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By that measure, as long as a company stays busy on their product, they've built the best product they could.

That sounds like hippy hand-wavy BS to me.

As a software engineer who works at a Bay Area startup with a pick-your-own-tasks model, we still (like GitHub) have product managers who give input and direction into features and product design. Just saying that the decisions they've made about how to allocate resources are the best possible decisions they could have made is just giving them (or anybody else) too much credit.
I would love to try the service. I don't have a company yet but I'm working as an engr. for a company that uses other help desk provider.

thanks.
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Please never say that religion has never filled a need. You don't know that.

Blind atheism is just as bad, if not worse, than organized theism.

The problems start when people think they know something and they really don't.
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This sentiment is dogma from long ago when there was a slight performance improvement for individual imports. Today, there is no such performance advantage. Their risk of a namespace collision, but in practice, it is very rare and very easy to identify when it does. The main reason it remains is mainly due to default IDE configuration.

On the flip side, wildcard imports make coding much more fluid and concise. How many times have you had to hit ctrl+space two or more times in the same declaration to add import statements for interfaces and classes from the same package? IMHO, explicit imports greatly decrease the usefulness of the static import feature.
This is awesome. I find myself so often wanting some sound just to give me a sense of flow while I work and music can very often be too disruptive (I guess it's too exciting sometimes and not constant enough). Rain is perfect!
Great article! I'd like to add that the D programming language also offers a lot of features to create robust code with multiple paradigms, although the syntax is heavily C oriented rather than functional.

'immutable' and 'shared' are added to the known C 'const' qualifier for data that will never change (contrary to not changing in the declaring scope only) data which is shared across threads, everything else is encouraged to use MPI using the std.concurrency module.

Pure functional code can be enforced by the compiler by using the 'pure' qualifier. There is even compile time function evaluation if called with constant arguments, which is awesome when used with it's type-safe generic and meta-programming.

There's unit tests, contracts, invariants and documentation support right in the language. Plus the compiler does profiling and code coverage.

I'd be curious to test D against Erlang for such a system. (Not saying Erlang shouldn't be used, it's the next language on my to-learn list, just that the switch to functional might be too radical for most developers used to imperative and OO and D provides the best of both worlds.)
Debian runs on many architectures without being slowed by bytecode JITs. I'd say that's a technically better solution.
My daughter needs over 12 hours of sleep, and has trouble falling asleep before it gets dark. I'm not going to make her get up earlier without very good cause.

Also I would not trust you to supervise preschool children in a public space. You clearly do not know what is required to do so responsibly.
"The black areas indicate images not yet returned by the rover."
Taubes has been presenting evidence to other researchers. But the medical establishment takes a loooooong time to change its collective mind on stuff like this.

Here's a relevant video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4362041487661765149

In that video, I think Taubes actually refutes the "law of thermodynamics" approach to losing weight in a single picture, with an existence proof. There exist people who are emaciated in half their body (say, the top half) and obese in the other half (say, the bottom). According to the "law of thermodynamics" approach, such a person should simultaneously "eat less, move more" (to cure their bottom half) and "eat more, move less" (to cure their top).

This is clearly impossible advice to follow. These people need some other form of advice. Once we figure out what that advice should be, it's probably going to be of benefit to people who are fat or emaciated over their entire body rather than a selected part.

As for your analogy: I'm an atheist, but if any Christian that others saw as "refuting" evolution had as much social proof as Taubes - had huge communities of my peers recommending his work - I'd kind of be inclined to check it out and see what he had to say.
Perhaps we should try the same with ESA.

The first question that emanates would be on the order of "What's ESA?" No one in the world knows what it does.

Cheap shot making with pejorative intentions doesn't move forward the debate that we ,as a race,ought to do more in advancing our collective knowledge. Petty bickering doesn't help.
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A) Why did you think he is American? You can find cusswords distasteful and be from another country.

B) Why do you think he doesn't like the F-word? It's possible to respect a word for its emotional power while thinking it gratuitous or counter-productive in some cases.
We are using LastPass. There are risk still though.
I've been interested in D for a while, for these reasons and more - it's features look nice, but it never seems to have gotten much popularity/mindshare. Could you hazard a guess why?
Which is about 10x more expensive than hosted GitHub. No joke.
Someone pointed out the other day that an estimated $71 billion per year is lost in US tax revenue because of religious tax exemptions.

