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The NTSB will then have to ban: talking (to anyone in the car since the distraction is iplied as being the mental distraction of conversation), listening to music, eating, application of makeup, and smoking to name a few. Next up will be only allowing windows to be rolled down while the car is not in motion or in an emergency situation.

Bottom line - if people aren't making new legislation (i.e. controls) they are looked upon as doing nothing. So they do 'something' which is the next step of control up from the last. This translates into a slow erosion (the boiled frog analogy) of our overall freedom. The United States is ridiculous in it's ludicrous enforcement of things that have little impact in the overall state of affairs.

Nader did us all a favor by putting 3-point belts in cars - that saved lives. But he never told us we had to wear them. Let nature takes it's course, I like my life as a choose-your-own-adventure not as a marionette.

$0.02.
2. I'm in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the start-up is targeted for the ex-Yugoslavia area (Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro)

3. I'd love to connect with as many people as possible, my email and twitter are visible on my profile
Are there examples of large(ish) projects or production websites using primarily CoffeeScript?

It seems like CS has a fanbase among purists who enjoy the syntactic elegance. But in more pragmatic environments the extra pain in the develop-debug lifecycle would seem to be a showstopper. I just wonder how many developers end up voting with their feet when confronted with that choice in the real world.

P.S. Another argument against that wasn't mentioned: CoffeeScript represents an additional barrier to entry for opensource projects. Shipping compiled JS code is not unlike shipping a compiled binary... and if you want people to participate and contribute, requiring CS knowledge is an extra hurdle that most JS devs will shy away from.
This is a great idea . However as a long time Spring user , could I ask that you spin this in to full blown tutorial . Heck I will pay for an ebook (<$15) which shows Client Side Coffeescript + client side MMVC+ some client side templating + client side state with Spring on the server side. Go slow and easy on the client side JS part -- after all you would be talking to Java guys ;-). You don't need to worry about server side xml -- that is natural for us Java guys.
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I always visit the .org. Maybe I'm just weird.
Because you are buying 10 times as many servers, and paying for power for 10 times as many servers. Where on earth did this "bog standard x86_64 hardware" business come from?
My response would be something like this:

"Oh my god! I can't believe I just quit Facebook. I can't wait to update my status so that all my friends can see what I just did ... oh, crap... what now?"

Seriously, though?

If FB (or anything else in your life) works for you, do it until it doesn't work. Then change it. No big deal either way.
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Makers could disable texting if the phone is moving > 5 mph. Easily defeated and annoying, yes, but marginally less stupid than trying to legislate a change in behavior.
Really? Suicide's not a stupid thing to do? I guess there are cases where it's not -- like if you're terminal, or facing life in prison. That's a rational choice and I can empathize with those people. I've lived with depression and with other people who've suffered from it. Four of my friends attempted suicide in high school, and one succeeded. It made me angry. How dare they be so stupid. And since the two who survived it got better, they agreed. I get that it's usually triggered by a chemical imbalance, but people who are capable of having this discussion, and capable of writing the above, can choose to live and treat their chemistry, or they can choose not to. What they can't do is get pity from rational people just for saying they view suicide as a rational choice, because it's not, and I'm sick of hearing that. Try living with a depressed person and finding yourself responsible for their happiness; that line of reasoning wears thin.

So, right. I have no pity for people who choose to make or wallow in their own problems. Why should I? I reserve my empathy for people who don't have enough to eat, people who got cheated, falsely imprisoned, wrongly executed, were victims of racism, domestic violence, rape, slavery, forced prostitution, and child abuse; or who through no fault of their own had the bad luck to be born in Burma or North Korea. Not people who had the amazing good luck to be born in a first-world country where it rains antidepressants, distractions and opportunities, and who find so much time to spend navel-gazing that they finally hate themselves and want to die.
Alternatively switch from cars to a combination of trains and bicycles.

In much of Europe there's no need to own a car at all. Towns have grown up around railway stations, and shops are close enough to walk/cycle.

