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They are a high-profile shop that has just gone through major architectural re-thinks and decided to spend some time to share their findings and give a glimpse into their creative process. Because they are who they are, they got some extra attention. Since they had a lot to say, they split it into many posts. How is this bad?

Personally, I found quite a few of the posts to be a very interesting read (especially the stuff about caching).

Please, HN-ers, let's be friendly unless there really is a pressing reason not to be.
Thx! This provider looks very promising. Their price for a large instance is roughly half of Linode's price.
I remember being at a Cloud Unconference in Seattle about 2-3 years ago asking for 64bit for all instance types. Actually, I think I begged for it. It took a while, but I'm glad it's here now.

I would have to say, Amazon is at least receptive to suggestions. You can always email or chat with Jeff Barr and make suggestions.
Phantom doesn't need access to node apis. Separation of concerns. Run your phantom script to scrape and then pipe the results to your node script for processing. I've worked on 2 scraping projects using this method and it works great.
You manually type your passwords?
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$125/user is the amount it costs to add another user to a Dropbox for Teams account after your first five users.

https://www2.dropbox.com/teams/pricing
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It's absolutely about transparency though. The origin of the complexity is that insurance companies usually get the bills. And insurance, which has all this machinery to deal with the hospital's machinery (see video), sends you a TL;DR and as long as everything seems reasonable - though who really knows what that is - you send your insurance co a check for some fraction of it and everyone moves on.

There are a lot of things broken about US healthcare, but chief among them is that no one is allowed to talk about cost of services. It's untouchable. It's seen as getting between the patient and doctor - again, whatever that means.
And the alternative is to remember more than two or three safe passwords, which I can't. Humans weren't meant to do that.
Also consider: I personally don't use BaseCamp. I am not a big fan of it, and I feel that me needs are better met in different ways. However, I recognize it as a good tool for people whose workflow matches BaseCamp use (or could easily do so), and thus suggest it to people. I'm sure I am not alone in this on HN. The only reason I even know about BaseCamp is HN frontpage posts. I wonder how a general awareness of the product's existence amongst influential geeks has driven their sales.
Currently, you can't, so you're not missing anything. :) But I'm currently working on the necessary hooks so that any security model you want can be enforced by the server.
I do agree with the opinion expressed in the article, though, that the British contribution tends to be downplayed. But as a brit myself we're used to that...

I tend to find that is the case. Us brits tend to be less brash and more modest than our US counterparts.

On the flip side, we tend to be called unfriendly because of it!
This: http://aigamedev.com/open/interview/evolution-in-cityconques...
U.S. only?
Of course there can be unforeseen complications, but those are the exception rather than the rule. You can also have complications when you bring your car to the mechanic. Still we want to know what a typical oil refill is going to cost, and if it's going to be more expensive than expected we'd like to know what the damage is going to be so we can make an informed decision.

I don't buy that we can't handle the truth and need to be shielded from the pricing and costs structure of medical procedures. Especially because most medical procedures are purely routine matters and the hospital can just publish the average cost of those procedures. You'll then at least get a rough impression of what the price is going to be and you'll be able to compare hospitals based on that.
Analogy to startups:
- Filter out all the background noise just like athletes filter out the media. Stop caring about what [insert tech blog here] just posted about your competition, who got what funding, who's presenting at Disrupt. Focus on yourself - the rest is just fluff.

Analogy to personal development:
- If you love what you do and your best isn't cutting it at your role then consider a minor pivot. The best basketball and football coaches at the professional level are usually not the best players and yet they managed to find a role that leverages their love for the game while pivoting away from their physical disadvantages.
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I don't agree with that either. Respect and popularity can both serve as currency in virtually any society.

If you want something for which popularity is the currency, by all means feel free to pursue it.

It only becomes a problem when people pursue any kind of currency just for the sake of having it, be it money, popularity or even respect.
The bigger question is why would it matter if they did? It isn't like someone else won't going to post them.
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Are the various proposed projects vetted at all? This seems like the sort of thing that would result in lots of pseudo science getting funded or is it buyer beware in that respect?

Also do you envisage any way of helping fund less glamorous projects?
You can apparently which consultant you see in the NHS:

http://www.chooseandbook.nhs.uk/patients/faqs/index_html#4

Also, any time I contact our local GP surgery they always ask if I want to see my usual GP or someone else.
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I hope someone is working on a Kickstarter for Kickstarter clones, huge market opportunity there.
Ps, you can downvote if you have enough karma.
"Vast majority", eh? Yeah, I guess the "vast majority" aren't the young, attractive women you always hear about them disproportionately scanning.
What else? Have a third-party steal all my passwords, at once, rather than just the least critical once?
That has a few big catches, including maintaining an internet connection and being in the same broadcast domain. And looks like it doesn't have lan-only drives, I maintain a box serving up samba shares specifically because the work files in a specific project work files would blow my bandwidth cap for the month in 2 round trips.
> Do you really think they did it, to support OSM. Or should I ask myself: "Where is the money?"

