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Then they have no excuse. If apple is able to get it after years of research they should be there with a dozen iphones, a stopwatch and measuring tape. Apple has already done the hard part and sent the benchmark.
It wasn't exactly your finest hour.

That said, I (perhaps naively) assume that the HN community is strong enough to self heal sans permaban - the intent of flag, innit?
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The only issue with assisted-suicide, is at what point does the line get drawn between assisted-suicide and murder. If we do 'make it legal' I think there needs to be some clear definition in this area so that it doesn't end up too grey (i.e. the method of assisted-suicide has to make it clear that the person wanted it; legal documents must be signed or something similar).

Also the question of "What happens if someone changes their mind at the last minute" needs to be answered or at least have some sort of legal context to it. I haven't spent a huge amount of time pondering the issue, but the opening of legal loopholes is the only thing that I could possibly see blocking this.

Well, I guess the other thing might be some sort of required counselling to prevent impulsive emo teens (or similar) from using such a thing (i.e. make sure that people are in a rational frame of mind when making the decision, not just running off to die because of a break-up).
I am trying to figure out the best recommendation engine available? I am looking at Drupal's Content Recommendation Engine Module and Solr Search for http://drupal.org/project/cre http://drupal.org/project/solr it depends on the choices that are being made on the interface...and i thought would ask Hacker News their thoughts?
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> I think prosecution has never happened, but people have certainly been arrested on returning to the country.

How would they know why you left/re-entered the country unless you told them? Do the UK authorities track anyone the enters/exits a Dignitas facility?
Listen to his Richard Dimbleby Lecture to understand his viewpoint http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qmfgn. There are text versions and recordings floating around. Here's a shortened one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/feb/02/terry-pratchet...
Is this a "dating site" for really, really shy people who already know each other? Why not just ask, if the your crush wants to see a movie with you or not? You'll have to talk to her/him sooner or later.
I read Isaacson's Kissinger biography - an excellent biographer; a well sourced and written book. Expect a real tome.
There is one case in which I don't know how to do away without extraneous presentation divs: I want a 2-columns layout where the left column is written after the right column in my source code. Good for my eye (navigation on the left) and for search engines and text based browsers (relevant text first).

Right now, my div structure looks like this:

<body>
<header />
<div-hackw>
<div-hack1>
<div-hack2> <article /> </div-hack2>
<nav /> -- written after, displayed on the left
<div-hackw>
<footer />
<body>

http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/css/style.css

http://www.loup-vaillant.fr

inspired from http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/ultimate-2-column-left-me... (down right now).

Header, footer, nav, and article are okay (they eventually will be actual html5 tags). Hakcw, hack1 and hack2, however, are ugly. Does anyone know of a way to ditch them ?
As far as I got, they had some good points (i.e this race to the bottom is going to impact the consumers themselves at some point), but I think it's part of a bigger overall issue and is probably better (and less frustratingly) covered by e.g. "The Walmart Effect".
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I clicked on the thing that stood out which was the skip button. As I did, some webpage appeared in the grey frame but it was too late.

Maybe rephrase it to "on the following screenshot, click on the things that stand out"?
oh ok you meant content recommendation engine to provide links to other relevant articles. The ideal use for solr would be as a faceted search engine, though you can use it as a recommendation engine with some hackery. But if you are looking for a plug and play recommendation engine that is built to recommend other relevant articles I guess the first one should be more relevant.
In German, the notion of education (Bildung) is distinguished from training (Ausbildung). It seems to me that in English these two concepts are often intermingled and that, for historical reasons, a concept of education as Bildung is missing.

Anyway, the article is IMHO a weird mix of extreme right and left wing point of views. I particularly liked the fact that a Sir speaks in favour of an agricultural education system.
I recall reading a study about happiness somewhere years ago [1] that showed people's happiness generally doesn't change that much. It reacts temporarily to positive/negative effects but then tends to go back where it was.