The problem in the US seems to be that homes/workplaces have been built up around roads instead of rail infrastructure.
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I'm glad it's worked out for him, and unless I'm misunderstanding, it seems he's double-counting his production costs in working out his (pre-tax) profit, so he may have done even better than that:

"the production of the video cost around $170,000. (This was largely paid for by the tickets bought by the audiences at both shows)"

"12 hours [after launching] we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website."

Surely one or the the other covered the cost of production, not both?

"As of Today, we've sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000"

(170K + 550K) - 250K - paypal fees != 200K

Which makes me wonder if this statement is correct:

"This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you"

On the other hand, whilst in the other front-page article on HN he says "I've never seen a check from a [TV] comedy special", I only heard of Louis C.K. from watching one of his stand-up shows on TV on an airline, so even if he didn't get payed directly, there's still publicity value in them.

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It would be a self-discipline problem if the affected people were showing less self-discipline than others. The author is saying that a rich person (that does not currently have the self-discipline problem) put into this situation would behave similarly. Thus the core issue is not with the poor people having less self-discipline, but instead with how poverty affects our self-discipline.
It's ok for passengers to text, just not drivers.
So, how are you enjoying your foray into Java EE? I may be making a similar move and would be interested in your thoughts. Things like what version of Java EE are you using, what pain points have you found, do you feel hampered by the java environment, etc.

Thanks!
No. Verizon doesn't use Carrier IQ at all, and as far as I can tell T-Mobile only deploys it on BlackBerrys. If I had an Android device on AT&T or Sprint, though, I'd want to install Cyanogenmod.

Here's a link to a piece of software that can detect CarrierIQ on your phone:
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.simp...
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I have an unpublished 'template' on angel.co, waiting for the product to be ready for launching to publish it
But I'm sure it helps a lot if you happen to write songs that appeal to nerds and then get featured on slashdot as a sort of novelty act.

Isn't that kind of the whole point though? You can't just be a no-name, release some music that is very similar to a large number of artists in a popular genre of music, and then expect to hit it big.
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That's not really true, there's a lot that goes into 'professional' recordings, video or audio.

Mostly, experience is a huge part of it.

There's also a world of difference from a shure 58 on a macbook line-in, and high quality mics on a protools rig.

that said, my band recorded a 4 song ep for about 600$ at a local studio start to finish recently. (i linked to the album on my about page) I don't think any of us expect to make our money back on this one, unless everyone on here decided to go buy a copy on itunes, so we're giving it away.

Were we to do it all ourselves, the investment in equipment would have been at larger than that, and then amortized of a small amount of sales. The resulting quality also would not have even been close.

It's also hard to do promotion on a national scale without some kind of built in audience. Hows a small local band or whatnot going to reach people on the other side of the country, or in other countries entirely?
There's a difference between the level and type of distraction associated with talking to a passenger, having a dog in the backseat or having kids in the car and using one of these devices.

Most of those things that you are equating with device use are passive activities. Do you stare at the radio while listening? Do you turn around to talk to a passenger in the rear seat? Do you swerve the car to look at a billboard?

Drivers who are affected by passive distractions are usually inexperienced. That's one of the reasons why new teenage drivers are usually restricted from carrying teenage passengers, driving at night, etc.

Device usage, especially smartphones, is totally different. They are active distractions that involve your sight, touch and hearing. People tune out the world as they text or futz around on the phone -- anyone who has seen a colleague walk into a wall or hunch over a BlackBerry in a meeting can attest to that.

I don't want to die or be injured because some careless idiot needs to carry on some inane text banter with a friend. You can call it cowardice, I call it common sense.
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I don't know why you are saying anything to me since you are responding to something I didn't say and that has nothing to do with the post I made. Is "dim witted attempts to respond to poorly thought out strawmen" really the level of discourse here?
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Another occasional source of discussion is driving while sleep-deprived. For mostly practical reasons, the driving-while-impaired laws target specifically chemical impairment (mainly drinking), since you can do blood tests for those. But, though estimates vary, sleep-based impairment appears to be responsible for more annual fatalities than drunk driving.
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For most people actively contemplating suicide, the rational validity of _any_ approach is orthogonal to their decision-making process. Even if the parent comment "made sense", I doubt it's helpful to most people in that position.

