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There's a lot to it.

By writing your thoughts down, asking the book questions, and sorting the author's points you are keeping yourself focused and cementing the thoughts into your memory.

You'll get better at coming up with mnemonics on the fly, sorting out bad books, and referencing books later down the road.

It's a skill that takes dedication and time to learn, don't discount it.
Why even bother using a script tag if you're just going to eval the text later? Just make it a text file so you don't have to worry about stripping or escaping comments.
Well, supposedly there's some bug in WebKit on the iPhone that causes some or all JavaScript to be parsed twice. That probably has something to do with it...
It is just political posturing, not an oversight
Now, interestingly, Wolfram Alpha does not agree with you:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=xy/y+where+y%3D0+and+x+...
Necessary, no. Most of the functionality has been around for a while, it's the polishing, redesigns and extra things that took the extra time.

To clarify we have not been in full-time active development for 2 years. I was still a full-time student the first year, so myself and cofounder were only able to work here and there, mostly weekends. This year I became the first full-time employee.

btw - I saw your SeatGeek launch @ TC50, grats!
I think the proper name for the HTML5 feature they're using is the "application cache", which caches all the files listed in the manifest etc.
Someone took too far the "DRM free" slogan.
Economic realism would do more than just satisfy the nitpicking nerds, too. It would have real artistic value in the form of more verisimilitude in the setting and social atmosphere. I suspect it would affect even economically illiterate readers/viewers, if only on a subconscious level.

For example, something that bugged me about the re-imagined "Battlestar Galatica" series was that a group of only 38,000 survivors, apparently with no more automation technology than the real world, and under constant military threat, have a humming specialized economy. It includes arms manufacturing, ore processing, and even illegal niche industries like child prostitution. It can do these things in addition to maintaining and operating a fleet of sophisticated spacecraft, running intensive military operations, and feeding, clothing, and sheltering everyone. It usually feels more like a population of half a million than 38,000.

But some of the episodes feature shortages of labor or resources, and I like it when this happens. It seems more real. It's easier to empathize with the characters because I can better feel the bleakness of their situation and their challenges seem less contrived.
Right now, I'd say we already have exactly the right number of clever doctors, and far too many clever lawyers.
"Working hard and getting good grades might just mean that you want to get as much out of the experience as possible."

Ha. I've been in college six and a half years (I know, nothing I should brag about) and this is false on its face. If you want to get as much out of the college experience as possible, even in terms of pure academic learning, you're not gonna maximize GPA. Sorry. I'd rather lose some grade points because I half-assed some busywork than piss away time I could spend pouring myself into something deep and interesting.

GPA is a measure of how well you did what your professors wanted you to do. A lot of professors want you to do something clever and smart, but a lot of professors want you to waste your time on pointless time-wasting exercises to learn something you already know.
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Citation? Any links to a satellite feed community forum in which they've discussed receiving a predator drone feed?
Potter isn't a literary masterpiece, but it is solidly written. Rowling managed to write some really complex and interesting characters, which is difficult for any writer and is often missing in Fantasy.

There's a big division between popular writing and literary writing, and people who write the latter can get up their own asses a bit sometimes about popular authors. But they still recognize that the popular authors often really do have skill.

It reminds me of a Jazz musician I was speaking with a bit ago. We got on the subject of Brittney Spears, and he said that he doesn't like her style of music but he acknowledges that she does takes a lot of skill, and that a lot of people try to imitate her and fail.

What literary people can't fathom isn't the success of Rowling (or King or Crichton etc). What they can't fathom is the success of Dan Brown, a man who seems to lack any discernible trace of talent.
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Nice. I think there's definitely room for a notebook like this outside of just Sage. The real time collaboration you mentioned sounds like a killer feature, too.
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More valuable than all that is the fact that Yelp is the de-facto real-world review site. Its brand is powerful, about as powerful as YouTube's was when Google bought them.
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While it's momentarily surprising that the video feeds aren't encrypted, remember that the lead time on this type of equipment is often measured in decades. The drones deployed right now were probably designed in the early 90s, using early 90s computers.

