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Yes. I have always considered there to be some enlightened masters who seem to be able to do anything in programming effortlessly - usually using Unix shell commands.

Also - they know functional programming and I don't.

I have always wanted to be one, and never was.
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While I'm not sure I agree, there's a fun meta discussion from Quora http://www.quora.com/Are-humans-fundamentally-rational-or-ir....
Are we still in a Impressionistic film Era?
Government tracking methods and Facebook are two different worlds, though, aren't they? (I know I left the door wide open for a sarcastic reply)
My issue is with what threshold of safety should be considered.

That's a good question. The numbers TSA gives, which are quoted in the article, are that a single exposure to the X-ray scanner gives you the same radiation dose that you get from two minutes of airline flight. So if we think the risk of the scanner is unacceptable, we should also consider it unacceptable for a flight to be lengthened by two minutes. Flight times routinely vary by more than that due to re-routings for things like weather, air traffic control, etc.

Nothing is 100% safe. If we are going to try to consider thresholds of safety, we have to consider all possible risks, not just the ones the media is currently harping on. What we find when we do that is that we routinely accept risks far greater than the ones the media is currently harping on. But those risks don't sell papers or keep people watching.
True. Even the gun control issue is hovering around the 2nd Amendment. And then there was the whole amendment to ban alcohol that was then reversed with yet another amendment. So... let's not get locked into some false idea that things can't be changed. We need to focus on what changes (if any) make sense and when. Maybe changes don't make sense right now... but if the first argument is "but the Constitution says so" then look at what actually got it to say so... it was a change.
Are you? Citing one situation where they pulled back doesn't account for all of the endless updates they made against people's wishes, most recently that whole thing where they don't give users a choice anymore at all.
Apple Releases iOS 6.0.2 for iPhone 5 and iPad Mini
That's what I figure it is, just take a look at the filabot [1]. It's taken in far far longer than anticipated but he's still keeping at it, just sent another update today. I would be very surprised if this wasn't the cause of most of it, with another big cause being the ones that end up getting far more attention than expected, needing to ramp up manufacturing to a level they didn't even consider possible (i.e. printrbot [2]) at the time.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rocknail/filabot-plastic...
[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printrbot/printrbot-your...
The Mystery of Our Declining Mobility
That was my thoughts as well, on why I didn't want to download the player.
Anti-virus does some basic heuristics and signature checking, and honestly, they are doing a pretty bad job at detecting virusses or overlooking them (Flame for example, or the recent Adobe CA compromise)

Mikko Hypponen from F-secure, a Finnish anti-virus company, only had the guts to admit it, you can read the article here; http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/internet-security-f...
NASA IG doubts space agency can hit mandatory computer encryption goals
Yep, my brother is receiving it right now, and I've used it in the past.

Things have changed in the last few years where they will actively make you apply for jobs, and possibly force you to work on community projects (known as "work for the dole"), but essentially you still get ~$228/wk when you don't have a job, forever.

UPDATE: Sorry, since moving to North America I keep getting fortnight and week mixed up. It's $228/wk, or ~$400/fortnight.
VP9 and Opus, Background Position Offset and Ruby Positioning
I was thinking of quick business services for recently released inmate entrepreneurs. ~10,000 inmates released every week in the states and starting a small business might be an only option for making a living legally.
> Can you only enter this market with huge capital expenditures to build out a network?

It certainly feels that way. Though I believe there is some chance for bootstrapping, even starting out with an entire apartment signed on would still be difficult. Though it may be enough to spark investor interest.

> Republic Wireless is the only other "similar" product to disrupt the telecom market.

While what they're doing is neat, they're just using someone else's network (Clear) and essentially shuffling expenses around. It's not low-level physical disruption where we need it.
I'm in the east end, as well. If you ever want to meet up for lunch or something out this way, let me know.
summary: "Because China"
I feel that this argument is lacking in scope when deferring to areas of the world where there are few to no guns in circulation. Of course there will be fewer gun crimes if there aren't any guns.

