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Shilpa Shetty
Shilpa Shetty was born in a traditional close-knit family in Mangalore[5] that hails from the Bunt community.She is the eldest daughter of Surendra and Sunanda Shetty, manufacturers of tamper-proof caps for the pharmaceutical industry.In Mumbai, she attended St. Anthony Girls’ High School in Chembur, and later attended Podar College in Matunga. A trained Bharatanatyam dancer, she is also into sports, was the captain of the volleyball team in school, has earned a black belt in karate and is currently a dancesport expert and enthusiast.Shetty started her career by modelling for Limca in 1991 at age 16, and made her film debut in 1993 with Baazigar, portraying a woman murdered by her psychopathic boyfriend. Shetty took the supporting role of Seema,co-starring alongside Shahrukh Khan and Kajol; the film was a major success and earned her a nomination for Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.
I was really impressed with Office 2007 when it first came out. After watching the video that demonstrated how it was developed incorporating extensive user feedback etc i was even more impressed. I expected the same methodologies would be applied to Vista and they werent so i was somewhat dissapointed, but Windows 7 turned out pretty good.

That said, Office 2010 was over-engineered in many ways. I just hope they dont over engineer Windows 8
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As someone who manages a few dozen android phones throughout my company I have yet to see any malware on any of the devices. If some phones were going to get infected the ones I manage are the ones.

The reports of malware on android phones are greatly exaggerated.

At this point I see both platforms at the same basic risk for getting infected. The possibility is there, but it is not nearly enough to worry about.
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An EEG is probably necessary for official reasons, before a "certificate of death" can be issued.
But there is a point where the emergency rescuers have to give up, and it probably takes hours before the EEG can be done.
This is only an issue when binding to an OpenLDAP server. There may be additional issues with LDAP on Lion server, but this problem as reported is an issue with Lion clients bound to servers running OpenLDAP without Kerberos or SSL.
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The wave described in this article is actually atypical brain activity. This confirm that the brain is unstable and the person may be facing his last minutes. This actually make the EEG more precise.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like the only thing missing from json is a standard for dealing with time, and a standard for dealing with typed objects/arrays. Wrap all that into a binary format and call it done. All these other additions seem like bloat to me designed for some specific language or use case.
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Someone wrote the software for the equipment they use. I was recently at the hospital for surgery, and there were scant few pieces of equipment that didn't have some kind of programming in it.
You'd probably need a lot more oomph to render even moderate resolutions of compressed video.
One thing missing is a physics engine/collision response. Sounds hard but not really. Only implement the collision response after you have implemented collision detection.
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If you're hosting PHP on a Mac, I'd hope you're using a package manager so that you're not depedent on Apple to update third party software. Perhaps they should be providing timely updates to third party items that they include, but depending on those updates is foolhardy.
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I've been on HN for some time and haven't formed a good theory about downvoting behavior here. I think in this particular case people are so anti-{apple, software patents} that they automatically resist looking at it from another angle. Same usually happens when you mention FB in a positive light on HN.

EDIT: As I've said in my comment, this doesn't mean that I think Apple's ruthless approach to patents and its draconian methods of platform control are good things. It's just that the other guys do have a copy and paste problem. Maybe not in this case, but generally definitely they do.
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It can't know in advance if it has free space or not.

1) Other files might get deleted in the process freeing more space.

2) Other files might get copied to the same volume as well claiming space.

3) There may be transparent compression involved meaning that you could copy more data then it seems or that the original data would claim more space in the target volume.
Note that this is a meta-article: it consists of a critique of another article.

The other article seems to be looking for the word "abstraction-induced complexity", which is when some interface makes some actions easy at the expense of making other actions difficult. The canonical reference: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.53.9...

Secondly, even notorious Windows Programmers say the same sort of thing about Windows tools. In http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind..., Charles Petzold himself says that Visual Studio rots the brain. He also misses the boat with his predictions about "Avalon", but that's best left to fanbois.

Thirdly, isn't this the same point Paul Graham made in his article http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html "Great Hackers"?

So, maybe the original article is correct, at least if you believe Authorities.
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Research has come a long way. Dr. Brian Wowk gave a good presentation on the current state of tissue and organ cryopreservation here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2157944955525659858&...

In 2004, some scientists at 21st Century Medicine managed to cryopreserve a rabbit kidney, thaw it, and transplant it back into the rabbit. They removed the other kidney so that only the rabbit had to rely solely on the treated kidney. It survived, though at first it had elevated creatinine levels. They repeated this experiment several times to show it wasn't a fluke. The paper is here: http://www.21cm.com/pdfs/cryopreservation_advances.pdf

The cryoprotectant invented by that team is now used by Alcor. The Cryonics Institute uses a similar formula. If either of those organizations get to you in time, the nanostructure of your brain will be accurately preserved.
pick up a Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard and a compatible mouse (like the M305) and they can both use the same USB receiver. plus, it's a solar powered wireless keyboard!

