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I've never understood why people dislike the commercials so much.

Most of their half hour (21 minute) shows only contain at most three minutes of commercials spread through the show. At worse you're sitting through a minute break from the show.

People pay $100+ per month and seem to live through tens of minutes of commercials per show.

Plus is about having device and HD access more than anything. I like it as I get far more content from it than I can over the air and I refuse to pay $60-100/month for cable/satellite.
I believe the spirit the article was written in has value. Obviously one should use common sense and still apply the best practices that they know of at the time.
I think you're missing an important factor. Consider how many classes of jobs can be automated away over the next 50 years. Boat captains can easily be one of those. Pervasive automation changes the argument, and the fact is, it's already happening across many industries.

I think it's about time to start thinking about a society where employment is only available to a small fraction of people. It would be much better to have a controlled, thought out transition than to deny the possibility until we end up with mass unemployment.
Poll: Are you left-handed or right-handed?
Roughly 10% of the population is left-handed, with right-handers at 70-90%, and the rest mixed-handed or, in rare cases, ambidextrous. Some suggest that left-handers are more predominant in creative areas. How does HN compare?
Completely right-handed: I have no left hand.
Definitely right-handed: my left hand is a useless appendage.
Mostly right-handed: left hand used only for traditionally left-handed tasks (eg: fork).
Mixed-handed: task usually dictates hand used, with right hand used for writing and majority of tasks.
Ambidextrous: a skill learned in one hand is immediately usable by the other hand with minimal to no loss of dexterity.
No-handed: I have no hands.
Mixed-handed: task usually dictates hand used, with left hand used for writing and majority of tasks.
Mostly left-handed: right hand used only for traditionally right-handed tasks (eg: knife).
Definitely left-handed; my right hand is a useless appendage.
Completely left-handed: I have no right hand.
But USD 2k is a whole lot of money for people in some of the countries where they'd need to resort to this to put something on the Google store. Not something you'd easily have access to.

And there are also the issues in sending that money abroad. It's not so easy in many of those countries too.
There was a time (maybe it's still possible) when Facebook Chat used XMPP, which means you could use a client like bitlbee or pdigin to connect.
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You should talk to the Clariso guys -- I think they're US focused but really smart. Talking DICOM to the various modalities isn't that big a deal (although they all have weird bugs, and DICOM is a disgusting protocol), but good support for those stupid Plasmon archivers would be useful, or just figuring out a good client support option for local-to-workstation DVD burners. As for interop, the big issue is usually HL7/HIS integration at hospitals (for DoD, it was AHLTA, and for the VA, Vista, and for everyone else, usually EPIC but sometimes Practice Fusion). I think even the worst PACS is usually better than most hospital HIS/EHR.

It was really funny when I was supporting an ActiveX-based system and every single one of the doctors had a Mac personally, and I used a Mac running VMware windows as my primary machine. I think the percentage of radiologists (or really, doctors in general) using Macs is >75%, but the hospital deployments are always Windows.

One good way for a new PACS or RIS to get started would be in training environments. Telerad is the other good way (sending CTs, and usually several studies, over a VSAT network with ~16/4M bandwidth for all of theater, was interesting -- especially since the goal was to always beat the patient to the facility to give surgical teams time to study the studies. Easy for the 8h ride to Landstuhl, hard for the <60 minute medevac helecopter from Jalalabad to Bagram.)

What surprised me is a lot of people wanted to at least be able to read reports (and usually look at images) on an iPad. Some rads even wanted to read on an iPhone screen (!!!) so they didn't have to get out of bed, although that was for things like sprained ankles and they'd read for real the next day. A Retina iPad is a pretty adequate device, though, honestly; it would be amazing to see what a Retina MacBook Pro 15 could do. (for everyone else, a radiology monitor is often $10-20k and approximately Retina resolution; there are some special FDA regulations about the screens for uniformity, but fundamentally they're 2-3x overpriced for what they are. A decent IPS LCD is perfectly adequate in many cases, particularly for CT/MR/US which are low resolution; mammography is the main area where really high quality screens matter (often black and white, 3-5MP). And the high quality screen really only matters for a radiologist; for every other doctor reviewing the images, a good quality normal monitor is perfectly adequate, as the rad writes a text report and marks up the images to identify anything important.)
It is horrific, but let's not exaggerate the issue... If you're in the top 0.001%, you're a multi-millionaire, and persecution is an issue affecting a minority of the world's population, almost by definition, as it's hard to persecute a group that outnumbers you.
Well said. Wow, Zed's motherfucker link is gold. Thanks for sharing it.
This is precisely the problem - all current "social networks" are terrible. Facebook will be killed, but it won't be done by incremental change. Social networking needs another revolution, something to make it relevant and exciting as Facebook was in its first few years.
On the contrary, coal and nuclear thermal power plants take a long time to throttle up and down.

