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Why is that? 2005 article submitted with a clear political motive from a submitter who has a history of similar[1]. I rarely use the flag button and often complain about the flagging rings here but this one didn't seem like a bad one to flag.

[1] off the first page (2nd page mostly dead links, idk what that's about):

What’s Behind the Crash in the Gold Market? (time.com)

No Housing Bubble Trouble (2005) (cato.org)

Gold prices dive 5% to $1,487 an ounce (usatoday.com)

RonPaulCurriculum.com (ronpaulcurriculum.com)

Texas wants its gold stored in the state, not at Federal Reserve in New York (bostonglobe.com)

Petition: Pass a global wealth cap of $1 billion per US citizen (change.org)

Elizabeth Warren's Unwarranted Wage (mises.org)
I made a private repo for our Group Coursework, so that we could develop without the risk of plagiarism by other groups. Once our coursework was marked, we just made the repo public (https://github.com/JosephRedfern/CM2301-9) - really handy.

I can see how this works out well for GitHub, too - 6 of our team-members didn't have GitHub accounts when we started out. They now all do. Thanks GitHub!
Ultrasound is actually gaining a lot of ground in field EMS (especially in flight).

It has three primary uses:
-FAST exams in trauma
-IV access
-Assessing for cardiac tamponade and guiding pericardiocentesis
Tech Startups Force Small Banks to Consider Online Lending
I'm in favor of Apple. The government are being very selfish. Without Apple, the multi-billion dollar business would not belong in the US. I can't begin to imagine how many people they help by providing jobs, not only technical, but retail too.

I would rather let apple control its own money then let the US government control its money. The US government would spend it on going to war on shaky grounds, whereas Apple would use the money to invest into new and exciting technology to improve our lives in one way or another.
Powering microphones (1998)
5 Things I Wish I Learned about Marketing when I was in College
I see the point, the movie doesn't really push the envelope as much as it could have when it comes to future science. Signal to Noise would be a pretty awesome book to translate and see the tech. I'd say that would be the future that would inspire me to work in the engineering field.
If you have an AED, then you're not 'wasting time' getting it set up.

CPR won't restart the heart. An AED _might_. If the person has been down for several minutes, then a few rounds of CPR is a good thing, but if it's less that 2-3 minutes, go right to the AED, don't bother with compressions.
Charles Stross and Greg Egan are two that spring to mind, though Egan's writing is quite heavy going.
It still feels like lying
This reminds me of the micro payments businesses who have set up shop and are growing rapidly. Nowadays there is a lot of money to be made in small short term but higher risk loans.

The people are getting smarter now and do not want to answer to larger banks holding them hostage to their own home.
What if: Hair dryer w/ continuous power in airtight 1x1x1 meter box?
I'm just saying that there's not any more of a connection between communism and a surveillance state than, for example, Turkmenistan. You're reading more into it.
This is more or less the correct answer for Wordpress-the-ecosystem.

Wordpress-the-base-install has a thin abstraction layer over the database in the $wpdb object.

But plugins and themes can, and regularly do, use PHP's MySQL functions to access and manipulate the DB directly.
This is mostly crap, to be honest. It's all about messaging.

I wrote most of the first version of the wave federation spec (I cannot remember how this happened, but im pretty sure it involved being in Sydney temporarily, alcohol, and Soren being Soren. I'm fairly sure I got the short end of the stick on this one).

It was absolute and complete crap.
But it kinda worked.
We were clear it was a first draft, and folks understood it would completely and utterly change.

Within an hour of publishing it, the wonderful XMPP folks emailed me and asked me to fix a few things (like accidentally using some reserved namespaces/etc), and asked how they could help, pointing out the XEP process, and pointing out we were doing some things others were working as well.

With their help, it ended up as a "mostly sane" spec.

Realistically, pressure comes from improper messaging.
If you tell people "here's our current thoughts, in spec form, this is all gonna change", you can do a lot of work in the open without too much customer pressure.

Now, will this slow adoption?
Maybe, it depends on what kind of product it is.

But the argument that you get this pressure out of thin air is wrong. Pressure is mostly caused by self-inflicted wounds where people are not being clear about the state of the world as they see it.
I have been cursing the string handling and now you tell me OverloadedStrings exists. This makes sense. Thanks for the help, that actually makes Blaze a little closer to HAML for me.

I appreciate the input on the other things. I will check out Snap, I think.
Where are these elderly heartburn patients you speak of? I can think of one in the past few months...

Lots of 'fall down go booms' and 'they just aren't acting right' (yeah... it's called 'getting old')
So, in this scenario 'student' is a proxy for broke and young and impressionable. These guys want to give a discount to impressionable youngsters who will learn their tool and take it with them into their careers. It has nothing to do with actually learning things in school, and everything to do with where you are in your lifespan.

