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overly optimistic connection-times

Indeed. In almost all cases, it takes longer for a bag to move between planes than it does for a human to move between planes.

Or, for that matter, to get back onto the same plane. A couple of years ago, I was flying from Montreal to Vancouver, via Edmonton, with only 30 minutes scheduled to get between flights. It turned out that the same plane was being used for both the Montreal-Edmonton and the Edmonton-Vancouver flights; I made the connection, but my suitcase didn't -- it was taken off the plane along with all the others, went into the airport's baggage routing system, and didn't make it through in time to get back onto the plane.
well, technically speaking you do pay for Google as well, just not in the traditional way of handing money in return for something, but the more ancient way of handing something in return for something.
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Opera and Firefox hijack + for the zooming in functionality.
It was politically the best move for Microsoft. As Jobs states, Apple + Microsoft = 100% market share for desktops. If Apple were to go, as start ups enter, Microsoft's shear size would be an easy target for monopolistic practices. Propping up Apple enables Apple to potentially share that burden, all the while having a very public act to ward off the litigious.
That's simply not true for the most part. Sure, some professors don't like to be questioned, but most do try to encourage this. Almost every educator I've had or worked with wants students to ask the hard questions because it generally shows that they're listening, learning, and thinking.
This has been making the rounds on twitter and other places, I'm sure it's had a fair amount of load.
They need to optimize that thing. I may have been an early adopter but the rendering and the speed of rendering was pretty bad. Worse than FF.
Before I clicked through, I assumed that article would mention Jeff Bezos' 'apology' for the Kindle-1984 brouhaha. Or Kevin Rose after Digg reinstated the 0C 88 65 36 5C 65 14 8D B5 3E 47 D9 20 11 9F 90 post.

But nothing - not remotely tech. Meh.
I can't get shift-+ or shift+; to print to the screen. Nothing gets printed. Shift-<other keys> works as expected. Without '+' and ':' it is quite limited.

Is this a problem on my end? FF3.1 Leopard.
Perhaps the cost to benefit ratio is too high to cater to someone like you or your business. I find it somewhat perplexing that it is businesses and universities and institutions which are lagging behind, the very institutions which would benefit the most by keeping up to date, keep hanging onto old times.
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the crux of the problem is that theres a huge culture at MIT (and moreso than many peer schools) of celebrating herculean last minute efforts that get the grade

That's a very astute observation. I work and have worked with many MIT people, and even TA'd an MIT course. The "all nighter" hazing ritual culture was very prevalent. To this day, my friends who went to MIT prefer to work 24 hour shifts, late nights, and on weekends - even though they've been out of school for a decade. In addition, MIT had a culture of boot-camp style negative reinforcement. "You suck, are not smart enough and are lazy, work harder" was the driving attitude. (at least it was in the late 1990s)

In contrast, when I moved to the west coast, all the Stanford people I met were more about basking in their obvious awesomeness and mastering time management. Get the project done early, schedule everything around ultimate frisbee team and rock climbing club, go to the outdoor concert on Friday night and still make it up to Tahoe for the weekend.
I'm not comfortable with the direction C# is going. It's trying to be and do too many things at once, and it's making itself muddy.
For starters howabout:
1. you read the bad list and thought "oh crap!"
2. the oh crap is no longer a problem for you, but remembering the code with that problem makes you wince.
And whose current version is called MacOS ;-)
Ask HN: Did Google Shut Down Your World of Text?
I was on it an hour ago, but now the AJAX calls are not being returned. I'll bet he exceeded the data quota pretty quick.
I enjoy seeing communist icons being exploited by capitalist firms for advertisement.
I'm a fan of 1and1.com. They give free private registration, and I haven't had any issues with them over the past couple years of use.
A wise man once yelled at me after I badgered him with questions one too many times, "Use the source Luke". And that's what I'd recommend. Read as much Ruby source code as you can (ahem, github), make the effort to understand why the authors designed a piece of code the way the did. The Rails source continues to evolve into a great example of interesting to read Ruby - but you might want to start out with something a bit simpler like Sinatra :)
Color me simple, but I honestly don't see how that's dramatically different from the parent's "misquote".
> If someone feels compelled to write up an essay about bad programmers, he probably spends a lot of time dealing with bad programmers.

