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"The notion that everyone should be guaranteed equal health outcomes is a very seductive one, but once you start digging into the details it falls apart quite rapidly."

Falls apart exactly how? Seems to work fine in just about every country that's tried it (which is most of the first world). Mind you, it's not really the health outcome that's guaranteed (obviously that's going to depend on individual constitution, age and lifestyle) but access to the same level of care is seen as a given. In my town recently there was a minor scandal when a pro hockey player showed up with a game injury at a local emergency ward and went to the head of the line. The hospital had to scramble to explain that his injury went through normal triage.

You talk about bankrupting the public, but clearly it's the far more expensive US system that is bankrupting the public (along with providing worse outcomes overall). For those of use who have grown up with publicly funded healthcare, a fully private system seems primitive, barbaric and inhumane equivalent to having firefighting or police services exclusively for those who can afford it.
Thought experiments are ahistorical and arealistic. Yet they are still important tools for understanding things. Go figure.
Totally agree. So many people would kill to be in the positions some of us are in to pursue opportunities, chase our dreams, and be able to participate in the current zeitgeist and contribute to the world.

If you can do that, you're already a success in my book.
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I'm a relatively happy codemonkey. I would have been happier as a carpenter, but we gotta play with the hand we've been dealt until opportunity knocks (and that may be plan E or F). I'm in the process of weaning myself away from the codemonkey and back to carpenter (soon cabin builder, hopefully).

Life is funny sometimes.
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Same here. Was working on a rails 4 project last weekend for fun. Ended contributing a few patches here and there.
Awesome.

Why'd it take 6 years to resolve this case?
So then we should hope this goes to the Supreme Court so it can be upheld there and applied everywhere? Or will most smaller courts apply it in other districts anyway, if the 9th Circuit upholds it?
Concur. As little as I'd have expected to be able to say this when some of the more recent sitting justices were appointed, I think this may be one of the best SCOTUS in recent memory to have such a case appear before them.
Meh, I don't use google reader or really care, but I am pissed they plan on ending igoogle in November. It's insane to me that they will do this.

It's my homepage and I'm sure millions of other people's homepages. Setting your homepage to an internet company's site is pretty much their whole goal. It's insane to me that they will give this up.
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I don't think it's uncommon at all to roll your own job scheduler. I know I've done it at the last two places I have worked, though neither had nearly as fancy a front-end as Chronos appears to have. This particular scheduler (Chronos) looks like a cross between traditional cron and HPC cluster job scheduling systems (a la Sun Grid Engine). It looks like a really cool project.
Make this filtering optional or do in on the client.
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It shouldn't really come as a surprise that Google is acting more and more now like a big established company with shareholders (which they are). When you become an established industry leader (as a profit-driven shareholder company), you tend to focus on minimising overheads, cutting cruft and focusing on core profit-driven services.

They aren't going to be benevolent dictators of the internet forever - we should be thankful that their benevolence has lasted so long (and still is lasting through many free services provided).
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The article says it’s likely Credo Mobile.

They're a fairly great little MVNO out of San Francisco. My wife, who is a customer, loves their customer service. And they’ve spoken out against the Patriot act - here’s tweet of theirs on the subject: https://twitter.com/CREDOMobile/status/4326145876
That is the whole reason people use google, it's convenient.

They're not stopping anyone running a personal ejabberd server.
I started in construction as a steel worker. One life altering injury later I retrained as a code monkey. Much happier, wish I did it first, I always was interested in computers.
I still remember how much did I ask for a computer until I finally get one at the age of 12, a 8086 IBM PS2!
> You dont know a damn thing about RSS , Aaron Schwartz did not died so a dch like you can claim RSS is dead , go back to your Twitter/Facebook/write your dumb social network here/ sandbox ... you just dont have a clue...