* you'll need to bind the mouse and keyboard to the same receiver on a windows machine before you connect it to your linux box until linux unifying support is available.
Its also taboo because we don't want to alter others' views toward us based on how much money we make.
This is simply untrue. The Galaxy S2 is much more feature-rich than any iPhone to Date.
The Voice Control and Speech-To-Text Functions are outstanding.
The HDMI Output via MHL Port is useful, i've used it as a backup for holding a presentation once now and was glad that it was possible... there are so much features i love about this device that i can't fathom why someone would say that Samsung isn't innovating...
You are welcome :)

1. I meant to ask how you might be able to streamline/automate your monthly reports like BCC has done.

2. What is your idea generation process? If that really is the sticking point, then consider reducing the friction or cost of going from idea to MVP. My example of going from idea to MVP in 6 hours is very streamlined. If I had enough money to spend on AdWords, I could potentially test 1 idea per week and dump the low performers. My point of friction here is traffic. The only honest, reliable way to get traffic (and potential interested customers) is with AdWords, which is not free.

3. Very good to get your personal experience on this subject.

Thanks as always...
There are definitely downsides to iOS apps not having access to each others' filespace, but the security benefits this brings really are great.
Engineering, done right, is an invisible art... The objects become famous, not us.

I think that is the exact type of thinking the thread starter wishes would change.

Why is that the case? Why don't we exalt those who created such great things that we take for granted.

And further more wouldn't we be better off as country if we did?
One advantage of this is that you can pipe in input. I don't think codepad allows that.
Maybe.

Seeing how much difficulty they had supporting the 1st Generation Galaxy and updating the device in a timely manner, probably not.
1) Copying is good. Being different for its own sake is confusing and wasteful.

2) Back and forth? Show me where Google has done this.
Just about every non-trivial strategy for screening applicants will yield false-positives. Do you understand where the false-positives in your screening process are?
I thought that as well, it's pretty poor journalism that a technology magazine didn't pick up on that. But saying that it's pretty bad journalism anyway in that they're using an extreme data point and implying it was representative of the entire data set when it obviously isn't.
There's always DDD: http://www.gnu.org/s/ddd/
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Patent laws should be ignored. Run your company pseudonymously, and violate patents all you want. No one will be able to stop you.
LLCs are pass through entities. No additional taxes.
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I'll hazard a guess that specialists tend to see patients with specific insurance-covered issues, and those issues are the expensive ones. GPs deal with everything and not all of those ailments are worth much, billing-wise, yet take the same amount of time.

Or, 1 hour of a GPs time will usually result in a lower-return ailment than a Specialists 1 hour of time.

Or the problem of the Craftsman vs. Assembly-Line Worker. It may be better product, but you can't make 'em as fast. In this case, the Assembly Line people only deal with expensive items.
This to me feels different than fake cisco gear. In the case of the fake cisco gear they are built to look and pass for cicso gear even running stolen copies of cisco catalyst and IOS software. Samsung isn't claiming their phone is an iPhone. You can tell they are different and the OS looks different. Customers are not getting fooled into buying Samsung phone thinking it's a real iPhone.
I couldn't get past this line: "the ordeal of attempting to convince someone that I have something of value, and that they should pay me to access it, was very new to me".

I'm not trying to be mean but, how old is the author? How much work experience does he have?

When I was 12 years old I went knocking door to door with my snowshovel in the dead of winter, trying to convince people I had something of value to offer. When I was 14 I convinced a local pizza parlor I had something of value to offer and got my first "real" job.

Trying to convince others of your value and economic worth is a daily affair for most people. It's an accurate way to look at the situation. It shouldn't be a hardship.
However, look at the age of those politicians (at least in China). They became engineers in the 60's and 70's when China still had a planned economy. They tested well in the national exams, which meant they likely went to an engineering school. Likewise, the fact that they tested well meant they were put on the political path. I wouldn't necessarily draw the conclusion that they are politicians because of some advantage an engineering background gave them, it's more likely the card they drew.
Apologies if you've answered this elsewhere, but what is the Rascal Micro ballpark price? Is it going to be similar to Raspberry?
Portland seems to be attracting a lot of hackers lately, so it will be interesting to see if the startup scene and investment money follow.
Adblock does a good job of removing ads here:

