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There is "specialist" like "Angular JS expert" and there is "specialist" like "web application development". Specializing on a single product is bad, but specializing on delivering applications through web technologies (notionally a more general title) is good.
Basically, yep.

But you can see why people get some sticker shock: $14,256 on their website for SQL Server 2014 enterprise (per core!) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-ser...

However as you say, you could easily get a 50% discount on that without having a big SQL Server farm.

No bizspark required.
My dad only needed 4 hours of sleep.

He worked 12-16 hour days, went to grad school at night, and still managed to run or hit the gym every day. He was never tired, and actively tried to cut back on his sleeping time.

Now he has diabetes, and the doctors are nearly 100% convinced it was due to a lifetime of lack of sleep.

Beware.
People often don't understand that for an action on the web (clicking a link) the user feedback and end result don't need to be the same thing. You can update the UI in a meaningful way while you wait for the end-result to come back from the server. A user should never have to sit there after doing an action and ask themselves "Did I really click that? Or did I miss it?"
Do you not understand how cheap a gibson assembly is? I priced it out, and each assembly cost on average $2 for the reaction $10 for the competent cells, and maybe about $30 in other costs. Now there is some infrastructure required: If you don't have a -80 to keep competent cells, you would require some tools to make competent cells (like a microfuge spinner) but that infrastructure is not totally expensive.
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nah, the source is still hidden. I want to see the code! :D
Microsoft Research is very strong, it's just that their work is broader than just new gadgets, though if you're interested in that then Kinect is an example of a product refined at MSR, plus you have the upcoming HoloLens.

For a broader understanding of what MSR does, check out their work on quantum computing ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/research-areas/quantum-c... ) and functional programming (Microsoft Research Cambridge and MSR-Inria are good places to look into for this). That's just the tip of the iceberg, Microsoft plows plenty of resources into R&D. The fact they invest in fundamental research isn't something to attack, it's something to celebrate, not all research needs to result in a tangible product.
I think you might be missing the point. If MORE people cared about not dying, we might actually be able to find a solution that lets us live longer (if not indefinitely).

Instead, people resign themselves to the "inevitable", and nobody even really tries.

Imagine if you could have your 30 year old level of health and brainpower for 1,000 years. Imagine what someone like that could accomplish. Imagine how much differently we would approach reality, if that was possible?

Instead, people hit middle-age, and it's all down-hill from there. Their brains become brittle, and over time, they forget the vast majority of what they have learned, until they become borderline useless and die in misery.

Why AREN'T you more angry about that fact? Why AREN'T you doing everything in your power to change it??? Immortality is the ONLY thing that should matter, or else everything you do in life is theoretically pointless.
Exactly on all that you just said. There are places but they are hard to find. The intersection of "looking for a generalist" and "doing interesting and/or meaningful work" is tiny.
dream of a DOD contractor. Short term of service (thus launching a ship a replacement for it has to be started to be built immediately) with constant maintenance during it. Looking at the flight test results, i suspect that pykrete has made its way as a super secret core material inside composite pieces of F-35.
I do now but I didn't a few years ago. Someone bought me a Tassimo. I feel sick if I drink coffee too late when I wake up.
Order-handling companies pay for "dumb"
flow. Vanguard can reduce their outright trading costs to negative by being as dumb about it as possible, and then use these negative costs to artificially lower their reported fees.

Just because Vanguard claims to be smart about it, doesn't mean necessarily they actually are incentivized to be smart about it or actually are in practice. People can still judge them by how close they track the index, but that is reported separately from fees, which are all a lot of current and future retirees look at after having fees fees fees drilled into their heads. And the indexes themselves take a hit, so you need to adjust for that with a much more complicated measure.

They can effectively launder bad (or even good) tracking of the index into lower reported fees, by letting the order handlers profit on the inanity (and kickback via order-flow payments), allowing the fund managers to give themselves higher compensation without commiserate alarming fees.

To what extent, if any, do they actually do this? Do they report their income from paid order-flow in the fund prospectuses? Do they break it out by the managed funds, vs retail flow from their clients? Do they get major concessions to their retail trading costs in tacit exchange for being dumb with their etfs?
Futures on FTSE China A50 index trade on Singapore Excbange and are available to US investors via Interactive Brokers (ticker XINA50). They are quite liquid. Have fun!
Yes, I based that on what you put in your bio:

about:	I use this account for things I can't say

Ok, fair enough, you want to keep HN and your personal life separate. And you may be otherwise sincere (at least, you seem to be based on your posts), but that separation makes anything that you post hearsay unless you can back it up externally. You should probably take that into account when trying to bring things from your personal life over into HN.

