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If you are looking to do web, learn Javascript the future of the web is moving to platforms that expose themselves as JSON services and Javascript/HTML application consuming those services to create workflows ontop of a mixture of those platforms. Javascript has become an essential language to the future of the web.
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See, I've always really liked explaining how things worked in the abstract to people, and most of the time, they also enjoy it. There is a logic that flows through programming that is beautiful and I feel innately understandable, even for the most abstract of programs. However, it often requires a lot of explanation and of laying out an intellectual base on which to build your mental construct. That's hard, but I've always found it so worth it:

The person listening learns something new, and is able to see something beautiful in the way that someone else sees it. Additionally, the person who's doing the explaining gains the experience of trying to relate their idea to another person, an exercise that often expands the explainers understanding of the idea.

I really wish more people explained what they love and find interesting!
I am not sure I understand you correctly. Abandoning gold standard is one thing, abusing money after abandoning gold standard is another. When governments need money they can create it out of thin air, and leaving a standard that you can not control gives you this ability. Check the following web site.

http://www.paulvaneeden.com/What.is.money

The link you provided (http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/) calculated me the following: an item worth $20 in 1933 would cost $469.02 in 2013 and cumulative rate of inflation is 2245.1%. How is that not an inflation?
consider that you've live in a area which wont let you died as hungry, so why not just do it?
This sounds awesome. I hope you do it and write a blog post about it!
I doubt they'd LET you rent a manual out. Generally rental places only allow automatics. If you have a special car that you love, probably not great. If you're one of the great majority that buys a Civic/Camry/Focus/etc. then it's not like driving your car takes any special skill.
From the local Public Safety department... in Kalamazoo they have combined the police and fire departments into one and have done so for over 20 years.
1010data provides a web product for performing transformation on large sets of data and it's quite nice. We used it when we used to do analysis of mortgage pools etc.
OpenVZ gives you a container as they call it, which looks like its very own Linux OS. You can login to it, install packages with the package manager, etc. All processes you run, e.g. Apache/PHP, plus MySQL , run in this VM. PHP and MySQL would communicate over a Unix local socket, same as on non-virtualized Linux OS.

Docker appears to run each process, in isolation. So you would have 2 isolated processes (Apache/PHP, plus MySQL) which can only talk to each other over a local network pipe (which should be quite fast with minimal overhead).

(this is my understanding).
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I'm looking forward to the compilation entitled "How to succeed at Yahoo".
Isn't this the ultimate goal of Persona - native browser support?
Wait, what? This iphone is locked for two years? How is that "no contract"? It's seems you are right [1], and I guess it makes sense, otherwise there would be no reason not to get your unlocked iphone from t-mobile.

I actually just wanted an iphone with a t-mobile plan but without a contract. T-mobile's pages are surprisingly hard to navigate, so I could find a way to just get a plan. Maybe I should look further.

[1] http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/03/26/t-mobile-gets-iphone-...
Programmers see themselves as part of a clique. Their code and ways are what keeps them superior, experts in the field that they work in.

Any programmer who thinks like that is a poser.
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Reminds me a lot of hpc tools like `mpirun`, 'qsub`
How does DarkSky accomplish this? Especially for a country like India.

I would like to start a weather forecasting service in my home country, India. Can someone here throw light on how I should go about it? Can I get any ready made softwares into which I can plug in parameters or do I need to understand many technical details and implement my own forecasting programs?
Companies hire 'ethical hackers' to dupe employees, teach better security
No THIS graph shows that America's health-care prices are ludicrous: http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2011/04/26/cost-...
Actually, TechCrunch misheard the pitch. CircuitLab's founders are pursuing a $500 million market in circuit simulation software, and a market in the billions that might come from recommending ideal component choices at the CAD level.

Now that's more like it!
A lot of my blogging at that time was about what I was learning. In fact those posts were the most instrumental in getting me the job in Chicago. My blog showed up for a lot of howto searches for perl. Which got me noticed by a company needing perl programmers.

Blog about what you are learning. Your contribution will be helping others learn from your experiences.
Hey OP, kudos on finding a solution. However, I want to see the original, can you provide a link?
I think that kind of explanation--explaining what you want to explain, with whatever tangents you like, just to get the other person to feel passion about the topic--is great, and can leave you feeling more invigorated than when you started.

But it's a very different kind of explanation than "here are all the building blocks you need to put together in order to understand how wrong the way you're currently doing things is." The second kind is pretty much what all "innocent programming questions" require in response.
Agree, I thought it was really neat.

The fact that she went through with it and got it to work, despite how it ended up looking, is commendable.

And I really like the result. Anyway, this article was neat and put a smile on my face.
Wouldn't it make more sense for Google to first shut down FeedBurner and then Google Reader?

