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I know there are a lot of arguments for why the user owns a completely free interface that revolutionized electronic communication. I know that many of them will be stated below. I acknowledge that these arguments have weight and validity.

However...

This is a business decision. MaysonL stated that '...people trying to foist changes like this...should consider the fact that there are humans on the other end of the computer.'" Why exactly should they consider this? Has there been a vast migration? Are the people using the service paying them?

Has anyone noticed that Google is moving to enterprise platforms. More importantly, has anyone noticed that Google has an active branch pursuing RFPs an IDIQs in the federal space?

Google is looking for paying customers. This is how it goes. This is Hacker News for pete's sake. If you don't like GMail, make a product that works better and post it here. You'll probably get a lot of customers. (By which I mean freeloaders to whom you will have to provide massive memory and bandwidth)

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Hey zeantsoi - thanks for the feedback. Right now questions are automatically sorted by recency. We left out timestamps to try to create a more permanent space for answers, but this might be a useful thing to display since we've gotten a few requests for it today.
Sounds like there is an incredibly strong hacker culture there.

Some would say that the connotation of the word hacker used here originated in the 60s at MIT.
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Same here. Just make sure to set your inital shards correctly so that you can grow for a while. Once you have to increase shards you have to re-index :(. But that's fine. Just go with 4x or more the shards you need now and you'll be able to scale out to that many boxes.
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Yeah... hackers are usually incredibly naive about compensation outside of their own world. For reference: http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2011...

Bottom line: here in the US of A, your average doc (most certainly NOT an outlier) is making between $150k and $350k. Put that in your VC-backed pipe and smoke it.

(Debt? Between $150k-$200k for 4 years of med school. Post med school training, in the form of residency and fellowship, runs anywhere from 3-12 years and pays around the $50k mark. Basically, nobody went broke by becoming a doctor.)

Which means, of course, that the outliers can do very well. I have a friend who's Dad is an oral surgeon in the Eastern Shore of MD (what might be considered the "boonies" by some). He clears about $750k/year for a 35 hour work week. llimllib's wife above is probably around the $250k mark in the ER/ICU. If that ain't coin...

Anybody who thinks that somebody left medicine for the money knows very little about medicine.
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Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I've absolutely felt your pain. Some of those things have maybe improved (I use git every day, I love my PowerShell, and Visual Studio + ReSharper is glorious once you tell some of the cruft to stay out of your way) but it's still a long way from perfect.
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Even outside of .NET, it's got a tool built-in to make L"strings" 16-bit on all platforms, which is cool for portability (and an implementation of nmake for unix, which can also come in handy)
According to an Oct 2011 answer by Zach Holman on Quora[1], they only release publicly the number of users. According to the homepage, that number is currently at 1,455,656 (hosting 2,444,052 repos). You could extrapolate from their with an average repo size, but I haven't seen any good information on what that size would be.

[1] http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-size-of-GitHubs-userbase
Correct!

I wonder how I missed this on zerovm site. For the folks not familiar with the issue, it is not about mobile phones :)

With the emergence of large immobile datasets, software mobile agents may have a renaissance era... especially with AI being cool again.
Agreed on the overkill part. That is the reasoning behind the work we are doing. I sent you an email to discuss further.
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Do you know how it relates to Silverlight for Mac?
Very little with either one, it seems like backbone is more flexible then Ember.
We should not point fingers at other occupations and pass sweeping generalizations on other people.

You ask him to refrain from making generalizations, but YOU are the one that is making a lot of them. Nobody said that they don't want you to succeed because you are the son of a taxi driver, there was no need to even mention it in an anonymous online forum. It is YOU who is trying to get sympathy from this fact. Please try to understand what you are doing.

I must say that I agree with asto; you have not countered his assertions, skirted but not tackled his points. It is an undeniable fact that piracy is rampant in India. Whether it is "good or bad for the country" is debatable, but the fact that it exists is not.
This is slick. I will note though, if you're just getting started with Go or if you only have small projects, this is overkill. `go fix` and just starting out with current weeklies (RCs for Go1) is sufficient. For projects of any substantial size though, this looks like a nice handy tool!
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I think that makes sense, I'll start a project with Ember first. I did some research and it seem like more people like Backbone then Ember, but I do prefer convention-over-configuration - which is the reason I prefer Rails as well. Thanks!!
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/broken-lotteries/

Here's a great article on lotteries, particularly Cash Winfall. CWF was a particularly broken lottery. In a certain season it was possible to purchase enough tickets (say, $100,000 worth) to (almost) guarantee a profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Lottery#Cash_Win...
Well, they're not really creating a distro from scratch in the way that Debian maintainers pull source code from various upstream projects and spend weeks to months doing bug testing. The RHEL sources that the SL folks pull have already been bug tested and verified to work very well. The SL folks are compiling those sources (with their own modifications). Of course, you could do this with the Debian or Ubuntu source code, but I guess they figure if you're going to get source code from somewhere, it might as well be a well-known enterprise distro.
I love how many high level technologies are left to mature in the java environment and then are reintroduced on a level that's a lot closer to the kernel and the metal.

