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The object that caused the 1908 Tunguska event is estimated to be either 40 or 60 meters in diameter[1], and it still managed to do an incredible amount of damage[2]. The object described here has a diameter of 400 meters. My understanding is that this wouldn't be anywhere near as devastating as the impact associated with the K-T extinction event, but it certainly wouldn't be very good for anyone.

[1] http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/news_detail.cfm?ID=179

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
Interesting. Firefox is about equal to IE in Europe. While in Germany, Firefox usage is way ahead of IE:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200809-201107

In antarctica everyone is using safari.
The screen and the keyboard are separate, the Macbook Air isn't completely useless, and the Macbook Air can develop locally when, Jah forbid, the internet goes out or you have to work on a train or something. A Macbook Air can also, as far as I know, also work in the cloud perfectly well.
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Ask HN: Would you ever use a group buying website for home rentals?
My startup Grosper.com is basically a groupon for home rentals. We tie up with real estate landlords and developers, to get users bulk pricing on home rentals. So if multiple rent at the same time, the price is lower than market price.

Would the readers here ever use such a service? If yes, why? If not, why? Comments please.
A Poisson variate always has mean = standard deviation. If these things lasted a month +- a few days, they couldn't be from a Poisson distribution.

(Or, with no calculation: The thing about a Poisson distribution is that it's what you get from a memoryless process. If the bulb almost always burns out within, say, a week of reaching 1 month, then it should also almost always burn out within a week of first being switched on. So its mean lifetime can't be much longer than the typical variation.)

It sounds to me more as if lifetime was proportional to some physical characteristic(s) of the bulb that were controlled in the manufacturing process. For instance, maybe lifetime was proportional to thickness of filament or something of the sort. (In which case, the vendors could have made the bulbs last longer, but perhaps only by also making them more expensive. Though it's tempting to speculate that they were designed not to last too long, so that you had to buy more.)
I signed up. Haven't received an email yet.

I'm bored at work and I'm very impatient.
I think we should note that logistic regression has been around forever, and should probably be considered property of "statistics", not "machine learning".
2 things.

1) I don't know how you think you can start a discussion by shouting the word false at someone.

2) While I should definitely have made my post seem more of a conjecture than a fact the article you link to is also mainly conjecture. Be it though conjecture of two experienced men.

When I went to college, nearly all the programs were impacted. Because of this the schools needed to hire more (good) teachers. Teachers don't have a bulk rate. All of the schools facilities experience more wear and tear and need to be upgraded to handle more humans. The school i went to is still impacted. More students than the school can handle increases tuition rates for all. You don't pay less for an art degree than a comp sci degree.
The Navicat Lite option is free and pretty adequate (on par feature wise with pgAdmin 3).
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I was hoping to see the native Gmail app that can support multiple accounts, but it is currently not. Oh well. I'll stick with Mail for now.

It look like the native Gmail itself is a browser and navigate to Gmail Mobile website. Thus is the reason why the native app only can hold one account at a time.
How did you arrive at $35,000?
It fails when a certain proportion of the filament has evaporated.
The evaporation rate is pretty constant, assuming either a getter or large enough bulb that the evaporated tungsten doesn't change the environment.
So you would expect some form of bell curve distribution around the design lifetime.

Bath tub curves tend to come from large assemblies of reliable components
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You're counting living expenses twice. If he hadn't gone to college he'd have had to eat all the same; so it's more 320K than 420, and we're below a third of a mil instead of near half.

Still a lot for learning to write poetry but that's not all he did...
If $700 per developer for a Mac Mini affects your view of whether or not a given project will be profitable, then you are already too close to the "not profitable" line, and should definitely not develop the application.

$700 is roughly the same cost as one day of work from the developer. If you can't afford the Mac, then you can't afford for the developer to go one day over schedule.
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Getting backups for minimal cost.
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You can buy Doom 3 on Steam for 20 bucks. Or if you wait a few weeks there's usually Holiday Sales on Steam, you'll probably be able to buy it for 5 or 10 bucks.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/9050/
Yet your own algorithm example is a lot closer to math than to, say, a typical web app.
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This to me is the very definition of hacking. This is digital circuitry built from individual transistors in a age (1970) when almost all electronics were analog. Trust me, this guy was considered a hacker in those times.
Sure, today we could fit that entire circuit along with automatic daylight savings switchover in software into a single $2 chip, but that's not the point.

I was lucky enough to get started in electronics at the end of that era: in high school Radio Shack was still a useful resource. As an 11th grader I made circuit boards using a Sharpie, some press on decals for IC footprints and electrical tape cut into strips to mark where circuit traces would go.

