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> "Call me old school but I'd rather find someone who lives in the same city"

When my wife and I first met and started dating online (in 1998, before it was common) we worried that her grandparents wouldn't approve. It turns out, grandma and grandpa thought it was a cute reminder of their own youth; they had courted through letters. "Old school" indeed...

Sometimes, despite all your plans and desires, you fall in love with someone who circumstances don't permit you to spend as much time with as you'd like. Maybe you're finishing college, deployed to a combat zone, or tending to an ailing/dying relative. Or maybe you're just busy because you're either caring for your 4 kids, or making sure they have food on the plate.

Life is like that, and has been since long before you were born. Making it easier to connect to your loved ones is a good thing.
I agree. I think if it does happen, it will be a slow transition(several decades) because that's how long culture takes to change.
Actually practice fusion seems to be making use of anonymous patient data.
I actually hope this doesn't take off (or at least, if it does, that it keeps its scope in check). RVM is invasive and moderately broken because of that.

And besides, in a very short time, Go is going to commit to API stability with Go 1. And given that, and static typing (even at runtime), and Go's beautiful module system, and the fact that static linking is the norm, all means that worrying about which Go version you are running on is a silly concern.

This tool purports to solve dependency hell, but dependency hell, especially in a language with no stable ABI where everything is compiled from source, is entirely about package management. Go's standard library used to be in flux, which made pinning a version an important piece of ensuring source compatibility with packages. That's about to go away, and I hope GVM-like tools will follow.
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Next up: Path for Families

(I'm actually being serious here. I could see this working, but probably not in the US where the concept of the nuclear family is much weaker. In Latin America or some European markets this could work quite well. There's probably an Asian equivalent to Path for extended families as well)
The App has a few language choice issues.

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Notably There != Their.
The problem with this view is that if you look at the energy demand curve for the human race, there are only two long-term sources that can even potentially satisfy the demand: nuclear and space-based solar. Wind, geothermal, ground-based solar, tidal...there just isn't enough energy there to satisfy the demands, especially once you factor in the inefficiencies of power transmission.

The reason it's a problem, of course, is because the both methods are politically difficult and require significant engineering (if not research) and capital investment to make them practical.
Powershell did not exist when I was a C# programmer. Not saying it would have made a difference either way, just that I couldn't have mentioned it.

Anyway, I don't think bash/zsh is so great, rather the tools that have grown around them for the last 20 years make them the best available option. Powershell may be nice, but it's got a long road to hoe.
I have to disagree to an extent, while I'm certainly not a doctor I have been around people in the medical field enough to understand, at a high level, how it works, and there is often a lot of "guesswork", for lack of a better term. If anything, I would say medicine could even have more variability than programming. I mainly have exposure to emergency medicine, through my dad and also through having started to study to be a paramedic at one point. In this type of medical field I have the impression that decisions have to be made at a much faster pace, which constrains the possible options, the way I think of it, in a way, is sort of like programming, in terms of having to choose a path to take for a problem, but if you choose wrong, you can't go back and "re-factor", you are often stuck with the choice and it can lead to a severe outcome (death, etc)
Most pure IT projects should not require FDA approval. Such approval is typically required when an actual device is involved, such as a heart monitor that connects to the patient and transmits data to the iPhone. The FDA actually has information on their site about what types of applications of this sort would require approval.
The roles Puppet and Chef fill are small parts of "automation".
You should tell Django guys they should be thrilled to hear it.
I'd add

4. A college/university degree demonstrates an ability to complete a long-term reasonably challenging task. Even a BA in English Lit is, many years later, demonstrated ability to successfully see through to the end a multi-year project. A decade or two into your career, whatever it ends up being after "web designer" is just a fond memory and a few faded old business cards in your collection, you'll be competing at job interviews with people who may not have that "officially recognised proof of hard task completion" that a degree gives you.
Chrome extension users are suffering Warning Fatigue.

The user can review some information about access permissions but so many extensions make the same plea: "i know that my extension is using lots of permissions, but it's totally safe".

