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If you're interested in the 'cracks' with regards to NDEs, definitely read The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman. That book, along with a few Terence McKenna lectures, will destroy any last vestiges of a materialistic worldview.

(To learn more about Terence McKenna, start with these:

http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?p=254
(also part 2 and 3)

http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=297)
Add a security feature with optional passcode and store the images in a way that hides them from prying eyes, and you're guaranteed a million billion horny college students as users.

Ben the Bodyguard[1] meets SMS/MMS for relationships.

Maybe we'll see fewer celebrity photos leak after this[2].

[1]: http://benthebodyguard.com

[2]: This is a good thing.
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I'm about to start a company and will draw little to no salary for 1-2 years. I believe this qualifies me for government housing. Has anyone gone down this route before? I live in Massachusetts, USA which apparently has many social programs.
It's probably not productive to use poor analogies here.

Accessing a computer system without authorization from the owner of that system is a crime. Facebook doesn't give authorization for employers to access their employee's accounts on their system, and explicitly forbids their users from transferring their own authorization to others.

As far as I can see, there is simply no way to construe an employer's access as authorized by the owner of the system i.e. Facebook.
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True. Then again, what's the practical point of lambdas that aren't concisely expressed?
In the picture it sure does look like a row of evaporative coolers - there was no mention of them in the article - so maybe I'm wrong.
Favorite != most used. Sometimes you're "forced" to use a language because "that's what the company use". For example, I use Java in my company, but I won't make it my favorite.
I totally agree. There is a not so little comedy factor in this discussion.

I for one use some static generator too which is self baked and extensible with filters and plugins.
I would just assume that execs don't get drug tested because execs are the ones who make these policies in the first place, and why would they drug test themselves?
I don't think it is a one for one, there are a lot of cultural issues to contend with when going off shore. Little things we take for granted as cultural knowledge are not common in other cultures, these macro items filter into software development and we just take it for granted. It is the same reason that if you outsourced the other way, as US team doing development for say India's market, it would have just as high of a risk profile.
Did anyone else think of the scene in Sunshine where Chris Evans gets stuck under the computer that's being lowered into fluid and freezes to death?

The mechanism for making "the hot aisle" temporarily habitable fails, you get stuck on/in something and can't get out in time.... Life imitates art.
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I've found using Jinja2 templates (http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/ ) is a lot easier than dealing with the Django template language. Django also makes switching template languages quite easy.
Are you saying you see no evolutionary purpose for consciousness? This is a (very short) interesting book on the topic: http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Red-Consciousness-Behavior-Init...
Is there any talk of a web based (ie not require app) version of the platform?
This reminds me of a Dharma and Greg episode[1][2].

Scheduled spontaneity.

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0559091/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rHyUeD5UrA
> remember that the video card is assembled and stuffed (with a ton of DRAM) and board tested where the CPU just has to be packaged and shipped

I used to design CPU tests for a major x86 CPU manufacturer. 100% of manufactured chips are tested, sometimes at a length of many hours.
It's not often you see 16MB these days and it turns out not to be a typo.
I understand that there are many project/team collaboration tools out there, but developers seem to thrive better in a whiteboard environment

I used to think the same way, that the organic nature of the team could not be fostered in a distributed environment. That was until I did several remote projects and started finding ways to replace the whiteboard with electronic equivalents. Once we figured out how to replace that with an electronic alternative we saw the teams grow and bear fruit. I have many coworkers now that I have never meet face to face that I know as well as many of my long time coworkers from physical environments. I was skeptical at first but I have changed my stance. It takes effort by one person on the team to foster the community but once it starts it seems to run on autopilot.
What is your site about ?

Best advice someone can give you is first write good content and second worry about SEO.

Also, paying some random SEO "expert" to improve your site won't do you any good long term. Google plans to change their rating algorithm soon.
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It is old school to think that economic factors do not effect people's personal lives.
That exists; it is called Grinder.
And regardless, I'm sure the creators will be interested to learn from related experiments.
You are right. It is sort of similar to the "other minds" problem. There are no ironclad arguments against a car engine not being conscious, though it seems obvious. You can have more fun of this sort reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism

The SEP article below is probably the best I can find right now which talks about almost all viewpoints.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/

There is an extremely good and entertaining argument in Penrose's book Shadows of the Mind against consciousness being computational (but the book has quite a good number of flaws in its other arguments).

