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The C# Language Specification for Asynchronous Functions (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2375...) is available for download since 4/13/2011, and they have been many drafts before that.
My understanding is that all the samples taken from him and other cyclists over the years are stored in case they need to be retested in the future. My understanding is also that currently no tests have ever returned a positive for him, and the evidence that he doped is in the form of testimony.

I imagine people will keep on checking those samples for years to come. It should be interesting what history will eventually decide.
One of the issues I ran into when looking to migrate a multi-tenant Rails app to Torquebox was lack of schema support (eg. schema_search_path). I was able to workaround those issues using raw sql though.
If it's that easy to implement, just build it yourself.
Taylor Swift the New Red.
> . . . or the problem is inherently complex.

You're close. Put another way, "inherent complexity is the problem."

What I mean by that is, the more your system is coupled, the more it is brittle.

Frankly, this is AWS's issue. It is too coupled: RDS relies on EBS, the console relies on both, etc. Any connection between two systems is a POF and must be architected to let those systems operate w/o that connection. This is why SMTP works the way it does. Real time service delivery isn't the problem, but counting on it is.

Uncouple all the things!
This seems to fly in the face of the whole "Veil of Ignorance" theory for creating a just constitution. It will be interesting to see if this document ends up with more or less self-serving language than constitutions written by smaller parties.
Some news sources have consistently misreported this as saying that they were being tried for "failing to predict the earthquake". That would, of-course, be nonsense as no-one can predict when an earthquake might strike. However, that is not what the prosecution said - their case was based on the scientists failing to communicate risk properly.
Quoting the source: "The verdict was based on how they assessed and communicated risk before the earthquake that hit the city of L'Aquila on 6 April 2009, killing 309 people"
That was the real reason.
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> The company is public

[slaps forehead] Thank you. I should have checked.

25x trailing earnings. I'd say: Sensible.
The Magna Carta was a founding document for principles of legal rights and property rights in common-law-based legal systems such as the U.S. Principles in the Magna Carta are still applied today in different forms. This is why American schoolchildren learn about the Magna Carta.

However, the U.S. legislative body is not based on a parliamentary system such as existed in Britain or the Iceland. While the Althing is probably historically relevant to countries which adopted the parliamentary system, it is of little to no relevance to a Congressional-based government.
How does Twilio manage to stay up when AWS goes down, and how much of that can the average developer reasonably do?
Amazon et al. will be happy to spend quite a bit of money combating you, until you give up due to lack of funds.
Ok, I see where you are coming from. But aren't you getting ahead of yourself? The luxury car market is what, 1 million cars annually [1]? So these 'niche' cars which have good margins give Tesla the capital to do the next step which is bring the costs down.

I think folks who drive a model S will pretty quickly understand that Tesla is building a better car, so if someone was in the market, and open to an electric, Tesla is a contender.

I expect the majority of Tesla's sales to be 'status symbol' sales initially (just like Hummer's sales) and later a more durable market will develop. And I think it will benefit from being considered the 'best' you can get, Elon is a pretty compelling figure as well so very trendy.

Where we differ I expect is that I expect they can translate that early success into a broader class of car.

[1] rummaging around in http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html isn't particularly helpful.
Yeah, those kinds of situational stories were much less interesting to me than the nuts and bolts of pitfalls and potholes on the way to success that Jessica and Spolsky described.
Depends. Generic interfaces and non-reliance have costs too. In general I agree that things should be decoupled, but it's not always easy or practical.
HN really needs to hold a "dumbest comments of the year" award.

This has to be a strong contender.
IANAL, but I believe that the Personopplysningsloven is compliant with Directive 95/46/EC; of which Article 12 has provisions against the behaviour exhibited by Amazon in this exchange.
Photos and video: http://www.blueorigin.com/updates/updates-2012-10-22-Great-D...
Interesting website for those interested by the mention of speed-camera burning: http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm

I hadn't heard of this happening in the US until now.
Hi, would you mind telling us the url? Your site sounds very interesting...
Not at all! I've lived in the same state for my entire life, and I'm open to suggestions from those of you that are more well-traveled. :)
Well the issue with "fixing failures" is the same as "following success". You don't know how many people did what the failures did and succeeded - and even if the actions the failures took were wrong, it's unclear what exactly are the right actions to take.
I think you're setting up a strawman here, and ignoring the legitimate complaints.

Certainly you can find people who have ill-founded ignorant reasons for avoiding the iphone 5. and then you have entire countries full of people who can't use maps anymore. It is utterly useless for them.

Personally, I am not enthusiastic about upgrading because I don't like the new screen size. I think 3.5 inches is pretty close to perfect, and 4 is heading towards unwieldy.

