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I'm not sure why you'd want to trade, the biggest killer would be the 8 GB non upgradable ram. Ouch. You can upgrade the macbook pro to 16GB and throw in a SSD and your complaints will be gone. And yes, this will cost a bit more than the dell but you'll get a bigger screen out of it at least. My machine is upgraded to 16GB and a 500GB SSD and it's worth every penny. If you are ok with a 250GB SSD you can do it even cheaper (last year, I paid about $80 for the 16GB of ram and $500 for the 500GB SSD, 250GB SSD is significantly cheaper)
Strongly agree with your post.

About gas ovens: There's less carbon monoxide in modern gas delivery. (http://io9.com/5959303/why-have-people-stopped-committing-su...)
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Good point. It's hard to see the experience of specific pain as ever existing within a vacuum of human experience.

It's interesting to compare ourselves: a population of pill poppers at the slightest twinge, to those in other parts of the world who simply don't. Perhaps it affords us some extra (or different) mental space in an intangible way.
Agree.

I'm looking for a flat to invest in and I am finding them out of reach, even after taking housing loan and they are running away from me a lot faster than I can catch up, besides, I've already started to pant :( (meaning the salary going to other holes in significant portions)
If you control the IRC daemon is there any reason we can't have full server-side logging of all channels and 1:1 interaction in a similar way to HipChat, et al?
> They either watched The Simpsons or a film by surrealistic neonoir writer/director David Lynch, in which humans with rabbit heads wander an urban apartment muttering non sequiturs. They then passed judgement on people arrested in a hockey riot. Again, the people in the existential mindset imposed harsh sanctions, but the people who'd watched The Simpsons were lenient.

I shoulda stuck with psychology after all! This sounds fun! Who thinks of this stuff?
Kronopath challenged the idea that the people playing Curiosity are in fact average. I don't know if you read his comment as a silly statement regarding billions of people playing the game or something, but there is legitimate argument to be made that the average Curiosity player is far away from the average western citizen.

If the average Curiosity player is not even close to an average person (such as what if 80% of them had OCD), then your statement that Molyneux has showed anything about the average person is incorrect.

So please, either disagree with Kronopath or point out a flaw in my logic, let's not mess around with semantics and restatements.
Well, given the goal and the hardware, I suspect the next phase in the program will be the use of SSD "drives" instead of conventional hard drives, once SSD capacities and prices come down far enough. That should take care of the issue of frequent HDD failures.

To me, the real outcome for this computation project is to reveal how unreliable hard drives are, especially when they're stressed by being used as RAM.
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The story boils down to:

1. Is the second law of thermodynamic wrong?
2. Does P equals NP (or, if 1 is true, then how and how long will it take to solve it?)
3. What's God?
I'm glad to answer your questions. As I wrote, this was just a fun project for like two (maybe three) evenings, you can't expect to much.

Webstack is Nginx + Ruby + Sinatra + MySQL (Datamapper, I know I should switch to Sequel) and a worker in Node.js on the slave nameserver for writing configs + reloading nsd

Servers are two small VPS, one on my own dedicated server in Frankfurt, Germany, the other in Canada from lfchosting. Nameserver is nsd, because it looked not to bad.

> How do you handle input, errors (broken zones? do you perform sanity checks?), and reloads?

I'm performing some checks, with nsd-checkconf, etc, but I'm sure there is something I could improve. It gets reloaded everytime someone enters a domain name or pushes changes to bitbucket/githup and they are posting to the specific URL.

> Do you enforce any limits? Support DNSSEC?

Nah, there are no limits, currently.
DNSSEC: No, also not looking to implement it with this project, since besides that I'm working on a more serious one, even with anycast, etc and there is dnssec already possible.

