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Wow, is that what all the downmodding is about? Way to miss the point, HN.

I'm trying to say that choice is not equivalatable to micromanagement - if it was, and the elimination of micromanagement is good, then the elimination of choice would be good - which it patently isn't. You have choice over a great many things in your life which are trivial, yet which people find important to have.

It was an analogy - "put it this way. say the X" kinda makes that clear.
"his iPad"

My kids will often unlock my phone to get at the Peppa Pig game but something inside me still thinks it's not right that a 2yo has his own iPad. I don't know what. It's probably irrational but I can't help feeling that books and posters are more appropriate. Of course, time will tell. I wonder if the games and interactive media on an iPad might shorten the already minuscule attention span of children :-\

Edit to add: I didn't want this to sound like I was critical of your parenting. In fact I'm probably jealous. We bought a poster on the Solar System for our 3.5yo daughter because she spotted Jupiter next to the moon yesterday and wanted to know what it was. And now I wonder whether I should have tried to buy an iPad and StarWalk?!
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They also said that if neutrinos really were FTL, we'd have observed this effect much earlier (for example when we started measuring supernova radiation bursts).

I am seriously doubtful that these neutrinos are traveling faster than light, but I've also been skeptical of this argument since it was presented. It would be pretty hard to have observed this if they weren't looking for it because they would have to sift through old data. For example, for SN 1987A the FTL neutrino event would have preceded the visible light neutrino event by over four years.

They could go through all of the old data, to be sure, but they would have to specifically have had to be looking for something which they think fundamentally is impossible in order to find something like this. So, if these events were even recorded at all, it's certainly not clear to me that they would have done this (at the time of the FTL announcement, that is- of course, they should be doing it now).

it's a pretty standard type of mistake as far as science experiments go

Yes, but when one makes it this far it is big news. No matter what I give props to the scientists to publicly invite the scrutiny they did. That took balls.
I dropped my LiveDrive account a while ago due to poor client software. It's sad to hear their Mac client still sucks. You'd think by now they would have worked out the problems.
The way I work actually sees lots of these get done. Minor refactoring is a great way to get your zone on at the beginning of each day.
From the article, he's a Dutch researcher based in Groningen (Netherlands).
It's always safe, and is also the correct way to write the expression.
How much is that (the price of the 40meg HDD) as a percentage of your income now? Is it the same as a similar specialist back then?
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Are there any startups focussing on ICD 9 to ICD 10 converstion ?

Are there any products in market, that will help insurance companies "crosswalk" between ICD 9 to ICD 10 and vice versa?
The basic reason behind my motivation is that I'm looking for a simple solution developed for the all javascript environments with no commonjs support, not only web browsers. Besides of it, it's better to have same dependencies in both backend and frontend, taking advantage of using NPM. Imagine a test script that should be run by both NodeJS and Internet Explorer 6. What is the current most low-cost way to do it?
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Hey, nitrogen.

Why you've been voted down so much is beyond me. Lots of IDONTLIKEIT in here and recently in general it seems.

> I'm of the view that software should, where possible, mimic physical objects -- changes are instantaneous and persistent -- with the reversibility of virtual objects.

Are you aware of Stanislav's Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing or the Loper OS website in general? It's a nice read; thought-provoking, even if you don't agree with everything there.

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284
Steve Jobs is in the headline, so hardly off-topic. Perhaps anti-apple-fanboyism knows no bounds.
My use for software like this (I use shellinabox [1] on my server) is being able to access a secure Unix commandline from absolutely any Internet-connected machine in the world.

Most recently, I was able to rebook an upcoming flight in Sabre (a travel agent's reservation terminal) from an internet kiosk in the Hong Kong subway. It ran a very weird kiosk-mode browser based at least in part on IE 6.0, but I was still able to securely [2] open a terminal session on my server.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/

[2] I have an SSL certificate for my shellinabox vhost, which protects both the Javascript client code and the terminal communications; while I do have to trust that the web browser is properly validating the SSL certificate, it's pretty much the most secure solution possible that doesn't involve carrying around my own hardware.
Let me take an example, the recent fund money dry-up talks ignited by WSJ.

Even if you spend a week at Tahoe lake. You can follow up here(check RSS feeds).
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I find libraries such as Require.js to be too complicated to trust them.