I should cancel my appointment with the psychoanalyst :-)

Writing is also a catharsis. You write to discover what you think and improve yourself.

But perhaps Isaac Asimov spent a lot of time dealing with robots...
His most recent comment says that he believes a typo in his fetchmail script meant it was looking for new mail every minute instead of every five minutes, and he thinks that's why he was suspended.
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Want less to do? Kill projects that are already dead
I think Murdoch probably paid this guy. :P That might explain the continual repetition of "People do not like Advertisement". I got scared at some point that he is rewiring my brain or something.

Umm, I have some problem with my teeth. There was this advertisement which mentioned a tooth paste which helps tackle it, I was kinda glad that I saw that advert. Then there are these advertisements with cool songs, hey it might just lift my spirit for a bit. Sometimes, I kind of want variety in my food and wonder how I may try something new, what is out there to try, guess tv advertisements may inform me at some point. The idea that people do not like advertisements is rubish, people do not like seeing the same advert over and over and over again, but they do like to be informed about what is out there.
Experiments like the Milgram experiment would not be considered ethical today because of the mental effect it has on the test subjects afterward (feeling bad about themselves for not stopping). I'm undecided if that's good or not - It just seems to have exposed a truth about human nature, which remains true even if you don't expose it. But, if it a lasting psychological impact on the test subjects... that doesn't seem desirable.

The point of the article is correct from a business standpoint as well as a moral one. Too often we fail to question processes and procedures because "that's the way its always been done."
Well this is very annoying as I had started to use PyPy's Javascript backend in metapaw-dip:

http://www.metapaw.co.uk/projects/metapaw-dip/

I really, really want to do Python client-side (or rather compile Python to Javascript). Javascript is just so painful for me. Being able to test Python code as Python would be the major reason.
I'll take the worst Stephenson over the best Spolsky any day, thanks.
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Here are a couple SEO blogs that are more focused on experiments & coding (vs linkbaiting and marketing):

http://www.seo-scientist.com/

http://www.bluehatseo.com/ - not active anymore, but very innovative in its time

http://www.thegooglecache.com/
http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os

(So others don't have to go hunting for it like I did.)
Watch out developers, here come the lawyers
When tactics drown out strategy
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Baladas ao vivo!

Transmissões ao vivo em tempo real de som e imagem de baladas, bares e restaurantes do mundo todo. Além de muita música eletrônica.
If you want a {star}nix, try FreeBSD if you've got a day or two to set it up. If not, maybe PC-BSD. PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD but integrates KDE. The reason I like FreeBSD is that it just seems to have more tools available, like sysctl to view/set various options like computer temperature, turning the reading light on/off (on my used Thinkpad T43). Compared to Linux, I like the core OS more, but there are more programs available for Linux. FreeBSD can run Linux programs through a compatibility layer. Actually, thats how I'm running the Adobe Flash plugin, but it is a little slow.

A second point: if you think there aren't many games on Linux, wait until you try FreeBSD - there are even less. There's minesweeper and a few similar, but thats about it.

FreeBSD users seem to think that Slackware is the most similar Linux distro. Anyway, FreeBSD might be worth a try for you!

Hardware also seems to have excellent support built in.
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The only way to bring down the cost of health care is to make people more frugal, and no one is ever frugal with someone else's money.

