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In addition to the other arguments mentioned about the clothing, one more thing: colour photographs, and indeed any photographs, all that survives from the time, were very, very uncommon, so you'd take out your best clothes for the occasion. You won't know what the peasants wore their entire life except for the day the official Tsar's photographer visited.

Today, people dress nicer for important and/or rare pictures (weddings, official portraits, etc) than for point and shoot pictures at the park.
You know, if you spread a fair amount of DDT inside a bunch of buildings I suspect precious little will escape outside, especially as measured by the putative egg shell problem. We're not talking about massive outdoor spraying to suppress mosquitoes, nor is that the solution for African kids (instead it's twice yearly spraying of dwelling interiors).

It would be nice to see some balance on these sorts of issues, but at the very least I expect that soon enough we'll see some hypocrisy. At the moment it is most delicious to watch, so to speak.
Probably not; It's just that floating point on x86 without SSE is ridiculously awkward, and it's becoming hard to find platforms with no SSE2, so no sense in making an effort to support the x87 or SSE1 instruction sets.
Nah. He definitely uses butterflies.
Fanboyism: When Expression Meets Desperation
SSE2 is great for more than just SIMD. It gives you additional registers, allowing the compiler to generate more parallel scalar operations. Visual C++ with /arch:SSE2 will happily interleave x87 instructions with SSE2 instructions, which looks strange but works well.

You may also want to use SSE2 for saturated scalar additions or prefetches.

Very few people have x86 processors that don't support SSE2 these days. In our tests at IMVU, I think less than 1% of our customers didn't support SSE2, and it was only that high due to the Athlon XP.

In short: when starting a project targeting x86 today, default SSE2 on.
>> You feel guilty if you go home to sleep while your friends are coding 'til their eyes bleed, even when the overwork is brought about by extrinsic factors (see above).

Been through that at the early stage of my career. It was a startup too. Right now if anybody trying to pull that out with me, its not going to happen again. If they should hire more people but not hiring, then its their problem. I'm not staying more than I should, and if I put on extra time (funny that I still do this a lot, I guess I just love what I do), its on my terms. Not happy, then let me know when to quit.

I also found out that when you go through the extra mile a lot, without proper compensation, they will treat you cheap. In a way, its sort of true, since if we put more effort that we are paid for, then we are cheap in that sense. Its easier to get respect when you just stick to your guns and politely declined those request for extra effort unless its paid up for. You may not get what you demanded, but its easier for them to treat you with respect (oddly!).

The lesson that I learned from my version of failed startup is that you should have the funder/entrepreneur to know the trade. Warren Buffet says never invest on anything that you do not understand. If the funder/investor/entrepreneur does not know the trade, then there is no way they could tell that you are telling the truth, other than pushing your buttons. And they will push your buttons, as much as they can get away with.

Its a good lesson learned, and I'm glad I'm through. But there is no way I am going through that again.
Couldn't agree more. It's the sense of always feeling safe or 'home' in any situation that meditation can give you. I found it extremely helpful when dealing with anxiety and I'm not surprised it works for addiction as well. My mother requires anti-anxiety meds to function and I was determined to find an alternate solution. Once you learn to watch (or listen) to your thoughts as they pop up you start to notice all the background chatter your mind is producing without your knowledge.

It might sound weird to others but your mind is constantly telling you stories. 'I would feel better if I had drink' or 'I should avoid this situation because I might have a panic attack' or a magical combination of both 'If I drink I won't have a panic attack'.
You realize your comment exactly describes your criticism? Any specifics or just vague and trite?
SSH Multiplexing & other OpenSSH Tricks
Prosecutors Eye WikiLeaks Charges
"Do you really need your Twitter client downloading new tweets when you aren’t using it?"

I enjoy this a lot on Android, which is capable of notifying me of Twitter replies and direct messages. A nice way to replace expensive SMS with free Twitter DMs.

That "do you really need..." statement belongs on the shelf next to "640KB of RAM ought to be enough for everybody".
Factor supports machines without SSE2 if you compile it yourself. In this case it will use the x87 floating point. The binaries are built to use SSE2 for floating point since most machines have it these days.

There is SIMD support in the language as well which supports most of SSE4.2, check out http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-math.vectors.simd...
+1 just for the multiplex magic, But then, I /would/ say that =)

That TTL thing is handy too, I'm sure I had some understanding of it previously, but reading the article made me check my settings and made me realize my timeouts were ridiculously low so even short disconnections killed my session.
Interesting, I've never heard of this phenomenon.
Use push notifications.
"That’s incredibly aggressive and rude"

More likely just an oversight - it is the way email servers have worked since the dawn of time (at least I think so).
Unfortunately enough people have older CPUs that we still have to support x87 code generation; its just not used in the binary packages, you have to build the source to get it.
Use push notifications. I'd rather have better battery life than a client-side-only solution for knowing when I get replies and DMs on Twitter.
How can you distinguish a "500 Internal Server Error" caused by an uncaught exception handler in defensive code from a "500 Internal Server Error" caused by an undefended component crashing "exploitably"?

I think you could probably get some value out of a side channel attack like timing (this is essentially isomorphic to "I can't log you in [because your password was wrong on the first character]" versus "I can't log you in [because your password was wrong on the second character]", except with several orders of magnitude more difference in response times between two textually equivalent responses).

