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I've spent a lot of time in both worlds, there's nothing really glamorous about the startup space. You're in such a hurry and requirements change so frequently that whatever you build ends up being a godawful mess and you just have to live with it. It kills me because I used to take so much pride in writing (what I considered) beautiful code, but now things are always so rushed that I slap stuff together as well as I can given time constraints. There are some components of my codebase that I try to avoid looking at because it just puts me in a bad mood. All I know is that it works and seems to be relatively bug free, but it's gnarly as all get out. My core project is around 60k lines of Python, I have no doubt that I could rewrite the whole thing in less than 10k lines if I had time to refactor, but there's little chance of that ever happening.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that once you're burned out and forever trying to cram 20 hours of work into a 10 hour day there's little chance that anything you do would be what "good engineers" do, so don't beat yourself up about it. I was an engineer for a fortune 500 consulting company at my previous job, the work was somewhat boring but you had the resources to produce extremely high quality work if you were so inclined. I sort of miss that.
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Noted, but the iPod (and iTunes, also 2001) is what made Apple (and the 'i' prefix) a household name, and paved the way for everything that followed.
Wikiwand looks awful. I can't even click on anything, divs are flying around whenever I move the mouse
Sorry, I missed your response.

The conflict of interest would be their tendency to see everything from the lens of their life's work, and of course to actively advocate for their values, which are already well formed in the relevant domain.

Barring financial conflict of interest (e.g. stock still owned from the previous job), it's just as much of a conflict of interest as someone previously at one of these related companies but no longer employed there.
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The article indicates it's the actual scan and says the space "was filled with cerebrospinal fluid, which cushions the brain and provides defence against disease."
The main role of the cerebellum is the motor function. According to the wikipedia it's still unclear if it plays a part in some cognitive functions such as attention and language, and in regulating fear and pleasure response
It's netflix: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...
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Some high end servers have hot-swappable CPU's, RAM etc. (using mirroring in the case of RAM [1]). Of course you need to keep enough installed at any one time to keep the system running. Couple it with a suitable dual-ported storage array, and almost any system component can be replaced without taking down the server.

The main reason it's not more common is that few people are willing to pay for it vs. getting redundancy via multiple cheaper servers, especially once you've got enough load that you need to scale out anyway.

[1] http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0259.html
About open editable pages, are you imagining something like http://consultutah.42pag.es/?
Certainly it all varies location to location. I'm unaware of a regulation like you suggest in CA, and don't believe there is one - where did you grow up?

It's certainly the case that it's better and safer to ride (or drive) where you have space to stop, and that that should be preferred when picking a route or building a road, but other concerns can sometimes wind up dominating.
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Yup, I realized pretty quickly how tough of a problem detecting "jargon" is. Subjectivity aside, whether a word is jargon is often context-dependent.
Just to nitpick the first point, ARC apps run inside the NaCl sandbox so there's no potential for harming the strong security model in ChromeOS
This website is terrible at conveying what this project is about.

what a confusing and unhelpful faq:

* What is the main purpose behind Emoji One?
We were in the middle of starting a new web venture (and still are actually) that needed a full emoji set,…

* How do I install Emoji One on my device?
End users don’t have to do a thing! Emoji will continue to work on your mobile devices just as they always have…

I spent a good 10 minutes reading stuff and navigating pages tried the demo and fail to understand why a set of instant messaging icons is newsworthy in any way and it could be useful to anyone.

Also, boasting free culture and open source and deliberately forgetting linux in the comparison chart feels odd, plus the promotion of this brand new upcoming revolutionary porn site feels out of place here.

I may be pessimistic but I don't see this getting widespread adoption anytime soon which is must for this to be of any use. I wouldn't care as I have banned those stupid and colorful useless icons a long time ago and I still use the works everywhere ascii art ^^
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> Doing this will be surprisingly easy for Google, and about an order of magnitude easier than putting Android apps on ChromeOS.

I suspect that putting Android apps on ChromeOS isn't that hard now, given all the work that's gone into Native Client and that even if the beta of the Android Runtime being used wasn't announced until I/O this year, the end goal of doing this has probably been part of the motivation behind Native Client for some time.

