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Can we have a standard for audio volume?
This is something that has bugged me for years. You watch a vid, listen to a song etc and adjust your speakers/headphones/earphones appropriately. Then, you open up a new piece of media and your eardrums explode (or, you can't hear anything).

Is there any technically feasible way to create some kind of 'standard' volume? Alternately, what about client side solutions?
What exactly has Facebook opted everyone into? You have to explicitly allow applications to post things to your wall.
In fact, the medical licensing exams and board exams are too lenient. The general quality of people going to medical school in the US has been dropping for a generation. The standards are sliding, to our detriment.
Totally agreed. I can't say I particularly enjoyed the set either—but it wasn't because it wasn't what I expected, it was because it wasn't as good as I expected it to be.
The link from Technology review to the application is broken. If they fix it, the number will probably go up!
From story:

- Lease a 4 bed apartment, get better rates by paying full year of rent in advance (not easy for most people).

- Sublet the 3 remaining rooms at near market rate.

- Accept the risk of default and/or not finding tenants.

What you really get for 350$ is a single room in a big apartment. Still a good deal, but there are substantial risks and lots of upfront investment. Like picking up nickels in front of a bulldozer, it'll work out for the better... most of the time.
"Radiology is a very difficult field to get into after medical school, something like 2/3 of American grads who apply get turned away."

I don't agree with kenjackson that the field can be self-taught, but saying that most people don't get into Radiology residencies tells me only that there aren't enough Radiology residencies to go around. The 1/3 board failure rate notwithstanding, my intuition is that there are far more people capable of practicing radiology than are currently allowed to try to get into the field. The intelligence level of medical students does not exceed that of PhD students in engineering, math, chemistry, etc., but the medical profession puts up much, much higher economic barriers to entry.

If the government decided to tax radiology providers and use the profits to increase the number of radiology residencies by 10 or 100-fold, I find it hard to believe that the lucrative profit margins of your industry wouldn't decline. Medicare reimbursement rates would go down as the number of providers increased.
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That's funny, because, you see, actual research really works like this. Instead of Github you've got journals, and seminars on universities. The smart minds contributing small parts to other people's research are graduate students.

The thing is, actually contributing in the cutting-edge research is much harder than helping FOSS projects. Most researchers I know think of their problems day and night, while to be helpful in community software projects it's enough to spend few hours on weekends.
I don't know any secrets. It's hard to get a radiology residency. You need good grades. I don't think research experience matters. It also helps to be somewhat normal. The people interviewing you for residency have to be willing to sit next to you for four years, so if you're a "closet case" they might pass on you, even if you look good on paper.
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Flash cookies ("shared objects") are across shared across all browsers and browser profiles. If FB uses Flash cookies, you could log into FB on Firefox and they can still track you in Chrome!
There's a few devices like this out there, usually with a limited range and audio-only alerts though: http://www.amazon.com/EZ-FIND-Item-Design-Electronic-Locator...

Full geolocation would be quite a bit harder, what would be the use case where you'd need to, say, plot the location of your keys on a map?
I'd like an API for places that have bad customer service. Ideally, there would be an automated boxing glove set on the customer service representative's desk, that I could tap into in the case of bad customer service, and I could bop them in the face. There's been several times when I'd like to reach through a computer or phone and hit them (Note: I'm not an especially violent person). Those companies could monazite the process and make money off their poor customer service (There's been times when I'd definitely pay for that).
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There is nothing to remind users as of yet... but that's a good thought!
Because the vast majority of companies fail. Especially tech startups. The investors know this. They are just trying to be marginally ahead of that curve because the payback on one in ten is astronomical, and more than makes up for the other 9.
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It works if you have a package management system like gentoo, that compiles from source, or the BSDs, just not most Linux distros.
That's what I kept thinking the whole night. Like, dude, have you actually listened to Herbie Hancock any time recently? He hasn't played with Miles in 45 years. LET IT GO.
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This would be one of the reasons why the language needs to be fixed. I don't think there was any doubt in the minds of those who signed what it was asking. And the new language just removes my messy "let's-just-throw-text-in-this-textbox" crap.
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"MySQL discourages using this feature if columns not included in GROUP BY are not constant in the group"

That's what errors are for, not documentation. It is pretty easy to forget something in the group by, and documentation won't help with that.

The dangerous thing is that the result returned from such a nonsense query looks valid in many cases, while being wrong in subtle ways.