It's the fact that they can be throttled. You cannot control the throttle on wind and solar. You can control the brake (how much of the generated electricity is released onto the grid). But if the motor ain't running you can't make it go. And if much of your power is dynamic and non-dispatchable, you've now got variance on both the demand and supply sides of your grid.

Hence: the need for storage. If you can take the surplus available at times when you don't need it and store it somehow, then you can match grid demand.

The problem with hydro is that there's simply not enough capacity. A small number of nations (New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden, Brazil) have large hydro capacities (and relatively small populations for the most part). For the US, and much of the rest of the world, most available hydro sites have been built out.

Other options include geothermal. There's a vast potential under Yellowstone National Park, though it's politically untenable to even contemplate tapping it (a USGS survey of US geothermal resources didn't even mention it):
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3082/

Iceland, Hawaii, Japan, and Kenya also have very significant geothermal potential.
The argument isn't that they shouldn't get care, or even that they should have to pay for transport, but that they should be guided (using cost incentives, in the US market model) to use the most appropriate transport. ALS, BLS, mobility-but-not-EMS, or taxi). The problem is there are a lot of places in the US where "take an old person to see a doctor for a checkup" requires using BLS or even ALS ambulances, which is crazy, because ambulance would be covered but taxi would not be. It's better to just give these patients taxi vouchers, if you want the government paying for it, for $10-20, vs. a $100-500 direct-cost ambulance ride.

There's a separate argument about who should pay for what services, but "care should be delivered in the most cost-effective way to get the best patient outcomes" is independent of that.
It is highly ritualized. The last meal, final words, gathering others to watch... really the only way that you could say that it isn't ritualized murder is if you want to nitpick about "when the government does it, that means it is not murder".
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Huh. OK, then it surprises me that they charge so much. I guess they're selling their ad space, though? (Hence it being sensible for them to charge such a high CPM rate.)
I'm starting a 501(c)3 nonprofit science research organization. One of the side projects I'd like to do is to teach a computer programmer how to program bacteria and help to develop a 100% open-source git-like software system for biology. Yes, I'm aware that entities like genome compiler exist - but the people running it just don't get it (either from a CS perspective OR a biology perspective) - I've had conversations with them. I could use someone like you, and if you really like what you're making, then it's certainly "spinoff"-able (technically not a spinoff since there's no IP transfer) as a github-like for-profit enterprise.

Our long-term goal is to also produce a platform for building open-source, IP-unrestricted biological products. We're starting with an anticancer compound, I have other ideas that I don't want to talk about until I'm ready to pitch for donations for them.

Anyways, I think you should take a break - we won't be ready to launch until december-ish anyways (depending on how badly the IRS handles itself in the meantime), but if you think you might be interested in this, let me know. I might not be able to pay that much, but you might find some inspiration, and a direction to go in.

http://indysci.org/
You are stupid. The fact that country is Third world shithole proves that.
More rumours. I wouldn't hold my breath. These Apple rumour-mills (the one the author is using as source) always miss by a mile.
The electronic industry is already in metric. Distances are measured, for example, in units of 2.54 centimeters.
Commercials break the flow of the TV/movie that I'm watching. It's the same reason I don't watch the networks or cable TV. It's a Netflix life for me.
Those organzations are nothing to do with the persecution of witchcrafit in PNG. Did you even read the article.

If you want to stop these horrific acts of violence, it would be better to give to the Catholic Church since it was a catholic nun who saved the woman in that article.

Your prejudice against religion is as irrational as what you accuse religion as being, since you put your secularist ideology ahead of the facts when you lump completely unrelated phenomena together into the category of "superstition".
> The issue is not with the allocator; the issue is with the ability to read or write beyond the bounds of an array. ... Even for low-level code, it never makes sense to step out of array bounds.