I hope I was able to answer your questions as you expected it, please let me know if you want anything more detailed or have more questions for me :)
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And too many opioids cause... nevermind.
That includes medical insurance for you and your family. If you are willing to travel you can get good house for rent at INR 10K month. I pay INR 6k for 1500 sqft house and my previous office is 7 km from my house. You can do rest of the math to figure out how somebody getting $25 per day can live comfortable life. Anything above $25 is bonus.
I agree with your point but those $10 engineers are probably living in a shitty shared apartment in Bangalore. He doesn't have 24/7 water. Works few times a week. When he does, he has to go down his apartment to fetch it. He doesn't go to fancy restaurants. He doesn't have a dish washer or an AC or any other fancy stuff. And whole of $10 is probably not reaching him if he works for a company (It's usually $3-4/hour that he actually gets).

India is a place where a frugal lifestyle is extremely cheap. $400/month is easy for a single person.

At the same time a luxurious quality lifestyle (probably the same as the "average" in the first world) is actually higher than usual, same cars cost twice as much, electronics are always late and usually pricier, movies and nice restaurants are about the same, broadband internet is very pricy and I can go on.

I think we should keep in mind "cost of similar quality living"
Because it's up to the individual website administrator to ensure he published them both the same way.

I can construct a web server that sends version A of a site over normal HTTP, and version B of that same site over HTTPS.

In fact, sometimes I do that by accident. :)

It's a bad assumption.
If you are referring to now-a-days somewhat popular belief that India doesn't respect patents or has no patent system then I am humbly requesting you to do a little bit of research and you'll find out that it's very very far from the truth.

It's just that it doesn't grant a patent on A because the patent of C expired and the company decided to call it A or if rejected then applied again by calling it B.

jm2c.
Aspirin is not safer. Aspirin is not "good for you" apart from narrow groups of people taking very small doses of aspirin.

Aspirin can be harmful to the stomach lining; aspirin can be fatal to people under 12; aspirin has a number of risky side effects; aspirin can be very dangerous for some people with under-lying conditions.
how can we as programmers/IT field guys react when we are e.g. coerced into rigging systems

Refuse?
Require people to submit a public key and two factor serial number during domain purchase, then use that key to sign individual server certificates. If you loose the key or two factor device you loose SSL on the domain, no exceptions. When I go to google.com all I really care is that it is the same site that I visited yesterday. The current SSL scheme gives no such assurance.
Love the idea, but seems a little too fly-by-night for me to want to trust real production stuff to it. DDoS-ing DNS providers seems to be the rage these days, and I'd hate to be collateral damage because the weekend project I was using as a DNS provider couldn't handle it...

And I totally get that this was just for fun... but a variant project that still used git as the UI, but sat on top of a bigger-player DNS provider's API (Route 53, maybe?) could probably give you the best of both worlds: a weekend's worth of hacking, but still using infrastructure people felt like they could trust.
Well, they haven't heard any complaints so far!!

Edit: Makes me guess, but what if their success rate is higher than the high priced facilities...

Oh and I would absolutely go for medical tourism. Beyond not being overcharged by the procedure, I wouldn't be pushed the "latest drugs" with debatable results or in a case where the latest drug is needed, it would be avaiable at a lower cost.
This is precisely why, at work, when I need to speak to a programmer (I'm more of a project manager): I tend to Gchat them instead of walking over. I used to the opposite and felt anti-social when I g-chatted.

Now, if I want to avoid feeling anti-social, I walk over after the Gchat session has begun.

This way I know they've moved their attention to me on roughly their own time... and if they were coding they hopefully wouldn't even see my chat until they at least finished the roll they were on.

Another option is email, of course... but IMs have a much more 'I would like to talk in the near term' vibe to them!

(I've realized some of this by beginning to script more myself...)
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It actually lets you do this already, though the documentation is relegated to a manpage that doesn't get installed automatically. It checks, in order, for:

- $GHI_REPO env var
- git config ghi.repo
- remote named "upstream"
- remote named "origin"

So you can just use "git config ghi.repo username/reponame" to get the behavior you want.
You can misuse any system. JIRA or BugZilla doesn't magically give the testers that information; the burden is on the developers to document what they did.

