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I will also ignore laws that attempt to tell me what I can do with products I've legally purchased.

I take it you also object to laws that prevent you using the gun you've purchased to shoot someone, using the lighter you've bought to start a fire, driving the car you've bought over a pet dog, processing uranium in the reactor you've bought, running off copies of your Stephen King collection on the printing press you've bought, deafening your neighbours with the stereo you've bought ...

I'm not being facetious either. It's a strange notion that took root among hackers that their computers are somehow exempt from the law's regulation of the products we purchase. That someone paid for their computer is utterly irrelevant to the matter, yet continually you hear the cry "how can they tell me what to do with bits in a machine I own!?!"
Do you think you will have any trouble explaining your time off to a potential employer?

Every job I ever got was because I gate crashed, usually at a pub or cocktail party. Whenever I talk to someone who I feel like we can work together, I just ask them about their business/project and put myself in their shoes. The great majority of the time I would "not hire myself", because I know I am unfit to help them. But if I know I am the one, I usually take charge; I first restate the problem, explain my understanding of where they are and where they need to be, then tell them "what we need to do to get there". This is the same way I recruit friends for other friends as well.
That's beautiful. Are you still in the DC area? We should get a few people from HN for some beers.
The value of the paper money is related to the economic harm that devaluing it would cause the government which issues it. This is why it the USD has been as stable as it has over such a long time.

The other problems with gold is you often have deflationary pressure as when it's value increases (which is unbelievably bad) and inflation whenever large new supply's come on line. Also once you start using gold as a currency it becomes far more expensive to use it for other things like a non corrosive conductor.
This is nice, but seeing no mentions of Hotwire or PowerShell leaves me with a feeling of NIH.
Let me just add that small valuables, like gold and Western-made digital electronics come handy for pawning when you lose your wallet, get your documents stolen or otherwise that odorsome object hits the Murphy fan. And it will.

Two gold rings and a necklace, not worn, but secreted in your boots will get you out of allot of trouble, at least until that unexpected national/religious/regional holiday you never expected finishes, or perhaps the riot dies down, and the banks/embassies open. Sometimes government and banking offices will be wide open but you cannot get your paperwork done for DAYS, and you will quickly run out of money, and starve at that shitty border town.
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It doesn't seem to be anything more than a buy-it-now paypal/google button which could already have been added prior to this announcement. I was hoping they would include a stock count facility or let you offer options on a product: size, color, etc and then vary the price accordingly.
The tax on the phone however is significantly lower than the tax on a brand new car and most people shouldn't notice the impact on their tax return documents from a several hundred dollar gift.
Get more Karma, and you can change the top bar color. I think you need 250 karma to do this.

Start by submitting good stories and making valuable/insightful comments.
I don't see why it's a big deal. Sell the car to cover the tax. You still come out ahead.
If you dont know this much, you will shoot yourself in the foot, getting hard to track down errors. There a several other important things to know not mentioned in the article.

- Don't test for equality. Use "abs(a/b - 1) < epsilon", where epsilon is close to zero but larger than your accumulated rounding error. The least significant bits in the mantissa wiggle around quite a bit even when the values are supposed to be the same.

- Dont use binary floating point for money. Use a decimal representation. Python decimal is pretty good, but Java BigDecimal will bit you if you dont learn its peculiarities.

- Learn about NaN and Infinity. They are like Ice 9 (Vonnegut) and change everything they touch into themselves. You cant even test for them unless you know what you are doing.

Fore more read http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp0114/
or links in the article.
Or use a greasemonkey script like the ones here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=hacker+news&x=0&...
Second reaction... If there is a range of moral "quality" so to speak of decisions made by humans, and animals also exhibit morality in decision making, then why might there not also be a range of moral quality in animal decisions. Perhaps your murderous chihuahua was on the morally depraved end of that spectrum...
It may be a shrewd move for Google, but the net effect for attendees remains unchanged - they got a free phone, which is awesome no matter which way you cut it.

TC is right, we won't see anything like this from Apple - but then again Apple doesn't seem to have any problems attracting developers. You gotta do what you gotta do...
Someone else's content +

someone else's design +

embedded video and pictures from someone else's service = profit!

I think the money, if they ever make any, should also go to someone else, like to help save pandas or something.
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What this service does, if I'm reading this right, is bypass the stage where you talk to a triage nurse - you're triaged based on what you report is wrong with you, as opposed to what a nurse sees is wrong with you.

Do you have any mechanisms in place for two-way communication between the hospital and the people booking appointments? Specifically, I'm thinking about situations where a series of individually minor symptoms may collectively indicate something major is going on, but that a layman wouldn't know.

