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(A little late but...) I said that because, for example I stubbled across a UK show called 'Midwives' and it was about a maternity ward. Most of the people there are what I would call 'nurses' in the US, even if they are Nurse-Midwives by certification. I was expecting the show to be about something more akin to home-births.

I have an aunt that's a neo-natal nurse, and I've never heard her refer to fellow nurses as midwives (but I've never directly asked her before).
Not if you're unfamiliar with Ruby on Rails, I guess. It's a little tricky to characterize because of how much stuff it contains. Basically it has a number of different components, that work together to make a structured environment for developing Web applications. Some of the prominent features include:

* Web server that runs on Node.js

* MongoDB integration

* Custom build tools

* Package manager (supports installing JS packages for either client-side code, server-side code, or both).

* SignalR-style remote function execution (call functions on the server from the client, and vice versa)

* JS client-side database caching

* Data binding in Javascript templates using Handlebars (or something similar, I don't remember exactly).

etc.
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Ask HN: Any advice for starting a web development co-op?
I'm a front-end dev with several freelancer friends who, all together, represent most of the talent you would need to start a full-service digital agency (back-end devs, designers, writers, and account executives.)

Like most freelance networks, we regularly reach out to each other for work/advice outside our specialty (I do dev work for designers, writer friends help me out, etc.)

I'd love to propose (and so far the few I've talked to are receptive to the idea) combining our freelance practices and starting a consultancy or web shop.

I believe very strongly that a co-op would be the most equitable system of organizing the company and, even with the potential downfalls of distributed management, am committed to making a flat system work.

Does anyone have advice for actually doing so? Or a software, web-based, or general creative services example of one in action? There are a few local co-ops I regularly patron (Wheatsville, Black Star, and Public School), but I'm having trouble finding an analogue in web development.

Thanks in advance HN!
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I can't think of a popular language which has not had breaking releases. C, C++ and Java all have.
It sounds like it is still pretty early in the game ($2 million A round, 15 people), so lack of profit shouldn't be an issue (did you mean revenue?). If you don't feel like the business will be on the path to success (equity means nothing) or you are not willing to take the risk, then you should quit today and just go work somewhere that pays more and is stable (BigCo). If you feel like the potential upside from equity say 5 years out is worth the tradeoff in salary now, then you should stay.
It should be noted that a low fever appears to be helpful for the immune response. http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/sick-feverish-suff...

If you're running a 101 degree fever, it may be more effective not to suppress it.
The plan is to have those unstable parts disabled in the stable compiler, so that any program that works with rustc 1.0 will work with rustc 1.x etc. One can use those parts via the nightly branch. The plan is also to try to have much of the most useful parts of the stdlib stable (at least the core functionality).

More info:

- https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/507

- http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/12/12/1.0-Timeline.html
One of the articles that was debunking the NK connection mentioned that the language used in NK stems heavily from Russian in a variety of ways. So if they took the use of false to mean lies and falsehoods it would make some kind of sense.
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Well, what you wrote is "The main reason I did it was to see what Haskell is capable of compared to other languages such as Python." The problem is that what you coded isn't what Haskell is capable of :)
Oh, if you mean specifically that the word 'crazy' makes people get stubborn and make bad decisions, sure I guess that's true. I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for people being stubborn though, even though I'm quite sympathetic to the problems and suffering they experience.
That's the dependency injection[1] way to do it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection
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The main difference is, we try to build an active community where people can openly discuss any career related topics; while Glassdoor is mostly a company review / salary posting site, with no interactions between users. We also try to be more emotional and personal, and capture the small things in your daily life. Which does not exist in Glassdoor.
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The author claims that real, measurable differences in how people think based on how they speak is too insignificant, because it doesn't constitute a "worldview." I rather think he sells short the importance of seeing actual empirical ways in which language does indeed "speak us". Say there are thousands, maybe millions, of such minute alterations in metaphor or thought pattern – is it really so hard to imagine that the aggregate of these alterations form unique, interesting ways to interpret and respond to the world? Do we not see evidence of this when we read, say, the poetry of different cultures? (It's a rhetorical question – I certainly think we do!)

I got a book last year about learning Old English. I haven't gotten very far into it yet, but just the fact that I can go back a thousand years in human history and see where the roots of my language came from is an incredibly cool thing. I am also inspired by the alliterative schemes of old Anglo-Saxon poetry, and have it on the back-burner to see how or how not that could work in modern language (e.g. in Rebsamen's "Beowulf" translation).

