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I'm not sure why this is only coming up now, it's been this way since day one. I do think this is the best way (making the developer the merchant) but perhaps it should be better communicated.
Here's a great dashcam video that captures the meteor arcing across its field of vision and lighting up the scene more brightly than the sun like a nuclear blast (first submitted to HN by dennisgorelik). I almost thought it was a hoax, and even tried to examine the video for signs that it was CGI.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJOJ6B2XOyA

The guy doesn't even say anything for a long while, just starts speeding up.

edit: Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy (Slate) think it's unrelated to the 2012DA14 asteroid, because of the timing gap and incorrect direction of travel. http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking... This could have turned out very badly if the thing had hit the ground...could we have caught this one, and why didn't we?
My view would be that people that are interested, the most likely to pursue it as a career, don't need a requirement to drive participation. Those forced to do it like they are forced to take <insert many other subjects here> are not really likely to learn anything terribly useful, or remember it. They may cram for a test and be able to pop out a half-working FizzBuzz implementation (You're hired!!), but I suspect a year or two down the line anything learned will be forgotten and what will they have truly gained? I am all for the availability of these kinds of classes, my high school certainly did not have them, but the idea of making it required stinks of a ham-fisted way to solve the 'we don't have enough STEM graduates to compete with <insert foreign boogie-man country here>!!'. I have lots of friends outside the tech sphere, of various levels of understanding of computers. I don't know if any of them would be immediately advantaged by doing some deep dive learning course in programming over any other topic in which they lack depth. As a techie I would like to scream YES, but as a realist I am not so sure.
I was thinking something similar. The Soviets were at times well regarded in the West for their civil defense preparations. But none of these Russians seem to know how to duck and cover.
I seriously dont think he ever got that advice. It speaks against 6th grade physics and any common sense.
A simple intelligent router may have 2^n performance, but I cannot imagine there are not other solutions that would bring performance closer to linear. I am not a queue theory expert, but I know they are out there. This is a well studied area of CS.

This is not only a problem for non-concurrent applications. It will become a problem as dyno usage increases for any application. The major factors will be the standard deviation of your response times and the number of responses you can handle per dyno. The issue just manifests first in applications that can only handle one request per dyno.

Check out this graph released by rapgenius:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/1360871196_routerstyles_fa...

The purple line is a multi-threaded application.
No matter how concurrent your framework, it is still possible to overload the resources of a single dyno. When that happens, the router will continue to stack requests up in the queue.
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In theory, the service provider could just switch to a better scheduler and raise their rates to compensate, since the TCO for a customer would go down correspondingly. Their costs go down, their profits go up, and customers still benefit.

Prices are usually determined more by competition than by technical factors. Unfortunately, there's a fair bit of lock-in to PaaS vendors, which is the real reason I'd be skeptical about building a business on them. The nice thing about the VM layer is there's a well-documented, public API between your code and the platform, so when your service provider raises their rates, you can switch to another one or operate your own hardware.
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That is an amazing event. I am not sure I buy the meteorite story. Has anyone checked on 2012-DA14 [1] the asteroid that was supposed to cross between the earth and geosync orbit this evening? One conjecture would be it knocked something out of orbit.

The air defense stuff is somewhat hard to believe, we don't intercept de-orbiting space junk, much less less hypersonic meteors. Further every missile interceptor that is publicly disclosed (which includes the US attempts at an exo-atmospheric interceptor) have boost stages that generate a lot of vapor, there is no rising vapor trail in any of the videos of a ground based interceptor.

Finally there is the magnitude of the flash. Given the lack of sparkles on the video I don't believe what ever exploded was nuclear but on the videos with timers watching the flash and timing the 'boom' correlates with the 20 - 25 km (80,000') in altitude. One hopes it wasn't a surveillance aircraft that was destroyed. I'm sure if it was we'll hear about that in the morning.

Definitely a mystery.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/across-the-universe/2013/f...
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.That makes no sense. How do the post office know that you are resetting the password of an account you have legitimate access to without the website storing personal details. I suppose you could have a .post office OpenId but that would still require people to go to the post office once at the start which would make people less likely to sign up
This guys other articles are really good too. He has a couple on escorts that are really interesting. The article he has on the last words of inmates being put to death is absolutely fascinating and incredibly saddening.
http://10x.org.il

Not sure if there will be another course coming up soon, but if you are willing to live in Israel for 3 months, it's a great program.
I'm sure most people wouldn't have even known about the NYT article or even taken it very seriously, but after this whole kerfuffle, Musk has put the Streisand effect into full force.