Like let's say that I go on your site and see that I can get an appointment at an ER in three hours, so I book that because I'm feeling slightly off. My symptom description seems innocuous enough - went for a walk in the countryside, right arm is tingling a bit, small red bump on my leg, etc. - but to someone trained in medicine they indicate that I've been poisoned by some sort of tick, and I need treatment ASAP, as opposed to in three hours. Is there a way for the nurse who processes this reservation into the hospital to call me and say "screw the booking, get here now!"?
Talk about contributing to the public health problem in our ERs.

Emergency medicine in the US is in a horrible state. Overcrowding is one of the primary reasons. See: http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/01/19/prsb0119.htm

One of the primary reasons for the large influx of patients is the diversion of primary care visits into the ER for non-urgent matters. A booking system that encourages non-urgent care visits to the ER as opposed to other urgent care options does nothing to help this.

As other commenters have mentioned, the problem with overcrowded ERs from a patient perspective where they have a potentially emergent case is NOT in the middle of the night - it's during the day, where other options (including primary care and urgent care facilities) are available.

Emergency medicine should not be treated in the same convenience form-factor as other consumable goods, and applying this approach is socially irresponsible in the big picture.
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Actually, that's one of the options listed in the article.
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And yet, how much have any of those companies changed the car industry? (Although I'll grant that Tesla has a chance).

My point is that the standards aren't set by the number of companies that support them, they're set by the market share. Talking about browser makers like IE doesn't exist is wishful thinking at this point, just like talking about car makers as if GM and Ford have already stopped producing cars is wishful thinking.

It doesn't mean that you shouldn't innovate around them, just that you can't call your work a 'standard' until at least a majority of the market is on board. (I mean standard in the market sense here, not standard in the W3C sense).
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/05/03/9330606-sun...

'Down a hospital hallway, a row of stretchers line the wall near the nurse's station. On one of them is an elderly woman who's in pain.

She has been waiting for four hours to get into a room with a bed, but there isn't one available.

This is happening nearly every day in hospitals across the province and the GTA," said a nurse with 22 years of on-the-job experience.'
So it's an "improvement" to have half your screen taken up by "chrome" with little buttons that you have to switch to the mouse to interact with? I'll pass.

A better example of integration like this is eshell:

http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packages/html/eshell_1.h...
I can't use Windows PowerShell on my Mac, and Hotwire also seems difficult to install because it requires GTK+. Bespin is doing something that I've been thinking about for some time - using the browser for a "desktop" UI. Maybe they could reuse the Hotwire backend, though.
My apologies if I was misinterpreting your replies as needless repetition.

I don't disagree with you, and it must be said I question the need for such a service...but given the state of waiting at emergency departments today, I could see how this is useful for those people with small emergencies that for whatever reason can't be dealt with elsewhere. For now. The long term solution would obviously be to do something similar to what you suggest.
Actually it's quite easy to have inflation with a gold standard. As soon as you dig up a single ounce of new gold, you have inflated the money supply a little.

So instead of having the central bank control your inflation rate, it is controlled by the gold mining companies of the world. That may not necessarily be worse depending on how much you trust the central bank, but it's hardly better.

Of course, if we didn't want our money supply to be determined by gold miners, we could pick another arbitrary commodity like oil or coal. I'd go with coal, since we have a lot of that. But then again, once you have the power to dig up more, you have the power to inflate your own currency again. Might as well skip the digging (and all the environmental abuse that entails) and just adjust the supply on paper like we currently do.

This is treated really well here: http://www.optimist123.com/optimist/2007/05/sound_money_ver....

This article points out (rather obliquely) that ideally you'd want to grow money at the same rate that GDP grows (assuming constant velocity of money).

That is really hard to do obviously. If you rely on the gold standard, you have to attempt to add gold to the world supply at a specific rate. I'm no miner, but I'd imagine production levels are hardly constant from year to year. (Not to mention that, due to geology, we'd have to rely on other countries to do so, notably Russia and South Africa.) If you rely on fiat money, you thankfully don't have to actually produce anything to increase the supply, but you do have to spend a lot of time deliberating over how much to do so.

Deflation would be really bad in a debt driven economy like we have, since it increases the burden of debt-holders, so central banks err on the side of moderate inflation. If they could get it perfect, that would be awesome, but so far they can't so they choose the lesser of two evils.
I think the point of this article was to show pictures of rounded corners. Your shell needs those, don't ya know...
Awesome :) Glad to see this taking off Tyler. Nice to see my new design on there. PS. Center the layout ;)
Really? I think Hebrew is a hard language (and I'm not fluent), but my (admittedly ignorant) impression was that Chinese was on a different level of difficulty. Hebrew is not tonal, uses an alphabet, and doesn't rely on cultural metahpors in the same way that (I thought) Chinese does.
I think change is certainly key as the catalyst for a turn around your state of mind.