You must understand that from the low level perspective, the array and its bounds do not exist. This is an abstraction. An allocator needs to chop up and slice a larger block of memory and give different segments to different callers. You cannot do this if something is enforcing bounds.

What you can do is build higher level abstractions that track bounds and do runtime checks at every access. In C there is nothing to stop you from doing that as a library. In C++, some STL implementations even have bounds checking as a compile time option. But the languages don't force you into paying that cost.
Little confused... Why do like 90% of the css tags either go to the very top left or to the bottom left? Shouldn't every tag have a specific area?
Hulu having ads isn't about the money they make. It's about keeping ads as normal in peoples minds. If Netflix and Hulu and any other online only vod dropped all ads then people might start to resent ads, and seem them as abnormal. Then people will watch less network and cable TV, which need ads.
Boy, if you take this a bit too seriously, you're going to end up putting yourself out of a job.

I could write this new product... but the market is already saturated with products that kind of already do this... they probably don't need mine.

The exception to that opinion is social networks. If you think you need to build a new social network, stop yourself and erase any traces of that thought from your mind.
Does anyone have any information to what actually changed in Argentina that caused this?
> I've never understood why people dislike the commercials so much.

Many people are making so much money that the cost of TV shows will never be an issue, if only someone were willing to sell it to them. They still only have 24 hours in a day, and they are being shown ads they have seen many times before, and those ads weren't interesting in the first place.

TV users can easily use a DVR to skip ads.
Maybe not dumbest, but do what comes to mind. Solve the problem. Then determine if you've done it right.
Ok, I'm an adult in my later 20s. I have a mixture of friends and business associates on Facebook.

I have friends who post annoying stuff (blocked from feed) and friends who posted really inappropriate comments on my stuff (unfriended.)

Is there some part to teen usage that discourages blocking a friend's feed or unfriending someone?
Trained ambidextrous, right hand bias.
a bunch like in biggest shareholder. I still don't know if I agree with the action made in my name tho. I'm not in this anti-state crap, I just wonder how to make efficient militant shareholder decisions. To their credit they are trying something.
There is a strategy behind this - Tumblr, now Hulu. She is acquiring content generating properties. Whether it will succeed or not remains to be seen, but kudos to her for trying!

To those who say it has been tried before by other CEOs: Flickr and Delicious generate pictures and bookmarks. Pictures and bookmarks have pathetic monetization rates, compared to articles/blog posts. With Hulu, it gets better - awesome paid subscription rates, along with monetization via advertising.
Could you do us a favor and make this a bit easier to read by breaking it in to paragraphs by separating them with a blank line? It looks to be a valuable post, but the formatting makes it extra work to read, and some people may skip over it as a result. Thanks.
What word do you prefer to superstition?
You're going to see a lot more code from people who err on the side of too little thought rather than too much though for a pretty obvious reason: people who are too scared to start coding... aren't writing any code for you to read later.

Also, while it's easy to identify code which has had too little thought put into it, it's often very difficult to identify code which has had too much thought put into it. The best solutions don't look like the result of lots of hard work, but rather make hard problems look like simple problems that would be trivial to solve.
It's exactly the same thing.

What defines a crime is intention. For instance, firing a gun is not a crime per se. Or in the case of the United States, even building one isn't illegal, since no one made a law to make it so. [1]

On the other hand, attempt to shoot, shooting or killing someone, are all possibly crimes, depending if there's intention and the circumstances (e.g., self-defense).

So in your example, if someone makes materials for political enemies, first you need to prove intention or connection to the crimes committed by these parties (I'm assuming you don't mean illegal/controlled materials here). Then, when this person is sentenced, the judge can rule about restricting access to these materials anymore (for instance, restricting him from getting a job in industry). It's the same case as hackers sentenced for years away from computers.

[1] http://www.cracked.com/article_17016_7-items-you-wont-believ...
In the U.S. we still have the death penalty for witchcraft, it's just not called that anymore. I think they call it drug trafficking now, but if you look at what witchcraft was historically it's basically the exact same thing.
It doesn't have any suspension from what I can see, so there probably aren't any dog bones.
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I wonder if this is maybe a confused reference to the privation theory of evil? In Aristotelean scholastic theology evil is simply a lack of being (since goodness is one of the transcendental properties of being), and so there's a connection between nothingness and evil.
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There's a huge premium, when consulting, to being there in person. One of the easier ways to do a startup without investors (or homelessness) in this area is to work 3-6 months out of the year as a contractor. My impression is that getting those jobs is way easier here than anywhere else.