Today, I'd fire up a freeware or open-source CAD program, email the output files to some PCB house in China or Bulgaria, and get back professional quality boards a few days later for $50. A far cry from screwing around with smelly chemicals in the sink and pissing my mom off with the stains it left behind.

You need to know where you came from to appreciate where you're going!
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In some places that's possible, but in many places it's pretty impractical. At the high school I attended, summer vacation is June 1 - August 22, but teacher in-service days are: June 2-10 (end of semester wrap-up), July 11-15 (make-up days for students who missed finals), and August 15-19 (pre-semester preparation), which leaves two discontiguous 4-week breaks.
You get the same interactions and knowledge with any degree at a decent enough school. Your promotions don't speak so much about your education but more so about you as a person.
Multiple accounts is definitely a deal breaker for me. I'm surprised they didn't implement that out of the gate.
Case in point, Andrew Mason, CEO of Groupon, what did he study? Oh yeah, he studied Music at Northwestern...

I'm curious: where did Mr. Ponzi get his degree?

Yes, it's pretty obvious that if you get into a name-brand university and manage to teach yourself marketable skills on the side, you can be pretty successful. What if you don't get into a name-brand university? You're screwed for life and your best shot at success is to work for someone like you? No thanks.
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To be fair, even the expensive weather tracking systems they use get their fair share of the calls wrong and they employ watchers at different parts of the track (down the back straights, at the corners of the track, themselves at the pit straight, etc) to get a better idea. And that's over a relatively small area of space too.
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I'll echo other comments here that this looks like it needs a bit more work.

* Notification error on startup: ridiculous

* Laggy scrolling (how?)

* No support for Send As, which is actually what is really missing from the iPhone Mail app.

It's almost there. It needs a bit more love.
Hey, this may sound strange, but if you would like to save some money and speak to someone who knows firsthand the troubles of a startup founder, then you can email me if that would help. Not really what you asked for, but offer is on the table...
As a college level instructor, albeit of the grad student variety, I'd tend to agree and wrote a post on the grade inflation issue: http://jseliger.com/2011/04/02/grade-inflation-what-grade-in... . Basically, almost no one has an incentive at the institutional level. Professors are mostly rewarded for publishing; deans and other administrators for keeping students happy or at least not complaining; students and parents want high marks; and employers might want lower grade inflation but have little leverage.

So we get grade inflation. There are virtually zero rewards and many, substantial costs for me as an individual to reduce grade inflation in the classes I teach, and that's true of virtually everyone else.
I'm not sure it is a bad idea so much as not the one size fits all solution.

It's fast, easy administratively to setup, works on Heroku with no addons, and greatly reduced the gap between data entering our system and data being indexed for search results (an important consideration for our problem).

It's not perfect, but it is a definite improvement over our previous separate db + ft engine solution.
Cannot wait. I especially like the fact that there will also be training days: being still a "new" language I believe it's nice to make it more appealing for new people.
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Here's an image of the Earth (on the left) and the Moon (on the right) to get a better sense of the distance between the two:

http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/51000/5196...
Can't swap to another account. At all.

Edit: There is a switch in settings to do it...

Doesn't work with GAFYD accounts...
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You can most certainly use matviews

http://tech.jonathangardner.net/wiki/PostgreSQL/Materialized...

it's not part of pg - but, it is something that you can write yourself due to the awesomeness of plpgsql.
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Good point, I forgot to mention that Firefox is expanding the developer tools it comes with:

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/08/16/new-tools-in-mozilla...

Also, it hasn't landed in Nightly yet, but there's some really slick dev tools that are being built into Firefox:

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/07/tilt-visualize-your-web-pag...

There's some nice CSS and Javascript tools coming too, but I can't seem to find any URL's on them at the moment.
I understand your premise and don't have any rebuttal to it that would include facts and/or figures. But one thought did pop into my mind when reading your comment.

See the books Academically Adrift, Beer and Circus, The Marketplace of Ideas, and, to a lesser extent, the post I wrote above. Grade inflation is sufficiently well documented that most academics now take it for granted, especially because they see it in action.
Yeah, would be a nice UI feature if it didn't cut off some of the labels, including Google's own "Important and unread" (at least I think it's that, the end is cut off...)

Think I'll just keep this app around for those odd times when I have to find an email from a week ago.
Wow, this is literally the exact application of the Stanford Machine Learning class up to this point.
That's a good point. The other replies suggest that "almost everybody in the world" is unlikely to learn new skills, yet they are doing amazingly well, at some things.