If religious organizations paid taxes like everyone else, NASA could send 28 rovers to Mars per year...EVERY YEAR. FOREVER.
(Total Cost of current Curiosity mission : $2.5 billion, including $1.8 billlion for spacecraft development and science investigations and additional amounts for launch and operations. )

Perhaps we should be asking questions that have to do with why we place such little importance on advancing our knowledge and more on preserving arbitrary religious orders.
Because this website is awful and full of drama queens.
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Healthcare and Health IT are plagued with an insurmountable amount of complexity, administrative burden and draconian policies which hinder a lot of the potential for innovation.

Solutions like this are absolutely vital in getting the next generation of startups, developers, and healthcare providers the kind of infrastructure that can otherwise be cost-prohibitive.

It's really great to see someone hyper-focused on solving one part of the puzzle.
Have you ever tried out some ambient? Music with lyrics and a lot of electronic beat-driven stuff can be too complex and distracting while I work, especially if the problem itself is complex. Ambient always seems to do the trick though!

Check out Tim Hecker and Jon Hopkins. Also Aphex Twin has a couple albums of ambient work that is great for coding.
I didn't say that humans need religion, I said that religion fills a human need.

Are you saying that purpose, social cohesion and rituals are not human needs? If so, I have 7 billion pieces of evidence against you - and that's just the live ones.

The point of my comment is that this need can be filled by something other than religion. But science ain't it.
I don't totally agree with the OP's rant, but I wanted to channel him here anyway:

But then you've got the issue that anybody interacting with your project on GitHub (eg sending GH pull requests) will see them go unanswered and lose interest in contributing to your project. This is pretty much the exact rant Linus Torvolds had a few months ago.

Yes you can put "I DON'T DO PULL REQUESTS, SEND ME AN AM" in your readme but anybody can agree that that's seriously deficient compared to a GH Pull Request feature that's compatible with AM. (Not that I think GH are evil for not implementing that, just that yes, it would certainly be better if it was implemented).
> But, no one has ever put on weight on a calorie deficit. NEVER.

The vast majority of people who lose a substantial amount of weight through calorie restriction gain it all back and then some within a few years. Though they do lose in the short run (say, 6 months), they're worse off three years later than if they had never dieted at all. This simple fact - that dieting doesn't work in the long run - suggests that telling people to lose weight simply by dieting is BAD ADVICE.

Given that doctors are giving people bad advice, there's still plenty of room for people to try to come up with BETTER advice.
I'd really like to know how much money has NASA administered since its inception.

Just a ballpark figure, hundreds of trillions?
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http://singleparents.about.com/od/legalissues/p/portrait.htm estimates over 13 million single parents in the USA. Granted, not all of their children are small, but a lot are.

Also in every family with small kids, if one parent wants a piece of freedom, it puts pressure on the other parent. So even if it is theoretically possible, if half of those parents get the freedom to exercise in the morning, the other half do not.

Does it amount to 10% with a legitimate difficulty in scheduling exercise? I'm not sure. But it is more than I would have guessed before I had kids.
I want to be able to make a link, usable in the browser address field as a link or clickable from a mail message, so I was looking at URI fragments after looking at XPointer. I don't think you can make much more that a #id based link at the moment. A browser could implement your example, but I don't think they do at the moment.
"For 104 of the 185 nations, no studies were available. In those cases, the authors have used an estimated value by taking averages of the IQs of neighboring or comparable nations. For example, the authors arrived at a figure of 84 for El Salvador by averaging their calculations of 79 for Guatemala and 88 for Colombia. Including those estimated IQs, the correlation of IQ and GDP is 0.62.
To obtain a figure for South Africa, the authors averaged IQ studies done on different ethnic groups, resulting in a figure of 72. The figures for Colombia, Peru, and Singapore were arrived at in a similar manner."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations#Na...

Seriously?

If that's not enough:

"This is not so much science, then, as a social crusade. The Pioneer Fund of America, champion of many dubious causes in the past, will obtain little credit from having assisted this one. The myriad corrections and estimates aside, this is a blast from another age, an old-fashioned attempt to give an imperial mindset biological validity."

http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v92/n4/full/6800418a.html
I wonder what happened to all the water on Mars. Unless there were lakes of liquid CO2 or methane in the past, pictures and measurements of Mars' geology strongly indicate that there was a huge ocean and lots of river systems and/or glaciers in the past. The most likely-seeming explanation is that it sublimated to gas and was gradually kicked out of the atmosphere by the solar wind, but there are plenty of experiments we could do to figure out if this was really the case.

