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"When I was testing a samsung galaxy s2"

I would not consider the S2 as being in any way definitive of "Android". The only Android devices that I would attach that label to are the ones with Nexus in the name. As far as running apps from the sdcard, neither the Nexus S, the Galaxy Nexus, nor the Nexus 7 even have an sdcard slot and the Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus have full access for apps to the entirety of internal memory, e.g., if you have a 32 GB device, you have access to whatever's left over of that 32 after the room set aside for the system so accessing the "sdcard" is a moot point despite there being a mount point for it for backward compatibility.
I would donate money to the "anti-Lamar-Smith" fund. Perhaps we could fund a couple billboards in his area.

Would be very nice as a way to send a clear message to other politicians stupid enough to pull these stunts.
Well certainly, in a real-world program which runs for long periods analyzing tons of data, JVM startup costs and JIT costs amount to nothing, as they are paid in the first few seconds. But we are talking about short, synthetic benchmarks here.

I ran mandelbrot for 4000 cycles, just invoking the function which does the work twice and wrapping each call in Clojure's (time ...) form. This all happened in an AOT-compiled .class file, which guaranteed a cold start. For what it's worth, I didn't bother tuning the GC or any other JVM parameters — I suspect I could have made it run a bit faster by manipulating generation sizes.
Also, if anyone has any questions...
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The comments on HN are often at least as good (if not better!) than the links. I built this app to have a way to quickly read through all the top comments on front page stories. I hope some of you find it useful too.
This is exactly what I am going to do.. but I am still wondering how can I increase the conversion rate? and what techniques to use to talk to the decision maker directly in these companies?
Back in 2008 my ARM's rate was tied to LIBOR. I doubt I Was alone.
Absolutely. I think there's a lot more we're yet to understand about the connection between wealth and happiness. Here is one research which was cited in the NYTimes article: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20norton%20dunn%2020...

However, this point is not central to my post. My analysis is only concerned with how much savings we need to live a particular lifestyle for a given number of years - including the effect of inflation.

I had seen many people using heuristics like this: If you can beat inflation by 3%, 100/3 = 33x times your annual expenditure is your FU money. That turned out to be incorrect because of not considering the life expectancy, and cash flow. Also the critical variable turned out to be (1 + interest rate) / (1 + inflation rate) instead of (interest rate - inflation rate) which can be significant. As I commented elsewhere, 21x may be sufficient instead of 33x.

That's what the post is about.
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> "Gender reassignment" is an elective surgery

Both the AMA and APA consider it medically indicated in certain cases. In these cases, the patient has the choice of whether or not to pursue these options as part of their treatment, but it is not considered an elective surgery for giggles, but rather a treatment option for medical reasons.

For liability reasons, most doctors do not perform the surgery on a walk in and have it happen basis. There's a set of guidelines that have been promulgated that are used by internationally by most doctors in their professional practice. These guidelines aren't binding on anyone, but have become accepted enough that most medical professionals working with people in this situation view them as standard practice for this procedure and follow them.

> Also, the Hippocratic Oath says nothing of elective surgery

There is no distinction as far as the Hippocratic Oath is concerned. Elective or not, a surgery is a doctor performing services as a doctor and I would find it odd to assume their oaths suddenly wouldn't apply.

> Leave the psychology to the psychologists.

Current practice mostly does, in that doctors generally only do these procedures after they've been recommended by a set of psychologists or psychiatrists after evaluation. (Usually two are required, at least one must be a doctoral level practitioner.) Almost every doctor also does their own brief check and conversation just to make sure they come to a similar conclusion and add their own confirmation.
So the customer pays Gridspot and Gridspot does not pay anything to the person whose computer is actually doing the work? Great business model if you can make it work.
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Wow, haven't read such a vaporware article in awhile. The author promises a "I'm going to change 30+ years of email UI/UX" and instead proposes 4 different labels and a workflow that works for him. Yup, you revolutionalized email alright.
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It will be interesting to see when the banks have the same fallout we had in 1929. How much wealth actually exists?

This article makes a good point about how we can't know. Too many shady things are happening and no regulation to figure it out.
Most SD card interfaces are really, really slow. Putting the core of the app in main flash and assets in flash makes sense in some scenarios. It's two bad we don't have three choices: all in main, split, or all on SD.
I'm pretty happy with Skydrive. 25GB for free.
Alright, so I spent another hour playing with these numbers and I think I understand it correctly now and agree with your original math.

