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There is no such thing as 'aging' in the traditional sense. As explained by Aubrey De Grey Sens' founder "the set of accumulated side effects from metabolism that eventually kills us" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negli...
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It might not work but it is a _much_ better use of our tax dollars than blowing up brown people in the middle east.
You left out the worst part; a hyperbolic title will stay on the front page for day or two.
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And yet Walmart doesn't dominate haircuts at all, America is filled with a network of 20,000 hair salons that outsell the hair salons in Walmart. People usually have to schedule appointments with their hair salon - that is not maximum convenience, it's maximum value. There are more banks outside of Walmart than inside of Walmart, and that will continue to be the case. Walmart is an extremely small part of the US furniture market. And so on.

Walmart wanted to take over the gasoline fill-up market. What could be more convenient? Instead, gas stations have thrived living near Walmart, because convenience doesn't always maximize value. Gas stations draw people with gasoline, and make money on in-store purchases; that model didn't work for Walmart, because gasoline doesn't draw people to spend an hour shopping at Walmart, so the value-add was non-existent.

The notion of extreme convenience fails as often as it succeeds in my opinion. It's why Walmart doesn't own every category. It's why GameStop exists. Specialization can just as easily trump maximum convenience, you have to offer enough of a value proposition. It's why Starbucks and Apple Stores exist; it's also why dollar stores are thriving. It's why Dunkin Donuts and Krispy Kreme exist despite Walmart selling donuts.

Obviously Walmart doesn't manufacture the drugs in the prescriptions; they don't have a banking license; they don't make movies or games; they don't cut your hair; they don't run the food franchises (eg Subway); they don't make furniture; they don't make the groceries.

Walmart is merely a retailer, and with their physical space they sometimes act like a mini mall. They don't even own their shipping network any longer. That is not Walmart being everything to everybody. Quite the opposite, they're admitting they can't be, so they let other companies ride their coattails to optimize their sales per square foot.
This makes sense for non-Mac Pro machines, although so far it doesn't seem to be the case as Mountain Lion will actually run on those machines if they're added to SupportedHardware.plist [0].

However, in the case of the Mac Pro it's hard to see the restriction as anything other than arbitrary and frustrating.

0: http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/18/install-os-x-mountain-lion-de...
I strongly disagree. There's no such thing as baseline speed, there's only baseline speed on a given hardware config. Rails does not have a max speed of X reqs/second. It has a max speed of X reqs/second on a given hardware config. If you're profiling your own app you'll have to retest it on your own hardware first to figure out how close to that baseline you are.
People say Obama has swagger.

Women have that motherly touch.

These are positive statements, one however has a racial implication, and the other has a "genderedness" aspect.

It isn't offensive to realize they're are differences between us. Unless, of course, we really want to bring the "smooth area" from kid's dolls into the adult world.
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Take a look at ad placement technology if you want a likely culprit for why any given website is making an excessive number of requests per-page-load. In addition to whatever resource is placed immediately onto the page (and the ultimate ad creative), most ad snippets also bring in tracking beacons, additional JavaScript and completely new documents. Designers have a part to play in this, but I would argue that lack of engineering innovation is at fault for the shameful state of ad placement technology today.
I don't get it. Why would we want people to wage war to preserve a nation-state? We want people to wage war to protect their own lives and the lives of others. That doesn't stop making sense just because your life expectancy is much higher.
In Sweden there are, in some cases, so many government subsidies and incentives to open a McDonald's or other business that the business can run for years without ever turning a profit.

I don't think that is a good thing. We frequently discuss here on HN to fail fast and try again. That seems to be the opposite.
Safety nets for startups? Please. We need safety nets for people who work for wages 40 hours a week, not for people who went to Stanford and have their parents' money fuelling their dreams.
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Am I missing something? Neither of those links have anything to do with Tornado.
I agree that some people are ignorant of what fascism was actually like, and I'll add that the real issue isn't the historical context of what happened in Pre-WWII Italy or Nazi Germany, but the present day context of what is happening in the US.
This, to me, has a lot to do with the languages and tools used on a project - the more 'locked in' to a structure you are, the bigger that cost will be when something changes.

This has been a concern of mine w.r.t. oop as implemented in C# (and by extension java), as the structure can be very costly to change down the line when the inevitable 'pivot' in implementation occurs.
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There is a big difference between Chrome's requests and Murofet's requests. Chrome uses no TLD ("xxxxx") but Murofet does ("xxxxxx.com").
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Are Forbes writers paid per post/traffic like Gawker writers are? I can only imagine this is the incentive that lead to this kind of crap.
The Guardian is almost as bad. When I loaded their page just now, the top story in the sidebar was also celebrity news:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2012/feb/19/stella-mccartn...

