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To adress the subject of religion...

"You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational, and believing things that are true." Why not? Unlike virtually every other religion, the more educated a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) is, the more active in their religion they tend to be. I choose to affiliate myself with that group because they seemed to be the most rational of all the other religions -- at no point did they ever say something which seemed silly like, "What, you think it doesn't make sense? But that's the beauty of it!" I was given a challenge. Read the Book of Mormon then pray about it. If there was a God, then I would receive some sort of response. If there wasn't a God, then I wouldn't receive a response. Formulate a hypothesis -- establish it as a question. Make a prediction. Experiment and see whether the prediction was correct -- did the hypothesis hold together? I believe that God is real, miracles still happen, etc.
I think the point of this is it's application agnostic.
"poverty is sometimes the result of outside details, but one can overcome them, so it's more a personal disorder."

Isn't it true in the most literal sense? I read somewhere that the #1 reason for the homelessness in the US phenomenon is the lack of socialized healthcare, specifically mental healthcare. There are much fewer homeless people in Europe, because they get treated.
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Notice I said, "at the end of the day." I certainly didn't mean to trivialize the task. Only to say that you can build a web app (and certainly some already exist) the could "kill" the traditional EMR systems. I'm well aware of the complexities involved, but wanted to avoid diluting the topic at hand.
the shuttle software group is one of just four outfits in the world to win the coveted Level 5 ranking of the federal governments Software Engineering Institute (SEI) a measure of the sophistication and reliability of the way they do their work.

I wouldn't put too much faith in SEI CMM. The last company I worked for set up an offshore software shop and staffed it with fresh graduates. A year later they were SEI CMM Level 5 certified, boasted the company. This, mind, was despite them never having delivered a complete project... And much of their actual work being done by "contractors" (who were people laid off in the UK and rehired there at vast expense).
You'll be lucky to get to 500 Mbit out per physical machine using 16 cores and streaming to about 2000 users with 75 incoming streams. So that's roughly 5 streams per core.

Why do you have the same computers handling encoding as distribution? That's stupid.

To just multiplex 2000 streams to 40 K viewers with adaptive frame rate you'll need roughly 30 sixteen core machines, note that that does NOT include transcoding yet.

Then your multiplexer is unimaginably inefficient. Last summer I worked for a company that multiplexes live streams for millions of viewers; it is not as hard as you think, especially since you only have to do the work once per channel, not once per user, since all users watching a given channel receive the same stream.
The white, black, and gray can all represent the series - they are equal in area! The triangular representation does convey the idea of "1/3ness" more naturally to me, but the white/gray/white scheme seems to throw off the comparison.

The equilateral triangle divided into four smaller such triangles, and the square divided into four smaller squares both have advantages as representations. Hmm. Do any other simple geometric shapes easily divide into self-similar shapes?
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This should be a constant time operation on most databases, because existing rows are not touched. However, if you have lots of properties that are not indexed or directly queried, I suggest having a single JSON field for them.
The key difference is that people support indie developers by buying a completed product; they don't have economic interest in an ongoing development.

So there aren't any thorny legal and economic questions.
Jessica came from an investment bank. She deals with all the legal documents, gets startups incorporated, and so on. She also organizes all the events; we have a lot of those.

At least, that's what we thought we were getting. She also turns out to be an extremely good judge of character, better than any of us. One of her nicknames is "the social radar."
This is where the FON wifi routers are designed to fit in, with a private AP for yourself and a throttled public AP. Shame the 'public' AP is only available to other FON users.

It would only take a few hours to create this set up yourself I guess, but FON is ready after being plugged in.
I'd put this a little more strongly: assuming what has been reported is true, Apple should step up and wield the power it has in this situation to strongly denounce and penalize Foxconn.
Visual Paradigm -

* It's cross platform (I use it at work on PC and home on a Mac).

* The pricing is very fair, particularly the single-user edition ($70).

* The community and viewer editions are free.

* It has nice support for automatically aligning/formatting/reorganizing diagrams.

On the downside the toolbar isn't that great, many common operations are in the main or context menus. Also the diagram explorer doesn't support subfolders for grouping things together.

http://www.visual-paradigm.com
The only apparent win is that if you inflate your follower count to something beyond 1000, you may be incrementally more likely to pick up followers because of the credibility win of having lots of followers.

Other than that, it's probably a completely retarded strategy.
I'm sorry I didn't intend to mean it isn't a societal issue. The gist of what I was trying to get across is that in my opinion, no rational person would kill themselves regardless of their life situation.
The article started with a good premise, but then the initial results were abysmal (7 followers for 20 minutes of work).

