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IHS (Indian Health Service) would give you anti-biotics when it suspected strep throat (or any other sickness) they would prescribe anti-biotics even though their tests would take 3 days[1]. If it wasn't strep, they wouldn't tell you to stop taking the anti-biotics. Glad to see we followed the practices of East Block countries.

1) send to government contracted lab, get sample test, send back result - gotta love government contracts. I'm told someone got an even bigger contract to speed up the testing or allow onsite tests.
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Wow, my apartment in China is only 800$/month but it's worth 370,000$. I really wonder why people keep buying real estate in China. I guess they are hoping to make money from the increasing value of properties rather than the rent.
Is there? It seems to me that the majority of people are not murderers and have no intention of doing each other harm. People have plenty of obvious ways to harm each other at their disposal, but few people actually do so (and this is in a country with the highest violent murder rate of any developed nation).

To put it another way, everyone knows that a knife can be a deadly weapon. Yet we all have at least a few knives in our kitchens, and we are not piling up dead bodies. Would it really matter if everyone knew that, in addition to knives, they could also use some other common household item?

It is also the case that we learn how to kill/seriously injure people from our TVs all the time. Even countries with much lower murder rates have such violent entertainment.
Yes, this is in no way encouraging, but at least it's GPL and as long as they pay the developer I won't mind.
If they stop its development I'm sure Redhat or IBM will pick it up.
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That is only partially true. btrfs was founded by Chris Mason before he joined Oracle. They simply let him continue hacking on it. He left Oracle in June of last year and works at Fusion IO. I'm sure Oracle has someone hacking on btrfs, but no one there was seriously pushing it (that I'm aware of) other than Chris Mason.
How is this scenerio different from one where the user installed your app a year ago, and hasn't upgraded to the newest version?

You'd need to handle it in either case.
Yes, definitely - this is all based on the "adjusted close" values from yahoo's historical data feed.

This is interesting - I've shared this multiple times in other discussions like this, and a comment like yours is always the first response, that it seems low, questioning if I included dividends. If anything it might just underscore how our collective "societal" intuition might be a bit off in terms of long term retirement performance.

I think part of it is that people tend to contribute more to retirement when times are good, since they have the extra money, and contribute less when times are bad since they're just getting by. The problem is that the market tends to be high when times are good, and low when times are bad. So this will naturally depress performance for everyone. It's impossible to contribute a consistent amount every week/month without having a cash buffer (which would depress performance anyway).
I suspect an unmentioned goal of this project is eventually to make the installation of OpenZFS on Linux (and other *ix operating systems) quick and simple, legally running around Oracle's license restrictions.[1]

Unsurprisingly, the list of supporting companies[2] does not include Oracle, which surely isn't happy about this project.

--

[1] The source code upon which OpenZFS is based was provided by Oracle (Sun) under the CDDL license, which prevents OpenZFS from being distributed in binary form as part of the Linux kernel.

[2] http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Companies
> In the SV game, it's "Are we attracting attention?" "What sort of things will cause us to get more attention?"

It's not particularly strange if you break down the business models that dominate the SV ecosystem. These companies you speak of are merely procurement channels. Think of them as oil drills that suck up as many attention spans as physically possible. And largely they are all competing with each other to strike the next big oil well. Not unlike the oil industry they put massive amounts of capital into the discovery and refinement of such oil wells. The likes of Facebook, Google, etc are simply refineries who sell this attention (refined by analytics and insight) off to the Fords, Coca-Colas, etc of the world.
Yeah, I think there were even a bunch of non-technical people over at Hot UK Deals who ordered the new low-end server. Must've been a nasty shock for OVH all round.
That would indeed be a terribly way to hire plumbers! But happily, that is not anything like what the article is suggesting.

The article suggests (1) using a simple but relevant exercise and (2) using it as a screen, to select people for a real interview.

