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Okay, I phrased that a bit strongly, I admit.

I appreciate the reasons in the examples you give (atheletes: injury; hedge funds: insider trading/pump-and-dump/etc; programmers: well, your boss is paying you to learn to code better as much as to actually code - competing with him, given that, would not be playing nice), but I still don't get it for the original example in the link. I just don't understand how a business could be held liable for the behaviour of its employees when they're not at work, especially if there's a brief disclaimer appropriately placed.

If that's really the case, then liability law is screwed. If not, then the business in question is either being paranoid, or disingenuous about its reasons for these rules.
I'm pretty surprised Google didn't have the client download the images instead. Wouldn't that be a better solution or am I missing something here?

Pretty interesting though and if this becomes a big enough story you can bet Google will be changing something; the last thing they need is someone using Google Docs to DOS websites.
Absolutely. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing some new twist that this tool was providing.
Just a terminology note: 'Computer Engineering' is already existing term for the discipline of making computers -- designing CPUs and building hardware in general (our CE has strong security focus, so they do lot of RFID ASIC stuff, and some FPGA crypto stuff) and low level programming like compiler backends (SPARC register windows are pretty!), microcontrollers and interfacing with other hardware too. And whatever Hennessy and Patterson are doing.

So you shouldn't name gutted code monkey courses Computer Engineering :)
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>There is probably an eternity outside of our universe, something that we have to accept and that there is no reason for it.

What do you mean by "an eternity outside of our universe"? If you can reconcile that, then why is it hard to think that our universe would have no beginning?
Thanks for the link!!
I use arc and Racket for rapid web development. I use them because I like coding in lisp. Having said that, it's only fast if you've got experience with it, otherwise it is a long slog.

Basically, the ecosystem just isn't as good. There is no Heroku for lisp. Want a library to help out with API access? You must write it yourself. Want to make a get request from arc? You must write it yourself. Etc.
very interesting findings, good read.
Well....I see what you are saying. But if none of the 9VC want to follow up... the Company is toast for sure ;-)
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The part you're not catching there, is that it is a way to teach Intelligent Design as a valid scientific theory in classrooms.[1]

[1] http://www.chattanoogan.com/2011/2/21/195128/David-Fowler-Ma...
I really wish Apple would do product announcements prior to WWDC to segment the press/bloggers/fanboys/etc from the actual developers.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow!

It is interesting in its cuteness though; it seems like it could have real applications depending on how 'powerful' the mechanical turk is.
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"In the case of the towel bid, hospital administrators were shown a PowerPoint presentation (a copy of which she gave to me) indicating that going with the Medline and Medical Action bids would save them between 6 and 29 percent. But this was relative to the same companies’ bids the previous year, not the bids offered by other vendors."

I'm interested in seeing these slides and sent a request to the article's author.

Were the decision makers present aware there were other vendors? If so, how was this data not called into question? It would be interesting to see if the data was presented in a completely misleading way or if there was some level of laziness and complacency on the decision-makers' part as well.

Regardless, misleading presentations are always interesting to examine, such as Tufte's assessment of the presentation given to NASA officials before the Columbia disaster (http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...).

Edit: Just received a reply from the author that she's unable to share the presentation as the person that originally shared it has been "subject to legal harassment." Lame!
It's worth pointing out that Netlib, along with glibc, uclibc, bionic and probably the BSDs too, is just using the SunPro code from the early 90's for its trancendental functions. I'm honestly not aware of anyone who isn't.

And most of these are doing more than simply reducing N in range. They typically have a transform (or three) which maps N onto a function which is very close to linear, so they can use a 5-6 term polynomial approximation to get full precision across the whole range. It's all very clever, really.