That way Google could ensure all FeedBurner subscriptions in Reader would be replaced A) with the location of the new feed provided by the site owner, or B) in case of no action from the site owner fall back to the original feed as known by FeedBurner.

When they've done that, they can shutdown Google Reader and all the new RSS readers out there that let you import your Google Reader feeds would have the new updated non-FeedBurner feeds.

I guess having a 301 redirect option in FeedBurner and advising other RSS readers to implement would work as well, but it seems more error prone than Google solving as much of this problem as possible themselves. With Google Reader they are/were in the ideal place to do so. I realize it requires some development costs, but it would be a nice gesture to their user base.

Of course this is all hypothetical. We don't know what Google's plans are for FeedBurner. Perhaps the fact they shutdown Google Reader is an indication FeedBurner is here to stay for the time being as otherwise they would have taken the above approach.
This attitude came up with a story, a little while ago, about an employer offering onsite psychologist/psychiatrist services and promising confidentiality. There has to be some kind of middle ground. Corporations are not designed to help you, but at some point you have to trust someone not to hurt you.
> (I gathered from these exchanges that programmers have a perpetual competition to see who can claim the most things as 'simple.')

Nobody hits my brother but me.

Programmers are persistently frustrated in our tools-- when you can see how things work, you start to see just how broken it all is. Things that should be easy are hard, things that should be hard are nearly impossible. And for every thing gotten right, there's something a little subtler that's completely and opaquely wrong, wasting days of your life. We hate our tools, and we love to complain about them.

But if you complain about our tools... Sorry, who are you? This is basic stuff.
People are talking about it in a bad way. I don't think it's useful to hate or resent a 17-year-old for getting acq-hired (although it's pretty disgusting that he keeps the company of Mark Pincus and Rupert Murdoch; I'll give him till 21 to clean his judgment of character of such) but this reflects really badly on Yahoo.

On the other hand, I can only imagine what kind of internal HR issues these acqui-hires may create for Yahoo.

Well, for fuck's sake yeah.

What Yahoo needs to do, and fast, is get better at discovering talent within. Apparently they have a problem with lazy people. Ok, so make it possible for a not-lazy employee to make a real dent-- important projects, self-direction, lots of autonomy. Give your best people an incentive to bring themselves out and shine. Honestly, if you give your most talented people basic support and autonomy instead of letting them get eaten alive by people they intimidate, you're doing better than 90+ percent of companies.
I like this batch.

Getting lots of Apache errors in the listings on Zaranga - http://www.zaranga.com/
It's in the post :).

blog.michellebu.com/assets/divart.html
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Cancer survival rates are indeed quite good in the US compared to some other countries. However, that is not reflected in low cancer mortality rates.

Cancer survival rates generally measure how many people are alive five years after diagnosis; because in America, cancer diagnosis is performed early and often, cancer is often diagnosed early, and more patients will be alive five years after an early diagnosis than five years after a late diagnosis.

However, this does not necessarily lead to a measurably lower cancer mortality rate (the number of people who actually die from cancer) [1]. Furthermore, aggressive diagnostic procedures can also lead to false positives, unnecessary treatment, and overtreatment. Prostate cancer is a prominent example here: it is rarely fatal; it's a cancer that one generally dies with, not from. Conversely, surgery at the typical age where prostate cancer occurs carries significant risk and has, even when successful, negative effects on quality of life, such as incontinence and bowel problems.

The free rider problem with pharmaceuticals is largely a myth. Pharmaceutical companies typically invest only a relatively small percentage of their revenue (for Pfizer or Merck, about 15%, give or take) in R&D. I.e., out of every $10 that you spend on their prescription drugs, only $1.5 will go to research. Furthermore, most of the basic research (north of 80%) to discover new drugs and vaccines is actually funded by the NIH; Pfizer, Merck, etc. are more interested in variations of existing drugs than in innovating treatment [2].

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/05/beware-cancer-screens....

[2] http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e4348
> I don't think this will ever get fixed since Americans abroad also don't have any representation in congress.

Overseas Americans are theoretically represented in Congress at their last American domicile. In practice, this is difficult to achieve. For example, many places will not mail absentee ballots overseas.

And of course, the Congressman for your last American domicile probably isn't that concerned about your interests overseas. This makes it disturbingly similar to the "virtual representation" that the colonies had in Parliament.