A combination of mistakes (F/I vs f/i, taking money out at the start of the year) and my imperfect intuition of inflation led me astray. Thanks for teaching me something new, and for your patience :)
It's counted as one message each for the sender and receiver in the US. We are then billed simply by that number.
Interesting tool. Makes me think of a minimal OpenGrok.

I wish that the `filename` column was a link to the raw file (or a link to the file in git.kernel.org).
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That is just insanely fast. OP are you author?
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I saw this in a discussion yesterday: his district is heavily gerrymandered http://lamarsmith.house.gov/District/InteractiveMap.htm and he's been in office for 25 years, winning by a large margin every time.

I'm not sure what even a fully-engaged angry internet mob could do about that.
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It seems like it's missing something (I'm comparing the pretty graph of profanity in the kernel[1] with manual searches). Is this only 3.4.4?

[1] - http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/
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This already happened and Smith won the primary with an overwhelming majority.
Agreed, the actuall time measurements are missing for the comparison.
It's been already done by http://www.reddit.com/r/rpac. They still lost. A couple of billboards are not enough to change the minds of the people who have been voting for him term after term. Plus, most probably weren't even aware of what he did/or didn't care.
I love searching code bases for curse words. Lots of humor shows up.
Software apps and physical appliances are very different, so your analogy is ridiculous.

When I email someone, software automatically routes it to the destination so I don't have to. Why should this not be abstracted across channels.

As for my trying to dictate how the recipient consumes incoming messages -- surely its more intelligent for each person to decide how they want to consume messages. I know some people who live in their SMS but ignore phone calls. Indeed the whole hierarchy of SMS / email / IM / phone / conference is very much in flux. Most people are probably more interested in who the sender is, not how they're sending.

But by your logic maybe I should use one app per person I talk to.
Pedantic --

This link to boingboing is a re-post of techdirt [1] who did the research after reading it on politico [2]

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120709/12574819634/lamar-...

[2] http://www.politico.com/morningtech/0712/morningtech506.html
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How is that Google's fault though? How many modern mobile devices have completely open drivers including wifi, camera, accelerometer, bluetooth, and GPU? Exactly none. Even the raspberry pi has binary blobs. It doesn't make sense to blame Google for not being able to provide what doesn't exist.
The comments on HN are often at least as good (if not better!) than the links. I built this app to have a way to quickly read through all the top comments on front page stories. I hope some of you find it useful too.
Honestly, if you have to post six questions in the span of a day you aren't trying very hard to answer them on your own first. The screenshot only serves to prove my point for me.
A similar argument has been made for commercials. "Without the breaks, the audience becomes less engaged over time! Watching with commercials makes the show better." I dropped my cable subscription because of my loathing for commercials. I'm not sure how much less engaged you can be than that. Watch however you'd like.

I read an interesting blog post via HN several months ago regarding the future of television formatting. The gist was that now that getting a show over the internet is starting to become a reality, the need for shows to run for a fixed duration of time or be released serially is alleviated. The storytellers can do whatever they please. I really enjoyed Netflix's new series Lilyhammer[1], and loved that they dropped the entire first season all at once.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilyhammer
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His district is comprised of rural areas and wealthier parts of Austin/SA in a republican state, so that seems highly unlikely unless he somehow alienates his base and faces a strong republican challenger.
You forget what it is like to be a beginner.

It's not programmers new to Ruby that you need to worry about. It's people new to programming. Understanding dot files, ruby managers (RVM or rbenv, which do I use??), Ruby (do I want 3.9.1 or 3.9.1 p58, what the hell is a patch file?), random Bash errors, etc.

Having learned Ruby a few months ago, it was honestly pretty daunting. Now, I also think it's pretty simple. And if I tried to learn a new language with a similar mess of issues, I would probably think it's "easy enough". But this is not how the default should be, and this is not how new people should have to learn.

There are easier ways.
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What should I get out of that? I see that some banks wanted it higher, some wanted it lower. That doesn't seem like a scandal.
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Ironic how the website is down for me.
I had a similar experience with my app, Tea, which I commented about when all of us were learning of the algorithm change [1]. I noted that sorting results by popularity alone yields a poor experience and causes customer confusion. I hoped that Apple knew this and would recalibrate the results over time. It looks like they did.