That said, from my experience, I wouldn't expect to ever have an immediate, deep psychological turn around in response to any particular change, even a radical one - it always takes time. But change is key.

Some common wisdom: It's easy to be scared of change - often easier to deal with a bad situation - not even really realize it's that bad - than face the unknown. But the unknown is almost always not as bad as you think.
Definitely go with Google AppEngine (GAE). I started off with zero Python experience and an interest in checking out GAE as well as learning Python, and rapidly picked up both thanks to the ease of developing and deploying on GAE. Just go through the Getting Start Guide (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/), which will covers some of the services you get with GAE out of the box. In fact, the Getting Started Guide walks you through building a simple guestbook app. Feel free to contact me if you need more information or have questions.
I think the "support" of DC is the kiss of death for any industry or field.
Wow congrats guys - you've been working your tails off.
Can you expand on this a bit - for example, do you come up with the appointment times based on your own models, or does the hospital update your system to say "well, we're having a light day, so most people can get in two hours after they send us their triage info, regardless of what comes up."

I also wonder if you could talk about the incentives you use to get hospitals to sign on to your program - while you're adding value, you're also costing them staff time. Do you pass on a portion of the $25 to them, or is the idea that they will make up the cost by having more people come to them and thus getting more volume?

Lastly, have you considered partnering with insurance companies to offer this service as part of a premium's offering?

All-in, great idea you have - this is the kind of health care innovation we need.
But you have to remember, even though there are millions of encodings and character sets, UTF-8 Unicode makes up 99.99% of real-world use-cases. So it makes sense to make that 99.99% easy.

(I will admit that I'm confused as to why you would need to know the length of a string's representation in a certain encoding unless you are writing a network protocol.)
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That's cool. We are now officially living in the future.
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I apologize for having triggered a pet peeve. However, I really did believe that fluent Chinese required a deep understanding of culture and history. If that's not true, could you explain how the (common, I believe) misperception has arisen?

For what it's worth, I haven't heard the same about Japanese...all I really know about Japanese is that it can be complicated to be sufficiently polite/use the correct honorifics/etc.
Self-reporting is notoriously bad. Also, through my studies of autism, I am keenly aware of the problems of associating physical gestures with internal emotions. If it weren't possible, there'd be no actors. But no, it wasn't facetious. All humans use these cues to gauge the emotions of others. Sometimes, yes, the measurements are inaccurate. Humans lie, but so do other animals.

To your first point, the reason to suggest that there may be more information contained in the monkey calls is because as a trend over time, as observe more, we are finding that the communication between animals, does in fact, contain more information than we believed in the past.

Are you denying this trend?

For example, in the past, our understanding of chimpanzee communication didn't lead us to believe that they could conspire with others and plot against other chimpanizees, but since then, we have observed that groups of chimps would lie to a target chimp, then isolate that chimp, then murder that chimp. I suspect it takes quite a bit of complex communication skills to pull off pre-meditated murder of a fellow clansman.
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Yes, we do have the capacity to reprioritize patients based on symptoms. Patients who reserve a treatment time online are responsible for their own health until they arrive at the ED, but we do give the ED caregivers the capacity to communicate with the patient early on if they deem it prudent; this feature is generally used in the sort of situations you describe, where the patient's condition may be more serious than he or she realizes.
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As much as I love the InQuickER idea, it's not hard to predict which one of NP clinics and InQuickER is going to make a bigger dent faster. Clinics are going to be everywhere in ten years. It's too good a system not to succeed.

Of course, InQuickER (or something like it) is just going to integrate with the clinics and urgent care centers. I'm going to select "ear infection" and enter my zip code and it's going to give me a selection just like Orbitz.
fantastic idea. The first ER experience I had in the US, I waited for 5 hours -- completely baffled that it was called ER.
It is much better to ask the author to make a special release with different licence and then import it.

good luck with that.
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>But most people who think that Chinese (or Japanese, or Arabic, or another of "those exotic languages which are totally unlike anything in our experience after you ignore all the ways they're pretty darn similar")

I think you might be getting off track a bit - I specifically mentioned Hebrew in the comment that started this thread, which is very similar to Arabic. I also mentioned Tagalog (Filipino). I don't have some misperception that non-European languages are mystical and impossible for English speakers to learn. I just thought Chinese, in particular, was a special case.
If you play an instrument, then make music! It's time for you to join a band and hit the road, my friend.

