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Animals have been documented killing for fun. Chimps do it often. Orcas play with seals. Hell even cats bat that mouse around before they finally take the life out of its body.

Either these animals don't know that there an issue with torturing their victims, or they simply don't care. Either way your point about humans being the only animal to kill for sport is moot.
Then what is public domain, if not something that can be used by anyone in whatever way they seem fit?
You might be watching too much TV. Nothing happens quickly in a real ER.
I'm pretty happy with my iPhone, so I decided to sell my Google I/O phone. If you're interested in trying it out, I'm sure others are doing the same too.
Trading coding for designing
Does anyone know of any site where a programmer who knows his limitations as a designer can get in touch with a real designer to have a site design created? I'm looking to trade my coding skills (say building the backend for a site, or performance tuning a site) in exchange for the work done. I'm not looking for a partnership or a joint venture or anything, just a one-off straightforward exchange of skills and time... Thanks for any pointers!
I say don't lower your price. What you want to do is segment the demand curve for ER services and slice out those who are willing to pay more to avoid wasting hours of their time.

It seems lowering the price would gut your revenue but you wouldn't increase your userbase enough to make up for it (there would be a big deadweight loss of utility that patients get, but don't have to pay for -- lost revenue for you).

Also, ER is an incredibly expensive thing to go through, so mentally your users may be more price-insensitive than usual--they'll bucket all the costs together in a 'big bath', so you can charge more.
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I'm surprised at some of these answers. You obviously need a serious break.

some arbitrary suggestions:
1/ go and teach web stuff in Africa for 6 months

2/ travel and be a bum for a year

3/ go back to college and get a masters/phd/degree in philosophy/whatever

4/ go work in some kind of low-stress environment for a while, where pressure is minimal. eg a shop or bar or hotel.

5/ *(my real recommendation~) Go visit a therapist/psychologist for a few sessions with the express aim of figuring out what's currently wrong, and to develop a medium-term and maybe a long-term strategy to fix the problem. Talk it out.
The idea is good, I often want that information at the same time. I was hoping for an innovative design. With the current design, I might as well have three tabs open rather than use their site.
It's good to do this in opposite order. IE, list "Job I Want," and then list the steps you need to take to attain it, backwards. It's easier to start from the end and work backwards, when planning, than starting from a blank slate.
Just remember that both of these programs require paperwork that has to be submitted at an appropriate time of the year. It's not like you can just walk up and get SBIR funding.
This is the code that determines whether the arrows appear on the page. There's other code that determines what effect clicking on them has.
You're kidding, right? No, seriously, you're kidding, right? They're predicated on "protectable IP" and only go to established companies - i.e. your side project doesn't qualify unless you've already incorporated. I could go on, but I already did:

http://www.businessinsider.com/economic-advice-from-an-entre...
Do you really think you should make all your major life choices based on what an HR droid reading your resume might think?
How is this controversial? Anyone who literally thought that animals had nothing analogous to morality or who didn't understand the evolutionary underpinnings of morality was not being serious.

Nevertheless, the difference in intelligence (and thus scope of morality) between humans and most animals is so vast in degree that it becomes a difference in kind. Also, I still like eating tasty animals.
Unless your webcam is made by microsoft specifically for your os (vista/xp/etc) then it is not microsoft who has to supply the correct drivers to integrate well with explorer.
I hope your dad got you a nice Christmas gift that year.
My project shows up on github as Shell even though it's in C just because of all the autoconf/automake/libtool files. I imagine that's why Shell places so high on the list.

For example, my 267 line configure.in file produces a 12952 line configure script. And a 6 line Makefile.am gets you a 683 line Makefile.
Odd, I worked for a small (3 people) company that lived off of these things. We didn't have any problems.

I'll note that these were all DoD.
Take a break, dude. You don't have to backpack around questionable countries but 6 mos of living expenses will give you a comfy stay in lots of places.

I spent 6 weeks in New Zealand last year, almost totally offline. NZ is super cheap right now, safe, and they speak English... not a huge culture clash, but still different, and most importantly, far away.

If you're constantly cramming your life up with things and activities, you can't hear the little voice inside you that is trying to guide you. You need quiet, space, a break.

You might come back feeling rejuvenated and excited to do what you've been doing (altho perhaps a different approach). You might realize finally that it's really not for you, and get an idea of what might be.