Prior to the change, my app was the top result for the search term "Tea." Immediately after the change my app was the sixtieth result. Today it's at the third spot, behind Starbucks and Teavana, both free apps [2]. What happened? I'm guessing that the algorithm learned that some people who searched Tea were in fact looking for my app, went down in the search results and chose it. Only by noticing this behavior was the algorithm able to determine that the app was not a name squatter. It's very possible that the same thing will happen to Barnard's app over time.

1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4153918
2) http://cl.ly/1J1F1e352b1E1y3h1S1K
My 50G plan is currently running at 44G and I was investigating FOSS options since much doesn't technically need to be in dropbox. This saves me some tech time ;)
Perhaps after this, his corporate backers will realize that the Internet is scrutinizing his actions too much for him to ram through their unpleasant legislation, and will find a new hero.

Okay so it's not the justice you get in a Hollywood movie, I admit. Thus I think the solution to both problems is to stop watching Hollywood movies. ^_^;;
What a spam hole that site is going to be.
I don't know what is new here. I used Heroku toolbelt on Linux a long time ago.
It's almost impossible to undo them later, because people care a lot less for some reason, after it's already passed, and because even the new politicians that replaced the old ones won't bother to look into it.

Basically, we already have a "SOPA" that was passed in 2008. It's called the Pro-IP ACT, and they use it to take down hundreds of .com, .org or .net sites. SOPA was just the foreign version of Pro-IP Act, meaning it targeted foreign domains as well.

Still, you don't see many people talking about the Pro IP Act. Heck, we can't even undo the Patriot Act, and that one has been a lot more controversial, let alone "Internet bills" like these that don't interest that many people outside outside the online tech communities.
See GGP: "They squandered my click-through this blog post earned."

The confusion is not what the new prices are. The confusion is, given that they have published new prices, they seem to be hurting themselves by not making them available immediately. Users will go to the blog post and say "oh hey, maybe I should pay for Dropbox now", and then get turned away because the prices aren't actually available yet. So why not capitalize on the publicity and allow people to sign up right away?
tl;dr will be the death of intelligent discourse.

There are lots of things I want to do with email that I can't do with SMS. Maybe half the emails I send could get across most of what they need to in 160 characters. Other recent messages included detailed tech support/troubleshooting, a list of equipment and design discussion with a partner about an application we're developing.

None of those would fit in 160 characters. There isn't even a way to losslessly compress them in to 160 characters. I can always write a short message when I only have a little bit to say though.

I also dislike twitter and like RSS. I'm evidently not in the majority.
yes the website is down for me too
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having watched both dvds of shows and the same shows on television (same with hulu v. television) I prefer to watch the episode in its entirety minus commercial breaks, except for certain sitcoms. I think that Seinfeld and Friends may play better with the breaks.
> Thats because Unicode is STILL a pain to use.

I think that depends heavily on what programming language and frameworks you are using.
No it's engineering.
Here are two versions of the software.

1, is faster, better tested and string handling (it's a database!) is much faster but it only handles the 65000 most common characters

2, this one can handle upside down characters from a 1930s paper on formal logic in Turkish. But is slower for all other cases and we haven't really tested it as much,.

Do you have a redundant,self powered , asteroid impact proof internet connection? No? Pathetic !
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> I would donate money to the "anti-Lamar-Smith" fund. Perhaps we could fund a couple billboards in his area.

This happened.

"Reddit's" Political Action Committee, "Test Pac", was raising funds to put billboards all over his district[1]. I'm not sure if that was aimed more at the primary, which Smith won, or at the general election. I think it's the latter.

Breadpig also raised funds for a billboard around the time of the primary[2], and I believe there actually was a billboard up in the district as a result of this. It may still be up.

[1] http://www.testpacpleaseignore.org/unseatlamar/

[2] https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/dont-mess-with-the-inter...
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The One Big App To Solve All Problems is the wrong way to go, in my opinion. From a coding standpoint, it's a maintenance nightmare. From a UI standpoint, it's nearly impossible to create something that is both easy to use and comprehensively granular. From a user standpoint, it's confusing as hell when that "one thing" doesn't work like it's supposed to.

Yeah, you're right in the sense of why do we need all this stuff? The answer is: because no one uses just one thing to communicate.

On a slightly different note: if someone messages you and is expecting a response, do you really need to try three or four different methods to send that response? Shouldn't the expectation be that you would send a response back by the method that they made the request?
So true. Firefox is now as annoying as IE ever was.
As a demonstration of their capabilities, I'm underwhelmed.
I think the scandal is that it doesn't matter what the banks wanted, they should have been reporting what rate they were actually giving out at.
It was slow but it appeared at last after 5 tries.
How did you solve MySQL's unicode limitations with Perl?
I think we overestimate what the media can really do. The public always wants them to lead the charge, but traditionally, they've rarely done so. They've always trailed behind activists, politicians, and social movements.