If you have a passport, as others have said, get the hell out of dodge. Get your shots though, you don't want to come back with broken kidneys.

Have you considered attending Hedonism II? It's a lot of fun...
My last experience with the ER was in the 90s, but there were several times I (or my then wife) had to wait for hours in the evening or middle of the night to see a doctor at the ER, in both Columbus, GA, and Melbourne, FL.
GAE user authentication assumes that your users have Google accounts.

Is there an existing library to allow user authentication by creating an account for my particular website? i.e. not using a preexisting account.
Your argument is that on-site ER wait times are an effective deterrant for frivolous ER visits. They aren't: they impose costs on both legitimate and illegitimate visits. That cost is also imposed randomly: currently, your ER wait is luck-of-the-draw.

If you want to solve the ER overcrowding problem, you should do it directly, by adding a surcharge (over and above the one that already exists) for nonessential ER visits. There's no rational reason to force people to sit in a crowded ER waiting room.

Meanwhile, a retail interface to the ER scheduling systems that already exist is more likely to help than hurt overcrowding, because it will route patients to the least crowded ER in their area.
That's fair. I should have been more accurate since Canada is a gigantic country. My experience is based on living in Vancouver and Montreal (although I went to a hospital in Toronto on one occasion and waited only 30 minutes).
Searching for something not in their database seems to break their search.

http://navify.com/search?q=djangopony

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Query failed: unknown local index 'article' in search request' request'

as the start of a long PHP error message.
I don't think you were as successful as you made it out to seem. Shouldn't you have a nice cushion to sit upon and practically retire (:
The only good ideas I saw in this post were shell-known argument semantics (perhaps via standardized --help output) and pipe inspection. The second idea is already available with the pv command.

> What other things could we do to trick out the command line?

The reason I use a command line is specifically because it's not tricked out.
interesting story, but it doesn't seem to talk about the revenue model for the company - whether revenues primarily come from ads or from premium users etc.
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I used to "assume" the same thing, but I have reasoned that nba teams use a lot of perimeter offense because its hard to penetrate the paint. Imagine having Dwight Howard, Andrew Bynum, Pao Gasol, or Yao Ming waiting for you ...

Usually guards are responsible for "penetrating and kicking" because they have the knowledge and dexterity to do so. But the average guard is maybe 6'3" 180lbs. Good centers start at 6'11".

I just don't think outsiders appreciate how much effort, skill, and knowledge it takes to drive to the basket and

a. take and make a good shot over a 7foot defender.

b. recognize the collapse and pass down low accordingly

c. recognize a double team and swing out to the parameter.

edit*: Maybe you just are not watching the right people. Have you ever seen Allen Iverson play? You'd like him. How about Dwayne Wade or Chris Paul ?
Have you considered treating some of the fee as a deposit, refunded when the person shows up?

Awesome job, by the way.
That was my first thought -- "won't this be obviated by the Kindle (and other e-book readers)?" Perhaps not immediately, but it seems that the markets this serves especially well -- those looking for rare or out of print books, academics, etc... -- are also served by electronic books. I don't own an e-book reader and can understand buying hard copies -- at used book stores, in particular -- but if I did own one, I can't think of many reasons why I would prefer this to an e-book. Perhaps purely aesthetic ones, as in, coffee table books, but how well does this replicate glossy photos?
Start by fixing the physical pain. I started getting pain from sitting 12+ hours in a chair, too.

I improved my posture by taking Alexander Technique classes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Technique
http://www.vancouveralexandertechnique.com/

Then I improved my flexibility by taking up yoga. I've dropped 25 pounds since last summer.

Figure out the "mental" stuff and existential angst after you get physically healthy.
Agreed, boredom comes from lack of challenge. There's lots of non-challenge available in day-to-day web development.
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Especially for techies, there are some good programs available for people who want to try a startup. Specifically SBIR (small business innovative research) and STTR (Small business Technology TRansfer) are really well suited to get money to get your feet off the ground. And they don't want any equity in return, they just want to be a customer!
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As yet another parent, this looks promising. My ER visits are usually in the 5-7 hour range. I also don't really care what the place is called: if I have an issue, I want to go to the closest place that can help me. If it happens to be the Walgreens three blocks away (it isn't), fine. Urgent Care, ER, trauma center or whatever.

Until recently, I always thought these places would triage, but my experience has been that it is just 'take a number and wait' I've been in with a broken arm, a torn nose (that required stitches) and couldn't believed we were treated exactly like a headache.
So, this looks great. Try the Silicon Valley next so we can try it!
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