I put all my client-side JS files into ./src directory and watch them with Node.js server. When any file in ./src is added or modified then server automatically copies it to ./build directory and wraps it with additional code required by module loader.

This way I can use (almost) the same syntax for handling modules on both client- and server-side, e.g. I can write client-side script which looks like this:

var button = require('widgets/button.js').button;
var toggleButton = Object.extend(button, {
label: 'Toggle me',
});
exports.toggleButton = toggleButton;

And it will automatically get compiled into:

'use strict'; module('widgets/toggleButton.js', function(exports) {
var button = require('widgets/button.js').button;
var toggleButton = Object.extend(button, {
label: 'Toggle me',
});
exports.toggleButton = toggleButton;
});

The client-side framework for handling such modules takes 28 lines of code: https://gist.github.com/1287050

Unless you are writing really large apps, this approach seems to be much cleaner, just remember to combine and minify all modules before deployment.
Due to its nature NodeJS is performance-wise still a better solution than any Python-based one, at least for now. And it's async in core and by rule, thus nodejs modules are async too, yet no async-motto is coupled with Python, so it's much harder to get async-ready libs suiting Tornado. Therefore COTS-wise NodeJS is actually also a better solution.

But in the end the most important thing is whether you're more familiar with Python or JavaScript and which solution will be more productive for you. Unless you're going for really large scale project and want to shorten your time by using existing modules, Tornado is obviously as good as NodeJS.

Loosely relevant: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19484#Comet-with-node-js-and-V8
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The absence of labor and discrimination laws for one. A close second is customer service.

1. Flight attendants is a way for women to travel before assuming traditional domestic roles. Few of them plan to make a career of it and many see it as a way to meet well connected men. The last flight I took (BA) had a thai and japanese flight attendant. Both spoke many languages fluently and both worked for their national carriers at one point, Thai Airways and JAL. When they started getting too old (>40) they were both unceremoniously booted from the airline. They really enjoyed the time they worked there but were now starting from the bottom at another airline.

2. Customer service. US airlines have gotten much worse at it Asian airlines are doing an outstanding job. Take 200+ passengers that have had a relatively shitty experience of purchasing tickets, airport security, and delays. Now it's the job of 5-10 cabin crew to try and pacify them for the next 2-6 hours. It's a recipe for disaster for everyone involved.
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Of course if you have 40TB you might also want to have uncompressed audio & also have video.

Every single hard drive I got so far, no matter how big it seemed at the time, I managed to fill with data. Generated data is like a gas, it will just expand to fill in the available space.
You bring up something I failed to mention: this can be a touchy situation. In your case, it sounds like you have a great customer, but not a sugar daddy. I would never do something to upset a current customer.

You could make them a partner so that they can make a little extra money selling the clever solution they conceived, but that's really hard to do at the enterprise level. That works much better with a small business alpha male owner.

Some of the things to consider when taking your sugar daddy's solution to market:

Are they enterprise? If so, this probably isn't worth the trouble. Too much red tape and illogical thinking.

Does the solution provide them with a distinctive advantage over their competitors? If so, it only makes sense that they'd want to keep it for themselves. If not, they may gain favors among their peers by sharing it.

Is is a horizontal solution? Then there's really not much of a competitive threat by sharing it.

How opportunistic are they? Some people want to be sugar daddies because they're jealous of our IT margins. They can make as much sharing their technology as they do in their primary business.

Does wider use of the technology help their primary business? Some solutions become geometrically more effective if your trading partners are using them too.
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for others, such as my wife, Android or Linux is no freer (as in speech) than iOS or Windows.

Not entirely true. Windows can run into licensing problems from time to time, which you don't get with the other major OSes. Buy a used macbook? OS is fine. Buy a used Windows PC? Well... the vendor said it was genuine. Turns out if you try to get the security updates, it starts complaining about not being genuine. I had to sort out exactly this problem for a nontechnical ex-colleague of mine who'd bought such a PC for her new small business.
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The simplest way I can (try to) understand it is to imagine a line drawn between CERN and Gran Sasso. From the GPS point of view(consider the GPS satellites as stationary), this line is moving approximately in a Gran Sasso->CERN direction, and is therefore very slightly shorter than what the researchers on the ground calculated
Multi-line strings:

char* greeting = "Hello "
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Yes and no.

I think you're over estimating how IT literate my wife and many others are. I bought her a MacBook because she used to shout at the PC too much.