ZeroMQ is another great example of the progression that started with AMQP.

Hadoop hopefully will see a similar fate. ZeroMQ combined with ZeroVM actually offers two important building blocks.
You mean the multi-chip module (MCM) ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Chip_Module Those have been around forever.

Or something different?
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Python or GTFO.
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In it's current state, I think Kyte is great for kids ages 6-10, ie, those who are ready for their first phone, but who would have to get a dumbphone right now because their parents don't feel comfortable giving a full smartphone.

Over time, I hope we'll get Kyte to a stage where it's useful for kids both older and younger than this age range.
No it is not, municipalities are not related to why people suicide as companies are
This is a very good point. I think the assumption was "cheap" means "works poorly".
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Exactly. Imagine if you had a "Million dollars for the login credentials of FBI/CIA/DOE employees!" program. Just because the employees want the million dollars, does not mean the payer is authorised to access those systems.
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I didn't connect with Facebook because I know all the dirty tricks people play. ;)

I can't connect now, after the fact. There are also some simple design oversights. For example, any time I see a list of people, there should be a "follow" button next to their name.

It's actually quite hard to find people to follow starting from nothing, unless I want to follow some of the 8-10 people you suggest automatically.

I'd give the first-time experience a C+.
In most cases within distributed computing you need either move the data or move the code. It could also be something in between with the case of "request" and "query", if they simple they are surely data, if they are complex they look more like code.

Ok, now if we agree that something should be moved lets think what makes more sense to move dataset or to move code?

And my take is "it depends". Dataset size plays a role... security plays a role and etc.. think what if dataset for another reasons than size cannot be moved. In all these cases you need to move code.

In the case the code is untrusted (malicious suspect or just being buggy) you will want some kind of sandbox.
There is something to this. I had to do some training years ago at Alberta Lottery in Canada. Scratch tickets are sold in blocks of $100 (100 x $1, 50 x $2, etc).

We were told that each pack contains at least one winning ticket (it might be $5 or it might be $100K).

That's a definite weakness.
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Congrats to the team. Will have to check it out in the next few days.
I kind of think of RVM as a necessary bug due to the unmanaged span of Ruby versions.

I am not clear why this is really necessary for GO. Why not just use 'go fix'?
I find it disturbing that some poeple find it so hard to belive that it might just be chance. It's way more likely to be that. The serial number on the cards are either generated in series (1, 2, 3 ...) or just pseudorandom, but they are not tied to any winnings, it's just a series of numbers so that they can keep track of what goes where.

If it's a serie of numbers you have to find out what the chances of a winning ticket in X-amount of tickets, meaning that you statistically have a chance of a price within the range of X-amount of tickets. But the way they have made it, you statistically have to spend more money than you can win in order to do so, or just about break even.

Now, the fun part is that most of these tickets (atleast where I live) come with pseudorandom serie numbers, so even finding the system in how the numbers are generated is going to be hard, if not even down-right impossible given the sample-size you will be able to buy.

And last but not least, lottery makers are not stupid. They've known about this since the dawn of time. Actually some credit the math behind statistics to gamblers. And you have so many level of pseudorandomness to crack, so, when you're done, statistically we can say that the lottery made it's money anyway, and you probably spent more than you won. And the lottery agency just have to change one constant and they are, from your point of view, totally random again. It's a cat and mouse game you cannot win.
There is a certain element of truth to what you are saying. When I was early in my training I was dissappointed in my choice of medicine as a career because I also thought it lacked an outlet for creativity. As a now experienced physician, there are still times when you get to a point in the care of some patients at which the next step is programmatic and rote (if A then B).

