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In Tampa, we run annual mass casualty drills. One part is a field exercise where fire rescue practice triage and transportation of a large number of patients. They usually use high school students, often with makeup for their injuries. I've been at a few of those and it's pretty creepy to see a mock disaster like that at the airport or in a sports arena.

They also simultaneously have an exercises with all of the local hospitals and other medical facilities. They all run their disaster plans and practice triage, reporting available surgical beds / trauma units, etc. The bigger hospitals actually handle some of the mock patients from the scene, but even small day surgery facilities take part in at least a paper exercise, since they could be tremendously useful in a real event.

Here's a decent news report about last year's drill here:
http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/health/hospital-staff-...
Interesting idea. I jumped on and chatted with a few people-seems to work well. Sign up was easy, I like the anon-bot that chats with the tutorial. Charging $0.99 for an hour of promotion is a good idea.
Apparently as a Full Tilt user I'm a "fraud" "victim".
Excellent work by my government to protect me on this one.

You do realize full tilt was a giant ponzi scheme and that the owners looted hundreds of millions of dollars from players' accounts right?[1][2]

But don't let that get in the way of your snarky libertarianism.

[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/09/20/full-tilt-p...
[2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732405030457841...
http://cashortrade.org
Good point!

Everyone in the world needs a place to live, whereas probably less than 0.001% of people need a cofounder.
Yes: ones who were young enough to want a new band for their generation, but with much of the same cultural legacy. Absolutely. It's even been acknowledged by the bands. Sure they're musically different, but the festival vibe, touring vibe, acid trail: all similar.
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Consumer rights also include not buying this POS and making a huge deal about it. If Google really wants to transform this industry, then they can buck up and not try to strong arm people into how they can use something they pay a lot of money for.

Also, if this is tied to your email address, people will simply create a dummy email, with fake information. Then when the time comes, they can just transfer the account along with the glasses.
I wonder about the relevance of the recent Supreme Court decision that stopped publishers from trying to limit the resale of imported textbooks:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/20/supreme-court-...

But maybe someone with a better understanding of the law could help clarify the connection - if any?
All your criticism can be summed up by "it doesn't look like a Mac, therefore it's the wrong approach".

Haiku is not a Mac. It's not Linux either, but, from a computer management perspective, tools like ports and yum solve many problems Macs also have. It's no coincidence each and every developer in my office who use a Mac also has either ports or brew installed. Dragging .app folders into icons does not solve every software management issue.

If you need to keep your machine in a known and repeatable state, dragging icons will not take you far.
Samsung has been doing this for a while in their home market of South Korea. I've heard tales of Samsung hiring 1,000 temporary employees with the sole task of blogging or commenting on blogs/social networks about their products.
Something about this shell interests me. I just CANT put my finger on it.

edit: Jokes aside, this is a nice shell, there are no videos of youtube for it though, I should go through the doc's and record one.

edit2: OK I just tried playing around with the shell. It's got some really nice features, but then I said to myself "hey, lets try doing some work with this, I'd like to get rid of fedora 18's neutered package management GUI and replace it with yumex."

ok easy enough, whoops I forgot to use sudo.

sudo !!

ghoti@localhost ~/Videos> sudo !!
[sudo] password for ghoti:
sudo: !!: command not found
ghoti@localhost ~/Videos [1]>

oh... ok... docs?

here it is, right at the very end of the documentation.

"Because history substitution is an awkward interface that was invented
before interactive line editing was even possible. Fish drops it in favor of
perfecting the interactive history recall interface. Switching requires a small
change of habits: if you want to modify an old line/word, first recall it, then
edit. E.g. don't type "sudo !!" - first press Up, then Home, then type "sudo "."

.... WHAT?!

ridiculousFish, you arn't kidding around with that name are you?
Oh, I didn't even know that. I heard them talking about it on NPR a few months ago so I did a quick Google search specifically for NPR and Nickelback and that was the link it gave me.
Actually if his comment causes the poster to reflect on the fact that perhaps this was a mistake in the first place and a lesson to be learned, the poster and anyone reading this thread might be better off.
I love Phish, but their lyrics are terrible. :)
FTA:
> Legendary tech investor and political mover Ron Conway has a stern warning for the 54 senators who rejected an amendment to expand background checks on firearms sales on Wednesday, a vote that flew in the face of public opinion.

54 senators voted for the amendment, and 46 against, not the other way around. Is it too much to ask to proofread the first paragraph of your article before publishing it?

The amendment failed to be added because it needed 60 votes total, not because a simple majority voted it down.
Meh... you have your work cut out for you. You have a lot of money, but Gun Owners of America, National Rifle Assocation, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, and the Second Amendment Foundation have a lot of members who - collectively - can probably rival you.
I honestly don't understand why Google got into this business in the first place when there were so many established companies do a much better job than they ever aspired. "Google Affiliate" always seemed like a me-too/just-because-we-can service.
Way off. Like, by half.
That is a lot of if statements just to get some directly adjacent unicode characters, which can easily be generated with some simple math.