http://i.imgur.com/YO7bt.png

A tool like this isn't the place for an ad-supported model. This is a place to work with text, and the colorful, animated, image-based ads are simply too distracting to do any real work for more than a minute or two.
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As another poster mentioned, Mac OS does this. It solves the problem you mentioned by combining the file copy progress bars under a single window. Visually, it looks like a queue, with the top progressing fastest, and the ones below progressing very slowly or not at all.
I'd be surprised if it didn't. Then again, I was rather surprised that Windows XP's throughput dropped massively when I started copying more than one file at once, so it seems that it didn't do a good job of it.
I don't think there's much competition, either. HP appears to have bowed out of the graphing calculator market years ago. (though a Google turns them up?)

Also, for high-end math wizardry, it's very easy to simply not use a calculator: Maxima [1] obseleted my calculator for tasks that weren't tests

I suspect as smartphones get cheaper and finish their takeover, the calculator firmware will get loaded into an in-app emulator and there they will live.

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
If you name the class 'Main' it works fine.

They have an "insert template" button which kind of clarifies that.
I'd say the opposite. We spend vast amounts of money prolonging the life of people who we know in advance are extremely unlikely to generate quantifiable benefit. How do you suppport what you've said?
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Hero Motor Corp., is planning to launch their own brand name bike Hero Impulse this year. Hero Impulse will be the first bike product for the Hero Motor Corp. Lets see how Hero will manage the stuff. As the Hero Honda become popular brand all over India Hero will surely want to be one of the best as well.
Does anyone know if the source email has been posted anywhere on the InterWebs ?
Here's a short intro video for the TL;DR crowd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbPVpZowOdY
This issue is going to massively hamstring G+, and may even keep it from growing period, and it has nothing to do with whether they allow gyms or not.

Technical people may understand what a disabled G+ profile means, but to the average user, they are hearing, "OMFG, IF I USE G+ I WON'T BE ABLE TO USE GOOGLE!"

Google is underestimating what these kinds of stories are doing to their ability to grow G+.
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With all the locks and stuff, I guess there's a bigger chance you screw up a complicated scheme and get two identical ids, than if you just us a good quality source of random bits. At least if your key is long enough. (I don't know, if 128 bits is enough.)
The only outrage here is that a tax-payer funded entity is outraged because its payroll details were leaked. Don't I have the right to know how my taxes are spent? (supposing I was Scottish)
At least there are no dragons in Dusseldorf.

http://humor.beecy.net/misc/world/
Multitasking is highly inefficient, but multiplexing can be great. Kevin Kelly wrote a good post about it.

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/03/multiplexing_...
No we don't. Recruiters do not represent workers, they're payed directly by the companies. Their goal is to hire as many qualified people for as little as they can. Sure, recruiters will tell you that they have your benefit in mind, which is partly true because they want the people they recruit to work out in the long term, but they never lose sight of whom they're representing.
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There are obviously trivial workarounds to the problem. I was simply making the point that it didn't have to be a problem in the first place.
Guess what I just invented a new way of opening my kitchen door, just press it with your butt. Now I'm going sue the remaining of you 5, 999, 999, 999 humans.
Seriously though they say that the thing with th gallery is the default in android 2.3. So it is more like they are suing google?
Its it time google sued someone for violating the mobile phone patent they acquired from motorola? they can do it in a small country like Nicaragua, u know, just to send a msg of intent
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I just searched and maybe these conversations don't come up as often as I thought. On the other hand, it's also difficult to nail this sort of topic down because so many startups use Heroku, EngineYard, AWS, etc, so it's more like number of instances vs. number of servers. It seems Quora has a lot more insight. Examples here: http://www.quora.com/How-Many-Servers-Does-X-Have
This. Take for example the American Medical Association:

From Wikipedia:
Economist Milton Friedman, [has] asserted that the organization acts as a guild and has attempted to increase physicians' wages and fees by influencing limitations on the supply of physicians and non-physician competition. In Free to Choose, Friedman said "the AMA has engaged in extensive litigation charging chiropractors and osteopathic physicians with the unlicensed practice of medicine, in an attempt to restrict them to as narrow an area as possible."

So AMA works to increase physicians' wages. Now let's think about what the ACM is doing:

- Trying to increase international membership. This benefits ACM in terms of dues, but I'm not really sure how it benefits members as programmers. If anything, it could hurt them. Don't we face enough international competition as it is?

- Promoting programming education as part of core curriculum in high school. WTF? Last thing I need is every dipshit who ever took a class thinking he can write software.

TL;DR: American Medical Association serves its members. ACM doesn't seem to help its professional programmer members whatsoever.