So perhaps rather than continuing the same pattern of "Randi bad, because I say so", perhaps you can point out somewhere where she's currently failing? I also note that OAPI is more than just Randi, there are several people involved: http://onlineabuseprevention.org/
Interesting. A couple of questions that come to mind:

- Any rough benchmarks vs. TLS? Or even just back-of-the-envelope math/reasoning behind the claim in the opening paragraph: "without the overhead of TLS".

- Instead of generating 24 PRNG bytes for each message to use as the NaCl nonce, why not use the sequence number each message is assigned anyway?
I will leave specific recommendations to others, but I favor http://www.jetpens.com/ for being able to easily buy singles of many different pens and notebooks and try them out for yourself.
What does the GIL have to do with this? All blocking I/O calls release the GIL.
Not really, containers are disposable and images (at least tags) are somewhat less disposable. Containers are singular, malleable units and represent a processes' running state, images are atomic and composable, inert, basically packages.

You wouldn't say that the difference between a live database and its binaries compiled source code is academic, would you?

I agree that it would make more sense if you could dump the image to a flat file with a single verb. I also think docker needs an interface to stop a pull in progress that has stalled or is no longer needed. These are academic concerns, you can submit a pull request.
> Most people consuming cigarettes are doing do because they are addicted

Is that true? How many "social smokers" are there? I ask, because I do not know.
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I am a big fan of SQL myself, but sometimes data doesn't live in a database. (In this case, it looks like his sample data is coming from a JSON API call).

I suppose you could create a database to store the data and then query it, but that might be adding more overall complexity to your system than would be saved by using SQL instead.
See Mad Men, Season 4, Episode 12, "Blowing Smoke".

And then a serious question:

What does it cost CVS to leave the Chamber of Commerce? The CoC is a conservative lobbying group. CVS already operates a 4:1 Republican-leaning lobbying operation. Were there any material benefits to CVS to remain affiliated with the CoC?
I think more people are actually addicted to sugar, but socially we don't recognize that in the same way we recognize alcohol or drug additions.
Not have been getting, but have always been: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html.

The sole criterion for whether a story belongs on HN is: is it intellectually interesting. Breadth is the thing we care most about preserving here. Losing it would be the easiest thing in the world (not least because many don't see its value) and a sure way to dull the community.

Does food writing count? A recipe probably wouldn't, nor food photos à la Tumblr or Yelp. But articles about the history or economics of food, or new techniques in making it, or some unusual social aspect—sure, why not?
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

This is an interesting article.
AFAIU await can only be used with async functions:

async def http_request(url):
# ...

await http_request(u)

If the method I want to use is not an async one, is it possible to dynamically define a lambda ?
I regularly flag pretty much any and all political articles, but this is something that... hey, maybe it's just interesting to people. It's not some lame thing causing boring, trite political flame wars.
It's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
I can get behind the corporate curation of apps, which are essentially just tools. However, the idea that a corporation can curate something like music seems very arrogant to me. Music is art. Even if you cut out the crappy 90% as per Sturgeon's law, the remaining 10% has so much variation that you couldn't possibly pick out "the best" to any measurable degree — especially when you consider the fact that, historically speaking, most of the best (read: most influential) art pushed the boundary of the medium in some way. Maybe it's possible to find the slice of music that most people would enjoy listening to, but that's so music business-y it makes me sick.
Whiteboarding during interviews is a way to filter out people who don't know how to whiteboard during interviews. That is all.

Some of the best and most brilliant programmers I've ever met were horrible at writing code on a whiteboard.
Lack of understanding of floating point numbers is one of the most persistent and pervasive problems in programming. Just look at Stack Overflow on any given day. I've also helped co-workers more times than I can count on problems that stem from not understanding how floats work.
Python is used in a vast amount of scientific codes. I do a very significant chunk of my work in Python. And heck, I reach to C++ to do the pre/post processing, believe it or not, the inverse of what you suspected.
It's pretty silly to suggest that the GOP is an enemy of small to medium businesses, since to a demographic first approximation, virtually every small-medium business owner is a Republican.

The CoC is shady, like you said. And it supports the GOP. It is not itself the GOP.
Austerity Has Failed: An Open Letter from Piketty to Angela Merkel
Could you elaborate or provide more reference materials on "dumb" flow?
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> A big part of the blame for this mess rests on the shoulders of the chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel herself. Her statement that “if the euro fails, Europe fails” was understood by Athens as a carte blanche

Not really, they know she is lying. She had promised the German taxpayer that there would be no costs bailing out Greece. She falsely claimed the debt was sustainable. She promoted a bail out program that virtually destroyed the Greek economy and refuses to take responsibility for it. Talks about Greek claims and democratic vote and how it is against European peoples pretty much ignoring the humanitarian crisis. She sheds crocodile tears for elderly waiting for 60€ daily at the ATMs while monthly assistance for 400euro pensions was erased with a red pen. Knows exactly what austerity measures she wants and when she was presented with any program that does not include those measures "it is not clear enough bring another one".
And when Greeks can't there is a "breach of trust"
The journalist from Die Zeit simply promotes the usual rhetoric.