Personally, as a developer with other things to do, I'd rather just jot my notes in my bugs.txt file instead of remembering to put them in BugZilla's "Steps to reproduce:" text box.

I don't understand your point about searchability. It's easier to grep through a text file than remember the proper incantation to go in <random bug tracker package's search box>
Of course their drugs are cheaper, if drugs companies won't sell to them at huge discounts, India ignores the patents and produces the drugs themselves. Consequently, the US subsidizes their drugs, insofar as they do not contribute to the costs of R&D, including research and clinical trials for working and failed drugs.

If every country adopts that policy, which is the direction things are headed because it's the dominant strategy, the rate of medical advancement will be much lower. To quantify, about 58% of US medical funding is provided by private industry. Pharmaceuticals alone spend more than the NIH. NIH in the US spends 29 times more than NHS in the UK on health research, despite having only 6 times more people. The US spends 4 times more per capita than Australia on medical research. This is one of the two gigantic elephants in the healthcare debate auditorium, the other being patient outcomes for comparable patients. Of course US aggregate data is skewed because of the general health of the population (fatness), and those without insurance, but what happens when comparing patient outcomes between people with insurance in the US, with people that are comparably healthy (i.e. fatness and related issues) in other countries. The whole thing is basically a health-and-wealth transfer scheme from the insured to the uninsured.

We see basically the same thing whenever space research is discussed. Pompous Europeans bash US progress and "meager space funding", while the US outspends the entire world combined over 3 to 1 on space research. In the end, the "solution" to both is to cut spending to both medical and space research to global per-capita levels, and let the advanced research go undone, unless other countries choose to start contributing. Of course, that would be a true tragedy of the commons.
Ask HN: Any hardware startups want to talk before/after interviews?
Do any other hardware startups accepted to interview want to get together sometime next weekend?
Did you read Goldacre's response on that blog. He seems to make a lot of sense there.
http://www.jobboard.io/ looks promising. Never used it myself though.
If you are referring to me then I know all this, being a resident.

But yes, the GP commenter might find it useful. In a city like Bangalore it still is a shoe-string budget and I can say this with authority as a 26+ yr old bachelor living in a one bedroom flat.

I was just commenting on his assumption/observation that we get $10/hr in general :-)
Sure, that'd be fun!

I think we've had 1-2 interactions where we've not quite gotten along, but I might have just been misinterpreting (or mixing up julia devs)
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It continues to be absolutely appalling what a large majority of academic work is locked away from the public.
I visited China for a week. I felt China's inflation is horrible. Everything costs 1.5 to 3x more when compared to India.
What a waste of time that was! I felt greatly cheated by the ending. It was exactly as if I had met a friendly, neatly dressed, smiling person on the street who, after 5 minutes, turned out to be peddling his religion after all.

Honestly, I have thought of much better stories myself. I remember GREATLY enjoying Asimov as a teenager, and I am pretty sure this is not his best story.
> The study is not impressive. Most studies aren't, and exploratory, early-stage studies rarely can be.

Yes, but a longitudinal examination of psychology publications shows that, compared to mainstream science, psychology studies are rarely anything but "early-stage studies". Almost none of them is ever successfully replicated, nor is an effort made to replicate them, compared to other fields.

> I certainly wouldn't start invoking morality, judgment, or other abstractions of the human psyche (as did the author of this article) from such a small and contrived set of experiments.

I of course agree, but then it's a psychology study, where such hand-waving claims are commonplace.
Oh goodness, this hilarious.

Someone posting a link to a short story by one of the greatest SF writers all of time, whose writings spawned entire threads of reflexion and discussion in many disciplines; and a HN comment being a dismissive tl;dr.
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Thanks for your comment, and yes, of course I understand you.