The analogy with plumbers would be something like asking them to list the tools they would need to replace a hot water cylinder. For someone who knows their stuff, it's trivial. But it will weed out the guys who are bullshitting you. The guys who can give a good answer, you ask to come in for a proper interview.
The central banks lower interest rates when the economy is stalling. Conversely, central banks set high interest rates when the economy is overheating.

If low interest rates would make housing overpriced and high rates would make housing underpriced, it would mean housing was cheap pre-2008 and expensive in 2008-2012. Was it so?
So essentially Oracle still owns the original rights on it? How does it work with derivatives? Let's say OpenZFS over the years will move far away from Oracle's ZFS. Will it sill be indirectly controlled by them as in not allowing to relicense it?
Good point. Sometimes, yes. I think the differences I was identifying are that the AirBnB places I have stayed had kitchens or kitchenettes, laundry, and other things available more often, to the point that it was easy to select for these things and didn't add to the cost. It's also been easier to find AirBnBs in neighborhoods that were walkable (because people live there!) as opposed to many hotels that didn't have access to parks or roads that weren't major arteries.
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There's a hack you can use until Type Holes lands in production GHCi. If you turn on ImplicitParams you can write

getAny :: (Random a) => State StdGen a
getAny = do g <- ?whatAmI get
(x,g') <- return $ random g
put g'
return x

which will fail the type checker because your type didn't include the information about what ?whatAmI is---the error will be something like "could not find definition of ?whatAmI :: State StdGen StdGen -> State StdGen StdGen", although you may only get partial information as the compiler may complain about your undefined function before it's resolved what you're looking for.

You can also leave off the type annotation and GHCi will infer the type of ?whatAmI. Then if you check the type of "getAny" you'll see

getAny
:: (?whatAmI::m s -> n s', RandomGen s', Random b,
MonadState s m, MonadState s' n) =>
m b

which provides all of the information the typechecker knows all in one go. Take note that the type it derives is somewhat more general than the one we want since it allows ?whatAmI to transform the involved monad. Obviously "get" doesn't do this.
Probably not, but not everything is the Bay.

I'm moving to Florida. I plan to buy a house that is 30k. Small bungelow. Just me, the wife, the dogs and a cat. At the same time I plan on buying a 55k fixer-upper.

The first I should be able to pay in cash. The second, won't get bought until my current home sells. However, that second house, once improved (by us: we do flooring, plumbing, painting and simple eletrical) should value at 160k.

Once we move to the fixed house, we'll rent the other for 500 a month. Should be doable since my wife is currently in FLA in a 300 sq/ft studio at 500 a month.

I purposely didn't want to go to the Bay for this reason. I avoid California at all cost for this reason. My long term plan is to startup a tech firm, hire college grads, train them and try to keep them with the company for 5+ years. Hard, but doable. The nice thing is they can get 45k a year, and get a pretty nice home/environment that would be hard to beat. So we'll see, but again the Bay really matters in the HN echo chamber.
At one point[1], I heard that there were 3 new anti-biotics in development at various drug companies. It was my understanding that, like the lyme disease vaccine, they would probably not bring them to production given the current regulatory environment. I would imagine if it all goes to heck, then they would probably move forward.

1) its been a number of years so this might not be accurate anymore if it once was
Funny that this comes out the day after GlaxoSmithKline's melanoma vaccine failed in phase III.[0]

Some science background on how these work. The idea is that some cancer types express specific proteins that can theoretically be targeted by your immune system, similar to how your immune system can target proteins from the Influenza virus. The goal of these vaccines is to make your immune system recognize this protein (called an antigen) and mount an immune response to kill all the cancer cells expressing the antigen (usually unique to tumour cells).

The problem is in inducing the immune response, usually these antigens don't mount strong immune responses so the attack is too slow relative to the rate that cancer cells divide and spread. Sometimes you also end up stimulating the wrong immune response, as the human immune response is quite complicated. In fact, tumors naturally stimulate inflammation and angiogenesis (immune responses) to spread! To make matters worse, some tumours even suppress the capability of immune cells to fight in the local area, rendering this vaccine useless.

