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I have done the Peripheral extraction thing. You have a needle in each arm, and apart from that slight discomfort you can just sit/lie back and watch TV for a few hours. As tripa says, you get a few days of injections beforehand to stimulate the production - these are subcutaneous, like an insulin shot.

Here's some more information: http://www.beatson.scot.nhs.uk/content/default.asp?page=s22_...
Yes, yes it does. What if Wikileaks is taking especially large donations from powerful interests and chooses to censor its output as a result?

To say that transparency only applies to governments is to miss the whole point of transparency. If that is indeed Wikileaks' position as you say, then they've missed the point from the get-go.
What is described here, I think is just a symptom of the inability of a primary focus on profits to generate true value, leading to an overly uneven wealth distribution, which in turn leads to an overall economic stallout.
Steve Jobs was a (mildly) successful independent businessman before he dropped out. This is key.
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3% and you developed their entire product?

That's insulting.
Maybe we should have stricter regulation of corporations or even an "expiration" date, but that would be nigh impossible to implement...

Some corporate entities do have an expiration date. An LLC, for example, may have a maximum 99-year lifespan. Of course, ownership of copyright could probably be transferred to a newly-created entity of the same name when the 99 years are almost up, so it's kind of a moot limitation.
Maybe, or maybe their product is so simple that their alternative was "just hire a consultant to build it".

I jumped to the same conclusion too.
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I didn't see any personal insults, mostly just logic delivered unapologetically.
Yes, I completely agree. If you have anything other than complete unconditional love for a child under about 10, then it seems possible there's something very very wrong.

Its almost like he's talking about someone else's kids that he's baby sitting.

Small children are a blank canvas. Good and bad. Mine is sitting down quietly paging through a book whilst I tap this in on the iPad. Moments ago, she was blundering about with a blanket over her head. A day ago, she was tired, and apparently determined to crack her head open by falling onto a metal bed frame.

It's life, the most precious thing in the world. Love it while you can.
http://ifttt.com/channels/sms

Could be a nice interface for working with services that exist as ifttt already has interfaces with a lot of services.
The goal of monetary policy is to manage inflation. Therefore, if there was hyperinflation, that would be a clear sign it was failing. It's hard to pick an exact number - but certainly inflation over 10% annualized would be a sign that it was not going well.

The CPI is the benchmark of the effectiveness of QE. I prefer the one without energy and food ("core"), myself, because the question I am concerned with is "What effect is the size of the money supply having on prices?" (Instead of, "how scarce has oil become?")

Bear in mind that high(er) inflation with very low nominal interest rates means you can have a 0 or negative real interest rate - which rather handily destroys debt, and encourages banks, companies, etc, to make riskier investments (because the money pile they sit on is steadily losing value).

Is combined fiscal + monetary policy working well? Of course not; there's a large output gap. The economy is not in good shape. I'm arguing that fiscal, not monetary, policy is to blame, along with the reluctance of large entities to deploy their money.
Don't forget - he's been getting paid, and will continue to get paid, while the founders are funding the company out of their own pockets. The founders are clearly making sacrifices and taking personal risks that he is not, which puts him into the "employee" bucket.
I have donated bone marrow three times. All were during my undergrad years, and the motivation was supporting medical research but also that it paid well (from the perspective of an undergrad).

The donation process was exactly as described in
http://www.marrow.org/Registry_Members/Donation/Donation_FAQ...
but I was given only local anesthesia. The marrow was withdrawn from one of the two protrusions of my pelvis about 2-3 inches away from my spine (basically the very top of my butt). The process is certainly a strange feeling, but it's tame--not donating a kidney or anything.

It's a good opportunity to practice deep breathing and relaxation while focusing on the wonders of the human body.
This isn't how you should do branding. The point of branding should be to make your company, organization or in this case a blog stand out. Now if it doesn't matter what the logo looks like, then this is the way to go. However if you studied the rich history of editorial design you'd know that the yellow rectangle of National Geographic or the the bent page outline in red on the Time covers really made added to the personality of each brand. All of these "logos" look like something you've seen before; they've got second rate style but no substance; and sadly most of them look like they're for a cloud hosting service while the last one looks like it's for some vague non-profit for special kids.

Antonio do yourself a favor: Look at a dozen logos by Paul Rand, study the process behind them (Rand wrote several books) and then re-start your branding process.
Woot! Congrats on the launch. Time to add Testling to the StackVM site, eh? :D
It's such a drag that HN comments now become news stories. Now when I write something I have to think about how it will sound in print. Plus it decreases the information content of HN to have articles that are essentially dupes of old comment threads.