The comment about morality / rationality was just a reservation of agreement, on a point that I'm saying isn't actually pertinent to the parent comment's stated audience. I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I've offered anything like an argument on morality.
There could always be an exception for a car that isn't moving. I don't have hard data to back this up, but my gut tells me that the car being in motion adds to the danger.
The current model doesn't work for most less popular artists. All the artists who came up through the system and are now superstars were less popular once, and the promotional machinery had a big part in making them popular (and rich).

This is sort of how I feel about the traditional publishing industry. The way it's worked traditionally is that can't quite tell which authors are going to be big sellers, so you take a chance on a bunch, and the more successful ones subsidize the less successful. Now the successful ones for obvious reasons resent this and can shift to a self-publishing model. The problem is they never would have gotten successful had some publisher taken that initial chance on them. Where's the next generation coming from?
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What makes you think that the engineering teams in companies like Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Mitsubishi, GE etc. are "a long way behind in terms of 'software engineering'"? It is extremely misguided to think that all the thousands of engineers working in the Industrial Automation field are somehow behind others. I guess most of the HN crowd has very little exposure to the technologies in this field and most people probably consider this field uncool. But that doesn't mean the engineers working on these technologies are dumb and lagging behind others.
Not true.

Drowsy driving is generally a serious moving violation or minor crime. In most states, you can be charged with reckless driving.

If your eating was affecting your driving to the extent that a policeman thought you were drunk, he could cite you with any of a half dozen violations.
Interesting! Unfortunately, your application seems limited to the mac, so I won't be able to use it.

Also, I couldn't watch your video entirely, it got stuck on the middle. I'm not sure if the problem is on my browser's part of if the video is corrupt, but maybe you could mirror it to youtube for people like me?
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That is sad that a criminal is attacking him. I don't think that India is the only country where criminals exist though.
If all of these things are "as dangerous as driving drunk", the threshold for being considered drunk is too low.
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Almost all PLCs have back doors. Just because it uses Ethernet doesn't mean it does anything fancy. Almost all the PLCs I am aware of simply wrap existing RS 232 protocols over IP from the 80s and even earlier. Most of the plants actually seem to want these back doors, because downtime at a production facility is incredibly expensive.

PLCs are not designed to externally accessible, ever. The back doors are completely irrelevant anyway given that the PLC will accept any packet from anywhere, and perform the operation. The RS-232 commands are functions such as "enable bit", "disable bit", "set value", "read value", for actuating inputs and outputs.
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This remark is consistent with an atheistic view of reality. Although atheists can be compassionate to someone hurting enough to want to kill themselves, ultimately what does it matter?

On the other hand, if there is more to human life than a collection of atoms that happens to be organized in an interesting way and human life is sacred, as Christianity teaches, then suicide is a tragedy of the highest degree. No human is a waste of space, and every life should be protected to the extent possible through our finite means. I commend raganwald for making this post. I just wanted to point out that vonskimppy's comment illustrates implications of certain worldviews
if you've done Java commercially you've used sub-par tools.

1. any decent IDE will compile as you type

2. I'll give you this one

3. Java supports dynamic class reloading, it works out of the box with jetty.

4. you just press "run" in the ide.

5. same applies to java, just requires you take your (automatically built) .class file

6. I'm not sure how difficult you think JDBC is.. you just give it the connection string and the driver name.

7. just drop the war into your servlet directory, and you're done
> What makes you think that the engineering teams in companies like Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Mitsubishi, GE etc. are "a long way behind in terms of 'software engineering'"?

data.

http://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2010/09/the-sad-state-of-...

I was in a class taught by this guy and I seem to recall him saying that a large (20-40%) of embedded developers he surveyed reported using no version control software.

and look at some of the responses in that thread!

"I think that gcc -Wall -Wextra can be subtituted by lint tool (if you use gcc)."
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It's a good thing that you asked here, but you need to do more homework.
YCombinator typically offers $15K to $20K (USD) for about 2% to 10% of
the company on their seed level funding.

http://www.ycombinator.com/about.html

I recall reading the average was about 3-4% of the company, but I can't
recall where I read it.

You seem to already know that the offer you received is absurd but the
YC numbers should put it in better perspective.