[1] I think it was probably a critique of this article: http://www.nber.org/papers/w10499
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They're forced to depend on reader information because their advertisers demand it, and advertisers are where almost all of their revenue comes from. They only really charge you for the subscription because their advertisers would revolt otherwise -- it'd artificially inflate their perceived mindshare. Newsstand sales (which the Apple sales would be counted as) currently make them meager profits, are normally mostly pulped, and don't count towards the demographic data that actually pays for shit.

The analogy to music is bullshit -- Music publishers never had this direct demographic data, and don't sell ads based on it (product placement in pop music notwithstanding).
That information doesn't make sense for music companies because music companies don't give away their product and sell their readership to advertisers.

Newspaper subscriptions subsidize the cost of the product, but the news is just a loss leader. Newspaper publishers rely on selling their readers to advertisers. Without knowing exactly what that readership base consists of, they would have a harder time selling to advertisers, who wouldn't know what they're getting for their money.
another video http://vimeo.com/2229299
CalTrain (San Jose to San Francisco) kind of works like this. Sometimes tickets are checked, sometimes they aren't.
Absolutely untrue. The X server is an orthogonal issue to UI design. The real problem is that a lot of Linux apps still have GUIs designed by programmers rather than UI designers.
Your "case exhaustion" criticism disappears when you generalise the puzzle to more than three gods:

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~te233/maths/puzzles/evenharder.htm...
I certainly don't advocation allowing a healthy person to end their life because they have a chance at things getting better.

This is gambling with other people's lives. If such a healthy person is forced to stay alive, things might never actually get better, and they will have suffered needlessly by staying alive. (And if things do get better, that is merely relief from suffering.)

On the other hand, if such a healthy person is allowed to end their life, that's all there is to it. They'll never regret it.

Besides, if you deny people professional help with ending their lives, they will try to get the job done themselves, often with bad results.
I generalised this puzzle to any number of gods:

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~te233/maths/puzzles/evenharder.htm...
"All these publishers need to do is focus on creating a quality product first, and who is buying it second."

Whether or not a publication is quality is in part a function of its readership demographics. US Weekly is a quality product for a subset of people, and The Economist is a quality product for a (mutually exclusive?) different subset.

The publishers need this data in order to determine the best way to make their product valuable for their readers. Without the data, it's like shooting in the dark.
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The magazine publishers will just end up using tracking links on not just the ads but the content too. If they use a redirect through a page that has doubleclick tracking pixels and whatnot, they'll claw back some significant demographic data.

If they launch their own apps instead of going through Apple's iBooks, they could fingerprint the hardware, show rotating/targeted ads, and even ask bullshit survey questions too.
The baby has to fit through the hole in the middle of the pelvis. If a women's hips are narrower I would suspect that there is a higher likelihood of her birth canal being narrower meaning less chance of a successful natural birth.

You really have to discount c-sections and such when thinking about 'fertility' since it would stand to reason that a lot of reactions are instinctual.

> I'd like to see the data on the hip-waist ratio indicating higher fertility

You might have trouble with that if you follow my advice and ignore medical 'intervention' like C-sections since in previous years doctors would do a C-section at the drop of a hat (IIRC, the rate used to be 80% whereas now it's around 60%).

[edit] further investigation makes my claims to be a bit 'pie in the sky:' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-section#Incidence

Here is another relevant tidbit I found while investigating:

A previously unexplored reason for the increasing section rate is the
evolution of birth weight and maternal pelvis size. Since the advent of
successful Caesarean birth over the last 150 years, mothers with a small
pelvis and babies with a large birth weight have survived and contributed to
these traits increasing in the population. Even without fears of malpractice,
without maternal obesity and diabetes, and without other widely quoted
factors, the C-section rate will continue to rise simply due to slow changes
in population genetics.
I presume it comes about through reporting the fact that the person has died. 'arrested on returning to the country' probably should have been 'arrested after reporting the suicide and having stated their own whereabouts at the time of death'.

There's an example of it happening here:

http://www.lists.opn.org/pipermail/right-to-die_lists.opn.or...
Facebook has hard limits on friend counts, and not just to piss off twits like Scoble.
It always happens to me that I get lost in long threads on Hacker News that get started from the highest-ranking comment.

