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You might be right about that. For curiosity's sake, what do you base your reflex speed on?
Anyone know how scripted apps affect battery life?
I think the real lesson from this is not assuming you are really below average, but be aware of the people around you, of their ideas and ways of thinking, and not dismiss them just because you think you're better than them, even if at first those ideas seems stupid.

It is a really common problem with programming in my opinion. Nearly all the brilliant programmers i've met have a self esteem problem. They think they're really smarter than everybody else and that this makes it ok to dismiss most of other people's ideas, completely missing the fact that they would become a lot smarter if they paid closer attention. Now i guess this isn't a generality, and very relative to my own experience, but, i guess the very fact of doing somethings that almost nobody understands will make that bias grow over time, if you don't pay attention.
What I really enjoyed about this article was hearing how difficult his experience really was -- and you can tell he A) actually knows what he's talking about and B) is still understating the difficulty. I've always assumed that I would "know how to survive off the land" -- my outdoor self-confidence pretty much comes from time backpacking in the Scouts as a kid, and from reading a lot of Heinlein. And I have power tool experience, and I can do physical labor. How hard could it be?

So at the beginning of the article, I was thinking "this seems incredible, I would love to do something like that." In the middle, I was beginning to appreciate how horribly difficult and unpleasant it would actually be. And by the end, I was realizing that if I absolutely had to live off the land on my own, without society to bail me out, I would almost certainly screw something up and starve. I think almost all of us would.

Anyway, you might have already known that. But for some reason this article hit just the right note to make me aware of the arrogance I've always had about how hard surviving via subsistence farming would really be. I'm going to go eat some cereal now and get back to work on the startup in the morning.
You mean the "scheme" of economic survivability?

I didn't read where Grove was proud of how Intel behaved during the '90s. In fact, I got the opposite impression from this article: Grove is writing from the pain and tragedy caused by competing with the Chinese on entirely Chinese terms. Where was the US during those years? Absent. Like a drunk staring into a Vegas slot machine in the wee hours of the morning going through the motions, but not really being there.
The US wins economically as the Chinese middle-class grows. What products do you think they will buy when their wages increase - a knock-off phone in Hong Kong or the iPhone 5 or 6?

The market for American goods increases as the Chinese middle class grows. Chinese consumers don't prefer cheap knockoffs, they buy them because they can't afford the most expensive genuine article. Look at the Chinese market for luxury cars as an example of what will happen with increasing speed: http://magazine.wsj.com/features/the-state-of-luxury/cars/

Granted, US car makers aren't in great shape right now, but other industries can take advantage of the Chinese appetite for luxury consumer goods (electronics, cosmetics etc). The elecronics may be manufactured in China, but the profit margins are mainly with the US companies who designed and developed them.

Savvy US companies can sell their goods in increasing volume due to the larger overall global market. Many US multinationals make large chunks of their profit overseas, yet you don't hear people saying the US should enter into trade wars with South America, Europe or Australia.
I think you're wrong (although I could just be being silly..).

As a mailing list comment points out, the effect of applying the for(c...) part to an n is:

fc(n) = n * (2 ^ n) * (2 ^ (n * (2 ^ n))

So the first iteration of the d variable sets n = fc(n), then the second sets it to fc(fc(n)), which is the answer.

fc(2) = 2 * (2 ^ 2) * (2 ^ (2 * (2 ^ 2)) = 2048

so we want to find

fc(2048) mod (10 ^ 10).

Consider a simpler question, what are the last two digits, i.e.

fc(2048) mod 100

We need one fact here to help, the periodicity of 2 ^ k mod 100 is 20, i.e.

2 ^ (20q + r) = 2 ^ r mod 100

So:

fc(2048) mod 100
= 2048 * (2 ^ 2048) * (2 ^ (2048 * (2 ^ 2048)) =
= 48 * (2 ^ 8) * (2 ^ ( 8 * (2 ^ 8)) [we can reduce all exponents mod 20, same in all below lines]
= 48 * 256 * (2 ^ ( 8 * 256 ) )
= 48 * 56 * (2 ^ 2048)
= 48 * 56 * (2^8)
= 28 * 56 * 56
= 150528
= 28.

