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"I believe that in the UK students have a master's degree before starting a PhD program"

Definitely not true - unless this has changed recently. I went pretty much directly from a 4 year BSc(Hons) to working as an Research Associate while attempting a PhD.
This is correct; probability works against you if you spread your instances over multiple zones without also compensating with some very solid failover. If you are not willing to put the effort into truly going fully active/active/active across THREE availability zones, you might as well just stick with one and weather the outages.
Here is Schatz's side of the story, which based on my readings about the case seems entirely true (and thus motivated my username selection): http://www.albertschatzphd.com/?cat=articles&subcat=stre...
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Just because you can't bring in gold into your car dealership, or bring in gold to buy for groceries, doesn't mean that it's worthless.

Bitcoins already have some concrete uses - gambling & drugs namely ;) And these uses won't disappear. There are also some more legitimate uses for Bitcoin coming up. Virtual goods for example.
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Now, now. You can't claim that they aren't similar, because the concept here is unifying both launchers and task lists, which was what distinguished docks from task bars before.

They have different features, yes. Their animations are very different, that's actually where most of the differences lie, yes. But now, as far as task/window management goes, they are pretty much the same thing.

I wouldn't hesitate to call Gnome Shell's activity bar thingy a dock, for one, even though it wouldn't matter; the dock doesn't have the same prominence that environment as in Windows or Mac OS X.

Still, I don't see the problem with them retaining their traditional name for their UI element, given that the new taskbar was still an evolution from the previous one.

Now, with respect to the interaction, MS is mostly following the trend here, as most are converging towards search for launching, and with the reduced task management of smart phones, I would expect that developers would now be encouraged to make their apps save and restore their states without the user's intervention, and thus applications where you actually have to do the clean up, save, close, start, open, repeat cycle would also become rarer, so that those session-restore features that some DEs have would actually start to be used, further downplaying the actual launching of applications.
Where is talk about www.skyscanner.com?
What is better?

Perform entire month or year searches, choose things like ANY NYC or EVERYWHERE as a destination or departure.

I have saved hundreds on EVERYWHERE searches.
If you can just get into a region like Europe or South East Asia then you can take advantage of their cheap rail systems andor internal flights.

The interface has cluttered over its evolution but it still runs better than Hipmunk on a low resource box andor low bandwidth.
>Frantz washes dishes at the Capital Grille restaurant, a posh steak house near the harbor in Miami's financial district. He nets $200 for a twenty-seven-hour week and receives no food stamps or government assistance of any kind.

I HATE any kind of posh establishment that doesn't pay it's employees well.

When I want to spend some money on a posh restaurant or hotel (not that I have any money to do that often) I don't want the people tending me to be making minimum wage, while dinner costs $200 per person. Pay your bloody employees better.

To me, any establishment that does that kind of thing, are fake-posh. Paying their staff like shit is like having a huge chandelier made of plastic, or "silverware" made of nickel.
But how is that possible? Because of the "choose your browser" dialog on MS Windows?
Just because it's hard to exchange EUR into Bitcoins doesn't mean that it always will be. See how it's with dollars.
> All seven of the writer's (extremely paranoid and passive aggressive) tips could be obsoleted by one single alternative: post your paper on the arXiv.

That's incredibly naive. If you make a breakthrough discovery in biology and you unilaterally post it on arXiv (or wherever) before submitting it to a journal, your advisor will probably strangle you, at best.
"PhDs in the UK and Germany often take 3 years"

Certainly can be done - usual outline I remember from the UK group I worked in was:

- 6 months to do background reading in area and decide on a thesis topic

- 2 years to do the research

- 6 months to write up

I knew some people who did this, although most of us were salaried researchers (RAs) who had "day jobs" that aligned to varying degree with our research topic. I saw people taking from 3 to 7 years - the former tending to be research students and the latter RAs who were working on topics not terribly close to what their day job was paying them to do.

From what I can tell, UK first degrees tend (at least historically) to be much more focused than US ones - which is good if you are happy with the focus and disastrous if you aren't - this carries onto research degrees, which AFAIK don't usually have any taught component.