Much like Windows and Android, the endless alerts about permissions and confirmations, while perhaps holding real information, end up becoming little more than noise.

Combine that with a free-fire zone where apparently little moderation or pruning occurs... it's bad news waiting to happen.

(edit: I'm a Chrome user in addition to FF and I use a lot of extensions... they are super useful, but I have serious concerns about this)
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Not sure about Popper, but you might also be interested in this book:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Consciousness_Studies

It tackles a lot of the philosophical problems around consciousness. I haven't read the whole thing because it's very technical and not always the best written, but what I've read is kind of interesting.
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For some reason, this is more friendly / easier than Quora. I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe it's Quora's red, I've never liked that.

On a more specific note, have you considered making the answer textarea not highlighted upon focus? It seems to clash with the surrounding divs.

I also love how I can follow who is in YC right now considering they somehow gained word before everyone else :)
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I don't think that healthcare in countries like the UK is the same situation as in other countries like the US.

I think this article should be a cautionary tale about socializing health care.
This guy is cool too. He's the creator of Thin, the nicest ruby server and he's really involved in the Ruby community so he's not a scam artist.He's just smart.
F# and Dart should also be on this list considering they're the source of a lot of programming language innovation that's happening atm.
Speaking of shared todo-lists, I'd love to see an app for roommates that handle all the todos of a household and break them down by common tasks:

(1) Food in the pantry - what do we have and what's finished
(2) Bill paying (link into a service like WePay)
(3) Major/large household purchases
(4) Group chat for the household (allow linking of chat to the todo-lists and vice versa)

Bonus points if the app allows you to "connect" to neighbors you know well to know what things you are willing to share with one another like tools.

I'm not sure how well an app would work outside dense urban areas, but in any place where unrelated people live with one another and coordinate with one another, such an app would be useful.
Yeah, I think RVM also kind of proved that build tools that inject themselves via .bashrc are more trouble than they're worth. It was somewhat forgivable with Ruby because they had decades of legacy tools to deal with; one would hope Go would be able to find a better solution.
The conventional wisdom (i.e. big, fat lie) that you'll hear repeated when you're in high school is that you have to go straight to college out of high school or you'll never do it. It's completely bogus. I rushed college and grad school. If I could do it again, I would've taken the time to get experience and find out what I was really drawn to. When you have student loans and bills, you don't have that liberty.

Try some things. Talk to the guys at Dev Bootcamp, Code Academy, and Thoughtbot's apprentice.io program. You could even do Dev Bootcamp in the summer and then see if you still feel like you need to go to college. It'll also put you in an ecosystem of people that you can get guidance from.

College will still be there after you graduate and after you test the waters. If anything, getting some good experiences under your belt can only help with getting admitted.
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Or, in the alternative, learn the rubric, take the silly test according to that rubric (it looks to me as if any student who is reasonably bright and really well taught could rapidly learn to produce answers that fit that rubric), and then write a really well crafted proposal, based on research, for how to make the test better. An eighth grade class that produced a lot of students capable of doing that would be very impressive and would get a lot of attention.
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I've currently spent 3 months away from my partner, and have one month to go. This is not the first time we've spent more than a month away from each other, and due to circumstances beyond our control, it likely won't be the last. Being half way across the globe from each other, sometimes we can only talk for 5 minutes in a day, when one of us wakes us and the other is staving off sleep. Technology is exactly what has helped us bridge that gap, those quick WhatsApp "Thinking of You"s and the like.

There are times when short term sacrifices are needed. Technology helps make that sacrifice a little easier.
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Job satisfaction amongst hospitalists is actually high:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21773849

Your contention that hospitalists actually hate their jobs and lie on surveys is implausible.

