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It's hard to get the full context of this presentation just from the slides, but I'm assuming the author is talking about Python test frameworks. I've been using nose in combination with coverage (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/coverage) for a year and have been very happy with it.
They should have charged more.

It is obvious that demand was way more than supply. When demand is too high, you raise prices to decrease demand to match with your supply. When you increase supply you can lower prices to have demand match it.

In the long run they want to make it so everyone can have one for cheap, but really they don't have the infrastructure to do that. By selling at a higher price they can use the extra money to build out that infrastructure and then lower prices.
I think we're talking past each other. To make my review pithier: this is an article that could largely have been written from the Wikipedia article on "adverse selection".
JFC! I've been going through this at work today - the developers of a third-paty app designed the app for low utilization companies - our company is a bad fit for this software. We're in the top 500, and our usage patterns expose every scalability flaw in this software...
My pet reason: Your framework doesn't solve any of the genuinely hard problems that annoy us when we're trying to test stuff.

Lots of people have written variations on assertions and mocks. But where's the full-stack test harness for a Rails app with heavy JS usage, that runs at a reasonable speed, gives us useful traces on the client and server, and doesn't break when I slightly rework my HTML?

Or, where's the tool for testing integration with REST services outside your control, that doesn't depend on the real service most of the time, but can be told to run against the real service as a sanity check when you want to? (Like Ruby's VCR, but better.)

Or, how about a test framework that accurately emulates mobile browsers and automatically?

I'm not getting on anyone's case for not having written this stuff. Because hey, I'm just as guilty of not solving these problems as is the rest of the community. But if you want to make a testing tool that people will absolutely love, solve some of these problems really elegantly. (I know, easier said than done. And yes, some tools have solved some of these problems to some extent. But I'd consider each of my examples to be an ongoing pain point for developers.)
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Perhaps you haven't seen the Nelson River project.
It would be better but selling is scary and requires asking something of real people. Its not the easiest thing to do so I think people shy away from it.
I think you forgot the link:
https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/energy/energy_archive/en...

There is some other good stuff at that site.
And Zynga promptly falls:
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2012/03/13/znga-fal...

This is a bad sign: jerry rigging the stock price with after the IPO lock-ins. If it was a long term "accumulate", they wouldn't need this.

I'm wondering what the meme will be : "Peak Social"? ... or ... "Tech Bubble 2.0" ?
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I'd imagine they're using device pixels in CSS, which means it is resolution-independent.
If people are sufficiently outraged, then change should come. If not, then its up to you to educate your fellow citizens.

This is an utterly useless truism.

How do you fire up a significant portion of you fellow citizens over copyright issues is the question. Stating, and I'm paraphrasing here, "Just do it." does not help in any way.
So should they have announced higher prices recently and had to face all the "knew they couldn't do it at the prices they promised, was all nonsense!" opinions? Or should they have never announced their real prices, and not got so much good press?
The conservative objection to single payer health insurance is that single payer may be a terrible way to achieve cost negotiation. In a system of guaranteed issue private insurance, people could tune their exposure to risk by selecting plans with greater or lower deductibles, and then use HSAs to set up a rolling facility for paying their day-to-day coverage costs.

The fundamentals of the system we're moving towards in the US is actually a conservative plan from the '90s: an exchange-based market for private health insurance coupled with guaranteed issue and a mandate for coverage. That plan was itself a response to the original liberal vision of universal health insurance: nationwide government-run single payer insurance.
It can be when a short description completely and accurately describes what's going on, but the person creating the comment needed to read a few books on the subject to actually understand both what's happening and why due to other issues.

EX: How does virtual memory get mapped to L1 cache?
Ask HN: How did you solve the "developing on multiple machines" problem?
I have several computers (a desktop computer, a laptop, etc.). I'm developing with Eclipse, using a bunch of plug-ins.

It's a time-waster to synchronize my development environment between all my machines.
Usually, I develop on my desktop computer. Whenever I'm "on the road", I first have to configure my laptop Eclipse setup - reflecting the current setup of my desktop computer (including custom views, custom hotkeys, esoteric plug-ins etc.).

What is your solution to the "personal (integrated) development environment on multiple machines" problem? Which related problems are you facing?
".. vibration in patterns to show the difference between a call, an SMS, an email"

This is genius. Why doesn't my phone do this now? Sure, I have different audible tones for reminders/sms/email/calls but most of the time my phone is in vibrate-only.