I would have the infrastructure (an anycasted network with 11 PoPs, etc) - but as you said, was only a weekend project and I wasn't about using this for the project. But hm, I could later just rewrite this away from a independend dns service to some parsing thingy to input zonefiles and use APIs of existing, reliable providers (most of the popular ones have nice APIs). It's something to think about, thanks.
Your Salesforce analogy also reminds me of Heroku - they sell you on the core product, which is hosting, but they have a large enough market that they can invite 3rd parties to develop apps (Add-ons in Heroku's parlance) for their users.

I think App.net is missing that "Killer App" that brings people to the platform in the first place. Perhaps they were thinking that would be Alpha, but it doesn't seem to be working so well.
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I am really impressed -- With the results in their current state, I'm excited to see how they improve with scale (i.e. more and more people searching and adding data to the machine learning algorithms)

I think a Bing vs. Google vs. Samuru challenge should be done a la what Bing did in their most recent marketing spree; I'm curious what the rankings would be
> in which humans with rabbit heads wander an urban apartment muttering non sequiturs

I don't know how you could sit through this film without already being disturbed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jSBVo59j9U
It is worth mentioning that Lenovo has a very significant "Certified for Linux" program. Virtually every laptop model has at least one "Certified" SKU.

http://lenovo.com/think/linux

This is the major reason I ended up with a PC instead of an MBA -- I was just going to install linux on it anyway.
I made http://www.nomipede.com to solve this exact problem.
IRC is just a protocol, just like email, there's nothing precluding better clients. In fact Grove.io ("Hosted IRC and so much more.") offers many of the features you listed.

Whether you market it as "IRC++" (like Grove), or "HipChat with IRC support", is another question, but I'd love a service that had a great IRC (and maybe XMPP) interface, plus all of those features.
Forward the request to the nearest newspaper too.
You have _thought_ of better stories yourself, but have you ever _written_ a better story. I'm pretty incredulous of anyone who claims to write better than Isaac Asimov. Strikes me the same way people who never built anything go around ripping on other people's products. Truly classic internet delusions of grandeur.
> most spreadsheets have some sort of type information for each cell ...

Yes, but the problem is that, without some knowledge and care on the part of the operator, the data type will be established during the import, not in advance, and on a cell-by-cell basis.
It's ironic that the article got her year of birth wrong: 1929 instead of 1939.
Do you know how unreliably people recognize strangers? Many people are already wrongly convicted on such evidence.

Even perfect automated facial recognition won't convict people. It will merely point out people that should be looked at. If a jury looking at the image and the guy's face think the system is wrong, they can disregard it.

As far as prevention goes, what we need are systems that can detect deception reliably, which will help if we ever decide to ask people meaningful questions. Not to convict, but to focus attention on a possible threat.
Make it only work per bad request until Election Day? An anti logic bomb, I'm sure there's a better word for that.
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There are people still developing and selling BBC Micro games on cassettes:
http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/index.php/The_Krystal_Co...
Yeah I don't understand Apple - why still put old and slow 500GB 5400rpm drives in brand new 15" Pros?
Go to an Apple Store and try running anything on the 15" Pro and on an 11" Air - I guarantee that Air will load it faster.
I've got the 2012 13" Air and it's a perfect tool for a developer, very quick, completely silent and very portable. I am pretty sure that guy would be very happy with his Mac,but he really needs to change that HDD for an SSD.
Ask HN: How do I prepare for a iOS developer interview?
I've been doing iOS development for about 6 months now. My full time job is not a development role, but I'm looking to transfer to a mobile development job.

What sort of questions are common for a role such as this? What should I be prepared to answer? What would you want to hear from a junior iOS developer in an interview?
I did read it, and I also read Goldacre's rebuttal, which was more persuasive.
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This may be a jumping off point, but possibly Markdown[0] syntax can help with your formatting issues. More advanced versions of the syntax also supports tables[1], so you could put in a column for EV1 and EV2.

Markdown files are stored in plain text, so diffing is easy.

