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Nice product. I like the ability to use different skins on the prototype UI. The conditional logic shown at the end seemed limited, however, unless they neglected to demo the complete functionality.
Japs are pretty heavily controlled by the American elite. There is actually a fairly big underground movement in Japan to throw them off and stop stuff like this from happening. Japanese banks and politicians though have been paying tribute to America for a long time.
Any specific recommendations from that set? I was looking at Qemu earlier but I'm curious to hear from HN folks who have had experience with these emulators.
Do you do the same thing when you are having a conversation with a non-native speaker of english?

The mute button would serve you pretty well in this case as the narrative isn't important.

You also missed the hilarious conclusion at the end of the video. Like "make this my ringtone" hilarious.
If the state of California got a multi-trillion dollar bailout, I bet they would not have had to raise tuition.
Thought experiment: What would internal correspondence look like in evolutionary biology circles if the intelligent design movement had the resources of those who seek to refute the man-made climate change hypothesis?

For a taste of what they already deal with: http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Lenski_affair

Thought experiment continued: What if the intelligent design movement is right, and the theory of evolution had subtle flaws that were kept under wraps? Would the hypothetical internal correspondence be different in any way?

All this release does is shine the light on the inevitable politicization of the process; it says nothing about the conclusions. (The sausage-making process doesn't necessarily make them wrong -- or right.)
I'm tired of the vagaries of Linux on my desktop, but I solve that by not using it.

Yeah, because this is definitely the argument this article is about...
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I read McIntyre's site regularly, and find very little evidence of this. His 'political ends'?

McIntyre spent 30 years in the oil/gas exploration business ("mineral exploration"). You don't think there are some vested politics here?

You might argue successfully that his pedantic insistence on sources, data, and algorithms gets in the way of 'progress', but to say that this is because of his political views is a gross error.

There's plenty of room to distort the facts while reporting them. Fox News consistently claims to present "the facts" in a "fair and balanced" manner.
You are wrong, it has no connection to quick-match, just rating. I rate a lot of people globaly that never show up on quick match. :)
(It’s off-topic, but why the long esses and engs? The latter are not letters in English, and the former haven’t really been used in at least a century.)
An index scales in proportion with the data it is indexing. The large size might produce more I/O and thus less than constant algorithmic complexity.
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Yeah, because this is definitely the argument this article is about...

You're saying that your solution isn't to develop for Free Software platforms?

I apologize for making assumptions based on your comment history. If that's not your solution, then how do you propose we developers resolve our issues instead of voicing our complaints?
> Do you do the same thing when you are having a conversation with a non-native speaker of english?

It depends. When I'm having an actual conversation, it usually means that I'm already interested in the topic and I don't mind asking someone to clarify / repeat if I don't understand them. It doesn't matter if I don't like someone's accent at that point (and I will try really hard to actually guess / understand the sentence). However, if someone wants to sell me something over the phone, or is there to provide me a service I paid for - I sometimes do that (i.e. say that I can't understand what they're trying to sell and hangup, or ask to speak to someone with better accent to avoid a misunderstanding).
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Yes, he is. I could implement the soft-delete feature in the database, write one class (that sets up the queries chained off of it to be aware of deletions), and then substitute that class for the original via the dependency injection system. Total effort? 15 minutes. Total changes to the application logic and the code that actually queries the database? 0.

If you are writing PHP, where you hard-code a query and then print out HTML as you iterate over the result set, then sure, you're fucked. But not because of soft deletes.
Frankly I think the UI of that tool is atrocious. Balsamiq Mockups is what prototyping software should be like, it's simple and intuitive.

This looks like it would be a pain to use, given the choice of ForeUI. Frankly, I'd rather use Illustrator (or pencil and paper, depending on the project).
So who does have a right to look at the data, assuming we first disqualify anyone that antonovka thinks has the wrong political opinions? Isn't the scientific ideal all about openness and reproducible analyses? These emails make it look like the new ideal is supporting the "correct" political agenda.
Check out the Amiga emulator UAE - it's been ported to virtually everything (Linux, OS X, Windows, DOS, BeOS, Palm OS, and much more, including AmigaOS!) and is under active development (WINUAE, anyway):

http://www.thefreecountry.com/emulators/amiga.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAE_(emulator)
You have a lot of confidence in the ability of the state of California to be responsible with their money.
I was disappointed to not see Riak covered.
But...

Paper checks don't actually move money around, computers changing numbers in electronic ledgers do. A paper check is just a device to trigger that process.

I'm not sure this story makes any sense to me.
>> And no, motivation doesn't actually matter. Only facts and interpretation do.