This is coming from a guy (me) whose entire livelihood comes from writing iOS apps. So you're going to have a little trouble branding me a "hater."
Apologize and give some love
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It's not really a paywall, it's just a registration wall. You can register for free to read FT's articles.
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Startup = 10% being really good at what you do, 90% luck.
This: http://awesomescreenshot.com/01dk0vt88
Ah, I notice you may not be US-based.

If you don't want to pass through US customs, you can probably get a similar experience on an island near Vancouver BC, Canada.
FYI, I bought my copy through the Chrome store because I've had so many negative experiences with PayPal. If it's preferable people buy through you, maybe doing something like Stripe would make sense?
Ask HN: Why can I send people on FB messages when we aren't friends?
Hi,

I'm just wondering why can anybody send messages on FB to others when they are not friends, and when their privacy settings is that only friends can message them.

All I had to do to send a message to a person who wasn't a friend is click on "new message", a box popped up, in the field "to:" I copied the username from the url on that person profile, and then append "@facebook.com" and the message was sent, when I checked my messages page, a message was sent to that person and his picture and name on FB were shown.

Is it intended to be like this?
I suspect that @tzs was not being entirely serious
Ask HN: Will fake accounts be Twitter's downfall?
There is a proliferation of social agencies creating accounts for the sole purpose of spamming followers. I enjoy following people back with similar interests, but lately the Turing test for twitter accounts is getting harder to perform and not worth the time it takes. what can/should the community do?
If anyone was a hacker, it was Lance Armstrong and his team of doping-dodging experts. They hacked the system but didn't get away with it.

These guys had cheating down to a science. Casino cheats would be envious.
I plan to, if there is interest. It's easy in that the solution is straightforward and there are few difficult technical problems to solve. It will, however, require a substantial time commitment to build, which is why I'd like to gauge the market first.
When there's sunlight, you want to be out riding, not sitting around waiting for your phone to charge! And plugging/unplugging the phone every time you get on/off the bike is annoying.

First-world problems :-)
I am just taking under consideration the events at that time, i.e. an eminent fear of another Cuba situation in Latin America and the resulting fears. Castro repeated visits to Allende did symbolize this development maybe even more than the increasing nationalization of the Chilean economy.

Even considering BBC's numbers and the unaccounted death these are still substantially lower than those of the death count of the Cuban Revolution. Considering the instability of Latin America at that time (e.g. the ongoing battle against armed communist guerrilla infiltrating the country [1])

I am not cheering for a mass murder, but acknowledging that creating stability in a highly instable environment is a painful process. A process that used highly questionable methods, but was never the less the foundation for Chile's success today.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973#Guerrilla_...
I don't understand how ebooks can cost more than a mass production paper book. If you are familiar with the industry of producing paper and ebooks for books that are best sellers then I would really love hear about the cost difference in producing both.
Um, what? Samsung make some of Apple's screens like the iPad's retina display.
See Keith's (of Twilio) response here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4684766
that's not the definition of hacker by this site's standards
Great names are built not found.
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It is probably the "email" feature, and not a real "message".
I don't understand why the article refers to "drug tests". I thought blood doping had nothing to do with drugs, and was particularly difficult to detect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_doping
One explanation of why women might publish less than men do is, as you might expect, completely ignored by the article: discrimination.

Consider a simple model in which, to become a professor, you must have at least 10 pts - you get 1 pt from a first-author publication and half a point from a second-author publication. Suppose further that the process is biased and women get 2 points simply for being a woman.

In such a model, you'd expect women to have about 2 fewer first-author or 4 fewer second-author (or some linear combination) publications than men.

I.e., women might have fewer publications because discrimination in their favor allows them to publish less to achieve the same position.

This is the straightforward economics explanation, although of course academic employment is hardly the epitome of an efficient market.
Dont forget that even traditional gas stations make most of their profit from convenience store/restaurants.
Calling people bigots does nothing to promote civil discourse about important issues such as homosexual marriage.

The standard was drafted in 1984, long before efforts to redefine marriage. It isn't very fair of you to project your 21st century politics back on the creators of a 30 year old standard.

You apply the label of bigotry to exclude from the conversation those who differ in opinion from you. That isn't how democracies are designed to function. Nor does it recognize the complexity of the issue. Religious people can desire a standard of public morality without espousing hatred for those who don't share that standard. Calling that bigotry makes it harder to identify true prejudice.
This story was tossed around here a bit a couple of weeks ago. It is nice to see an update on it.
I'm going to throw a possibly unpopular view on the table here: sticking all this on Linux is purely about cutting costs but saves nothing.