Similarly, whether or not I actually "speak" programming languages like Lisp, Forth, and APL in my daily work, they are a mine of cool ideas and experiments that I can still draw inspiration from, decades after the machines that they were originally built on crumble back into sand.

Which probably emphasizes the "cold storage" value of language, not necessarily the "active speaking" value of it. I think the cold storage value of retaining language is indisputably massive, and projects like the Rosetta Project are really interesting to me for that reason. What's the value of actively speaking it, even when the community of speakers dwindles? Perhaps it is in helping to cement our understanding of the language before it fades away.
5. This is an FBI statement. As the Sony movie studio's network is not a classified US Government network, it isn't the NSA's job to defend it.

So, they may not have even been consulted on this - or (far more likely) their contributions, if relatively inconclusive, may have been cherry-picked for only those specific points which supported a politically-convenient, face-saving conclusion. (Which, as we all know, has happened before on a few infamous occasions.)

When you have a big hammer, sometimes everything looks like a nail. When you have a database of every IP address which sends packets transiting a collection point to every other IP address suspected of being a C&C (and the NSA & GCHQ do have exactly that), everything looks like a potential controller. There is a remarkably strong bias towards false-positive confirmation caused by (amongst other things) P2P networks and UDP packets with forged IP addresses. A bias the NSA (and/or GCHQ) would warn about: a warning that, alas, law enforcement tend to not always take to heart - which is (anecdotally) partly why GCHQ rather dislike working with the plod (and quite probably the same feelings persist in the NSA towards the FBI).

I still think the links to DPRK are very weak, if they even point that way at all - not that the North Korean government aren't vile dictators (they are) but because everything I've seen makes it look more like low-rent organised crime - indeed, I gather the payload and C&Cs used, which the FBI have (IMO) erroneously used in their attribution, are publicly available (though no, I will not link to them)!

What I've seen even (albeit weakly) indicates at least two actors with different names, one of whom asked for a monetary ransom, and the latter mentioned the movie after the media did and thanked the other (for giving them access?).

It may be (but there is no strong evidence either way) that the latter is actually the DPRK - in which case their "cyber-army" looks like low-rent organised criminals, which I admit would not be implausible, but speaks volumes about Sony's stunningly negligent incompetence!

The one thing I feel absolutely confident saying is this: Sony Pictures were an extraordinarily soft target, and this was not a display of any high degree of technical competence on the part of the attackers. It could've been anyone from North Korea to a disgruntled ex-employee (of which they have no recent shortage) to some random 14-year-old angry kid, or anyone in between. My sodding cat could have hacked them. ¬_¬
The cost to build one mile of 6 lane interstate in an urban area is estimated at 11 million dollars per mile. If you look at the estimated cost for the hyperloop, it seems to come out at around 25 million per mile. This isn't outside the realm of possibility at all, just a little more than twice that of traditional methods.
Pedantic, but "decimate" has the primary meaning of "reduce by a large percentage", based on the historical reference to a particular Roman practice of killing 1 in 10 of a group as a means of collective punishment; it does not generally (i.e., outside of the context of that specific historical practice) mean to reduce either by or to one tenth.
The parent you replied to quoted three.
I've been using zinc for about 3 years now when I get a cold. It's the best medication I've found. It has a slightly off-putting taste and mouthfeel, but it's worth it IMO.
Not supporting Copy & Paste is a feature.
In addition to the other responses, the pipe version will get initial chunks of data across the HTTP connection sooner, so that the user starts seeing data on their screen.
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There's at least two caveats to those completely reasonable points: freight also is terrible, and cities build around trains. I won't touch the freight one, other than it seems to be abysmally unreliable compared to a semi.

But a high speed thoroughfare is great now, but soon someone's going to cheat and try to lay road across one of those tracks. The high speed lines really need to be separated with no outside interference.

I had a weird feeling a maybe ten years ago talking with a friend who is a surveyor. He noted that rail lines often take precedence in disputes, since they almost always predate any other landmarks, including roads. And over the intervening years, in the manufacturing towns I've been in it looks like we put all those rails in the most inconvenient places... Unless we actually just did the opposite and plopped our towns next to all the rail lines. And considering how vital rail was before the highways and cheap fuel, I think that's just what happened.