Either way, it's scary but worth it.
You don't reset the user's password when he/she requests it via a web form. You send the user an e-mail with a cryptographically secure token (rather, a URL containing the token) that allows them to reset their password. You keep a table of valid tokens and expire them regularly. That will serve the same purpose without causing an inconvenience to the user.
The total amount of all gold ever mined is less than a tennis court cubed. In the last 2000 years, gold has been the single commodity that has always held value, particularly in times of disruption and panic. It may be volatile, but it never becomes worthless, is highly liquid (perhaps the most liquid asset around), is mobile, very durable, and stores a great deal of value in a small volume. What other assets can you say share those traits? In the 1900s alone, there have been 20+ times of complete collapse of paper currencies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

While past performance isn't always an indication of future behavior, some trends are worth paying attention to.

If you want to scoff at something, let's start with diamonds which can be _manufactured_ to a higher quality, at increasingly lower costs. I mean, we are talking about _carbon_ there!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Divide_Trail

Also useful: http://www.pmags.com/joomla/index.php/Backpacking-and-Hiking...
I don't think you deserve such down-voting ... Paul Graham's page has a link to T.J. Rodgers' congressional testimony to this very point.

However, there is "support" and there is throwing money. You're right about throwing money, but I think you're wrong about intelligent support.

DC can always, _always_ do a better job by:

1) Not subsidizing anyone, ever.

2) Increasing transparency of its laws

3) Taxing negative externalities rather than positive ones (so tax carbon instead of capital gains)

4) Removing market distortions like the immigration issue discussed in the article.

Notice that these measures are largely undoing rather than doing, and therefore don't sell well. DC is also, as you rightly point out, in a unique position to completely screw up any field it turns it eye to, by:

1) Subsidizing some part of the industry which therefore damages the innovation that would out-compete it.

2) Preventing failures and disallowing the knowledge acquired there to be applied to subsequent successful ventures

3) Making complicated, vaguely worded and frequently changing specific to an industry's particulars (like only allowing Cable providers to supply Television over their wires)

Sadly, the second set of policies sells a lot better politically than the first set. Which raises the question - why not? What's wrong with it?

Why does the US always feels the need to be "world-leading" at everything?

Is it really necessary to be world-leading? Is it so fundamental to the national ego that it is unthinkable to assume that like every other major power, our influence will wane and our leadership will become first co-operation and then acquiescence?

It seems silly, sometimes, to strive so vehemently for predominance, yet to have no use for it when obtained.
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The problem with the surcharge idea (and lots of other market-oriented solutions to health care problems) is that, under our current system, market forces don't really apply in the same way that they apply to, say, items in the grocery store. Very few people going to an ER are paying out of pocket: many don't have insurance[1], and will either not pay for their visit or will negotiate some sort of payment plan at a reduced rate with the hospital. And, of course, those visitors with insurance don't care what the hospital ends up charging their insurance company- that's the whole point of insurance. This is, of course, especially true during emergency or urgent care situations.

[1] To the extent that emergency room overcrowding is due to people without other health care options (i.e., the un- and under-insured) using ERs as their primary care facilities, surcharges really won't help: by definition, these are people who can't pay for medical care... so adding additional surcharges probably won't have much effect on their ER utilization.
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Triage is the new priority queue.
I agree - the more 'tricked out' it is, the more cpu it hogs. The computer I have now is practically a supercomputer compared to what I worked on 10 years ago, and yet my workflow is still interrupted when my system practically freezes so that it can switch to a different window. I would so much rather work in an ugly environment if I could just be in control of where my computing power gets spent.
>Do you think you will have any trouble explaining your time off to a potential employer?

Do not live your life based on the opinions of future employers.

Please, do anything but. There is a large, large world out there that you should do your best to experience.
I'm surprised nobody suggested.. keep doing that crap. Maybe you'll get lucky and your site or your employer will have a liquidity event.

I've been burned out on worthless web software, programming, etc for a long time now. There's not much new and exciting as there was when I was a teenager, learning Linux and programming. I just keep doing it half-assedly now.
Yes, share what you do to feel great.
Go to school, and learn a new skill, something that has always fascinated you but that you've never pursued. Meet new people, expand your horizons. Defer your student loans.

Also, if you're good at what you do (and it seems like you are) - you'll probably end up coming back to it, but just need the time out to recharge and refresh, or maybe you'll just become a painter because of all the talent you had that you never discovered earlier because you were too busy writing code.

Best of luck.
Is it possible to do a similar construct in python? This is what I'm really after, a Lisp like ability to generate html, sql combined with the rest of the Python language.

Perhaps I should be looking into ruby more? or a python parser?

