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I spent some time reflecting on this, and I think it's because what the bottleneck is has changed over the years. For a while, I/O was the real challenge for servers. But hard drives have improved a ton, and many-drive systems have really improved a lot. Memory had its day, but the price has plummeted.

Today, the limiting factor everyone is focusing on is core density, and cores generally produce more heat than any other component aside from high-end graphics and displays.

Of course, power consumption and thus heat has been continually improving, but not by orders of magnitude. Core density, on the other hand, has been going up by a few orders.

As a result, you've got to move more heat, and because density is what's going up, you've also impaired airflow.

Take this with a grain of salt though, it's just speculation based on what I've seen & heard.
Healthcare technology has always been a siren song for the Silicon Valley. The thinking repeats over and over:

1) It is an antiquated industry
2) There has to be a better way to do it with IT
3) My company has the magic solution that will save everyone and make me rich

While it is hard to argue with points #1/2 the real problem is finding viable entry points and building large, growing, sustainable businesses around them. Regulation, government and professional, is a huge reason healthcare is what it is.

You can make the best ML algorithm to diagnose and treat disease and doctors will spend decades arguing about why it is unsafe and they should always be the final authority. You won't be able to get a diagnosis and a prescription without them. You might think otherwise, but they have real power in denying you medical choice via setting professional guidelines through medical boards and lobbying politicians who are simply not brave enough to pit themselves against doctor's medical judgement.

It is harder to think of a more counter-productive and self-defeating way to market any healthcare solution then by saying it is going to "replace doctors". Here is a great example (DNA testing) of how doctor lobby can restrict innovation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/business/20consumergenebar...

EDIT: I actually believe Vinod Khosla knows better and he just made a troll statement on purpose. It worked, we are talking about it!
Fair question. We post simply because posting on this thread works.

It's worked great for us in the past (and made a hire) and we've been getting great candidates who are excited this time too. :)
Bad title. Misleading.

I can't say I ever thought that organic food would have higher levels of vitamins than their non organic counterpart. And, of course, article says they have similar levels of specific vitamins.

Organic does apparently have less pesticides (also per article) -- which is what I thought was one of the major motivations to go organic, not "more vitamins"
Samsung has two commercials airing currently with new forms of interaction ... might be the Galaxy S3 (I'm not sure). One example shows the user dismissing a call by speaking to the phone while a call is coming in. The other commercial shows that you can take a screen-shot by waving your hand over the device whenever - kind of ironic since screenshots from Android devices was always a pain back when I owned one.

Maybe they both work flawlessly - I don't know, but both seem like they could easily misfire when you intended to do something completely different with your device.
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Now there's an interesting idea. 64gb is plenty for me to do a Time Machine backup of essentials. If that slot is bootable, I'd definitely consider it - an always-available easily-removed backup that you can stick in another machine without extra tools / power / etc.
Glances looks great. Also we love `htop`. http://htop.sourceforge.net
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but current applied NLP is building parse trees and applying probabilistic rules to classification problems.

With those two you can indeed build some awesome tools but we are so, so far away from actual language that it hurts.
> When someone tries to pay me to use their product, all my alarm bells go off at once. :)

I believe it's widespread enough practice to hand out devices to developers willing to make applications for new platform. $75k free grants, well, not so often, but if they can afford it and it helps them to catch up with other ecosystems faster, why not.
Most gesture controls fit in this category of jetpack design, too.
I think you might have taken what I said a bit too far - the point isn't that entrepreneurs are the only ones working. It's that entrepreneurial spirit is the soul of our country. The mechanic at the garage, for example, is often an entrepreneur.
Being in medicine, I don't agree.

Over 80% of the job could be done by properly designed algorithms - and 80% would be a conservative guess. The "interesting" cases are very rare, and mostly consist in easy-to-do diagnosis of unfrequent illnesses (I once diagnosed an insulinoma! hurrah!)

Just look at the growing number of tasks given to non-MD- say RN. It's a trend that will go on.

Human knowledge is nothing but the application of algorithms - deciding which symptoms are important, which are to be discarded, which require more investigation, etc.

Education is building algorithms. Experience is machine learning. Wisdom is statistics. Instinct is prioritization.

The faster we can implement all that in software, the better.
> I guess you're using some sort of Bittorrent-like distribution scheme to download large files in the background?

That's the idea!

> And also perhaps support for truncated history like shallow clones in git, so a 1 GB movie file that has undergone 30 revisions doesn't take 30 GB unless you somehow indicate you actually care about those 30 revisions?

