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I've noticed a few teams in the NHL use iPads on the bench-- besides tracking ice time, and perhaps monitoring heart rate (I think the Sabres are the only ones who monitor this during games so far) what are some of the more obvious benefits of having a device at hand that isn't already accomplished from the pressbox and relayed down to the Assistant coaches?
"The NFL has banned the use of certain technologies to be used prior the game. Specifically, iPads cannot be used two hours prior to a regular season game."

Cannot be used by who? The coaching staff? The crowd in the stands? The journalists covering the game?
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That could be cool. I suggest watching a sport like F1 where the human element has been reduced significantly in favor of technology. I mean, they have cars with automatic gear boxes now.

As for football, I see it as coaches playing chess with pieces that work only some of the time. Without the player you loose that element of chance that leads to incredible 90 yard one had catches while failing backwards into the end zone and dragging both feet ;p
There is no such thing as the NoSQL movement.... its the "NoMySQL and MySQL is the only SQL implementation in the world because we're all PHP users and have never heard of PostgreSQL" movement.

And it doesn't help a lot of the NoSQL dbs out there have SQL-like query languages.
Because blog writers (Apple-related sites) like to kiss each other's asses. One guy praise the app, the other guys follow.
My current employer does this. Deductible is 2400/year for a family. Then they give us 200 per month into the HSA and we could contribute more. The insurance companies like this because it gets people to be more cost conscious. It is cheaper for my employer to offer the high deductible plan and give us the deductible than it is to give us a no deductible plan.
They're recording the game and are able to tap into that recording. This way, they can show players replays of certain plays. Also, I believe they have quick access to stats like faceoffs won by certain players.
Good point, the coaches/players. nytimes article on the subject.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/sports/football/ipads-repl...
Of course. It drives HuffPo's success.
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I think the use of technology in football (and sports in general) to aid play calling would only enhance the sport. For one thing, it's not as much of an advantage as the author thinks.

For example, in the NFL, there's already a wealth of ongoing research attempting to predict play calling using various methods. I just recently read one, published by Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (see here: http://econpapers.repec.org/article/bpjjqsprt/v_3a7_3ay_3a20...) that uses a linear discriminant function with cross validation -- bottom line, the success rate was only 40.38% (you can read the abstract).

It's an incredibly challenging and fascinating line of research that's grown a lot in recent years. MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is one notable forum where researchers have given talks on everything from speech analysis to predict quarterback performance, to network analysis explaining Bill Simmons' "Ewing Theory" in basketball, to motion tracking for collecting richer data on player performance.

But the other reason I don't think this would have such a "game changing" impact on the NFL is that there are many more elements to leading a team than employing the strategy with the highest expected "point value" in any circumstance. Often, coaches will make the less statistically effective decision purely based on how it will affect their players' psychology. For example, by now most coaches know it's often beneficial to go for it on fourth down -- yet it's still rarely done because in many cases, going for it on fourth down represents a lack of faith in your defense. I can think of more extreme cases but the fourth down issue probably plays out the most in the NFL. It may sound silly but as a coach, you're in charge of rallying your players, who more often than not are less persuaded by artificial neural networks than they are bravado.

Practically speaking, it's just not possible to lead a team by calculator, and that's why I think using tools to improve the "analytical side" of coaching will enhance the sport more so than change it into something completely different.
Another possibility is that a drug comes along and enhances cognitive function with minimal side effects, and while the long term effects are virtually unknown, users of these drugs outcompete those who don't. What do you think any appropriate response to such a situation might be?
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It sounds like it is not so cut and dry. From the article:

Michael Marcus, who worked at the FCC for 25 years and is now a consultant on wireless technology and spectrum policy, writes that cellular base stations have been "allowed next to the GPS band since 2003" under FCC policy, yet GPS makers "paid little attention to the fact that GPS would be having a new neighbor with much stronger signals in some places than the original MSS [mobile satellite services] signals."

Marcus, who does some consulting work for LightSquared, further writes that the "GPS industry has not pressed the filter manufacturers for the latest technology," and "as a result many GPS receivers have a lingering vulnerability to strong adjacent band signals that results from GPS manufacturers ignoring policy changes made in the US almost a decade ago."
You are completely and utterly missing the point. The point is not "y'kno, death is actually not that bad, maybe we shouldn't try to get rid of it". As you point out, there are a lot of reasons to get rid of death, if we could.