So the article switched to reviewing pay-to-follow services, which bring 0 value to your twitter account.

I would have been more interested in a scientific study of the growth curve, using famous and well-established accounts, rather than anecdotal experiments.
They shouldn't drive in to my street then, there must be 50 open access points within 100 meters. But then again, I'm not in Australia.

As a response to this if I were in Australia and I had my wi-fi locked down I'd open it up.

Terrorists, downloaders and pederasts will do their thing regardless of unsecured wifi routers.
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The thing about having an Open Wireless connection here in Australia is that we generally have caps on the amount of bandwidth our internet plans come with. Once you go over that cap, your connection becomes rate limited and it feels like you're back in the stoneage.

So, even for that reason, sharing connections here in Aus is a bad idea because all you need is one bandwidth hog to screw up your internet.

Blame Telstra :(
Let's not forget their support of http://www.23andme.com/, giving them access to your DNA :)
"People think they're cool because they have cool stuff, not because they do cool stuff." Very succinct expression of an idea that has been rattling around in my head for a while but I couldn't express except very verbosely.

This is one of the reasons I read HN. People whose writing skill makes me think "I wish I could write as clearly as that".
Eh, it doesn't really work. I was looking for a book recently, and the B&N web site said that 4 stores nearby had it. I called to confirm, and it turned out only one of them did.
Ok wow, that is a fantastic and lucid explanation of both the error and the real-time capabilities of the system. If only our desktop software was as smart today!
One day in grad school my advisor unexpectedly said something along the lines of "so, are you nearly done with your dissertation?" I was nowhere near done. But, keeping calm, I replied that yes, while I had a few things to finish up, I thought I should be done in time to graduate that June. Then I went back to my office and started writing as fast as I could. I finished about a day before the deadline. The result was not particularly good, but it got me out of grad school, which was all I wanted at the time.
CouchDB requires explicit indexes, but they can be arbitrarily complex, which is the right approach for a database focussed on scalability. They are also fun to write (javascript + map/reduce).

It appears that JavaScriptDB just maintains indexes of everything, until you have over 2000 objects of a class and then it only updates the indexes of fields when you search on them. This saves you the trouble of initially specifying indexes, but by the time your DB gets big enough that they become important, you'll have to manage them explicitly anyway, and you don't get anything besides plain old lexical sort. Persevere looks great for rapidly developing small projects, but not particularly scalable. The automatic index thing might be handy for a multi-faceted search, which is a pain to do in CouchDB.
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If it did work for companies then Newell's complaint would have no merit.

Simply: publicly-traded publishers would already be funding the games that gamers want. If you want a free preview of how fan-funded game development would go, buy a few hundred shares of Acti-lizzard.

The fact that this model has broken down so thoroughly in the entertainment markets -- where products not developed via market survey are the rare exception -- is precisely why Newell is complaining.

What he's -actually- saying is: "wouldn't it be great if I could have free reign; like with self-funding but without assuming 100% of the risk."
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The irony in announcing your OS will be malware free, on the day that you patch security exploits in the browser that was its genesis, is somewhat delicious.
In related news, "Fabless flash controller developer SandForce has let a pricing hint slip":
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/21/sandforce_pricing/
In the original, I can't see the one third at all. I originally saw the grey as being the items being summed, but after a second look I think the white may be this (not that it matters, the black could be it as well). It took me a while to realize that the point of the colors is to show that there are 3 of each size square.
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If the grey were made white instead I would have gotten this immediately.
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He mentions Tokyo as a successor to BDB, but I'm not sure in what respects that is true. I've used BDB in Keyspace and looked at Tokyo as an alternative, and they're not at all equivalent. BDB has tons more features than Tokyo. For example, concurrency in Tokyo is limited to one writer and many readers, which is equivalent to the so-called Concurrent Data Store (CDS) in BDB, but BDB also has a Transactional Data Store. Roughly, Tokyo and BDB's CDS use a global lock per db, where the TDS is more like a real database with finer-grained locks (and it's ACID). Also, the level of documentation is ~100:1 in favor of BDB. Nevertheless, I have many gripes with BDB which I'll write down some day soon.

He mentions Redis, but fails to mention the biggest limitation, which is that the entire dataset must fit into memory. To be fair, Redis seems to hit a sweetspot in terms of user-requirements --- lots of cases where data fits into memory. But I still wouldn't recommend it to a client, because what if his data storage needs grow? A few GBs are easily filled up, esp. if you're a web programmer and liberal about what you store.