Bingo. To make an analogy to git, tree and commit objects are always synced, while blob objects are synced lazily, when desired.

> It would be nice if the site included more information about the specific pain points you're seeing with git on large projects with binary files, and the ways that grand will make life better.

Thank you for the feedback! I will try to address your concerns.
$40 per month for 1 GB RAM? My favorite VPS provider's price is half that, less if you pay for a quarter or year in advance [1]. The people I've interacted with there are friendly and competent.

The SSH-based out-of-band serial console is great for people like me who want fix things themselves when they break, instead of trying to get hold of a support person, explain your setup, explain your problem, explain your proposed solution, and explain what you need them to do because only support can do it.

They even explain on the wiki how to use a custom kernel with their platform [2].

Disclaimer: My only past or present connection to prgmr.com is that I'm a fan and paying customer.

[1] http://prgmr.com/xen/

[2] http://wiki.prgmr.com/mediawiki/index.php/Using_a_kernel.org...
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Agreed. The key here is to make science out of art, just the way everything 'education' aspires to do. I do agree with you that getting hands dirty is probably the best way of learning but it is up to people to figure out how much effort they want to put into it. The course is just to mold their thinking to be a successful entrepreneur.
Huh? Longtime Ubuntu user here, I have no idea what you're talking about... Desktop Linux has plenty of problems, no need to invent new ones to complain about. Unless you were installing programs manually you shouldn't need to worry at all about dependencies on Ubuntu (or Debian).
Did you reply to the wrong post? There was nothing resembling fanboyism or ignorance in the parent.
> But organic options may live up to their billing of lowering exposure to pesticide residue and antibiotic-resistant bacteria

That is the entire point of buying organic. I dont know anyone (sampling bias) that thinks organic has anything to do with nutrient content. That's what non-gmo is for*

* in some cases
There is a time limit to the depth - this is to help prevent pointless bickering.

"neither are macs" isn't, I think, arrogant nor judgemental. A person can buy a Mac if they like that kind of thing, but if they prefer other stuff they can buy other machines. Each person decides what's important to them.

About the device: I don't like the way that micro-SD card adapters stick out the side of the case. I'm not sure I dislike that enough to pay $35, but if people have that kind of spare cash I'm not going to piss and moan at them about it.

Notice how careful I am to avoid mentioning any actual thing that may influence a purchasing decision? That's how frustrating and pointless these conversations can be. :-(
Not Mac-able because it depends on procfs.

uch a tease:

The excellent Amit Singh rants about how useful procfs is and how Mac doesn't have it, but then says it's not really needed, and then almost builds it anyway, then gives up due to unrelated hardware problems:

http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/procfs/

(2003)

This case is one of the more blatant demonstrations showing the superiority of The Unix Way of "everything is a file. "
At first I thought this would just be an easy CSS fix, and it almost is -- but the reason this problem exists is because they put that huge sidebar at the top of the page with the guy's face and four or five links under it.

Seeing as long posts and discussions are starting to become pretty common on G+ I hope that the G+ team invests some time into figuring out how to make everything more readable.
I know you're trolling, but I'll throw this out anyway-

This is a CLI. Usually the font is chosen by the term emulator, not the program.
If the micro-sd card is treated as random-access storage, how much will its performance degrade with time compared with a ssd drive?
F.Bellard should write books, or tutor graduate students, his view of things must be uber interesting
The President? I had to look this up (I'm not American) and it looks like he was intending to refer to the public infrastructure that all businesses use rather than the businesses themselves.

Anyway, I don't much care for the politics of any country but it's still a waste of time to pay too much attention to the minutia of political campaigning. Before November, both parties are going to say a great number of things that are untrue, out of context, and that they don't believe. If you let yourself get upset by the circus show months before election time, you'll go barking mad.
Not so fast.

No one questions that other people built roads etc. (Govt didn't provide the resources - it only collected them.)

The only way that Obama's comment is not a non sequitur is if he meant more than that, that people who "built" were treated differently than the people who didn't wrt those resources.

I get that you think that Obama should be given the benefit of the doubt, but don't other people get that same benefit?

For example, one of the most common sentiments expressed to people trying to concieve is "you've got to keep a positive mental outlook", the implication being that a negative mental outlook reduces the odds of conception. I have no idea whether or not mental outlook has that effect but we're damning a US senate candidate who said that it did.
I'd say that it's better to start off with installing vundle (https://github.com/gmarik/vundle/) and then whenever you feel like you're having problems doing something like file/buffer navigation, auto-completion or making vim pretty then go out looking specifically for something you like and vunlde will make it really easy to install just by pointing at the github.