The point is that fantasizing about "curing" death is harmful to people making difficult decisions about their life and that of their loved ones. People need to face the fact that death is inevitable and part of life, and like everything else unpleasant that is part of life, they must handle it like an adult.
You're right, maybe lazy wasn't the right word.

Still, the reasons for interference are more political (FCC rules), than scientific.

There's only so much usable electromagnetic spectrum out there, so neighbors need to play nicely together. Especially when your neighbor is trying to do something awesome.
So the message is...do your own backups and hire an attorney to do the rest!
WOW!

This is simply amazing.

I hope this guy makes millions off his work. For something this revolutionary, he deserves it.
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They're going to sue you now too. ;-)
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It says right at the top that the owner "has limited tech knowledge". It's clear that he suffered the cost of trusting his hosting company to do this for him, but the real problem here seems to be trying to run a large website as a business without having any idea how it works.
Oh my.

The fascinating part here, to me, is that actually it's the "this is my child therefore butt out" argument - which isn't even the golden uterus complex thing - that would be "you haven't given birth to a child therefore butt out".

I can imagine a similarly stupid male saying exactly the same thing except perhaps for saying 'our kid' rather than 'my kid'.

How you jumped from there to your Golden Uterus Complex joke, I don't know.

What I do know is, had you typed out the text of your tweet into one of many of the private chat rooms of various sorts that I'm part of, I would probably have laughed.

However, I don't believe it had any place in a public twitter feed that also contains technical-related stuff and therefore may get followed by people who don't know you personally. My public twitter account is somewhat restricted in what topics I cover on it for pretty much precisely this reason.
I'm not sure that your analogy works so well, death is a natural condition of the normal life of an organism. Herpes is expressly a virus that could (theoretically) be cured. That said, I do agree with you that it is actually a failure. I just don't think it's medicine that's to blame.

If you were to travel back in time to Aristotle you might be able to say that philosophy fails us when attempting to describe the laws of motion. The concept of physics was wholly contained within this discipline at that point in time and did not exist as a separate venture.

In much the same way in our age the concept of engineered negligible senescence exists within the field of medicine or at a stretch, biotechnology. As physics transitioned from philosophy to science to specialist discipline, this will likely transition from medicine to biotechnology to a specialist discipline all of its own.

I think the sooner we set the parameters for the quest and agree that it's worth pursuing the quicker we're likely to succeed.
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Um, because for developers, integrating with PayPal and dealing with the payment issues it (potentially) entails sucks compared to integrating and dealing with a modern, credit card-only payment system like Stripe.

Why exactly do you care so much about giving your credit card details? You have, typically, $0 liability for unauthorized charges on your card.

The only thing I think about is the (minor) hassle of dealing with getting unauthorized charges reversed in the highly unlikely scenario that your credit card is stolen from the site at which you just paid. I compare that with the potentially major hassle getting PayPal to put money back in my bank account that was transfered out by a hacker. I'll take the credit card companies over PayPal any day.
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Thanks for trying it out!

Right now this generates a QR code that is almost completely compliant with the QR code spec and should work with every QR code reader. Adding images would start to rely on the error correction which is set to Low for maximum image space so the QR code wouldn't be as robust.

Also, I didn't want to get into uploading images/crop issues/resizing and the UI for that just yet as I am just working on this in my limited spare time, but this feature may come in a future version.
I agree... cut out the animation, its too distracting and just as you start to read one page it changes to the next, I would recommend a clean, concise tab that explains what features the app has and why I would want to start using it
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Wow this is just silly. This event could've easily been avoided and all this VentraIP company has gained is a shitstorm. Surely this host could have a process where the migration from one account to another requires the data be transferred before any account cancellation and deletion. Stop playing the blame game and think of how you should treat your customers.

The posts from the VentraIP representatives on the Whirlpool forums are also childish. Companies like this make me sad to be in the Australia IT sector.
In their press release[1] they say they do make backups for their customers by default except in cases where the size of the backup exceeds a certain threshold which happened in this case. Supposedly the customer was notified of this in writing and acknowledged.