Also, the United States now practices more "taxation without representation" than the United Kingdom. Commonwealth citizens residing in Britain can vote in British elections. EU citizens cannot vote for the British Parliament, but they can vote for the devolved Scottish and Welsh Parliaments.
I find that true. For most people, having messed with accessible things like bash scripts or .bat files in Windows, the approach that is taken in PHP, where the act of accessing a file runs the code in it's contents, is quite intuitive. I know that for me PHP was by far the easiest web-app language to come to understand when I started programming.
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No need for the fatalist sarcasm. Do we really want to provide even more incentive for this to happen?
My take was that the crucial 'energy' issue was the huge latent heat of evaporation of water that cooled the air at the top of the tower. So, the air falls in the tower partly, maybe mostly, because it is cooler and, thus, more dense, not because the air is more dense because it is wetter (is air less dense than water vapor?) but because it is more dense because it is cooler.

Then I would wonder how to recapture the water without losing a lot of energy, that is, would be fighting the huge latent heat of evaporation again? And I would wonder just why bothering to desalinate the water?
feedburner shuts down
System and method for offering virtual private clouds within a public cloud
The reality is that shopping across states will result in the least-regulated states hosting the dominant providers; it creates a race to the bottom.
> It seems you're just counting ocurrences?

Yeah. Remember, a multi-set is just a bag. If the bag is `{a, b, a, a, b}`, then it can also be represented as a simple frequency vector: `{a: 3, b: 2}`. There's no need to actually store duplicate values.

> So to me it seems the Set type should be map[string][]type_of_elem, if that is possible.

OK, now I see. It depends on what your definition of equality is. If the entire value represents identity, then my solution works. But if only part of your value (say, some but not all fields in a struct) represents identity, then my approach won't work at all. My approach relies on Go's built in definition of equality, which isn't flexible and cannot be changed. For instance, if you're storing values with this type in your set:

type MyValue struct {
Id int
Tag string
}

And these two values are equivalent:

MyValue{5, "abc"}
MyValue{5, "xyz"}

Then you'd have to roll your own implementation. (Since in the eyes of Go, these two values are not equal. And that cannot be changed.)

There are elegant ways around this, but it is certainly more clumsy in Go than it would be in a language with some sort of ad hoc polymorphism (like overloading in Java or type classes in Haskell). I think your idea is pretty close:

type MultiSet map[MyValueIdentity][]MyValue

type MyValueIdentity int

Anyway, best of luck to you. Don't be afraid to drop by the #go-nuts channel on IRC. We're a friendly bunch :-)
You'd be surprised what you can tackle even when learning a new language. A lot of the bugs in an open source project aren't unfixed because they are tricky but because no has had time to work on them.

You're most valuable contribution will be time and willingness to tackle something.
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Ah... like you said, I'd always felt that programmers try to help each other, so I was surprised when I read that the OP thought that wasn't true.

I think I see what might've been going on now, though; I don't think it was because the question "What's CSS?" (or similar) is too dumb, and I especially don't think that it's because no one wanted to help you (or thought you're incompetent).

Rather, it's because when you're starting to program, you don't _know_ that you can Google the solutions to so many problems so easily, so you ask the people around you. It's perfectly sensible. So, one of the things that programmers try to teach other beginning programmers early is that Google makes a lot of information easy to access, and so they try to help you by telling you that you can Google before asking.

It's not that they don't want to answer, or that they feel you're hopeless -- they're just trying to teach you how to fish, instead of giving you a fish. :)
I'm sure if you ask the exact same question _after_ you have failed to find the answer after a 2-minute search on Google, you will not be turned down for the answer -- programmers generally love to help each other figure out how to do stuff. And one of these things they like teaching is that you can find answers to a lot of questions online!
Check out this comment from a prior article on the subject:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410576

He's using mobile authenticator as a password mechanism, but it should be modifiable to just trust the local browser.
"In fact, wearing a business suit in an unnecessary situation will almost definitely get you on my mental list of Assholes Who Take Themselves (Too) Seriously, and indeed, the real-world correlation has been very strong."

Interestingly enough, this validates the parent's assertion that people judge others based on what they wear :)
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I really like this. However, I don't see anything regarding the terms and valuation which I would invest at. How can one responsibly invest without know what my $1000 actually gets me?

If the process is that the valuation will be set once funds are raised and I will have the option to back out at that point - then this needs to be spelled out. Some clarity here is needed.
If someone asks me a programming question then I always answer it in the simplest, shortest method possible unless I already know they are at a good skill level.

I think the farmer can reasonably expect a layman to understand most of the things related to feeding pigs.

I, on the other hand, have no expectation that a layman would understand pointers, lambdas or any of the other lovely complicated things that even answering simple questions COULD entail if we went into details or expanded around the question.

[EDIT: Apologies it this comes off as arrogant or elitist or something, not intended.]
In what way would the cooking characteristics of a low-temp cook exacerbate the curing effect of salt on meat, apart from the fact that low-temp cooking takes longer?
Well, first they'd have to acq-hire me. I'm cheaper than $30 million, though.

