no you need to wait, we need to do a finger-prick test first ON the the remote so it knows your glucose level.

That, and the remote needs to establish an insulin baseline every few hours.

It's unclear whether the dose limiting is also hard-coded into the pump or is on the remote side only.

It does seem like a "one in a billion" attack but, given time and repeated access to the pump radio, it seems possible to say the least.

I assume that an adult diabetic is very aware of how glucose levels affect their ability to function and would notice when they start to drop off unexpectedly.
Sorry if this is a stupid question but when you use continuations-passing style, what happens to the stack in javascript? Does it clean it self up or does the language just keeps going functions all the way down and fills up?
A powerful weapon against frivolous patent claims whether they are brought up by patent trolls or litigious competitors is simply trying to invalidate such patents, or proving that you in fact does not violate patents in dispute.

Let me say that I completely agree. However, this assumes that pursuing such a defense is less costly than cross-licensing or other settlement options. Moreover it misses the fact that owning patents almost certainly deters competitors from suing in the first place. That's what mutually assured destruction is all about.
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One more:

Keep your "usage" blurb succinct and clear.

Don't clobber your users' terminals with two pages of output when they're not expecting it. If "yourapp", "yourapp -h" or "yourapp --invalid-flag" results in two screenfuls of information containing your app's license, installation instructions, contribution notes, an exhaustive listing of every single one of the 100 available subcommands, and a verbose representation of a configuration setting that 75% of your users won't care about, you're doing it wrong. (I'm looking at you, rvm).

This is similar to the idea of "You don't really understand something unless you can explain it so your grandmother gets it." Your app doesn't really have a sensible interface unless the top layer of its abstraction, or the most common commands, can be summarized in less than scrillions of lines of text. If you simply can't trim it down far enough, it's because you're breaking from the Unix philosophy and your utility is doing too much.
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I like to think that I should not be able to kill someone with a GNU Radio setup and a cheap laptop.

If you want to kill someone, there are considerably cheaper options available at your local big-box store's home and garden center.

Seriously, though, I do agree with your concern for systemic problems in security thinking. Given the vastly more concentrated effort required, I don't think it's a problem that one could theoretically kill with GNU Radio and a laptop, versus any of the hundreds of tools more readily repurposed as a murder weapon, but such exploits are best addressed while they are unfeasable.
I think a lot of people don't even realize such libraries are out there, or don't understand that there's a wheel being reinvented. ("It's just command line options. Why would you need a whole library to do that?")
This struck a chord with me. I grew up in rural Scotland, learning to program my MSX and the BBC Micros they had in our school. I picked up a lot of 'tech culture' from Byte magazine, which would sporadically appear in our local newsagent. Although I have been to the US a few times now, I've only been to the valley once, but walking through Palo Alto listening to everyone around talking tech I had the strangest feeling that in some way I felt 'at home'.
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You also have to remember that Minecraft as a Beta also happens to be more polished than the majority of pieces of 'software' that make it to market as final releases.

'Beta' in this situation is a modesty thing, I think.
I was going to reply, but dkokelly below summed up my thoughts exactly. By saving the lives of our soldiers, there is a very real chance that they will go on to take the lives of some enemy soldiers in the future. So, doing any business with the DoD you have to think about the possibility that your products will either directly or indirectly cause the loss of human life. Whether you agree with the mission or support the troops or not, some people don't like selling products that cause the indirect loss of human life.
I don't disagree. But the problem with this argument is that it's hard to find any creative or imaginative activity that doesn't potentially help you with programming.

Tinkering? Cooking? Music? Writing? Reading? Puzzles? Even sleeping? It's all potentially good.
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I've been debugging plenty of distributed/parallel processing systems by trace statements. It's not trivially easy, but its not too bad (its actually kind of fun).

In fact, I'm not exactly sure how you would debug a multi-process parallel system with an external debugger. Would you simultaneously use multiple debugger instances to attach to each process? That sounds like fun.

For a true, parallel system it's virtually impossible to "examine the entire program's behavior" at any one instance in time. Sure printing changes the timing of things, but unless you are single threaded, you are kidding yourself to think that a debugger also doesn't disrupt timings.
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Yes. But we are working with Mozilla on it and will have a working group set up soon.
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That's very much a matter of opinion. Personally, I would rather write Objective-C/J than Javascript.
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It appears Web Intents has taken the time-tested concept of an enterprise service bus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_service_bus) and used it in a non-enterprise application - namely social networking / bookmarking.

Here's a few ways that makes this promising:

- Using a common set of standard services makes communication application-agnostic

- It reduces dependencies across applications - applications can change, but the services remain the same

- Innovation will be driven by features, not by adoption of one application's API vs. another application's API - this plays into Google's philosophy that innovation should ultimately prevail

Interesting stuff.
You are off by at least an order of magnitude in your price estimates, milspec rugged robots are expensive but on the order of $30,000 - $100,000 each not $1 million. Now those are complex systems with articulated arms, complex comms, and full control station style remote. If the military spec'd out a simple system, like the one in this article, it would cost much less. An existing contractor like iRobot would be perfectly capable of producing it at a low cost. They make the existing pack bots used by the military as well as cheaper consumer grade robots like the Roomba.
Honestly, I'm not clear if you're arguing the validity of Gruber's claims or that you'd never heard of them.

I'm not saying that his audience is making any claim. I'm saying that his audience knows what claims Gruber is referring to. I do agree that sources rarely hurt, but in this case it doesn't seem crucial.

With that said, Gruber is the guy who did a crusade against Ina Fried because she only linked to a source and didn't spell out the author's full name. So given that, it's probably fair to stretch Gruber for his ommission of sources.
We also specifically want to avoid any sort of configuration file (see problems with appcache)
Ask HN: Django or ROR or CakePHP or else should I choose?
I am a computer major student and want to start working on my own idea, on which may be I could build a startup later on. Mostly, my ideas are web based so I haven't thought much about going to Python or going to C++ or anything else. I am not sure about which of the above Django/ROR/CakePhp/etc to chose! There are alot more, it's just that I found these popular than others. After searching inside hackernews posts and comments, I found myself even more confused in choosing between these.

What do you guys suggest me to use?

And yes, it's not about only one application! As I want to build my own startup, it also concerns about how much will I learn from them, which may help me in my other startups to come!
Yes, but note that multiprocessing rocks. It's just that celery uses it so extensively :) (and now also eventlet/gevent if that suits better)
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Nope. He argued that the judge was wrong, and then suggested that it was the judge's age that caused him to make an error.

What he didn't do is to use the judge's age in support of the first argument -- that would have been ad hominem.

http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html
This is posted with the largest disclaimer of I am not a lawyer ever

But I have always been giving the impression that investors prefer as a clean cap table as possible, particularly I remember one talking about a deal falling through because they had to collect 30+ signatures from various investors and friends and family rounds.
I can't comment on our marketing strategy, even if I were in the know I couldn't really do that.

However, it's very clear that the low end models are loss leaders so the worst thing you can do to us is buy a new printer and never buy supplies or buy off-brand ink.

On the higher end models the cost curve changes since lower volume = higher relative price. But those business-targeted printers tend to be compete on TCO, like you're saying, and customers analyze cost per page and support cost, the initial purchase price doesn't really weigh in that much. The $2500 printer will have to last longer, use better materials and have some warranty cost factored in. You're absolutely right that it's not a linear scale-up from your $49 dollar printer at home.
Nice hack, and I'm glad it worked out. Given all the other stuff a soldier carries I assume they don't all want to be toting RC trucks along as well.

That being said, history is full of examples of innovations in tactics on the battlefield becoming tactical doctrine later, the risk is that the last war's tactics won't be as applicable to the current war's tactics.

It would be great if the DoD could move more quickly to adopt working tactics but my friends who work and live in that world are very very much aware of how 'bad' tactics can get a lot of people killed and so there is a very healthy level of risk aversion to changing things too rapidly and without a lot of analysis.
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And skip to 87:30 (plus a wee bit) for Eric's take on lean publishing, including an absolutely priceless anecdote on the answer to "If I had data on actual customer behavior for this book, would you use that data to change how you would create/market the book?"

And I'm going to forever quote their answer on "Why I will probably not publish a book."
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Whoa. I think we're on the same side (reading your other posts here. Please do the same..).

I was merely pointing out (tongue in cheek) that one (the parent of my post) doesn't need to play the 'you're not anonymous anyway and cannot hide' card.

There are plenty of good reasons (one is just .. preference) to choose a pseudonym. I wanted to put a little perspective on the thread. Holding up for people that rely on this feature for their well-being is on a different level. You seem to come from that direction. I cannot comment on cases like that, because I'm ultimately lucky to have no such experiences and live a relaxed life.
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Here is a more "clickable" link
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The first bomb disposal robot was built from a powered wheelbarrow[1] controlled remotely by a length of string. Within three weeks it was being used in action in Northern Ireland and within months had become one of the most valuable tools for ordnance officers serving there. There's a long military tradition of improvisation and invention.

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A clean cap table is preferred, but e.g. 2-3 small gifts is fine. I would not advocate starting to give equity to 2nd cousins etc. :)

Maybe another option (more overhead) would be to set up an LLC for the family and gift the stock there...
You're right, it /would/ make for good TV drama: an evil nursing home wants to kick some malingering diabetics off of their rolls in order to make space for newer and more lucrative patients. The management cook up a scheme to hack the patients' insulin pumps in order to kill people quietly in their sleep. Our crack team of hackers is called to the murder scene when an potential victim's relative notices them behaving strangely on a morning when they visit along with an anomalously low blood sugar reading!