But politically she is right. I have noticed a constant attack against her in German recently but for all the wrong reasons.
Probably posted based on the earlier post today about Boston's snow problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9842887

Basically, their snow is dirty enough that there's still a 12 foot pile of the stuff.
CVS is playing catch-up on walk-in clinics with Walgreens, which still stocks cigarettes.
If someone doesn't know what IEEE 754 is - it's "a technical standard for floating-point computation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point
'Learn by doing' - did you go to Cal Poly?
The first link is basically an endorsement for Geico: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/message.html
Pen: Jinhao X750 ($10) is a no-brainer. Or the Platinum Carbon desk pen ($12) if you like really thin lines.

Notebooks: Rhodia, Clairefontaine, Leuchtturm1917, or equivalent quality. Should be around $15 depending on size. Moleskines are no-go (ink bleeds through page)

Ink: Private Reserve is a nice starting point. I am particularly fond of their foam green. $11 for a 66ml bottle.

Shop: I really like Goulet Pens. Good service, amazingly careful packaging.

Source: personal experience and preference.
I was going to try Oberon Native again (for the first time since 1996) after getting 9Front to work VMWare Fusion but couldn't find the installer images. I went to the following site:

http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/downloads/index

but the download links don't work. Does anyone know where it should be?
The "amazing designer" is simply the emergent nature of the universe itself, combined with iterative evolution.
I've not read Cho but in 2011 trial none of the control group given placebos experienced relief against most of those given the drug. That seems like not much of a placebo response to me.
Indeed - The Economist is a great contrarian signal. A month ago they ran a story about how well the Chinese market was doing.

In my experience, they either latch on too late, or way too early.
Why is finance so complex? (2011)
I was talking about reality, not my opinions about reality. Real reality, if I must qualify it. Where logic and reality part ways, reality wins. China may make all the rules it likes, but reality stays real.

If you are dismissive of reality's impact on, ah, reality, well, I appreciate your candor, but please don't be surprised that I just mentally dropped your credibility score to zero.
As a PBM, they might actually be making some money back by not supporting tobacco products as well. If the anti-tobacco stance gets an extra health plan or insurer to sign with Caremark, the increased revenue from scripts, and potential added trips from customers, can make up for losses in tobacco-related revenue.

Might also help them position themselves to shift more and more towards being a credible health care service provider.
I am a proponent of moving as much complex logic away from SQL and into the application layer as possible. I'm not talking about ordering and grouping, but truly complex business logic. I have seen tremendous benefits over the years in following this pattern where applicable.

To name a few:

[0] Application code is much easier to test. This is by far the biggest factor. I recently rewrote a legacy application that was mostly driven by stored procedures hundreds of lines long, to a service driven application with database interaction limited to lookups and saves. We were able to wrap hundreds of automated tests around that process. The confidence we gained and freedom to improve upon it down the road was unbelievable.

[1] High level application code is much easier to read and understand than really complex SQL; and therefore is much easier to support. This is extremely important when you have a large team of developers. Of course, bad code is bad code, whether it's in the application or database, however I find this rule is still generally true.

[2] Depending on your database vendor, the application layer is usually much cheaper to scale horizontally. In the enterprise, I've worked mostly with SQL Server and there is no comparison in the licensing cost involved in standing up a new database server vs an application server.

Of course, this is not always the case but from my experience this approach has made the most sense.
One of the cruelest ironies of the post-recession hiring environment has been how companies are much more interested in hiring those who are already employed.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/12/17/us-markets-dumb-mo...

It is basically order flow that often blindly takes liquidity. Traders pay to get it, execute it prop at the best price (though they also can dump straight to the market without taking it prop if it isn't behaving dumb enough). Then they resell the position on the market at a more deliberate pace, providing liquidity (which lets them capture the spread, and lets them earn kickbacks from exchanges that pay for liquidity). Or they match the positions against future dumb flow coming in on the other side.
> You wish poverty on millions? You wish social unrest? You wish the perpetuation of an unjust financial state of affairs then.

I don't wish poverty on millions (or even on one). I don't wish social unrest. But I also don't wish to force the rest of Europe to keep throwing money into a sinkhole. That would also be to "wish the perpetuation of an unjust financial state of affairs".