If Mars still retains most of its water in frozen form (perhaps trapped under a layer of rock in the northern hemisphere), there is a possibility that the planet could at some point be terraformed. Or at least that it would be much easier than expected to set up a self-sufficient settlement there. There is just so much about the planet we don't know. Sending a lot more probes would be a great way to start exploring further and figure out the answers.
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I did that this morning at 4 am and coincidentally, it was raining...
You need to re-read my post.
I believe prstat (the Python library I'm using) has this. I'll probably add it in the next few hours :)
I would like to add. Janus, Brian Eno, Bark Psychosis, Stars of the Lid, Steve Reich, and Steve Roach.

http://janustrio.bandcamp.com/
My impression is that aside from platform support, the major difference between the Oracle and IBM JVMs is their garbage collector. Is there someplace that has a definitive comparison (as opposed to just a rough description of each one's techniques)?
There are definitely temporary adaptations and self-preserving mechanisms that slow down the process, but the laws of thermodynamics still hold.

Also, the calorie deficit does not even need to be large. 100-200 calories a day will already make a bit change in the long run.

Part of the problem is that people want results fast. Again, faster than even the laws of thermodynamics would permit.
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this is a good page. Please revise to remove the language so it can be shared with all age groups. Normally I love tossing an f-bomb around but this site's idea rises above that.
An obese person can become thin; a short person cannot become tall. No, I don't understand what you're saying.
See Barrkel's correction to my post
The monitor is stopped as soon as the target process finishes - which means that the very last reading emitted will only contain information from during the run of the target.

If it were done the other way around then we'd have to poll for the termination of the forked target process. Either the poll duration would have to be really small or the monitor would contain readings for some time after the end of the target.

This isn't so bad when running with an interval of 1 second... but for an interval of 1 minute (or longer) it can start to give odd readings.

To be honest, I'm thinking of removing the very final reading anyway. Or, at least documenting that the final reading may be slightly misleading.
I used to wear headphones regularly. But now I only used them sometimes at work.

My favourite phones would have to be Brainwavz HM5

Very clean and unbiased. Avoid these if you like overly harsh, bright, flat or the patented Sennheiser 'heavy mud bass .'
Don't have much of an opinion on earphones, though. Just that they make me feel like an 80 year old with how little they give in terms of clarity & depth .

Edit: I also used to use Alessandro MS1, basically the Grado 125. If you like metal/rock, get these. My favourite brights. Not for the faint of ears...
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This site doesn't make a point via swearing. In fact all it does is further dilute the word which is useful when needed. The site's format has been done before and basically is an improved take on a Did You Know? concept. The facts, the ratings make it interesting. The fucks make it childish. Children misuse words and curse just to hear themselves curse. Adults communicate the right thing for the right reasons at the right time.

If everything is fucked then nothing is fucked. If everything is WTF then nothing is WTF.
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Message-passing better than STM? Wonder why?
NASA is American... So, who is the target audience then? Is the author intending to persuade western Europeans to fund NASA?

Swearing may be 'fun' but it still isn't what should be front facing for a business.
Painful reading an HN front page article like this. An entire article around use of two-word (marketing) nomenclature with no informative value in the article at all...
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I think you're a few orders of magnitude off. ~$20 billion per year for ~50 years is closer to $1 trillion. Just a guess though.
Not to belittle the achievement, but what's up with the HUGE white stripes above and below the panoramic image? Makes browsing the image a bigger hassle than necessary and adds quite some MB in size. 11.5 MB for the full resolution image vs. 8.2 MB without the stripes (in PS saving at best JPEG quality) or 4.8 MB (at second best quality setting).
> The permission gripe has a solution in GitHub Enterprise, but I don't use it and can't speak to its usability.

Surprisingly, there isn't any fine grained permission management in their Enterprise product. Their old FI product used to support hooks, but they've removed those features in Enterprise.

It wasn't that long ago a jr developer discovered the '+' flag to non-ff push and broke the hell out of one of our larger repos.

Good Times.
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This is interesting, I was only talking about doing this the other day, just for EmacsLisp on github and in the package repositories. Because of the constraint mine would be worse. So maybe better. Hmmmm.
It's indeed nice to have direct connection between high and low. It's also in lisp culture to unfold layers of code transformations rather than stay in your own isolated layer and relying blindly on 'external tools' that will never be as integrated syntactically and systemically as ... well lisp.

Lisp aside, having this point of view seems to be a good goal to reach.

ps: There's also one very important lower layer, the memory/cache subsystem.
Not really exaggeration.