I think we will end up with watches similar to those you describe. I imagine they'll have more functions than alerting you though. A device in constant contact with the skin could likely do a whole bunch of health monitoring.
As someone who has paid out-of-pocket for an MRI (it needed to get done ASAP for logistical reasons and there was a bookkeeping screwup with my insurance): the markup for out-of-coverage services can be way way more than 170%.
Keep in mind that the government did NOT force Bayer to manufacture the drug, only to license it. I don't believe Bayer had any interest in pursuing the Indian market whatsoever since it was priced well beyond what the average person could afford.

On the question of fairness: Is it fair for people to die because they can't afford a life-saving drug? I'm sure that's what it boiled down to for the Indian government.

According to my math if Bayer priced the drug over here the same way they did in India relative to average per-capita income the drug would cost around $1.5 million per year. Would that change your perspective?
" It would be impossible to build facebook or google without an advertising based business model,"

really? just like that . . . why give up so easily? let's throw some intelligence at the problem instead of just assuming it's not possible.
"Any type of situation that is expected to happen can not be covered by insurance, it needs to be covered by savings instead."

Yeah right. Until you run out of money. Then what?

In your world, you die. Good for everyone, until it's you or someone you care about. Then, like everyone else, you off running to the SS office to apply for (Medicare) disability.

The whole point of insurance is to protect against risk. Else why have it at all?
What if you put it in more physical terms.

If someone went around passing out a list of people in your community who leave their back door unlocked, would you have a problem with that? After all, they're only "linking" to potential robbery victims, not actually robbing them.

Edit: From their About page: "TV Shack™ was launched December 2007 by a handful of Swedish university students as a place to watch movies & television online by way of linking to video hosting sites across the web. ... 2009 is set to be a massive sea of change in online video viewing. TV Shack™ has set itself a target of being in the top 1,000 visited websites globally by the end of the year 2009, this will leave it perfectly placed to become an essential stop for the ever growing online video user base."

Under the English interpretation of mens rea, this would seem to fall under the strictest level:

"Direct intention: the actor has a clear foresight of the consequences of his actions, and desires those consequences to occur. It's his aim or purpose to achieve this consequence"
"Siri, read me my email."
What are the top websites today? Facebook, Google, Youtube, Wikipedia, ect. What are examples of the up and coming websites? Pininterest? Reddit?

All of these websites are media based. These websites focus on the content that they provide. None of these services, with the exception of perhaps Google, really care about software development. All of them care about their sites content.

Because all of these websites are media based, their business models revolve around ads and click counts.
I'm serious though. It's the best way to spend time, too.
DROIDCAT : security android application collection
A collection of android security applications
Individuals can opt into an insurance plan. That's sharing risk.

What "society" (government) can do is force everyone to share THE SAME risks

single-payer insurance == monopoly
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Remember that when you are accounting for those you also need to remove all of the stuff that is paged into every process and is the same across them, such as shared libraries and the like. Most likely Chrome is using less ram than you think.
Worrydream.com has a few great examples of displaying complex information intuitively.
This is a late stage cancer drug, delays death by 6 months to 5 years for liver and kidney cancer patient. Even after 97% reduction most Indian households may not be able to afford it .

Government wants to buy it and distribute through government and aided hospitals, that is the principal reason behind it.

According to statistics there about 200 Indians using it, even if can save a additional thousand lives it is worth passing this compulsory licensing
@JunkDNA, you seem to know Pharma R&D & patents.

An excellent read on another case coming up before the Indian Supreme Court, regarding Swiss drug co. Novartis's blockbuster anti-cancer drug Gleevec.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/business/global/indias-sup...

I think that judgement might be more important, as the NYT article points out how the US govt is trying to influence the outcome.
http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/tpp-10feb2011-us-te...

What are your thoughts on Gleevec ?
No-one talk to me about unit testing unless you're already using strong typing.
I have long been convinced that smart watches are the next huge thing. For my money they can even be a phone, optionally with a detachable bluetooth ear plug/mic. I don't know if they will go full monty and get big fold-out screens and physical keyboards but I could see it, particularly for the geekier among us.

That, and AR headgear. People already wear wristwatches and glasses so it should be a smooth transition.
how about treating users as people, because they are.
Eiswuxe uses in app purchase.
What I see that could happen is that you carry around a multiple form-factor device, e.g. alone it is just a phone, but plug it into a special screen and its a tablet. Attach it to a screen with a physical keyboard and it'd work as a laptop, plug it into a bigger base station type thing and it works as a low-powered desktop.

Each of the larger devices it could plug into could have their own processors, RAM, batteries, etc and connect to a Bus port (like laptops have for docking stations) on the phone and take control of its storage and peripherals.