If that's true, why does every single country with universal, single payer health care spend about half as much money, per capita, on health care as the USA? Shouldn't they be paying more?
You can't submit a bug without a specific problem. A title like "Multisearch breaks user trust" wouldn't fly.
Cash for IT clunkers?
It seems like every article on this guy's blog immediately winds up on HN. This holds true for several other bloggers, too, some of them fairly prolific. This use of HN as a kind of notification service seems to be in tension with another goal of the site, which is to surface interesting links from less well-known corners of the internet.
Touchable Holography
RESTful Transactions
Pie charts considered harmful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Discussion_on_use
I am deeply sorry that you have decided that this article is not an appropriate fit for the Hacker News front page. I wish to express my heartfelt sympathy for your distress in believing that the Hacker News submission policies have been violated, and trust that as a token of your equal good will my comment will be upmodded.
"At this point I realized why people get paid at newspapers: it takes time and money to investigate things."

Umm yeah! I never understood how people get all up in arms when newspapers have decided relying in advertising isn't going to pay for good, local, investigative journalism. Personally, I have lost interest in most local papers because I can get the national, international stories from other places, including the source of the story. I keep paying for a copy of the Economist because every edition is worth it.
Opera: Still competing, still growing (Interview with CEO)
I can't speak for why you can't find insurance, but this site claims that 0.005% of all bags are permanently lost.

http://www.cheapflights.com/travel-tips/lost-baggage/
Of course it's a threat to AT&T.

It removes any trace of their lock-in.
It elevates profit-rich features out of AT&T's grasp.
Google could switch the 'last mile' to VoIP, and unlike Skype, it would be marketed, promoted and popular.

With Google Voice & voip, a mifi-type device + iPod touch is an iPhone with (essentially) unlimited minutes from anywhere to anywhere in the world, (essentially) unlimited texts and a feature list that makes AT&T's look quaint. For $60/mo. Today.

Google Voice threatens the commodification of wireless services to a simple data plan. It's something everyone knows is coming, but the carriers assumed they had more time to take profit and develop their own services.
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Every minute? I'd be surprised if Google even noticed.
Credit Crunch Will Worsen Obesity Epidemic
I'm with OpenSRS/Tucows. We've recently overhauled the signup process and I think you'll find it much simpler now. Have a look: http://opensrs.com/signup/
Goofy "Bing Goes the Internet" Wins Jingle Contest - AppScout
Yahoo Chief: ‘We Have Never Been a Search Company’
In addition there are so many variables that go into a flight. A common problem in the tropical airports is weight restricted flights. Once the temperature gets too high air density gets lower and the wings generate less lift. The captain has to decide between the passengers, cargo, and luggage. Flying out of MIA and BKK, whenever I heard the announcement the flight was weight restricted I knew some poor sap is definitely not picking up his bags at the other end. Flying non-rev and being the last to get checked in and boarded meant that sap was probably me.
I had COBRA for many months from my former employer (worked well, very expensive). Then I found an excellent broker in the Atlanta area and got a good HSA plan from Aetna. So far so good, much cheaper, provided we don't have claims.
COBRA costs exactly as much as the total insurance cost when you were working. Almost all health insurance plans are employer subsidized, sometimes pretty heavily. So your 150 dollar a month plan could end up costing you 400 bucks a month to keep when you hit COBRA.

Edit: Perhaps I wasn't adequately clear. My point is that you are responsible for the ENTIRE insurance bill when you go on COBRA, your part and your employer's contribution. Sometimes that contribution is quite large and it results in COBRA bills that aren't affordable, especially when compared to individual insurance options.
Am I the only one that thinks the original author's use of the term cohesion is wrong? I thought the goals were: high cohesion and loose coupling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion_(computer_science)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_(computer_science)
The concept of a "risk thermostat" is interesting -- people seem inclined to maintain a more or less constant level of risk. I've noticed an effect that interacts with that: my risk inclination seems to have some initial static friction that changes to a lower level of kinetic friction once I'm moving. Example: some years ago I was feeling a little hesitant to try snowboarding because it seemed "risky" (I knew I'd fall a lot). The first time I tried it, I was having so much fun that I pushed myself well into exhaustion and took some crazy tumbles that didn't stop me from getting up and riding more. I suppose my initial response might just have been an underestimation of the "reward" part, rather than an incorrect estimation of the "risk" part.
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Linux = Tanks (made by hippies)
Win '95 = Commie
Win NT = Intended for *industrial users*
"Apple" = Black Box
BeOS = Batmobile

Browser = Reagan.