I'm working on a similar technique for python (using lists and function lookups but it's still more verbose than the lisp style ones) ('p','this is a paragraph') vs (p, "this is a paragraph") as a small example
"Taxing negative externalities rather than positive ones (so tax carbon instead of capital gains)"

Problem: Negative externalities are supposed to go away. At which point you have no money. So you have to tax things (like income) that people just aren't going to do away with!
bash-completion does the argument thing as well.
What if I form a company, but it has no employees, it doesn't turn a profit, I'm running it in my spare time, and I don't really see how I can turn it into a full-time profitable venture.

Is that a start-up, a side-line, or a project?
Spinning objects (balls) must certainly be of biased occurrence in modern times of human civilization. Assuming the illusion is a cognitive artifact of a learned phenomena, I wonder how a caveman would recognize this demonstration. Would the illusion be lost? Probably the experience would be quite rad, some way or another, however.
I don't, hence the word perhaps.
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What I'm trying to say is that public domain has issues within the international realm. With something like the BSD license you declare very explicitly what you allow and I believe (if I understand correctly, I am not a lawyer) according to the Berne Convention that those explicit declarations work in an international realm.

So if your product is never going to be used/sold/shipped out side of USA, England, and a few other countries Public Domain is alright. Otherwise you need to use something like Creative Commons Zero License or a BSD/MIT License.
Weird article, or maybe just a weird title. This author talks about how hard it is to support locking in complex datastructures built on top of DHTs. That doesn't seem like either what DHTs are good for or what a "killer app" needs. Use a DHT for implementing your tinyurl clone, not for inventing a prefix-range-lookup database.
I don't even buy the pipe inspection idea. We can already do it with tee, and to be honest I only ever use that because I need to persist the data mid-chain, rather than inspect it.
Allot of stuff, most of it unfit to print.

Only boring stuff is unfit to print. You should write a book, or at least a blog. Seriously.

I'm reminded of that Goethe quote about how people's personalities are made up of a desire for a combination of love, adventure, power and fame. Reading this comment makes me feel like the "adventure" component has been neglected in my own life :(
As he mentions, zsh also knows argument semantics. So does bash. He never explains how Bespin implements this feature, but I don't see how you can get a significant improvement on the way these shells do it (which he says is probably not the best way) without abandoning the standard toolchain altogether. (zsh uses scripts to do it, which can use --help output if desired. ISTR that they're rather complicated, but then they're also rather powerful. I think they become much simpler in degenerate cases, but I've only ever dabbled and that was over a year ago.)

For the pipe inspection, I got the impression he might have been talking about "look at the data that's being sent". Which can be done with tee, but both that and pv require that you insert them into the chain beforehand. I think there's room for improvement there. (I suspect it's possible to do something with /proc/$$/fd, but I'm not sure and I wouldn't know how.)

I do think shells and terminal emulators should interact better with each other. I often wish my rxvt knew about my GNU screen windows, so that the scrollbar and mouse wheel worked consistently and I could navigate tabs on the status bar by clicking on them.
If you "view source" for the web page, you can see the responses in there. I wish google had a "never show results from website" option, because of that website.
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The people who are using the ER because they have no other option and who cannot pay out-of-pocket are not at all germane to this startup idea, which is part of my point.

There is no reason at all that our respective agendas about how US healthcare should be run should require me to wait on-site in the hospital, as opposed to in my home at 1AM, or in my hotel room when I get violently ill on a trip.

There will always be cases when people need to use the ER, and there will never be a good reason they shouldn't be able to call ahead for a soft appointment. Everything about the system, from patient routing to triage to hospital staffing, works better with a system like InQuickER in place.
I don't see down arrows on old comments.
This is why I love HN.

Last weekend we went to Matacanes near Monterrey, Mexico. It was a great trip. I went with a group of 8 hackers from work. Turns out the other 10 people in the trip were also hackers.
The reason I use a command line is specifically because it's not tricked out.

That's valid, but the reason I use one is that it lets me get certain tasks done much faster than I can get them done with the gui. I don't think we've reached the pinnacle of the form, though -- I'd much rather we could expand the areas where it's the fastest way to get the job done.

One weakness with the standard unix cli is in discoverability. The MPW environment for the original Mac had a great system for this -- option-enter on any command would bring up a gui with that allowed you to build up the options and flags. It was the perfect mix of GUI: invisible when you didn't need it, but vastly easier for the first use of an unfamiliar command.

That said, I think the people who think like you are in the majority of CLI users, so innovations like these will struggle to get traction. Sucks to be me :)
That's exactly the point. The end-user doesn't care who's responsibility that hang is, they bought the hardware and software together and when it hangs, it's Microsoft's fault. Even though we know it's actually J Random driver programmer who wrote the bogus code.