To this very particular point I want to say, I think that large companies switching over to open technologies (edit: because of a profit motive) is a good thing. There needs to be a critical mass of people who value the openness per se in order for the sea change to happen, but ultimately it has to be because we make it more profitable to do so. I have zero expectations that a bunch of CEOs are going to start caring about any cause. If they switch over, it means we're succeeding in making it profitable, and I take that as a good sign.
npmjs.org isn't a low-risk site. A weak password is putting users of your npm packages in danger.
I've only used OpenTable twice, but it seems to be the start of what you're describing. It bills itself as a way to easily make restaurant reservations from your computer or mobile phone...but after you've been, they invite you to review the place.

I don't know if they see themselves as Yelp competitors, long-term, but I hope so.
>Do they work on all platforms (Linux, Windows, Android, MacOX and IOS)? Do they automatically sync (so I don't end up being locked out of one account)? Can I be sure they won't be shut down and thereby leave me cut of from all my online services?

Yes, yes, yes (make a text backup, another supported feature, also every device would have a local copy, etc, etc)

>And what do I do when the password manager is, inevitably, broken into?

Why? Because you left it open and unencrypted? How about, just not doing that? Mine is locked every time I close the browser. If you're paranoid only unlock it when you need to enter a site. Not only that, but even if your master password is "stolen" somehow... it's a single password to change and your other passwords are secure. Again, if you're paranoid, you'd at least have a list of the sites that you have to worry about.

>It seems to me that a password manager is a great theoretical idea, but they don't really work in practice.

It seems to me that you really don't understand what is out there or what you're talking about. These things are true of not just LastPass but other solutions as well.
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What about doing your best at something you're terrible at? Sometimes no matter how hard you try, you still make a little impact in a big industry.

If you got into your field of expertise with ease, find it lacking in challenges. with little impact, maybe it's time to try your best at something new & difficult and therefore perhaps more rewarding.

Even moving into a field with a wider scope, something critical that benefits others greatly. Success and job satisfaction can be found in many places other than 'being the best' or being in an enviable position.
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It is certainly worth while to invest in the new idea and find out the effectiveness of the plan; otherwise we will never come to know the clear picture of the business phenomenon that is continuously taking place globally.
The problem with adopting a UK-style system in the US, is that the current UK government are trying to shift it towards a US-style system and have been for a couple of decades now.

If you guys had a sensible health care system in the first place like every other civilized country then ours wouldn't have such a bad role model to try and emulate.
> Then congratulations Apple, for making a not so great map even worse. I can't really judge map quality in the US, but in Germany it sucks.

That's very disappointing to hear. I understood that it was ever better than Google Maps in some parts of Europe.
I didn’t find anything. There is just the license agreement in that place which doesn’t seem to make any reference to OSM.
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when you need to login to some service on your mobile phone, what do you do? does your password manager sync between your computer and your mobile?
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Not at all. I'm just pointing out how screwed up the system is that the government requires practitioners to treat people but doesn't provide the financial resources to pay for it. I've worked in systems that basically were bankrupt repeatedly because they kept providing the services they couldn't afford.

My point isn't that the providers shouldn't be legally required to provide the care (the truth is we would and do anyway); rather, something needs to be done about how costs are distributed in order to prevent hospitals, clinics, urgent cares and 911 services from going out of business.
Interesting. From your screenshots, Apple's maps are so bad it's not even funny. It's just very, very bad. Steve would've never allowed such a thing to ship.

Is this a first sign that without an asshole with taste at the top, the erosion of Apple is inevitable?
Interesting idea, but this worries me:

When you sign up for Space Monkey, you get a physical networked hard disk with 1TB of storage free for you to use. It's actually a 2TB drive; the rest gets used by other people on the system.

So 1TB is filled with other people's data? What about security? Dropbox had a simple security issue that potentially leaked all users' data. But now, the data is on your drive. You could mirror the drive ('dd') and try to break into other user's information without anyone suspecting anything.