I got better results with Chrome/Chromium, which were doing fine until 350+ open tabs.

In Firefox I started to have problems after 200-250 open tabs since half a year ago. Below 200 all is fine.

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"If this is all the case, the deeper question is why increasing wealth reduces religiosity."

Because a big part of religion is coping with a painful, short, and often violent life.
I flatly disagree that science should "rightly" not give a shit about purpose, meaning, structure, or social cohesion.

Here's one of many starting points:

http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu
>He was a member of the German rocket development team at Peenemünde

Just the guy to be answering ethical questions...
There's a jquery plugin out there somewhere that loads the full width background image first, then fades it in. I think it would suit you much better.

Honestly, it's a nice site, but with only a 30 second loop of rain I am very disappoint. Your competition is http://www.rainymood.com and http://www.naturesoundsfor.me . If you're worried about bandwidth ditch the background images, minify all of the code, and extend the rain sample as it's the most important content of this site. I'd rather have a single image for the background and a longer loop sample, than a shorter loop sample and multiple background images rotating.
> Offering folks at burning man autonomous robots that will deliver miniature statues of themselves seems the furthest thing from something that could actually help the world.

That's not the end goal. If you can deliver a tchotchke to someone, you can also deliver a bottle of pills, documents, cellphone batteries, a Raspberry Pi, or small craft items. Remember that lots of places in the 3rd world don't have roads. Lots of places aren't even very passable by foot in parts of the year. Having any kind of infrastructure at all is a win and will enable better healthcare and more economic activity.

What better way to test such a service than to send trivialities to 1st and 0th worlders? No one's going to die if they don't get their statue, and they might even donate to the cause anyhow. Someone might die without their pills, or their business might take a big hit without a part or a battery. Better to practice on the Burners than on people who actually need it.
It certainly reads better than "We need to funnel some money to the guys who build the rockets so that, if the Russians get frisky, we can credibly threaten to can end the world."
A big part of why the U.S. is an outlier in all these religiosity vs X graphs is because in the vast majority of the U.S. there is no forum for community or social cohesion apart from religion. Outside of the church, most of American culture is utterly asocial.

This is only somewhat accidental, though. There is a long history of stealth or not-so-stealth repression of non-religious social and cultural phenomena in the US. Virtually any form of human cultural expression outside of religion tends to be classed as "deviant" or "counterculture" and at least discouraged. The mechanisms are occasionally overt, as with serious countercultures, but more often take subtile and complex forms involving combinations of social discouragement, media vilification, conformism, zoning regulations, anti-social urban development patterns, etc.

This isn't true across all of America. In the places where it isn't true (e.g. San Francisco, New York, etc.), the religiosity vs. X numbers look a lot more like other developed countries. In the "flyover country," fascist social conservatism represses all non-religious expression.
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Often though, "good enough" really is good enough. You can spend untold man hours trying to get that last little bit of perfection and never really achieve it anyways.
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Also: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ doesn't load thumbnails but the full sized images… (is this 1994?)
As TFA notes, either nothing gets done (you send-email and the other guy just doesn't see/want it) or something has to give, you have to create a github repository with the result of your patch or the other guy has to learn git-am.

Or you know he checks his email and takes the patch. When you use github you are using git. There is no way to commit from the github website, so if they have code on github then they must have interacted with git. Now that we have established they interact with git then they have the capability to interact with the patch feature if they so desire.
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Since the crap when!? Last I checked, police and most of their superiors aren't subject to recalls or indeed any accountability whatsoever.

(Would be an interesting scenario.. individual officers elected on popular vote..)
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I think two reasons: 1) VxWorks directly supports message passing (http://www.vxdev.com/docs/vx55man/vxworks/ref/msgQLib.html). 2) They seem to prefer simple, obvious, "less magic" interfaces. STM is nice for its "magic", but message creates very well defined, documented interfaces between code.
Most of the Solar System tends to be dull in color; most publicity photos from NASA are significantly enhanced in the color department. The red of Mars or blue of Neptune are real, but a lot more like #AA8888 than #FF0000. Water ice and silicon-based rock are both predominantly gray, so you need a considerable presence of some other elements to deviate significantly from that. Even Jupiter's atmospheric bands and Great Red Spot are mostly dull browns, and pretty much everything else with an atmosphere is considerably grayer and blander than most photos lead you to think. Here's a few examples of the Solar System in real color:

http://whillyard.com/science-pages/our-solar-system/upload-i...

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupit...

http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/HIIPS/EPO/ganymede_g1_true.jp...
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