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This research is actually a good example of the profound institutional problems with funding of aging and longevity science. Peter Thiel's call for radical philanthropy addresses this issue - that funding has become staid, and there needs to be more high-risk, high reward research funding akin to the venture industry. See:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/11/the-need-for-visi...

"So after Mayo Clinic researchers discovered they could delay degeneration of the tissues in a fast-aging strain of mice by purging senescent cells, they applied to the agency's National Institute on Aging for financing for the next essential step, that of repeating the test in mice with a normal life span. Under the agency's peer review system, panels of fellow experts judge each proposal and assign it a score. On paper, it's hard to think of a better system. But in practice, experts often differ, even on the best proposals, and a single dissenting vote can reduce a proposal's overall score too low to get financed. The Mayo proposal got a less than perfect score, and was denied money. ... Their peer review process is not promoting innovative, high-risk research. ... They were able to get their research started only because private funds were available from the Ellison Medical Foundation, supported by Larry Ellison of the Oracle software company, and from Robert P. Kogod, a philanthropist in Washington. After publication of the Mayo Clinic team's paper in Nature this month, they were approached by the Glenn Foundation, set up by the commodities trader Paul F. Glenn, who has a longstanding interest in aging research. The foundation gave them an unsolicited $60,000 and said it would be around to talk later."

You'll recognize a number of those names as supporters of the SENS Foundation and Methuselah Foundation before it over the past four or five years, having put millions of dollars collectively into the work of those organizations on (a) the basis for rejuvenation biotechnology and (b) what might charitably be looked on as kicking the research community in the pants to make them get on and do the damn job and make some noise about it.

In fact wherever there is somewhat innovative research into aging and longevity - looking at repair, not just trying to find drugs to replicate the effects of calorie restriction and push through the same old tired FDA processes - you'll see many of the same visionary philanthropists behind the scenes.

A related item by Aubrey de Grey on why people with the means are not pumping as much funding as they can into longevity science, given the clear and amazing payoffs:

http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/11/21/why-arent-more-wealthy-p...
I'm waiting for the inevitable news stories that will follow - "Could hackers hijack your VRD to fry your eyes with lasers? Tune in at 11."
Not quant stuff. Straight-up trading. His MD was making $2m a year in his early 30s.
You can print out the boarding pass, but you need to stand in the line for the bag check ticket, and so they can check your ID before putting the bag on the conveyor belt (or telling you to lug your bag to the conveyor belt around the corner).
There's something wrong. http://www.githire.com/user/parse has rank of 10 and doesn't own the project shown on the page.
While talking with Bob Walsh on the Startup Success podcast a couple weeks ago, he came up with "Minimal Viable Experience" which I think applies well here: http://startupsuccesspodcast.com/2011/11/show-124-corey-maas...
> Guess this depends on how you work.

Oh, absolutely. If I were a actual road warrior, the iPad wouldn't work at all for me. However, between my laptops at home and at work I don't really need a third one, and since I already have the iPad I'd rather make as much I can with it for short trips where I am not going have too much time and/or wifi to pull sustained work sessions.

> It could be used for reading I guess..

That too. For an academic, GoodReader is a blessing. I have finally stopped printing out loads of articles and/or finding that I printed out this same article a couple of years ago. Not to mention Kindle etc. Again, if I were spending significant amounts of time away from either home or the office, I'd consider investing in a proper portable laptop; but I'm not, and for my use case the iPad is ideal.

> can't run what I want to run

Yep, I agree that it's frustrating.

> (not an Eee ffs, a real laptop).

No everybody can afford another proper laptop that's as easy to carry around as an iPad, y'know.

Anyway, YMMV, of course. I was just pointing out that solutions are available.
Not even that in my book. It's hoodwinking that could potentially hurt existing businesses as well as creating an atmosphere of distrust if practiced widely.
I'm curious if this really surprises anyone here that the entire process for the government purchasing three mobile applications (Android, iOS, and BB) was ~200k. This seems pretty ordinary/normal to me.
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Do doctors think you're brain did enough development when you were an infant that it would handle visual info coming from your bad eye if your retina were replaced? I was under the impression that someone like you (who grew up without using the eye) might not be able to usefully interpret the signals from the eye if it were repaired.
What works as a nice intro with audio doesn't always work standalone. The first dozen slide don't match the title. Live, it can be a way to warm up a crowd but with just the deck it's a drag.
If they can make the park as bright as it would be outside (on any given day) then they shouldn't need extra artificial light.