Yeah, tell me more about Aaron "Schwartz."
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All Android devices are tied to Gmail accounts. So zero.
This just made hungry. My god, next time I visit LA, I'm emailing you. (:
I'm not sure if it is a problem unique to India, but here Angel investors are extremely risk averse. Other than looking at the competition, objective, market opportunity and potential, they focus on current revenues A LOT! Their decision of whether to invest or not depends almost 80-90% on whether you are making steady income already, and that I think is the biggest dealmaker/breaker than all other criteria.
so maybe they should kill ChromeBooks and G+ already , nobody cares about that damn stuff.
Anyone know why launchd hasn't taken off in this regard? I've used it on my personal systems with success, but rarely (if ever) see it mentioned as a cron replacement. Instead, you frequently see these solutions done from scratch.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless
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Very almost perfect. The only issue I have is with its scrolling - when it scrolls down it only scrolls enough to show the highlighted area, not the textbox underneath it with information. 1366x768 resolution if that matters.
I', #538,902 on this waiting list so its working.
Uhm, I've always thought I've been in a pretty small minority - but at least here in Sweden, RSS reading is pretty normal.

Though, the majority of people here aren't using Google Reader - so I guess I'm a minority there - but they're using "Bloglovin".

They're pretty large it seems.
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Incidentally, that's somewhat what I've been building since my recent submission: Show HN: A personal Gmail. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804690)

I learned a lot from HN about trust and got a lot of great feedback via email.

Basically, I currently manage my own email via a native app I build with TideSDK and AngularJS. MailGun catches the emails and my rails service drops them into my dropbox as JSON files.

There is some magic going on regarding conversation views, labels, attachments, etc.

Sadly, I came across a critical memory leak in TideSDK, which currently prevents me from releasing the app/service to the public.

Feel free to drop me a message if you're interested in updates.
jholman: after reading everything again and thinking about it, you're right, I went too far with my last sentence. I added a note to my comment. Thank you.
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Someone asked the question "how does this apply to coding?" Yes, how would "hard practice time" apply to coding. Is that the time when you're actually head-down writing code? What about the time when you're not head-down, in your hard work and, for example, mulling how to get past a point where you're stuck? And is there an analogous activity for musicians - when they are not "hard practicing" but working through something in their minds?
If a recruiter were to read this article and do something like this to me, I would be totally pissed.

If I were to find out that a recruiter took the time to find extra references by rummaging around my social networks and calling people I didn't mention, I would feel some serious serious mistrust. This is the kind of thing that would actually make me reject an offer from a company.

If you have found that this technique actually works for you, then what you are actually discovering in reality is that you probably:
1) Have an inadequate technical interview process.
2) Have inadequate tech recruiters.
I'm biased about this topic, but don't take my word for it. Robert Scoble is one such 'influencer' and here's his take and the discussion around it: https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/posts/499071000129201

Key takeaway: it's not the 'vast majority' that bring about innovation and change on the web. It might be Google doesn't care about innovating on the web front anymore, at least less than the hardware and integrated systems fronts. So ironically, this might actually hurt Plus.
My two bits of advice for learning Chef:

- Use chef-solo. (Edit: and use knife-solo to initially bootstrap Chef onto the machine.)

- Your first time, forget about cookbooks and just write a single site-cookbooks/myapp/recipes/default.rb. Use that to list packages, shell code, whatever.

This will get you started, and you can learn/improve from there.

Your second time, use librarian-chef, and as someone else said, freely clone cookbooks so you can adapt them to your needs.
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Fuckin' A, man!

Please forgive me for that outburst. But this really puts a smile on my face. I think I'll go give more money to the EFF. Maybe rename my daughter Susan.
IANAL but IIRC the GPS tracking was thrown out on narrow technical grounds - without a warrant the cops can't trespass upon your vehicle to install the tracker. They didn't say there was anything inherently wrong with the tracking itself. In other words, it would be just as illegal for the cops to surreptitiously attach an inert brick to your car without a warrant.
> Wonder what else is up for the next couple of days.

I think the answer to that can be found by watching Futurama episode 64, "The Why of Fry".
The fact is everything you said about it is wrong, and you drew the wrong conclusions from the docs. I would forgive a person for making that mistake from a lack of experience, but if you want to play it the other way I could just accuse you of lying.

The best part is when you say it's just a GOTO that doesn't do anything about synchronous long running code problems—how do you think Go's concurrency actually works under the hood? It works the same way—and has the same problem you describe.
Additionally, they are probably more talented and therefore have a higher progress rate when they practice which leads to less frustation and more relaxation.

It's easy to be relaxed when you know that as long as you put in some hours you'll always belong to the best of the best while others are constantly struggling with trying to become one of those best of the best to be more successful, get a better paid job (especially in music),...
That depends on what you mean by job scheduling, right? Lots of people would call Resque a job scheduling system, but they still reach for cron when they want to run something every 5 minutes.
There's a lot of grousing in the tech community -- and HN in particular -- about all the threats to freedom, and for all the problems with the government's responses to current issues like new technologies or terrorism.