Greece needs more than just an infusion of money. It needs more than just debt forgiveness. It needs a transformation of its society, government, and politics. Only Greece can do those things - the EU can't do it for them. Currently, to this outsider, it looks like Greece refuses to even try to do so. But they complain about the cruel Europeans who will let Greek children starve in the streets. Well, it seems to me that Europe is much more willing to help those who at least try to help themselves.

Sorry if this seems heartless. As I said, I am an outsider - not just to Greece, but to Europe. This is my perception from afar. But even with the best will in the world, it appears to me that no outsider can really do much to help Greece until Greece is willing to see that it must change.
Very good point, but the problem of this approach is not that it doesn't work, that things are not possible. It's The conditions under which it is possible, and the undesirable effects.

In other words, it's a naïve approach.

For example, take the Digital copyright problem in the music industry. Almost anyone would agree musicians should get paid; so legislators feel they have to 'solve it'. And indeed legislators can 'solve it' using just that naive approach: make it illegal, put a huge fine to it. So when you download a music, you will consider the risk of getting caught. The issue then is obvious: if you only legislate, the chance of getting caught will be very low, so most people won't care. But if you set the fine/punishment high enough, it's pretty much a given people will start being careful. But how much is enough? If you have a 1 in a million chance of getting caught this has to be astronomically large: if people simply thought about expected value (we don't exactly, just to illustrate), you'd need to charge millions per infringement. It's a totally unreasonable punishment, basically a terrible system. This is (an example of) why symptomatic legislation/treatment often doesn't work: it's grossly ineffective/inefficient, it's usually best (but way more complex/demanding) to address the root causes.

So the best solution to terrorism/criminal activity is obviously not a surveillance state, but unfortunately it works to an extent. I feel legislators don't have at their disposal enough tools to handle the complexity of better solutions. It would be good if we could involve academia/industry way sooner in direct collaboration with legislators, reaching effective solutions -- I feel science is indispensable in finding them for most complex cases.
I completely agree, but I think that political agency also involves an acceptance of responsibility. To suggest that populations are helpless against governments that promptly borrow them into penury is as much magical thinking as the idea that you can just cut your way to prosperity. In reality you don't usually see people running out into the street to protest additional government borrowing. (Please note that I think the Greek crisis is a lot more complex than a few numbers on a national balance sheet, but I don't see any point in trying to re-summarize it in every single comment.)
Googling brings up a ton of hits for "linux + T430" and these two pages seem to indicate that it should mostly work:

http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_thinkpad_t430
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Isn't an art museum a business curating art?
Yes, one by Humble. 2010. Still fantastic. Timeless.
I'd generally recommend the Pilot Metropolitan over the X750, I feel as if the Metro is a "surer bet" when it comes to QA, and it's only around five bucks more. Plus the Metro comes in fine and medium nibs so you have a bit more choice there.

Source: I have $100+ pens but I'm using a Metropolitan literally right now.
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What if they are planning to arrange their business profit motives around what they care about? If they are, you might be able to find something to be cynical about, but actually they might have structured their business in concert with their values.
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I appreciate the reply, I have had a few Moleskines but the pages seemed relatively thin, is that your reason for them being a no go?
input to response time is very important for VR

'I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?' -John Carmack [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/193480622533120001
This is one thing Apple really 'got right' in iOS. You can especially see it in any app that allows you to zoom or pan the view. If you change the perspective, it will always redraw the screen according to your input. Sometimes it has to fill in the new area with a temporary texture while it runs off to load the right one, but the response is instantaneous.

As an Android user, this is one of my biggest gripes. Android just hasn't figured this out, yet, or doesn't care.
> So we are possibly actively destroying a pillar of our culture as we are devaluing marriage.

And how are we doing that exactly?
http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon that somebody linked to shows that the animation does indeed work in the Linux version of Firefox. Weird that I've never seen one before, but now that I've seen it, I don't want to see another.
Let's not forget my favorite part of this blog, the non-sequitur about child support that makes it into almost every single post.
Congrats on your book! As a cofounder of Leanpub, I'm really happy that you enjoyed using our platform :) And yes, you can sell your Leanpub books wherever you want -- at Leanpub, authors own their work.

Thanks for the suggestion regarding pre-orders. At some point we'll probably add this. It would have to coincide with our also adding store credit, so that we can give refunds to purchases that are older than 45 days in store credit, etc. (Right now we have a 100% "happiness guarantee" where readers can get a refund with 2 clicks, but this only works for 60 days, so we set our refund policy to be 45 days.)
We've made a habit of punting on latency, and not just in HID.

It appears to be a hard habit to break.