From a reductionist and materialistic physical standpoint we only have fundamental particles and the forces in the universe. None of these seem to be related to consciousness. It is seems magical to say that these particles then interact in complex ways to produce something fundamentally new.

David Chalmers [1], the guy who came up with the hard problem, has written a lot on this.

[1] http://consc.net/chalmers/
How do I vote this polling crap down? Pointless and subjective and if this was stackoverflow, would be deleted.
I think you're overstating the dangers a bit. A hot aisle might be uncomfortable and not a place you'd want to spend many hours, but it isn't going to kill you quickly. If by some series of amazing coincidences you managed to get stuck in one with no way to call for help, you could just start unplugging servers until someone came to investigate and rescue you.
Or the title.
I'd be interested in hearing why anyone would choose Tcl.

I have to use it during the day, but use Ruby on my side-project. Tcl and it's lists (and lists-of-lists) is wicked painful - especially compared to my Ruby experience at this point.
if people don't get what your site provides or does in the first few seconds then more than likely they won't sign up. One reason so much time and effort is spent on A/B testing, to create an optimal page that will result in the most sign ups.
Even Fireworks is overkill if you do these kinds of things that rarely but it's certainly a lot cheaper than Photoshop and it's paid for itself several times over in my work.
I use rescuetime.com, manage several todo lists in Bento and also keep a journal using something called Dayone.

In terms of code, Versions tells me how fast I'm going, but nothing like Basecamp to track a project's progress. Hope that helps you.
Is this bookmarking application tutorial easy to follow?
Yes, I have skimmed through it. It is a nicely written book, but I think the main premise is wrong. A more nuanced book is Penrose's Shadows of the Mind. It is more rigorous and has a good overview of physics and computer science, but some of its arguments have flaws.
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Free air cooling uses evaporative coolers. They are not running chillers. Belgium also has a water treatment center bringing in water from an industrial canal for their coolers and thus runs on 100% recycled water.

In Finland, they run heat exchangers with water from the Baltic Sea, again, a chiller-less data center.

Document from Google that talks about their cooling: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/efficiency/co...
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Kind of a disingenuous title, since that time sort of implies that redis is handling that many users and that that's the average response time...
What are you basing your comments on?

"The job is boring"

A hospitalist deals with more difficult cases than an internist in a office based practice.

"The pay is average for a smart person"

Are you factoring in job security? And since when does "smart" equate to pay? There are tons of well educated "smart" people (who trained to be lawyers) who are unemployed or working menial jobs.

"The doctor spends a ton of time interacting with people that have sub-average critical thinking ability"

Are you referring to patients, nurses or? What do you think the entrepreneur running the local business interacts with? At least Physicians have other physicians as co-workers. Try running your own typical small business and see who you end up interacting with.

"One way to cope is to have hobbies outside of work. Children are a particularly popular route. "

Cope with what? Did it occur to you that there are people that like this job? (This is not a comment on what my wife feels by the way I'll leave that out of this discussion..)
Great idea. I suggest you build in audio messages to organize voicemails for your loved one.
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Thanks! Look forward to reading it. Your other comment on matter capturing consciousness is interesting and insightful.
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While basic is a good language to learn the (pardon the pun) basics of programming, it's not a great language to learn computer science if that is your goal. For that I think the best two languages you can learn are C and then Lisp. Neither are huge languages as far as number of jobs go but both are fundamental and foundational languages. Mastery of both will allow you to master any other language quickly. C will help you understand the hardware and Lisp will help you understand pure software CS theory that is why I recommend C first and then Lisp, you want to build a foundation, then layer on from that foundation and the best way is to work from the hardware up. Once you understand how the hardware is controlled by the software, it makes it very easy to see how to optimize code when you are dealing with what looks like pure software problems.

The Arduino board has a lot of support and following, so that is why I recommended it, and it supports other languages as well so as you grow and learn new languages you can use your knowledge of the board to learn new languages on. If you find a different board that you like though and it has a C compiler then it will suffice, but Arduino does have a huge community that tend to help each other out.
I think that if you spend 4 years learning web development, going to the relevant networking events, and being active in the local "hacker community", building applications, and blogging about your learning/building process, you will be in a much better position than if you go to college. Both, in terms of skills/knowledge, and debt.

The only downside is that you will be a less rounded person, because you will have missed much of the general and liberal arts education. But, if you are disciplined, and a curious person, this is also something the internet can deliver to you.