But it's terribly documented (and, at this point, ruthlessly forked). I'm honestly shocked there hasn't been an effort made to clean this code up, put it into a single project and get all the divergent libm implementations using it.
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Totally agree. Everybody forgets that neither Facebook, nor Google, eBay, LinkedIn, Youtube, were saying they were doing massive things. And yet...
The author mentions it does not work on IE6/7/8, and I suppose the lack of canvas is the cause, but would using excanvas do the trick?
My work on O'Reilly Fluent has severely hit my time for working on it and I like to 'rebuild' the course most times I run it. I won't make an announcement until I'm 100% happy for it to go ahead as I don't want to disappoint anyone but it should be "very soon"! :-)

Mine is probably the one most focused on intermediate developers rather than beginners per se. It's for people who already know and work with Ruby but who want to flesh out their understanding of the Ruby object model, metaprogramming, project structure, library building, and so forth.
I am very late to this discussion, but I wanted to share my thoughts. I didn't like too much the advice of the article. I would have taken the opportunity to tell the kid about diversity, to appreciate the diversity of other people and specially his own. Observe that every body has strengths and weakness, that no one is perfect. Also, It can't be that everybody is an asshole. But even if they are, it is not his fault.
Touch events - Android (any version) vs. iPhone (any version).

IndexedDB - Chrome Mobile has it (outdated version), Android and iPhone do not.

Chrome will have Dart support at a later date, no other WebKit vendor is going to implement it.

There are literally dozens, just go to caniuse.com and play around for a bit.
> One is a highly controlled scenario where all(most all) the externalities can be controlled. The other some extremely complex modeling, which will, at least in my view, always depend on some consensus among the participants which factors are more important than others.

You do know that precisely modeling just a few seconds of turbulent flow would take more computer time than all the climate simulations in history, right? They're both approximations of intractably complex situations.
Nope. Read it again. Government rules is what changed the nature of these GPO's from hospital-funded to being funded by kickbacks from the various vendors. That one act alone seems to have triggered a massive shift in power.

Businesses will adapt to the environment they operate within. If they can identify an advantage they will use it. I am not going to blame a business for moving within the existing framework any more than I would blame someone for taking advantage of SEO. In other words, given an environment where you can optimize your website for better search engine results, you do it. And that's fine. The problem is that those making the rules that create the opportunity for optimization are morons who have no clue about what they are doing or are simply corrupt.

Lobbying is a problem, but it is NOT illegal. I fully agree with disallowing it. So long as it isn't, those who can will use it. Again, you use the SEO tools available to you. When something starts to work against you or is no-longer allowed you stop using it.

Something else that needs to change: Government workers cannot be unionized. Why? They form a voting block that can influence the very laws that regulate them as employees of the government. It's as clear a conflict of interest situation as I can imagine. They vote as a block and favor anything that will keep them employed, protect their pensions, etc. The private sector has had to take haircuts for the last several years and suffer the consequences of ill-conceived plans from government. In sharp contrast to this the typical government worker is living in an isolated bubble where they can look forward to retirement while earning 80% to 90% of their pay for the rest of their lives and enjoying an amazing health-care package. Some even got raises. All on our backs.

In the real world the government workforce should have been cut by at least 25% to 50% and their salaries by another 20%+. Lifetime pensions seriously cut down and completely eliminated at some level. If you want to have a nice retirement make the right decisions and invest your money yourself, don't to on my back and my kids backs. This is so broken it's a tragedy.

I mean, see what's happening with the health-care law? They are hiring some 4,000 IRS agents to support it. These people are NEVER going to get fired. They'll probably cost us well in excess of a billion dollars a year in salaries, benefits and support systems.
As good as Code School is (I'm not familiar with Treehouse), its Try Ruby lessons are relatively shallow. A good introduction, sure, but I think this Prag course goes somewhat further.
But, why re-downloading every hour?

Does merely having the spreadsheet passively open in a browser trigger that, or was some other process re-loading the spreadsheet every hour? (If the former, I wouldn't be as forgiving of Google. I understand the desire not to cache possibly-private data, but proper URL design and conditional GETs should be able to prevent the entire download on an automatic hourly schedule. And even if the latter – the author had chosen to reload the spreadsheet each hour – I'd want Google's design to allow browser-side caching to work for such embedded and/or generated images.)
I think his point was more that, when it's 7AM in PST, it's already 10AM in EST and ~3-4PM in Europe... that makes it hard for PST to "get the early jump" considering everyone else in Europe/America is most likely already awake...
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Can you limit bandwidth with AWS?