Do you have data on whether their technology can accomplish that?
Thanks for the link; I was wondering what the hell has been going on. I've been flying Virgina for a while, and I flew on the weekend of the transition. I think I slipped my online ticket sale in just in time, but check-in, seat selection, frequent flyer info: all screwed.

I'm sure this is a tough job, but I wish they would have disabled the features rather than let them fail. The first several times I tried and failed, I assumed it was a fluke. That these thing sometimes worked and sometimes didn't led me to believe that these were ephemeral problems, and I must have wasted hours retrying things. If that had been the case, I would have just arrived early and done it the old-fashioned. Ultimately, that's what I did, although their internal systems are just as screwed (and I don't think hand-written passenger manifests cut the muster anymore).

Anyway, on my second pass through this mess, I just skipped the website entirely and did everything at the airport. Took a little longer, but it was pretty stress-free. I'd recommend doing so if you're flying with them soon.

To their credit, they did give us miles and candy, and the staff is still the best in the biz. And, if you're flying through SFO, you can make the best of your residual time with a solid burger and a decent drink at Lark Creek Grill.
And people wonder why the US has a deficit problem.
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the wikipedia article seems to me to be referring to an MVP more as a process, and the smoke testing by creating mock websites as one part of that process.

i can agree with that, on some level, but i still feel that to have a complete MVP (process), you necessarily have to have a P at the end of it.
lol if you believe any of this.
I imagine that sharing facial-recognition data will be protected by new laws - although, of course, it won't work.

Perhaps we'll start seeing new fashions arise as a result: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/03/cv-dazzle/
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Yeah, but if each component is outsourced, there's the potential that the entire system becomes a huge, disorganized, unmaintainable mess with no consistency in coding standards or even technologies. When something breaks, who debugs the system? Who do you call to fix it?

Then again, just look at this app. How could it get any worse? lol
Still, there is going to be a significant amount of shake and sway as you move your eyes around. I wonder if you could correct it in software by tracking the movement of the lens with respect to the eye.
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extremamente práticas e simples de serem entendidas, assim você consegue absorver o conhecimento de forma muito mais rápida e prazerosa.
Or perhaps infrared LED accessories: http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/02/21/ir-leds-used-to-defeat-s...

Perhaps a persistence-of-vision patterns that say "ANON" covering your face? http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/amazing-persi...
I didn't install it on my site but used the one on jotform.com but it worked mostly fine for me. I can definitely see uses for it. It would be interesting to see how many of your existing users clients actually annotate the image.

FWIW: You might mention that the camera button clobbers the existing image. To me it meant I could add multiple screenshots but it clobbered my annotated image instead.

Also the first image was sized correctly but after clicking the camera image the second image was overlapping the tools.

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The problem is that we're having to keep perfect compatibility with stuff that was done in the seventies. So you quickly end up with something just as (if not more) horrendous as the Windows or Office codebase. Take EDIFACT for example...
Isn't a race to the bottom on price the desired outcome?

The presence of a race to the bottom on functionality is independent of whether or not the contract is open. If they don't have anyone competent who is vetting the proposals or evaluating the progress and deliverables, then they will wind up with shit no matter how they arrange the contracting. But if it's open to normal software shops, then at least they probably won't wind up with $200,000 shit.
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Brilliant article. Couple of key takeaways:

1. "The shocking part about this isn't even that it happened, but rather that it is incredibly routine. This is just one FOIA request to one tiny department for one tiny, single use application that will perhaps be used by, at most, five hundred people.. and it cost as much as a house. You can imagine what the waste must be like in other government run sectors..."

2. "The other issue is the source code. In my opinion, since we taxpayers paid for the development of this piece of shit, we should at least be able to modify and redistrubute the code. Apparently though, the Government doesn't have to supply any information which it considers to be a "trade secret," and OSHA has determined that this crappy source code is somehow a privileged secret. "

I wonder if the denial of showing source code was because they really DO think it is a trade secret. Or they are too embarrassed to show it?
A deep-linked article had a good quote about the complexity of cut-over transition like this: "It is the business equivalent of taking out the brain of a human being, while they are laying on the table and you're having a conversation with them."
Some (most?) browsers cache based on the Last-Modified-Time of the resource, I know for example Mozilla does this (it will cache for ((now - mtime) * k), and I can't remember if k is 10 or 1/10).

Given that, is it possible your css has an older mtime then your "/"? If "/" is dynamically generated then the mtime will usually be set to now, whereas the css is often a file on disk with a real mtime.
"50 hours a week @ $25/hour"

I believe its 100 hours a week, which frankly sounds absurd.