What should be compared is violent crime in general. Weapons or not, the numbers are quite astounding. Then again, my argument may not take into account how crime is truly defined although I simply want to make a point that the argument in the article is fairly shallow and should push the boundaries of journalism by asking and answering more questions.

UK Violent crime rates per 10,000 people, since ~2000, has been between 400 and 600. That's 4-6%. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent-crime-rates-UK-198...)

US Violent crime rates per 100,000, since ~2000, has been between 400 and 500. That's .4-.5%. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent_Crime_Rates_in_the...)

In my opinion, it appears there is a correlation between 300MM guns in circulation vs no guns. Not causation, simply correlation. Unproven correlation at that.

I feel my argument is somewhat weak here because I have more questions: What about the number of victims? What about those crimes committed with a weapon vs without? In the UK, what weapons are used for crime if not guns? How do those weapon-based crimes compare to the same weapon in the US?

Edit: Added the corresponding wiki image to the US stats above.
Cloud66 is a service that offers something like this (Heroku style provisioning to your own servers): https://www.cloud66.com/ (No connection to them, they just e-mailed me about it a few weeks ago. Looks OK, not tried it yet.)
I'm not scared of a man who speak with a Lisp!
I've seen hundreds of comments on DSLR-made photos from photographers on Google+. Photographers love Google+, and the engagement is very higher.
1) Not being a better typist

2) Fretting too much about backwards compatibility
Yet they did not cost these guys money. The game's creators advertised a pay-what-you-want event because they had a reasonable expectation of making a profit (for charity) even though many people would pay $0.
There is also this simple game using box2d in both Clojurescript[1] and Coffeescript[2], which can also help those starting with it. I wrote a little abut it[3].

[1] http://danielribeiro.github.com/ClojureCoffeeScriptGame/

[2] http://danielribeiro.github.com/ClojureCoffeeScriptGame/cloj...

[3] http://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/clojur...
it seems really unlikely considering how insanely low the base rate of terrorism is, much less the subset of attacks which the scanners actually prevent

This is an argument for not screening passengers, or at least doing it very differently from the way we do now. It's not an argument for using one type of scanner rather than another, given that you are going to screen with scanners. That's the only question at issue in the OP: whether TSA should use X-ray scanners or another type.
I'm running a Nokia N900, and I use Classic Print as an alternative to Instagram. While the Instagram process goes like:

-Start the app, which cues your camera

-Take a photo

-Apply pre-set filter

-Share

The Classic Print app is a bit more complex and linuxy:

-Take a photo with the stock camera app

-Open the Classic Print app

-Navigate the filesystem to open the photo you just took

-Apply the filters manually (there is only one pre-set filter, but you can tweak the filter settings to change color balance, noise, polaroid-style white frame, fading, etc.)

-Save your modified photo

-Open your web browser to navigate and share to various social media sites

While it's not the easiest to use, it is all free and open source.
Chubby Models Are Still Fat With Concerns
of course I'm glad to offer advices. Send me mail - my address on my site lescapadou.com
Phones won't be back to normal in lower manhattan until May 2013
(Pardon me/blame autocorrect: Breiman.)
How I became a better entrepreneur by failing my first meeting with a VC
Another possible solution is to do without said service, and realize that there are other alternatives that won't sell your personal information. I've dumped Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google (with the exception of Reader, and occasional searches when DDG doesn't work right).

I can share pictures (Group MMS & Shared Photostreams) and find out what people are doing (texting, phone calls & email) without giving up that information.
Sounds like a power issue. I am not sure how you supply power to your RPi, but I had this problem where I was drawing power from a the USB hub. My goal was to only have one power cable. So I had the hub and the RPi connected twice. First, a USB host port on the RPi <=> upstream port on the hub. Second, a random port on the hub <=> power on the RPi. Then, the power cable goes into the hub to supply juice to the whole setup. The wall wart for the hub is rated at 2.5 amps, so plenty of power there.