Anyhow, just my two cents on it. I think we sorta painted ourselves into a corner with this whole mess. It's certainly a political problem, but the solution really would involve positively stupefying amounts of capital, either to make bypass rail or to make those silly roads all overpasses. I say it's worth it, but, well, I'm biased.
Sony Pictures in an American entity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment

Sony the company bought it in 1989, but it still operates as an independent subsidiary.
Most of the time "pop Skepticism" devolves into a lot of "I'm smarter than you." At its worst it sometimes dabbles in the same logical fallacies that are routinely present in the "woo" it attempts to debunk. I call it "fundamentalist positivism," and like most fundie ideologies has its own brand of holier-than-thou.
Not really, because db is not static. In my example, that Database.write() method would itself be static, and thus you can't pass it in as an argument.

Basically, this concept means that it's static all the way down, from the top layer to the bottom layer.
I switched from QWERTY to Dvorak over ten years ago, and I am crippled going back to QWERTY. I apologise routinely to students and colleagues whilst using their keyboards, explaining that I'm no longer used to the QWERTY layout.
I have the same sentiment, but for Boston. As someone who can sometimes walk the 3 miles to work faster than public transit (or private bus) can take me on a bad commuting day, its frustrating.

Like highway off ramps built communities, communities will spring up around train station stops.
This really got me thinking... Burnout might not be the right term to use in this case. My biggest issue right now is that I feel like I'm not learning enough and I'm not using my full potential. My biggest skills and interests are building native iOS and Android apps as well as hardware hacking. At my 9-5 I do neither of these, I get to do semi-big custom web apps but much of it usually ends up being wrapped in WordPress. Sigh.
"The authors of the Old Testament for some reason failed to appreciate the cognitive benefits to multilingualism."

That is clearly not only not correct but is the opposite of the presentation in Genesis 11:4–9. This will be very clear if you could take just a few moments to go and read the story of Babel, which is a mythological account of the origin and benefits of language diversification. It is a very short story, only six verses long, that will take at most one minute to read.

The Babel story is getting misrepresented here from its clear Biblical representation. Some here are spinning as a triumph of progress and advancement through efficient communication.

In Genesis, it is given as a situation where common language allows people to display hubris while wasting effort on a completely useless project of attempting to build a tower to reach the sky. This project and its attitude is presented as clearly evil, and diversification of language, babelification, is given as a divine solution to the problem, which is presented as originating from cultural unity, common language, and concentration in a single area.
I think a trichotomy would be 3 categorical bins.

This looks like OP cherry picked 3 options from a 2x2x2 choice matrix with NSA competency, NSA honesty, and the truth as its axes.
The whole idea of "America doesn't torture because we are the good guys" is a relic of the cold war.
Indeed. I set caps to ctrl. I don't even bother swapping them. I've simply eliminated caps all together. I so rarely type in all caps that I simply suck it up and hold shift when I need to.

The only time it really comes up is if I'm typing out constants in code. Yet, I have to type each only once and then autocomplete deals with it from there on out.
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Thermal expansion is also a well known property and something that is dealt with in buildings and structures all the time. It would be a challenge, I agree, but I don't think it will be an intractable one.
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Oh brother. Why not just get it over with and have a ticker-tape parade for the guy. Wow, are we hurting for news or what.
It can be fed to something else, like fungus, plant or animal.

And if it's used directly, nowadays we already eat plenty of industrial food products with unknown origins. The future of that technology used for good (instead of plain sales and market share) could create efficient, tasty and nutritious foods.
Yes, we're generating about $1,000 per month revenue.

Given the funding in particular, I expected there to be room to move in terms of my salary & I'm disappointed that there isn't right now. Is 'we can't afford it' an appropriate response at this stage of the company?
Every part of the "It's NK" reaction from all institutions of power/news seem just really off. Both MSM and gov't are running with it, without question. And now, most strangers off the street will parrot that same answer. Call it a PR success.

My guess, there are some serious, institutional-shaking smoking gun emails between media execs, lobbyists, gov't.