However, sometimes--probably most of the time--the patient's presentation is so unclear (e.g. "I just feel weird. . . ."), there are so many variables to juggle in your head at once (twenty different lab values, the way the liver feels, the imaging findings, the color of the patient's sclera, the smell of their breath, their mood) that things become far too complex for any flowchart. These are the times when you need creativity, "book smarts" and perhaps above all, "emotional intelligence" to be a good doctor. There are plenty of doctors lacking one or more of these elements, and they just aren't very good at the job.
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I think you are kind of missing the point. mehtapratiroop referred to the simplicity of flipkart not as a jest, but was simply expounding the facts. (There were/are many similar sites (i think a infibeam.com?) but I think flipkart's great idea was cash-on-delivery.)
On a side note, I was reading that article from Android phone and immediately searched for their app. Surprisingly, Google Market/Play didn't return any results. Is search broken on Market/Play (especially when accessed from phone/tablet)? Because most of the times I search from their web based store and download from over the air push.

By the way, congrats for releasing the app.
SL lost its way in recent years. Right now, it seems little more than a (basic, out-of-date) redhat clone. It could be much better - I don't understand why it doesn't include GEANT4, ROOT and the associated CERNlibs, matplotlib, Octave and R out of the box. If I have a distribution called 'Scientific Linux' sponsored by CERN and Fermilab, I expect that it least has particle physics tools as part of the default ditro. :-(
My wife's still a fellow, but you're right in the ballpark on the salary for residents and fellows. When she was an intern, we calculated her hourly wage at <$8.

You're low on your med school debt estimate, remember that loans don't just need to cover tuition, but living expenses too. Furthermore, many of her fellow not-yet-attendings are sitting on undergraduate college debt that has been deferred until they become attendings.

Nonetheless! Your overall point is totally valid. I've out-earned her for the past 6 years, but she'll even it out in about 2-3 years as an attending, and doctors frequently work well into their sixties.

(Also: Baltimore represent!)
You cannot have a sane ORM that works with nosql and sql databases without compromising features & complexity.

I am glad sqlalchemy deals with sql-only databases.

You don't need an ORM for nosql. A library suffice.
They can't win with some people. Either they ignore it and those people say they don't care about privacy, or they rattle the sabre (for their users' benefit, for once) and people say they're posturing or spinning a nothing into something positive for them. I guess it's the PR department's job to do this but I get the impression that for some they're the new big company that you can love to hate.

Personally I think it's better that they said it, whether the reality of these increasingly common stories is actually so common or not.
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Hm... Maybe one of the reasons why replacement-for-C kind of languages don't quite take off is because people apparently still like C quite a lot.
Just because you don't happen to have activities that generate enormous amounts of data doesn't mean nobody else does.

There's also people that make a lot more video data than you apparently do, same for sound recordings. Do you believe that the majority of recorded video data in the world is MPAA's? That would go against everything we know about the "long tail". You do realize that of all text (or books) written in the world, less than 1% actually gets published? Why would video or audio be any different? Just because you don't produce it, doesn't mean the MPAA industries are the only ones that do.

Also as you say, there's academia, PHD students I know use equipment that generates gigabytes per second. Or without equipment there's computer programs that do it from calculations. Now I agree it doesn't seem likely they'd use megaupload for that.

And that's just a few things I can come up with right now. Who knows what sort of computer stuff other people do that generates retarded amounts of data they need to share?

I'm also not saying that all that copyrighted stuff isn't there, it's just that if it's 25 petabytes worth of data, it just doesn't add up, the MPAA-represented copyrighted part of those 25 petabytes can only be a tiny fraction of that amount.
Yeah I found that statement a bit weird too. I think Indians are wary of being cheated (which is a legitimate fear, I must add) which is why the adoption of new technology is a lot slower than in a high-trust western society.
Coming from someone who has intensively studied stocks and done very well in the market over a few years:

Invest in index funds. First max out your 401k match, then your Roth IRA, then the rest of your 401k, then open a taxable account.

I highly recommend Vanguard's LifeCycle funds. Asset allocation is one of the most important factors in determining your returns, and Vanguard will automatically adjust your asset allocation while charging very small fees.
WooT, the new iPad has nospot feature enabled... almost for europeans
Seems that in eu zone there isn't any carrier that support the new features 'personal hotspot', my carrier h3g support it on my iphone ... but not on my ipad ... same for other carriers ... so what's happen?
That's a pretty dumb comparison.

With regular sharpening, a kitchen knife can be just as effective as a brand new one for decades. It'll cut food just as quickly and efficiently.

A laptop may be workable, but it's going to become underpowered in empirical ways fairly quickly.
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You're making the (probably) false assumption that your lottery is as broken as the Ontario one.