Also, why would the spreadsheet be calling these images every hour. Did you have the spreadsheet open? Does google do this call even when no one is viewing the spreadsheet?
To reach true mastery, yeah you need 10,000 hours, but the drawing we're looking at on this page, while nice and competent (and certainly better than I can do), does not look to me like the product of artistic mastery.
Its not out of the ordinary for people to replicate, but its mostly undergraduate and masters students that do it, as its difficult to get pure replications published.

This is a terrible state of affairs, but I think that it may be an artifact of the pressures of publication right now, coupled with psychology's lack of research back in times where replication was viewed as more well respected.

Personally, if someone was going to replicate my results for me without me having to do anything, I'd be delighted. People coming up for tenure and desperately needing findings might be less pleased, however.
There's an interesting policy question here: how could the law be written such that people do not become restricted from their usual right to talk about their fields due to liability without giving companies too big a back door through which to avoid liability?

It would be fairly simple to construct a law that protects companies from liability for things their employees say, but what happens if an employee wants to say... give bad stock advice and pays an employee under the table to do so on his own time?
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It's infuriating when you imagine just how much creativity and innovation is being wasted. Time is something you never get back.
The only time your actual hourly value matches your potential hourly value is when 1) You have significant funding, 2) You have a time-to-market deadline, 3) You have either an income model OR a continued funding potential based on point 2. If you have all of these things, then a day trip to save $600 bucks is a waste, otherwise saving $600 dollar today gives you $600 more for tomorrow. This blog entry is naive.
I don't think that people are maliciously pushing your content to lower rankings. IMHO I think the amount of stories being submitted and actively voted on are whats pushing your content down further.
Bootstrap is a hover pop-up, mostly used for read-only. This is more like a click pop-up both read-write. User can click, fill in a form and submit.
How many votes up are your posts getting?

If it's only a handful, you're never going to last on the front page for long -- it's part of the standard HN algorithm (something with time/number of votes and maybe something with spread in vote count over time -- at least that's what it seems to be)
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And if you try to export it the Government can block the sale of any military use equipment. I know a person who developed an external coating for submarines but the US Military didn't want to use it, so he found a (friendly) country that did but was denied the license to sell it.
I haven't read debates about the content of the bill, but having read it directly, I'm not sure how to get from A to B (B being kids learning about creationism):

"The teaching of some scientific subjects, including, but not limited to, biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning, can cause controversy..."

That's a true statement; and not only CAN those topics cause controversy, but they can be counted on for it. The value and substance of the controversy raised is a related topic, but not directly implicated here; the mere presence of such controversy is a valid concern for educators -- blithely pretending it's not there isn't an effective answer, I don't think.

But what to do about the controversy?

"[Educators] shall endeavor to create an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that encourages
students to explore scientific questions, learn about scientific evidence, develop critical thinking skills, and respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinion about controversial issues."

Sounds reasonable. Not only are we acknowledging controversy, but we're bringing students into the meta-conversation about it. That, as much as the primary topic, is essential to critical thinking, collaboration, and dispassionate discourse. Ideally, they engage in civics here as well as science.

Now, obviously anything put forth by a politician should be examined with a critical eye; there are usually ulterior motives. That said, I'd hate to become so cynical that I dismiss a bill like this because, for example, it was a) raised by a politician in X Party; and b) it mentions topics I know I'll disagree with him on. In substance, I really can't find anything here about which to take umbrage.

You're right that this opens the door to the debate, but shouldn't it? The ostensible focus on scientific evidence and critical thinking should subsequently wither baseless dogmas, whether they be religious or not.

Finally, I think that in practical terms the bill itself is fairly worthless, lacking in specifics as it does.
>There's really no need to keep asking "what, then, created the creator", for simply things are the way they are and not necessarily as in the explanation we find satisfactory.

The same thing could be said for anything and why wouldn't you just stop at the universe instead?

>It could be that the Universe has no creator (I personally find it highly improbable)

How is this improbable? Do you have evidence or something that would lead you to such a claim? Also, what do you mean by "creator"?