The administrative overhead of deploying all this stuff is incredible as are the disparate infrastructure and software models. You might be saving 11x on an Azure instance, but your ops time and staffing requirements will cost more than that. Throwing something on Azure is really cheap with respect to time and effort. If you need to scale past that or cost becomes a limitation, you might as well fish out for a Rackspace or other dedicated package.

We're at the £50k hosting budget a month mark now (1x production DC, 1x hot spare DC, 2x packed 42U racks in each) and 2 meat based products to manage it all. Not much of that cost is software licenses.

Note: I have nothing against servicestack - in fact it's rather good (we use servicestack.text)

For ref, I turned down a position at 7digital a couple of years ago as I though they were smoking crack when stuff like this was mentioned.
Make it a screensaver and I will download it.
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Semantic zoom is an important part of all Windows 8 apps, it is a distinctive feature that differentiates them from other platforms. The SemanticZoom component works fine if you want the default experience, but if you want some customization you have to try a bit harder.
I didn't see you at the meet-n-greet, but agree with you about the crowd size. I enjoyed the presentations a great deal but didn't even attempt having conversation on Saturday. I had intended to sit with the person I arrived with (krithek2, IIRC) but although he was just a few places behind me in the line for name badges we lost each other in the swirling crowd. I presume it was the event managers who decided where to put the registration table etc.; I suppose they know the location and are used to events like this, but I'd have done that part differently.

PS the crowding is also why I completely failed at meeting anyone from Friday night - sorry Lynn from Google (whose last name I can't remember :-/), Harry Yu and Paul Biggar.
out of curiosity, is it acceptable if you're only contributing to other subreddits?
"...the purpose of those laws is orthogonal..."
"...their claims are not as specious..."

Those claims aren't yours to make. How legitimate or illegitimate any given law is in a given circumstance is arguable and subjective. Thus the court system, lawyers, and the entire judicial branch.

Eric's point - that these cases are all part of the same phenomenon - makes complete sense. Incumbents trying to leverage power to stifle innovation from a new generation of companies. It's simple enough, I don't even see what there is to argue.
I don't think I'll ever buy into a closed system like Amazon ebooks. Seems like you can have so much eggs in one basket and they can just smash your eggs w/o giving any reason. I don't read a lot of books for my free time. I have a safari books account at work that I use a lot. It is nice since it is kind of like Netflix. It's just a subscription, so they can't pull anything crazy like Amazon is doing here. I also like the feel of actual books, and they are nice decorations in your house.
Sounds like you need to pick better bosses!
I had one multi-az failover correctly, however the security group was refusing connections to the web servers ec2 security group. I had to manually add in the private ips of the ec2 instances. It appears the API issue is affecting security group to ip lookups.
Point being: SVG is still a non-starter. :/
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Moving back to the land of opportunity - India
Well clearly they have a lot of work still to do:

https://status.heroku.com/

Complete outage of an AZ shouldn't ever take services offline.
Mormons may have done some of the work to help build out Ancestry.com's database, but they also have built a free competitor: FamilySearch.org

From a startup perspective, the base of records is important, but the 1.6 billion dollar purchase came from lots of paying customers who aren't Mormon (there just aren't enough Mormons who are devout to the point where they will pay for a genealogy resource when a free one built by their own faith exists). The Ancestry folks just took a relatively cheap/free pool of data, and did the work necessary to feed that data to customers willing to pay. I'd guess there are a lot more startups that can be built on readily available data sets like this. Congrats to the Ancestry.com team.

Edited to add how cool this whole business model is. Something that could be thought of as a "lifestyle business" ended up with a huge win by having the silly ideas of charging customers and building something people wanted.

Disclosure: I'm a Mormon.
So then do you agree with the following statement:

"Individuals who do not have health care or can not pay for it should be denied treatment".

That's what happens when you leave it up to free markets.
"Zuck also mentioned that he can't relate to wanting to start a company for the sake of starting a company. I thought it was notable that Paul Graham interjected that he wished more people wanted to start companies"

That is not what pg interjected with. He said he wished more people had companies that started themselves, like facebook did. As in, I have to build this company because this little project is growing like a weed and it's my responsibility to see it through - as opposed to more founders who just want to be founders.
I'm just wondering why can anybody send messages on FB to others when they are not friends, and when their privacy settings is that only friends can message them.

Are you aware that they have the setting that only friends can message them because they told you so? Some people set their own profile settings to allow being messaged by nonfriends. For a while, at least, I had mine set to allow messaging by friends of friends. (Indeed, I see I still have my profile set that way.) It's up to each user to decide, and if I remember correctly, Facebook's defaults allow for more rather than less messaging. If indeed the person whom you messaged has a profile set to not allow messaging by nonfriends, and you (a nonfried) were able to message the person, that is a bit of a puzzler. Are you receiving replies to those message?
Will do. Expect it in a week or two.