There are two things to be concerned about here. First, the RPi can draw up to 700 mA, but a normal hub will only supply 500 mA. Second, a USB hub might not be as good of a power source as a dedicated power block. The first concern is addressed for me by the fact that I'm not running anything CPU intensive and not using the HDMI port (the setup is headless). The second concern did bite me when I plugged in a what I suspect was a faulty or at least a power hungry USB WiFi dongle. The RPi would lock up after about 1-2 days and I'd have to power cycle it to get it back. After I switched to a different WiFi adapter things got a lot better.
I work in an enterprise-ish setting and regularly develop with Spring MVC, Struts and Rails on the server side. More recently have been using Play 2.0/Scala (I must admit I have not had a Play app make it to production yet).
I find it more productive, like rails in dev mode you can make a change, refresh the browser and watch what happens. This kicks arse compared to hot deploy/in place deploy with Java, or even to JRebel. The main advantage I find over the others in terms of framework features is the non blocking/asynchronous constructs provided out of the box. For anyone new to it, it's also worth noting that from 2.1 (almost out) you can integrate with Spring, and that there seems to be a healthy collection of 3rd part modules for it, ie for stuff like oauth.
I could go on for ages, but essentially I prefer it to the other frameworks Im familiar with...
Interesting, but I find the user experience breaks down rather quickly when I try to find out how much I could expect to pay if I moved a webapp to Jelastic. Annoying considering "True Cloud Pricing" is one of the headline features.

The "Pricing" link leads to an FAQ with 16 questions on pricing, each of which have to be expanded individually and none of which answer the question, "How much does it cost?"

The best answer tells me to click on my hosting provider, which is confusing, since I don't have a hosting provider; I haven't signed up for service. When I click on a random one, I get a dumped into the middle of some corporate knowledge base's 500-word article which then has to be scanned for plain text pricing information hidden within it. I'd then have to go make my own spreadsheet and plug in the numbers.

For reference, compare to Heroku's pricing page: http://heroku.com/pricing

Or AWS: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
Robots at the Intersection of Cool and Useful
You mean your legal name is used in legal scenarios? Say it isn't so...

Guess what, my "street name" is used in "street" scenarios, my "immediate and extended family name" is used by my immediate and extended family (not my legal name btw, nor has it ever been).

What makes the legal name special in any regard? They are all used in their niche.
I don't know where you can find widespread Pascal, but Fortran is 55 and is still actively used and distributed in NumPy.
Two things that make the world a worse place are excessive anger and self-righteousness.

Why are you so angry over this? Perhaps you should seek help.

Rules were established. Transactions were carried out according to those rules. Shock, horror, your supposed victim even made a profit (according to their own accounting). Why are you angry?
At Flickr, your photos are always yours (May 2011)
Hi Pierre,

Would you be able to comment on how your process and decision on picking a speech engine company?

Thanks
The choices really come down to (imo anyway),

1. JSP

2. GWT/GAE/AppScale

3. Play

JSP is just awful - taking PHP and trying to fit it into Java somehow. It's just terrible and needs to be phased out ASAP. (EDIT: Probably too harsh.. JSP works in the same way PHP works: it powers most of the web, and it does a grudgingly good job. The ease of plopping in some dynamic content into am html website made by a designer should not be discounted lightly for small websites. Probably best to just use PHP and not JSP in this use case though...)

GWT/GAE/AppScale mix is my preference. You can share code across server and client. Building RESTful services is a dream with Jersey on the server/thick client, and RestyGWT in the browser. The GWT compiler produces some very well performing javascript (only a bit slower than highly optimized libraries, but feels faster than nearly all webapp javascript). GWT also has incredibly good tooling support in automatic sprite sheet creation, compiled CSS styles, uibinder for declarative layouts, etc. The downsides are (1) java language, so no functional programming and (2) compile time can get nasty when you head in the millions-lines-of-code arena. GWT team is seemingly working on speeding up the dev cycle with SuperDevMode and that.