PostgreSQL detects when the query is valid, and executes it if so. So, if you do a GROUP BY customer_id (a key column), you can also see customer_name without adding it to the GROUP BY list. But if you group by customer_zipcode (not a key), and try to select the customer_name, it will throw an error.
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The points brought up are valid, I'm just curious as to which part of NYC this is in since that can make a huge difference in price
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I agree that there is a serious criticism here, and that sufficiently deep thinking is underrated.

TDD advocates tend to assume that you can always iterate your way to a solution. But what you get by iteration is sensitive to how you start. Technically, yes, you can evolve any program A into any other program B, but in practice no: the class of programs that A will evolve into is sharply constrained by A. I think this is true no matter how small A is. If that's correct, then initial conditions are a lot more important than it's fashionable to think they are.

Still, this isn't a weakness of TDD per se, but of iterative approaches in general, and it's something that advocates for iterative development of software (and other things) haven't yet taken into account. That's understandable, because the advent of iterative approaches was so necessary and has proven so valuable in other ways. These things come in historical waves.

A point about the Sudoku "debacle", though. The posts by Ron Jeffries are indicative of something other than TDD. They're indicative of mucking around in public. The difference isn't that other people don't make embarrassing mistakes; it's that they hide them. Why would Jeffries exhibit his so blatantly? If he were just a bad programmer or a zealot or a dishonest guru, obviously he'd have suppressed them. Not one of those types is ever too dumb to do that. (Typically, they're quite good at it. Maybe that's where their intelligence goes!) So something else is going on, and I found it unfair that no one who wrote about the Sudoku "debacle" ever asked what it might be.

My guess is that it's the original XP culture. These guys practice a let-it-all-hang-out style in which they highlight their mistakes and affect being stupider than they really are. Kent Beck affects this "I'm an idiot" style in the original TDD book. I say "affect" because they're not idiots, and I find the tone annoying. But I can see why they do it. It's an educational tactic to say "see, I make dumb mistakes too". They advocate a way of making software that embraces dumb mistakes as part of the process and encourages people to get over the fear of looking like an idiot. Underlying that is a psychological view of software development that can be traced back to Weinberg's "egoless programming".

I may be way off base because I haven't read the posts. I tried once and quickly lost interest. But I do think I recognize the culture.
Check out task rabbit for the iPhone. Real life task API. Haven't had the chance to use it yet, but looks pretty cool.
Wait, I know this one ... because I was there, 'kicking' sales reps out of hospitals, helping senior physicians mandate formulary prescribing, helping juniors stick to the local, national formularies.

I was also there with pharma companies, helping them to implement systems to record networks of influence, identify key opinion leaders to target. Helping them to use IT to near-shore sales teams.

Long time ago, but it seems to have moved like custard since then - pharma sales is pointless because clinicians are overwhelmed with government prescribing guidelines and internet based forms of communication from colleagues and KOLs.

Nowadays only drug advancement, hands-on experience from colleagues and clinical evidence should count.

At the most I guess there should be a social n.... - wait - I think I'll build that myself ...
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Juicy stuff is at section 5.3.

Apparently they're exploiting incremental/predictable IP-IDs sent in packets to the same IP but possibly different machines in order to determine whether it's the same machine or not. Linux seems to always do 0 (which makes it predictable), except for a bug several years ago, if I'm reading this right: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2006/Mar/258 Windows XP, Vista, and 7 all use incremental IDs, so the difference of the return IDs should be small.
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Maybe it because it a baseball movie, and it hard not to be romantic And if you have any hesitation after hearing how Sony kyboshed the Steven Soderbergh version for its spendy budget
Assuming the author is reading these comments, I have a few questions:

- What neighborhood in Manhattan?

- How do you approach the owners/managers to negotiate?

- Do you find that small owners are more (or less) receptive to the idea than larger management companies?
It also seems to waive trial by jury?
If I'm not mistaken, the linked article employs the rhetorical device known as sarcasm.

The point being that Timeline is not, in fact, a world-changing feature.
But I think the OP's point is that privacy will eventually fade away, so if I'm doing a Google search on "cure for HPV" this will be published publicly to my Facebook profile. I don't really care that "oh, it doesn't publish automatically unless you grant it permission!". I want to be notified when something is posted on my profile.

