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Show HN: You don't have to get #fat to learn #lean
I wouldn't be surprised if some commission tries to standardize the cloud icon much like the power symbol.
In Michigan: "So you're unemployed."; "No, I'm an entrepreneur now."
I agree with your point, but ruby-lang.org has precisely one:

puts "Hello World!"

Which I'd say is more someone trying to be cute (or pro-forma) than trying to show off the language to the curious.

But, I guess that's subjective.
The article is about an investigation into why outlook was taking a long time to open paypal emails.

It is not related to relying on paypal's email for payment processing.
Anyone who grew up in the 1970s/1980s UK will know this to be a nonsense:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41148000/jpg/_41148618...
This. Don't develop the product you want - develop the product users can access.
So, let me get this straight. You:

1. You and your girlfriend were making more money individually than the 2009 median household income [1], and you had been doing so since 1999.

2. You ended up on the good side of a stock market that robs as many people as it enriches.

3. You cut expenses whenever possible.

And your end result is a nest egg that might be enough if you stay frugal and work part-time? How is this useful financial advice?

[1] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
This article is right to the point but the discussion easily clings on some misconceptions that are hard to let go.

Here's some of the facts:

* No, the system in Finland doesn't cost much more. Depending on how you measure, it can actually be said to be cheaper: the US spends more of its GDP in education.

* No, the teachers in Finland are not paid a big salary to motivate them. They earn more or less the average salary of workers with a university degree.

* No, it's not just about Finland being more culturally and ethnically homogeneous, or just about child poverty being more rare. There are many other countries like this and they don't automatically get good results in education.

* No, the Finnish children are not highly motivated to go to school, to learn and to achieve. Actually, Finland gets its results despite worse than average motivation, attitude towards school etc.

* No, it's not about the Finnish language being "easier" to learn: Being "easy" is subjective and it takes the Finnish children the normal time to learn to speak.

* No, it's not about the written Finnish being highly phonemic and thus easy to learn to read and write. Many other languages (such as Spanish, Swedish) are highly phonemic as well. The time saved in not having to learn the spelling of each word in the Finnish dictionary separately is spent on the efforts to learn the completely different vocabulary and highly different phonetics and grammar of English as a second language.

* No, it's not just about Finnish being a highly agglutinative language where you can guess e.g. from the word for voltage that it has something to do with some kind of tension. Or maybe it is, I don't have good evidence about this... But there are other agglutinative languages, learning e.g. maths problem solving is little about guessing what words mean, the linguistics mainline theory doesn't support languages having a big effect on how people think.

* No, it's not about the Finnish women having nothing else to do than concentrate on teaching. Finland ranks highly in gender equality and e.g. technology industry.

* No, you don't have to come up with metrics and subject teachers to evaluations to get a good system or to improve on one. Finland doesn't have such evaluations. You can do scientific research on the issue without letting office politics in on the individual numbers.

What plausible explanations remain? Clearly you need to consider many issues when designing or improving an educational system and there's no silver bullet, but perhaps you want to read the original article again to get some good ideas from an expert in the field :-)
Lean concepts (like MVP) are tough to get without having been there before. Ironic if to stay lean you need to get fat, so to speak. Are there low cost ways to "teach" these concepts? To create the intuitive understanding?
That's how I draw clouds (and why I hire designers...not to imply they need a designer, but that I'm so horrible I do...I'll just shut up now...).
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This game was one of the exercises my book made me do when I was starting to learn to program. The title of this post had me intrigued!
Moby Dick and the tautochrone
The author is out of touch. 750/mo is what you might expect for a single person, low amenity place in a nice part of town in a mid-tier american city.

What kind of housing market is this guy used to, rural Kansas?
When doctors treat healthy patients made ill by the Internet
Occupy Wall St is about bringing attention to corporate control of government. The RIAA/MPAA influence on copyright legislation and enforcement is a specific example of that. So, the protests are in fact relevant. I know it has become popular in recent years to pooh-pooh the effectiveness of protests and to claim that they are obsolete 1960s nonsense. I don't know why anyone tries seriously to make that argument after the events of the last year. The protest is alive and well and as effective as ever. If your protest isn't accomplishing anything, it just needs to be bigger. Put a million people in the streets next weekend and politicians will notice. If that's not enough, put 10 million people on the streets. A large enough crowd is impossible to ignore.
There are also a few extended examples on his blog:

Red-black trees http://jng.imagine27.com/articles/2011-06-28-141124_purely_f...

FFT http://jng.imagine27.com/articles/2011-07-06-164206_purely_f...
Agreed.

I don't see the point in registering with apple a particular phrase. Wasn't part of the reasoning behind new hardware being required was that much of the translation is being done ON the phone, not in "the cloud"? Or is this now wrong?