Or what happens if someone stores child pr0n on SpaceMonkey, and it gets mirrored to your drive? Legally, are you now on the hook for possessing the information since it's on your device?
What really troubles me, that I didn't see represented in this video, is not so much the total amount of the bills but the sheer number of them. These days, a hospital visit results in bills from (at the very least)

* The hospital
* The doctor (or doctors) who may have spent a total of 10 minutes with you
* The lab company that did your blood work (if it was done)
* The lab company that did you CT scan / MRI / Ultrasound / X-Ray / other expensive diagnostic exam.
* The pharmacy that provided any medications you were given while at the hospital.

What's worse, is that if you look, most triage areas have a sign stating all the services are independently operated and you'll receive these separate bills. Confusing and obnoxious--but ok. The trouble begins when you discover that, though your insurance is accepted by the hospital, it's not accepted by one of the other people or services (of which you had no real choice but to use the service available on-site) isn't. The hospital might assign you a doctor that doesn't take your insurance and then you're screwed.
> Do they work on all platforms (Linux, Windows, Android, MacOX and IOS)?

1password works on all of those except Linux. I believe LastPass works on all.

> Do they automatically sync?

1password syncs to Dropbox.

> Can I be sure they won't be shut down and thereby leave me cut of from all my online services?

Yes, if it syncs to something like Dropbox that has a local copy.

> And what do I do when the password manager is, inevitably, broken into?

The same thing you have to currently do if you're using one password everywhere?
Their economic measurement is pure B.S.

$300 / month? Ok, so -

1) how many people buy, due to HN, that they can't directly attribute to a HN follow-through click?

2) what has the exposure been worth, for literally everything they do (from pushing books to all their services)? Particularly given the rather high value group that they reach through HN.

Try putting a price on the massive branding and credibility they've acquired through reaching the HN audience, and then the follow-on value. I'd argue that their exposure on HN is worth radically more than advertising; for the same reason your friend sharing a link directly with you is worth a zillion times more than a block ad on facebook.

Spanning several years, I'd peg the value into the millions of dollars given the size of their business and how hard it actually is to get traction and exposure in their market.
I'm not sure about Petridish but SciFund is implementing a "peer review" for their next round of science crowdfunding: http://scifund.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/adding-a-mild-review...
A little bit off-topic but does anyone else find odd that Javascript is still ranked below Perl of all things? You'd think between node.js and all the client-side craziness it would have a much stronger showing.
My favorite thing about this is how it exposes non-scientists to the first (and IMHO most exciting and least appreciated) phase of research - thinking up experiments.
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The meta-topic is about disillusionment, which in this profession comes from having to learn new libraries and knowledge that you know will soon become obsolete. Reduce the risk by focusing on learning what interests you (language & industry), and accept only interesting work if possible (or create your own fascinating projects, if you're the entrepreneurial type) -- or work as a contractor, where you pick your projects, focusing on your favorite language.

Don't let yourself become a cog in the machine, learning one company's proprietary library after another; to me, this is what leads to programmer burnout.

One of the challenges of a programmer (among other professions) is leading a balanced life; do not let your work define you too strongly.
Generally? Does MW3 uses same amount of data on PS (256MB + 256MB), XBox(512MB), Wii (88MB) and PC (2GB required)?
Mine does. 1password has Dropbox sync.
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Am also planning to switch to quantitative finance, though am just figuring out a sense of balance between work + learn/play time. I would call myself to be in the "early adulthood" phase and am figuring out my first love is math.

- Even if am not the quickest/best at it.
"Humans weren't meant to do that."

You sound rather defeatist for someone who's on Hacker News. Here's a tip. Create a pattern of sorts, example follows:

1. Choose a keyboard sequence: say qwerhjkl
2. Pick 1 < 5 < N. Use the first N characters of the site/service, followed by N. npm3qwerhjkl

You now have multiple passwords with an easy mnemonic. The above example may be too obvious a pattern to crack, so come up with a better one.
That's quite a bold statement. "hate", really?

I personally don't like their posts on HN, I don't even bother reading them anymore. The first few I read where totally devoid of any kind of useful information for me and for most people that are a little bit technical. For the non-technical posts they are merely interesting like "Look at our desks", I found them to be the equivalent of feminine magazine articles for geeks.

However this is only my opinion, and this is not a popular opinion. If you criticize them, invariably you are going to get downvoted. And if there's hate here, how come there's systematically sitting on the top 5 position every time one of their article shows up?

I have found that the criticisms found here are very polite and constructive. This show nothing but good things about HN if people can civilly disagree on a subject.
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Have you used LastPass? It really works in practice. Syncs instantly to Windows, OSX, Linux, and all major mobile platforms. They were broken into sometime last year, but IIRC they handled the situation superbly, and no passwords were leaked thanks to client-side encryption.