Personally I think that Tesla looks bad here. They have been given so much praise over the last year that this one unfortunate review caused them to react with overzealous vigilance. Perhaps, if Musk had privately contacted Broder, shown him the data and make an understanding out of all this, they could have re-done the road trip and all would be well.

Instead, Musk attempts to embarrass him with internal logs and a blog post. It almost seems like he is implying that Broder has some ulterior agenda. I'm not saying Musk is right or wrong (I really don't know). I'm saying he could have handled the whole thing a lot better.
I recently joined a cloud infra startup (IaaS). Here are my early thoughts.
The skill of writing is already covered by English classes. Whether or not those English classes do a good job is a different discussion.

You also seem to be making the mistake of thinking that writing and coding are mutually exclusive.
Untouchable algorithmic integrity? History tracking? Data not easily corruptible by users? Accuracy in decimal amounts past 12 to 14 significant digits, particularly if fractionals involved? Huge data volumes? Mind-numbing repetitive tasks?

Excel for that? No. Code for that? Yes.

Agility? Quick checksums? Looking for errors? Ad-hoc analysis?

Excel for that? Yes! Code for that? Depends on whether I have to do it again, or if it gets big.

Ad-hoc correlations for equality checking? I'll take a FULL OUTER JOIN over criss-crossing cranky VLOOKUP(...)s any day.
Is anyone interesting in working on a long term project to change the laws about the computer professionals exemption from being paid overtime? Drop me a note johnk@riceball.com
You could always marry her:

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Another confounding factor: there's a decent volume of shovelware movies that consist of non-original scenes edited together, like a mash-up tape. I would not be surprised to discover that one scene results in three credited appearances on average.
While it's moving at great speed, it's really about distance that determines the gap with sonic booms. Speed of sound is ~340m/s at sea level, so using that value with a gap of 27 seconds we can assume the boom originated ~9.1km away from the camera(thus it took 27 seconds for the sound to reach the camera). The distance is probably wrong given the speed of sound is different depending on the altitude.

The speed had more to do with the magnitude of the boom itself.
They were playing real life missile command.
Marry her
This guy https://twitter.com/BadAstronomer/status/302313851511271426 seems pretty sure it's unrelated to 2012DA14. And he has 230K followers on Twitter, so ... shrug
Think about it this way: how would you pitch to programmers to replace whiteboards and post-it notes with software?
Given that perhaps 90% of all programs have coding errors, I fail to see that any programming language or program is a good or useful tool.
So, you 7 or so other people in Alaska - where are you, and what kind of stuff do you do? The tech scene up here seems pretty sparse outside of oil and telecom stuff.
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>Automatic type conversion is my favorite.

Amen to that!! Yes, "Clippy" (Excel) gets a little too enthusiastic at times, but the missing piece here is metadata. So Clippy does what Clippy can without metadata, and the results can be laughable at times.

My fix for that, _if I'm sourcing the data_, is to source it as tab-delimited (not CSV-delimited) from the clipboard into an empty sheet area twice:

With the first paste, I 'visually' correct the columns' incorrectly guessed data types, but Clippy oddly doesn't attempt to reformat the data. No worries, I just select all, hit DELETE, then do my second paste using the same starting cell as my first paste. Clippy doesn't interfere this time, and my data comes up all beautifully typed as I want it. I don't know why, but the DELETE key doesn't kill the data types for cells, and I'm glad it doesn't! Not visible, not obvious, but very useful.
It does seem silly to intercept. The computers could ascertain that the trajectory was unlikely to have originated on Earth in milliseconds.

Modern terminal guidance systems are all imaging based. Or at least the US ones have been for a couple decades; I imagine the Russians are using something at least vaguely similar.

