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Yes, you can using `rails new app_name -m template_name`.

But that would be way overkilled, here, because we just speak of adding a line to the .gitignore file.

If you don't know git, .gitignore is a file you're expected to edit, you put there anything you don't want to commit in the repository.

So, once again, all the trolling is about changing a default option. Which can be changed back with one line of four characters ("/bin"), in a configuration file. Change to be made only once in the whole life of your application.
You're right - and also credit should go to the excellent http://bootswatch.com/ which is where I got the themed Bootstrap from. I'm a lover of Bootstrap but I hope it doesn't define the site.
Thank you for this. I was referring exactly to quantifiable traits.
All externals links on wikipedia use the no-follow tag to prevent that type of spamming (http://www.searchenginejournal.com/all-wikipedia-links-are-n...)
So you're a "hustler" - Try selling the Brooklyn Bridge
The Year’s Most Audacious Private Space Exploration Plans
Chaos Computing Congress (Hamburg/de) Timetable for today
I haven't tried it, but I would be very surprised if playing 1080p video over ssh/X was watchable. My initial plan was just to use Windows 8 for games and do all my other computing inside an Ubuntu VM, but the Windows 8 environment (other than for command line stuff) is really growing on me. Currently I only use the VM for banking and shopping, which I'm still (perhaps unjustly) afraid to use a Windows machine for.
Bluestacks brings every Android app to Mac
'?' works for me on Windows. Though please allow me to press escape or '?' again to hide the shortcuts. And switch focus to the popup and let me scroll it with j/k and up/down.

Another suggestion: 2 clicks for "Load Remote Images" is a bit annoying, particularly because on other email platforms it's one click, and I have a fair amount of senders where the "from" email address changes with each email, making it impossible to select load always. And for some senders I selectively decide to load images. The popup every time with text and settings is too heavy. Make this a single click link ("Load Remote Images"), and next to it add a gear icon with the drop-down settings and "Why is remote content risky?" info. If a user presses the "Load Remote Images" link, load the images and change that link to a label for the image loading settings gear, e.g. "Remote Image Settings"
Who could be watching you watching your figure? Your boss
Also:

http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~welling/teaching/273ASpring10/Intro...

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more info on Barber book mentioned in OP:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4672930

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/i06a0/book_...
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Surveillance 2012: The year’s top stories on snooping governments
That was my initial thought but I have to see how the revenue scales. At the moment it's only profitable because my labour has had zero cost.

It might scale quite nicely though - I think finding the right material is probably key.
As an opioid in rapid sequence induction, potentially used for tracheal intubation.
I couldn't get to two of these sites during these attacks — http://bankinfosecurity.com/4-banks-respond-to-ddos-threats-... — so many days ago.
A similar thing happened to my wife (an MD). She was asked by the crew if she had any sort of hospital ID. There turned out to be ~3 other doctors on board, so she wasn't needed, but they did ask for some kind of confirmation that she was indeed a doctor.
Law and regulations vary, but essentially you can "practice" under the license of a physician (and in fact, throughout the US, that's how EMTs and Paramedics operate, through an agency or county Medical Protocol Director).

Everything in that bag is likely able to be used autonomously by a paramedic - it deals with acute care, not chronic, which unsurprisingly is what paramedics are used to dealing with:

* childbirth
* airway management / ventilation, up to emergency cricothyroidotomy
* ET / NG intubation, including RSI (rapid sequence induction, essentially sedation, anesthetization in preparation)
* bleeding control / fluid resuscitation
* pain management
* seizure / neurological
* cardiac events, drug administration, manual and automated defibrillation, pacing
* diabetic
* overdose / poisoning
* less common on an aircraft, but trauma, including burns
* medication administration via IV/IM/IO routes

Most paramedics work almost entirely autonomously via protocols and training, and do not require direct physician approval for drug administration (as opposed to nurses). This range of drugs is quite extensive (my county allows approximately 40, including adenosine, amiodarone, atropine, dopamine, etomidate, fentanyl, morphine, midazolam, lidocaine, furosemide, promethazine, succinylcholine, vasopressin).
Yeah, the podiatrist comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek.

Like I said, I'm not try to discredit these folks as skilled (and in many cases, extremely smart) individuals.

However, a couple weeks of a rotation through an ER during med school isn't really going to prepare you well for prehospital emergencies (SAR, on the other hand, can be great training for that). Making an assessment and clinical decisions based on fairly limited information isn't something I've found most physicians to be comfortable with, especially in an emergency setting.

My list of 'glad to see you' docs is pretty much: ER, OB, and Anesthesia.
If you don't mind me asking, as a professional Android developer (as stated in your profile), are you thinking of switch-hitting and picking up iOS? Or even diversifying by going into something like single-page web design?
Hosting is on a $20/month Linode along with a bunch of other projects/sites/bits of code fluff. The actual bandwidth used by this site will be virtually nothing I imagine. I haven't valued my time at all. In that respect it is already earning me around $40 a month - a meal out.
Thank you for clarifying this. Your notes make me feel much better about sending you my password, and I'm glad you thought about self-signed SSL certificates too.