I think it's clear this kind of "news" plays across all age groups and classes, not simply "middle Englanders." Even wealthy elites have their forms of lowbrow entertainment. If the goal is to get readers to click on ads, scantily-clad women work wonders.
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Starting in 2007 we started holding Haskell hackathons twice a year.

They have been absolutely vital for building team cohesion in the sprawling open source efforts, and consistently produce good plans for the work that happens after we leave the event. Project launches also happen at these gatherings.

You just have to make sure everyone is engaged, knows each other, and what they're working on. Plan ahead, and arrive with code.
Agreed. I find it hard to believe that so many people can be so ignorant of the very basics of healthy eating despite all the public health initiatives and mandatory classes in schools (at least in my country). I think people have the knowledge but just not the incentives to eat healthily. Convenience generally trumps everything else.
>When you complain about annoying people by making their gender the primary >basis of identification, you are most definitely making a sweeping >generalization.

Not if the people you are complaining about are doing the same exact thing by making their sex the primary basis on which they should be listened to. What's good for the 50% of the gooses is good for 50% of the ganders.

>You are part of the problem.
So the problem is that men are not allowed to point out inconsistencies
in the way men/women are allowed to use their sex as a source of authority?
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good points. but i think the notion of having society help provide a safety net for startups exists in the context of, and in comparison to, all the other things society is currently forced to spend money on. personally i'd rather my taxes go to help provide a safety net for an entrepreneur than a truly lazy welfare parasite (important: i'm not saying all welfare recipients, i'm making a generalization to illustrate a point). and i'd rather my tax money went to help entrepreneurs than to fund overseas military adventures. i'd rather subsidize a couple taking a chance on starting a family business than to subsidize a gigantic multinational oil company. And it's not about choosing an ideal world, just one that's perhaps a little better or pragmatic than the alternative.
Even if you could build an opamp with it, what kind of current would you end up with?
I've toured an older apartment building (3-4 stories, 1920s, quarter city block) that had a ramp instead of stairs + elevator. It worked surprisingly well.
That should have been 'parens', not 'parents', of course. Although, in another context, it's completely valid!
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There was a paper on that sort of thing: Korn & Appel, "Traversal-based visualization of data structures". (It's online but I can't get the link out of the search result easily.)
would like to see how much time Silex strips from the Symfony bench since it uses some of the same components but much less extra stuff...
Are you sure you have a realistic view of working on trauma, especially with soldiers, in the current era? The combination of modern bulletproof helmets and clothing with the almost immediate availability of good medical care allow the survival of some horrendously wounded people for whom we can do a lot, but not, by far, enough. For example, a soldier can loose al his limbs due to a IED, be burnt over large parts of the rest of his body, and survive.

I think I would rather work with elderly people even if comfort is almost all we can give them.

Also, if you went into the field, I bet your educators would try to get you change your opinion. Everybody wants the glamorous job, but most employment is elsewhere. I have heard this phrased as "all the girls want to work with children, and all the boys want to work in ambulances; we need to work a bit to change their minds."
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I've emailed him asking for it! Gregory Bell asked him on twitter as well: https://twitter.com/#!/worrydream/status/169497569855143937

No response so far.
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I just went to the shop and bought ME 1 & 2. Now I feel like a complete idiot, as I knew that ME3 is coming out soon, and didn't connect the dots.

:/. I hope 1 & 2 even remotely match the description.
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He is being paid by Microsoft. He wrote a Microsoft-sponsored report on FRAND patents... Quite coincidentally the very focus of the current strategy by Apple-Microsoft.

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/10/study-on-worldwide-u...
SOPA claimed dominion over any domain served with an ARIN-allocated IP address. So that also includes .ca (Canada) and Caribbean domains.

If I had a time machine, after I killed Hitler, I'd go back and fix DNS so it didn't map to geography or institutional type. There is just no reason for it.
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If you're going to be working 40+ hour weeks for a boring soul-crushing job, then you might as well get a few perks out of it, such as health insurance.

I don't see the govt supporting people who don't want to get a corporate job and instead choose to chase their dreams.

It'd be great if things were different, but they're not going to change anytime soon. Why would anybody put up with dead-end jobs if they could just work on their passion their entire lives?
Thank you

1) For admitting, if reluctantly, that America is not fascist.