So I think that the last two digits should be 28. I don't know what the answer is for the last 10 digits though.
If you think animals are that dumb you are mistaken. We have a cock (= adult male chicken) who is very aggressive, but only against human males. So if chickens can recognize the gender of other species, then I'm pretty sure that a giraffe can recognize the gender of one of its own species.
I think he meant mode, no? Mean, mode, median: http://www.purplemath.com/modules/meanmode.htm
The linked article makes a very fundamental mistake. While ITA Software is the search engine "for many major airlines around the world, as well as travel sites such as Kayak, Orbitz, Hotwire and many others", it is not the "reservation systems" for those same companies. It's the difference between being able to search Hacker News and maintaining the database of users, comments, and stories. In fact, "sites such as Kayak, Orbitz, Hotwire and many others" do not have reservation systems of their own.
How can you tell it's obnoxious if you don't know what it means? Easy to find out, though - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
You might find it inaccurate or otherwise useless but it hardly seems obnoxious.

As to assessing Diaspora's chances of success - it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do, especially in a forum of technology-, product- and business-focused people. It's Hacker News, not Cheerleader News, after all. Just because a reasoned analysis might be negative doesn't mean it's cynical.
"Creating something like this - or most web startups - isn't expensive, it's just time consuming."

Which makes it expensive. Or is your time free?
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> Dangerous, you really don't want your students thinking you are lying to them every lesson.

Heaven forbid (pardon the expression) they stop automatically trusting everything anyone in a position of authority says to them, and start keeping an eye out for bullshit and/or forming their own opinions. Won't somebody please think of the churches!
Noob here: What about the GUI? How it will be created?
Is it even possible to assume that, or is it ultimately a subconscious thing?
that's more or less object-oriented
Quieter, eh? I had a chance to drive the original a while back and it was already pretty damn quiet.
"In the world we live in with security becoming more of a general concern"

Which world is that? The one where people post minute details of their life on twitter? The one where they send naked pics of themselves around, expose themselves on chatroulette?

It's going the other way - people are exposing more and more of themselves making more of their life public than ever before.

Some geeks are always concerned about privacy/security. How many "normal people" use PGP to sign their emails?
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can I ask you a question about face recognition? So I have a similar problem, except I want to automatically determine some characteristic of a human from their face. However, I'm not sure how to go about determining a relevant set of features to use. How are the features useful for face recognition determined in state-of-the-art recognition algorithms?
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It looks a lot like a Lotus Elise to me -- which is no bad thing! Also, I wondered if this was deliberate, or whether the problem is lightweight sportscar design is heavily constrained? (Of course, taste is constrained too.)
Right. but the OP said "Is it just paying their rent in SF or what?"

Which seemed to imply that would be a bad use of money - salaries.
This number seems very high to me. Perhaps we could do a poll?
Maybe a more complete arguement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_pr...
Another site which might be a competitor:

http://www.makefive.com

Nicely designed but I don't think that they have a very large userbase.
"The world's wealthiest speculators set up a casino where the chips were the stomachs of hundreds of millions of innocent people..."

Yup, it's exactly like a gambling den. It's Bet365, where anything can be speculated upon. But nicely packaged with higher stakes...and you stand to lose whether you play or not.
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Maybe I'm missing something. I'm seeing a dude without a shirt. Is this NSFW? The average pop music clip is 100x more sexual.
Jean Ziegler is the Calcanis of the UN, in 2007 he blamed biofuels and now he's blaming banks. He primarily good at raising publicity.

The UN's own food reports in 2006 found the food price rises primarily driven by poor crop yields due to weather conditions and a failure to mantain stockpiles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ziegler
While this is great design in isolation from the rest of the world, it will only add more confusion unless it is ubiquitous.

Currently you just have to look for labels like + and - in the battery slot, and with such devices there may be no such labels at all, or instead some text that says "put batteries any way you want", or, even worse, some cryptic graphic that attempts to say it. More processing power required != good.

Disclaimer: not a Microsoft hater, just my thoughts.
Programming is not a craft. A craftsman produces some product, whereas a programmer designs some product that is then produced by a compiler or by copying a file. That the production of software is trivial and fully automated, doesn't mean that there is no distinction between production and design.

We already have mass software production.
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My point is, go ahead and put in the current +/- sign. On the box, packaging, site, manual, whatever you can talk about how it'll actually work in any way.

Those that look for the +/- will find it. Those that misread it or are too thick to understand it will put them in wrong and your device will still work. And those that saw the cool picture on your device's package will play around with it and test different ways then say "waaaaay cool!"
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A food essay should be educative and fascinating as well
Writing a good food essay will take up quite a bit of time. There are many avenues open for discussion where food is concerned. You can write about food for babies, food and nutrition and many other topics. If the right topic is selected writing this essay will be an enjoyable task.
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How does he prevent mosquitoes from breeding in the small pools of standing water?
I believe Tapulous starting it's downward trend when Mike Lee was forced out of the company by the investment team and other execs.

$15 mil is not a lot of money for a company that had investment, and a dozen products.