I'm sure you feel very good about being self-taught, but the fact of the matter is that if you didn't pay tens of thousands of dollars for a prolonged adolescence with some vaguely educational overtones, you're in the minority. You can hardly expect them to have a 'idealist' package for people who are 'particularly nifty' or ambitious. 'Student' is a convenient way to filter out a demographic.
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A primary benefit of things like Wisp is it makes it easier for non-clojure users to dive in and learn a clojurescript like language. I like JS and I like Lisps but the learning curve for clojurescript is too much if you don't know Clojure already. Wisp feels much more JS like; with my decent JS and decent Scheme knowledge I feel I could just dive in and play with it. Clojurescript does not leave me with the same impression, it feels like a lot of work to get up and learning.

Clojurescript's heavy dependence on the Clojure environment (JVM, leinigren etc) make it a real pain to get setup for. I have looked into clojurescript several times but thought "I better master clojure first". I have been getting a hang of Clojure slowly and plan to tackle learning clojurescript eventually but something like Wisp opens up the possibility of diving in without needing to be comfortable with all the Java crap.

I only tend to take up something when it takes me five minutes to start learning. I think most are the same way; it's the reason why Codecademy is so popular and why clojurescript's primary user base is Clojure users. The more users that can start learning a language in five minutes the better it is for that language. Clojure beat out other Lisp implementations primarily because it was easier to dive into for a greater number of humans than any other Lisp.

Wisp and other implementations like it make diving into Lisp->js languages much easier. It removes the large roadblock that is Java, a roadblock that is unnecessary if your target language is JS not Java.
SQLite itself is hosted on fossil, as is Tcl/Tk as you mention (and it's various satellite projects), and I know NetBSD was flirting with it too (no formal decision made yet on migrating from CVS afaik). I use fossil for all of my personal projects. It's more than capable, and a joy to use. Everybody should try it for a week. http://www.fossil-scm.org/
> They are private; I'm a fairly private person.

You don't need to publish them. I have YouTube videos uploaded which can only be seen by me - with my two-factor authentication. I bet they're more secure than most backups that most HN'ers use.

> So no, it doesn't solve the problem real well.

I'd wager most users don't have terabytes of data, or need to watch movies when they go camping in the mountains.

Bummer it doesn't work for you, but I still think there a lot of people it would work for.
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My point may have been too subtle. The GP made the claim that it is false that the ASUS tablet is bigger. I used the same logic to show that an 8 foot ladder can be "bigger" than a 12 foot ladder. By reductio ad absurdum, the claim that bigger only applies to area is shown to be false as you'd be hard pressed to find someone who says "No, no... the 8 foot ladder is bigger than the 12 foot one". This is a concept of "bigger" which can be applied to tablets as well. Whether measured diagonally or by height while standing in portrait mode, the ASUS tablet is bigger in that particular dimension than the iPad.

I'm sure that their marketing department steered well clear of the word "larger" because larger implies an overall size advantage whereas "bigger" can be construed as greater in one dimension.
Great news! As an Eagle Scout (and person), this makes me extremely happy.
For students with school-issued email addresses the turnaround time is very quick. Without a school issued email address the turnaround should be a few days.

Perhaps the message was caught in a spam filter somewhere.

I started working at GitHub in August and have improved the application process quite a bit from what it used to be.

Tell your friend to reapply.
The internal architecture of wave was very abstract.
a lot of this abstraction was exposed in the first federation spec, somewhat due to necessity, somewhat due to lack of time.
And to note, with BitBucket and an .edu email you get an unlimited account.
These sites are content farms, every piece they put out about Google Glass is to help them achieve a first page position that could be incredibly valuable for the life of the device.
So if my understanding is correct, the RethinkDB driver translates a Python function object into its "abstract interpretation" by invoking the function on a proxy object x that defines operators such that (simplifying) x.__op__() returns Op(x). Recursively, this yields the computation tree of the function. This looks very similar to what is done in C++ metaprogramming through "expression templates", a technique that is taken to its extremes in libraries such as Boost.Proto. C# solves this more cleanly by having in the language an explicit concept of "expression trees" that are given as arguments of LINQ queries.

I wonder if this imposes any limitations on the functions that can be written. For example, how are if, for statements handled? What happens if I do "lambda x: y + x" where "y" is an object that defines __add__? If these cases are not handled, is a well-defined exception raised?
From 2008-2010 I worked for medweb (company and product, it's a small/private business, doesn't make imaging devices, just software and packaged PACS); it's an ActiveX based viewer, really low end but also a cutting edge idea back in 1997 or so when they invented it. They ended up making a super lightweight system with the PACS server on a laptop, too.