The normal operating procedure for these vaccines is to remove some immune cells from the patient, cause them to become sensitive to a specific antigen, mix them with an immune system stimulant and inject them back into the patient. The ultimate goal of all of these methods is to improve the immunogenicity (ability of the vaccine to elicit an immune response) of vaccines, these guys are not making a new vaccine. Rather, this is just a new delivery method.

A very promising drug called Stimuvax by Merck which used liposomes (and had 100% regression in mice vs 50% in this study) to increase immunogenicity failed as well[1] so this should be taken with great caution, researches were overly optimistic on previous vaccines such as Stimuvax. Although the idea for the Harvard/Dana-Farber study is incredibly novel.

[0]http://www.gsk.com/media/press-releases/2013/the-investigati...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimuvax
That's what he was going on about with the C FFI. You can use C to implement components.
The chart is also unrealistic since it relies on overly optimistic long term percentage averages.
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Presuming that each treatment has an independent chance of success.
More like very early 80s.

On the other hand, the price of everything more than doubled in the 70s due to stagflation.
Lets forget the licensing entirely. ZFS was built ontop of the Solaris VFS layer (virtual file system), which is entirely different than the Linux VFS. Taking the code in the Solaris kernel that provides ZFS and porting it to the Linux VFS is a massive undertaking that would require rewriting most of the "stable" guts of ZFS.

Honestly other than the fuse stuff, I doubt ZFS will ever be in Linux as it would require a rewrite of such a large portion of code, it would be impractical.
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True. I guess I'm just a bit skeptical about whether this would really work. And as others pointed out, if marketers start using this type of targeting, then this "seed" audience will be over-saturated.
Ask HN: How can I track errors in my webapp?
I want to catch and track any errors, thrown intentionally or not. This potentially includes tracking user interaction with the application. To protect user privacy, I'd prefer to host the solution myself but am open to tracking the errors through a third party (ie an analytics engine).

Anyone know any good tools? What do you use in your webapp?
Sorry for the lack of follow-up, but there's a reason we were just evaluating. Nothing was forcing us to use redis-cloud in particular.

In fact, nothing was forcing us to use any sort of Redis in the cloud, which is good, because my conclusion is that nobody has a satisfactory solution for it. It's not just your service. It's not just Amazon either. Nobody has figured out Redis in the cloud.

Redis is designed to be a high-performance, in-memory data store. All "Redis in the cloud" offerings turn it into a low-performance data store that feels more like a database, and that defeats the point.

If you figure it out, let me know... but I'll want to be able to run redis-benchmark.
I'm glad it's consumed on the command line instead of a web interface. Very nice work.
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you know why this is huge? its the first kernel piece of code that are and can be shared by different open-source operating systems in the kernel codebase!

i hope more technologies could get up into this model.. while the democratic open-source ecosystem in userland is a rule this days.. on the kernel land this is not true
and that may force us to use a OS instead of other because of some feature that only that Os has, even if we wish to install the other one..

for instance, i love linux, but i also love the BSD´s and want them to grow as much as linux did.. if the good things created in one OS could also be used on other, by a proper port to that kernel, we might not being bullied to accept on OS in favor of another, and be stuck by it!

I hope this movement make its way to others kerneland technologies! great news!
Oldest is 19. Re. 2, I've blogged extensively about my failures so I don't think I only post positive articles.
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Aside from possible toxicity to the animals (like how onions are toxic to cats), I think the enormous quantity is a big problem. The crabs, etc. just couldn't eat enough of it, fast enough, to prevent the sea becoming nasty.

I suspect also that the rotting food would consume oxygen in the area, and that would kill some sea life.
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CodeSchool recently released a free introduction to JavaScript: http://www.codeschool.com/courses/javascript-road-trip-part-...