I still would like a warning to show up before I allow connecting to the server if it presents a self-signed certificate. Even something like this could get the point across:

+------------------------------------------+
| ======= Inky security warning ===========|
+------------------------------------------+
| Nobody's verified the identity of the |
| people who operate this mail server. Are |
| you sure you want to send your password |
| to this unknown mail server? |
| |
| [Yes, send my password, and remember |
| this mail server's fingerprint in the |
| future] |
| |
| [No, do not continue] |
| |
| [More details...] |
+------------------------------------------+
My own research on the subject, and my several years of experience applying said research, taught me this: fitness as an overall goal is actually very, very simple. It gets complicated only when you try to optimize and fine-tune your workouts and diets, which most people do not actually need to do unless they are professional bodybuilders or powerlifters. Regardless of your goals, it comes down to three things: eat well, sleep as much as your body actually needs, and lift weights.

The problem is that the fitness industry, in order to justify its own existence, feeds people so many little details and tricks and drivel that it intimidates those who want to start, and quickly overwhelms those who actually do start. Furthermore, when someone fails to see results, they attribute it to some little detail that they must have missed, which perpetuates the existence of all those fitness magazines and websites.

Combine this with people's natural tendency to look for quick fixes, and you got yourself a huge mess. What I tell people who want to become fit is this: your current body is the result of years and years of certain habits you followed. You can't undo that in a month.

For those who are reading this and want to become healthier, my advice is as follows.

1. If you want to lose weight, then you need to eat below maintenance, do a mix of cardio and weightlifting, and sleep eight hours a day.

2. If you want to build muscle, then you need to eat a LOT of food with tons of protein, do mostly weightlifting, and sleep eight hours a day.

3. If you want to get "toned", that actually equates to losing body fat to make underlying muscles more visible, so follow 1.

4. If you want to build cardiovascular endurance (e.g. for sports), then focus mainly on cardio, with some weightlifting to build the muscles used in those sports.

From there, it's a matter of figuring out the basics and sticking with them.
Exactly this.
What most people fail to understand about fitness is that over time, your body adapts to whatever you make it do. Whatever you want to get better at, just do that thing over and over, and you will get better at it. There is no shortcut or "hack," it's just practice and adaptation over time.
I have found over the years that one of the most valuable skills you can cultivate is being able to read people to figure out what they really want. Through your whole career, and especially earlier in your career, people are going to ask things of you. Senior people are going to give you tasks and assignments, clients and customers are going to give you problems to solve, etc. It is a tremendously valuable skill to be able to talk to people and figure out what is really being asked of you and what the other person really wants and needs. When you can get in the other person's head and figure out what they need, you will: 1) make fewer mistakes; 2) waste less time on tangets; 3) be able to anticipate problems; 4) inspire confidence by asking the right questions; and 5) deliver exactly what is needed, no more and no less.

I'm not really sure if you can take a class that will teach you this skill. Socializing at parties is actually a great way to work on this skill--try to meet new people and see how quickly you can figure out where they're coming from. Working on group projects is also a great way to build this skill. As a freshman or sophomore you'll usually be the one getting assignments and as a junior or senior you'll be handing them out, and when you see both sides of the coin in a similar setting you can really develop an appreciation for what good communication looks like.
It's funny, though the comparison isn't perfect, DHH is basically doing what Linus got infuriated about here. He's making a minor change for what seems like very little gain, meanwhile breaking third party projects that rely on Rails.
Ouya begins shipping developer consoles
This is nifty, and I feel like this could be pushed a lot further. Epub output is an obvious next step, and I'd imagine a better table of contents view would make the web version more inviting. As for generating money, maybe hotlink products to an Amazon/etc affiliate link so when a user reads the page about "Replacing engine mountings", you can suggest sites that sell engine mountings.

I'm curious about the intermediate "Horrible HTML" stage. Did it retain the book layout at the stage? The scanned book images look much more appealing than the blog-style version (in my opinion). Even though the HTML was horrible, did it still display properly in a modern browser? I wonder if you could write a script to clean up and modernize the HTML while still retaining the nice layout, rather than reformatting into a blog and dumping images to the sidebar.

It would be interesting to see how much the process can be streamlined so you can convert books en masse. I assume there are plenty of books of this style with really good content that would be useful to convert in this manner.
Questions:

1) How much time did it take after the scanning to get the site and content online?
2) Do you think you could automate the process and get a 2nd book done in a faster way?
I've worked for a few months investigating malware on mobile platforms(Android specifically) so this is interesting to me. Interesting because most DDOS threats from botnets on mobiles weren't a big deal since the platforms were so limited. Now the technology is catching up(quad core phones!) but you'd need a LOT of zombies to damage a network using just phones.