There's legitimate substance here, but occasionally, the system actually works exactly the way it's supposed to -- the judicial branch both asserting its independence from the executive and striking down an overreaching action by the latter.

In the actual ruling [1], the judge provides a very apt quotation from another case: "Under no circumstances should the Judiciary become the handmaiden of the Executive." This is particularly important in matters of national security. The tendency is for the executive branch to say the magic words "national security" if those words tend to cause other people to let them do whatever they want.

EDIT: Actually link to the ruling

[1] https://www.eff.org/document/nsl-ruling-march-14-2013
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Seems like it's all downside and not much upside; it's an unambitious little C project that would mostly give people an opportunity to write blog posts about my C programming style. :)

I'm not saying I'll never publish code, just that I've become choosy about it in my advancing years.
One example that jumps to mind was that I was able to rip out several hundred lines of fiddley retry and backoff code and replace it with fine-grain-timed repeating events.

One advantage to doing this in Redis was that our events aren't just "run a program" (though we can do that); we can also push onto a queue that consumers BLPOP from, or send a pubsub message to a bunch of consumers, or increment counters.

later

Makes you think, it's nice that Redis is minimal, but a core feature that might work really nicely with Redis is timer support.
It makes google untrustworthy , where a big entity like Google is supposed to offer stable services. I would have paid for reader , the cost is not an issue , the issue is killing a service without even offering an alternative. The google "dont be evil" propaganda is over. They are as bad as Microsoft and should by treated likewise by the press. And we all know how the press deals with Microsoft.
Ebiester: if you want a decent email platform with webmail, calendaring and maybe xmpp, have a look at Zimbra.
It's super easy to install, all you need is a VPS with Centos 6 or Ubuntu 12.04 and a static IP address, then download and execute the installer.

I understand it's not so easy to run your own stuff, but it's also not as hard as some people believe, especially if all your need is a small setup for personal use.

I'll try to wrap up some tutorials in the near future to help people run stuff on their own. I'll remember to ping you when done.
I would add understanding of social media too. It has become a must since past few years to have a substantial online presence. Personal branding is something that will take you a long way ahead. You can crash parties only once in a while, but in social media space, you can have real-time one-on-one interactions with almost anybody anytime!
Or the EFF, it's almost like little guy insurance
> Any time you have closures you have threading issues. Think: if two threads call the same closure concurrently, how do they synchronize access to closed variables?

> To get what you want in a Lisp

Several Common Lisp implementations expose pthreads-style shared memory threads (SBCL, ECL, Clozure, Allegro, etc). It works just fine. The problem of synchronizing access to the closed-over variables in a closure is precisely the same as the problem of synchronizing access to instance variables of a class, and has the same solution: use a mutex.
> RSS is dead

What other technology is pervasively available to subscribe to discretized rich text articles, that will automatically fetch new entries, and maintain a history of viewed / favorited articles?

RSS serves a very critical function on the Internet - automated retrieval of content from dedicated sources picked by a user.

It was never a "platform" or a business model. It is syndication. The end. Everything from blogs, to videos, to art galleries, to music artists, benefit greatly from providing automated syndication to their content. So RSS will always have a place.
I worked with these guys for a couple days and I can say they are a really amazing team: positive energy, healthy debate and mutually supportive. Way to go InstantCab!
How many gmail chat users use an external IM client?
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This is simply not true. Chef solo does not require a server.
Far in the future when all these social networks are dead , RSS will still be alive , because it is a open protocol thus promote interoperability.
Isn't that what I'm doing by using hosted services?
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Working on old browsers is a big change in the next version of IntroJs.
I think it will hurt Google. Who use reader ? journalists , analysts , and they are pissed off. I dont recall such a huge reaction when other Google services shut down.
Yep. Donate to the EFF regularly. With all luck, you won't need their services; but in the rare case that you do, it's much better to have them still be around and well funded.
>I ask: if Google does not block outside requests, what could they do to stop this sort of thing?