This ultimately smells like a ditch effort.
Hrm. Doesn't look like what I'd call 'hacker news' - it's political, flame bait, and not really related to startups or hacking.
Thing is, Australia will catch up - streaming is the permanent solution, Blu Ray is the last gasp of discs.
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The PC: simply less interesting than it was in 1998-2003
The difference between knowing the name for something and knowing something, is probably most clearly elucidated when you ask someone who believes in a deity, what it is. The answer is invariably contains contradictory, unreconcilable aspects.
You're a broke college student with 2K to spend on adding features to your website, surely you should be able to find another broke student that would like your 2K and could do a perfectly adequate job of delivering it - especially with the potential to be involved in future pieces of work.

Not only is a really good designer / developer going to be too expensive, they probably aren't going to want to get out of bed for a small project like that, so rather than outsourcing overseas why not find someone that is in a similar situation to yourself and you can have face to face meetings with to set expectations etc.
"some vital crops are not traded on the futures markets, including millet, cassava, and potatoes. Their price rose a little during this period"

Dumb question, but why didn't the poor just eat potatoes then? Also I don't think you can really force somebody to buy or sell - if a country was short on food, they shouldn't sell it. Or if the prices for wheat are high, they should sell the wheat and buy potatoes for the money. And so on... (questions over questions).
Can HN recommend any cheaper (free) alternatives for a startup?
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This is so true, and it's also valid for non-web uses of common lisp. Except Racket they are no user friendly lisp/scheme package. And heck, even Racket is far from ideal.

Lisp may be a superior langage, but setting it up is impractical for anybody who isn't used to hack emacs and bash scripts all day.
Poor Grigory might regret not making the publication anonymous now that he is being harassed by those parasites (e.g. those news reporters in the youtube video.)
They're a startup in the sense that they're starting something new from scratch; they're a few people taking a risky voyage into the unknown in the hope of it paying off big (in this case, via social benefits).
This illustrates a far greater point that every once in a while returns to the surface of HN as well:

A tool is seldom more than a tool. In regard to languages, for most projects there are more than enough constraints to begin with, so you can pick a language of your choice in no time. Sure there are languages that suck and languages that are awesome. But most of these comparisons only work in a vacuum. And in practice, no project ever starts in a vacuum.
It's also based on false premises. For instance, the part that says "Suddenly, these contracts were turned into 'derivatives'" is wrong, since forward contracts are already derivatives, and also exchange-traded futures contracts appeared much earlier than the 1990s. Traders cannot simply "jack up" prices at will since futures can be short-sold, etc.
From personal experience, I'd agree that lust requires the ability to string together thoughts. Having meditated for many years -- remaining in the present moment free of thought, ignoring any thought that comes, letting thoughts fall off as they arise -- lust / arousal are impossible (unless perhaps if one is married and does not need the mind for arousal).

Are animals able to carry on a thought process, not sure? Dogs certainly seem to be more in the present than humans.

That article links to another interesting one on asexuals.
Yeah, looking at the battery use meters on my N1, display is usually in 2nd place at around 25-35% of total usage (with cell standby as the top battery user). So the savings wouldn't be quite as dramatic, but you could certainly get some extra time out of the battery.
Sexy image effect like in flash in pure CSS3...
I currently develop and maintain "enterprise software" for a large insurance corp.

And laws are the enemy, I tell you :P (and the local equivalent of the IRS, and other regulatory organizations, and... you get the idea).

Not to mention the UX isn't a high priority requiremente (I've been asking for UX help since I joined the company, I do what I can but it's not the same)

For example: European regulations on data retention and local law means we have to ask for some billing information each time, an anti-terrorist law means we have to ask some really stupid information on every single form, IRS-equivalent regulation means we have to follow some archaic accounting practices, legal requirements mean that many documents which could have been happily emailed or otherwise electronically handled have to be faxed, etc, etc, etc ad infinitum
But why is it so - why is there no user friendly LISP, why did PHP win instead?
Ironically it's not as easy to understand (bad user experience?) - I would have been misled as well if you hadn't pointed it out.
Sometimes I wish wee born earlier just to be able to safely witness one of those experiments.
Inability to buy gadgets is unlikely to be the main problem - it's not like gadgets are a huge proportion of the expenditure of poor people right now. The problem that will be created is extremely high wage mismatch between the highly educated, and those that are not able to achieve such a high level of education.

This is a problem for a variety of reasons. The poor are, of course, less able to compete for scarce resources such as housing (particularly in cramped places like the UK), healthcare, high quality education, etc. This uncompetitiveness isn't too bad in places with reasonably limited income inequality, but as the inequality scales up becomes a really serious issue. All of this is a bad recipe for social stability - as being part of society becomes less beneficial for the poor, more and more will choose to live outside it.