On another note, I'm seriously considering closing my FB account once and for good and leaving for G+. I have a good crowd of friends willing to do this (and invite their friends), but G+ offers no way to import FB data, which would be a nice feature.
"and ultimately own imaging centers"

Contact the MD here for advice:

http://upper-dublin-mri.com/aboutus.aspx

A nice guy, he was glad to help when I was thinking of starting up an imaging center. (The upshot from the meeting is that you have to have a tie in with a hospital and be aware that the hospital could end up doing the same in house etc. He's a businessman and a MD and would have profited from the association so I believe the advice was honest. Of course it's only one data point out of many you will collect.)
Shopping. Plenty of places in the UK have online shopping with home delivery but the interface is terrible. If they published an API someone could do a proper job of it. I would pay a fair bit of money for a weekly box of food with a list of recipes for each day so I don't have to make decisions. Even better if I can thumbs up/down each meal and the system learns what kind of food I like.
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Did you even read the whole article? It has a sarcastic tone.
To clarify on Spotify, there're options to (a) connect with Facebook (i.e. use it for login purposes) and (b) send the music you play to Open Graph. One does not depend on another, and (b) can be turned off without impacting (a).
Yes dynamic typing, even with specialising compilers, is a killer. Today, in the RAM-only webserving world Python etc can manage perhaps 40k pages/sec (I'm thinking 4 tornado processes on quad-core box) whereas Java can do 500k at which point network IO is a deal.

Urban Airship have blogged about IO loops iirc, and there are similar stats fro Betfair about exchanges. To get to 500k you need to avoid GC.

My C++ servers go past 500k right up to LAN saturation, but surrender a lot of safety.
Seriously! How could this be anything but a crappy user experience? Who would want to share something before they even read it?

What would really suck is googling something private and clicking on a result that just happens to be on one of the sites that has permission to share. Oops.
I second the thinkpad.
Oh, definitely. Good luck getting people to stick with it though. Read up on the 'loudness war.' In pro audio, getting the volume right (sometimes across multiple chains of devices, eg guitar > amp > microphone >mixer > audio interface > software) is called 'gain structure' and it's one of the hardest things to consistently get right.

A client side solution is certainly possible, but as you'll see from the 'loudness war' the enemy is not so much peak audio levels as dynamic compression, which means a piece of music can end up seeming too quiet and too loud at the same time. Awesome. You can't really code this away because it would essentially require de-mixing (a hard problem) and then re-mixing with good taste (something that's frequently lacking even in wetware).
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Just a FYI, the author of this tutorial got ousted out of AVRFreaks for bad behavior and plagiarism (especially tutorial plagiarism!). [0] Another tutorial of his had several errors. [1] I would personally recommend either [2] or [3] as a beginner's tutorial for AVR assembly and [4] for all your other questions.

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[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aqkt2/dirty_mat...

[2] http://www.avr-asm-tutorial.net/avr_en/beginner/index.html

[3] http://www.avrbeginners.net/

[4] http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=in...
The apologetic posts by Facebook engineers give deep insights.

Of course they can argue well on what are, for average users, technical details. On that level, it is possible to get entangled in endless discussions.

The real problem is that these posters seem to totally lack (or ignore) an understanding of the bigger picture of what they are contributing to.
The fact that you can be going about your regular Internet life and not know if something you do will or won't be posted to a social network is a huge problem. Facebook's approach seems to be to boil the frog toward people not giving a crap about privacy at all, to voluntarily give it up as a reflex or instinctual action, or not to notice that it is already gone, all under the cover of "being friendly." I mean, you aren't such a grump that you don't want to tell your friends what you're doing, right?

Facebook is using peer pressure against privacy.
Thanks for the correction--I got so used to being treated adversarily by FB that I failed to look for a link like that :-)
I imagine that printing out a credit report and bank statement that the full year pre-pay will come from works most times..
Technically, 0db is the loudest a digital signal can be. For the perceived loudness, however, the average loudness is what matters. If you have a recording of something that is loud for just a millisecond and the rest is rather quiet you would perceive the whole recording as quiet.

One way to come closer to a standard volume would be to establish a 'law' that says "no recording should be louder as x DB RMS). Every recording could be squeezed into such a dynamic, for example, by deploying compressors.