I'm going under the assumption that Siri translates words to text/commands on the phone device. It then determines whether that command is "local" or "remote." If local, it does whatever it needs (create an alarm, add a calendar event). If remote, send it to the Siri servers for them to process.

In the case of apps, they'd all be local. The app could remotely access data required on it's own, not needing the Siri servers for that. So, just like the new notification preferences, Siri gets a preference that gives you a list of all commands, and for those commands you can select which application responds to it. Obviously there may be better ways to handle the interface, Apps may have their own preferences and you can tell the app to register it's commands. Regardless, there are better minds thinking of this stuff than my own.

So, in this particular scenario, there's no need to "phrase squat" or anything. The whole idea of this article seems ridiculous given how I interpret how Siri functions. Which again, could be wrong.
Because of the schedule of his family, and i supose out of coziness, as you need the discipline of a genius (da Vinci, Einstein, Fuller, believed to be polyphasic sleepers).
For me the Dymaxion pattern would fit nicely (30min every 6 hours) as i hardly need more than 5.30 hours for anything without being able to interupt it with a refreshing powernap. Although my ambitions doing daily triathlons would have to rest then:)
Nitpick: 4.2.2.1 is not owned by Google, it's owned by Level3. Google's public DNS is at 8.8.8.8 (and 8.8.4.4)
The content is not much better either.

There should be a name for this flood of terrible linkbait articles that are trying to tenuously link the author's pet opinion to the Jobsian halo.

Top 3 so far:

"Jobs the Conservative" (He owned a business, so forget about all that Buddhist stuff and giving money to gay rights, he was a right wing conservative dammit)

"Jobs the Philanthropist" (He may never have actually given much money to charity, but by creating a huge business that provided jobs, some of those people must have given money to charity, so he was possibly the greatest philanthropist ever)

"Jobs the Suicide Case" (He possibly didn't immediately take the most drastic medical advice available, and I hear he was into all that alternative medicine stuff, so that must have meant he really killed himself probably)
Song of only Apple sounds and Steve Jobs's voice
100 years isn't even advanced age for east coast US cities.
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What makes you think teaching to a test is easy? If the sole motivation of teaching is to increase a students score on a narrowly defined set of metrics, how motivated do you think students are going to be? I'm curious because in my experience the hardest learning I've done is when it's been aimed at achieving some hurdle for a narrow externally defined subject.
No. But I was wondering how an electromechanical computer would fit into that particular fictional universe.
And you've managed to reinforce just about any stereotype of the arrogant pretentious European that assumes ignorance is a strictly American trait since as you saw, OP is not American.

Neither are nearly as true as many like to believe.
Cloudant and DotCloud managed to avoid this design gravity well.
You can use "Hosted Chef," where Opscode hosts all the dependencies for you:

http://www.opscode.com/hosted-chef/
So, basically, exactly what I said? Are you just arguing for arguing's sake? :)
He's ignoring the main reason why Britain and America are so pro-work and anti-rest, and why Italy and Spain aren't.

(It's also the reason why the med is comfortable with nudity and the Anglosphere isn't)

Protestant ascetic work ethic: no pleasure is allowed. first toil then the grave.

The med is Catholic, and so far more comfortable with resting.
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I think this post should be titled Why Configuration Management?, with a subtext of using Chef as an example. The main points the author is making are true of CFEngine, Puppet, Chef, and other config management software. The question of Why Chef? can be answered very simply: because the author likes it. Which is a perfectly valid way to choose your tool chain, assuming the technical requirements are met.
Not everything went down in either crash. Also, 80% of trading any financial instrument is risk management, position sizing, & dealing w/ losses & gains. Stock selection & timing are a small percentage of trading, they are just easier to sell to the public.

Regards,
TDL
That's exactly what I read:

Step 1: Be born at the right time to take advantage of market conditions.

I see no reason to escape work. Rather my goal has always been to enjoy what I do. No matter the money pile, you'll never be able to repurchase your youth.
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> the #1 reason for any "How I did <...>" is really, "I am cheap."

I couldn't disagree with this more. In fact, I find the opposite true. Living lightly and investing well on average creates much greater opportunity and enjoyment than indiscriminate spending.

Sure, some wealth comes with being cheap/frugal. But real wealth comes from investing your time & money well and spending intelligently. Notice I said "time & money". Discretionary items are just as much a time sink as they are a money sink.

Forget the self-help articles that harp on about minimalism and the latest lifestyle design fads. Try to live lightly and gauge the results for yourself. You won't miss anything, you'll have more time, you'll think clearer, and of course you'll have more money.

Then you'll decide to launch a startup and lose your mind :)
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Prestigious Swedish IKEA furniture brands in Bulgaria opened the September 2011. Metropolitan shop-showroom, offering affordable furniture for your home, your future will surprise customers.
"How is being self employed retired? Is this a new meaning of the word retired that I have not heard of?"