Medicine is lots of things, but it's never boring, especially in hospitals which are mad, mad places. Sure hospital work is not for everyone, but that isn't because it 'sucks'.
One thing missing in terms of low level facilities is calling varargs cdecl functions.
What has not been mentioned is that you can use C++/CLI to write .NET wrappers of native libraries. This is often even faster because you can use the libraries headers.
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Minor point: there is already pair.com. Maybe only people on HN would be at all "confused" by this, everyone else being unaware of that category of business, much less a specific one. But pair.com might take it a little more seriously.
Our standardized tests lead classes to a sort of "malicious compliance" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance - the tests are So Important to the schools that everything becomes a cram session, in lieu of actual teaching and exploring ideas.

It doesn't have to be that way. There are counterexamples:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-ame...

[Edit: (Technically it's just Goodhart's Law when there's no malicious intent. Hard to tell the difference sometimes, though. http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ws/the_importance_of_goodharts_law/
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Well, don't link to or quote from the material under discussion, or gives examples of any questions or the like - that might leave your readers informed rather than merely exercised.
I'll bite - no _good_ parent.
You see a lot of complaints about standardized tests, but the simple fact of the matter is that standardized tests are not going away. People want a way to evaluate student performance in a way that works across many schools, districts, and states. By definition, that's going to be via standardized testing. Complaining about them will not help.

Make better tests. Teach better around the tests. Those options are fine. But implying that the very idea of standardized testing is constricting is a waste of time. They aren't going anywhere.
This is why Dustin originally shared his ideas.
Puppet is written in Ruby, but has it's own DSL, so it doesn't really count.
Fabric is more like Cap than Puppet / Chef
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C was a huge advance over the languages of the time because it was powerful--a lot could be done with a little code.
"thing1 ?? thing2 ?? thing3 ?? bar" will return the value of the first non-null variable in the list. zmj wants something like Ruby's andand [1] instead.

andand negates the need for an explicit null check on each property in a property lookup chain, which would normally be required to avoid a potential NoMethodError or NullReferenceException.

You can create something similar [2] to andand in C# if you are willing to do property lookups using lambda expressions.

[1] http://andand.rubyforge.org/

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/4958550
It seems in America we solve our problems in one of two ways:

A. Spending more money indiscriminately. Money always makes everything better. Just look at health care!

B: Getting the federal government to take over and centralize everything.

Creative ideas are almost always ignored unless they are a means of executing strategy A or B.
The missing vertical line separating the main content and the sidebar in Quora always makes me uncomfortable - it makes the right end of the each section very jagged. Huge turn off. Then again Quora UX design guys must have seen a good reason to leave it that way ...
So are you saying that absolutely nobody that can do the job has applied? Or have you turned away qualified applicants because they aren't a "cultural fit" or properly credentialed? I'm betting on the later.
If your productivity can be mechanically tracked, sooner or later you will be replaced by someone more productive or, at least, cheaper.
MITx supplies a textbook which is very nice. A Jeff Kent hacked together a scrolling textbook viewer as well. MITx needs a bit more moderating on the discussion boards. Many people are going to fail the class when they find out that there is more to the class than finding the answer in the forums.

MITx suffers a bit from small assignments and small exercise sets. They've compensated for the shortcoming already by adding tutorials. (I didn't notice them when I first took a gander - I think they were added.) The textbook also counters this deficit.

The first assignment for 6.002x was due last weekend but they take the best 10 out of 12, so it's still worthwhile to sign up!

Coursera's offerings are also nice. One of the features that was there that is no longer working for me is increased video playback speed. The +/- buttons do not work. Playing video at ~1.4x was quite nice. MITx can play at 1.25x and 1.5x. Dr. Aggarwal's (MIT) Hindi-Bostonian accent at 1.5x chipmunk speeds is a bit too much for my brain to process, but at 1.25x he seems even more excited about his teaching!

I'm also having issues with the video crashing or hanging with Coursera. To counteract that I am taking advantage of downloading the videos and using VLC to chipmunk them. Coursera is more portable. But in both cases students have hacked together downloaders for the entire course anyway.

And as always, check how you are evaluated. Just like a real course, the way you are evaluated changes from course to course.

I'm really enjoying the Natural Language Processing. The first assignment is due on Sunday I think.

Other than the SaaS and Model Thinking class, everything else is still just starting or hasn't started yet. I am going through the Model Thinking videos course even though I registered way too late. Really really worth it.