This solution may be a little terse (96 bytes; I wrote it for the 140bytes golfing challenge), but it should help explain how to get the current time's clock character: https://gist.github.com/eligrey/985721#file-annotated-js
Wait--as opposed to a curve??
>Apparently as a Full Tilt user I'm a "fraud" "victim".

Are you saying you knew about the fraud at FT (disqualifying the 'victim' part), or you don't believe they committed fraud?
Did they?

There's a difference between saying "Kids these days aren't "__ good at music __" and saying "Kids these days aren't playing "__ good music __".

The first is the OP's complaint and it feels new. The second is the complaint of generations.
Insane determination when you are building a dream does not always map into insane determination when [whatever you are asked to do in big company].

Consider that many entrepreneurs grow out of even their own company - their own baby - when it moves from startup phases to an x year old mature company.
I sincerely doubt Google will care if it's sold. They stated that you couldn't sell Google Wave / Voice / Gmail invites, yet they were all over eBay.

"Whether or not users will continue to be allowed to sell invites is unclear though, as Google Wave's terms say that users are prohibited from "Sell, trade, resell or otherwise exploit the Service for any unauthorized commercial purpose," though a number of Google Voice invites can also be found on the auction service."

http://mashable.com/2009/09/30/google-wave-invite/
>did you know they are the world's biggest ship builder?

Nope... they are not. That would be Hyundai, and the second largest is probably Daewoo. Samsung could be third. (I worked at Daewoo and Samsung shipyards).

Tangential funny: the shipbuilding division is called "Samsung Heavy Industries", usually abbreviated to SHI. Samsung means "Three Stars" in korean. The shipyard tug was called the "Tristar". Due to unfortunate typography, the name on the ship was "SHIT ristar". True story, I have photos.
Gold is only "money" inasmuch as it is accepted as currency, to pay debts, etc. If cowrie shells were as acceptable then they'd be just as legitimate money as gold.

Or for a better example, cigarettes as currency in prison.
Did you ever try using Passenger (nginx) to run your WSGI app instead of Gunicorn+nginx? Seems like it would be even less of a hassle to run.

(I work at Phusion, and am not a Django guy, just curious)
It's naive to make blanket statements about entrepreneurs. "Entrepreneurs" are not a homogenous group. It appears the author believes that entrepreneurs generally are overconfident, find insolvency to be an acceptable outcome so long as they have a lottery ticket in hand, and fashion themselves as arbitrageurs.

First, it's worth pointing out that arbitrageurs seek to exploit opportunities that are, in theory, risk free. So to suggest that entrepreneurs are looking to "arbitrage the system" while at the same time shooting for the stars when the odds are "slim" is a curious and entirely inconsistent argument.

That notwithstanding, if you look beyond a small group of 20-something entrepreneurs in the Bay Area, you'll find plenty of people who have started businesses who worked at mid-sized and large companies for years. For some, the knowledge and experience gained allowed them to spot the opportunity they're pursuing. For many, the relationships established and good money earned during those years of service put them in a position to pursue the opportunity with far less risk than they would have taken on if they tried to start a company before they had domain expertise, a professional network and financial resources of their own.

It's sad to see folks reduce entrepreneurship to short-sighted risk-taking by individuals who somehow can't or won't function in an organization that isn't their own. Smart entrepreneurs take calculated risks, start businesses in industries they know and don't begin their journeys with a few thousand dollars in the bank.
it's interesting to note that doing this is illegal; i had no idea. it's also important to note that it's possible to determine whether an entity is engaged in the practice: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428222/statistics-unmas...
Ask HN: what creative methods do you use to solve programming problems?
I've talked to a few programmers who have interesting methods for encouraging their subconscious to take over when they hit a frustrating problem (eg: taking a walk, a bathroom break or playing Farmville). Do you have an interesting method you use for this?
You go long a small amount of BTC on each exchange (> your max position limit, say 3 BTC), and as long as your strategy makes more money than the carrying cost of the long position (which for any real strategy it should be paid off in days), you can arb. This is how HFTs could still market make in CAC when the uptick rule was on.
Instead of using a very long set of If statements, I think you could just use something like

a=$((`date +%M`/15));b=$((128335 + `date +%l` +((a*(a**2-39*a+110))/6)));printf '%x' $b;

and print the resulting hex's character, no?

(I'd finish off the code myself, but I have a bus to catch)

Edit: Ah, I see Sephr came prepared. ;)
I guess using non-native API would introduce significant overhead and kill all the advantages of using this Tachyon filesystem.