I was thinking a scenario where a user would use it in 'phone mode' while walking around, 'tablet mode' while on the train or bus, 'laptop mode' at the coffee shop and then use it as a desktop when they get to work. The whole time working on the same document, emails, video conference, whatever, completely seamlessly (well, maybe a small break when switching what its plugged into). Of course to use it in other modes, you would have to carry along those devices. There is also the issue of applications not be suited for a smaller device, but you could hand off to a different version of itself, save its state and go into a sleep mode, or transfer processing to a server/cloud system.

If done right, you could have a very wide variety of devices with different sized screens and different features to cater to different audiences while keeping the same UI.
That's cool, but my biggest complaint with the recent UI is that I can never find the link to my Direct Messages
The extradition treaty between the US and UK is massively unbalanced - the UK needs proof to extradite an American, the US only needs suspicion to extradite a Brit.
It makes me feel a little embarrassed for HN actually. This article might be a revelation for the noobs on the Linux subreddit, but I'd expect the HN crowd to find it pretty pedestrian.

Not only that, but in some cases it is flat-out wrong:

No, disk caching only borrows the ram that applications don't currently want. It will not use swap. If applications want more memory, they just take it back from the disk cache. They will not start swapping.

Try again. You can tune this to some extent with /proc/sys/vm/swappiness but Linux is loathe to abandon buffer cache, and will often choose to swap old pages instead.

I have learned this the hard way. For example, on a database machine (where > 80% of the memory is allocated to the DB's buffer pool) try to take a consistent filesystem snapshot of the db's data directory and then rsync it to another machine. The rsync process will read a ton of data, and Linux will dutifully (and needlessly) try to jam this into the already full buffer cache. Instead of ejecting the current contents of the buffer cache, Linux will madly start swapping out database pages trying to preserve buffer cache.

Some versions of rsync support direct i/o on read to avoid this, but they're not mainstream and readily available on Linux. You can also use iflag=direct with dd to get around this problem.
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Individuals can share risk, that's what insurance does.

The transformation of insurance into a savings scheme puts considerable distortion on that model. It becomes impossible to see what payment is for expected treatment, and what is for risk assignment. The model then encourages people to use more ("I've already paid for it") and to pay no attention to cost. And it encourages the attitude that any problem should be paid for. It's hard to exaggerate the impact of these effects on health care's crazy cost structures.

The real problem isn't people who are riskier, it's people who are costlier. Someone with a prior condition isn't a risk, they're a cost. Insisting they should have "access to insurance" is simply insisting on cost redistribution. The circumstances under which that cost redistribution is a good idea socially should be an entirely different question than the efficient structure of health care payments.

These concepts are deliberately obscured by the political rhetoric around "health insurance", precisely to obscure the cost shifting nature of the project and to create a sensibility that the problems is somehow the greed of financiers. (Obscuring the cost drivers is also a goal, it's a very large industry that employs a lot of people, many of whom, at many levels, stand to lose a good deal if the system were ever seriously rationalized.) It's a very effective rhetorical strategy, especially given the abstractions around risk, but it shouldn't be confused with an actual discussion of the economic problem.
Well, Eclipse, unlike intellij, has a special workspace directory, you can sync that baby up using dropbox/aerofs.

I use intellij/rubymine (jetbrains) and the advantage is that I pretty much check in my configurations along with my repo. Good stuff.
Congrats, and thanks for sharing this.

The most interesting part of this post is the guy who wanted to build a service that reviews you online dating profile. That seems like something that has real potential.

In my experience, one of the most frustrating things about being on an online dating site is that it's really hard to get feedback from women about how your profile is perceived by them.

You send messages to a bunch of women and 90%+ never respond, but you have no idea why. I would pay $$$ to find out why they don't respond, and I'm sure that a lot of other people would as well (especially men).

Could this be built into a site like OKCupid? Perhaps some kind of revenue sharing arrangement (between reviewers and the dating site) where users pay to get feedback, and other users get paid to review the profiles of men or women who message them(or maybe even those who don't)...and it's anonymous feedback...or semi-anonymous.
While Intel is messing around with TV, the PC business is dying
I should clarify that Python 3, by itself, is fine. I had the unfortunate situation of having to use it for a task in which no suitable library existed, which led to a significant amount of unwelcome additional effort.
However, until those library deficiencies are fully met, it makes no sense to move forward from 2.7.

Thanks for the Pillow link, btw. I was unaware of it.
I'd like to see a video demo of this.

From the description, I find it hard to believe that this is not the very near future of blogging (assuming it works as described).
If Microsoft takes the same approach to displaying WP7 apps under Windows 8 that it takes to displaying them in the emulator for the development tools, resizing for different screen resolutions won't be critical.

The emulator uses the same resolution as a native phone (800x480 typical) which is quite legible on a larger screen due to the lower density of pixels on the larger display.