What? He could maybe work on some of the metaphors, though I got a good laugh out of it.
>>> from __future__ import braces
don't have a handler for: import_stmt

Looks nice, still a lot to do.
Twitter DDoS Attack Politically Motivated, Says Report
So any website that uses any forms of analytics (gathering usage data without informing the individual) is violating your privacy, and acting in "completely unreasonable" ways? If personal data was being collected, that would be a clear violation of privacy, but adding a simple bit of metadata to a GET request to get general statistics is completely reasonable by my book.
This works in C#:

public static void SomeMethod([Optional, DefaultParameterValue(false)] bool param)
Who's to say it has to have a negative effect? If you told them it was fake after wards and then made them aware of how susceptible people were to that sort of thing they might be better able to resist next time they were in such a situation.
Could be US only stats? My bag was lost in Paris, flying with Air France (never again!).
I completely agree - starting dialog about differences between your instinct and your instructions is very healthy. The trick is to create an environment where that can happen. I'm sure a lot of managers don't appreciate employees that do things like that, even if it's not done in an argumentative way. Anyone have any thoughts on how to create such an environment?
I disagree, look at kfind for instance. It's a great front end to find.

Certainly complexity depends on the program but wrapping most *nix philosophy utilities isn't hard, but it isn't useful either you neuter their power.
Are you saying that a single bidirectional pipe is the only way that two linux programs can communicate?
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The Ethics Of Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments
I believe it all starts with the right people. If you have the right people in your team, i.e. open minded, willing to learn and improve etc., they will naturally tend to perpetuate the right kind of environment. It gets a lot more difficult when you have to start with people who are not necessarily open to this kind of thinking. In this situation you have to first build a whole lot of trust among the team members and management before trying to slowly introduce ideas like this. Often projects finish before such a level of trust can be established.
You may also be interested in The Ethics Of Using Medical
Data From Nazi Experiments:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/naziexp....

Also submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=747561
These are old but the Ask YC Archive has good advice. Here are the threads on Health Care: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...
spanish qwerty keyboard layout here, works fine in safari 4 (osx), but I also use 'shift' to type colons, etc... maybe a fixed bug?
Man that is so brutal though. I got the domain privacy through GoDaddy which makes the transfer process so much work that I just gave up.

Someone here recommended Dynadot to me and I'm much happier with that.
The ethical concerns about the Milgram experiment are too varied to go into much detail here (if you're interested, http://books.google.com/books?id=U44OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA193 ) but the short, relevant, version is that the psychological impact was positive, not negative. 84% of those surveyed (out of 92% who participated) reported that they were "glad" or "very glad" to have participated in the experiment.
Dude, that's what I said and then someone here told me about dynadot. Check it out. It's cheaper than Godaddy if you're using private registration, and the UI is about 100x better.
Maybe you should buy some lottery tickets.
Used to get mine through the FreelancersUnion, but they screwed with their health insurance way too many times for it to be a viable option for me. As a result, I buy mine from ehealthinsurance.com and got a policy from United that fits my needs. Also, if your startup has more than one employee, you can form your own group, and get better group rates ... even if only one of you signs onto a policy.
This is quite a good observation: something reasonably close to apprenticeship is already in place.

Grad students are given enormous flexibility in their assignments—a little trick to buy them time to try out their own research ideas long before they get to the thesis. Grading is extremely lenient; it's just a formality to keep things within reason. Professors are always eager to help you work on something publishable.
On the topic of Silverlight: is there a reason beyond Microsoft's economic whims that Silverlight couldn't be implemented for non-IE browsers? And if it were implemented across browsers, would it easily work across different OS's?