In order to be able to easily view the second-ranking (top-level) comment I wrote a small bookmarklet to achieve just that. Enjoy :)
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You're forgetting that if the Euro slides as a result of Greek mismanagement, oil, which is paid in dollars, becomes more expensive, resulting in a lowering of living standards throughout the European union.
For your convenience, here is the source code: http://alexander.kirk.at/js/hackernews-collapsible-threads.j...

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"People who suddenly find themselves with really huge audiences often start writing more cautiously, like politicians."

This happens way to much, and it causes an echo-chamber of mediocre ideas to be propagated across the web. This is why I don't always trust the wisdom of crowds. Just because 10,000 retweeted an article, doesn't make it interesting. The same goes if X thousand people bought a book. But they'll get exposure, and more reads/sales.

Another area where the "wisdom of crowds" can perform poorly is in democracy, for example where a majority takes rights away from some other minority.
It's a bit buggy if you collaps a child before collapsing the parent, and then expand the parent again
I know, see the "PS" in the blog post. For now, I think it's probably not worth the trouble fixing that.
There was an ISP in the first floor of my building in Moscow, and you got broadband delivered by ethernet run up the stairwells. There was a sign in the stairwell offering a reward for turning in whoever kept cutting the ethernet wires. The gang of thugs that lived in the stairwell, would - in between using the stairs as a urinal and conducting brutal robberies - slash these wires regularly.

The ISP couldn't really call the police, because freedom in Moscow is equivalent to avoiding the police, and they were a shoestring operation without enough for bribes. Not that the police would investigate even if you bribed them, they'd more like pick a few scapegoats and beat them up or torture them.

So my internet went out frequently. They fixed it as fast as they could. It wasn't bad internet considering.

I can't imagine running a business in that environment.
FYI, if you remember, that chatroom for RA2 was in webchat.com #ra2

People like ASFM, Mr. President, others still go to that room.
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I think his assumption is that since it's happened with steam engines and industrial looms, it'll happen again with robots and the internet?

Not really, he presents a general argument (though he uses a specific example). Basically:

Automation --> Efficiency --> More Income Somewhere --> More Jobs

You can argue that he is wrong, but he isn't relying solely on history to prove his point, he has a model in mind.
This is just a confirmation/refinement of something known for a very long time. I just finished reading http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Desire-Revised-4/dp/04650080... , if you're interested in such stuff it's a really good book. Most of human "mating behaviour" is understood to a pretty amazing degree if you read the right things. Doesn't make actual mating any easier :p but it puts a lot of perspective into it.
I've written a greasemonkey script that does the same thing. Unfortunately the test page I used didn't have things like downvoted comments and a few edge cases that caused it to fail. It would be much easier if comments were given a unique class name or id.
That seems to assume a (almost) simultaneous switch from manual to automatic. In reality, it would probably be done as a small test case to see how well it works and be expanded slowly. A strike during this process can still be damaging.
Plus the Medicare and Social security financing debt, which, in a beautiful coup of financial engineering, is counted separately.
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I think most news.yc users overestimate the value of voting. It's in your face, you see the numbers on every item, so it's easy to assume that's the most important thing. It isn't. It's just a guide, that indicates what the users are currently thinking. Sadly, it doesn't work to put too much stock in what they're thinking.

Pretty much every site on the internet where users gather and talk has eventually turned into a cesspool of angry arguments and spite, just before imploding altogether. Clay Shirky wrote the definitive essay on the subject:

http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

So the evidence is pretty clear: leave the users to their own devices, and they'll eventually destroy the community. pg and the editors are well aware of this. So they curb bad behavior, behind the scenes. Many, many users and submissions get banned or killed. If it wasn't that way, this community definitely would not have survived for three-plus-years now.