[NB I bailed after 6 years as an RA to co-found a startup - I was heartily sick of academia by this point]
That might have been intended as irony. On the other hand: this is probably the first time the "word" 'beeyotch' has appeared in any forum associated with Science magazine.
That is a horrible domain name. It's almost as bad as Experts Exchange before they hyphenated it...
I bought an electric guitar, like many metal fans do, but I don't play it very well. Yet it's great for relaxing relieving stress..

What I found very interesting was that my kung-fu teacher plays the guitar too, and very well.
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That's nice and all, but you're loading arbitrary javascript from Olark, CloudFront and Google on your login page. So no matter how much you secure your own systems, you're reliant on several third parties securing there's too.
This is not exactly true. I believe MTGox uses offline wallets for the storage of the funds, and I'd expect any other sane bank use it as well.

If someone breaks into the MTGox, they'll be only able to steal the "reserve". To get to the real money, the MTGox admin has to physically go into a vault (safe), and retreive its contents.
I upvoted you, but you probably switched to KDE, GNOME, or some other WM/DE with a "Start Menu button" equivalent.
Akamai just recently released their statistics, which shows a completely different picture: http://www.akamai.com/io
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If modeling parts of a touchscreen device after the real world is novel then I deserve about 50 patents.
XP had the Quick Launch bar, which I find a lot handier than pinned applications (they take up less room). I guess it depends on the user, but I operate wearing a lot of different hats (and, unfortunately, a lot of similarly-named applications), and the XP start menu is a lot handier for me than either Win7's version or the Win8 preview I tried.

I know: that's "anecdote", not "data", but if anybody had bothered to ask me, they'd have a firm data point telling them that the lowest common denominator (no need to be pedantic, the phrase has acquired a different meaning outside of mathematics) should never be the only way. I can barely tolerate Win7 on a day when I'm feeling of a particularly generous spirit; I'll be giving Win8 a pass.
Oh, so you think that Microsoft copied NeXTSTEP? An OS that practically nobody used at that time?

Sorry, but you're assessment is clearly incorrect. First of all...the NeXT Dock was a simple launcher that showed you which program was running by altering the icon.

The Taskbar works nothing like that. The Start button was Windows' simple launcher and the Taskbar originally showed one button per window. As a matter of fact, it still shows one task button per window if you want it to.
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What about Blockchain.info? I thought they were doing this?
A lot of it comes from automatic failover. Individual data centers have issues frequently, but if you're using High Replication Datastore then you won't notice it much, apart from occasionally seeing all your instances getting killed and restarted in a new datacenter, which also results in memcache getting reset.
FWIW I initially went into ELB assuming it would solve a lot of my redundancy problems. And while it has helped a lot (I spread my frontend across 3 zones), I've suffered through a number of ELB failures or disruptions, including this latest one, which is one of the worst. Even with fully functioning servers that I can connect to individually, ELB was intermittently rejecting connections and failed to reregister instances.
There's no silver bullet! Just prepare for failure and attempt to handle it gracefully, learning from each one. I suppose you should also think hard before you launch into a greater AWS budget to increase availability. Most of us are tempted to do that after each major incident--which is why Amazon can walk away from these events in a better position than before (until they have a genuine competitor that is).
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Thanks for your response, and no it was not a troll but a serious (albeit naive) question. Thank you for answering my question with good references and very respectfully. I actually do know a fair amount about Arduino and I should have put it together that the 328 wouldn't be anywhere near fast enough. I'm sure it would be pretty easy to run it on a Raspberry Pi and I have been clamoring to get my hands on a RasPi but am still in the preorder queue :/

But Arduino also has the upcoming Arduino Due which is based on a 32bit ARM Cortex M3, which still may be powerful enough. I guess I would revise my question to be would it be possible to get this (or something similar) running in the Arduino Environment, regardless of speed (without a full OS stack)?
Interestingly there's not a single word in the description about Android or Jelly Bean or Nexus or smartphones or tablets...

Could this mean that Google Now is intended to be available across multiple platforms (including desktop environments)?
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Claiming that Microsoft blatantly copied "pinned items" is a gross over-simplification though.