Edit: I suppose ACM is serving teachers on the above points? ACM has a lot of academic members. Maybe what's need is a separate programmer's association.
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This is a question I too have been asking myself over the years. I'm a marketing consultant, and I LOVE startups. But trying to find work with early stage startups is really difficult because they generally can't pay much, or prefer to hire developers over marketing resources. So I end up working mostly with companies that are further along and have revenue, but wish I could figure out a way to work exclusively with startups and still make a living. If there were a way to scale these services beyond just a 1:1 effort to revenue ratio that would be ideal...

Thought you might like this article: http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/08/21/pitch-perfect-a-start...
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If you got that impression, you'd be wrong. I classify Gruberism as that commentary which cannot and must not admit criticism of Apple.
Should your employees work from home?
The argument is pretty weak, we can extrapolate the argument to make the point that people that stuck a fork in their forehead are smarter than the rest.
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These companies didn't advertise with Yahoo and Bing? I find it hard to believe.
In short, it affects users the same way that the PC market's fragmentation does:

1) It's harder to program when you can't predict everything.
2) Users have a lot more choice.
3) Most programs are pretty solid, but the really bad ones are really bad.

Assuming that the screen size can be different is something that PC and Mac devs have dealt with for years. Why this is such a hard concept for mobile devs is beyond me.
What's with the headline?

Samsung does not violate Apple patents, it just violates one patent.

And sales are not banned, they are just to be banned (in more than a month's time), if Samsung does not make changes.

But it made me click through, which is probably what all those inaccuracies had been introduced for.
If you remove downvote, people will start to use 'flag' to censor people and you won't be able to trust it anymore. I think leaving the buttons but just separating the calculations is enough:

mostly upvotes: keep it

mostly downvotes: drop it, its junk; the community has spoken

many mixed up/down votes: controversial topic, maybe delay the appearance of reply links?

few votes: boring, maybe sort it lower
It's not like the guy grabs a handful of dirt and then sells it to the first passing foreigner with a nice sales pitch. What people pay for is the packaging. There are many people who would like to take back a soil sample from places they've visited (e.g. there's a guy in Saving Private Ryan who does that on each new battlefield), but the logistics of doing that are just too much. (I don't even know where to get a proper vial, if I didn't plan to bring one with me, plus I'd like some nice labeling etc.)
I read the IEEE version this morning, which was much more detailed:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robot...

It also contains human-translated and edited text of the blog, as well as training videos.

The BoingBoing post has two glaring errors:

First, the author is not a whistleblower. Google defines a whistleblower as an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it. It wasn't all praise, but there were no reports of ethical violations.

Second, the IEEE summaries are not the complete text of the articles. The description reads: Below are portions excerpted from nearly 50 robot-related posts ... Some sections (marked with [...]) were omitted for clarity or space.

Edit: I've submitted the IEEE version at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2921215
Er, how is that true exactly? All my Flash sites also use jQuery, while most sites don't (and didn't) need advanced Flash features while jQuery is still used because it simplifies AJAX calls.

How does that statistic say anything about HTML5 choice? Back to statistics class, with all of you! ;)
That's precisely what I think is so flawed about these feelings. The amount of money that you command makes a statement about your value beyond money.

So the question is, what happens to those of us whose pay is already public (state employees, professional athletes, C-executives at publicly traded companies, movie stars), and for those of us who freely divulge the information?

Is there backlash from this behavior? Is the taboo justified?
Reading this article makes me notice the difference between Windows and OSX/nix. Windows is allowing the user to pause and schedule their copy operations, whereas OSX and nix just provide a copy window with the ability to cancel the operation.

Even when I want to delete something in Win7, I get the message "Discovering items...". In that time, my *nix box has already deleted it and moved onto the next task.

I wish they wouldn't spend so many expensive developer hours to make an efficient pausing mechanism on your copy and move operations when instead they could focus on why the copy and move operations are taking so long in the first place.
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I loved the HP48 series in high school and college, and m48+ brings it to my iPhone. For the rare times I feel the need for something more powerful than the calculator built into Spotlight, and something less powerful than Clojure, I reach for it.

Never go into the HP50 series, though it does look nice. Probably would have started using it if I were still in school.
Seven years ago, maybe. But today's GPUs do it easily in their programmable pipeline (shaders).

And where conditionals are costly, you can use tricks like:

float temp = min(x, y);
x = max(x, y);
y = temp;

instead of the conditional swapping operations, to make the whole network sorting algorithm deterministic. (Edit: notice that min() and max() here are hardware operations.)
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How rich is too rich?