Basically, the missiles latch onto the target visually and are capable of recognizing their target from the details of its appearance (in an air defense context, not just "an airplane" but "that specific airplane"). It is why, contra Hollywood, modern terminal guidance systems are nigh impossible to spoof. The missile knows what the airplane looks like and can read the tail number off your craft, so as long as it can locate it (even if it temporarily loses sight), it is likely to hit unless the motor runs out of gas. Heat has little to do with it, though the imagers often work in broad spectrum infrared.

Lots of smaller, impacters with kiloton-class impact energies are never discovered or discovered at the very last minute. This looks like a pretty small rock in terms of damage done so it could easily have been missed by sky surveys.
The general idea being that the Earth moves ~100,000km/hr around the sun, and with the asteroid fly-by many hours away, that would mean a pretty wide orbital gap.
And the second stage of HAARP testing concluded.....
Frankly even in hindsight I would be running out of buildings, not into them. That was one hell of a sonic boom, and do you really want to take the chance of seismic activity following shortly? I would be more concerned about the building falling onto me than the meteorite.

In uncertain circumstances, I think I would almost always prefer not being under concrete.
As someone who did that for a longer strech of time last year, because of starting a company, organizing a conference in parallel and socializing within the local programming community: it sucks you out. Not physically, but mentally, because all you do is "work". Worse: you get used to that state.

I still do that from time to time if things just cannot be pushed, but in very short spans.

I should say that I consider all my learning endeavors "free time", so its not like I just watch TV after work. I just don't do any business work.

As a sidenote, I had the most productive time in my life when I was working in France, 35 hours a week. As someone used to 40 hours, I always felt like I shouldn't waste any minute to get my stuff done :).
Bitcoin, like cash, does not prevent you from layering an escrow-like protocol on top of it; it's just that:

a) it's not built-in by default; and

b) it's a lot easier to get into business offering such a service (you just just need to have the trust of typical pairs of parties, rather than that PLUS all the stuff you'd have to put up with when setting up a whole new payment network).

Using Bitcoin does not condemn you to being at the mercy of every merchant you may ever buy from.

(FWIW, the above is why I don't understand the excessive promotion of "OMG LOL no chargebacks FTW!")
I'm largely of the opinion that aptitude has little to do with anything. It seems that a much bigger problem is our tools for teaching conceptual material are simply terrible. (I'm actually tempted to argue that our tools for teaching a wide variety of material are terrible, but conceptual stuff is especially bad.)

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/01/144550920/physicists-seek-to-l...

The link above is an article about how college level students in introductory physics classes have/are failing spectacularly to learn the basic principles of physics. The key parts:

> While most physics students can recite Newton's second law of motion, Harvard's Mazur says, the conceptual test developed by Hestenes showed that after an entire semester they understood only about 14 percent more about the fundamental concepts of physics. When Mazur read the results, he shook his head in disbelief. The test covered such basic material.

> "I gave it to my students only to discover that they didn't do much better," he says.

> The test has now been given to tens of thousands of students around the world and the results are virtually the same everywhere. The traditional lecture-based physics course produces little or no change in most students' fundamental understanding of how the physical world works.

Mazur notes later in the article that after making major changes in his teaching methods and moving away from lectures and towards student group discussions, the students' learned roughly three times as much material. This is a hilariously large increase, and I suspect it to be the low-hanging fruit as far as potential improvements.

A hundred years ago, Maria Montessori developed methods of teaching that are largely the opposite of traditional lecture-based education systems. Students pursue goals largely independently and at their own pace. She developed materials that grounded complex concepts in the real world - my favorite examples of which are the binomial and trinomial cubes. Here's a link that explains how and why the binomial cube, which represents an algebraic (and fairly complex!) concept, is a material provided to 4-5 year old students: http://www.montessoriworld.org/sensory/sbinoml.html

Today, we have computer games that allow us to discard the limits of physical reality. We can create interactive software to teach or prepare students for concepts that might not be possible with physical materials. Why explain the principles of ecology when you could create a simulated, manipulable world that teaches the user simply by interacting with it? Why not have discussions and lectures following this, once the core material has already been presented and experimented with so that the students can begin with at least a partial understanding?