And if you ask me, pg did absolutely the right thing banning that blog entry. It was exactly the sort of ugly, spiteful thing that sends a community spiraling into its death throes. I'm glad it's gone.
Agreed, apt-get that just works is the "magic sauce" for me. It blows my mind that there are so many packagers out there doing that work, but it's freakin' awesome as a user.
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Uk government debt as a proportion if GDP is more like 55% http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?ID=277

The author if the original piece seems to have several key stats wrong which undermines his arguments.
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These guys are like vintage car nuts. Its like they are reliving the glory days of simple and understandable CPUs. Those days have gone! Building your own CPU is cool, but its a bit of a waste of talent; it does nothing to advance technology is you see what I mean.

Give me a Tesla Roadster.
Not really news or noteworthy; lots of boilerplate legal documents include things like this.

Example anecdote: when I worked at a health-insurance company, our standard policy language included a disclaimer saying that the policy's benefits would not apply to injuries sustained while engaging in armed rebellion against the government. So if you're planning to start a civil war, be prepared to bring your own health care...
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The OS presents a file system API to programs. It isn't necessary for the characteristics of the underlying file system to be directly reflected in the view programs see. It would be perfectly possible for the OS to lie to processes, somewhat like chroot, and present each an idealized and sandboxed view of the sdcard.
I used to think that a shotgun shell to the brainstem was the quickest and most painless way to die - but then I saw a photo of someone who survived it somehow and... well, theres some things that once seen, can't be unseen. Now I would never want to die through a firearm wound - the chances of surviving in a worse state than you were in before is what scares me.
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The goings on in America, where nobody is thankful for having been "saved" and where the economy is suffering the result of a misguided, short-term decision may push the French and German government to say "the Greeks don't deserve a bailout..."

So, a decision local to the US will push the French and German govs to withhold a bailout to Greece??? Also, the article never gives any numbers for Greek government debt held by the US or UK. All this, plus some bad numbers (see the post's comments) make me dismiss most of this.
One way is to do more of your discussion in less-networked communities, and think of ways to support them. If you chat in an IRC channel with 50 regulars, the chances that you'll suddenly become a celebrity with 5000 people lurking in that channel to hear your next word are pretty close to zero. Same with posting in most forums.

I'm not sure IRC or webforums in particular are the future---to a certain extent they're canonical 90s and early 2000s past---but I think looking back towards communities and away from everyone-networked-into-one-huge-community-the-size-of-the-internet might be the way to go.
Here are my ideas for my fork:

1) Prev, pause, and next buttons for quote motion

2) Color swatches for the quotation marks and the words

Both of these would be hidden until mouse movement, a la the new google homepage
I have probably linked to this before on HN, but hey, love is blind: http://www.kilian-leonhardt.de/relaiscomputer/kurz6.htm

It's a 4-bit computer made out of 171 relays. It's got different 8 commands, an input register and 2 CPU registers, one of which is the accumulator. There's memory for 16 instructions (dip switches!). As output it uses LEDs on the registers, so you can for example program it to multiply 2 4-bit numbers, and read out the accumulator at the end. It clicks away at 10 instructions per second.

The guy who built it also made a 1500 relais computer which is much more capable. You truly don't need much to build a computer - just a basic building block and enough ingenuity.
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Minority Report style computing has existed for a long time now. I was doing a research internship a few years ago and was talking to one of the professors about it - the Minority Report interface was based off real interfaces, not the other way around, and these interfaces were rejected as useful means of interacting with a computer because its much too tiring to wave your hands around like that for long periods of time. At least, this is what I was told.

Having said that, I'd love the three projector setup at the start of the video that mrphoebs linked. I also imagine this kind of thing would be awesome for entertainment (more awesome wiimote) and it looks like it could be useful for some specific tasks too.
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"Wealth comes in many forms, including both money and time. Consider that most of the world spends the majority of their time trying to acquire money, viewing it as the key to doing what they want to do. In reality, all they’re doing is spending wealth (in the form of time) only to earn it back in the form of money, so they can then use it to buy back time."

The author assumes that people spend the majority of their time trying to acquire money without any other motive than acquiring money to further other goals. This argument fails when you do what you do not only because it brings you money but also because you like doing it per se. You may want to do the activity and at the same time get an objective measurement of how much wealth you create for other people by getting paid money for it, in some way or another.