Long live the internet.
Very true, but its looking like Crowdfunding bill and the Access to Capital bills are moving through.
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I like LOVE. The only problem is the library names can get a bit x-rated for teaching my young children.
drag and drop image would be awesome!
Your opinion: a simple cloud note & paste web app.
Thank you for pointing this out. I've just fixed the lang attribute of the html tag. It is "en" now :)
Short answer: Go to college.

Long answer:

College/university is for three things:

1. College is for gaining formal training in the profession you plan to enter. Foregoing that formal training leaves you without the foundations your profession is based upon, which means that you'll forever be solving problems in a sub-optimal way, leaving a trail of destruction in your wake. If you're looking for job security and high salary and good references, then you need something that elevates you above your peers. By not going to college, you lower yourself below your peers.

2. College is an opportunity to study other fields that you WILL be interacting with in the real world (such as business). That knowledge gives you a massive edge.

3. College is an opportunity to make contacts, which are invaluable as you progress in your career. In fact, I'd say that contacts are THE absolute biggest path to success. If you want to be successful, hang around successful people.
Oh!

True,

By me asking to build business which add value I did a big mistake, but him by pointing the whole nation to be of people who are pirates has done a very great thing.

By the way bashing India to get moments of glory has become fashionable for many Indians these days.

They do it all the time, to get visas abroad or settle down abroad.

If there is so much problem here, why don't you guys leave this place and go and settle down in your promised land.
Generally my pseudo code looks like: for all for all for all =)

I highly prefer engineered coding than syntaxic coding. So there is no code in my white board, only -french- words. Code follow. And unlike mathematic and what most people think, concerning coding, details never stop you. Or really really really rarely. Bad design (=engineering) do and a lot.
Best advice someone can give you is first write good content and second worry about SEO.

That's the best advice you can give. Just like a good diet and exercise will give you a great looking body, great content and lots of quality links will get you to the top of Google. In either case, you can cheat on one or the other (e.g. a crash diet or link scheme) but you will only get short term results. Keep in mind that some keywords are very difficult to rank for, no matter how hard you try, but if you write good content, you're bound to rank for some keywords, even if they aren't the ones you expect.
I am a fee fighters "customer" and I don't really give a shit whether they are acquired. They sent me to gravity payments, who gave me an awesome deal that I wouldn't have known about except for HN and FeeFighters. I am happy now. I am drunk as well, so I'll be the first one to toast the team at FeeFigherts.

FeeFighers biggest weakness is that no one has ever heard of them. Groupon can fix that problem with almost no effort.
Really nice response, I think what most people often fail to realize is that it's not always about the money. True entrepreneurs are terrible at handling discomforts worst of one that could easily be fixed. I left a six figure salary in the medical field, sold my bmw and moved to SV from the east-coast to fix a problem that costs this country $300 billion annually in additional healthcare costs. It's about finding the best use of your talent.
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"I think you're crazy thinking this guy is getting into startups for financial reasons!"

I didn't say that.

I gave three possibilities:

1) "getting out of medicine because they want to run a startup."

2) "Maybe getting jealous because they see it as a path to riches and have been reading about to many outliers."

3) "Or maybe wanting to change the world."

I referred to "financial reasons" in only 1 case. And even in that case I used the word "maybe".

That's hardly "thinking this guy is getting into startups for financial reasons".

I didn't say improvements needed to be made. In fact if you re-read what I said you will see I questioned the issues with handoffs.
I wonder how much money companies waste by keeping their server rooms as cold as a refrigerator. Some IT guy who thinks servers should be cold probably told them that.
That's a good point I completely forgot to mention. I might do a bit more research on this and scrape up some tools and make a Version II of the post.
Repost from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3292542 if anyone's interested in reading the comments from then.
Sorry - Although I think the word 'Metrics' must debunk that implication, I can understand what you mean.

I hope it's clearer now.

was:

Realtime Metrics with Redis: 128 Million Users + 16MB RAM = 50ms

is:

Realtime Metrics for 128 Million Users with Redis: 50ms + 16MB RAM
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No, this is 6.00, which sounds like it is aimed at non-majors. My 11 year old son wanted to go through it with me, and so far the first lecture was good for him. 6.001 is the SICP course.
On the contrary, I think the perfect place to voice my opinion is with a blog post. If I can get at least one person to stop and think about the people on the receiving end of a document (especially within a large company), I would say I've made an impact.
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If this is coming from an IT/Tech company, I would HIGHLY question the competence of the employees (no offense meant).
I know disk space is cheap these days, but at 16MB/metric/<level-of-granularity>, it seems like your metric dataset would grow pretty quick. With just 10 metrics tracked daily, thats another gigabyte per week. Of course it does come with the benefit of maintaining all the raw data since you never roll up or aggregate the data...so the pros probably outweigh that con. :)
.NET magic is generally limiting things down so that happy path works and edge cases are expensive. Other platforms do a much better job of this because they start on an edge and make that run through happy path by convention. I can't speak to it being language limitations or just the way Microsoft works, but they almost always seem to get this part wrong.