I question your detachment if you are calling gambling an "investment" at all. If you want to win at probability games, look at what any professional gambler does and stick your money down only when you can prove or reasonably expect to see a positive expected value given your odds. That's how basic strategy in blackjack and most of poker math works.

Also, I assumed ticket generation for the simple games was something brute-force-ish akin to:

1. Create your winning tickets. Fill in the rest of the numbers with things that won't cause duplicate wins on the same ticket pseudorandomly.

2. Make a random ticket. Check to make sure the ticket is not solved. If the ticket doesn't solve, add it to the stack of tickets.

Randomly shuffle all tickets. Print to rolls and cut. You could probably even get away with duplicate random "losing" tickets if you had enough of them because most people likely won't end up with the same losing ticket.
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Single page link for those would would prefer to read the article while, instead of chopped up into seven pieces:

http://www.anandtech.com/print/5693
Holy link bait...
For simple projects or toy apps, gofix is just fine. However, some companies are running complex production systems written in GO 0, and the code may have a lot of dependencies and custom build scripts. In this case it's useful to have an easy way to install and pin Go versions.

Once Go 1 launches, subsequent releases should be compatible with the Go 1, which reduces the need for something like GVM.
I've never seen the preceding semi-colon like that. It makes perfect sense, there are a lot of JavaScript coders these days coming from languages like Ruby and these people often don't use semi-colons, very smart advice to protect against that!
hmm, just searched on my android using Google Market and it shows up, a long with a free version. what were your search terms?
ZeroVM uses both. Well, not now, but one contributor took the clustering thing on himself and implementing it right now with zeromq while another is developing a client library with collection of serdeses verified to compile and work on zerovm.

We decided on micro-kernel design with zerovm so all data-crunching libraries will go into untrusted code part.
I agree with the flawed voting scheme. What I don't understand is why the number one voted comment thread is on how great C# is when I can't last remember an article on HN talking about C#. This whole thread seems so contradictory to my perceptions of the HN community. Either there's a whole host of C# lovers that finally decided to participate in todays discussion (a silent majority), or microsoft evangelists are taking over HN! I'm so confused.
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In comparison to the real one - which, for me, consists of a landing page - this is absolutely brilliant.
Its great how he says he can do alone if only he generates procedural worls, and avoid textures, etc. Unfortunately his game is kinda hard to understand.

Related, he gives programming tips for the beginner: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rq8nZzL...
I am sure that there are a lot students that wish XYZ university taught CS with python. However, with all due respect I do not think HN is the right place to express your opinion about your university's curriculum.
> Megaupload has multiple copies of almost every single movie and TV show in the world in multiple formats and quality levels.

> I have watched some very rare international films on Mega and it never failed me on a search.

> If you multiply out all the movies, all the multiple copies, all the TV show espisodes, all the different quality levels, you would get a few petabytes.

I implore you to do a back-of-the-envelope estimate and get to 25 petabytes.

Please take into account that I purposefully started with the highest quality level currently in use, which is ~10GB per movie. The assumption is that lower quality levels will only be a fraction of that size therefore all versions of a single movie won't be more than 20-50GB total. Additionally, many older movies are not available in the high quality formats and take up only a tenth of this space.

Also I'd like to point out that the MPAA is the Motion Picture Association of America, which is an American trade association that represents the six big Hollywood studios. So they don't represent the "rare international films".

Still, I'm just making rough estimates myself as well. I'd love it if you could come up with a possible way to explain that, say, at least half of this data could consist of MPAA represented intellectual property.

I just don't think they produced nearly enough content to warrant shutting down all the data stored in MegaUpload, even given that MegaUpload probably does store all their IP illegally, in multiple formats.
That same site has an interesting article on Martingale betting systems: http://wizardofodds.com/gambling/betting-systems/

IIRC, a martingale strategy will eventually destroy you because it requires an exponentially sustainable bankroll to maintain the same risk of ruin.

Also, 3,650 hands is far too small of a sample size for a game with such a small edge and you are probably just witnessing positive variance. See where the law of large numbers leads you and run your simulation for 500,000 hands.
Crazy. I could have (honestly) written this exact same post, timeline and all.
Kyro, your Hackermed was a nice attempt to bring together those interested in health-related innovation.

As to the OP, there's still a room to improve existing software technologies. And there is still a lack of consensus about best ways for improving handoff processes: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jcaho/jcjqs/2010/00000...
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Why would sugared destructuring not make sense in C#? Or first class events and delegates?
No one is mad at Steve Jobs, when he says "good artists copy, great artists steal", but when it comes to these guys, they are just criminals?

I support that theme, minimalism is always good.
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