I am seriously considering considering going into business as an "unfuck your culture" consultant. If you're at the point where you're paying $6 million per head for talent, then I'm a fucking steal at $2500 per hour [0]. Sure, I will talk your ear off for 200-400 hours over two months and bill you for almost a million, but I will solve your damn problem.

[0] That's my rate for large companies. Startups get a discount. Inquire within.
It's a CNAME for itch.io, but the application doesn't resolve DNS. DNS does. If the DNS spec says that underscore isn't valid, then presumably we would never even get to the application level because the hostname wouldn't resolve to itch.io.
I was a lead engineer at one of the larger email service providers when that attack started. I wasn't at Epsilon, but I did have all my projects put on the backburner and teplaced by two-factor auth, fraud detection etc. that incident helped shape my career (even if it has thrown it totally off track). It is awful to immediately face the full brunt of spear phishing attacks on your business. It suddenly makes you value those security and IT practices that are easy to set aside in the name of moving forward with the product. I didn't have nearly your level of commitment to the company, but I cared about it and didn't want to see us lose the reputation we had worked so hard to gain disappear in a public incident.

Happy to hear MailChimp is investing in data protection. You can bet Ill be enabling it. Keep up the great work.
I'm jealous of this kid.
So would the uninsured pay the prices on this price list?
Sorry for missing it!! Cool looking effects, kudos again ;)
The Linux Guru line reminds me of a technique I used to get quick Mac OS help many, many years ago. Emailing a friend for that sort of help often left me with a long wait, so I'd email two rabid Mac people in the same email, let them see that both had been included, and then watch as they fought over themselves to quickly show how the Mac solution was so fast and easy.
Can you explain this? I will sit for hours with just a pen and paper and not be able to come up with anything worthwhile ideas or thoughts. What do you do?
Isn't the "heaviness" of Go's threads due to do with how the thread stacks are allocated, not so much with how the threads are scheduled?
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Fiber cables made of air move data at 99.7 percent the speed of light
It's quite common for TCP stream to let corrupted data through, because of 16 bit CRC. Start moving large compressed files (gigabytes) and you'll find that out the bad way.
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Comparing USA Average (the middle number), the prices actually don't seem bad at all considering that the USA has by far the best medicine in the world and a host of reasons why it runs high (legal, cost of education, free markets, high rate of elective procedures, center of advancements, etc).
Thanks for your reply, Valet is definitely the way to go, more glamorous, marketable and convenient. I sent you a private message via linkedin (not sure if it's best way to reach you)
Designers cram entire hotel room into a suitcase
Me too. The difference is that a solar chimney makes sense, kinda. I have no idea what this downdraft tower nonsense is. Converting potential energy to kinetic? 46 miles of pumping expensive water?
There's something called an "uncompensated care pool" that serves as a perverse incentive for medical providers to issue insanely high bills.

Say they charge $10,000 for a procedure that costs them $500. They collect $1000 from the insurance company and claim a loss of $9000 in the "uncompensated care pool" for which they can apply for a government rebate at the end of the year.

The practice originated to help reimburse hospitals that provided charity care, but it's morphed into something entirely different.
You should take a look at C#'s 'async' and 'await' keywords, which keep code asynchronous code looking sequential:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh156513.asp...
... and they will address you by your first name on a public forum, showing how friendly they can be to the normals.
Once again, pricing that ignores the real costs in other countries, what people really pay in the US, and most importantly, simply equate health care with a dollar amount. As someone who has lived in a two countries in those charts (one of those being the US), I can assure you those prices are not at all representative of reality. They also don't take into account quality of care, of which, I can again assure you, is vastly different.

I left Canada precisely because of the abusive medical establishment that essentially abused my children.
It all depends on the state. NY for example forbids underwriting, so age doesn't come into the equation.
Fei Deyle is an electrical engineer.

So %50 are technical of the ones who are known.

Two more are still in stealth mode.
But her US passport also makes her a bigger target.

I would've thought the British passport would've offered the best tradeoff. Large enough to do something, small enough to escape notice.
I need help understanding one thing. This code generates HTML code. Fine. But how come code and declaration (web designer and developer) are separated with this. Is this a good practice? I've been reading about lisp for a long time, not in depth, but I keep stumbling similar snippets a lot. Are there any good examples out there? I am teaching myself Clojure (reading the book with the bird cover) these days.
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Yeah I can definitely see how jargon prevents that level of conversation. There's definitely a false analogy in my original statement--there's plenty of jargon in farming and raising pigs as well, but I personally do know a decent amount on the topic so I'm not really a layman in the conversation that I had imagined in my head.
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