/my impression/ is that it's similar when getting VC money, but I don't have direct experience with that like I have with consulting.

People you meet in person, in my experience, are more likely to do business deals with you, and you are going to run into more people of the calibre you want to have partnerships with in this area than anywhere else.
There is a lot of difference between being able to set/search by real name and being forced to do so.
Thanks for the tip! I don't know if I would have thought to set another date after missing the first. Hopefully I won't have to, but if the time comes I'll keep that in mind.
Hindsight is always 20/20. It's difficult to judge a piece of code after the fact. The quality of the code, including maintainability, is a result of various trade-offs. We don't know what compromises the developer was making at the time. We don't know what was the highest priority at the time. May be they were short of money and working code however shitty produced at the shortest amount of time was the most important. Suck to be the guy doing the maintenance but if there's no working product, there would be no maintenance.

We programmers have a ugly tendency to judge less than stellar codes written by others. It made us feel superior to pick apart mistakes others have made. The fact is software development is a series of technical and non-technical trade-offs. I certainly had fell in the same trap before. These days I just appreciate they can ship a working product and get it off the ground.
The description is "The Future of Human Data Interaction"
and the MS demo fits the bill.
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Well, the mistake in this particular case is probably allowing more web application processes than database connections from those processes, which is an easy thing to get wrong.
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It has nothing to do with them. Read the article and try again.
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I've come to a similar conclusion. We homeschool, and my oldest is 15. "How to teach my kid to program" is the wrong question. My oldest is barely interested. He's getting to the point where it might be good as job skill, and he knows that, but he's not hacking his nights away. Could care less. My middle son however is 11 and is constantly hacking at stuff. Setting up his friends' minecraft servers. Asking me questions like "what is Lua" because he wants to mod roblox. Opening the chrome dev tools and changing shit on pages for hours. lol

They have all the opportunity they could want. They will all "graduate" with deeper than average computer science knowledge, but that urge to hack isn't something that can be taught.
But aren't users demanding more and more features from software as time goes on, and won't this added size and complexity create additional work for programmers even though the stuff we did in the previous release is now easier to do? For example, compare the amount of software that went into a phone ten years ago with the gigabytes of software that sits on a smartphone today, or the complexity of the UI on a phone ten years ago vs. today. Not to mention the increased functionality of the servers at the back-ends of all these apps.

Also, if you're starting a project from scratch, you can use the latest and most streamlined technology. But if you're supporting a large code base (millions of lines of code) and adding features to it, you can't just suddenly re-write all your code to use the latest techniques. Also, you may be locked into a technology by your customers. For example, in the enterprise software space, lots of customers have a huge investment in Java application servers on which all their software runs, and if you want to compete in that space, it's easier to sell them a Java-based system than it is to convince them to install and learn to support a Ruby-based system just to run your product. And there's probably much more code (and programmers) in enterprise software -- think of all the software that supports banks, insurance companies, hospitals, government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, etc. -- than in the start-up world. I don't think AI is going to make a dent in that huge, complex pile of legacy software any time soon.
Myspace's photo experience was terrible.
Looks like Cristina is following in the footsteps of Chavez. I hope Argentina can open its eyes before they get to the point Venezuela is. Right now we even have a shortage of toilet paper so you can imagine what it's like here rig
now.
We (Venezuela) are an oil producing country with constant power outages, food and basics shortage, 25+% inflation and 21k violent deaths last year only. Wake up Argentina.
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I had a brief look at the paper. I got stuck on the section about scalability. I can't see how that could be implemented so that authentication can be done given that the nodes are untrusted (by which I mean implemented with a much smaller amount of computation and storage than was required in the non-optimized approach).
It's the the word, it's the use of the category that I object to.

Imagine a person who says "everything from the holocaust, the the weathermen, to Obamacare is possible once we accept collectivism". The problem with statement is not that there is no such notion as collectivism, but that the different manifestations of it are in no way comparable in terms of their relationship to these forms of violence.

The person I was replying to was ignoring the important, immediate causes of this event (which are described in the article), and focussing on the least important factor, i.e. superstition in general.