Over time, income inequality also leads to poor social mobility, which is a real issue with keeping a country competitive.
Well first of all, it's not my definition of capitalism. It's Adam Smith's.

When people think of 'capitalism' they usually think of anarchy and large mega-corporations that destroy the environment and do whatever the hell they want.
There is regulation under capitalism. The government exists to protect private property, life, and to prosecute those who commit fraud.

The recent financial crisis was primarily caused by millions of homeowners defaulting on their loans.

I guess a first step we could take would be to 1) stop teaching kids that home ownership is necessary to be 'American', 2) stop giving out government-financed loans to first-time homeowners (through Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac) and 3) to shift regulation from capping what banks and mutual funds can do to making sure they aren't committing fraud.

I'm not an economist but I think it's clear that the fact that the government (under Reagan ironically), made it its mission to put American's in homes. Great. But of course what happened was that many of these people that were initially given loans through this program defaulted on them.
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This happens to every product we purchase. The product gets continually upgraded even after we purchased it- Look at all the cars, cell phones, computers etc in the market.

Instead of feeling bad of our purchasing decision, we should remember that during the time when we purchased it, we did it because we believed the product fulfilled all our needs.
PHP won for two reasons. PHP is easy to pick up and ISPs installed mod_php which gave it good performance.
The author does hint at a correct answer: "...none stooping so low as to say 'I don't know" or 'This seems impossible.'" That's not a stupid answer. The point is by giving it "their best shot", the students were revealing their lack of understanding of the subject material.

The lecturer, a person in a position of trust, starts with a query coming from a place of deception

That's a far more important lesson to learn. Certainly it would be time consuming to question "each an every pre-supposition" but some situations may warrant it more than others - particularly when something's happening that defies what you already know about nature.
It is a Lotus Elise with different fascias and interior. And powertrain of course. Tesla isn't really a car company, they are a powertrain company and in my opinion they should stay that way. It is where their strengths are, building cars is hard and expensive, and lots of other companies do it well. What the current car companies don't do is electric powertrains and all the controls that go with that.
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True they are, two things though.

1. At very least they are still going to be strong through at least one more product cycle.

2. For people not on the cutting edge of technology they are going to be relevant for some time, unless they decide just to stick with DVD's for the next 5 years.
I don't have a ereader yet, but the fact that a single slate like device can hold a mini library full of books is very tempting one.
This takes forever to get to the point, is based on a poor understanding of forwards and why they're necessary, it's not hacker news, the title is a troll, get rid of it.

In 2006, financial speculators like Goldman's pulled
out of the collapsing US real estate market, and they
were looking for somewhere else to make their stash of
cash swell.

The reason food was going through the roof was because at the beginning of 2007 everyone though the next big thing was going to be inflation, and wheat is a hedge against that. Go search back through covers of The Economist if you don't believe me.
I find it odd that your comment has so many upvotes. No offense but who is upvoting this? I figure it's one of two types of people:

1) People who are used to hiring others yet who don't like to talk "budget"

2) Consultants hired by #1

Really - I don't know of a single transaction in either my consulting practice or in my hiring of consultants/experts/etc in which budget was not a major discussion point. Maybe, as the consultant, I'd be the one bringing it up but I assure you: before I entered into any agreement with a client, the "Can you afford to pay me what I'm going to need to do this project?" question had been sufficiently explored.
It is based on the same chassis as the Elise and is assembled by them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster
UK computer science graduates least employable of all UK graduates
Although it is naive, at present, to discount (artificial) national borders (and the patriotic sense people might feel), I look forward to a day when countries no longer exist, similarly to how different regions were amalgamated to form countries and their "national identities".
"If nothing else, the simple fact that human intelligence follows a bell-curve should tell us that there's always going to be a large class of people who cannot function at the highest level of production. Those people need factory jobs, or farming jobs, or other lower-skill industries that pay a decent salary."

Well said. The jobs we're creating are achievable to a progressively smaller segment of the population, and that's a huge problem.

I wonder if as we run out of easily-mineable resources, we'll start creating low-skilled jobs again, in the recycling of the already-mined resources - garbage mining, effectively. If China's hold on rare earth metals, for example, continues to increase, I can imagine this being an important job area.
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It could be that potatoes were still more expensive than rice although their prices rose a little. The starting price could have been higher. And every country may not be an exporter of rice to be able to sell wheat then buy the potatoes (assuming they were cheaper).