In fact, the fact that its in Beta and they are starting to publicly expose it with high-visibility apps probably means that its mostly done. And its potentially a much bigger win than expanding Android to low-end PCs, since there's no reason when its completely ready to leave Beta it has to be limited to ChromeOS -- a Native Client based runtime for apps should be usable on Chrome desktop as well, which suddenly means "Android" apps can be used on Android (naturally), on ChromeOS, and on MacOS/Windows desktop.
Maybe the redundancy offers an evolutionary advantage?
Are we talking about a "fallback db servers take over when the main ones drop", or "static assets server morphs into temporary db server if the main one drops"? Because there is a massive difference.
Awhile back I was struck by the sprawling medical campus at my University (in the US). First I passed by the original hospital, a large six story structure. Then I passed the new Children's hospital, an even larger building. Finally I walked by the latest building under construction - a twelve story behemoth spread over several city blocks.

It seems that every few years a new building is added, and each one is bigger than the last. Something about the pattern felt vaguely familiar. What I asked myself also exhibits unrestrained exponential growth like the pattern of construction that I saw - then I realized the answer. A tumor!
When it comes to Android fragmentation, at least personally, I believe it has more to do with hardware specs than screen resolution.

I remember at my old job, we had an issue with a game being shipped because a handful of phones wouldn't be able to get past the first screen after hitting play. IIRC the issue was around the processor (or something hardware related) not having the ability to render certain things from Unity. It affected about 5 phones, but the published deemed it big enough to not be shippable.
Are these in USD or INR?
And that is probably much closer to the real reason. (And I'm saying "probably" just to hedge since I don't truly know, but it seems very likely to me.)

But I sort of get a kick out of imagining a meta-physical level of "flavor per fruit" out there in the world.

Incidentally, part of what I wonder about gene engineering is whether we could keep most of the hardiness, etc, and focus very tightly on putting in more flavor compounds, instead of using the blunt stick of breeding and getting who knows what other characteristics correlated in with that. Of course it won't be free to the plant but we might still have some room for optimizing.
Well, the iOS simulator so far wasn't really that good. There were some minor parts that didn't work in the simulator, but they worked on the iPhone. I used to test with two different iPhones: 4 and 5.

My Android-app is a lot less complex. The visually complex part (a custom chart that cannot be done with a default charting library) wasn't implemented in the Android-app.

We're working on a new version. I plan to test it on probably 3-4 devices as well, but with the assumption that Android is far better at handling different screen sizes than iOS currently (because maturity).

So yes, in the end, I'll have to test on 4 different devices for both platforms. With Android, I can mostly borrow devices from friends. Not so with iPhones. I might skip on the large iPhone 6 though. It's just too ugly to care about ;)
Swift seems a pragmatic take on functional programming. Apple backing means the compiler, libs and runtime will get a lot of work.
This is a great piece, and it reminds how rare it is to have excellent expository systems writing. It's certainly fitting that Ryan cites the late Richard Stevens, who was the exemplar of such writing. Those who like Stevens and Ryan's piece should also look for work by Elliott Organick: he must be considered the pioneer of expository systems monographs, and while his books are very hard to find (and the systems they describe long-since powered off), they remain rewarding reads.

On a more personal note, it was fun to reminisce about code that I hadn't been in in a long time -- I had actually forgotten how much surgery I did on the message queue code back in 1997[1], and I had the opportunity to chuckle at some of the comments made by my 23-year-old self.[2] I also marveled at how little this software has changed in the nearly two decades since; I've written about this before[3], but it's always inspiring to be reminded that we in software have the luxury of creating useful things that do not wear out -- may we only have more writing like Ryan's to learn about them!

[1] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/a9e987e05eeb8cc...

[2] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/a9e987e05eeb8cc...

[3] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2004/08/28/the-economics-of-soft...
Well, I guess Eventjoy will now be EventPloy, because the only company I think worse than Ticketbastard is Comcast...or maybe Congress.
You can store just the unicode characters to the db if you wish, the conversion script can convert both unicode, shortnames, as well as ascii text :-) to the images/svgs.

Storing the :shortnames: was just our suggestion because we've found that many web stacks aren't setup to handle multi-byte/UTF-8 characters by from the get-go. Doing it this way is an easier over-all approach, but by all means feel free to take our tools and customize to your own needs.

@font-face would definitely be the ideal solution, and hopefully something we can implement once the browser support is there, but at the moment we're trying to go for the most universal approach.
Almost all of these are done as vectors in Illustrator and pre rasterized into pixels (with touch ups in PS if necessary).
because an individual places a much higher value on his/her own life than the market would

That doesn't make sense. I place a much higher value on sunflower seeds than the market does, so that means I buy a ton of sunflower seeds so that I always have a bag on hand. They are cheap to me because I love them.

we need an entirely new systemic approach to health care

We agree there, but probably not in how we would do that. Most of our healthcare industry problems would benefit from more free market, not less. Remove the government structures that create unnecessary middlemen in healthcare like employers and the current insurance companies. If there were any regulation around healthcare, it should be toward opening the market up. Force doctors and hospitals to expose their prices so that consumers can wisely use their healthcare dollars.