Official PR response of all parties presently guilty is to make as much noise about anything that's not in the data dump.
Have you considered trying affiliate guest posts? Either that or develop a service that your users could use - especially if your brand is strong, basically license a white label widget and market that.
Really like the idea; what's your plan with respect to pediatric medicines?
It would be nice to contribute details about any country, rather than the one that you were randomly born into. Also, adding some demographic details from wikipedia (life expectancy, infant mortality rate, average income, etc) would be cool and useful.
This is addressed, at least somewhat, in the source I just cited.
Yes, I was assuming constant acceleration. I mentioned that this was unrealistic.
Cool sounding NFC setup - have you written anywhere about that? Or do you mind describing what the NFC points trigger on your phone here?
Agreed about the issues with Amtrak. But in most locations, your 'two things' requires a completely separate right-of-way for authentic high-speed rail. That is exactly what happened with California HSR: Originally they planned to use freight rail corridors, but ended up with a plan which is only somewhat nearby existing rail.
The hyperloop isn't a 6-lane interstate. It's an elevated track, some of it tunneled through rock.
Except generics aren't guaranteed to be equivalent. Indian pharma companies have been incredibly corrupt, outright lying about their products:

http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/

I'd be very hesitant about buying medicine from such companies. But I agree that if the regulators could assure quality, then yes, pointing out equivalence would help a lot of people.
Since turing completness implies that you can write an interpreter for any other programming language you can do it in python in at least as many ways as there are programming languages where you can do it.
It's not the only killer feature. Where Python 2 lacks consistency Python 3 fixes it. Where Python 2 core libs have stagnated, the Python 3 ones have been improved. All future development from core CPython developers is going into Python 3. That's a pretty killer feature.
This is all my fault and I accept and will now wallow in my wrongness.
> I think a trichotomy would be 3 categorical bins.

That's what was presented.

> This looks like OP cherry picked 3 options from a 2x2x2 choice matrix with NSA competency, NSA honesty, and the truth as its axes.

That sounds about right, which would mean there ought to be (assuming each of the implicit dichotomies was valid, and that they covered the problem space), 8 categorical bins, which is why the presented trichotomy would be a false one.
I only have anecdotal data to add, but I've been using zinc lozenges for years for when I start to get sick (or my kids are exhibiting symptoms), and it really does dramatically shorten the cold and reduce the severity of the symptoms.

Are you aware of any information on the mechanism by which zinc works? I'm content knowing that it does, but it would be cool to understand what's going on with it.
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I've been waiting for awhile to catch a cold so I can try a neti pot. My usual goto is zinc lozenges as soon as the cold hits/gargling with hot salt water/staying well hydrated/and resting.
Colemak actually puts Backspace where Caps Lock is. I've always swapped Ctrl and Caps Locks though and did it with Colemak as well.
I think you hit the nail on the head.

LA-SF is the busiest air route in North America, and it's one of the busiest air routes globally regardless of how it's ranked. On the number of seats flown per month it ranks comparatively low (number 18), meaning there's a bottle-neck being demonstrated. Either driving is too viable an option, or the airports can't handle extra flights.

The US is also notorious for having poor passenger rail. Seoul-Jeju carries a lot more passengers, a couple million, but they already have high speed rail, which makes the run in a time comparable to a flight. So being able to shave a half-hour off a commute isn't going to be commercially viable when implementing an entirely new infrastructure and design. Many routes out of Tokyo carry comparable numbers to LA-SF, but again Japan also has high speed rail - I think the time saving on the Tokyo-Okinawa (1500km distance) would be the only one capable of competing against high speed rail, but Japan is highly populated so likely not suited for massive and unproven new infrastructure projects.

The next option is in Brazil, is a slightly shorter route, but the issue being the economy is less likely to be able to support such a project, and the risk of corruption and embezzlement there could tank the entire project with cost overruns.

There's really no other credible short distance option in North America. New York to Florida (Miami 5.5mil + Orlando 3.7mil) would be a credible option, NY-Miami is a 2,000km run, passes by Orlando at the 1,750km mark, and the ticket price is almost triple that of the LA-SF run.

So if LA-SF isn't an option it's "Go Big or Go Home". Crossing states would be a big issue. So we're likely going to see this proven small scale on commuter routes in and out of big cities.
You are paying for your equity in opportunity cost. So, roughly, if you take your possible market salary minus your current salary over some time period, that's what you're paying to purchase that equity. The straight financial calculation to make is - do you feel that that equity is worth that price - if you had that cash in hand, would you buy the equity with all its risk?

This is one financial estimation, it isn't the only consideration, there is career experience, cashflow to support your life style (is the salary so low that your life is being impacted), etc to be considered too.

However, if you don't believe in the equity, is the opportunity cost you're paying worth the stackup of everything else that's positive about your position?
Super interesting project. Clearly the browser is going to become the window into VR video and graphic worlds. Image browser has never been more caple to render mix media.
Do you wanna build a snowball?
Indeed, and this is why there's something to the argument that talking about software freedom, and in this case hardware freedom, is more important than talking about "Open Source."