And to some extent it makes sense; things really become "stories" when there's a nonzero possibility things might change. And that doesn't happen unless there are champions, pointing the way to some other possible future. In the USA, both parties favor hushing up financial scandal, so it's really hard to break through.

There's this great fantasy show on HBO right now, The Newsroom, where one news show decides to lead the public rather than following them.
Ha! Well said!
Ah, I haven't messed with these things yet. Do you like them?
So we're supposed to trust these people with our data?
At AirBnB's current scale this actually causes an annoying problem. It seems they have a non-negligible effect on the cost of rent.

Since AirBnB does not have the requirements listed by the OP above they are able to operate at a lower cost and capture demand that would have otherwise gone to hotels. This demand then fills up buildings that were originally intended to be multi-family residential buildings and are now effectively being used as hotels reducing apartment supply and driving up cost.
reminds me of skype, but the differnce is that with skype I only want one good connection, so find the best one through the forest... but this one?
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Instead of encouraging folks write to their congressmen, let's write write to the constituents living in his district (Texas's 21st congressional district). Or better, let's crowd fund a campaign against him there. Congress needs a good example of what happens if the internet gets crossed.

I'm just an idea guy.
At my previous^2 company we worked around MySQL's limitations by just storing our data in VARBINARY columns, encoded as utf8 on the client-side. Worked like a charm. (I hate MySQL)
I stand corrected.

Sidestick priority logic
— When only one pilot operates the sidestick his demand is sent to the computers.
— When the other pilot operates his sidestick in the same or opposite direction both pilots inputs are algebraically added. The addition is limited to single stick maximum deflection.
Note : In the event of simultaneous input on both sidesticks (2° deflection off the neutral position in any direction) the two green SIDE STICK PRIORITY lights on the glareshield come on. In addition on A330E, the "DUAL INPUT" voice message activates).
A pilot can deactivate the other stick and take full control by pressing and keeping pressed his takeover pushbutton.
For latching the priority condition, it is recommended to press the takeover pushbutton for more than 40 seconds. The takeover pushbutton can then be released without losing priority.
However, at any time, a deactivated stick can be reactivated by momentarily pressing either takeover pushbutton. If both pilots press their takeover push buttons, the last pilot to press will get the priority.
Note : If an autopilot is engaged, the first action on a take over pushbutton will disengage it.
Except for the fact that it supports modern standards and isn't riddled with security holes.
It's a myth that the pilot can "turn up" the amount of oxygen.

But the ratio of fresh air that the airline has selected depends on how much fuel that they want to waste heating the -50C fresh air to cabin temperature, and how much humidity they want to put on the airframes life.
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is just a fantasy."

Actually its just a movie.

You can't "fix the local government by putting <insert person> into office." You need a 25 year plan to 'fix' your local government if it is that out of whack. There is a reason the US Constitution doesn't start with "Me, the smart guy in the room, in order to form a more perfect Union ..."

This: "It took something like 10 years from start to finish to legislate meters in the taxis."

Yes, it takes commitment, time, and consistent effort. It takes leaders and it takes workers. It takes years of educating people to the need and getting their support. But it can be done.
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Oh my god, oh my god. Yes please. Please open source this. I'd love to be able to open a browser and have my workspace spring to life and I'd love to be able to pair program with two computers, keyboards, mice.
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Ask HN: Need advice on my website.
I have been working on my website for quite some time and I designed/redesigned it multiple times to get the users to interact with it. At the current state it has a lot of call to action buttons and I have tried to engage users over the page, but I still don't see a lot of conversions as I would want.

Any help/suggestions/ideas would be welcome and appreciated.
Here is the link to the website:

http://www.findero.us

About finderous: It is a simple location based question and answer site, where users can chose a location and post their questions to get answers from followers/users of that place.

Thanks
I also "love" when I receive "thank you for registering, click here to login", and after staring at the e-mail for a bit, seeing no links anywhere at all, I realize that the well-meaning-but-sadly-still-full-of-fail website operator that sent the message went to the trouble of providing a multipart/alternative with a text/plain body part, but implemented it as "strip the tags from the text/html part: that should be good enough".
I already get it ad free - thanks to AdBlock.
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