Discontinuing backups and deleting data on account cancellation seem like reasonable acts to me. It is a sorry case but it sounds like misunderstanding by the customer, though the process seems a touch messy and could be improved.

Hopefully that will be VentraIP's take away from this, though they probably won't acknowledge this if legal action is pending.

[1] http://www.ventraip.com.au/files/pr-tvc-130212.pdf
Mind blown. Not just from the coding tools or the other examples, but the combination of those with a simple and powerful personal philosophy.

I can't believe the original link (submitted 5 days ago) has gotten so few views/points.
Or have something like the EFF but focused on young web businesses which could be funded by web business elders [those who already made money from the common web ecosystem] to protect the rights of web businesses especially those who are just starting-up and to advocate/design/lobby for legal systems that are conducive to the web ecosystem as a whole. For legal practitioners, this would arguably be a better place to work for(if one can earn a living from it) rather than let's say working for patent trolls.
As I see they are not taking care of their customers. If just have a retention policy of the data after the cancelation, let's say for 3 days, or a week, the problem could have being avoided. Win-win situation.
I am actually more surprised that Yii is not all that fast as I expected.

Given that Symphony had such a huge buzz (aside from CodeIgniter), it is apparently the slowest..
cool, thanks for the input everyone. I also just realised that 'liking' a facebook page is more persistent. Eg. if you like a domain, it shows in someone's feed for a day or so, and then gone. However, if someone likes your page, then it will show in the 'like' count for a long time, as well as in their feed.
This is a good idea in general but in practice ... my 1password has a whole stack of non-website-login information - server credentials, software licenses, database accounts etc.

If Google's doing this under the premise that everything-that-matters-lives-in-Chrome then it's going to fail, anyone who's open to using password managers at all is hopefully going to have applied it to more than just their facebook and gmail logins and across multiple devices that exclude Chrome.
I didn't want to sign up, but I did anyway.

Then, when I signed up, it didn't have any feeds.

After that, I closed it.
I'd rather die at 75 with a healthy body rather than dying at 75 with 10 years of senescence behind me.

The first part of this sentence seems strange.

If you assume your healthy 75yr young body doesn't die of external forces (drowning, fall off cliff, etc.), which you don't seem to be implying, isn't this a contradiction?

In this context, the "senescence" is a precondition for death, right?
Awesome, so glad to hear it! :)
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And yet your codebase for needfeed is likely homed on separate redundant storage devices to ensure continuity in the inevitable event of the decay of the composites that store it. You'd probably be aghast at the suggestion that you put it all on one single point of failure and just let fate decide because the transitory nature of the project would make it more beautiful.

Yet how much more valuable is our consciousness than our accrued digital data? I don't understand how people can simultaneously understand that it is extremely unwise to leave their data to the fate of mechanical failure and yet not only accepting death but actually perceiving it as superior in many cases.

Defeating death is a worthy project. Embedding consciousness in a digital substrate or backup to genetically engineered bodies, or nanotech / biotech strategies for preserving existing bodies beyond what is natural are worthy pursuits.

Sometimes I wonder if the reason that this is not accepted is because of religious people in the world who feel like accepting that death is the end of their consciousness would be betraying their faith.
I would also love to see ASP.Net MVC 3 being compared with the open source free stacks.
Nice conspiracy theory, but it seems to ignore one extremely important point: Football is a sport, not a technological arms race. They won't allow iPads and LCD visors for the same reason they won't allow jetpacks and rocket shoes: it wouldn't be a sport anymore.

Not to mention the fact that iPads don't have the power to analyze such large volumes of information in a useful time frame anyway. Getting all that info through an iPad would require communication with some outside computing power, which they could accomplish with their headsets already if it were allowed.
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Your API is pretty strange. Some initial things that pop out on me:

json=true to specify the content type. Ideally, this should be from the accept header, but at the very least it should be possible to only specify one content type. Right now, I can specify json=true&xml=true.

Only using GET.

Session management on the client. Why would I want to log someone out?

Not using meaningful keys. s and t? Why not status and token?