Play framework is most similar to the ruby on rails approach and works incredibly well for your standard webapp. The support for Comet and WebSockets are particularly nice and making very dynamic 'push' webapps is the real strongest point. The tooling can get pretty annoying at times with features/bugs, but it is steadily improving. The biggest downside to Play is that it is in a 'hipster phase' currently with the release of Play 2. This means both a huge surge in interest, but that same surge can be a curse when it drops out of 'hipster' mode in the future and loses devs. Numerous promising frameworks/languages have hit this problem and never really recover when the 'fashion' changes.

GWT, for example, has long since fallen out of fashion but continues to be heavily developed because of the huge and profitable existing user base inside Google (Adwords, etc), guaranteeing it active development for awhile to come.
"we found a place in Milpitas that could make us 20 - 30 at a time"

How true. Inefficiencies add up quickly when you multiply many times.

Think about stuffing envelopes by hand. If you need to do 10 no big deal you can fit it into any open time period. If you need to do 10,000 you need a machine or much more labor. (Same with scanning by the way try to do volume scanning with a scan snap you'll get burried).
There are also free services to migrate your photos to dropbox, drive, etc.

Full disclosure and shameless plug, I work for one.
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Realtime Nodejs App: A Stress Testing Story
Been playing with the beta for the last few weeks and love it. Props to the Firebase guys.
They already made their point in the blog post.

Maybe they're done offering any more thoughts on the subject.

Maybe they want to watch what other people say.

Maybe they don't care about what the peanut gallery has to counter them.

Maybe they don't want to debate.

Maybe they have other work to do?

This is an entirely silly Ask HN post.
Excuse my ignorance on this; I am actually interested in understanding.

I started reading this page and it seemed like some of it was just arguing about definitions and the rest, well, I can't say I really understood it. I get the feeling it's just sort of a "useless" discussion about words.

Beyond computer science, I guess I just don't understand the current contributions of philosophy or philosophy of science to actual science. The fact it links to metaphysics sorta reinforces the useless notion I have of it. I can't determine if it's actually nonsense (like Derrida/deconstructionism) or if I'm just not thinking hard enough.

Can someone clue me in as to what you find so valuable here?
From OP's comment: It's because age obsessions stem from this "cool list" narcissistic nonsense.
Very cool: it builds PG clusters so I don't have to! (Can I still bill my clients as if I did the work?)
It's also the slowest compilation I've ever seen, even with really clever custom tooling.
Badger-Rails is free. Where as cloud66 costs $7 a month.
Holy shit!!! this is AWESOME!, no more slow, expensive, and complicated hosting. Finally, I can do all those myself! o(^-^o)(o^-^)o o(^-^o)(o^-^)o dancing
not that this isn't awesome, but it's pretty unfair to heroku to describe this as even close to equivalent to what they do. badger-rails replicates parts of the deploy experience, but heroku does so much more.

i think the title of the post should be changed to avoid making reference to heroku, as badger-rails can and should stand on its own as a useful tool.
Why Entrepreneurs Are Competing for $37 From This Startup Incubator
I'd say that it is also affected by our military spending. Wikipedia puts our military spending for 2012 at between 1 and 1.4 trillion dollars. When you are spending 20 to 30 times the amount of money for your military, you can't offer the same social benefits as other countries.
I agree but if we're comparing Java to Perl, type erasure is only slightly hacky compared to the whole 'bless' thing.

Funnily enough, they're both examples of the same problem, stitching new features onto a language that was not at all prepared for them.
He raised a point, though a little abrasively. You left an entirely content-free response. Who mistook what for what again?