I didn't even realize Heroku was the company they were claiming I'd banned them to help. I assumed they meant another smaller company we funded that's focused specifically on Node.
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The free version is significantly slower to pull stories, compared to Google Reader. So I don't see a reason to even try.
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A big problem I faced with this approach is that value types in C# are significantly restricted as compared to reference types.

See here for details:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/csharplanguage/th...

They got lucky that their Customer type was simple enough.
burgerbrain's comment here has a very valid point. I'm involved in the project, working on the 3d math behind generating these printable shells, and the public reaction is quite surprising to me. TeamTeamUSA has been working on this project for over a year, and the MakerBot people simply chose to help with some funding and support. So they issued a press release on their own. That is their choice. Everyone assuming so much, and coming to their extreme opinions is ridiculous. You'd think this was BP and Dick Cheney making the announcement.

For the record, the shells being printed now are prototypes, yes in plastic. The final material is not selected, but will be environmentally friendly. A biodegradable plastic made from corn and sugarcane is a likely candidate. The prototypes are being 'trial tested' with hermit crabs to insure they will adopt the artificial shells, they're not too heavy and so on. And the final goal is not to print shells willy-nilly and scatter them on beaches. The final process of distribution will be designed, guided and overseen by marine biologists who are already active and engaged in the project.

Everyone involved is a concerned, educated individual. The comments to Makerbot's PR post and it's repeats across the web are pure Internet mob stupidity.
I thought we were past this kind of slander.

* Can you enumerate what you claim we did?

* Can you provide log files illustrating your arguments?

If the answer to either of the above is "no", then please keep your false claims to yourself. I'm happy to view this as water under the bridge, but I will not allow lies about my company, Nodejitsu, to circulate: we did not (and would never) use any kind of malicious, automated, or anti-competitive tactics to falsely generate upvotes for anything on *.nodejitsu.com

Again, if you'd like to speak with me personally I am available at charlie@nodejitsu.com.
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I think it is really funny that you consider cleaning to be an unskilled job and cooking to be skilled job. They are both low skilled job that are a lot of work. Your anecdotal "they like being a cook" misses the point. On the margin, some people will choose cleaning over cooking.

Society agreeing on a minimum wage does not make it efficient by definition. First of all, "society" is only the majority of voters. Voters pass things that are inefficient all the time. Secondly, efficient has a specific meaning in economics. It means that goods are allocated to where they are most highly valued and produced where they are can be most cheaply made. Given the definition, the minimum wage clearly does distort people incentives to work and leads to economic inefficiency.
While the Wealth of Nations was a great book for its time, I suspect that the time it takes to read it would be better spent reading four shorter economics books.

I do recommend P. J. O'Rourke's book On The Wealth Of Nations, though, which summarises and discusses the whole thing in a hundred pages.
As a graphic designer this site makes me want to cry. Logo design is not free and designers doing mock-ups for free is foolish.
I tried to comment on these via the 99designs site, but the site was misbehaving for me. I'll just post them here instead:

#123, #114, #109, #112 feel a bit too busy for my liking, though I do like the shooting star.

#44 is nice - I really like the compact look and the small vertical rule between the cloud and the name. I'm not sure if the jagged line is supposed to be reminiscent of a chart-like metric, or if it's supposed to make you think of "shattering", as in you're hoping to really shake things up.

#30 - I kind of like the window design but the font shading feels a bit off to me.

#12 - Nice and clean. The blue seems a bit faded, but that may be intentional?

#8 - Makes me think of a charity / donation / non-profit organization.

Overall, I think I like #44 the best closely followed by #12.
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Could you post their replies? I know this was sarcastic, but I'd like to see what your bosses have to say about it. Honestly, what you're saying is controversial, but worth discussing. However, your attitude towards anyone who disagrees is shitty, and it does reflect on your company poorly. It doesn't matter that it shouldn't, it does. You might want to keep this in mind, fwiw.
Same goes for Mass Ave. I don't think I've ever seen the bike lane on either side of Mass Ave not blocked by a pedestrian or parked car every couple of blocks.
Everyone at staff level in financial sector has been a VP since as long as I have known the financial sector existed.
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> but also that it paid well (from the perspective of an undergrad).

The page you link to clearly says: "Donors never pay for donating, and are never paid to donate."

Is your story missing something?
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Sounds like they're already doing this. This would just make it official.

Also interesting is that the change is just a "rule change," not a proposed law. That means that if the rule change takes effect, information could be restricted further without the legislative branch having anything to do with it. It's just the executive alone, completely deciding what to release and what not to -- and now being able to lie about it to boot.

I find it amazing that such a proposed rule change could even be suggested. The inmates are truly running the asylum.