But there are two problems. 1) Different recordings need different frequency ranges.
If you would compress classical music as hard as pop music is compressed, chances are the listening experience would be completely ruined. 2.) It's not just volume that influences how loud something is perceived.
Material which has emphasis on 2khz would be perceived much louder than something that is just as loud but around 80 hz.
(See Fletcher-Muson Curve[1])

However, there is a non-profit organization that somewhat tries to solve your problem. They don't aim for "standard volume". But they try to bring back dynamic into audio recordings.(Today most stuff has a very small dynamic range)

Read this:
http://www.dynamicrange.de/en/our-aim

I hope I could help a little. Sorry for my poor English.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%E2%80%93Munson_curves

edit: Where are the guys from Ableton? Perhaps they could enlighten us :-)
I'd like to be able to pay other people to phone up companies on my behalf to do things like closing accounts or changing my address on accounts. Ie, so I could go to a website and fill in a quick form with the following info:

Phone water company X on phone number N
Close my account
Information you might need: My name is Y, my account number is Z, my address is A and my password is B

I hate having to speak to people whos job it is to try and stop me achieving my goal, ie cancelling accounts. And having to wait on hold, and having to phone back when the call queue is shorter. etc

I guess you could create a dedicated API wrapped around Mechanical Turk, and then stick a website in front of it.
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>There are licensing and board requirements, but conspiracy theories aside they are not designed to create artificial scarcity, they're supposed to keep dangerously ignorant doctors from practicing.

Thanks for the comments in this thread, they've been very informative.

I'm happy there are certifications, and I believe you that the bar should be raised, but given the huge demand for doctors, why aren't we increasing the number of medical schools?

If we have a supply problem, and we don't want to lower the bar, it seems like the answer is to let more people in at the front end, and let the filter do its job.
Business decisions are typically not subject to user testing.
And fairly well done, as the first few paragraphs have you thinking he's being straight.
I didn't down vote it but I suspect that it's

"Medical school was easy"

"went out drinking"

"partying two or three nights a week"

"did well with the ladies"

"get by on four hours of sleep"

"nurses were much more responsive to my advances"

"busy but always had time for each other"

"make over 800k a year".

"ultimate job security"

"tremendous resource for my family"

"easy to get screwed by the medical system...won't happen to me or mine"

"not a risk taker".

Did I miss anything?
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I'm sure that plenty of hedge funds were using these feeds (blogs, twitter, etc.) for years.

They just kept their mouth shut because it's foolish to broadcast that you have an edge on your competitors... I bet that since it's out in the open, it's now obsolete...
I think you have some good points, although I don't know that the downvote should always be viewed as a punishment. For instance, if I see a snarky comment and I downvote it, it's not so much that I want to "punish" the snarky commenter (I might even find the comment enjoyable), rather it's just a piece of feedback that I don't think this is the appropriate place for snark. So in that usage I think the downvote is fine, I just want people to know why that vote was made. Plus then, I think you sort of need the downvote to balance out the upvotes of people that upvoted the snarky comment because they enjoyed it without thinking of the larger ramifications it has to the site as a whole.
Thanks for posting that, I have often wondered how Facebook could make such horrible usability decisions but it really seems like you guys have little understanding of why someone would want to use your service. 'You' had a relative spam free replacement for email and wasted that huge opportunity by letting random apps spam the channel. I don't want to share that type of crap not because I care about privacy, but because I don't want to waste the time of people reading my activity feed.

PS: I understand a huge part of FB's appeal and page views is the stalker aspect, but just think of all the people that would love to be able to flag all farmvill traffic as spam or simply ignore all posts by apps.
I agree with the writer, in many ways. But it's going to be a huge uphill battle.

I'm on the other side of this, too, as a researcher in algorithms. Earlier this year, I submitted the first paper I've ever written, in which I would consider some related code to be an essential part of my research. Now, consider what this means.

- I had some spend a lot of time getting the code into shape. Documentation, general clean-up, etc. This was time I could have spent writing other papers. Publication output is a huge determining factor in academic tenure & promotion decisions. Seriously, the way things are now, you're asking people to risk not getting tenure, in order that you might have their code.

- The idea of a published paper, is a permanent record of the research. Repositories for code that are of a similar permanent nature, are few & far between. Some journals are starting to allow arbitrary attachments to papers, which can them be obtained online. I submitted my paper -- along with the code -- to such a journal. But this greatly restricted the list of journals I could submit to. And it pretty much left out all of the truly prestigious ones. Again, a problem.
this strategy is good for any place anywhere. I used this same method while i did my undergrad and grad work. I found a really nice place paid several months rent up front, pledged I'd be there until a graduated. ( not hard since this was my plan and i hate moving with a passion!) i then rented out the rooms to the best people i could find. i bundled utilities at a flat rate. i found people preferred to know what they would pay upfront. not only did i get what i wanted, but i also was able to pick the choice places in the apt for my stuff and reduce the amount of rent i paid.

This is the hacker hustle that extends way beyond coding and helps if you ever launch a startup.
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