Attack his point and win, instead of pointless drivel like this.
If people want more like this, _Introductory Graph Theory_ by Chartrand is an enjoying and easy read. In fact it looks like Dover has all kinds of short treatments of math subjects suitable to the layperson. And if you don't know about Martin Gardner, you really must check him out! _The Colossal Book of Mathematics_ and _The Night is Large_ are both wonderful big collections, and there are tons of smaller sets of essays.
It's free like a Fireman is. Even when you don't have a job, they still help you.
It's That time of year again: Reorg Season
right vs left sided delta summations. calc 1.
In a consistent way down to pixel level in a 1:1 correspondence to Photoshop designs required by customers, across all required browser versions in all required operating systems, yes.
I'm not certain, but I think that if the gun is not allowed under the limits of weapon types, then if they were found they could be prosecuted. Wikipedia[1] has a good breakdown of the types and restrictions.

Basically, if they had shotguns and hunting rifles which fall under the legal categories, then I think they'd be allowed as many as they want provided they pass all the requirements themselves - e.g. criminial record, mental history etc.

If they have illegal types - handguns, automatic weapons etc. then it's illegal, regardless of how long they've had them. When handguns were made illegal there was an amnesty but now posession would be illegal.

One thing to bear in mind as well, some people argue against banning guns by pointing out that criminals will still get guns. This is true in that it does happen, BUT with a much smaller number of guns it is a) harder for criminals to get guns, and b) much, MUCH easier to track them. Supposedly in London, a lot of crimes are perpetrated with the same guns, and these are much easier to track back to people and therefore much easier to get convictions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_King...
We've been using it for nearly a year now and have been pretty happy with it. Very little problems, and anything that has come up we've gotten very fast response on. We're small, so it's just not cost feasible to have a full-time DBA on staff. This is the next best thing I've found.
There really should be a better way to subscribe to people. I don't want to miss out on major life events of old friends, but don't want to hear about their political views all the times.
Change in the Rules of the Startup Game
No, you're you. You're just presenting different facets (whether conscious or not) of you.
That's true drewwwww. The reason for comparison to heroku though was to draw on the simplicity of deploying a ruby on rails application, which is otherwise very difficult. It's easier to explain this to people using heroku then it is to draw comparisons to peoples experiences with puppet or chef.

To be clear though, badger doesn't just replicate the deploy experience but also the best practices of setting up a rails server, including scaling an infrastructure to the same if not better levels then heroku can currently scale if you have the server power behind it.

We currently use it on one of our own applications that has multiple application servers and webservers, and use badger-rails to scale whenever we need to.
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No!

What happens when they fail to process a payment? (e.g., I'm on vacation and Visa decided to block my card due to "suspicious activity" - this HAS happened to me before). Do they cut the proverbial pinky off my data to make me pay and show me they are serious?
Making your Web Pages Ridiculously Fast (Without Breaking Them)
Those are the results of the study, but what I'm more curious about is what will come out of the findings. That is, if the machines are found to be unsafe to some level, will the TSA actually remove them from use?
How many tons of coal did they burn?
I could have business operations in France but it doesn't mean I have to live there.
The problem with these types of vehicles is that there's nowhere (safe) to ride/drive them. You're not going to be able to ride this on a sidewalk, because it's illegal in most places, so you're forced to ride on the shoulder. A bicycle, with its inline wheels, fits nicely on a shoulder.

With this, you're stuck on the shoulder, and you don't exactly fit well. The physics of automobile accidents are immutable. If you get in to a collision with even a sub-compact car while driving this thing, you're dead or very seriously injured.

Accidents involving cars and bicycles, of course, occur, but you have a narrow profile and you're out in the open, so you can bail pretty easily. In this thing, you're more like a motor-vehicle. Other drivers will inevitably confuse you for a motor-vehicle, and in some places, local laws will consider this some type of motor-vehicle.

Creating a new class of transportation is as much about the infrastructure as it is the product itself.
How I Lost 45lbs in 12 months with my iPhone
Sort of agree but instead of "old browsers" I'd say "multiple browsers" which is ...actually that's a big difference. For me, the moment I have to look at anything more than one browser on one platform, then jQuery becomes a valid choice. Which is pretty much all the time lately.