So is claiming that "they are pretty much the same thing". They're not.

And I am correct in saying that Windows had a Taskbar before Apple had a Dock because Apple didn't own NeXTSTEP when the Dock was released.
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Assuming we want to minimize latency and maximize reliability, we want to create a stack that:

1) Has AutoScaling Groups & Elastic Load Balancers in two regions (and only two availability zones; let's keep front-end instances in the same AZ as your local/region-specific DB)

2) Has Databases in two regions and uses Master Master replication

3) Instances talk to their local DB. If they detect their local DB is down, they failover to the remote DB (ie, the far region). If they failover, they notify you.

4) DNS does geographic load balancing (pre-ELB). You'll need to use a provider like DynDNS or UltraDNS to give you Geo Load Balancing & Failover. Or, you could pair a monitoring service like CatchPoint with Route53

5) Application caching (Memcache, Redis, etc). Let's not put more load on the DB's than necessary.

That's a good start, at least.
Apple Corp. sucks as a member of society. As one of the wealthiest and most successful companies on earth they continue to play dirty by abusing the patent system for their advantage. Most of the patents they are "protecting" are describing pretty obvious ideas that any group of good engineers working on this class of devices would bump into, and this behavior does not benefit society in any way. They are clearly protecting a virtual monopoly on tablets by fighting with patents rather than focusing on out innovating the competition. I hope their will one day be real competition in this space.
Really? Rats and copper harvesters?

Like it's gonna be some unprotected plastic cables 1 foot under the ground?
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> And I am correct in saying that Windows had a Taskbar before Apple had a Dock because Apple didn't own NeXTSTEP when the Dock was released.

Given Apple's history, that's a stretch. Modern Apple is essentially NeXT. They 'acquired' NeXT, but internally and politically, it was practically the other way around.

Apple owns NeXT, including previous inventions.
This. I'm surprised that few people take that into consideration.
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There's also http://kezera.com - but I can't tell how fast invites are going out.
Interesting. My only source for this is the book "How to Get a PhD" by Phillips and Pugh.
I have a felling that this iOS vs Android competition might turn out like Mac vs DOS [calling it DOS to show how bad it was] from last century. Mac was winning for a decade. From early 80s to mid 90s. Latest versions of PageMaker, Photoshop and other such software were always released for Mac first. Like how now most of all good software are released for iOS first. Even best games of the time like Simcity, Prince of Persia were released for Macs with no PC version available for some time.

But then things started to catch up. And we know the rest. Question is will history repeat itself this time too? Will Android continue to improve over iOS and its high adoption rate turn it into the only mobile OS that matters, like how Windows was? I believe Apple has its strategy to prevent it from happening. That might be why it's pricing its tablets so strategically.

Ultimately everyone will get the answer, over time. But whoever can predict the future best can make the most profit out of it. Specially we, the software developers.
Spot on.

Also if you want to be pedantic, RISCOS had a dock and taskbar in 1987 that was pretty close to win95.
I don't have these trust issues with my professor over my research project... we understand that we will post to ArXiv when the research is done. I think you should try to pick not just good research projects but also good people.

I started off knowing this professor by going to his office hours. I would ask questions and he would answer. As I got to know him I realize that he was very nice.

Paranoia is a part of research though. You have to realize that what you are working on you don't really want to get scooped though. You do want to keep your research projects "secret" until they are done. This means until you have figured out whats unique you shouldn't post to arxiv. But, you are free to tell others.

Due to the fact that we hear about events like this in news sources it shows that plagarism and issues of who gets credit are relatively rare. For the most part science does give credit where its due.

That doesn't mean it could be better. There is a stark disconnect between grad students and professors. Why don't we value grad students more anyways? Aren't they creating the future? Shouldn't they make at least $30k? I guess we just want them to live a bohemian lifestyle until they graduate. Or they must have rich parents to support them until they are self sufficient.
Actually, it would have been good because competition is good, and Microsoft proceeded to sew up the market as a monopoly for decades, using a slew of underhanded tricks to do so, and grossly undermining the position of the primary innovator who held a far better product. It wasn't until Windows 2K that MS even began to catch up to Apple's work, and then Apple leapfrogged with the NeXT purchase.
It might be noteworthy that Google said so as well on Google I/O.