Raises an interesting question about whether working in a hobby business is "retirement".

If the author works solely in the hobby business for his own pleasure and could live indefinitely if he shut up shop tomorrow then he is arguably retired. Plenty of retired people still do some measure of work for the sole reason of having something enjoyable to do with their time.

Also, LOL at the advice essentially being "Participate in the hottest job and stock market in history and get out at the right time". Living cheap and making investments is sound advice, but anyone who made their fortune in the late 90s was more lucky timing than prescience.
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It's clearly been enough for his family, he's been retires for several years now.
>In the US, if you want wood and tile floors throughout the home to accommodate allergies and respiratory problems, you pretty much have buy your own house (or possibly live in New York, which I have no plans to do).

Wood floors are plentiful in San Francisco, too, because there's a lot of pre-WWII housing.
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From whales to earthworms, the mechanism that gives shape to life
5 Modelos para Saber Que Negocio Poner
Show HN: Open Source Molecular Visualization (WPF Based)
You seem to be referring to iCloud and OS X Lion's version history, while the parent is referring to "saving" as an action in all apps in general.
What is Wealth in America?
Facebook is a company that moves quickly and tries new things all the time. And as everyone knows, the more you innovate, the more mistakes you'll make.
Smallest Tetris Game?
Syndicating Social Internet 24x7 real-time database
Hi
My name is Rajiv (rajiv@wisewindow.com), and I am founder of WiseWindow (http://www.wisewindow.com). WiseWindow tracks opinions in social internet 24x7 and creates a structured database that is maintained in real-time. Imagine a mashup between Twitter/Blog/Youtube/Facebook/Message Forums conversational data with a structured product hierarchy on e-commerce sites such as Amazon. This allows one to take social internet and measure market share within Smartphone market or Romantic movie genre, or stocks within Healthcare sector, or market share within Domestic Airlines, or which app in appstore is resonating most with certain genre etc. So along these lines we have built a real-time conversational database that has sentiments and dimensions/topical themes across Games, Healthcare, Airlines, Autos, Politics, TV Shows, Movies, Music, Politics etc. The key is predictability or forecasting of future sales/events etc using social internet.

We have some of the largest financial firms/data providers, auto companies, media using our data through RESTful API syndication and integration that has permeated to the top of the org. We have been profiled by Forbes/Economist/New Scientist and many other publications, and I am sure you can google it. So at this point we are a B2B player, not B2C player.

As the founder, I feel we haven't tapped all applications of the vast database of more than 1.2B opinions being crawled and collected with 100s or millions of user profiles etc especially in B2C space mostly due to lack of resources and to be candid, sensibility.

I am interested knowing if anybody here is interested in collaborating/syndicating data to build some interesting apps that go onto iPhone/Android phones or other consumer apps along the lines of recommendation engines (such as what game somebody would like if they picked certain app etc), and other apps. I would support them personally in terms of knowhow, data, computing resources etc. So consider this as incubator for social internet apps bootstrap with data etc.

Regarding technology, I would be happy to share and lend expertise with you details on architecture which is based on Solr/Mongo/Postgres/Ruby on Rails/Pipeline processing on EC2/RabbitMQ etc. We do lot of machine learing, Statistical NLP, Clustering, Classifications (ensemble techniques). I am sure you can google my name "Rajiv Dulepet" and find my profile etc.
There's still room for disruption in the U.S. wireless space. Check out our latest project, http://ting.com, which went into private beta last week. Hopefully its a boat-rocker.
I missed that as well. I based my assumption on the comment "student in New Jersey". I missed the annotation on the side indicating nationality. Regardless of nationality, he is explicitly comparing the housing market there to the US housing market. So, um, not quite sure how foolish to feel.
A good sysadmin costs $200k/year? Or do you have a contract sysadmin? Because that number sounds way, way, way high.

(We recently hired a sysadmin "+").
I'm disappointed that it doesn't seem to stick with Lisp syntax, instead adding a large number of infix operators. I'm reminded of the loop macro, but this is more pervasive since you don't have to use loop.

The syntax is important for being able to write sophisticated macros that take advantage of all the language's features and for making things like genetic programming easier.
The flight chart data is already backed up, is it not?

One way to get to the issue is to ask these questions, I think: "is the data copied from another source?" and "is the data needed in offline use?" (where data is some amount of data larger than Apple can handle)

N,N = Documents
Y,N = Cache
N,Y = Documents
Y,Y = ???

What about that last case? It's even more annoying with map tiles than flight charts, if you've ever spent time backing up map tiles when you know they're already backed up on the main map tile server.
Awesome idea! Keep up the good work...
Flying with ForeFlight and iOS 5
Interesting StartUp. Just read through your website and it sounds promising.