Even within healthcare, there are segments that produce better outcomes at diminishing prices; like the cosmetic surgery and corrective vision surgery fields. As you look at those segments, they benefit from being mostly outside of the government-insurance-employer loop of spiraling costs.

Then for all the cherry picking you're trying to do with the private sector, go back and cherry pick on the problems that governments have. Governments purposefully maximize obscurity of relationships between manufacturers, lobbyists, lawmakers, and bureaucrats so that corruption becomes rampant while serving the needs of the consumer falls way behind. If government were in charge of allocating dollars for which medicines were produced, you can bet that there would be massive overproduction of some drugs and massive shortages of others that would take election cycles to correct - with the end result being that people won't get the healthcare that they're needing.
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But India is 24 hrs away by flight. If there was a list of countries with the flight duration and cost of medical care, what countries would lie on the Pareto front? What if you sorted by a "$-hr" metric?
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One example I can think of would be a mail reader application, that ties the storage of their application to say DropBox. You can have the user authenticate their dropbox, so their account details won't even need to be stored on the server. This would work well for a chrome/firefox application for that matter.

I can think of a few other systems where it would be useful, but in general an application interface (including offline support) comes to mind here.
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The subthread was specifically discussing California. It remains my understanding that he was incorrect about CA law - cited specifically, above.
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I would agree with you until I discovered that these Android applications are running under Native Client. So this doesn't irreparably destroy ChromeOS's strong security model, for example. It also think it maintains the fundamental application model of ChromeOS.

This isn't a fundamental change to ChromeOS -- it's just a compatibility library. Maybe they should go all out and port WINE to ChromeOS next.
The U.S. insurance system is not semi-socialized on that part, it is a result of collusion between hospital administration and insurance companies to maximize profits instead of health of the nation. Corporatism keeps laws on the books that reduce competition and take the decisions out of the hands of patients and doctors and puts it into bureaucrats.

Medicaid and Obamacare are the socialization aspects, which try to work within the Corporatist solution... we should have and should just tear the whole system apart.

Too many good minds work in billing and adminstrative research and development, not in medical development.

Disclaimer: I make medical billing and administrative software. I have a job because of a broken system... I'd sacrifice my comfort for a better system.
I'm of a similar mind, but everyone is different. Personally, I do see the extra value in the $430 difference, so I bought an iPhone. I won't get into it here, but it's worth it to me. However, I also own a Nexus 4 as a backup, and it has come in handy. My wife broke her iPhone and I gave her mine and switched to the Nexus 4 until I could get a replacement iPhone. Same thing when my old Windows Phone stopped working before I got my first iPhone, I moved to the Nexus until I could get a new phone.

It's great that for $200 you can get a phone that is nice with few compromises and not really be bummed if it breaks. The camera was god-awful on the Nexus 4, but for $200 I didn't mind much.
Wow! Thanks for your reply. I've experienced some minor issues with severe broken disks where the SPL layer discards the disk but the zpool is still online. It's not a major issue and I've yet to encounter the issue again I've already filed a related bug: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/2508 but I'm not an expert. If I can gather more data I'll try to submit as much data and hints I can find.

As for cgroups blkio - there is already a bug report: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/1952

Sorry. It was not my intention to suggest that ZFS does not compile on new kernel versions. I've never had problems with that. I just wanted to point out that it's not in the mainline kernel and for some people that might be important.

Thanks for your great work on ZoL! It made my life a lot easier :)
Yes! I don't know about India, but if you went to Argentina you could probably get treated for pretty much anything for that amount.

I have my own story about how shitty the US health care/insurance system is, but I've told it before.
Really they just play Bad Cop for the venues. Most of the "fees" that TM collects go right back to the people putting on the concert. It's really a great business model - clubs get to look like their tickets are cheaper than they actually are, and Ticketmaster gets a nice cut of pure profit.
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> Great read. This just show how evil for-profit medicine really is.

To be fair, I can share an appalling story of how Canadian healthcare abused my son for more than a year, and how it wasn't until we started making plans to move to the US that we saw much better care (in the US).
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Americans are quick to brand things evil.

Of course there are for-profit hospitals in India. All the private ones are. Its just that the system has not deteriorated so much as the US, that price of basic care has shot up so much.

The procedure described in the article is reasonably simple. I am not a doctor; the reason I know is my dad had the same procedure, once in 2005 and once in 2013.