Apps running in the emulator are perhaps a bit oversized, but not untenably so.
I think my biggest "trial and error" experience that I can share with you is to find companies that are the best at what they do. Yes, you can find companies that do everything from time tracking to bookkeeping to CRM to project management to invoicing to payroll but I found personally that you create the issue of "yes, I have everything covered but not one function performs exactly the way I want/need it to."

The best solution is to find the best time tracking tool - I use TSheets - http://www.tsheets.com - (which may solve your time tracking needs as well as show you a visual of your real-time clock in/out of your team showing you who is working, and on what, and for how long, and with detailed notes for future reference) - then integrate that with the best invoicing company - I use FreshBooks - http://www.freshbooks.com -(yes, they also have a time tracking app but I believe their focus and strength in their product is in their invoicing solution).

This way, what you set up provides you the functionality and custom options that you have outlined as your basic needs above - better communication, better focus, more accurate billing and forecasting.... overall a better experience as a first time small business owner.

Good luck!
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That's cause most of the people are insured and there is no pressure for lowering rates for the uninsured.
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I don't like the tone of this article. Does he really deserve the money? It's not for you to say.

Now, you could make the same claim they are making about anything: We all use tools and technology created by people before us.

Does that mean we somehow don't deserve our success any less?

alternet.org should be giving all of the ad revenue to the people that really deserve it.
Part of the notion that suggests people should be forced into sharing those risks is that nobody can rationally rule out future unbounded medical expenses; you can't predict the future, and virtually nobody has enough money to cover every plausible medical expense they might face.

So the freedom we're really talking about is --- notionally --- the freedom to make what basically must be an irresponsible choice.

It's true; single payer systems do create a monopoly for health care funding; that monopoly takes its place alongside the monopoly for military force, for air traffic control, for fire prevention, for oceanic weather surveillance, &c.
From an engineer's perspective, the AVR 8-bit instruction set is far nicer to work with than the 8-bit PIC. It's been a few years since I've been an embedded electronics engineer, but I seem to recall PIC not having an easy way to implement a stack, and hence a (proprietary) compiler which didn't support reentrant functions.

AVR OTOH has instructions which allow one to easily manipulate a stack, and since GCC targets AVR, you don't have to deal with Microchip's crappy compiler and can use whatever fun C constructs you wish and still get decent code.
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It also appears to have a random? element with regards to ball behaviour. Each run of this
https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/ahNzfmd... ends up different. Sometimes it hits the wall, sometimes goes over it and sometimes it makes in into the output. (should be two items on your screen - resize until you see a Track and a Wall)

Seems difficult to design and share if ball behaviour changes run to run. Unless that is part of the point - simulating real world user input ;)
Maybe better for people with clothes that hold phones tighter against their skin (?) or for owners of other phones (I'm a blackberry man), but personally I often don't notice vibrations in my pocket, I definitely wouldn't notice patterns. Whereas on the wrist it can be quieter (no more BZZZZZ "oh look, my phone's on silent haha") and gentler, yet more noticeable.
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I really like the idea as well! From what I know the site didn't go anywhere because the minimum advertising commitment for dating websites is in the thousands. So I think he dropped the idea.

But definitely it could work for someone with some marketing skills and/or cash to burn. It's something that can be built in a weekend as well. Feel free to reach out to me and I can try to help point you in the right direction if you're interested in pursuing it.
Very cool. I would love to see some verification. If you're using one of the commands from commandlinefu, you probably didn't know about it beforehand, and who knows what it could do.

edit: Commandlinefu.com -does- have a point system that could help determine valididy, it would be great if the points could be retrieved by Fu, and if you could rate up and down within Fu. Still, doesn't help if a code is ranked 0.
Ummmm, congrats, but it sold for $3,500 - that's not really an exit imo. It's like selling a decent domain name.

What's the point of even being on an entrepreneurial site if you can't celebrate someone's first success?

For instance, Dan complains about screwing up the offer he accepted. If I was in his shoes, I'd be very happy to learn this lesson now rather than when looking at five or six-figure sums - let alone anything bigger! ;-)
Thanks! I really hope so - that's the beauty of doing all this stuff while in school.
better array syntax [] & {}

dot notation instead of ->

methods instead of functions where possible (eg: "test".replace("t", "b"); )
Top right corner, click the avatar icon next to the compose tweet icon and a dropdown has an option to see direct messages, but i think you already found it :)
This is a concern that could be addressed by providing guaranteed issue and a mandate for high-deductible health insurance, and then leaving it to the market to resolve the financing of everything below that high deductible.

That system is in fact not too far from what we're trending towards in the US.