Whatever you do, don't install syntastic unless you want your vim to run awfully slow.
Who cares about healthier? Organic food, especially local organic food, simply tastes better. Probably not because it is grown without pesticides but rather because the farmer gives a damn.
Dude has a net karma score of -2. That's after all the upvotes from whoever "thought it was fair and relevant". Since upvotes are easier to come by than downvotes (not everyone can downvote), this suggests the comment wasn't received well. Because philwelch is exactly right -- it simply doesn't add to the discussion.

It may appear that people are mostly siding with you because nobody else has verbalized support for philwelch. That's because we HN veterans don't generally post "me-too" opinions, we just quietly upvote the guy who's right and downvote the guy who's wrong. In this case, I've chosen to break the silence because you seem like you might be willing to learn HN cultural norms.

Here on HN, we ask that you not take cheap shots at politicians, religions, etc. -- even those we really don't like. It makes for boring reading. Instead, make comments that other people will come away from thinking "I learned something valuable from that".
So it takes Gnome Do and makes it more complex? I think that would make Ubuntu quite unique and thus back it into a corner they invented. It's not like the GUI is a new concept these days, designs have long been ironed out. Old Gnome was fine and I would've settled for something that resembles Android 3.0+, sorry to rant.

"listing applications" in Unity is a failure case

My desktop takes the logical next step, before I moved back to gnome-panel I simply dragged the applications I used out of the overlay thing onto the desktop. I keep the icons organised, so they're always in the same place. Anecdotal observations from "normal" people show that they use their Windows Vista/7 desktops much the same way, not even bothering with the start menu except to shut down. They get grumpy whenever anything is different at all in which icons are shown and in what order. Their allegations that I broke something weeks after I accidentally left, say, a copy of unzip on their desktop is of course laughable at best. But the concept of having shortcuts on the desktop, certainly not. Makes me wonder why Unity bothers with a separate desktop at all, it could benefit from the screen real estate when that overlay screen sits at the bottom of the stack as the root window. I loved the netbook-launcher it grew out of, too bad it was discontinued.

Users don't want to list applications; they want to launch the one application they were looking for

The Gnome consensus used to be that users don't care which application they're using, they just want to carry out a certain task. Which is why they all have boring names such as "document viewer" and "web browser". How is a user going to know to find evince and epiphany or firefox? In Unity, search quickly breaks because of this. If you know the name of the application, it can find it. But if you don't, it doesn't map keywords to application names. It would be impossible to maintain appropriate keywords for all applications in Debian (and by extension, Ubuntu) so it doesn't.

Fortunately, all the current desktops run a terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+T. It's the one failure mode they all support equally well, supports tab completion and isn't limited to applications with a .desktop file. This is what I do for most tasks besides web browsing, so even after all these years of developing desktop environments the main purpose is still to run multiple terminals side by side. If only twm had niceties such as network manager and removable media.
My phone? Naw, but a tablet like the transformer I would work on code if I was offsite and I needed to do a small fix or something like that.
By not using poisonous pesticides, organic farms are healthier for farm workers, for people drinking water near the farm, and for wild animals.
Yes - I'm in exactly the same situation as you. For $41 I can purchase a 64 GB SD Card (http://www.amazon.com/Komputerbay-Speed-Class-Memory-Write/d...) and for $35 I get the flush-adapter. It's precisely what I'm looking for.

Best part, is as the price of SDXC cards continue to drop, I can simply purchase a naked 128/256/etc... SDXC card, and use it with this adapter.

All in all - may allow me to delay a full year on my Laptop Upgrade. Definitely worth $35 to me.
All this indicates is that the monitors aren't good enough yet. My understanding is that EKG interpretations are a function of rules and probability. Computers do those things well. What are you adding that computers can't? Experience? That's probability.
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"Logome", perhaps?
It was called "Point of View". You should be able to find it on moddb.
I would trust them more than Tepco.
Hey PStamatiou, thanks for your comments! As I mentioned in a reply to a previous post, this entire program was literally hacked together in the past 3 months by two undergraduate students with no money and almost zero reputation with the school. From the very beginning we've always wanted the Startup Semester program itself to be recognized as a full-time internship (Akin to simply withdrawing for a semester to work on their startups, what many students are actually doing). Unfortunately, we haven't been able to sway Georgia Tech administration to our side. What we're left with is a "pilot program" to test our hypothesis.

You're right. It is a little harsh that non-technical founders will have to look for someone technical themselves. We really wish we can implement a feature like that in the future. For now, a minimum viable program is all we can do with our own full course loads.