And it's not just her. My mum wouldn't get a Mac as she didn't want to have to relearn Windows. My aunty had Linux installed by one of her sons on her PC (for security reasons) and couldn't do a thing (another one returned it to Windows so she could go back to reading her mail and looking at the funny things her friends sent her). And before anyone asks about how all these examples are about women, my father is so IT illiterate I can't even form a coherent example of his lack of knowledge because there's so little of it (though he still surfs the web and looks at his photos).

For these people the idea that you'd go and look for an alternative is a pretty big stretch and that's before you ask whether they actually have the skills to carry out a proper assessment of what is available, what meets their needs, what's robust, what's actively developed (a major consideration in the FOSS world) and so on to make a choice. And even if they do do all that suddenly a major part of their world changes and there is (for them) a major investment in relearning how things work.

If you've got the skills and genuinely worry about these things then I agree FOSS is great but for a massive, massive number of people they just want something basic that makes some sensible choices they can live with and get on with doing stuff. Right now that's a need FOSS is doing little to meet.
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I really hope this puzzle is solved by a mom.
I use rEFIt[0]. It's somewhat customizable/themable (you can change the icons, default partition, etc), but is otherwise nothing special/flashy. I've never used bootcamp, so I can't really do a feature comparison between the two. It gets the job done.

0 - http://refit.sourceforge.net/
two things you might hear in this situation are "be entreprenurial with edge cases" and "if you write robust edge-case-ignorant code, the modifications later should be easy". It's not immediately obvious how to respond in these situations.

trying to work through things on your own before coding, the fifteen-minute clarification process can start looking like a few days. and there's also no guarantee that you'll think of everything.

as for writing code that doesn't break when you work in the edge case you hadn't thought of, well, i guess that comes with experience.
Its not just math but also legal definitions/terms etc that can create traps.

I disagree with you that founders who are not across this deserve to be victims. It is impossible for founders to be across everything and intricate law and finance math is likely to be one of these area's. While a lawyer/business broker etc should be consulted in all of these cases sometimes even your lawyer can let you down and you're none the wiser.

At the end of the day I think that investors who deal in tricks and traps are on the same level of scumbag as the dodgy bankers/Enrons/Madoffs of this world.
I think the non-obviousness part is calculating and taking the photos at the apex of the curve because I didn't immediately get that. Also, why 36 cameras (why not 20, or 72)? I think the bar for non-obviousness in patents is ridiculously low.
Biological weapons appear to trump any other sort of manmade or natural disaster, short of a killer asteroid.
My microwave is already "touch". Why would it need a screen?
Variables are in scope in their own initializers. This is fun when you inadvertently write something like:

int length = ...;
...more code, lose your concentration...
if(x) {
int length = length / 2 + 1;
...
}

This neither produces an error nor does what you'd expect, but just ends up being a creative way to initialize the inner length variable with garbage. I've done this more than I care to admit.
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Excellent example of what the DevOps movement has been accomplishing ... the FB article is great and I can't wait to hear the guys on DevOps Cafe discuss it in their podcast!
There is simply no way such thing as a promotion at an airline. All privileges (pay, schedule selection) that are given to the pilots and flight attendants are based on hours-worked at that airline. There are no other rewards.

I'm not talking about hotness at all. Some employees, attractive or otherwise, are simply bad at their job. Some other employees, are really good at their job. The airlines would get better employees if they fired the bad ones and gave the good ones more money or a better schedule. That's all I'm saying.
I put together a similar logging setup for our servers recently; except I'm using CouchDB for my store and NLog (said servers are C#) for the library. Reasons I'm using Couch instead of SimpleDB:

1) REST+JSON API made integrating it super-simple (had to add a single line to NLog to set MIME types to make Couch happy)

2) We use SDB in our service; so if SDB blows up, not only would things break, we couldn't easily get at our logs to see why.

Biggest drawback I've found to Couch in this context is that it loves to devour disk space; you quickly learn to cron some compaction jobs.
I am currently working on a project that indexes beats and sounds to a .json object tied with a JS library that dispatches events based on the timing of a media file associated.

Eventually, it would be nice to have all forms of equipment taking queues from the events dispatched. ie, stage equipment, lights, etc.

This example serves to show that these types of applications are coming soon.
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Out of curiosity:

What is the improvement for your workflow? I'm genuinely interested, because I cannot even imagine why I'd drop putty (or something similar) and go for a web client here (at least not unless it would be something completely without a backend that I need to install first).