I take it, the resulting DFS can't be mounted, am I right? If yes, that's a pity. By the way, are there DFS with similar properties (very fast, aggressive memory use) that can be mounted?
Yes, the one packaged in Linux distro's is 1.23.X. Last I heard on the mailing list, the original author was jazzed someone new picked it up.
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This list is somewhat dependent on the size and complexity of the project. For a small or simple project, many of these points might not matter.

For example, if Apache can handle your traffic just fine, why spend time replacing it with gunicorn? Or if you never really migrate your database ever, why waste time fiddling with South?

Just a gentle reminder to take into consideration the present and future needs of your project to avoid needlessly adding complexity to it.
GAN wasn't really panning out to be anything special. It seemed that they were too distracted to really make it a worthwhile service or at least a better one than existing companies before and since they bought DoubleClick.

Shame they didn't shut this down first instead of Reader.
This is the classic "buy high, sell low" pattern seen when investors get into a volatile market with a lot of hype. If you can't afford to lose it or at least let it ride, put your money in CDs.
json.dumps() can be dangerous if used on your raw domain data. You should specify the exact schema being sent down to the client so you don't accidentally leak something (this can happen very easily in Python)
I'm sure you could. It's a quick hack.
This is indeed a solid list.

The most comprehensive best-practices resource of Django I've come across by far is "Two Scoops of Django"[1] by "pydanny"[2]. Its absolutely worth the $17.

[1]: https://django.2scoops.org/
[2]: http://pydanny.com/
Ugh, he commented now on the story because bitcoins are the craze now - or were. He doesn't hate bitcoins: he's just used it to make many of his arguments clearer. This is his style, it's not personal. The only people that could leverage that accusation against him (and be wrong) are JoeScar and the Flimflam man. Is just about the data. He was wrong about the internet because he commited the mistake he usually criticizes in others: talk about something without the data or knowing the data. He is not wrong about bitcoins. It doesn't mean bitcoins don't work as alternate currencies (which they obviously do) but how reliable can they be when their value changes so drastically? Bitcoins will hardly matter on a post apocalyptic world because it hardly matters today (unless bitcoins holders increase dramatically): that's why he called it antisocial.
Someone remind me why this belongs on the front page of Hacker News?
Yeah, they're both metric (you have the units right), but for some reason the US tends to use the mg/dL convention, where the rest of the world (or at least Canada and Europe) use the mmol/L convention.
If from this point on you would like to tell yourself that my non-responsive comment here, and my future lack of responsiveness to any of your other comments, implied that you Perry Mason'd some kind of acknowledgement of my corrupt CISPA dealings out of me on Hacker News, you have my blessing.
It needed 60 votes to defeat the filibuster. Only needed 51 votes to pass, but there was no way to get to a vote on the actual legislation without the 60 votes needed to defeat the filibuster.

More here: http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/for-the-lo...
My supreme thanks to the author for writing this and to all those who have submitted additional items to the list in the comments here. I'm writing my first few Django apps in series and have found this bits of advice to be very valuable.
From 'The Zen of Python' - Explicit is better than implicit.

Automatically generating properties after querying the database is seen as unpythonic. PyLint and some IDEs/editors will not be happy if you try.
if this question was for the author, my answer is no.
I just love the anti-gun people. Clearly, they have no idea what they are talking about. Either that, or they have never been to a gun show. All dealers, even at gun shows, are required to perform a background check. That's a FEDERAL law:

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/the-so-called-gun-show...

"Under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act—which created the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)—all federal firearms licensees are required to conduct a background check for all firearms transactions, even if they sell the firearm at a gun show. This is to make sure that the gun isn’t being sold to a person who is prohibited from purchasing a gun under Section 922(g) or (n) of Title 18 of the United States Code, which would include convicted felons, people who have been adjudicated to be severely mentally ill, and people who have been convicted of a domestic violence offense."

Also, keep in mind even if you passed all the stronger gun control laws exactly none of them would've prevented any of the current mass shootings, including the Aurora and Newtown incidents. If you want to stop these, you should start with addressing the mental health issue, instead of trying to tighten gun laws.
This is superbly entertaining.
There are certain legal differences between 'selling a product' and 'distributing testing hardware'. It's not clear to me that classifying the Explorer Edition as the latter would hold up in court because of the method of distribution, but that seems to be the theory that Google is working under. And it's perfectly possible that it would hold up.

If it doesn't hold up, it has no legal force. Though they can still close your account and make you take them to court over the software side of things.
With C-r you need to first type C-r, then type your search key. With the OP's inputrc nice hack, you first type the begining of your command, and then up. To me it is very different.
It doesn't. I flagged it. I am, for what it's worth, on Ron Conway's side on this issue, but threads like this one are poison for HN.
Ask HN: Best Tips and Pratices for a wannabe software consultant
Hey guys. Just had a failed startup and I don't feel any desire to start all over again in the short run.