See ASP.NET MVC Routing as a example (kinda related to the above).
Fair enough, I apologize for misunderstanding you.
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Hm, you did realize that the comment sounded very much as being sarcastic, did you?
You are very sure of many things, which I have already tested and proven to be incorrect on my machine. So far, switching off the cache seems to be an improvement for me.

Your situation may be different, but I suggest you measure and test if the topic interests you. :-)
This is a very interesting case. As an architect though I can't help putting in my 2 cents that cooling isn't simply a binary choice.

Firstly, the best thing to do environmentally would be to use the heat positively, connecting it into a centralised heat-distribution network for other users (for instance, other industries, public heated pools, or even residences).

Secondly, even without power, there is a lot you can do to maximise the heat-loss of a building: Eg. design to capture prevailing winds and utilise them to help heat escape, or internal arrangements to keep cooler 'microclimates' around areas used by maintenance staff and temperature-critical server elements. I am not sure what the design process of these buildings is, but I would bet that this sort of design doesn't get thought about.

Thirdly, you can also actively cool buildings without 'chillers' (refrigeration units), such as pumping earth-cooled water through the building (as 'chilled beams'). This is actually likely to be quite cost-effective for large projects like this, and much more environmentally friendly than burning coal.
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speaking as someone who has been inside a "hot" datacenter of a few thousand servers (after a failed ac system which didn't trip the alarms for a few hours), uncomfortable does not really begin to cover it. The extremely dry, hot air was quiet difficult to breathe, and being inside for more then a couple of minutes at a time was pretty much impossible. Definitely not the same experience as sitting in a hot aisle. It has been a number of years, but I believe the thermometers read close to 100F at the time.
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Interesting idea (I especially like the wish feature)! Great implementation! How do you plan on getting users to come back after they've read(or asked) what they needed to read? Perhaps you can have a daily/weekly interesting thought-provoking question that will get users to come back...
Thanks! I'll ask one more question while I have your attention.

The first thing I searched for on that SEP page was "Popper", because my "how do we know a car engine is not conscious" stems from trying to apply falsifiability to my intuitive notions. What I take from "other minds" is that other people's consciousness is not falsifiable; taken to its natural conclusion, it seems to me that the non-consciousness of an engine is also non-falsifiable. Which is actually pretty cool, to a philosophical simpleton such as myself :-)

So my question is: is there something I can read that specifically links concepts of consciousness to Popper-derived falsifiability ideas?
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It's up to the local government to see if you qualify — although my guess is that's based on your previous income and other factors (like if you're a citizen or have a family). Even if you qualify there may be a waiting list — and my bet is that you couldn't really count on the quality:

http://www.massresources.org/public-housing.html

I once had a friend who was a blogger who lived in the projects here in NYC and the quality of housing was pretty terrible...
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There are plenty of practical uses: http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/FunctionalExpl...

Note that the Guava lib specifically points out how ugly this is.

I prefer Clojure.
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I grew up in the projects which is government housing but I guarantee you don't want to move there. There are several types of government housing i.e.: Section 8, Projects etc... Did you want to know about any specific form of Gov. Housing?
I was thinking that too, but the 16m is keeping track of data for 128m users. Assuming you don't have that many, the number is potentially a lot less.

2 million users' actions could be tracked in 250k per metric. 10 metrics per day is 2.5m per day x 7 days is back to just over 16m (17.5m).
I've been waiting for something like this.
Can you allow users to select photos, videos from the library during the on boarding process? Also, would be great if it could automatically pull in my instagram photos. :)
It's not a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario at all.

There is no downside to Facebook saying no asking for passwords for interviews. It makes them look good and justifies their walled garden approach.

If Facebook truly cared about privacy, they would actually listen to the requests such as the ability to delete ALL your data as well as the ability to toggle privacy settings for all fields instead of the ones Facebook deems acceptable.
What are you talking about? A CEO got fired because of this. Anyone and everyone was watching this guy.