So: Why would you like to drop ~native~ clients?
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I/O Bound - very little other than db write/read operations.

Going to hit the backend every transaction as its very stateful so minimal caching can be possible.

Unknown on growth! Hope for the best, I want to take 1000 r/sec on an EC2 instance.
Then you would drop freedom of speech just because it is useless unless you own CNN?
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Still a little odd, as the Dutch are generally considered to be the best non-native speakers of English in Europe.
I've always wondered about this, because I've been very surprised that people that can speak so many languages are serving me coffee on an airplane. But if the pay is better than sitting in an office and translating instruction manuals or whatever, then it makes perfect sense to me.

(FWIW, I've never been on an AA flight where all the flight attendants seemed to be able to speak a language other than English, but every flight attendant I've seen on Cathay or Dragonair has been able to speak English and probably Cantonese, Mandarin, and Japanese as well. I always found it very interesting that people even bother flying US-based airlines.)
There's a tradeoff here, which is that you'll have to stick to a strict subset of conventional Node. Not just the builtin libraries (fine, that's expected), but basic conventions.

For instance, your approach doesn't support assigning to `module.exports` (just a few more lines of code), relative paths (a few dozen more lines), or the path resolution used by `require.resolve` (a few dozen more).

For small apps it's probably fine, and I've used something very similar. But it's not always easy to decide "this will be a small app" up front. And then there's the issue that even if your app is small, `require` will be doing something very different in Node (complex path resolution) than in the browser, and it could lead to confusing results or a lying test suite.
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Yep. This I don't care the reasons th ing feels a bit obscurantist to me.
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> It needs something to make me want to get back on a plane.

For me it's getting to my desired destination quickly and without too much discomfort. If I want to have hot women serve me drinks, I'll go to a burlesque club.
It's interesting that the Printing Press didn't make the list of previous revolutions, because I think this highlights two different ways of thinking about intelligence (and thus AI). We can either build AI systems that give us a correct answer 95% of the time and we don't care how they got it, or we can build systems that have some sort of designed thinking (ie we understand our own thoughts and try and replicate their process to some degree).

I think at some point the former became dominant, because its more achieveable, but its also the one that gets most interesting when it fails. Because of the way this AI learns, when its wrong it can be brutally wrong.

I think there will be a revolution in AI getting into more spaces, but only in areas where its ok to screw up (ie ultimately a human is filtering the AI response at some degree, whether its the user knowing when to ignore the GPS or Siri, or an overseer looking over the AI output and checking it before it goes out). I'd be really surprised to see AI doing anything important by itself.

Also, I thought Google already had a fairly solid AI research effort well underway.
Last Christmas we bought a laptop for my nephew. Few days later came to my wife to ask her how to save a file.

- You just need to click on the "diskette" icon.
- Aunt, what's a "diskette"?

I bet in few years most UX designers will use the Dropbox logo instead of a diskette icon to show where you need to click to save a file :D
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$533/hr with $532/hr paying for the fuel needed to carry the fuel. Longhaul flights are flying tankers with a few passengers aboard :)
Nice bass != base in that comment. You definitely don't want a low-frequency rumble from your tripod affecting photos. ;)
I would have tried to buy "timelime.com" - or maybe they did and had to settle for timekiwi.com

Either way, great looking app. Good luck.
Wouldn't an obvious test involve sending something else than neutrinos through the same path, and measure that they are slower?
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Is the AI winter really over?

Or is Siri simply the practical application of machine learning and NLP which we've manage to derive from off-shoots of AI research?

I think it will be some time yet when I can make a natural language query and have an AI agent fetch relevant data, sort it, and present it contextually. Or sketch an idea for a building and have an AI do all the hard work of creating the blueprints.

In the near future though it's obvious that we'll see more practical applications of AI in every-day products and I think that's pretty neat.
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"This is not some futuristic bullshit. It is not intellectual masturbation." I wouldn't be so sure. I think that this kind of hype is exactly what serious AI research does NOT need.
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Is Siri really more than a little bit of sugarcoating on top of stuff others have been doing for years (Google, Wolfram Alpha)? I suspect it is doing ok for some tasks (calendar), but that is about it. For example on Android people have been calling contacts by saying their names for a quite a while already.