My comment is not ignoring either of your points since:

1. I state the salary will go up.

2. The point of my comment was to realize that making 125K is not much if you are working 100hr/week and have no time to enjoy it, thus a high salary might seem great but looking at it on an hourly basis can be useful etc.

In life, generally you can have more money or more time, rarely can you have both. I would rather have more time personally.
Hey, I am one of the authors of Derby. Knockout and Backbone are pretty different, and they both have good aspects. Knockout's strength is its powerful view-model bindings, and Backbone is targeted at providing an MVC structure. However, neither of these libraries claim to be a complete solution. If you want a more full-featured client framework similar to these, SproutCore is one of the better ones right now.

The reason we started working on Derby, is that none of these frameworks offer a full-stack solution. Backbone and SproutCore will provide better structure and some automation of client-server data syncing. However, they still require manually creating appropriate server routes that handle AJAX requests and communicate with a database. They may provide client-side routing, but these routes are totally different from the server routes, so if you want to use the same URLs, you have to duplicate routing code. SproutCore uses Handlebars, so you might be able to render the same templates on the server for faster page rendering, and non-JavaScript browser or search engine crawler accessibility. However, this will require writing a bunch of custom server code to pull out the right data and render the templates. In addition, none of these frameworks provide tools to deal with data conflicts. Conflicts are inevitable in a multiple users realtime application, especially when supporting offline.

Derby's focus is to unify as much code between server and client and to provide automatic realtime syncing among all models and views. This approach requires less code, delivers faster load times, provides instant client-side rendering from full pages to individual data bindings, and supports offline by default. It's a work in progress, but let us know what you think about it so far.
All I know is that if I put in Austin, Tx, I see a few people that I know in the top 10 to be really good software developers.

However, these are the types of people who generally start their own projects, and attract other good developers to a project. Their salaries are also going to be quite a bit higher than the average developer as well.

So, it seems to me that project popularity is at least some indicator that a person is competent as a software developer, but I can think of a lot of jobs that wouldn't require someone to be in the top 10.

I think that it would be great to be able to be able to search by code quality, test coverage, etc., but I don't think that we have the AI metrics to do that yet, and unfortunately, a real human has to look at someone's code to decide if it's any good.

However, this reminds me of software that tries to detect what "reading level" a person is writing at. For example, google lets you search by "reading level". It would be an interesting project for someone to apply the same principles to software.
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The article is actually pretty good. Of course, it's a bunch of anecdotes rather than data, but there are many young founders who struggle with depression, and none of them want to admit it publicly for sake of scaring away VCs.
Do you mean fair conjunction like in "Backtracking, Interleaving, and Terminating Monad Transformers" or something else/new?
Don't use Debian Unstable/sid unless you know how to fix packages and are prepared for the whole thing to break. It's called unstable for christsakes.
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Thus bootstrapping must surely be analogous to erectile dysfunction?
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Statically-compiled programs have no known predators. They typically die from old age.
Agreed, anyone used to firebug will find Safari's Inspector very familiar. Even more so if they're used to Chrome's Inspector, which is not identical but seems like it shares 90% or more.
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Great... how can be one to help the government with such requirements?
http://www.erawatch-network.com/en/Members/founder/technopol... seems to be the epicenter of this research, at least two of their employees come up as responsible in the report.

The blurb behind this link reveals them or as lobbyists "on demand" or just one of these uncountable organizations which feed from the seemingly unlimited amounts of taxpayers money in EU policy making. Probably both.
Great... how can I be one to help the government with such requirements?
How is that significantly different from the casinos' status quo?
What's wrong with the subject line? I'm genuinely interested in the post-email phenomenon. Us old timers sometimes would sometimes put a whole short message in the subject line, giving roughly the functionality of an instant message.
A familiar sight to those of us outside the US, of course.
Actually, me and a team of two other developers recently applied for a government contract for the NIST that would have had us fixing a bug in OpenSceneGraph that was causing it to perform worse when more graphics cards were added.

Due to what they were asking for and the amount of time we thought it would take to accomplish it and provide the documentation they were asking for, we bid in at $60,000. We did not get the bid. I believe it was given to a university in Florida (damn grad students!) for a bid of $42,000.

In regards to the Android app in question, I think they just didn't have enough bidders. It's also possible they bogged them down in paperwork and status reports / updates (tends to happen with government contracts) which drove up the cost. I am a bit bothered that the bidding system does not favor companies based in the US that are not owned by foreign companies.
The problem with the government trying to do something is that anyone who's really really qualified will find the paperwork, compliance, and bidding procedures way too complicated for the sums of money involved.