If you want to know what real angel investors are like, you should
read this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html

And then read over the docs/terms typically used for angel investments.

http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html

Everything under 50-100K is typically considered "seed funding" but the
differentiations between "seed," "angel," "super-angel," and "VC" are
somewhat blurred and undefined. If you have a viable market/product,
real investors at the various funding levels will be interested. If
you get into one of the seed funding organizations like YC or one of the
incubator programs, the most important things you get are outside
validation, mentoring/help, and access to networks of investors through
"Demo Day" gatherings and other channels. It's smart to apply.

As for the ways to look for a "better deal" the above is the best idea,
but you can also start contacting angel investors on your own through
things like Angel List and similar. Be careful on which investors you
work with and choose them carefully. As PG states in his essay, the best
angel investors are nice people, but if you also read enough of the
horror stories from founders, not all angels investors are nice.

A lot of the angel investors run their own blogs and twitter feeds (Fred
Wilson at avc.com comes to mind), so that's another way to find them. As
for learning the reputation and skills of specific angel investors,
you'll need to do a ton of searching and reading.

Hopefully, this will get you headed in a better direction.

Good Luck!
"The financial terms were not disclosed", in case you're wondering.
Great tip, but now everyone's gonna start spamming Quora and force them to limit messages... you should've kept this to yourself :)
This is a really simple analysis of elevator algorithms, mostly based on anecdotal evidence. If you really want to go down the rabbit hole of these algorithms, there's a whole lot of scientific papers written about them.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=elevator+algorithm&h...
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You would think that, but in an interview I heard, he said it's already been torrented.

I would be interested to see if the increase in torrents over time has a correlation with a decrease in sales. This also might depend on who the artists is. Some demos aren't that tech savvy.
Hah, we might have over-reached by saying spam. We've used it really to help identify people who might be interested, and reached out to them to learn.
Novel idea, but the gushing in the article is too over-the-top.

Yay. You have a QR code on a square business card. I actually think these are NOT that interesting or useful. Let's say I collect 10 of these at a meetup or whatever. Without more text and info to remind me why I care about "MyKewlAppr" or whatever the text will be, my motivation to install the app is going to be pretty low. Hard to remember, did I take this card to be polite, or because I was genuinely interested?

And what's with the comment "they are a lot of fun to play with"?? You are lacking some serious entertainment options in your life if that statement is in any way true.

Despite all the blogs about business cards changing, going away, being reinvented, etc., they still seem to be pretty much the same...
The sole exceptions in the proposed ban are GPS devices and emergency calls. So that rules out listening to the radio, then? Oddly enough, NPR didn't mention that.
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I agree with your philosophy, but the problem is that all the costs aren't borne completely by the driver choosing to be distracted. Oftentimes, they'll cross the centre lane and take someone with them.

That's the paradox: I want MY freedom within my vehicle, but I also want to be sure other drivers on the road are not being negligent. I want the rules to apply to them.
At one company I was working the career section was listing open position and we were actually doing cost cutting layoffs. Not listing position on your company website is seen as a bad signal to send to the public and your investors. Sometimes, it's more a marketing statement than anything.
I concur. That is why I hate some of these types of blog posts. Even if you talked to someone those that are determined will do what they please. You can give them a 30sec elevator pitch of why not to, but ultimately leave them be as long as they aren't physically hurting others.

People who have seriously contemplated know whether or not they are happy and weighed the options. At some point you say screw it. If you have goals or aspirations, dreams and can't achieve them then why keeping doing mediocre crap and be miserable. That is settling for 2nd..3rd etc. among other crap going on in their lives.

I hate people that think they have a right to decide for others what I want to do with my life. Maybe consider the fact that the person weighed available options and that is their choice and hope that they find another route.
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I find generators powerful and I use them all the time, but I haven't found a use for coroutines in my code yet. Maybe I don't grok them fully.
Edit: to avoid a totally uninformative comment, as I see no links to previous discussions, this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335217

The 2 URLs in the parent show the limit at which adding ellipsis sometimes make the inner text of links longer instead of shorter.
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yes, India sure isn't the only place. People like this are everywhere. But it's truly sad to see criminals like this escaping from the loopholes in law.