Have a separate "spam gchat invite" folder that you could review periodically to look for false positives.
Hi Danso, fundamentally Chef, CFEngine and Puppet are all Configuration Management (CM) systems. They are a programmatic way to specify what a "host" or group of "hosts" should look like using a dependency graph. Basically it builds the dependency graph and works from the root to the leaves one level at a time.

As an example let's say you want to install MongoDB on a new Ubuntu machine, you have the following dependencies in approximate order;

* Add MongoDB Apt Repo to apt list.
* Add MongoDB repository key.
* apt-get update.
* apt-get install mongodb.
* Configure /etc/mongodb.conf to your liking.
* Restart mongodb.

Depending on how you implement it CM will allow you to make the process cookie cutter.

Want a new test environment? Spin one up and run your CM against the servers.
Want to try that hot new cloud provider? Ditto.

I think it's worth the investment unless you're just doing apps that have a very short shelf life (e.g. marketing apps that live for no longer than a few months).

Kind Regards,
Nathan
Precisely. Google exists because of the nerd minority! Once they lose sight of that they're doomed. Who do they think will be the early adopters of self driving cars?
the system actually works exactly the way it's supposed to

The system actually works exactly the way it's supposed to far more often than the cynics like to admit. The system isn't perfect, but I'm not about to stop believing in justice just yet.
It really depends. For politically controversial stuff like this, lower courts ten to be skeptical of out-of-Circuit decisions, especially out of the 9th, which has a reputation for being lala-land. If it were something mundane, or the circuit was say the 2nd rather than the 9th, then district courts elsewhere would probably consider the decision fairly persuasive, absent a contrary decision in their own circuit. But with something like this, who knows?

Ideally what would happen is for the case to be appealed, for the 9th circuit to uphold, then for a different circuit to come out the other way so the argument can be made that the Supreme Court needs to resolve the circuit split. That's one typical way controversial things like this make their way up to the Supreme Court.
> So RSS will always have a place.

Indeed,

> but it's not a hot technology around which you can build a business on the scale that will move needles for Google.
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If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers

We can start by disproving the assumption that the elite players dedicate more hours to music. The time diaries revealed that both groups spent, on average, the same number of hours on music per week (around 50).

Were they more relaxed when they were working hard?

Edit: for a less-sharp tone.
I've always been wary of the online programming sites like codecademy and the like, because when I did Rails for Zombies I realized it never shows you how to set up an actual Rails application nor how Git and Heroku work. Are all the tutorials similar in that they baby you?
Yeah. They're furious.

https://twitter.com/ginatrapani/status/312451705692385280
Stupidity has, indeed, been made abundantly clear here. Bravo.
Buzz was widely used internally when it was killed. I think it may have been more successful inside than out.
Interesting use of git rebase for breaking commits.
They are effectively stopping people from running personal ejabberd servers. What the hell is the point of running your own jabber server if your users can't talk to users on the largest jabber network on the planet?
Google becoming a slightly more open form of the current Microsoft wouldn't be bad.
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The incorrectness in your claim was the use of the word "frequently". VFib does not "frequently" become asystole after a few seconds. It generally continues for several minutes. 2% of people who enter asystole ever recover; far more than 2% of people who enter vfib and stay there for more than "a few seconds" recover.

Wikipedia seems to be missing an "eventually" in the sentence you quoted. The arrhythmia can persist for several minutes, but if it persists for more than a few seconds it will likely eventually generate into asystole without medical intervention.
"Do work for free" is the worst suggestion I've heard in a long time. Your time is valuable; it should be to you and it should be to the person you are working for. Even if you aren't getting a monetary remuneration for your services there should be some kind of compensation, and you should be clear – at least in your head – what it is. Never – ever –work for free. It may seem like a good idea but its not.
I think it's more a reaction to their general recent policy of doing far less away from their core business. They used to have a ton of projects with a very relaxed attitude about making money from any given project. Now that they've given up on focusing on that much beyond their bottom line, they're acting much more like other large companies which is not necessarily a good thing.
If you want to do multiple renames in one commit then the command line is likely the best way.
The child/adult numbers were coalesced to reduce confusion. You can also get away with no rescue breaths, not just because of the ick-factor others have mentioned, but because your compression of the chest is also compressing the lungs, providing enough airflow for the needs - and just as importantly, you haven't stopped compressing to deliver the breaths. Similarly, if you don't need to move to deliver the breaths, you don't need to find your correct compression spot on the chest again.