Heck, looking at the first 3 requirements, you might be able to put EVA procedures all in the wiki section of a private Github repo.

[0]http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

[1]https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheats...
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In the US education is handled by the states while military is handled on the federal level. To look only at the federal level when talking about education doesn’t even make sense. You are a dishonest and clumsy ideologue that bends the facts to his or her will, selling a distorted picture of reality.

Maybe you want education to be handled on the federal level. That’s a valid position to take – but it still wouldn’t make sense to then only look at federal spending on education to compare it with military spending.
+1 on making this a frontend to 3d-party DNS providers.

Git-push integration with Dyn, Route53, Zerigo/8x8, Gandi, etc. would be an awesome feature.
I just added more data to yours to just give an idea to others :)
Firstly, I have trouble thinking of situations where one would need to buy 10 packs of paracetamol. Care to elaborate?

Secondly, one cannot prevent one from committing suicide, but making it harder will give people time to reconsider their planned suicide.
I hate to say it, but I still don't get what app.net is. I even thought it had gone down under.
Why don't they go now and label all the intersections properly?
I have the 15" Retina MBP with 16GB RAM and an upgraded CPU... It's incredible and I love working on it. Ordering a machine with 4GB RAM now is asking for trouble, no matter the OS.
I didn't find the comment to be dismissive actually. What's wrong with writing a story that explores the boundaries of science and god? That must have been a pretty natural thing for someone living in Asimov's era to do.
An eye hospital operator in India pioneered this model of efficient health care -- not this guy. Check it out the TED talk for Aravind Eye Hospital:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5QCM1_gVGA
As an example, Sungard HE's Banner (built on Oracle) is used extensively as the ERP system at many universities in the United States. It is used for billing, payroll, recruitment, grades, student and employee contact data, etc. It is non-functional without the Java browser plugin.

Is there a reason that Sungard HE can't handle the browser portion using JS or similar instead of JPI? No. But it would be a very slow migration process and, basically, all employees at many major universities would be stuck with older Java versions.

This is just one example that I'm (unfortunately) intimately familiar with. I'm sure there are many others that the typical HN crowd (small shops, latest technology, devops, etc) would never see.
In the most basic sense, this is a honeypot.
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I am not sure if this business decision by Marco was made for the same reason I am speculating but I am doing it anyway - they recently opened the door for free users(invite only) and some usage limit which IMHO is the limit most of the paying users would be practically exercising unintentionally, because there just not many people to interact with. So, they just needed more users and instead of opening the sluice gate they made a crack in it; of course lowering the cost was another crack!

Besides, everybody who is on App.net is on Twitter/Fb and posts whatever they post on either sns.
I'm a little bit confused that this article has gotten so much attention.

So he was a jerk because he cut in line at the sushi bar? Okay. Maybe you had to be there, but is it hard to imagine that he might not have had time to wait in line?

It does sound unfortunate that he shamed everybody for the iCloud launch, but I'm already inclined to believe that this account was exaggerated if the sushi bar story is any indication.
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I'm not sure that statement is based on any logical standing.
In the US, people have mortgages on houses to pay etc., so refusing might not be an option.
They were building a social network, then it became an ecosystem - I just can't see any economy out of it other than paying users paying for it to tweet each other in more than 140 chars. Oh, and now some free users too(which includes yours truly; I tweeted there once).
Open Street Map is interesting. I decided to check out an obscure suburb where I used to live (because the data for New York City is obviously going to be fine). One issue that has been debated there for the last 30 years, it seems, is extending a freeway called Route 53. The project is called "FAP 342".

Open Street Map shows this thing as built and existing: http://osm.org/go/ZVItJYIM-

Very confusing, as it is definitely not built (and probably never will be).
Maybe the result would vary with JRuby or Rubinius (I'd be interested in benchmarks) because not only is Ruby itself not the fastest language, but its main implementation (MRI) is also not the best for speed.