This would be a great place to start.
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That is just a beauty of a quote and exactly how I feel.
I grew up in a military family which meant moving every few years. I'm pretty happy to have had that experience. I see my friends now sometimes pass up what would be great opportunities because they're too uncomfortable with the idea of making a big change. Moving certainly can be difficult, but it also makes you more adaptable and becomes easier subsequent times you do it. I was lucky in that our moves mostly lined up well with switching schools anyway (e.g. going from elementary to middle school), so that made it easier. Plus, as a nerdy kid in school, it had the positive side effect of getting to start over. And my brother who is very sociable became even more so as he had more and more practice making new friends. I think it's probably one of the reasons I'm a startup founder today. Taking a risk of leaving a high paying job to start a company didn't seem quite as scary when I'd made big jumps to new things in the past and had them turn out just fine. I'm sure moving would be tough for your kids at first, but it's also a great opportunity to teach them how to adapt to change.
(Bacterio)phages target bacteria only by nature, there are several mechanisms that prevent them from targeting human cells. They recognize bacterial membranes and not human, their replication mechanisms don't work in human cells and our cells have defenses against them. In short it would take a great amount of evolution to make them target human cells in the order of thousands of years at least due to the several existing barriers.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

Edit: Just in case someone calls me out on this 'thousands of years' is an educated guess on my part from studying evolution not something I've actually read.
I think you mean flora... and even then I'm guessing it only applies to trees and large shrubs. I'm Canadian and all the anti-cutting laws I've heard about only restrict you from removing plants over a certain size. So you can remove saplings and small shrubs, but if you wait for them to get big it'll be too late.
Why would you compare a budget unmanaged dedicated server provider like OVH to a high end managed server provider like Rackspace or a cloud provider like GoGrid? It's an apples to oranges comparison.

Hetzner and Burst.net would be more appropriate direct competitors in the budget space. They may still not be quite as cheap as OVH, but they're much closer than the other options you mentioned.
> Taking the code in the Solaris kernel that provides ZFS and porting it to the Linux VFS is a massive undertaking that would require rewriting most of the "stable" guts of ZFS.

And it's been done and working quite well considering. There still are improvements to be made, but progress is happening.

See slide 9 of this in particular: http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/open-zfs-linuxcon
Doesn't that chart contradict the article? Home prices didn't decline from 1960 to 1980, as interest rates climbed dramatically:

http://www.multpl.com/case-shiller-home-price-index-inflatio...

There's obviously some relationship there, but it's not as clear cut as this article makes it out to be.
If you research housing bubble related issues, its currently worse outside the US "in general". Canada, China, Europe, India especially, Dubai, Australia...
Not really an issue for building a reporting/aggregation database.

But certainly something to think about when processing realtime financial transactions.
Yes, which is precisely why you need 64-bit/32-bit fat binaries.

I don't recall OSX refusing to run 32-bit binaries when it allowed 64bit computing.
Because we no longer live there.
Yeah, that's a pretty broad brush. I don't even like to take Aspirin or Ibuprofen unless I have to, and I'm not the only one like that.

Also, I've noticed that some of my fellow Generation Y'ers have arrived at similar opinions by observing the issues that come with the over-medication of their parents/grand parents into old age. Doctors love to prescribe stuff, and sometimes the interactions between drugs is so bad that it can be pretty scary. Observing this as a third party can be enough to make you wary about over-using medication. It's also expensive and our health insurance situation over here is awful.

tl;dr, Yes, that's a huge generalization. I think a lot of younger Americans are starting to bend back the other way towards only medicating when necessary after seeing how much a can of worms it can be when used as a crutch.
Probably fairer to instead say "Maybe because teachers aren't paid so much worse than other professions in the private sector". This emphasizes that high private sector salaries are not the problem, rather low teacher salaries are.
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Oh, not like that? Sorry...
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diagnosable mental illness/impairments is not the common context in which people compare each other's "smartness"
It's a real person. We actually had a Professor Moriarty in the last batch: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/05/y-combinator-startup-7-cups...
Examples are rare, because they require a perfect storm of market conditions. I'm not challenging that, just the notion that it "makes no sense".

If you don't have enough equity to cover your loss on a sale, it absolutely can make sense to take a small hit on recurring mortgage payments.