> Of course it matters. Ulterior motives in science have reliably blinded people from facts for hundreds of years.

The ulterior motives in question are not blinding people to data. They're exposing data.

"I want to see all the data to prove them wrong" is valid no matter why the person wants to prove them wrong. If they're wrong, they're wrong, regardless of why the person went to the effort.
Please look through the mailing list and github. There are at least 5 of these in the works. Off the top of my head: express, vroom, gateway, node-router.
Anyone able to comment on how it compares with Joyent's smart platform, http://becoming.smart.joyent.com/index.html?
On the one hand, I agree that finding a BBC Presenter Voice is the most professional for this sort of thing.

On the other hand, your post struck me as loaded with racist and sexist overtones. If you don't want to come across that way, you should be more careful with your word choices.

Finally, unless I'm completely of base, the speaker has a Chinese accent. Nothing India about it.
If Stephen McIntyre is all about openness and taking advantage of the abhorrent disclosure of internal communications, why doesn't he follow suite by posting all of his personal e-mail correspondence, unedited for external review?

I'm sure there are more than a few gems.

Isn't the scientific ideal all about openness and reproducible analyses?

Yes, but when someone applies such a strong political ideology to twisting those analyses, how do you propose scientists respond?

Climate change has been so politicized by unqualified ideologues that I can hardly blame scientists for wishing to defend themselves from the worst of them.

If anything, these e-mails demonstrate that the data IS shared independently evaluated, but that the community has established political defenses to deal with political -- not scientific -- opponents.

To do otherwise would be naive. Complex topics fall easily to those who would politicize them.

These emails make it look like the new ideal is supporting the "correct" political agenda.

No, they demonstrate a clear interest in defending against the attacks of a very specific set of ideologues.

As someone who has had to defend engineering projects and people from angry corporate politics, I don't envy these climate change scientists in the least, and I certainly don't begrudge them their defensive positions.
another advice: use tags! Most Version Control System have the ability to connect commits with tags. Especially if U follow the advice "make small atomic commits". Tags help to keep an overview. Branches help too, in that matter. But sometimes U don't have that choice, because Ur company policy dictates how to use branches (the case in many german companies, like my actual one).
Go for it - you'll be doing America a favor as well.

However, you may need a China plan. Or not.
Two key points from the article:

"Health care needs process innovation, not product innovation. You can't do one big thing and reduce the price, we have to do 1,000 small things." Dr. Devi Shetty

Jack Lewin, chief executive of the American College of Cardiology, who visited Dr. Shetty's hospital earlier this year as a guest lecturer, says Dr. Shetty has used high volumes to improve quality. For one thing, some studies show quality rises at hospitals that perform more surgeries for the simple reason that doctors are getting more experience. And at Narayana, says Dr. Lewin, the large number of patients allows individual doctors to focus on one or two specific types of cardiac surgeries.
IBM discontinues Cell development.
All this talk about accents and music choice is just way off base. It shows a lack of experience on the part of a commenter in dealing with non native speakers. People should not have to be slick and commercial sounding to get a chance at your attention. Learn to listen to information as is and ignore mild annoyances you have from cultural biases and you will be able to use more than just slick local sources of information for learning.

I thought the tool looked pretty interesting. Until I try it out and re-evaluate Balsamiq(or other products) I won't jump to conclusions as to which is better. Tools are tools everyone should be constantly exploring new ones to enhance their existing tools with new tricks or to switch when new tools are just that much better.
I'm not Japanese, I just read about them.

And yeah it's definitely not doing American any favors, anymore.
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Also if you have the data in the cloud, you no longer have direct control of it. So what if it goes down. What if they get hacked? This is why the US keeps uber-top secret stuff disconnected from the internet.
> However, it absolutely made sense to provide government assistance to GM, even though GM was run incorrectly, because of the broader reaching effects of letting it fall at that time.

That's true only if something is being done so the effects of it failing will be lower or if the failure is averted and the cost of the assistance was less than the benefit received.

However it's likely that GM is going to fail anyway and at roughly the same cost. Was delaying that really worth $12B?

> Now, we ask should the financial industry be regulated, and we see the answer is different, because the case is different; our entire dollar based economy is intertwined with the liquidity of the financial markets, so a worst case scenario there can trigger a severe economic depression, as we almost experienced.

You're assuming that regulation works. Since regulation arguably created the problems that we just experienced (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are creations of regulation as was the dependence of financial institutions on them, which caused said financial institutions to fail when Fannie/Freddie went down), that's questionable at best.
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Victus Media http://victusmedia.com is "hiring" interns, web developers, and software folks that are very cumfy with Ruby/Rails site infrastructure (note that our cool service is down at this second, shortening my lifespan with each moment ;).