The Android app cost 106k btw. So looking at this guys hourly rate, it would take approximately 6 months of 40 hour weeks for him to cost that much to do the app.

So if he:

Learned out to submit the forms that got him into the bidding

Made changes to his company required to make it seem a valid bid target

Filed the correct forms to put in his bid

Factored in correctly the amount of oversight and travel that would be required to get even a simple app done according to the whims of the people hired to get it made

Used server technologies compliant with government desires, including ones he may never really willingly touch with a 10 foot pole

Then MAYBE, just MAYBE, he'd be able to go as low as say, 60k or so. And that's for a small indie dev. Now look at a bigger company doing this app (as the government likes support, unlike a single freelancer can necessarily provide), and you easily hit the 106k range.

Does it not work well? Sounds like it works like crap. But complicated crap still can be expensive to make.
great article. founders need to read this - launching something new is such an emotional rollercoaster and the incredible highs can be matched by devastating lows.

any startup involves visualizing a future that doesn't yet exist, and the path to trying to reach that version of the future is always more difficult than it seems. most startups fail and this is depressing for the people who invest their lives into them... we should step away from being cerebral coders sometimes and just accept the emotional stress we come under when we try to change the world!
Just got my first Github spam message today. Coincidence? Is this being used as a spam tool?

Anyone else got something like this in all caps?
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When a party loses a war against another party, they don't have much in the way of rights until there's a negotiated peace. They certainly don't get to talk about 'their land' in any meaningful sense.

Israel occupied the West Bank, the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights after winning the Six-Day War. When Egypt - twelve years and another war later - negotiated a peace treaty with Israel, Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to them, and it once again became Egyptian.

Syria hasn't shown much interest in negotiating peace with Israel, and that's why the Golan Heights are not Syrian at the moment - and the way things are going, likely never will be.

The Palestinians also haven't shown much interest in peace. The Israelis have made many generous offers over the years - the Palestinians could've easily negotiated peace and established a state at the Oslo Accords or the Camp David Accords. They declined to do so. When they eventually decide that they do want peace, then 'their land' will be what they negotiate - but until then, they've got they same status as Germans or Japanese in the immediate aftermath of WWII.

Considering Israel's historical and religious ties to the land, and considering that there's been over forty years to sort out peace, they've been incredibly tolerant by not annexing the entire West Bank outright. (Which they've quite plausibly got the right to do - Israel may have signed the Fourth Geneva Convention, but the West Bank wasn't claimed by another sovereign state at the time of its occupation.) European countries aren't nearly as generous when they win wars - which is why Gdańsk is Polish, Bolzano is Italian, Kaliningrad is Russian, and Hungary is a whole lot smaller than it used to be.

Again, I have to question why people want to hold the world's only Jewish state to a standard followed by no other country.
In the government agency where I work, $200k would actually be considered very reasonable for a steaming pile of shit. We've paid many times that amount and sometimes the shit wasn't even lukewarm, let alone steaming. Believe it or not, we often spend $150 to $200k or more just to make the decision about whether or not we're going to invest in a particular pile of shit.
"When they said elite, banks, law firms, and consulting business did not come to mind. The first two I consider them as leeches."

OK, but then they look upon the HN readers as fungible headcount that can be outsourced. Different strokes for different folks - and the more you understand the rules of other's games the better you do.
That is an easy problem to get around - make the bidding for 30 day coding with an option to have in extended for another 30 days until the government is no longer happy with the progress.

Then do it Scrum style.
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We also sell the same apps on both platforms and on Android our sales fluctuate between 40 and 60% of the volume we sell on iOS.

There has been a significant amount of growth in the Android sales over the last 3-4 months where it grew from around 20% to where it is now.
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Are there any largescale Riak deployments?
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It must have improved substantially. I remember having trouble finding out how to even activate a console, and then being blown back by how far behind Firefox+Firebug it was.
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Yes, that is correct. Most neurons are post mitotic i.e. the cells do not divide in adult life so the mutation would need to be present early in embryonic development.
For what it's worth, for me the Android revenue is 1000% the iOS revenues (for the exact same game).
There's less competition on Android, and I suspect users are more into hardcore games.

( http://itunes.apple.com/app/pewpew/id370379981?mt=8 )
I'm not assuming Harvard gives determinative weight to SAT scores. But its 25-75 is what it is. At least 75% of Harvard students have above a 96th %-ile SAT. In practice it's a necessary but not sufficient qualification.