Thanks.
Running an OS install off an SDCard isn't ideal, but perhaps most importantly developer mode is confirmed. It should just be a matter of time until it is trivial to reimage the internal ssd and u-boot directly into Ubuntu (or other distros with ARM builds) off the ssd. That plus a fast SDCard for data storage makes a very compelling Linux ultrabook-ish-system.
Uhm, what? The button name is "Buy now with 1-click", not "Rent now with 1-click". If I buy something, I own it. Period.
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So then it's a problem with the rule set- you shouldn't automatically biopsy every tumor. It's doesn't make sense that there's a rule in place (you must biopsy every tumor) such that people are afraid of getting more information because it will lead them to make worse decisions. More information should always lead to better decisions and better outcomes. Why are we forced to biopsy every tumor, even in the case where you agree it's suboptimal?

Imagine if every time someone had really high blood pressure, we had a rule to perform bypass surgery. People would then avoid taking blood pressure because it might lead to surgery. That doesn't make sense- knowing someone's blood pressure isn't the problem, the problem is our suboptimal rule.
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Interesting. As I would expect, seismologists unrelated to the case disagree with the ruling:

>"It's too easy to predict an earthquake after the fact and say everyone should have cleared out, but beforehand people, for good reason, thought the risk was low," said John Vidale, a University of Washington seismologist. In fact, Vidale said, the scientists' statements that the quake was unlikely were true. "There was a very small chance of that earthquake," Vidale told LiveScience. "It didn't make sense for people to evacuate."

http://www.livescience.com/24173-laquila-earthquake-manslaug...
Medicare has lower administrative costs than most health insurance providers.
How will Stripe overcome the huge losses that will occur with fraud?
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But this is how child custody works... =\
Looks like you guys did nice work btw, didn't mean to sound like I was ragging on you. Pulling off a publication as a single-page app is no mean feat -- it's hard to think of anyone who has pulled it off.
Duiker101, connect with us at http://www.apptegic.com. We are working on this problem as well. Let's talk about how we could work on it together. There is plenty of room for differentiation from Mixpanel.
Your understanding is correct.

One thing to note: many, many dopers have also passed 100% of tests administered to them. They then voluntarily outed themselves in an effort to tell the truth.
Individuals have the right to see any personal data that an organisation holds about them. If automated processing of such data leads to a legal or significant effect (e.g. you've violated our contract, so we're deleting everything you've bought from us, and you can't use our services ever again.), they also have the right to know what the logic was behind that processing.

Amazon may have the right to terminate accounts and ban users, but when challenged by the user, they do not have the right to respond with "because I said so, so there!"
Update from http://status.aws.amazon.com/:

2:20 PM PDT We've now restored performance for about half of the volumes that experienced issues. Instances that were attached to these recovered volumes are recovering. We're continuing to work on restoring availability and performance for the volumes that are still degraded.

We also want to add some detail around what customers using ELB may have experienced. Customers with ELBs running in only the affected Availability Zone may be experiencing elevated error rates and customers may not be able to create new ELBs in the affected Availability Zone. For customers with multi-AZ ELBs, traffic was shifted away from the affected Availability Zone early in this event and they should not be seeing impact at this time.
Seriously THIS has to be addressed.

I can tolerate EC2/EBS going down but why on earth is ELB/Console always going down at the same time ?
Ask HN: PG drew this at the Startup School Reception. What does it mean?
Intercom is a company specifically focused on user visualization, communication, and engagement. Worth noting for anyone interested in this product who isn't a current Mixpanel user.

https://www.intercom.io/
I wonder if this is going to be an attack or hardware/software failure..
you might want to also check out http://icomoon.io
I don't understand why anyone's site is only in one datacenter. i thought the point of AWS was that it was distributed with fault tolerance? Why don't they distribute all the sites/apps across all their centers?
Your name is fine for the product. If you went with just "Bitesize Irish" or "Bitesize Gaelic", you'd likely be much more confusing to a big chunk of your target market.

"Bitesize Irish Gaelic" isn't great as a company name because it's so narrow, but "Bitesize" is a good name if you want to expand to other languages at some point. I don't know what you'd have to pay for the domain, but it's probably available since it's just parked right now.
That was touched on by someone else, whoever was talking about persistence, where there are tons of people who do a project for 6mos and then abandon it. Maybe a "company" can be defined in this context as something that effort is put into sustaining, e.g. "a company follows from committing to an idea."
Minecraft.net pointed to roomkey.com's site due to Amazon Outage
Thanks, that explains that.