No video feed back then was encrypted --- military or otherwise --- because the computers with the power even to digitize video in real time, let alone digitize it and then encrypt the digital stream, would have been huge.

It was a common selling point for satellite receivers back then that you could buy them and use them to watch the raw feed of just about everything being broadcast, because it was all analog streams being relayed in the clear. There's actually a pretty good movie floating around the internet called "Feed," [1] made by a guy recording satellite feeds of the 1992 election coverage.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104244/
The Fed began expanding the M3 monetary supply at a historically unprecedented rate in the 80s, and has become more and more aggressive with this policy over time. The entire point of this policy is to stimulate business by encouraging spending, make credit more attractive because the value of debt loses value over time due to inflation, and discourage saving. As consumers spend more, businesses make more, sending signals to the job market that getting into business and getting an MBA is a really good idea because you make more money. So that's exactly what people have done. Now that the American consumer is tapped out, broke, and unable to take on any more credit, obviously businesses are going to do poorly because their goods aren't being purchased, and they certainly can't afford to hire any more expensive MBAs. Do you agree?

A growing and productive world workforce does lead to additional production/wealth creation, and I do think this is conducive to business, but I don't think it's the significant factor explaining the current glut in the job market for people with MBAs in the United States.

The population in China is still expanding, workforce is growing, and GDP is still booming, so if this were the driving force fueling the demand for MBAs from America then that demand should still be there.
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There are a lot of sellers there who either see it as pure fun or simply discount their time heavily, and as a result many items are an incredible deal.

Because of those people I was assuming almost no one was pulling a living wage, but it's interesting to see those 6 figure numbers.
Makes sense, but what if it's the kind of street that doesn't have driveways? I always wonder why the bicyclists ride on the road, apparently taking serious risks, when the sidewalk is right there and almost entirely empty, as is usually the case in suburbia.
I think the commenter was pointing out the lack of depth in the article, the author more-or-less just skimmed the subject.

I completely agree with what you've said, it's a process I came to on my own over the course of my self education. Mnemonics, closed-eye review of material, note taking, and spaced repetition of important memorizable information (which takes a discerning eye to determine) are the key skills and habits that make my readings more efficient and effective.
If you can't find a way to deal with a pay cut, you're probably not cut out to be a manager.

If you're spending 100% of your income then you're not good at planning ahead.

If you can't find things to cut in your personal budget, you'll suck at managing the company's budget.

And if you can't talk your wife into making do with less, you're not persuasive enough to handle employees.
If this actually works, its an amazing achievement. This is more or less exactly how someone would give you directions in India.
Amazing!!
Please. There's enough bullshit in the world to outlast oil, water and sunlight. A few less MBAs, at best, means that some of that bullshit will have to find real jobs and will make slightly less money. More environmental engineers, now that would be something to celebrate.
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Don't mistake what I mean here, General Atomics should be embarassed about this whole entire ordeal...

But.

Is it really necessary that they encrypt the video streams? The people these aircraft are surveiling, for the most part, know of the plane's presence. Are they really gaining THAT much of an advantage of being able to see their own position?

Beyond that--not to go into full tinfoil-hat mode, but maybe this non-encryption is intentional? Letting the surveilled see SOME of the footage, then playing LOTS AND LOTS more would only serve to confuse/frighten them.
A year or two ago, there were plenty of cities where Citysearch was more dominant than Yelp. I suspect this is still the case.
> "This actually means that Apple doesn't want to list VLC on apple.com/downloads," he told us via email, "We don't know why. That's all."

Sounds like a legal/IP thing. Is there anything that ships with VLC that fits that bill?
I prefer Bank-To-Bank transactions.
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Maybe in the bay area. I'd never heard of yelp until I visited the area.
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I have no opinion about energy drinks, but I think I can explain why Science Fiction and comics are more popular among geeks than general population. Sci-Fi and comic books are two examples of fields of art where the social perception is below the real value of the art. Science Fiction novels are no worse than mainstream contemporary fiction. (One could even argue that SF is now in its golden age, like say romantic poetry was in 200 years ago.) But the stereotypical notion is that SF is junk without artistic value. Similarly for comics.