At the end of the day, we gauge our success on changing attitudes, not having our startups appear on Forbes. If we can change the culture at Georgia Tech just one cohort of entrepreneurs at a time, more students at Georgia Tech will begin to think much like you.
This. A SD card != a SSD. If anyone treats this as a built-in backup solution and writes to it too much, it's going to end in tears.
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Except that the President didn't actually say that.

Moreover, that characterization has been widely debunked even by the likes of ABC, CBS, and NBC who rarely call bullshit on anything. Aren't you embarrassed to repeat that false talking point here, especially when it has zero to do with the OP?
What users actually depend on Linux's iron-clad promise to never break binary compatibility? It's curious to me that this issue is considered so sacred and yet I rarely hear the rationale or actual user stories of people who want to run 20-year-old userland on a new kernel.

In particular, note that the promise of kernel binary compatibility does not guarantee that an old binary will run on a modern Linux distro unless the binary is statically linked. Most user-space libraries bump their major version number every so often, so it's unlikely that the required .so's for a very old binary will be present on a new system.
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Good for you. Good luck. It's a hard road.
The title of the Reuters article is of course utterly misleading, in that it simple-mindedly equates "no difference in vitamin content" with "no healthier than." The key disambiguating sentence appears on the second paragraph of the article:

"Organic produce and meat typically isn't any better for you than conventional varieties when it comes to vitamin and nutrient content, according to a new review of the evidence.

"But organic options may live up to their billing of lowering exposure to pesticide residue and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers from Stanford University and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System found."

Unfortunately they didn't bother to get the short URL to the original article right, so we can't go and find out what the authors of the original article were actually saying about the matter.
The OS treats SD cards the same as any other removal drives, so you can choose it for Time Machine. Their site says microSD cards currently only go up to 64GB, so it is of limited use until larger cards become available.
Have you tried the GNOME 3 "classic" desktop in Ubuntu? It's very similar to GNOME 2. So far it's worked out well for me.
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studying the process that resulted in https://questions.cms.gov could give you some insight into what makes up the health care costs of today. Lookup coding for a first look at why things are the way they are.
It's obviously metaphorical/hyperbole.

Over 2M US soldiers were deployed in Iraq, with ~4.5K deaths and ~21K wounded, a rate of 0.002% for death and 0.01% for wounding. Significantly higher than the rate in start-ups (I presume), but lower than climbing Mount Everest.
I love how this is posted during Labor day. :) Probably unintentional since Joel is a brit.
Where by 'says' it hasn't confirmed anything, nor even 'said' anything to The Verge, nor 'confirmed' anything.

http://www.valvesoftware.com/jobs/job_postings.html
Great to see happening, didn't want to seem like I was downing on it.

The cross major/school stuff would be great, especially getting the CoC kids out of their bubble. The senior/grad level Video Game Design (that still around? it was a ball buster, but a great class) was supposed to include CoC and kids from SCAD and arch/industrial design schools but I'm not sure how many actually had that happen. My team recruited a my comp engineer buddy who was serviable with photoshop.

Agreed on the "getting out" culture, needs to change, but I'm not sure Tech would be Tech without it. My favorite times were always early in semesters and after finals where over, plenty of time to work on some projects with friends without the feeling of "talking shop" that happens during the intense workloads of mid to end of classes.
That's what I've been wondering -- just because a 2TB card is supported doesn't mean that they can actually be built. I'm sure there's a hard limit on how much flash memory you can cram into the microSD form factor. Anyone know what that limit is?
These constraints are US-specific. Have you heard of Narayana Hrudalaya?

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/india/article.cfm?article...
>>I'm not sure why one test is 100x slower<<

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7025286/why-does-this-v8-...
I disagree. As someone who started using Vim recently, the issue wasn't learning modes/key sequences as it was just reaching feature parity with my previous editor (note that doesn't mean "acts like my previous editor", just "is at least as capable as my previous editor"). If I can't open files really quickly, I feel lost and upset, so I took care of that very early in the learning process by setting up CtrlP. Same with some other plugins.

More generally, to me, the features that happen ship with Vim aren't special. I want the best editor for me, which might require features the builders of Vim didn't want to include. Vanilla is just another flavor.
Re depth limit, hit the permalink for the comment and you can usually reply that way. It's something to do with caching I think.
i don't believe ubuntu has ever required users to worry about dependencies. that was solved in apt before ubuntu came into existence.

if you used synaptic to install programs, it highlighted dependencies in the GUI, but that was really just irrelevant information - there was no user interaction required other than clicking the install button on the thing you wanted.