Though I suspect like previous botnets before it, this would be used to steal information such as bank OTPs or the like.

This is a very hot topic for research right now.
Currently is supported on a handful of Android devices, see here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gec...
some fundamentals don't change though... the college classes that will still remain useful would probably be either compilers or data structures. even some of the basic operating system stuff (filesystems/scheduling) would still be useful today.

compilers are still extremely practical. I'm sure everyone has had a scenario where they had to tokenize lots of strings and turn it into something meaningful.
How did you get the water into someone who was semi-concious?
Good question. Web development has been around for only about 20 years and changed significantly during that time (CSS, JavaScript, Ajax.) Cooking has existed for thousands of years so I would argue that there has not been nearly enough time for any master chefs to come into being.

That does not mean that many (mostly due to Dunning-Kruger) will claim to be masters and that even more will rush to the charlatans hoping for a magic spell that makes complex, new and continuously emerging technology easy without the need to learn or practice.
Learning and practicing the full Common Lisp language. It's a big language for a reason: Greenspun's Tenth Rule is true. If you work on sufficiently large programs in other languages, you will reimplement features already present in Common Lisp. Common Lisp is the careful amalgamation of years of extrordinarily expensive research and learning by some of the brightest minds on how to solve some of the hardest problems in computing. Drink from their distilled wisdom.
Just to add - split testing your adsense can really be a big deal. For something this small, you probably don't need to split test the colors. But, the ad placement (and which ad units to use) can make a HUGE difference. I like to select a few different formats, make adsense "channels" and then weighted-randomly select one of my splits. In other words, keep testing, but display the combination of ad units that works the best, more often. Start off at even, then revisit things 6 months from now, tweak, revisit in another 6 months.
I have made these into basic ePub eBooks people can download for free from Google Docs:
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/an-experiment-in-e...
"Ask for the medikit (only physicians are allowed to use it)"? Are you sure? As a paramedic, I know of several cases where it's been used by paramedics and even EMTs. In fact, realistically (though not for a moment to denigrate physician knowledge, and training, etc), arguably most of the equipment in a commercial airplane medikit is -more- familiar to a paramedic than a family practitioner or indeed any physician whose career isn't in the emergency center or operating theater.
Your video rental history can now be shared with a blanket consent.
If this is a real thing, I'm sure the watch will be a mostly dumb display that gets "smart" by connecting to your iPhone/iPod/whatever.

Something like an ARM Cortex-M4 hooked up to an OLED screen with a bluetooth radio for talking to the devices that do the real heavy lifting. You wouldn't need to recharge the battery on something like that every 8 hours.
With apps like Facebook Poke or SnapChat the content you're sending is ephemeral (it won't be around forever).

Developers of these types of apps can't necessarily prevent a screenshot from happening but you they can at least notify the user who sent the content that a screenshot was taken, which in turn lets them know not to trust the receiver.
Why are we so curious?
yes, app stores and console game development in particualar are very good examples
It's very easy to create a game that runs on the JVM, and because of the library maturity, after a very early point it becomes easier to continue in the JVM.
Pycparser v2.09 released, project moved to BitBucket
On the same note of reading people is being able to talk to different people and adjusting how you talk to them. Its a matter of adjusting yourself to your audience.
There are two major types of career skills:

1. The ability to spot trends ahead of time, understand people's problems, and come up with solutions. In other words, the ability to figure out which types of skills will be valuable.

2. Deep knowledge in one or more areas, such as programming, Math, etc.

For example, due to (1) I was able to figure out that Machine Learning was a valuable and growing area, pick up a book, and get into the field. Today Data Science is still a great field, but the bar to break in is higher than it was 3 years ago.

My areas of deep knowledge are Math and Psychology. My deep knowledge in Math made it very easy to pick up Machine Learning/Statistics when the time was right. There were other related trends I could have followed (e.g. learning Hadoop, learning NLP) but those would have been harder since I didn't have the right background.

In college, your friend should focus on building up the type of deep knowledge that will help him easily acquire related skills later on. Generally speaking, it's helpful to take high-level, general courses as opposed to courses that focus on the tool of the day. For example, a course on Algorithms is more useful than a course on Python.

As he advances, he should start paying more attention to industry trends. Eventually he'll get to the point where he can realistically understand the major problems in the industry, and quickly pick up the skills that let him solve those problems.
The comedy to this is the extreme generalizing that goes on globally when talking about America / Americans.