Geeks have below average ability to conform with social norms and expectations. That's pretty much a definition of a geek. Therefore, a geek is more likely to enjoy a good novel which belongs to a genre without prestige. A person more receptive towards social expectations may be repelled from the same novel because they're aware of the lack of respect associated with the genre.
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Sure, a corporation might be insane, irrational, myopically short-sighted, or so dysfunctional that the management and employees pursue their own short-term enrichment at the expense of the shareholders' long-term assets.

But these things, when they happen, are recognized as problems and eventually corrected -- at least enough so that most large corporations don't malfunction in asset-obliterating ways. (Even if you think corporations amorally destroy others assets via negative externalities, they do a reasonable job of protecting their own assets -- so much so that even labor unions and left-wing wealthy people keep most of their wealth in corporate shares.)

That is, corporations malfunction plenty, but not often catastrophically, and they remain pretty good at holding and efficiently exploiting assets without destroying them.

Compare that to the case of an unowned, depletable commons that's exploited my many individuals and corporations. If you think one corporation could tend to poor management, then the 'commons' case has no hope: every participant, including amongst them flawed corporations with short-sighted managers, can only profit by racing others to use the pool before it's inevitably gone.

A government or regulatory agency could theoretically act the part of a single rational long-term-perspective owner -- but those multiparty hierarchical institutions have the same flaws you've pointed out in corporations. In my observations, they're even worse -- larger, with responsibility even more diffuse, and the 'shareholders' even more distracted and unable to hold staff accountable for egregious failures to protect stewarded assets.

I'm far from certain monopoly ownership would work but it needs to be compared against what's actually happening, and against what's actually possible with unowned/government-driven approaches. It's not enough to just note, corporations sometimes malfunction and ownership might also result in overfishing.
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I am wondering if we don't have a bit of an overreaction to this story here. The presence of the drones is not a secret, nor are their locations.

It wasn't until the recent upgrade of Air Force 1 that the communications between ground and the president's airplane were encrypted. Anyone with a short wave radio could listen in.

What exactly is the risk that they are reading this?
Makes sense. Congrats on the launch--the widget looks great. Whenever I get around to starting a personal blog, I'll be sure to use it.
I think most people tend to forget that the primary purpose of school is to learn - not to get good grades.

Objectively, learning C or reading Knuth is a better use of my time than doing some teacher's bullshit busy-work-so-their-class-seems-more-important homework assignment. If I truly and absolutely was looking out for my own education, I would take the zero and study on my own.

Unfortunately colleges seem to put stock in a student's GPA and I have to waste my time on useless bullshit.
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They only considered the contest cheap because doing the equivalent within the company would be expensive, take forever and possibly not produce anything usable. The contest, by paying out only under certain conditions, guaranteed a usable result and thousands of people working on it. So it was much cheaper than the alternative in more ways than just financially. It was a brilliant idea IMO. Releasing the data without passing on liability of some kind, maybe not so brilliant.
I wonder what women think of working at a place like Pixar. From the photos I've seen, the workspaces are often decorated in very whimsical ways that aren't quite 'geeky', but do border on being stereotypically geeky. Yet to me (as a guy), Pixar looks like awesome place to work.
I don't understand the down vote at all - every single one of these points is true.

It sounds so trivial, but actually applying it is the difference.
I'm in Boston and I agree, Yelp is pretty much the de-facto real world review site.
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Don't be evil is very difficult for a publicly held corporation. Their true mission, despite any noble intentions of their founders, is to increase value to the shareholders.

For me the first, "that sounds kinda evil" moment was the compliance with gov't censorship (and possibly private data sharing) in countries with poor human rights records. As someone stated, MS (and Yahoo) do the same, but it's still kind of sad.
I live in Bangalore and I have always found that asking Google Maps is way better than asking locals. This tweak is a real bonus improvement over that.
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I have seen left-wingers pull similar tactics, it isn't an exclusively right-wing tactic. I've likely only been through a fraction of the national elections that others on here have, I was only stating cases where I've exclusively seen the tactics (two conservative campaigns in the UK that both times helped plant Tony Blair in the PM seat, similarly I've seen the conservative campaigns for Canada that have ineffectively gained Stephen Harper seats by reducing opposition votes, but despite several elections hasn't gained him a majority and he keeps with the same tactics, and I was in Canada during the latest US elections and saw similar tactics being performed on a national scale, I have however see democratic senators and governors pulling similar tactics on channels broadcast in Ontario)