2) The link

I did not claim we were the greatest country, whatever that means, but I can't fathom the 'America is the worst thing since AIDS' attitude on HN. In the next breath they complain its hard to get here.
Perhaps they choose @[ for arrays because it requires less lookahead than figuring out whether @{ is the start of a dictionary or an array.
The numbers only have a minor effect on the actual study. Whether it is an increase of 100 to 1000 sales or 1000 to 100000 it does not matter as a 10x increase in sales is not seen without some kind of justification. What PRNDL Development Studios was able to do with the resources available, at the time, supports our initial belief that using social media does have a direct relation to interest, and ultimately demand, for a product or service. Social Media was the only changed variable from November (as well as previous months in 2010 and 2011) to December 2011/January 2012. Even the expected growth in sales from the holiday season does not account for the growth we have experienced (expected growth in sales for '10-'11 was about 3x, but only lasted a week into January '11). The thing about social media and marketing is that word travels fast on the web. If PRNDL was able to get just one of our "105" followers to buy or RT one of our tweets then their followers also see it and could do likewise. It turns into a chain reaction, so the initial user base is not even a concern as long as you have engaging users who are interested in your product. If you wanted to be realistic in your charge that our follower and like counts are too small to matter, you should actually use the sum of all of our followers and friends list to those who like us on facebook to consider if it could have a factor on revenue.

We are only encouraging other businesses to pursue social media ventures. Based on our findings we can only encourage investigation of the hypothesis that social media is a major factor in driving demand. What we have found is not fact, more an observation.

Thank you for reading, and for your input. It is duly noted.
There are quite a few things about the Japanese regulatory state which are like this, so much so that half of the reason to have a lawyer/accountant/行政書士(+)　is so that you can have someone with a good guess as to which rules are rules and which rules are more of suggestions (and, relatedly, someone to argue the point with the relevant office when they notice your paperwork is out of compliance with ministerial regulation 437 b) xvii).

I've had to sit through some very amusing telephone calls to Tokyo while the local Social Security Office was apprised that, nope, Japan really does occasionally sign treaties on the subject of taxes and "We can't help you with that" is in fact not acceptable procedure when asked for the relevant documentation to secure one's status under the treaty. (I subsequently learned that there are roughly 400 natural people who apply for that treaty's benefits in the entire world and 399 of them use one of a handful of legal firms in downtown Tokyo.)

(+) for our American friends: a licensed form-filler-inner who are combination notaries, paralegals, and gophers who you can grant Power of Attorney to. For example, if you have a fairly straightforward visa situation, you could give one of them $2,000 and they'd prepare the relevant documents for you. (And, should the Ministry of Justice not agree that your situation is straightforward, everyone will politely pretend that "Really, are you sure about that?" does not mean "Look, he was good for $2,000, how bad could he possibly be? We've been buddies since high school, do me a favor here.")
Making it work at room temperature is probably a greater long term issue. As the temperature goes up the system has a higher probability of accessing states that will make it not function properly (i.e. your logic gates become probabilistic.)
It was incorrect for me on all four counts.
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What will happen when the client pays less than the previous project?

What happen if the developers are just that kind of people? i.e.: wanting to be their own man strutting their dongle around?

It's pretty easy to say than to do it :D
I can't think of a worse idea.

Families need to sit down and have an honest discussion about death before it's necessary. It's a hard conversation to have, but it can save constantly questioning and second guessing yourself what your loved one would want to happen.
At least they aren't working with Scribd.
To me this seems like a problem of the adversarial system, where the two sides hire and pay their own experts. I know of course that in a inquisitorial system there is also phony expertise presented, but (as I understand it) there is less incentive to side with either party.
You can't use the beta Xcode / SDKs to build apps for the relevant App Store anyway, so while it contains neat new features it's technically only useful for developers developing that particular pre-release OS (whether iOS 5.1 or OS X 10.8).

Interestingly now Xcode 4.3 is out of beta the iOS 5.1 SDK is still only available with Xcode 4.3 DP3 (although realistically there's not much public new stuff in iOS 5.1 since presumably it's all under wraps for the iPad 3).
"What we don't see FTA is a link between USING the better blub and hourly wages."

Neither the data nor the article make any connection between USING Clojure and hourly wages.

The connection is between LEARNING Clojure and high wages.