Yeah, it sounds a bit far-fetched even for TV.
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I'm not? What the hell was that walk in the woods for then??!!
http://vidcaster-media.s3.amazonaws.com/sites/99/videos/3033...

Works in Mac Chrome and Quicktime Player, should be easier to open on iPad by having it here.

I had to skip to 11:30 for the content.
I'm actually really interested in the idea of social networks becoming part of physical life and reducing our disconnectedness. When we lived in villages, everyone knew everyone. In a city, nobody knows who you are. But with a physical social network in the picture, suddenly the city is looking like the village again.

Everyone knowing everyone has advantages and disadvantages. Obviously, out-group behaviour can be more easily identified and punished. This is useful for reducing out-group behaviour you disapprove of, e.g. crime, but bad because it discourages out-group behaviour you approve of, e.g. radical political opinions.

One example: I would love to be able to give karma scores to other drivers, and I bet insurance companies would be interested too.
I liked rapportive too, but I've seen that it slows my email down, especially when rapportive is down for some reason. Removed for now.
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what languages / frameworks do your friends use?

Use that and ask for their advice.
This strikes me as less an argument for pseudonyms and more an argument for impermanence. It seems to me that the thought experiment is more like putting a mask on, and then yelling your revolutionary ideas, rather than doing it in public and just hoping to not be recognized.
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No problem. It was clear to me. :)
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So, what's the point?
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I'm going to start using this as an endpoint for stats checks on my own stuff to see if Facebook employees are visiting my site.
For what it's worth, I am, and I still get a 0.
The UK "Locomotive Act" of 1865 required automobiles to carry a crew of three, one of which should walk in front of the automobile carrying a red flag. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Acts

The law was supported by people with interests in the railway and horse-and-carriage industries. It took about 30 years, until 1896, before most of the restrictions were lifted.

I'm pretty sure automated vehicles will become standard at some point, but I expect it will take a few decades before we get there: For the technology to mature, for public opinion to accept the idea and for parties protecting other interests to give up the fight.
Internalizing the correct ritualized movements lets you forget about them so you can focus on high-level strategy (winning fights/writing applications).

Lego bricks are hard and consistent and unchanging, and you need them to build incredible novelties.

BTW, my personal belief is that they are called "martial arts" because "art" is simply creating novelty within a system of constraints. Also, you are incorrect that all martial arts are concerned with inflicting damage--there are many arts and corresponding practitioners who encourage and value the mystical aura, because martial arts can be used as a vehicle for personal growth, discipline and spiritual nourishment. Please be careful about generalizing your experiences!
Rapportive also has the added bonus of making it easy to figure out what email address people at a company use without actually sending anything.
Not sure about the comment on a video call not being productive. Sure, you can't fidget around at your desk and multitask, but you're certainly more focused on the meeting... wouldn't that imply more productivity/efficiency on the call?
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This is a way of making programs run faster, and not a little faster, but a hundred times faster.

Sorry, but if anything then that statement is absurd.

Faster than what? And where's that "hundred times faster" figure coming from?

It seems there's a bit of a misconception about the bottlenecks and cost structure in real world web applications.

Rails (aka the slowest web framework known to man) is popular because it trades hardware for development velocity. Hardware is cheap, developer salaries are not.
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Oh, I agree with you too!

I think there is definitely something very wrong about the current system including the legal procedure. First we should try to eliminate (or at least reduce if you are pessimistic like I am) nonsensical patents from being granted for starters. Then I strongly support reducing the period of exclusive rights especially in fast evolving field like software and telecommunication etc. And then again there should be a simplified and less expensive (both monetary wise and time wise) legal channel to at least preliminarily determine the validity of patent dispute, I can go on.
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Are you kidding? Playing beta is the best part about Minecraft. The game keeps advancing, and the team blogs and tweets asking for suggestions or new ideas. This is the kind of stuff kids dream about: designing a video game!

Honestly, I think this could be a great business model for indie game designers.
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Only people with money think that 10.00 is not a lot of money. 120.00 a year could be a significant chunk of the target's disposable funds. If don't have money then it might as well be 400.00. On the other hand, 12.00 or 24.00 a year might well be 'not a lot of money'---perception here is based on content of wallet, not your marketing notions. Review history of Borland's C/C++ compiler versus Microsoft's---yes Microsoft won the war, but not without making Borland enormously successful.
>And security would be a snap—if you can’t see the light, you can’t access the data.

That doesn't make any sense at all. People don't intercept data transmission with their eyes. If your computer or device can "see" the light, so can mine.
Not really. If I shout something on the street, it's virtually impossible for the people around me to figure out who I am (unless they already know me). With real names attached to everything, even if the statement is impermanent, it's essentially trivial for "bystanders" to track down your identify.
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