Once the procedure was done, his doctor had a post-surgery chat with my mom and me, and gave us the box the stent came in. The cost of the Stent was approx Rs 150000. The whole cost was about 200,000 (including preliminary testing, doctor's fees, stay, surgery, post-surgery, and a ride home). We did it at one of the top hospitals in India (http://www.madrasmedicalmission.org/), and talking to some folks there, I was told that the profit was made in the cost of the Stent. Even though the box quoted Rs 150000, the hospital acquired it at 1/10th that price directly from the manufacturer (Abbott).
Please read the article before asking questions:

> The space where it should be was empty of tissue. Instead it was filled with cerebrospinal fluid, which cushions the brain and provides defence against disease.
You're both off in the weeds.

There are many many posts on HN talking about why someone got rid of their facebook account, or begging for an alternative, or throwing them under the PRISM bus.

However, many of them give explicit reasoning (sometimes in great detail), so not part of some pro-google astroturfing campaign, and there are many posts extolling the virtues of facebook, if only for practical reasons, so if you've "never read a single positive thought", you're suffering from severe selection or confirmation bias.
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Yes but the size of the refugee is not large enough even in theory to cover the risks and in practice, the refugee crop is even smaller due to the loss of money by doing this.

I'm not sure why you downvoted but one interesting detail is that current GMO's are not equivalent between them, unlike their traditional counterpart. There is huge differences between the same plants on the same crop and current GMO's are not stable (in the scientific term).

That's what I mean by we know how to create GMO's properly with a reliable technique. This however might change in the future.
Thanks for also replying, I wouldn't have seen this otherwise.
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"Nope. Keep searching."

As an aside, I'd like to object to this rhetorical technique. "You haven't found the thing that proves me right, therefore I am right" should not be permitted in arguments.

For the record, I don't think your intent was malicious, just calling attention to something I see a bit and don't like.
Maybe this team can make G+ a bit more engaging. They executed a rather simple idea of collecting 'Yes/No' polls very well and were able to conduct polls for big companies (MTV, TCrunch, Forbes and many more). Seems like a good team to acquire.
Not really, you probably start with an entry-level sysadmin/devops position, and work your way from fire-fighting incident to firefighting incident.

You just need an appreciation that any down-time in a system is a symptom of larger problems, and the will to identify (and reproduce as chaos!) those problems.
Doesn't this also mean that using the code in any web app would put the entire app (or at least all of the frontend code) under the terms of GPL, too?

That's how I usually see the license explained. If so, that's a bit absurd for a small "polish" library like this, especially one that hopes to "[excite] a new emoji lifestyle and culture for the web".
You have no idea what you are talking about. India's hospitals are run as profitable businesses. There is literally no government support. In fact, practically speaking, there is almost no government regulation period. Reputation and successful past patient experiences are the signal that consumers use to select a medical institution for care.

The American system is the one that is highly regulated and semi-socialized.

The Indian system is free to innovate as any start up can innovate. That is why American doctors are stunned when they go to a private Indian hospital and see the amount of digitization and high tech involved in Indian care.

You should watch this so you become enlightened as to how entrepreneurs in India are reducing the cost of health care, but still getting world class outcomes:

https://www.ted.com/talks/thulasiraj_ravilla_how_low_cost_ey...
It's not their salaries?

Watch them come to work, note the care they drive. Follow them home, note the house they live in. I've yet to see a dr in the US come to work in a civic, or live in a modest house...
We should still consider the fact that the author has a husband who's a doctor, and has family from India and is herself from India. Not sure if the costs would be the same if someone who hadn't been to India in a while or had no family were to go to seek treatment. Someone could easily take advantage of you and you'd hardly have any recourse.
My last company I worked at, they had like 30% of the staging environment running production stuff. They also had only one deploy target, which is drum roll production, which meant all of staging AND some of Dev/QA was live and could interact with the production environment. Also fun to see the production load at 300% of expected, burning, only to find out some event, data roll up, query, whatever was being run in duplicate on 10 different machines because somebody forget to to manually edit the configs after they rolled out a new version to staging/QA. Although I think this would qualify as "chaos engineering", I don't think it fits with what netflix is going for.

Yeah, ok that had nothing to do with the OP, sorry, I just had to vent.
I'm looking for an emoji solution right now for our site, actually would love the device-native solution, not using this "standard" library for all of them. Perhaps this would be the right royalty-free fallback if the device does not have native support.

I'm actually looking for their "problem #2" - but using the native and polyfilling everywhere seems to be very difficult -- I don't see any good posts or libraries to help with this yet.