Apple's stranglehold on the hardware and software irks my hacker sensibilities, but it's the key to a much better user experience.
Just ignore IE. It'll go away soon enough.
Because from a pure marketing perspective very few people have the problem of having horrendous waits at clinics, but tens of millions of people have had the experience of waiting 3-5 hours in an ER waiting room.
they did however put some code in their ROM on the first macintosh...

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
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"No matter what you decide, you must take care of yourself."

I second this! I've been experimenting quite a bit, and my diet and exercise patterns definitely shape my feelings about work more than the B.S. I experience per day.

All of the common health wisdom you know will incrementally help in the short term, even if it's not a long-term solution. If you're feeling irrationally irritable, stop drinking caffeine. If you're feeling tired in the afternoon, eat a light healthy lunch and get some sleep. If you're feeling sore, make sure to stretch out every morning, and make sure you're sitting up straight. Exercise always helps!
Exercise and eating healthy are the real keys. Without regular exercise you will feel like shit, guaranteed. Eating only fast food will make you feel like shit, guaranteed.
Ah. That's it. My Bad. I was looking at their download bundles, and just assumed that was everything. PHP and Ruby are listed, but Python is not:

http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html
Choosing whom to marry, what to buy or sell, and with whom/what to associate are, in fact, votes. Votes for a given lifestyle, place, thing, or idea. Or, even, person.

School is valuable inasmuch as it civilizes us, though "houses of detention rather than attention" hits the nail on the head.
This is true, but gold at least has a several-thousand-year history of use as a currency, and as a stable source of value.

The US dollar that we use today has a history going back to exactly 1971 and the end of Bretton Woods.

I think people get a little too worked up over the evils of "fiat currencies," but they do have a point that from a historical perspective they are basically an experiment. It's entirely possible that people may look back from a few centuries hence and look at floating national currencies (which are essentially backed only by the backing government's power to tax a particular economy) and think "what a really terrible idea." The very power that a fiat currency gives a government over its money supply might turn out to be more temptation than even the most honest government can withstand in the long run. We don't know, because there just hasn't been enough time to tell.

There's two orders of magnitude difference between the amount of time gold has been in use and the amount of time the current un-pegged dollar has been around. While it's true they're both given value by what other people will trade for them, it's a bit disingenuous to say they're the same.
mmmm start-up kool aid.... Im drowning in it at my start-up.
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Do Emergency Medical Technican Basic training at your local community college. Most places have night classes that can be completed in about 3 months. Usually you can find a job or volunteer, and before you know it you'll be faced with life or death situations. Its much easier that going to Iraq to escape it all.
Just because the product still runs on gasoline, has a steering wheel, and puts four tires on the ground, that doesn't mean the industry around the product hasn't changed fairly dramatically. It's not a revolutionary change, sure, but honestly, neither is implementing web standards. You're still rendering html, applying css, and executing javascript.

As for the point about what constitutes a 'standard', you're just saying there's a difference between an official standard and a de facto standard. I won't dispute that. I don't think that's the story here, though. The story is that IE used to be the de facto standard through merit before growing lazy as hell and losing its technical lead, and that people are increasingly willing to think they can move forward without it. It's been steadily losing market share since 2004, while the web has absolutely exploded in that same time frame. Are you really saying that its a bad bet at this point to not particularly care about IE's attempts to bully the market by not playing nice with the standards the other browsers are agreeing to support?
This is extremely common in my area (Ottawa/Gatineau). In fact, people travel the ~40 minutes to my small town where we have a relatively new hospital, and use our ER.
Just wait until we get socialized health-care... the wait times are going to be absolutely phenomenal.
Getting a dog has completely turned my life around. I wasn't uber depressed before, but I had some days where basically looking at the news made me so disgusted to be a human, I could hardly work. I was working at home, living at home, hanging out at home, etc... Get a dog, get outside 3 or 4 times a day. Having a little creature be so happy to see you every time you walk through the door he can barely contain himself ALWAYS puts a smile on your face. Obviously, you know yourself better than I do, but a dog would be my suggestion. It makes everything better, life and work.
This. I still love programming and web development and so forth, but I've realized this year that no matter how much I enjoy something, doing it (and it only) constantly is bad.

I don't care how much somebody likes pizza; if they eat it for every meal of every day, they're going to hate it eventually.
Sort of a meta-comment, but why do "Ask" threads on websites like HN rarely have the OP participating in the discussion beyond the original post?
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Green? Serious question... Are you color-blind?
Well, you can build something that has similar specs to a Mac Pro, a lot of people have. Check the insanelymac.com forums, there are a lot of guids and howtos there.