My TL; DR: I narrowly prefer the MITx setup over Coursera.
Do you by any chance know who was the designer behind 'Between' app?
Here are sample exams from past years:

http://www.nysedregents.org/Grade8/EnglishLanguageArts/home....
Are they hard to get into?
It doesn't have to be a black and white question - I think there would be benefits to having fewer standardized tests, and to de-emphasize them when making policy (especially funding decisions) in favor of other metrics.
And this is why I'm in utter disbelief when parents protect their children so much as to not let them play in the dirt and sandboxes and such.
We've published a few papers about this that studied (among other things) the effect of temperature on DRAM and hard-drive failure rates. We watch our machines pretty closely. If you're a data geek, Google's a fun place to be.

Disk Study:
http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf

DRAM Study:
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
bcfg2 I have been using it for a few years now. Have enjoyed it much more than the other similar tools we evaluated: puppet/chef/cfengine
Saunas have 70C - 100C temperature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauna

You had only 60C (140F).

Fainting after just 10 minutes in 60C is too fast.

BTW, most likely reason your friend spent time in ambulance and hospital is because your employer wanted to be on the safe side, not because your friend really needed it.
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Over the next three months, I plan to start interviewing for software engineering positions. I have read Steve Yegge's long rant on the art of interviewing. In the interest of acquiring more information, I was wondering if folks in HN could share their previous experiences in how they prepared for a tech interview?

Note that I am fresh out of school with a rather sparse github profile which means I am likely to be grilled on algorithms and data structures rather than anything else. I have done a few interesting internships that I can talk about though...

One specific question I had for folks who have been interviewers is: I kind of suck at coding on a white board. I feel that I can think better on paper and pencil rather than on a white board with someone staring at me. How would you feel if a candidate came in with a bunch of papers and offered to sit and write code next to you (instead of coding on the white board)
I voted for Clojure because so many of design decisions seem to be correct, but there's still plenty to complain about: unreadable stack traces. slow interpreter startup. meaningless function names in core.

I think I really want an immutable-data language that uses rubyish message-passing style.
bcfg2 I have been using it for a few years now. Have enjoyed it much more than the other similar tools we evaluated: puppet, chef and cfengine
Django already has a branch with support for Python 3.x. The only reason why they're holding off on deprecating older versions is so that users get enough time to upgrade their systems.

A lot of hosting environments like Google AppEngine still do not support Python 3. The "there's going to be no 2.8" PEP might help that, though. We can only hope.
Yes, and I am sure there will be a long waiting line.
No single language is the best for every situation. Know the tools and pick the right one for the problem at hand.
+1 for Udacity. I'm using it now. It's really well thought out and reinforces learning through exercises after each short 3-4 min section of instruction. They use Python for the building a search engine course (CS101), which is a fine (some say best) language to start with.
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My favorite language is the one I don't know yet and desperately want to master. Objective C, in my case.
Not really. Ours is a small, for profit run institution, that has implemented many of these things, at a faster clip than the local multi hospital non profit institution.
Ive learned that what matters most is the hospitals management and how they communicate with their medical staff.
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Suggestion / Question: the "suggested users" list disappeared after my first follow, so discovery has become a little tricky.

Does it exist elsewhere? If not, might be a good idea to put it back in.
Depends on what you're doing, but favorite implies I enjoy it, which would have to be something that isn't used for work, which would be something Pd/Max for me.
How do other garbage collectors handle this?

Can I fork a Java or V8 process and take advantage of the copy-on-write optimization?
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Horrible as in "no good" pedant?

Because, no "anonymous inner classes" are no lambdas. They are, well, classes kludgily used to mimic a lambda proper.
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Most [1] modern GC implementations use generational copying collectors. A copying GC does not need to maintain a bit for each allocated object, and therefore will not break copy-on-write.

They are also much faster for many common loads.

[1] I suppose this is debatable. Oddly, many modern scripting languages use ancient compiler technology for no discernible reason. See also: the GIL.
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