Or is Silverlight not really a browser plugin like Flash?

(As is probably obvious, I'm totally ignorant of how browser plugins, Flash, Silverlight, and most other things work.)
Sinatra is a great framework to start off with when you're getting into Ruby. Especially with the omitted boilerplate that you would get when you create a new rails project.
might not teach you ruby, but totally worth reading anyways.

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
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I was just looking at the source, and I want to compliment you on how good it looks. Very well done -- really organized and thought out with much less hackery than expected (which JS seems to have a tendency to bring out...)
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From what I have heard, sometimes it's profitable for airlines to offload your luggage in-favor of some cargo item, since the person sending that cargo is paying more than you are or is a large customer or that cargo has to be somewhere within 24 hours.

This way, the airlines make money. Even inn cases they have to pay out a per-day amount/ compensate you for lost luggage -- they come out ahead on the money they make via sending someone else's cargo.
Funny that he has this under "Signs that you shouldn't be a programmer": "you think the presence of code in a program will affect its runtime behavior, even if it is never invoked".

Anyone who has written code in C can probably cite an anecdote where exactly this was the case, be it from a compiler bug or as fallout from a memory corruption bug.

Maybe we should add "does not understand the von Neumann architecture" to the list of signs that you're a mediocre programmer... On second thought, let's not -- the piece is bad enough to begin with. The "alternative careers" sections are just odious, and the whole thing breathes an air of inconstructiveness.
Uzbl's gotten a lot faster since it learned to talk to the cookie handler over a socket (rather than spawning a new handler for every request). That was committed a week or two ago.
...especially considering that it's being translated from French. The exact wording varies by translator and is therefore irrelevant.
Does anyone know what that circuit diagram is at the top? I'm intrigued.
Well I for one welcome our ironic overloads. Just like Slashdot, where those are quickly modded up to +5 Funny, HN will soon be dripping with irony and memes. Too bad I don't have the option to filter out "funny" comments on HN,
Ordinary medical bills have skyrocketed as well in the current system. I have personally been charged 3 times as much without insurance as I would have with insurance for a basic blood test, with a scheduled appointment. Things are even worse at the emergency room - an uninsured friend of mine was invoiced for thousands of dollars when he went to the ER for an infection. No hospital time, just a prescription for antibiotics.

I'm not an expert on the reasons why that is the case. My understanding is that it is because 1) Health insurance companies are powerful negotiators compared to individual payers, and 2) Medicare/Medicaid pays "market rate" for services, so the market rate is driven up to increase margins on services paid for by the government. ER prices are driven up even further because the ER has to treat people even if they cannot pay.
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A family of four can expect to pay between 1200-1500/mo on typical conventional HMO/PPO coverage on COBRA.

(I was agreeing with you, just adding a data point).
Since this is probably posted as a followup the the Justin Lilly debacle, it should be mentioned that Lilly himself speculates that is was a mal-configured fetchmail script that caused the lock-out.

http://justinlilly.com/blog/2009/aug/07/google-account-suspe...
Even if it's 8%, it's 8% too much.
Spacelocker, A Social Network To Avoid Like The Plague
Data stream compression in WWII: 3000lbs of Victory Mail to 40lbs of microfilm
commercial online services to do this:

http://www.messagebunker.com/ (works very well)
http://backupmymail.com/ (i helped make this)
http://www.lifestreambackup.com (soon)
HSA accounts with a high deductible plan are a great way to self insure and save money. We have the $5300 deductible plan for my family via Assurant and fund our HSAs to pay the costs. For a family of four, we pay about $320/month.

We do have health expenditures that we cover out of our own pocket but it generally adds to be less than what we would spend for a $500 deductible plan with all the amenities.
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