We're a pre-company so any folks we decide to team up with at this point would be working for stake. You'd have to jive with me and the Lead Tech Tyler.

Contact me here or messel at victusmedia dot com.
I really like riak but I would love to see a couple of things (which are coming after talking to the developers): select/put parts of a document instead of fetching to the client, updating, and sending the whole document back; writing map-reduce in something other than erlang (sue me, I am not an erlang expert yet); performing more operations server side on documents in situ.

I am playing with these ideas against a json object store, taking inspiration from riak, redis, and couchdb; based on node.js. It's vaporware ATM but if it pans out I'll open it up.
I was thinking the same thing as I watched. Then I realized that the limits were pretty reasonable given unemployment dynamics.

Deeply interesting nonetheless. Is there some expectation of recovery hidden within the spatial graph?
It's weird that the article doesn't specify where the placenta is from - whether it's from humans or animals. I know sheep's placenta has been used forever as a hair conditioner.
Okay, the whole "I'd rather delete data" thing sounds really sketchy, but...

If science and data are not interpreted by the right people, how can we be sure that the world is getting the right message?

You know, I suppose you're trying to be sarcastic here, but this is actually a valid point. Analyzing scientific data is not something that most people can do properly without a lot of training and education. When the "wrong people" interpret the data and publicize their "results" it absolutely can and will mislead people, which is kind of counterproductive to the whole purpose of this "science" thing.

To my mind, a responsible scientist has an obligation to promote understanding, not follow some notion of proper behavior. So, yeah, if someone with a fairly large audience, a lack of relevant expertise, and an apparent vested interest in interpreting results in a predetermined way asks for huge volumes of data the correct response is probably somewhere between ignoring them completely and telling them to fuck off.

It sounds like these people were dramatically overreacting (Deleting the data? Really, guys?), but after seeing how well it worked when the biologists tried to engage in a civilized scientific discussion about evolution, I can at least sympathize.
I like seeing a listing when I cd.

cd() { builtin cd $* && ls; }

I cannot recall if that is right (on my phone) but that's the idea in bash at least.
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These are all not examples of Fixed-Schedule Productivity:

Hanging out on HN while I should be building enterprise ruby on my local centos install.

Checking my twitter stream.

ADD opening my gmail.

Reading blogs, and commenting.
Scribd was seed funded by Y Combinator.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/scribd
Thanks for these links everyone
I'll make a non-mathematical observation about data-mining. Real world data sets are messy. Humans are just not the most reliable data entry machines. Data sets are not always gathered for the purpose you intend to use them. You have to validate/scrub/realign your data set before wasting time on an analysis that could be rendered meaningless by these issues.

It's the old "Garbage In, Garbage Out" principle, but it's easy to forget until the real world hammers it into you.
The accent was interesting, just like the one my russian physics professor has. It keeps me attentive.
This is good advice. One thing that has plagued me is that I procrastinate actual (personal) work with reading blogs/books. This isn't always a bad thing in that I am learning something, but it can severely set me back on projects.

This is why I now set goals for myself of what I want to finish each month. I enjoy learning and reading as much as possible, but I now set those aside to make my "deadlines" for whatever project of the month I have.
Well... I see where you're coming from, but I assure you there was no racism. Sexism... well - depends what's your take on it - a toned down, smooth voice of a person of the opposite sex is generally considered "most pleasant". That's how it's treated in marketing and that's how big companies make their presentations to people who aren't already into the product. IT is dominated by men, so a girl is a practical choice if you want to be successful.

Why no racism? I'm not a native speaker. I simply can't understand the demo in some places. It's not a problem of the language per se. I'd tell the same thing to people who can't speak in their own language clearly enough -- find the "best voice" for your target audience and use it instead. But those would be really rare cases - the most common problem is a native / not native accent. Every time I know I don't need a proper dialog with a customer, I pass the information back through the support people (native speakers). Customers have a better experience this way.

As for the Indian call centres - it was just an example of a case where we don't usually have a choice (banks, services, support, etc.) not a comment on this exact accent. Still - reality, not racism.

PS. My choice of words might be caused by not being a native English speaker myself <- these problems are also what you want to avoid making a public demo :)
You don't think there are some vested politics here?

I understand the sense that there could be, but as a regular reader of his site, with strong environmental leanings myself, I don't see any evidence of any such bias. He's a hard core statistician who happened to find his skills in demand by energy companies. I wouldn't presume a nuclear physicist is necessarily biased towards atomic war, and I wouldn't presume that Steve has any particular fondness for drilling in wildlife refuges.