Just to recap, if a federal official asks you a question, it's a felony to lie to them. But if you ask them a question, they want the ability to lie to you as a matter of course.

Amazing.
It probably is just your old age :-)

I just got my 11 y-o son (yet another) Lego Star Wars set for his birthday and it's amazing the things he makes. Day 1 is just building whatever Star Wars thingy the set is about.

Days 2 - infinity are taking the existing thousands of Lego blocks (that he has sorted into color-coded bins: the only organization I've ever seen him do) and building all sorts of crap out of it. So we end up with Boba Fett fighting Harry Potter on top of Hogwarts with the Indiana Jones's office addition!

And all I can do is build Indy an LED lamp for his desk.
It depends on how technically involved their product is. If you've developed it in a few months then probably (hard to say without knowing your skill level) the 3% is ok, but may not be worth your time if you think their chances of success are still low.

If it is very technically complex and you have them over a barrel I'd go for something more substantial if you think their chances of success warrant it.
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Wait, what? Mandela is not a murderer. It's kind of difficult to qualify Castro of being a murderer with so much certainty. You have got to be a troll.
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My perspective: I both cycle and drive quite a lot.

When I'm driving, I hate cyclists, and when I'm cycling I hate drivers. Both groups are filled with complete freaking idiots who shouldn't be allowed onto the roads under any circumstances.
I wish you guys would put up a "How It Works" page with more detail. I saw the FAQ under Pricing, but that's not the place I would expect to find all the info.

- Like pie asked, is this a remote proxy?

- What happens if I start a transaction and then the storage engine detects a deadlock and rolls back the transaction?

- What DBs does it work with? I think you say any DB but I have a hard time believing that.

- What is performance like?

- Zero downtime? That sounds like snake oil.

- Can I have an internally hosted solution?

- Shouldn't this be implemented at the storage engine level?

Anyway it sounds very interesting but the devil is in the details.
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If one were to get a MBP with the standard Serial ATA Drive, could it later be replaced with SSD? I've never seen an SSD drive, I'm wondering if the conector is the same as Serial ATA?

I'm thinking I might just get the standard drive and upgrade it aftermarket.
I think he's pretty well stating it, and I think he's pretty well right. (I'd have also agreed with your point-of-view 3 years ago before my first was born.) It's not worth much arguing about, because as a non-parent you'll have other compensating "benefits", but it's hard for me to imagine how much my own world view and views on selfless love changed with the birth of my first (and to a lesser extent, my second).

FTR, I didn't downvote.
Let's make an n-dimensional map of the available javascript testing environments. The dimensions are something like:

- headless v. javascript driving browser v. full browser-level

- js-only v. test-specific html page v. load full app html

- local v. cloud

And the current contenders go something like:

- Selenium: browser, full app, local

- Sauce: browser, full app, cloud

- FuncUnit: js-browser, full app in iframe, local

- qUnit: js-browser, sparse html page, local

- JS Test Driver: js-browser, js-only, local

- ad infinitum...

The result is that you need (at least!) three different tools to do three different but required tasks:

- unit tests that run in a quick-feedback, autotest style on the command line

- module-level tests that require a small bit of DOM access and cross-browser testing

- integration tests that require loading the full app and triggering events on it.

It would be better if we could come up with a convenient, simple abstraction that allowed doing all three, and sharing code for mocks across the three, and configuring in what environment and what machine they each run.

Ideally, this could be done with AMD and wire.js. Just write a test in javascript, declare its dependencies, and they get injected.

- Unit tests depend on just one or two js files. They get loaded and then the tests run.

- Functional tests depend on "dom," provided either by a browser or a zombie.js-style headless dom, and a variety of js and html snippets. They all get loaded and run.

- Integration tests depend on "app", provided by actually running against one of your servers. It spins up, the tests run, maybe there is an API for telling the test server to reset itself to a known state between tests.
Only one of them. They have 1-2 more they plan on using.
It will be bootstrapped here - the bike-sharing program will be injecting 10,000 bikes into the system as of next spring/summer.

And I defy anyone to spend time on a major non-recreational cycling route (Sands Street, 8th Avenue, the Williamsburg Bridge, Prospect Park West) when the weather is pleasant and state that the infrastructure is underutilized. Were it the ghost town that Cassidy and Weinshall claim, the DOT would not be putting in pedestrian safeguards (bollards, the wall at the bottom of the Williamsburg Bridge).

This debate has raged for the better part of this year, and the notion of Prospect Park West residents sitting with golf clickers counting cyclists in the dead of winter and claiming the paths are underutilized is ridiculous.
A very good read; something I agree with a lot.