>I can't be absolutely certain and we can't really check. All we can do is have an opinion/belief about it.

How do you know this? Isn't that a claim of certainty that you said we don't have. If we don't have evidence or any logical reasons for something, then guesses aren't sufficient explanations.
Going to the posted url, it shows 46 points in 2 hours. That should be more than enough to keep it on the front page for a while.
Maybe this will finally motivate one of the distributions to start providing things like stable ABIs like Windows developers have had for years.
Scary indeed. Many thanks for the warning. I was contemplating starting to use Amazon Cloud and some Google tools but definitely will not touch any of it now. Who knows how many other traps like this are laying in wait for the unweary?

All this automation is very well but this illustrates the dangers of running stuff on other's machines of unknown complexity and out of your own control, while having to pay for whatever may happen. Not for me, thanks.
44 points in the space of about 20 minutes should be front page material (going by my experience of reading HN).

But regardless, it should slide down , not literally drop on a refresh from #2 to #87.
Can you control the ordering of map/filter/reduce? As in, I want to iterate through a matrix by iterating through the columns and rows in reverse order? As in:

[9,6,3]
[8,5,2]
[7,4,1]

I've just started using map/filter/reduce so I'm not sure.
I had never seen this css border trick for drawing triangles. It works in IE7+. Bootstrap uses the same technique.
You can put a robots.txt in the bucket.
Microsoft says two basic security steps might have stopped Conficker infections
If businesses and consumers stuck to security basics, they could have avoided all cases of Conficker worm infection detected on 1.7 million systems by Microsoft researchers in the last half of 2011.

According to the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence report, all cases of Conficker infection stemmed from just two attack methods: weak or stolen passwords and exploiting software vulnerabilities for which updates existed.
But that's not what your letter said. Your letter said that the passage of the bill makes clear "folks like me aren't welcome in Tennessee anymore". Can't you see that is ridiculous hyperbole? How can we have civil debates in this country when a mild bit of meddling in the teaching of hot-button issues by a state legislature provokes that kind of rhetoric?

This isn't exactly the Scopes trial.
These are beautiful! Are they from an actual game?

(Also for me the Standard cycle mode is very jerky, but Blend is smooth).
I'll admit to not paying much attention, but they might count files shared between personal accounts against both accounts' quotas... there's certainly a huge incentive for them to do so on the free accounts. Meta-de-dupe!
I was going to post exactly the same thing. It's very lenient of him to blame himself instead of Google for this.
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It looks like a movie I would watch. Though I know it is a metaphor, but sand melts around 1600C. A penny would melt around 425C.
Does anyone know how you go about creating the images? Do you create a static image and then figure out how to animate it? Is it software assisted?
But isn't repeatedly promoting your own stuff spam? I mean if not, then what is?

Leave it to others to decide if your posts are worthy of promoting on HN.
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We've heard this before...if it happens, Linux wins and Valve wins, I still have an account and would love to buy games once again from Steam only on my platform, Linux.
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Things I've heard at various points which may or may not still be true:

- Votes by direct link don't really count. So you could see a high total but it's not the actual value being used for the rank.

- Many flags can penalize a post

- Voting rings are heavily penalized

I'm in favor of all of these things because they prevent the most obvious gaming schemes.

Edit: looking at your history (http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=destraynor) it's clear you only submit your own stuff. No one will argue with people self-submitting stuff here and there, but only submitting your own posts? If the content was worthy, someone would post it and it would get enough votes to rise organically.
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This isn't Google's fault. I could get a couple machines and do the same thing if I had a list of 250 gigs of files. And I wouldn't be limited to once every hour.
People like to pretend like all government regulation is stifling to innovation, but it is pretty clear that some regulation is necessary for a properly functioning market.

The trick is, how much is too much. There needs to be a very good reason to shield any company from anti-trust regulations and I can't think of a valid one that would apply to medical supply companies.
I loved your reference to the huge Russion bomb Tsar Bomba. I for one had never heard of it, and it made a great metaphor.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba