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I would say that the message of the article is "we need more regulations". My reaction was, basically, "you haven't shown that; at best you've suggested we need better enforcement of existing regulations'. So while I disagree with the original linked article, I'm not sure you and I disagree. :)

As for the studies, this is winding far afield, but there's two main ways you can do a study: Controlled and observational. Controlled is hard, but gives good data. Observational is easy, but gives unreliable data, especially when relating to people.

To a first approximation, a controlled study can prove things about human health, while an observational study can suggest areas where a controlled study would be useful.

It's not that these studies have methodological errors (as far as I know, they don't). It's that they're observational studies, and best case, they can't prove things in the way a controlled study would.

If you want a good primer on "what are observational studies and why are they problematic for human health"...I don't actually have one handy. But there was some very good discussion floating around about the "Red Meat Consumption and Mortality" recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

A lot of headlines said, basically, "science proves meat will give you cancer", but again, it was an observational study, and it simply didn't show what people who didn't understand statistics thought it did. Some links discussing that:

http://www.gnolls.org/2893/always-be-skeptical-of-nutrition-...

http://garytaubes.com/2012/03/science-pseudoscience-nutritio...

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/will-eating-red-meat-kill-you...

TL;DR: Observational studies are done all the time, but when it comes to humans, they are most definitely not interchangable with controlled studies.
Data geek niggle - it's pretty deceptive to start the graph at $200 million instead of zero. It makes the drop in 2012 look larger than it really is. Granted, the effect isn't huge in this case, but its still very bad practice.
He did say though that IE won't work:

> it's runing on all modern browsers
I don't think you're fully informed. Sometimes it's difficult to get qualified applicants at all, at any salary level. A lot of developers are more interested in the specifics of the job, product, company etc. than the salary (once it meets a certain minimum floor); and for other jobs, the specific knowledge and experience needed is very scarce. If there are 20 people qualified for a job and 21 open positions, no salary level is going to fill all the positions.

I had a H-1B visa once upon a time, but I never moved to the US. The company wanted me to, but I preferred London to Santa Cruz. Didn't stop me working for the company remotely, paid out of their UK sales office. Now I don't know what proportion of H-1Bs are like that - a global search to fill a local position - but it's definitely non-zero.

(The reason I'm pushing back on this is because I don't want HN to be a happy home for the same sad sack of devs Slashdot hosted when I last frequented there some years ago; "dey took our jerbs" was a constant refrain any time H-1B came up.)
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Ah - my first computer was a 16k Spectrum.

Fond memories of writing a "tron" game by hand assembling Z80A from the manual.

Good times :-)
What, have you got something to hide? :-)

It is creepy as hell, indeed.
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I worked on a H1B for 9 years before getting my Green Card and I saw two types of people working on H1B - people that were adequate for their jobs for which the company did not find enough people (qualified ones not the under/overqualified) and extraordinary people with specific skills in high demand. Both class were paid reasonably well, above average salaries.
> As an American living in Denmark, I would personally prefer to bootstrap a business here rather than in the U.S., though it does depend on what kind of business. The main advantage to doing it here, imo, is that the healthcare story is solved

I'm finn and I would definitely want to start a business in US rather than in europe (or in finland), the advantages are enormous - much better access to funding and very large homogenous potential customer pool being the 2 most important issues.
Explanation for those who don't speak Italian?
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Kaz sounds a lot like cazzo which means dick.

'Sti cazzi' is a common phrase that is used to express lack of interest in central Italy (who gives a flying fuck!) or amazement in northern Italy (holy shit!).
Cool! Some suggestions:

1) For those poor ATI users on Ubuntu with Chrome, and probably others with driver issues, suggest that using FF instead of Chrome may help.

2) When in first-person mode and in full screen, why not use the Pointer Lock API to allow proper first-person controls?
This is an excellent post, thank you for sharing.

I find it mind-blowing that multi-million dollar companies who are struggling with growth cannot see the quality of their software engineering actually prevents growth. They try rewrites but with the same approach to software engineering as always, it is doomed to fail.
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"sweeteners probably increase chances of cancer" you said that, I didn't. I said "sweetners are probably as bad for you" in the context of a comparision with sugar.

Fact the FDA has banned unbanned and rebanned and unbanned so many of these artificial seetners that even they over time you can see why people are so unsure becasue historicaly that is how they have been themselfs. I also stated I drink diet soft drinks which contain them, my choice so you can see that fear mongering is realy my main agenda, clearly.

Now if a institution changes it's mind more than once, I'm sure some aspect of there crdibility is in question. I live in the UK said products have warning and given that, I have resonable doubts about them being 100% safe in every aspect of use, but it is an acceptable risk and may or may not even be a risk at all, we just don't know.

I'm not saying there bad, I'm not saying there good, there have been some that currently appear to do no harm and some that are stilll banned or withdrawn from market historicaly, there are many types of artificial sweetners, some are currently banned some are currently allowed and in that when I say they are probably just as bad as sugar then that is exactly what I mean, there is no 100% prove either way that they are not are that they are, they could be less bad than sugar and they could be alot worse, sorry I didn't quantify it with exact brands but if anybody knew the exact answear then great, but they don't so I excersise resonable doubts.

Until somebody can clearly state that artificial sweetners are safer than sugar overall with regards to health then the debate will always carry on.
Oh I totaly agree the level of risk from unknown factors later on is less impacting than the effects of worrying about it. Suppose in some ways artificial sweetners are like methadone.
If we are using anecdotal evidence, I knew several paid less than their colleagues at my last job. And they were hired, because of that very reason, cheaper restricted labor. Its not hard for me to imagine in a country where labor force has been at odds with employers the last 30 years that employers would want to import in cheaper labor. India has been exporting cheap labor for the past 200 years, in fact its part of the Tata and Infosys business model here. Using the guise of an engineering shortage goes over a lot better than saying lets suppress wages by importing talent.
IE10 is modern but doesn't support WebGL :(
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Surely the problem could be solved by recruiting people with the relevant experience any talent, ie. throwing money at it?
I could not agree with you more. It's literally part of the business model for consulting firms here.
I'm sure the flight hackers are aware of skyscanner, and probably know how to use it better than the average person. There are probably many exceptions like "Oh, if you're flying here skyscanner sucks and you really want to use X instead".

You don't really have a control group to know that skyscanner consistently provides the best results. It's possible that you were happy with your skyscanner experience and believe that you got the best deal, while there was an alternative that would have been much better for you. Flightfox is a relatively cheap insurance policy against that.
Well, if they go to work for Tata or other similar SW sweatshops, that's an issue they should have investigated before taking that job.

Today there's Glassdoor (and others) and not knowing if your salary is competitive or not should be a factor in accepting a job overseas.

Especially in SW engineering good labour != cheap labour.
I think the point is that vetting is a ongoing process and the asbestos example is one were something has been approved for use over a period and then later in its life-cycle found to have enough negatives to make it not be use. We know more about the moon than the human brain so what truely effects it and how is something we still learn and in that down the line the prospect of things changing and the FDA changing there mind is something that has and does happen and in that we accept there judgment for our safty.

The comparision to vetting safty a centuary ago and now is valid as in 100 years time we will have even better vetting and products in common use today could possibly be banned by the standards in 100 years time. That is also within a humans lifetime (given how long we will be living by then, statisticaly speaking as a trend). So the comparision is whislt not a dierct comparision but one of highlighting how time effects oppinion based upon new data collected over that period. If atifical sweetners still approaved in 100 years time then great, but it is a bet I would not take.
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Remember Circuit City? They were the biggest victim that fell to the same Amazon practice.
"the most intentionally wretched airport"

I am curious about your choice of the word "intentionally".

Do you think that some person or persons decided to make travelers miserable on purpose e.g. because they are stuck at work and are bored?
We are sorry if we have offended he italians (especially the ones from the center).
It's pretty hard to come up with a name that has no meaning anywhere. If we have enough success, maybe Stickaz will mean "pixel art stickers" in Italy later! Like the Nintendo Wii ;)
As usual, Norway is the exception: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110201/in-norway-start-ups-say...
Maybe, but after compensating for the exaggeration, I cannot find many checkable facts as to that.

(I judge the necessary amount of compensation from the statements that they turned 'halfway across the Atlamtic' and landed 'heavy'. I do not think both can be true.)
Thanks for the input, we will fix it!
Thanks. That's basically what I thought, too. ;)
SPOX has been built upon the same engine as ideone.com and spoj.pl, but dedicated to teaching in the context of private lessons or regular courses at different levels, starting from beginners to advanced university students.
Who said anything about Facebook?

And if you're talking about the Internet at all, that's not the point of serious backpacking, hiking, etc, that's your point.

For example, João Garcia, who reached the top of all the 14 highest mountains in the world (Everest, K2, Annapurna, etc) without an oxygen bottle, had an internet-connected GPS logger with him - a system which also happens to have an iOS app. Was he not "seriously hiking" because of that?
Looks similar to the art of Klaus Bürgle from the 1960s:
http://www.retro-futurismus.de/buergle_weltraum1.htm
meh, not sure what the "pain" is if you code like a god on eclipse. scala or xtend is java for pussies.
A dedicated GPS logger is what you need. You just need a device smaller than your hand and some room for the charger in your backpack. You can import them back to the app later.
Happy birthday. I also love Mou! Keep up the good work.
You can also set it from "My Places" in Google Maps.
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George Bush didn't email either, he didn't want anyone reading 'his personal stuff'.

I always suspected he was trying to avoid Nixon's mistake of leaving the tape recording machine running that LBJ installed in the Oval office. I didn't like it then and I don't like it now.

Americans deserve full transparency from their government.

That said, with the adversarial nature of party politics and the limited sophistication of the public's political consciousness, not creating a persistent record may be a rational and understandable choice, even for a public servant with nothing to hide and every reason to feel proud of the work that they do.
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Campus Maps (http://www.getcampusmaps.com) is in this exact space and is facing a few problems with scaling:

Connecting with new students is hard:

The ones who hear about the app already have friends to ask questions, and the ones who don't hear about it are the ones you want to reach.

Narrow the value-proposition for them:

so that they see it and say "Ah, I want that!", I feel you may be offering too many services to begin with.

Hard to gain traction with college students if you are not one of them:

I am lucky to be in my senior year, but marketing it after graduation is going to be immensely harder. Are you a college student?

Make sure that the app is designed to scale from the start and that it won't kill you to add another school and have it flop there:

I just expanded to UVA, my first new school. It generated a little bit of verbal buzz, but my downloads were almost untouched. In order to add it, I had to rewrite my app from the ground up because I didn't imagine scaling it past my school, UMD. Adding new schools now is a snap that everything is designed for expansion.

Good luck and feel free to reach out!
I think much of this course is also about "under the hood" - what's going on at a memory level, and fun things to do with microprocessors to get an understanding of the whole shebang. I think if you can be taught to get good grasp of the execution stack, heap memory and pointers, then teaching yourself ruby, python, or any other more abstract language would be a breeze.
Something random I wanted over the weekend: drop-shipping stickers. Let me set up an account and order stickers via an API given a customer address.
The always fashionable predictions of a bubble.

The fatal flaws in this article are many (including those highlighted by others):

- The idea that one metric can predict a correction

- On top of that, the metric of funding/day is simplistic and utterly useless. A couple of mega green tech, life science or semiconductor fundings (or absence of) will skew this metric in a totally different direction. We track this stuff and 2012 hasn't been a great year for those areas of VC which often see big rounds

- Deal activity (the # of financings) in a period has to be considered in any discussion of a correction

- SF as the single market used is problematic. Is it representative of VC? The Valley or stats for the valley, Massachusetts and NY would be better to use

Shameless plug - Check out CB Insights (www.cbinsights.com). Our trends tab has some free cuts of the financing and M&A markets which may be interesting.
Which ever has the best IDE support.

Approximately nobody codes in Java, rather we code in Eclipse, Netbeans or other Java. It is great because we can still ship the Java code as it is still Java, so I kinda miss things like lambdas and closures, but most of the pain is gone and a lot of things that are still difficult in other languages, such as finding a specific method or class are really easy.

But if you aren't used to program this way, it can take some adjustment.
Either way you look at it, there stocks of cod are low in relation to past expectations. Overfishing, change in currents/migration of natural pasturing areas (not sure pasturing right term for fish but it is understandable).

I will also say fair play to the bbc for avoiding a tabliod style headline of which a few have crept in in the past and in that I mean avoid the use of the term codswallop http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/codswallop.html.

One that would of been apt in the tabloid world.
Implementing this in Haskell is going to make for a very nice weekend project. I'll report back with details of the Github repo if I'm done by the end of the day.
At least they avoided the term http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/codswallop.html
You don't need an internet connection to get a GPS fix, so this app would work fine anywhere I think. You then need internet connectivity to sync your accumulated lat/long data back to your account.
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Facebook looks like tv listings and classifieds pages from old print magazines to me. If the future of software looks like facebook, there will be a hell of a lot of disappointed people.
Careful -- Atlus got sued for their game 3D Dot Game Heroes (which was fantastic) over copyright-infringing user-generated avatars. This seems eerily similar.
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Is anyone here an 'expert' for Flightfox? Can you share you thoughts about it?
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I agree with you fully though who is the other person :).

It is interesting though that any food product with fish does not have to state the age of the fish in the product, fish is fish and the only descrimination placed by food is that of there baby eggs in as caviar or the fish itself, no qualified as to the age of the fish is used. The only exception would be that of sammon and trout and then only because the fish physicaly changes.
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You miss that an adult cod is ~80cm, ~20kg.

This year's quota appears to be* 22000 tons of cod, giving 0.3kg per person in the UK. That's not a lot.

*I tried to decipher this:
http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/documentation/publications/pos...
no but living in an english speaking country will http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity
Your model is excellent. I love it. It's simple, it looks good, and contrary to what others said, you actually have a pretty innovative business model with the possibility to sell crowdsourced designs. But if I were you, I'd make it more interesting for graphics guys. The real innovation would be to do a 70-30 cut like for iPhone apps. If it worked economically, even if it merely covered your costs, it would attract much better designers and many more buyers that would also buy your own designs on which you could make more profit. You're solving a real problem here: geek decoration. Be more ambitious about it!
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And the weird video memory layout of the 48k... :)
Salesforce isn't exactly known for good taste in UI themselves. And feeds? Seriously? More ADD isn't going to make anyone more profits
I tried this out. I think it is really good idea, but really bad implementation. I wanted to draw something, and save it. But I had to login first. If you log in, you lost your drawing. Then I redraw it from scratch, then clicked on the save, and the server went down, so again, lost everything. Sometimes the cursor draws without any click, and ruins all your previous work, and you can't turn it off (maybe a bug). Then I tried other way. What if I just draw a small part, and save it? Before save it automatically cropped my pic for best fit (if you resize your drawing area, you lost everything).

So, for about the tenth time, I finally finished my "nyan cat", and published it, to see what's gonna happen? Some time after, I got an email, that they refused to publish it, and gave me some bullsh*t (one or more of the following) reasons. So one, or more? Why don't they tell me specifically? And some of the reasons were hurtful for someone, who tried so hard to finish something.

Anyway... As I sad before, I like the idea, but the implementation is pretty flawed, and painfully slow.
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This is maybe a bit more encouraging though: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shet...
I haven't used Slate, but I agree that spaces support might be a useful feature. I've been experimenting with spaces for when I'm not attached to an external display.
Beautiful! Love it.

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
Which Python version would you recommend to someone just starting to learn the language? I know "Learn Python the Hard Way" focuses on Python 2.7, and "Learning Python (4th Edition)" focuses primarily on Python 3.
fish and chips in the UK has two interesting aspects to it. Down south if you ask for fish and chip by default you will get cod, though up north it is by default place or anything but cod and most shop don't even have cod due to catchment area's and fish types mostly available for transport. Was a odd one upon me first time in new castle when I asked for cod and chips.

Another influence is the catholic tradition in these shore for having fish on a friday. That for many has risen to the trend of menu's having fish options on a friday and school meals and tends to focus most fish eating on a friday, nomatter the religion.

As a whole the general fish stocks were and still are finely balanced though the whole change with regards to the EU and having fishing trawlers from EU countries in and around the UK fishing has had further impact upon the once rich fish stocks with the north sea feeling the impact. This and changes in ocean climate has impacted the fish into other area's due to water temperature and effects upon there food stocks. Were still learning about weather above the oceans and as to the weather enviroment aspect under water is one were we have even more to learn and its impact and effects on the natural habitats.

So dont worry about the UK eating all the cod, social trends and impacts dictate we eat other fish and in general it depends on what part of the country you in as to what the popular fish eaten in that part is.

I will also add that having eaten North sea cod and North atlantic cod in seattle that the atlantic cod was much tastier, at least to me.

So don't panic we in the UK will not eat all the cod, though don't ask us about the pies :).
I do the standing thing at home, sit down when working at clients.

The biggest thing I've noticed is that I'm less likely to dick around on reddit or hackernews if I'm standing, so it's been a boon to beating procrastination which I'm prone to do.

I've also lost weight, but I'm not sure if that's related at all due to a diet change.

It took me a few weeks for my back to stop being stiff when I sat. Massage therapy helped. Taking breaks is key.

I wear running shoes when standing and haven't noticed much pain in my feet, if any at all.
oh i get it... its my fault when a mapping does not display anything when i type in Tim Horton's instead of Tim Hortons...
Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, Ceylon, Groovy and now Xtend. Going to be interesting to see what languages win out in what niches on the JVM.
But there is a reasonable expectation that a pill your doctor prescribes will not kill you (with few notable exceptions). This is a good thing. Who is better at safety, the "free market" or the government?
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Maybe that's what http://coderwall.com/ is trying to do.