There's plenty of room to distort the facts while reporting them. Fox News...

I agree with you that that Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. The snippets I've seen while sitting in airport terminals make me recoil in horror. It's very similar feeling to the feeling I get reading some of these leaked emails: a nausea induced by demagoguery and propaganda. I do not get this feeling when reading Steve's posts.
I liked the demo. Interesting to compare it with the demo of Balsamiq Mockups (which is probably the inspiration).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLysy3IPfFI
The distinction is most probably legal. The transaction couldn't close until payment was received - and the paper check could be "received" but a wire transfer couldn't until the next day.

Likewise, they could put the funds on their balance sheet at the moment the check changed hands. I'm sure they also had accounts payable, so this allowed them to be solvent despite the fact that the check hadn't yet been deposited.
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There's something to be said about being naive/foolish. I remember when I first started with this whole entrepreneurship thing. Since I had not seen the pitfalls and the realities of certain difficulties, I thought anything was possible. Finding that same level of foolish confidence mixed in with the occasional reality check can be a powerful thing. Stop looking at the impossibilities and all the common "this wont work because of x questions". This quote from notorious big always summed it up nicely for me:

"The key to staying, on top of things is treat everything like it's your first project, knahmsayin? Like it's your first day like back when you was an intern. Like, that's how you try to treat things like, just stay hungry."
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Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center
We were dealing with terabytes of data and 10's of billions of writes per month. Most tables had 4 to 6 indexes, resulting in multiple updates for each write. If your data sets and indexes are huge there is little locality of data. Each row returned may have several disk hits. If you can keep your table sizes small enough that the indexes can remain in memory, performance is mush better.

Even worse were the autogenerated queries that joined a dozen tables together. I saw some that were 1500 lines long.
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I'm flagging this because the article is a complete mistranslation of the Heise text. From the comments here is a bit of a better translation.

Translation: "IBM's VP of Deep Computing, David Turek, has now confirmed in an interview with heise online that the planned successor to the current PowerXCell-8i processor, slated to have two PowerPC processors and 32 SPEs, will not be released. This will not, however, spell the end of the Cell design, as parts of it will still crop up in different forms."
What magnificent beards! Love those Haskell guys.

Slava! Beard up!
Mbed: 32 bit micro with cloud based toolchain
For some time I've thought that a web based toolchain might be advantageous for these simple embedded boards, so I'm glad to see someone trying it out.
This was posted here yesterday.
I can only report my own reaction; I can't read your mind nor determine your intent.

As to "why racist," a big part of my impression came from the way you chose to present your experience as excruciatingly unpleasant, rather than an obstacle. Toss in a stereotype, mix well.

An example of sexism, beyond your desire for a sexually attractive presenter: it seems to me that in your world men are 'men' and women are 'girls.'

Edit to add: Your written English, at least, is just fine. :)
Learning to recognize when I'm going on tilt has been one of the most important processes in my becoming a better poker player. I found that underplays threw me off my game far more than anything else, so I've worked hard to take my chances when I get them, and quickly move past it when I don't. It wasn't until I lost about $10 (mind you, my bankroll was $20) after getting nothing out of a straight flush that I realized how much such things affected me, and took steps to address it.

Obviously there's a huge difference between $10 and a few hundred thousand dollars, but the same core concepts apply. It's difficult for people who haven't played a decent bit of poker (even at very low stakes) to understand how psychologically draining it can be, and how much the player's frame of mind affects the game.
To me, the interesting angle on this device is that the C/C++ toolchain is all web based, so there's no software installation required to get started. (I had a similar idea some time ago for another embedded board, but couldn't convince the company to try it out.) Seems like the zero installation toolchain would make it easier for people to get started, especially if they are on a locked down OS.

I also like their idea of having the board appear as a USB drive with FAT filesystem; copy the new firmware over and it will automatically reflash the microcontroller.
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Cool - it was just a "thought". Would love to contribute to something already started.
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Thanks also from me. It'll take time to digest all the information but a thread like this is very valuable to distill from hundreds of sources.
That only works if everyone you work with religiously uses a single ORM and dynamic programming language, because it makes calls to that ORM the only (cumbersome) query language that gives correct results. It doesn't fix the ad hoc SQL query your marketing guys are pasting out of email from a developer who went to another startup last year (yes, I have seen this happen).
I like the voice. Professional sweet girl voice sounds unnatural for a tech video. I much prefer a voice that sounds like someone who is involved with the product.