AGFA was probably my least unfavorite, although IIRC they were really expensive. (In Kanadahar, the Canadian Forces who ran the medical role 3 until 2010 were using a pirated version of the software; they kept re-installing a trial license and hacking the date to work!) Really none of them were amazing, although I did really like the high-megapixel Barco monitors.

I've talked to some people doing an interesting cloud-hosted PACS (although they're in private beta, I see them listed in various places, so I think they're public -- radiology.io, now clariso.com.)
Xbox One is a desperate prayer to stop time
Personally, I've never found that a comforting alternative.
Thanks for the supplementary links, they really clarify things for me. I think the key high-level decision they made is to ignore per-transaction latency in pursuit of higher throughput. A consequence of that decision is that the application logic of the transaction must be executed by the coordinator.

A while back coworkers and I developed a system that made similar tradeoffs, and was capable of linear throughput scaling as well, but never made it into production for various reasons. The per-transaction latencies were in practice "good enough", though they theoretically could grow quite large. The necessity of combining the application logic with the transaction coordinator was a lot more difficult in practice than I'd expected, especially since we required completely lock-free logic. It turned out to be a real brainteaser for some applications. It's going to be much easier to write logic for Calvin, because locks are somewhat more intuitive and map more closely to existing systems.
Ivet.
It's even more entertaining to laugh at him over his calls for hyperinflation from 2009:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/inflation-predic...

PAYNE: So, where are you then, Peter, with respect to inflation? Do you think this is going to be the big story of 2010?

SCHIFF: You know, look, I know inflation is going to get worse in 2010. Whether it’s going to run out of control or it’s going to take until 2011 or 2012, but I know we’re going to have a major currency crisis coming soon. It’s going to dwarf the financial crisis and it’s going to send consumer prices absolutely ballistic, as well as interest rates and unemployment.

PAYNE: And what does that mean? For people watching this show, what does that mean for the average American?

SCHIFF: It means their life is going to get a lot more difficult. It means things that they need to buy, things like food and energy, are going to be much more expensive. Ultimately, interest rates are going to rise and their entire standard of living is going to plunge.

And I’m hoping the government doesn’t respond to this inflation with price controls because that’s going to make it even worse. Now, you’re going to be waiting in long lines to get basic food items or to get energy because there’s going to be shortages. People might be going to the black market.

PAYNE: You’re talking you’re talking Zimbabwe, Weimar, Germany — I mean, you’re really talking about something like that actually happening in this country.

SCHIFF: It will happen if we don’t change policies. There is still time to change.

PAYNE: Right.

SCHIFF: I mean, I’m running for the United States Senate, so I can try to change that myself. But if we don’t reverse course, if we continue to stimulate, then we will end up with hyperinflation and it will be like Zimbabwe.
I’m an attorney and have been pondering for hours about whether this would permit one to break their contract. Certainly, if the fee was a tax, one couldn’t break their contract since neither party really can control what the government does. But what gets me is that it appears to be a price increase disguised as a tax. Looking at the AT&T additional fees page, it’s clear that this fee essentially covers operating expenses. (ie: regular AT&T business costs).
Labeling a price increase as an “administrative fee” or a “surcharge” doesn’t change the legal nature of it. Courts tend to look at what the fee is, not what it’s called. I’m going to do some research on this one.

What if the monthly fee was $100? From a legal standpoint, the amount of the fee doesn't matter. You really don't think we could invoke Section 1.3 of the contract?
Has anyone successfully canceled their service while under contract without early termination fees via this method?
Great, I've sent off a request, along with some information that should make it easier for you to verify me!
I think you're exactly right, but it is more than political/lobbyist/social pressure. Even if the fed knew there was a bubble, announcing so would coordinate everyone's actions and we would have a crash for sure. If they announce that there is no bubble, then they have some time to try to manage the situation (which clearly didn't work in the housing crash).

More generally, public statements are an important policy instrument for the fed. A lot of macroeconomic research in the last 30 odd years has focused on the importance of people's expectations about the future and how traditional monetary and fiscal policies work once you take into account how they affect people's expectations. For example, the government giving everyone $1,000 may not increase spending today if people expect that this government expenditure will lead to higher taxes tomorrow.

So the fed has to take care and think about how what they say and do will affect people's expectations. As another example, right now we're in a situation where it is hard to the fed to lower interest rates because they are already basically at zero. One thing that they could do is say and do things to make people believe that we will have higher inflation in the future. This should spur companies to make investments today rather than hold onto their cash.

This isn't to say that the fed can say anything and people will believe it. What the fed says has to be credible. There is a lot of interesting research that looks into this issue and shows what it means for the kinds of policies the fed can or should adopt. The 2004 nobel was awarded in this area -- the nobel page has a lot of good information: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2...
I think (or at least hope) this is the direction medicine is headed in...