Threats to survival do tend to motivate "almost everybody" to attempt new skills, or attempt to change things in their favor. I deliberately avoided saying what the changes ought to be. And I don't think there are real, present threats to survival for most of us. I don't think it's a good idea to rain down mandates on "everybody else," when society is already discovering better means by working organically. I like to think of that as innovation.

My main intent in posting was to point out that there are solutions being found -- not by the "invisible hand" of economics, but by the collaborative efforts of the non-intellectual non-sophisticated "unwilling participants." Though I think education eventually has the highest payoff, I enjoy working at a community level with the innovation happening all around me.
For android, I've been using Rainy Days: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.neenbedankt.rainyd...

It only offers the live radar map animation, based on your GPS location, but that's often pretty good for eyeballing when the rain is going to hit you, or when you are going to hit it if you are moving. Free, displays ads.
Searching for mail or finding 'labelled' archived content on the default mail client was a real pain and this app answers those questions but as previously mentioned..

No multiple accounts? I have several Gmail accounts that I need to manage on the fly, and it is indeed quite 'laggy' when you have images or heavy content in the email body (which it doesn't scale down!)

All in all, it's a step in the right direction and about time this app came to market - let's just hope they resolve the issues and tweak the overall user experience.
Stats for deviantart.com, which skews towards a younger audience: http://cl.ly/1v0w2Z1H0C2E28162n3W
In summary, Womply asks you to pay full price online, pay full price _again_ in the store and they'll refund you something at some point. The alleged advantage to the customer is that you don't have to carry around coupons.

I'll pass, thanks.
sigh they (poorly) lifted functionality, all the way down to cache clearing in the app settings, from http://usemailroom.com.

Between that and the Facebook navigation, this app is more stolen than it is crappy.
Transactional DDL is awesome with Rails migrations, it's not a huge thing, but being able to cleanly roll them forward and back when they fail or you screw something up in development is very nice (and certainly beats having to comment out half of your migration and re-run it like you need to do with MySQL).
I'm doing a master thesis on EEG classification. Some thoughts:

1) The term Brain-Computer Interface is not made up for this article, it is the accepted name for this kind of thing in academia.

2) Their 85% accuracy is not classification accuracy, but how many rings the user was able to get through. It's impossible to tell what this says about the accuracy of their classifier.

3) From skimming their paper, it seems like their classification approach is fairly simple. They do not learn a spatial filter for instance.

4) As far as I know, the article is correct in saying that this is the first BCI to allow navigation in 3D space. This is very cool, and I hope they release the code for it.

To sum it up, this is a very cool practical application. From what I can tell it does nothing ground breaking in order to do classification, and I bet a more computationally intensive approach to classification could perform substantially better.
hmm looks like i skipped that part :(
Tips:

Take advantage of keyboard shortcuts, it's what makes Asana feel so quick.

Asana lets you do things your own way (ie. it doesn't dictate a project management style), but a little structure is useful. Read their 'Best Practices:' http://help.asana.com/customer/portal/articles/84980-best-pr...
My tweet is actually all I have to say about it: https://twitter.com/#!/davidu/status/131738215227981825

"Asana is beautifully designed. Seems too generic for bug, applicant or project tracking but it's going to be my new To-Do list manager."

But to expand a bit -- I have a hard time seeing this replace specific purpose-driven tools (JIRA, Cerberus, etc.) even though it's gorgeous, functional, and has a cool off-line mode. It's just too generic for me. But for people who aren't coming from one of those products and have nothing today, it's a great way to introduce productivity. I'm surprised they didn't build in an SSO / LDAP kind of integration...

Finally - Salesforce focused on CRM as a use-case before branching out and getting less specific (support, chatter, etc.). Starting out generic requires your users to figure out how to apply it to their life, which I think is the wrong strategy.
Thanks for submitting this. I'm the author. I'm still in the process of writing and would love to make this a collaborative project.

If you have topics or ideas you'd like to see covered, please leave a comment or shoot me an email. hello@BootstrappingDesign.com

I'll also be sharing excerpts with the mailing list and on my blog.
While I haven't replaced my laptop, I also do some coding on my iPad under certain circumstances. Instead of using an editor over SSH, I purchased Textastic. It supports SFTP and a host of other protocols, allowing you to edit offline and then sync with the remote host when connectivity is available. I'm pretty happy with that setup.

[1] http://www.textasticapp.com/
We have several things in the works but would love to hear any ideas you have for more specific training than just "learning the language".
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Great looking page, subscribed. I know a good bunch of developers who will be happy to read this!
I'm surprised he didn't think it was worth going for a 3G ipad. I spend a decent amount of time working outside of my office on my laptop with a local environment. Impossible with this setup and no 3G. Maybe there's a tethering plan on his iphone to account for that.