We're all cowboy surfer rednecks that love our guns and religion, are all broke with maxed out credit cards and overweight with a nasty case of diabetes.
>* Big trade partners within the EU are typically pairs dictated by geographic proximity (for instance the Netherlands and Germany, Germany and Poland and so on) or by the possession of some vast natural resource (eg. Germany - Russia in the case of natural gas).*

I'm not sure what you mean by big trade being between "pairs dictated by geographic proximity".

For example, Germany is the largest exporter to lots of countries in the EU, including Greece. I don't think we trade much with any of our "geographic neighbours". And Italy and France do quite well in exporting inside EU too.

Most importantly, I don't think he means this kind of industrial, agricultural trade, in his post. It's mostly about entrepreneurs in the tech field and new style businesses.

It should be also obvious that he knows what he's talking about (the original article that the post criticizes), because, unlike the critic, he has already created and worked with several companies in Europe.
So that would fall under the appropriate compensation / benefits category then. I don't think the OP is saying money isn't a factor, just that it is not the only factor all things being equal.

I have taken jobs before where I got paid less because I would learn much more in the new job, inevitably allowing me to earn more money in the longer term. Had I stayed at the old job I would have found it extremely difficult to find a job now with very outdated skillset.
Searching HN users across a karma range
Google Query: inurl:news.ycombinator.com/user "karma: * 20000..80208"
AWS doesn't provide HA like that, but yeah, they could. I suspect they do some of this for cost reasons, and its unfeasable for other locations.
It is interesting how they are going to monetize their software.
I wouldn't describe it as a developer's paradise at all- making apps with HTML/CSS/JS can be a very painful process. A developers paradise in terms of compatibility, though.
1) Unrelenting persistence
2) Unrelenting persistence
3) Unrelenting persistence

Just keep getting back up. You'll probably win eventually. Probably.
Ok. Then what? Try and imagine an article written for US based entrepreneurs that didn't generalize about Europe to some degree? It would be awfully confusing (if written at all) So better to gently chide some of the more extreme generalizations than worry about stopping the practise entirely.
I'm not knee-deep in this specific issue with the binstubs, but I generally agree about the legitimate grievances. The Merb effort and the Rails 3.0 refactor resulted from people unable to voice what they need. We seem to keep repeating history.

Asset Pipeline is also the wrong area of innovation to focus on. Rails should be baking in support for creating API only apps, make it easy to shed template-driven code and write UX-agnostic backends. Mobile is driving a need for creating API-only apps, and something like Asset Pipeline is an evolutionary dead-end. There are more smartphone-like devices in the world than personal computers; there are kids growing up with a smartphone as their first computing device; people of our generation have a bias towards thinking of UX and web-apps as desktop-first; when the tooling around API-only Rails apps mature, then template-driven apps will start dying into irrelevance.

But, I'm done with it. I'm looking at the next wave of leading edge of innovations for the masses, and it won't be in apps.
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Yes, there seems to be more and more about email these days, but it seems like everyone is just putting a different interface on something that is not working as they want. I created a little mock-up of what I want out of email - just my 2 cents.

http://squarerfish.tumblr.com/
> Currently I only use the VM for banking and shopping, which I'm still (perhaps unjustly) afraid to use a Windows machine for.

Definitely unjustly.

Windows 8 has far better security mitigations than a base Ubuntu install.
New Zealand’s largest paper calls Kim Dotcom “good for this country”
Interesting - this is essentially an ALS (Advanced Life Support / Paramedic) bag.
The Web MIDI Draft API specification on GitHub
Are you sure they're all claiming the same thing? Maybe one "Rails developer" actually works on the framework itself, while another "Rails developer" is a developer who merely uses it to accomplish something else.

Either way, you're looking at a brag-fest as people try to one-up each other. That can't be productive. I don't think any good would come of this.
It all depends on what kind of startup you want to do. Some startup are capital intensive and some are not. In startup, You need money to do some activities. Find people who can do those activity and partner with them. There are also so many outsourcing avenues available to outsource activities at very low cost.
you can take some part time consulting assignments to pay your bills.
Thank you for addressing my security concerns. I'm glad you've thought about these issues, and that's more than enough to make me strongly recommend Inky to others.
Yep. 48233 Warm Springs Blvd, Fountain, Colorado. It was a fully-automated plant capable of building a computer in under a minute, and it was Steve's pride & joy. It was also a big expense for a computer that was largely a flop in the beginning, and the expense was one of the reasons behind Steve's ouster from the company. After he was gone, Apple sold a lot of the equipment and built printers there until the 90s.
I'd wager $100 that 99% of HN readers can't even name the fastest growing economy in Europe...
"Is there an aeronautical engineer on board,"

One of the top 5 questions you don't want to hear over the loudspeaker while flying on a supersonic jet.
definetly, an user admin or a L.O.B app dont need to be SEO friendly , if you want SEO and you are doing single page app f you are doing it wrong.
American is the proper demonym in the English language for a citizen of the United States of America.