CouchDB is mentioned. Having seen a recent video of Damien Katz where he describes how CouchDB came along, I feel it's more of an "MS Access for Web2.0", which is no surprise given DK worked on Lotus Notes. It's a lightweight integrated app+db server for Javascript programmers. It's not meant to be used at a Facebook scale operation.

This article, mentioning all these KV-stores together without differentiating them is really confusing and adds to the general melting pot of "NoSQL", which is unfortunate.
Good article, but I disagree with his future shock theory. I happen to have grown up in Eastern Europe. When communism fell you had a flood of new technology pouring in. The society, from a technological point of view, was leapfrogging tens of years in a matter of months or short years. He had computers, color TVs, calculators, more TV time than ever before, all the electronic appliances you can think of, and so on. People weren't future-shocked, quite the opposite. There was this general vibe about what new things the future may bring, a general feel of optimism, of embracing anything new, especially science and technology.

What was different? Education. The level of science education all the way to high school, and arguably beyond, was and still is much higher than in the US. In a way, the brains of most people were more ready to absorb all this new information. It's like having an athlete train in a closed room for years and all of a sudden letting him run freely. What we have in the states is not only muscle atrophy, but also brain atrophy. There are of course pockets of resistance, but the overall trend is negative. Sadly going back after years, I've noticed a similar mental laziness taking place even there. When the hunger for more is fulfilled, complacency settles in...
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Let's start with the value proposition. Offshoring should never been seen as only a cost savings exercise - the hidden costs associated with quality control, oversight, lack of grass roots innovation, lower standards of service based on service agreements, and exit costs need to be fully considered.

If you don't consider all of these aspects, you have not properly understood the true value proposition and may be surprised when you do not see any real cost savings.

So he's saying that the companies that offshore will lose value relative to the companies that don't? If that's the case, why is government intervention necessary?
(Disclaimer: I work in PHP)

PHP is popular. But the language sucks. Big-time. Popularity does not mean something is automatically good, in a technical sense.
"Offshoring countries provide huge subsidies to their homegrown services companies to stimulate growth in the market, so it makes sense to provide offsetting incentives for companies to look at local talent."

On the other hand, why not accept the free gift from the offshoring countries? The subsidies they pay (if they really do) translate directly into savings of your tax payers. On the other hand any "offshore tax" would just come directly out of the pocket of your tax payers by way of having to pay higher prices for the products of the off-shoring country. So there would be no net gain.

Just to name another way to look at it. I don't know what the best course is, but that article seemed to be all claims and little reason.
Rather than an off shoring tax, I think we need to look at the flow of assets covered under intellectual property across borders. I'm just putting this idea out there; I'm not sure how I feel about it personally. But businesses want to treat intellectual property like real property. However, unlike real property, they want the benefits of being able to ship it over borders without restriction (e.g., an off shoring company sending the latest code on a nightly basis). Real property is subject to import tariffs, duties, rules, etc.

Countries wouldn't just accept truck loads of goods crossing into their borders without restriction unless some sort of free trade deal was in place. But this is essentially what is happening with intellectual property. Every night, a huge amount of intellectual property gets transferred via the net from one country to another (e.g., an off shoring company's nightly build). Unless I'm mistaken (which I very well may be), it's hardly accounted for. I'm not sure that we can continue to have it both ways with intellectual property. It probably should either consistently be treated like property, or not.
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I like this!

Immediately I can also see that 1/5 + 1/25 + 1/125 + ... = 1/4

To generalize:
1/x + 1/(xx) + 1/(xx*x) + ... = 1(x+1)

'Proved' by looking at a picture :-)
This one seems immediately obvious of the thirdness, as other posters have pointed out. But I don't understand how each row ALSO represents 1/4^n?
I think this is a good idea. I've been making sites like this for friends and family for years and charging them ~$50/year for hosting and domain registration fees.

The problem with this is it still isn't your own domain.
You mean, = 1/(x-1) ;)

Can someone please post a non-visual proof of why this is the case? In the meantime, I am working on figuring out my own.
I love what SpaceX is doing and I really, really hope they succeed. I'm not sure if it's founded or not, but I fear we're at risk of losing a bit of institutional knowledge as the original crop of "rocket scientists" retire. In my mind, SpaceX is pushing the R&D process along, keeping that knowledge going and expanding it outside the traditional government-run, risk-averse space bureaucracy. I have to nit-pick about one thing in the article though:

"Livingston said drugs are so profitable that pharmaceutical companies could become commercial space customers if they had routine and reliable ways to get crystallization experiments into space and back again."