You do need to remember a couple of passwords, though. Your LastPass password and your primary e-mail password (in the unlikely event that LastPass becomes unusable and you need to reset passwords on all of your other accounts).
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This doesn't make sense. If you only used that password on 'low-risk' sites, then you are by definition only at very low risk here, right? So go ahead, don't change anything.
I was working in this space part-time but got beat to the starting line. I still think I have something to offer since I am a scientist. I don't want to port the conversation I'm having in another news item here, so would anyone be kind enough to offer me some advice in the following thread?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680207

I could also use some 1-on-1 advice via chat if it can be spared.

edit: Thanks to everyone who has commented and emailed me thus far! All of your advice is wonderful and really encouraging. I still appreciate new comments, and I'd really love to hear from Atlanta-area Python/JS hackers.
No-one really know how far CC goes, and that's one reason OSM is changing licence to a new Open Database Licence (ODbL)
Is "Rovia" the plural form of "Rovio Entertainment?"

(Yes, the misspelling is in the headline of the original article.)

I'm sure my son will love this game.
Upvoting you because the redditors are at it again, voting based on agreement rather than quality contribution to the discussion.
Open app, multitask button, select LastPass, long press, "Copy Password", multitask button, long-press password field, "Paste". Done.
> Which programming language you learn and use doesn't matter. Do not get sucked into the religion surrounding programming languages as that will only blind you to their true purpose of being your tool for doing interesting things.

That, is a dangerously double-edged wording. I see two ways of interpreting this, which are almost opposite.

(1) "Languages don't matter, in the sense that whichever you chose doesn't change the end result." Which is flatly, provably false. Different languages have different strengths and weaknesses, which makes them suited for different sets of problems. Use the wrong tool for your particular job, and you will find that your program took too long to write, or has too many errors, or is too slow to execute. Just thinking about C, Python, video encoding, and quick sysadmin work should make it obvious to about anyone here.

(2) "Languages don't matter, in the sense that they are a mean, not the end." Which is true for exactly the same reason the first interpretation is false: what should control your choice of language is your end goal. Personal preferences only matter to the extent you expect to have more fun. Given that your choice of language will change the end result, you'd be wise not to give it too much weight.

I think the author meant the second interpretation. The key words are "their true purpose [is] being your tool for doing interesting things.". A tool is only good to the extent it serves its purpose. For any given purpose, some tools are better suited than others. If no such tool suit some purpose of yours, consider crafting a custom one. In this regard, programming languages are no different.
>"Theoretically a relatively smooth transition is possible because there are 'quant developer' jobs out there."

Quant-Developer is a weighted sum of q% quant and d% developer. Ideally you'd like q to be high and d to be small. What happens in practice is that many companies will hire a quant developer, throw 90% of d at you and keep you enticed with some 10% q. This is rather sad, but I have seen this happen to more than half of the graduating class of 2011. Perhaps 5% of my classmates are doing 100% q. Another 20%, including myself, are remarkably lucky to be doing 80%q , 20%d. But the rest of my classmates are stuck with 80%d 20%q, and even the q is watered down cookbook solutions. And this is the case with University of Chicago graduates, so you can imagine what goes on with grads of non-top-10 quant schools. There are companies in the chicago area (morningstar, for eg., and even much of cme) which advertise for quant developers but give you 99%d, 1%q ! What they really want is an sql guy who maintains the securities database and writes stored procedures, but they will go ahead and call you "quant developer" anyways. Its a rather shady practice imo. Sadly, the worst offenders are startups in finance. I spoke to one who asked me a ton of interesting quanty questions straight out of Mark Joshi...but when it came to the actual job I'd be doing, the CTO says (actual quote) "you don't need anything more than mean and variance, we are all generalists here". Then why do you want a guy with a math masters and a cs masters and a quant masters...just hire a high school student.

Your best bet is to stick with IBs & large banks. They have tons of really interesting ( and really hard ) math problems to work on, they aren't going away anytime soon,and they will pick up the tab for your math phd costs ( or lightweight garbage like series 7 and cfa, if pde ain't your thing).
Some of Apple's software is still using Google Maps. Some is use tiles that Apple render and host, but based on OpenStreetMap data. Basically 2 years ago someone download the OSM data base (you can get it here http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ ), and then they made up their own style.
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I was simply responding to the title. I didn't read the blog post (misread it as an Ask HN).

Slap my wrist accordingly.
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