Either way, this setup would be significantly less painful using a MBP to connect to linode instead of an ipad.
And I want to defend liberal arts majors a bit, since I'm one of them.

I agree with you with a slight change. I went to a public liberal arts college and received a BS in Computer Science. I ended up having many hard math and science courses along with courses in philosophy, religion, and chamber music. Overall, I think I received the best of both worlds.
It's certainly more like menus on the iPad than typical iPhone apps. Not sure I dislike it.
Screencast by some guy. Pay on $9 (usually $18) until November 8th. Maybe it's great, I'm not biting.
Wikipedia shows IE at only 35% of it's current traffic, and they are a top 10 site.

http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClien...
hmm well yes.. i almost forgot about the third dimension but that was a hypothetical situation after all.. :)
"High quality, world class text search is a basic prerequisite for a production web app these days"

That is a pretty bold statement, that I can't agree with. The right tool for the job can vary dependent on need. Perhaps you are building your MVP or you have a small ops team or search is an admin function or etc ...

If search is one of the main components of my site, then no, I'd probably not use Postgres for that. On the other hand, out right dismissing it sounds like a recipe for shaving yaks.
What are you saying? web apps are better or native apps?
I don't think it feels or looks like Vim or Emacs at all, in its default configuration. It is much more on the "new Textmate" spirit.

That said, there is an emulation mode now, Vintage.
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It's a decent and useful feature, the only real issue I have with it is the empty space underneath. When you have a short document, I find myself clicking on that empty space to get to the end of the line and then being confused as to why it's scrolling the document. Perhaps it should be a slightly different color than the main document.
Old news. A couple weeks ago there was a magnitude 4.8 near San Antonio, TX caused by fracking[1].

[1]:http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Could-fracking-be-at-fa...
Have you used the Google Voice app for the iPhone? It's literally the worst app I've ever seen in my life. Crashed constantly, won't refresh from the server, will close your text box randomly while typing a message (clearing your message), will fail to make calls frequently, and since I upgraded to iOS5 now has signed me out and crashes immediately when trying to sign back in so it's been rendered completely unusable.

I can only assume that there's some desire within Google to make sure the iPhone versions of their products are complete dogshit to try and encourage Android adoption.
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hmm well they do give some light but it would not be nearly as bright as our beloved moon :)
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Did you update the Google Voice app? These all used to be problems, but their latest release resolved them all for me.
It is true about WP7, however it doesn't refute my argument.

I have only limited use of the iOS and Android dev tools, however overall found the iOS ones simpler to setup (ie, they're already there) and Android document somewhat weak for starting out.

Xcode is the full experience, while Java is always "use your favorite IDE". However that goes down a different wormhole, and personally, I don't care for Java.

The multi-platform may be a factor for a hobbyist, but not someone looking to actually make money. If they are serious, they shouldn't see a problem spending $500 on a Mac mini, even less on a used system, or renting one in the cloud. We aren't talking major expenses.
It's unlikely that Khan Academy's curriculum is better than mine. My curriculum has been relentlessly pivoted and iterated based on feedback from over a thousand real students for the past fifteen years.

I've taught literally one thousand teenagers to program, face to face. I'd be shocked if Salman Khan had taught even a couple dozen students face to face.

Edit: I accidentally submitted this too early, and then replied instead of editing. See my reply for the rest of this thought.
With a lot of hand-waving.

We figured out how much we needed to survive for 3 - 4 months, plus the cost servers for a certain amount of time, then factored in Kickstarter / Amazon's cut and the cost of the backer rewards.

We kept getting a number that was too high. So we eventually decided "Screw it! $35,000 it is!". It's still probably too high... but we wanted to avoid, at all costs, asking for too little money and then not being able to deliver to our backers.
To really give you a good answer I would need to know the size of your network. If you have a small network cacti might be your best bet, but as soon as you get to large deployments you have a better shot at justifying a comercial product which will offer more features tehn cacti.

For small networks

Cacti
Cube ( http://square.github.com/cube/ )
Graphite ( http://graphite.wikidot.com/ )

For large networks I am going to be biased towards SevOne ( I work there )

SevOne ( http://sevone.com )
SolarWinds ( http://solarwinds.com )
OpenNMS (http://opennms.org )
I also say "becomes".
Too little, too late. I switched to Chrome a year ago.
For those wanting the courier experience, besides the mentioned kickstart project for ipad, there's also the Samsung galaxy note: http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote/note/inde...
>>This is largely a topological problem: If you're surrounded by mountains...

Topological or topographical? It's kinda both in your example.
Great! You can switch between screens using Control-A and the screen number. I hadn't even known about the function keys until now.
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