I have plenty of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and I have to say, if they're looking for money from this, they will be waiting a long time. This meme always makes for a nice tidy tag-line in a grant proposal for space research, but it's not really based in business reality. Protein crystal structures are certainly important in pharmaceutical development, but they rarely make or break a drug program. The problem is that protein structures obtained from crystals don't always accurately reflect what the protein does in solution. Furthermore, even if you do end up using a crystal structure to design a compound, your problem is only just beginning. The big problem with drugs is that they fail spectacularly when they get to the clinic because they have an unacceptable safety profile or they just plain don't work. The protein structure is fairly irrelevant in these cases because the rest of the biology is so maddeningly complex and unpredictable.
If you read his personal blog, there's a lot more detail.

There's also seemingly unrelated detail, how he's paralyzed from anxiety by something as simple as having to ask another person if they are in line.

Also seemingly unrelated he can watch the worst, most tragic news and not be affected by it, yet a sad movie movie, even a sad kids movie, will mess him up big time.

And then there's the curious nature of his condition where the voice still works if he's singing, or rhyming, or doing public speaking.

So I'm not saying his problem is all in his head... but I am thinking there's more to it then surgery can touch.
This was corrected:
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Sure, there are things that point to it being authentic, but it isn't.

Speaking of ignorance of the scientific method...

Look, this is what science is about. It's an accomplishment of multiplicitous scepticism over time. Imagine if people had harbored the same iron-clad certainty as to the completeness of Newtonian physics over Einsteinian. They'd probably say something along the lines of, "Sure, there are things that point to space-time distortion around heavy bodies, but that's not the case." And if they were feeling particularly sinister, they'd follow up with, "Look at the wikipedia entry for the facts."

Many things once held to be true are revolutionized by advances in technology. There is absolutely no reason to question the rigour and knowledge with which the Danish expert approached this study. A cursory look (which we seem so fond of today) at his credentials reveals a man of some experience: http://www.kons.dk/dk/site.aspx?p=176

Science is objective scepticism over many, many cycles. It's not a cursory look at a wikipedia page.
Claiming this is the "Chinese way" is stereotyping a country of 1 billion people from the actions of a very few. Going further and suggesting we boycott/avoid Chinese products is protectionism motivated by misguided xenophobia, rather than any rational standard.
Absolutely agree, and judging by the score of my parent comment maybe I didn't make myself clear.

I don't mean to say that PHP is a perfect language by any means, far from it. My point was more that just because some code example is written in PHP you can't automatically infer that the code is inferior. I personally think that's terribly arrogant, but that may just be me.
1- What are we going to build? Can we build it?

2- Does the (potential) market size justify the resources we will invest in it?

3- Can it create enough revenue to support development, and turn a profit by MM/YY?
So was (is?) COBOL.
Interestingly, Celtx (http://celtx.com/) is a screenplay editor built out of Firefox.
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Since the triangle is broken up into 4 equal sections and one is highlighted.
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Thank you! That's outstandingly helpful.

We've been flooded with recommendations from a variety of sources, and so now the hard part is figuring out how to determine which firms are right for us.
There's nothing like a totally contrived example to prove absolutely nothing about the efficacy of any given methodology or programming paradigm.
It's not technically infeasible; we've built a tech demo of it as well. It's a political problem - Apple won't approve your app.
The git or mercurial teams should build a Google Wave robot that comes with the software. Not because I want them to, but because its a killer feature. :)

Also for syntax highlighting - take a look at codemirror. I've used it before and have been very satisfied with its performance and functionality.

I had a similar idea, but create the whole IDE on wave. Several advantages:

1) Programmable - you can add in functionality to the IDE much more easily by adding gadgets or even robots.

2) It gets rid of the concept of 'local copy' altogether, and makes your development project accessible from anywhere by anyone. It also means that you only have to set up one test environment rather than everyone's local environment.

3) You can have as many test servers or production servers as you want. One robot to manage multiple servers at once. This robot is essentially a remote command line connected to serveral test/production servers. This makes cheap servers (100$ wall servers anyone?) useful.
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http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=192924

Especially:

http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=193120

Previous times this question has been asked:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=212682

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=367418

http://searchyc.com/music

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If I'm not coding, or if I'm coding something that really doesn't require much thought, then I like Bach's harpsichord or piano music. Predules, Fugues, two and three part inventions.