In the early (Johnny and Roy) days, it was _all_ telemedicine (send the strip and start LR...). We slowly got away from that for a variety of reasons, and are just now heading back to it.

While I'm not a huge fan of 'mother may I' medicine, I think it's crazy not to leverage the major advances in communications technology to bring a much broader range of specialties into the back of an ambulance.

Some area are having a lot of success with Paramedic Practitioners. The idea being that the can a) handle 'routine' medical calls without a trip to the ER, and can b) make proactive welfare checks on known frequent fliers (brittle diabetics, etc), reducing the load on the EMS system in general. Obviously they're also available as advanced level providers when needed, but this gives them something to do (and bill for) in their downtime.
I switched back.
If hes on a mac, enabling sticky keys will help with the shift, command and alt keys. On older macs all you had to do was hold down one of those control keys for an extra long period of time to kick it into action.
I am pretty sure the word is either Australian English, or only used in Australia. In Australia the word is ubiquitous almost to the point of being tiresome. It seems to crop up in every second news item ("Prime Minister spruiks free trade benefits..." etc.) for example. But even here in New Zealand the word is completely foreign to those who haven't spent time in Australia. It's kind of weird actually.
Probably the best argument there is Occam's Razor. A heuristic it may be, but it has proved useful many times. Though I've often wondered if it truly has that much cosmic power, or if it becomes useless at that scale.
Anyone who has been anywhere close to finance knows that this is true.

The economy is largely about psychology and perception. If someone in a position of authority stands up and says that the sky is falling, they can cause the sky to fall even if it wasn't about to.

It is the same problem as the classic run on the banks. Even a fundamentally healthy bank is going to be in trouble if everyone asks for their money back at once.
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thanks. those points are great, and I get how those can be factors in a major / delayed / completely new update for a company like dropbox ( because security holes cannot happen whatsoever (3), it already makes money off of its customers, so it should consider (1) and (7), and that it might have other features in the line (2) because they have several products / features already ).

But in tinder's case, the addition of age preferences in matches is similar to their already-existing gender & location search for a couple reasons... 1) they already check a potential match's gender (and location) against the gender preference you chose, so while they're there, how much harder is to check another attribute of that match? his/her age, 2) they already have the matching preferences / UI setup (yes, decisions still have to be made about where to put a slider, but it shouldn't look too different from the distance preference slider, and it's not such a new feature that it would be confusing to the user), and 3) since they don't currently make money off their user base, tinder's main value is derived from # users, # active users, etc. There could be an argument to be made about making it a possible premium feature, but bringing in more users / giving users what they want / making them happy should be the focus.

I guess when it comes down to it, I just don't understand how the development process of similar feature could take so long.
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Show HN: Scraping with a fresh IP every time. I bet you want this.
Clouflare is legit.
I can only speak for myself and say I was definitely not using single-word search strings. That would be awful uncritical of me.
Google Wave was not really done in the opposite way when it came to specs.

The spec were largely written by an an intern and a person not part of the wave team helping wave with other things.

Everyone else was focused on Wave.
Right because the people choose to live at home.
Not that I necessarily disagree but YouTube, Instagram and Google are bad examples. The first two had founders who were master "politicians" and were already well connected in the valley. Sergey and Larry were Stanford CS PhD students who merely had to impress their professors with their prototype to get introductions to SV Royalty.

Facebook would be a good example though. Zuck did come from Harvard which added credibility and opened some doors but from the beginning FB's traction is what mattered far more than anything else.
Some do. And in some cultures, it's expected.
Seconded- Access was my gateway drug into development, too. Well, not quite- I knew I wanted to do it and had played around with PHP in my spare time, but after graduating college I found myself in a crappy administration job. They had a crappy Excel-based tracking system, I replaced it with Access. Then that grew into a SQL Server-backed VB.NET application. Then I left, went into another .NET job developing C#, then journeyed into the world of Node, Python and Ruby.

TL;DR: Access is a great place to get started.
One advantage is that you have a very fixed environment in the back of an ambulance. The stretcher is going to be in exactly the same place every time (I'd assume you'd have some sort of 'slot' to drop the 'film' in on the underside of the stretcher), and there are all sorts of fixed reference points in the back of the truck.

Patient positioning is something that we're pretty good at to begin with (if you think it's a pain to get them lined up to shoot the ET... try lining them up to drop it in the first place...)
Github is great for everyone but agencies who have a high number of repositories.

Bitbucket is great for us as it's per user pricing instead of per repository pricing that Github has.

Github is fantastic for opensource projects or people with a low number of repositories - It's handy if you only plan on having a couple of repositories (if you are a SaaS etc).
Shifting Gears: from writing about tech to movies
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