This is commonly known as the Python paradox, cited in the article. Learning currently esoteric languages signals a motivated self learner passionate about his craft. Listing Clojure in a job listing signals a company doing work that would be interesting to a motivated self learner passionate about her craft.
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This reminds me of my experience freelancing in 2009. In my effort to try to figure out how to claim my income, aka "do the right thing", I submitted a 1099-MISC form, which apparently was a grave error. Since then, I've been trying to convince the IRS that I submitted the form in error, all the while with them sending me increasing bills for taxes and penalties on income I didn't actually received. I just got another letter last week.

As it turns out, what I should have done was nothing. Instead of trying to figure out the proper, "by the book" procedure, I would have been much better off if I had either A) done nothing or B) just reported it as some kind of supplemental income on my 1040 or whatever.

The lesson I learned is that strict rules and procedures in any system that largely involves humans can usually be ignored, at least on the first pass. If you've missed something that's actually important, they'll let you know. Otherwise, everyone's better off leaving well enough alone.
I'm disappointed that there are no Perl frameworks at all!

I've submitted a pull request[1] to rectify this gross oversight. Even though this benchmark is not particularly scientific, it still provides some meaningful data.

[1] https://github.com/seedifferently/the-great-web-framework-sh...
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Did it give a false negative or a false positive? And are you running any extensions that might have interfered?
I don't think so. (It would be the first scam that made it to a TED talk!) They are not the only ones who have reproduced "anomalous heat" in Ni-H systems. See my research:

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=61
i like your idea. arguably the recent rise in incubators and accelerators is doing something close to what you've described. i do think as a society we need to stop throwing huge piles of money at universities "teaching" fuzzy make-believe or peripheral things and instead spend less, or more tactically, on core subjects and more practical skills. universities have become essentially just expensive resorts for middle/upper-class twenty-somethings, in many cases. there ways to educate and filter and certify folks that are much faster, cheaper and more egalitarian, and thankfully there's a growing movement to make this more mainstream.
We've been talking about similar changes to Objective-J for quite some time (we already have JavaScript literals that map more cleanly than C ones). The one thing we've discussed that I don't think made it here is a set literal. It would be nice to have sets treated in a more first class way, considering how often arrays are used when sets would be more appropriate.
I couldn't find many startups. I understand that it is limited to SEC filings, but advertising "any startup" seems false.
Half the battle of writing software is crystallising what it should do, in detail. As you discover new edge cases and assimilate them into your code it's very easy to cling on to your initial vision for the architecture. When you return later on and look at the finished product it's all too easy to see that there's a better way to do things. Often you already know this by the time you're finished but you hit a deadline and the next feature/project takes priority over the refactoring.
I think that Hackathons are invaluable for meeting people you are going to work with long term. However, I agree it's rare that you will do something significant during an 8/10/12 hour hackathon.
On a scale of 1 to 10 for scientific rigour of this experiment, where 10 is Neil deGrasse Tyson and 1 is Jerry Springer, I'll give you a 2.
The alternative is to be a smug overconfident jerk who trots out outdated or sometimes entirely wrong justifications for ill considered design decisions. The alternative is being a developer who continues to do things day after day in bash and C because Perl and Python are "too heavyweight".

Feeling guilty shows that you've grown and that you know more today than you did when you built the system you're feeling guilty about. I'll take the guilty feeling as a side effect of growth when the alternative is stasis and stagnation.
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The examples given so far don't necessarily translate to situations where I feel devs should feel guilty/bad, but there are situations, and I've left some messes behind in my day, often which I wasn't aware of at the time. I've taken over projects where the dev(s) should have known better, and in some cases did know better than what they delivered.

If you never feel guilty/bad about any code you've ever left behind - never - there's something wrong with you. You shouldn't go through life apologizing for every line of code either, but there's a balance to be struck somewhere that probably shifts over time.
Part of being an entrepreneur is resourcefulness. The idea is that if you want success bad enough, you'll find a way to save enough money to quit and give your idea a chance. That's the theory at least, I'm sure in practice a huge chunk of the population will never be in such a lucky situation.
Thinking about it - in last couple of months I've done this with every long article I've come across. My Instapaper has a week of reading.
Here's why the Forbes blog post worked: it was short and to the (most interesting) point.

I'm sure Duhigg (the author of the NYT piece) would agree that most neuropsychology research largely shows that readers' attention spans are short and easily influenced by the first few grafs of a story.

In fact, any HN user probably has seen the phenomenon where link-bait-titled stories get hugely upvoted despite the actual body text lacking adequate corroboration.

What the NYT should do next time is have one of its army of prominent site bloggers recap the interesting facets of the story. It's a testament to Duhigg's work that there are many pieces of it that by themselves could make for captivating posts. It's up to the NYT to capitalize on it.