HTTP codes should be used instead of status codes.
I'd say the Starcraft AI competitions are a pretty good version of what you are asking about.
It definitely seems like VentraIP could improve their communications as it seems the migration process is separate from the old account cancellation processes (from what I have read across the forums and their press releases). So a misunderstanding on the clients behalf caused them to delete the site before he asked for the migration to go ahead.
Let's be clear - nobody cares about backups. Any seasoned SysAdmin (That is, one who has been axed, or been on a team where someone was axed for not having a proper recovery process in place) will tell you that restores (and the testing of said restores) is what is essential.

Weekly/monthly testing of restores is critical - preferably in an automated fashion.

People would be amazed to know how many large enterprises have invested 10s of millions of dollars in large tape array/robots, which they religiously back up petabytes of data to, without actually knowing whether they'll be able to restore properly should the day come that they need to.
It currently is, that doesn't mean it's theoretically impossible that it ever could be otherwise. It's not fantasizing to point that out.
I have a hard time believing they don't already do this. Having computers/iPads banned on the field doesn't avoid outsiders using this and communicating with the coaching staff.
Imagine the kind of world we would be living in if people felt so entitled, by their identities and the things they do and have, that they felt justified in dismissing the needs and opinions of other people as unimportant by comparison.
See Core War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War and RoboWar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboWar and several others. While First Robotics is not a head-to-head competition, it is also computer (robot) vs. a subset of the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST_Robotics_Competition / http://www.usfirst.org/

WRT Core War: "The earliest published description of Redcode is found in the Core War Guidelines published in March 1984 by A. K. Dewdney and D. G. Jones."
Death is nature's way if ensuring change.
Hackathons do make a lot of sense for PR and HR.
The 1920's and 1930's Italian and German interpretation of fascism clearly isn't relevant today. The exact definition fascism is by no means definitive, but I consider the broad definition that Google provides to be concise and relevant to what's currently happening and accelerating in the US:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=define+fascism&ie=utf-8...
Ah, the old "criminals will rob you if you don't consent to have the government take your money to hand out to them" argument. Often peddled by those who also believe criminals are not responsible for their actions, they're just oppressed/had a bad childhood/whatever.

I'm fine with universal (modulo pacifists and those not capable of handling a gun) individual gun ownership. Combined with anything resembling rule of law, in that case armed robbery quickly drops off the list of "what it takes to survive", because it no longer results in long survival. The criminals will always be outnumbered.

But let's get back to the real topic. Fact is, I like libraries. I think they're very positive for everyone in many ways, in particular for being an intellectually-oriented gathering place.
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Very much so. Going to suck too.
Maybe I'm missing something, but did signing in via an external service (facebook) give me any sort of benefits or save me any time? It doesn't seem to have pulled any feeds in from FB, and I had to create a username regardless. That said, it certainly has potential and I'd be interested to see this in a slightly more fleshed out form.

Also: not sure this link needed to be proxied through "startupsea.com" - I got more context from the homepage of the app itself than your ads & short description gave. Sorry!
It's to lessen the potential impact of a breach. a) you have a chance to recover from a hack in that two hours, b) it can reduce the speed with which leaked data gets to the opposition, and c) it reduces the likelihood of a hack getting valuable data.

And these are just a few reasons I can think of. There's nothing but benefits to this policy and very small negatives.

It's analogous to filling the moat before a battle. It's just a defense intended to slow an enemy. Try to remember that these guys are some seriously strategic thinkers, they're not morons and they're not technophobes.
> Your API is pretty strange. Some initial things that pop out on me:
> json=true to specify the content type. Ideally, this should be from the accept header, but at the very least it should be possible to only specify one content type. Right now, I can specify json=true&xml=true.

I agree, content type selection currently is very rudimentary and ability to combine parameters could be confusing. We want to distinguish between JSON, JSONP, XML and CSV. We could use text/plain MIME type for CSV, text/xml for XML, but are there standard MIME types for JSON and JSONP?

> Only using GET.

API is currently immutable towards analytics data, so only GET is used.

> Session management on the client. Why would I want to log someone out?

It's less of the session management and more security token management. Log out is to revoke specified security token. We should be more explicit about this.
json=true to specify the content type. Ideally, this should be from the accept header, but at the very least it should be possible to only specify one content type. Right now, I can specify json=true&xml=true.

Specifying content type as a parameter this makes debugging so much easier that I think it is worth it.

I agree with your other points. Specifically, the output type should be done the same way Solr does it: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CoreQueryParameters#wt
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