Learning to program doesn't strike me as any more difficult than learning any other subject. Occasional posts show up here about how someone is teaching their child to program - often well before their teen years. What separates those children from the average child other than economic situation and available opportunities?
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> (though obviously it's their fault for using a proprietary blob)

I couldn't agree more. The problem with these news sites [1] is that they make the kernel developers look like stubborn zealots that refuse to do something that would ultimately benefit the users, when in fact they aren't really doing anything wrong. The news sites fail to mention the root of this problem: nVidia, a hardware manufacturer, refuses to open source their drivers. This may sound like no big deal; after all, lots of IT companies do that, right?. But it is a big deal. Refusing to open source the drivers is in fact refusing to let the users have control over the their hardware. It's not an end-user application that you can choose not to use; it's the thing that controls the hardware you own. "You can use it, but only through this restricted interface we give you, you can't look inside!". Not a nice move in my books.

[1]: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0O...
And to be clear, there isn't any one "boom" event with a sonic boom. It is an ongoing event for stationary observers, a pressure front that follows the object and is heard when it passes by you.
Wait until you hear about pirates and global warming!
Sometimes good isn't good enough. I don't know what kind of community you run or anything about your hosting/everything around it.

Maybe it's time for you to look into some way to either invest yourself by loan or find someone else investing in it for you. If the growth is so exponential as you make it sound, this would end up in profit for the company and you either way.
Not really buying this.

Bill Gates and Elon Musk and their inner circle worked very long hours consistently to build something great.

How do you compete with those who work smart and work hard doing something they are very committed to and passionate about?

This is the issue I have with investing in most startups outside the Valley.

On average, are they not going to lose to those singularly focused on being the best?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UNFjRkq...
It's #1 as of this writing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224616
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A guy posts looking for a job and you put up your own ad? C'mon.
It's not impossible, but incredibly implausible. First off there isn't any evidence of an interception in any of the videos. Second, intercepting a hypersonic object with ordinary SAM sites is pretty much not going to happen. The amount of time it would take just to get a radar lock let alone to launch missiles would not leave much time for interception.

Interestingly, Russia does have an active ABM system. The old ABM-treaty allowed both the US and the USSR to have one ABM site active for each country, the US shut theirs down fairly quickly but the Soviets maintained and later upgraded theirs, protecting Moscow, and Russia has kept it. It's a nuclear warhead based system, it would be interesting to see what the hell would have happened if the same event happened over Moscow instead of Chelyabinsk.
As I've written elsewhere, I think just having a way for dynos to refuse load (by not accepting a connection, or returning an error or redirect), such that the load tries another dyno, will probably achieve most of the benefits of 'intelligent' routing. And, preserve the stateless scalability of the 'routing mesh'.
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Its probably a way of getting higher rank on "python cloud servers". Cloud servers is actually claimed as trademark by rackspace:)
Out of curiosity, what makes you want to see bitcoins be successful so much? A backend programmer I'm working with wants to include bitcoin payments in a site but I'm not convinced.
No sane military would introduce such a lag. Furthermore I think your concerns are overblown. After all, something far more "potentially disastrous" happened in 1983 at a high point in Soviet/US tensions, and fortunately the guy in charge of retaliation launching had the common sense to reason a war wouldn't be started with one (or in his case, 5) missiles. http://lesswrong.com/lw/jq/926_is_petrov_day/
You have options:
1. Marriage
2. She can apply to a large company. The visa issue isn't even a speed bump.
3. Long distance relationship
Take the "Germany bans 48 hours weeks" with a grain of salt. In certain branches, working 50 hours and more is still considered part of the codex, especially in advertisement agencys. Hours are rarely logged. Working long hours is still seen favourably in Germany.

The big problem is that basically working an unbounded amount of time without logging it hides problems: your work environment sucks and make you slow? Just work more and the problem goes away.
So, uh, NASA was expecting this. They were going to have a livestream chat about this? Er, looks like they got the prediction slightly off.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid201...

*For the person who downvoted me, there is supposed to be a near earth flyby tomorrow of an asteroid called 2012 DA14 which will be livestreamed with commentary by NASA here: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2. A reasonable explanation would be that the event today was a chuck or asteroid as part of that expected fly by. The astroid is expected to be 17,000 miles away from Earth.
A problem with this proposal is the assumption that there is one 'the router' with this info, updated for tens of thousands of dynos and millions of requests per second.