My team has the opportunity to get a contract, to make a mobile app for another company. So, I wanted to know from you guys, what are the best practices to make a software shop. I ask in a Software Engineering way, and in a marketing way. Thanks so much!
Causation, Philosophy of Science and Structural Equation Modelling
I'm hoping to make a pilgrimage to the Gorge this year. I'm happy to see this article here on Hacker News as Phish has been a central point in my life for going on 20 years.
Celery is a PITA and over-complicated for the problem it solves.
Have you done any Android dev? I find the various layout containers there far, far more intuitive and explicit and semantically clear. Let's face it, 95% of UI is nested grid layouts. Plus, having instant visual feedback for layout tweaks is a big time saver.
A fake identity is less likely to have passed Google's selection process, and may be be difficult to verify when they go to pick up the device in person.

Also, the terms specify that Google is allowed to deactivate the device if they find you've given it to someone else.
i agree - the aggregation framework seems solid - much better performance than map-reduce
A Cobol programmer made so much money doing Y2K remediation that...
Honest question: Do you prefer this to a digital time display? Why?

Personally, when it comes to time, I "think" digital.
they bought DCLK for other stuff, this came with it.
Quotes like this come off as a lot of hot air. Don't tell me what you're going to do. JFDI.
As I understand it, in Polish law documents signed with XMLDSig (with a qualified certificate) are as good as paper ones. I'm not sure how much it's used in pratice outside transacting with governemnt (filing taxes etc.)
~ 2 years and a lot of pinot noir ....
Because some people on HN want to have a discussion on this issue, so they upvoted it. If you don't like it I guess you can flag it.
That's just obscene! It has to be price gouging, plain and simple.

How can any provider justify charging such an outrageous amount for mid-range copper? I'm surprised Boston, being as metro as it is, still doesn't have enough competition for lower prices. Then again, New York isn't all that much cheaper for T1, but FiOS is more acceptable.
You're right, it doesn't yet support collection-level locking (https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1240).
> May not commercially resell

Sounds like you can still give / gift / sell / otherwise transfer a glass unit to another individual privately. This all sounds completely normal.
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No, we finished coding a trading dashboard and we were building the arbitrage functionality last night.

The general premise is this: match bids on mtgox with asks on bitfloor when transaction fees are less than the spread. Then later on you have to balance with a bid on bitfloor and an ask on mtgox. Send coins between exchanges to fund accounts. If cash runs low on one exchange(it would be bitfloor) then the plan was to manually fund bitfloor with capitalone p2p(no transaction fees) and withdraw using dwolla($0.25 transaction fee).

The big problem was the lack of liquidity in the bitfloor market. We figured if we brought bitfloor prices down to mtgox prices we could attract people who didn't want to go through the onerous mtgox verification process. People were, more or less, turned off by bitfloor by the 5% markup that you pay to buy bitcoins on bitfloor.

There are plenty of arbitrage bots running in European exchanges that are making money. Some are on github.

I'm going to write the idea off as abandoned for now. Mtgox is crap. Bitfloor is gone. B24 has been offline for a while. The platforms just aren't there yet.
It doesn't.

Sure it does, if enough people upvote it.

I flagged it.

Great. Flagging and ignoring is the right way to deal with a story you don't think belongs. Fueling a meta-debate about the so-called poisonous story probably isn't.

... threads like this one are poison for HN.

Care to elaborate? I think the meta-commentary about whether something belongs on the front page is far less germane. Just watch as this comment thread devolves into a pointless back-and-forth about the guidelines.
No idea really. I made it quickly this morning, and I'm trying it out today. It does make it easier to see whether a bunch of commands were performed at roughly the same time than a digital display.
this is actually on my todo list, i saw this video by zac holman a while back:

http://zachholman.com/screencast/vagranception/

and have been meaning to mess around with it ever since
I would like to try...But I only use android..
agreed, we should discuss nothing outside of tech on HN... oh yeah, and remove the boston posts...NOT
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both an engineer and an entrepreneur are compelled to solve a problem, it seems though that difference is the entrepreneur is also compelled to profit financially from the solution.
According to posting guidelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
With Google Glass you're signing a contract agreeing to specific terms. But when you buy a book, you haven't signed away any of your rights.
Betterment.com completely rewrote it's front-end app with backbone from Flex - https://engineering.betterment.com/2013/02/a-better-front-en...
This is not the retail version.

This is a limited run that is meant to be tested by a small number of people.
Windows users only missed out on the first two games when they came out. EV Nova (the third game) is available for Windows and the first two games are available as free plugins for Nova.
looks like they have a Chrome extension for desktop
Same here! I keep Free42 on my iPhone when away from home. It's a pretty nice app for the price (free).