This is exactly the kind of disruption big companies(wireless carriers) need to get a kick in the ... and realize some things need to change.
you do that by having higher requirements

Actually, the problem is that we can't predict what makes good teachers. Studies have consistently shown—see my post below for more—that Master's degrees, for instance, don't predict success. Malcolm Gladwell writes about this issue here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/081215fa_fact_... .

That means smaller classes, more autonomy, not relying on standardized tests for compensation, and a whole host of other things the US fails at.

The first doesn't measurably improve outcome either. The second sounds good. The third is a bit of red herring: I don't know any serious reformer who says that performance should be measured entirely based on testing or that testing is perfect. It isn't. But if you don't have some standardized measure, you can't even make comparisons.
Great points. Just my opinion, but JPA 2 is the only good part of Java EE 6, or at least the best part. I still like Rails best for web development, but in Java-land, Play! with JPA, or (Smart)GWT with JPA are nice to develop with.

Life for web developers is a cornucopia complex :-)
in this case maybe not so much. If I recall correctly shen has a pretty tiny core that is designed so it can be ported to existing runtimes, so for example a shen/js could just delegate calling libraries to V8 or *monkey, while shen/scheme can use racket's FFI etc
You're worried they will read your application and reject you for not mentioning a particular competitor?
Seems to me that stories like this are much more useful to the masses than stories about the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates of this world and everyone seems to eat those success stories up. I guess it is about perspective and what your ideal lifestyle goal is.
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"PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization"
Predicting success in football and teaching
That's just silly. Indexes are a fundamental component of databases and give the DB clues about how the data in your table is going to be used. You might as well saying having different column data types is premature optimization.

Should you spend days analyzing things and creating a million indexes? No. But you should have some idea how the tables will be used and setup a few of the obvious ones, at least. Read any book on DB admin.
Opportunity abounds at every point in time. Most of all, at times like this when markets are flailing after a severe and (somewhat) protracted period of chaos.

Even if we were at the peak of markets (arguably the worst time to invest), there are so many opportunities that oppose real estate and public equities. I'm not talking about selling stocks short, but potentially commodities, natural resources, agriculture, business, and so much more.

The thing is, we're not at market peaks. Not even close. If anything, I'd cite this pessimism and cynicism as a good indicator to start buying.
This is a pretty silly argument, guys.
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My favourite quote: "Some things are so well designed that we don't notice them anymore."

Also, note the site where they shared these slides. It's not slideshare.net, it's speakerdeck.com. It's easy to guess why they went with speakerdeck.com... Compare to

http://www.slideshare.net/bud_caddell/how-do-you-design-for-...
So marry someone who makes a lot of money, and get lucky with investments? Ok.
JUSTIN BAILEY is not hardcoded; it is an emergent property of the password system: http://www.metroid-database.com/faq_metroid.php#metfaq35
This trend and concept has existed far longer than Apple's latest offering. (although apple has the best chance of actually driving it to widespread adoption).
Thanks. San Francisco is the only large city I have ever visited that I wished I could live in. (Granted, I haven't visited many large cities outside the US.) But even in most large US cities, wood floors in rentals seems to generally not be the norm. (Anyone with hard data, please correct me if I'm wrong.)
If you were wondering, this is one of the techniques involved in making the awesome zoom at DISQUS.com (disclaimer: I didn't make it, just investigated it through Chrome Developer Tools :)

Can anyone reply here and elaborate on how exactly that "zoom" effect was made, because it's awesome, and DISQUS is the only place I've seen it. I have made a similar effect at http://myownstream.com and http://www.fotomozo.com/gallery?name=out4c2df5372f234.png but without the round lens.
That is unfortunately only an option if you are developing in Python.
Reduce Friction, Increase Happiness
With only one piece of income property, I am a little surprised that the author of the blog post thinks that his family has enough for the rest of their lives.

That said, if they maintain their job skills, they should be fine because of part time work income when the will need it.
You have a valid question about whether or not map data should be backed up locally. But the answer in practice, as the author pointed out, is no. It takes time, which isn't fun to spend, and as you pointed out, potentially money.

($10 isn't a lot until you divide it by the dollar value of what you're getting, namely virtually nothing in the case of map tile backup.)

Why back up? Peace of mind for when your phone dies, is the reason. Backing up map tiles, while marginally useful on a restore, becomes not worth the time spent because there is no peace of mind benefit--the map tiles are already backed up. All the user experiences is that the sync is taking forever.
Apologies if I am being insensitive, but really all you need to do is check the hue.
This quote comes to mind: "A failure of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine."
Funny how they speak about not getting stuck in the "design trends trap" while using a slab serif font and 1px drop shadows under the text...

Interesting stuff otherwise.
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