I especially love:

"Start something because you have a passion and you want to create something good and long lasting. Start something because you want to change things for the better"
Agreed. I think there are many, many great reasons to announce news on TechCrunch. This post was merely meant to provide folks with a data point regarding how much traffic one site experienced from different types of announcements on TC.
How much would you pay?

As an aside, I really don't know why people get so excited about 3D printing to the exclusion of all other manufacturing methods. Lego blocks could easily be made to the accuracy required on a milling machine using technology that's 100 years old. And it would be much faster than printing.

3D printing is certainly useful, but it gets way too much press. About the only reason I can think of is that it's easier to DIY a RepRap than a CNC milling machine due to the much smaller forces required.
Ah, there is something I can get behind.

Other firms attempting to recruit your people is a sign you've hired good people. Also, a sense that employees have a choice of where to work, and you'll do the best you can to make your company a great place to work is also good.

I think tone matters in blogs like these, and I think the HN community appreciates the positive portrayal of things over bravado. Maybe your original post flowed naturally to you. If so that is ok, but I think you would have had more success with the post had it been more observational instead of confrontational. To each his own.

Best of luck with fab, it is a great company/site.
I joined one of the drives a week ago in New York. Swabbing your cheek is easy, filling out the form is easy, and even though the odds are I'm not a match for Amit, I may one day be the match for someone else.

From what I understand, the procedures for donation have gotten simpler and less invasive all the time. Giving up a day for the chance to save someone's life is an absolute no-brainer. Easiest decision I'll ever make.

Go get on the list.
Well, he is advertising his company. Like HN, it's a marketing activity, but one that also has a value-creation component, not merely an attention-grab.
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If you donate through the Wau Holland Foundation [0], Wikileaks only get money if they provide a receipt for what they spent, and only for things that are in line with the foundations goals. See also this Interview [1] in Der Spiegel about donations.

[0] http://www.wau-holland-stiftung.de/english.html

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,734318,00.h...
It would be interesting to know how much of the traffic is on the site for only a few seconds, how many of the visitors just bounce off without reading anything.
Looks very useful as a github post-commit hook for catching browser-specific JavaScript errors.

Is this also meant to be used for testing usability across browsers? Like browserling but automated? If so, some specific examples on the docs page would be very helpful.
Hi epi0Bauqu!
Congrats!

That being said, is it possible to see the actual six slides deck ?

Thanks!
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Actually the load balancer approach can be further simplified. Just have a shorter health check on the server, like 3 seconds. When the server is in long GC pause, its health check request from the load balancer will fail. The load balancer automatically takes it off the pool and no traffic reaches it. After GC completed, the server's health check succeeds. Load balancer adds it back to pool automatically.

It's just a simpler solution to have a group of servers with enough capacity accounting for the random GC pauses. Having short health check enables failing fast which is generally better for the users overall - their requests don't stuck in overloaded servers for a long time (GC or otherwise caused).
I like the concept a lot, kind of like dr Mario for poker, however one interaction issue made it very difficult for me to keep playing:

In ios 5, swiping down brings down the notifications window. Half the time I was trying to drag the cards down from the top I ended up bringing down notifications instead. I know a few friends who are dealing with similar issues in their games. Perhaps just moving the cards down a little would help?
It's possible and practical. The MPS allows you to have manually-managed pools alongside GC'ed pools in the same heap: http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/

Useful for long-lived data that doesn't change frequently.
> Sub-minimum-wage living becomes legally unviable precisely because low-end prices rise to match the absence of legal sub-minimum-wage incomes - at which point the government becomes obligated to confiscate and redistribute wealth to rescue those who are drowned by the consequences of minimum-wage laws.

Excellent point. The minimum wage creates a need for welfare for the unskilled because it makes it outlaws their jobs and it raises prices on them.
I once got a ticket ($140ish) for cruising through a stop sign on a bike. Ever since then, I come to an obnoxious tire-skidding halt at every stop sign before starting up again (and take the opportunity to swear at those who don't obey the rules).

The trouble is that I'm currently in America, where traffic planners have apparently decided that every goddamn intersection should have a four-way stop sign. This, to me, makes no sense -- put in roundabouts, or a Give Way sign going two out of four ways, to make traffic flow efficient. But anyway, it makes cycling anywhere a huge pain.
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The scary thing to me really is that I no longer find stuff like this astonishing.
Iterate, ultimately you remove GC altogether.

I think that's reductio ad absurdum. It's typical in long-running applications to have a class of memory unlike the rest, that will live the entire lifetime of the application. I see no problem with being able to tell the GC "this memory will always be used," or just allocating it outside of the GC entirely, while still wanting all of the benefits of GC elsewhere in the application.
Can we ban Betabeat? What a giant waste of time.