Of course, they are not the most objective source, but they do have the whole Google Analytics dataset.

(GA runs on about 55% of all websites: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/traffic_analysis/al...)
I think it's worth noting that even with several free alternative builds, some of them more frequently updated from source than the official binaries, people still buy and pirate the official one. I'd be really interested to compare how many people have paid for Xchat against download numbers for Xchat-WDK and Silverex.
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I finished a 3 year electrical engineering undergrad in 2008 and went straight into a PhD (which I then finished just under 3 years later)
I used both. RH5.2 had fvwm which had a start button as well back then.

It's just a logical thing to do.
Akamai is probably trying to identify unique sessions or clients, and showing stats based on that.

Statcounter is tracking browser usage roughly by percentage of requests. They do some corrections, for instance they try to account for Chrome's prefetching.

More people (or more computers) might use IE as their default browser, but if Chrome is responsible for more activity (requests), what's the more popular browser?
'Slide to unlock' on a door bolt serves a completely different purpose than slide to unlock on a touchscreen. They have nothing to do with each other, and the idea was novel. That's true whether or not you think software ideas deserve 20 year patent protection (I don't think they do)
1) How do you know the subject matter is one of those covered by the arXiv?
2) How do you know the student has posting rights? Those require endorsement by an authorized poster, which would be most likely to contact the PI if asked.
3) Even if posted to the arXiv, a paper can be removed by the moderators.
4) What do you think would happen to the student if he posted the paper to the arXiv without the PI's consent?

Conclusion: yours is one of the worst comments I've ever seen posted at HN.
the qt client, while being the baseline of measure, is a dinosaur. I use Electrum because it does not require the maintenance of a local blockchain, start up is immediate after long darkouts. It can be fully run off-line with no network connectivity. It supports aliases like email addresses instead if complicated bitcoin addresses. It uses deterministic key generation so I can literally backup my wallet in my head with a passphrase, erase my wallet, and recreate it from my mind. Oh yea, and it allows me to make transactions without any fees. Other worthwhile clients: Armory, Multibit. They are all viable and under rapid development.

Edit: electrum can be fully run offline as in you can monitor your balance without a network connection AND you can write transactions that can then be injected into the blockchain by a networked connection. But the electrum client at no time needs to be connected to the network.

Additionally, a networked computer can contain a deseeded wallet (no keys) for securely monitoring your off-line balances.
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Poking around by individual country the only large one I found where Chrome leads is India. Anyone have sauce on why Chrome is so popular there? Are they big enough to skew the whole world?
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From looking around it appears that the research councils now require a Masters degree before they will fund you for a full-time PhD studentship - but that's the funding body, not the entrance requirement for a particular university/department. I'm pretty sure that didn't used to be the case (I considered doing a PhD via a research council studentship before I got offered an RA post).

Note my knowledge is probably wildly out of date - my experience in academia was from '89-'95.

There might also be other sources of funding that don't have this requirement - unless you are converting from another area and need the Masters to get up to speed I'm not sure what it would achieve. All of the people I knew who did have an MSc before doing a PhD had done a "conversion" MSc.
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Some do and some don't. It used to be that you needed a 1st class degree in the subject from a good university to be taken straight in. With 2(1) or not a top uni, you would be 'encouraged' to do masters first, which worked as an additional filter.
I think he was referring to the "top notch" developers being unwilling to learn, which to me would disqualify them from the category of "top notch", no matter what how good they are at using their preferred toolset. I'm curious, if they are so resistant to learning new things, how well do they deal with changes in MSVS? Like for instance going from 2008 to 2010, the solution file format changed (and the importer is far from perfect), and things were moved around in the GUI.
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They actually claimed nothing of the sort. That statement is a pretty liberal interpretation of what Microsoft said.

Microsoft is simply saying that the Start Button in its current form was not compelling enough to provide any long term value to the user that they couldn't get by simply pinning things to the task bar. They evolved the Start Menu. They didn't kill it.
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