I didn't mean to say this was an exclusively right-wing tactic by any means, I believe it's a moronic strategy and I've largely seen it performed by right-wing candidates who have high voter-loyalty, but I'm sure left-wingers with high voter-loyalty pull similar tactics when they can. I dislike bringing politics to HN, and that wasn't my intent, it was meant as an allegory for product marketing as essentially that's all politics is doing, advertising a 'candidate' product.

Insulting your opponent only goes so far, and I know here in Canada the conservative campaign didn't drive up their votes (I believe on average they lost votes over last year, but gained in percentages) it did however drive down their opponents. Yet it actually delivered decisive control of government to the smaller parties like the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP who can cause a majority vote for anyone they side with.

For example, if Apple enters the netbook market it can't follow the same advert campaign against Windows as Chrome OS will present a decisive third party that, like the NDP were pulling in the recent vote in Canada, can play the "well we don't suck, and we're not a complete ass" card of being 'the good guy'.

I couldn't think of a better allegory for not insulting your opponent, I suppose the simplest reasoning is this: It's childish, and you're allegedly an adult.
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You are assuming everyone on the ground is Taliban. In Afghanistan, besides the Taliban, Afghan government, regional warlords and drug traffickers, there are at least tens of intelligence agencies watching America wage war, and they're taking notes.

A dedicated foreign-intelligence adversary can at a minimum wikileak pirate footage of American drones they have setup to bomb funerals and weddings. The propaganda value of that is huge.

Al-Qaeda themselves might be interested in this footage. They would want to see how the Americans wage remote-controlled Aerial warfare, and the footage helps them look for clues on how to best fight the drones in their other/future encounters with the U.S. in other theaters.

In Afghanistan we have other intelligence agencies helping us; British, Saudi, Israeli, Egyptian, Pakistani, neighboring ex-Soviet Republics, etc. While our interests overlap for now, you can bet that every one of them has their own national interests in mind and they're all eager to swipe some knowledge from us while we're "friends". The biggest US/Soviet intelligence swap and counter-influence actually happened during their alliance against Germany. And you can bet that we ourselves spy on our friends as well, and constantly monitor and anticipate their capabilities (sometimes even volunteer to build these capabilities, because arming someone yourself and training them goes along way towards keeping them under your surveillance; why spy when you can just read your own export-lists?)
The directions used to illustrate the improvements would have been more interesting if all were between the same points.
You can not hear and see the drones. That is what makes them such an effective weapon.
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Ah. "Adaptable."
I guess you haven't developed network mobile apps. Unfortunately it is still a space where every byte counts.
I really like Yelp and I think it's a great service, but I don't contribute because of the complete lack of data portability. Even their RSS feeds are heavily truncated. I'd contribute significantly if this changed. For instance, automatically posting my Yelp reviews to my blog would be a big incentive.
I wonder if the decline in MBA's and the associated value placed on them directly correlates to the fact that law school applications are surging. I seems to me that Law may be a close second for someone considering an MBA, I know Law is a close second for those who opt not to go to Med school.
I was imagining, "But not the relevant type of physicist." Excellent new acronym.
>father would probably shut me up in a C++ shop

Seriously what is it with people and picking on C++?
So what you are saying is Harry Potter is not a masterpiece, but it is not crap either. Therefore it is good.

Sure, HP is great for kids. For adults, you have to be an idiot. I know it is popular these days to never grow up, and reading HP is just an extension of this.
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Scare mongering - but well done scare mongering.
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Not a fair representation of Google's operations.
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From your link I ended up reading a lot of Ray Peat's content and it is very very dense. There are so many levels of different interactions he describes that my instinct is to run away screaming and want to repeat the mantra: just eat what the oldest living people eat, lots of vegetables, many root vegetables, and a little fish and a bit of meat.

I was particularly intrigued by his discussion of how different fats impair or are required for mitochondrial functioning, but I barely understood it.