For example, it should be absolutely trivial to determine whether a given input made it past the web application (to the database, underlying web service, remote API, etc) or not. Whether that results in useful information, who can say.
I don't know if 'subsumed' is the word I'd go with.
I do wish keepalive could be turned on/off more dynamically - most of the locations I connect from it's a disadvantage so I don't have it configured, and having to edit the config file when I'm in one where it's useful just annoys me.

I suppose I should just write a script that perl -pi -e 's/KeepAlive yes/KeepAlive no/' .ssh/config or similar, but it still seems ... annoying.
"A year ago, journalist Lenore Skenazy caused a media sensation when she let her 9-year-old ride New York City’s subway by himself."

a) Outside of how many acres of Manhattan?
b) Which lasted until when? The next silly-ass story for an ADHD media cycle, I suppose.

Back in the day (Kennedy administration) having your Mom walk with you to school was a fine way to be marked as a loser (though we didn't know that word yet). I usually read on my way to work, but I'm fairly sure I do see kids younger than middle school riding solo or at least without adult supervision on DC buses.
That's nice. Welcome to the internet.
Also, what if the emails don't bounce? That then means Google holds them hostage, and the only way he'll ever get them is to pay for the upgrade. The senders will never now they didn't get through. I don't think that approach would be very welcomed by the majority of users.
Yes, deletionists. When a promising online community producing a body of work seems to be running into scope creep, it seems a subculture of deletionists will emerge to knock the project back into scope despite any promise that may exist in the prospect of expanding or changing the scope instead of restricting the project. To some degree this makes the project more maintainable, but it also limits the project's chances of running in a more promising direction than originally hoped.
Age discrimination in Perl 6 using subsets and multiple dispatch
Under what circumstances does Visual C++ still emit x87 instructions? I'd think that other than legacy support, 80-bit long double arithmetic, and the 32-bit ABI (float return values are passed on the x87 stack) there's no reason to use x87.
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I've heard it's supposed to taste better in a can, because a can is better-sealed than a bottle and offers better protection against sunlight. Though personally I can't tell the difference.
Or local notifications. In iOS 4 you can set a timed reminder locally without running a server as is needed for push notifications.
Nah, bro. The most difficult thing about modern life are choices. In a small town or elementary school, you are friends with everybody because those are the only people you can be friends with.

Life gets more complicated as you move from elementary school to middle, high, undergrad school and the real world as you are forced to make more choices about the people that you choose to hang out with. That's why people go to grad school, participate in a hobby, or join a sub-culture to make their world smaller again and limit their choices to make themselves happier.
i am working on a browser plugin i call babelfin to help build vocabulary.
That is one very real and tangible result of meditation. There is an aspect beyond this that grows from the concentration developed by regular meditation. I don't know about "enlightenment" but at least for me, after several years of steady practice, it's more about accepting things as they come and letting go of my ideas about how they should be. Somehow this has ended up nullifying the entire concept of an upgrade or enhancement for me, which is quixotic.
You mean - keep a network connection open only so that you can get a time-based reminder that doesn't need any network activity? That sounds like a hack...

Ah - I see that it's no longer the case on iOS4.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1536126
The HTML5 Experiments of Hakim El Hattab
From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7t5yh4fd(VS.80).aspx

The optimizer will choose when and how to make use of the SSE and SSE2 instructions when /arch is specified. SSE and SSE2 instructions will be used for some scalar floating-point computations, when it is determined that it is faster to use the SSE/SSE2 instructions and registers rather than the x87 floating-point register stack. As a result, your code will actually use a mixture of both x87 and SSE/SSE2 for floating-point computations. Additionally, with /arch:SSE2, SSE2 instructions can be used for some 64-bit integer operations.

In addition to using the SSE and SSE2 instructions, the compiler will also use other instructions that are present on the processor revisions that support SSE and SSE2. An example is the CMOV instruction that first appeared in the Pentium Pro revision of the Intel processors.
That would explain all the tornados...
Effective ML (video of talk)
You might be able to provide it with the -o option:

ssh -o "KeepAlive no" example.com
I remember a talk I attended by Rodney Brooks roughly 4 years ago, in which he used this example to show how exponential change catches up. He quoted a Kodak executive who remarked that it was the future and they all knew it, but they just let it slide after that. Why? As Mr. Graham's recent essay about Yahoo! pointed out Kodak had a cash cow in the form of film and they didn't want to see something as radically disruptive as a digital camera. Everyone knew about it, but they didn't want to see it. I think that its quite an understandable form of self deception.

So, what they did was they put it under a pillow and hoped that it would go away. A smaller competitor on the other hand had nothing to lose discovered the technology and along with others exponentially improved it (the megapixels war) until the film was outdated at last. If you think about it if Kodak had been willing to go out of their comfort zone they would have owned the camera market today.

The most interesting thing is that if everything had been a constant then it wouldn't have mattered. Self deception works really well in fields like politics etc. but over here we had a phenomena that accelerated the change and suddenly we had a positive feedback cycle to sustain it. This is why technology is so interesting in my opinion. Opinions don't matter. If something has technological merit then regardless of the fact of what you think about it. It's going to improve and take over your constant.

What's troubling though is just how counter-intuitive it is and just how many of us fall into the trap of thinking; 'nah it ain't gonna happen'.
at startup weekend i started working on a browser plugin to help build vocab, by replacing a few words with the equivalent in the foreign language.

i call it babelfin.
Ask HN: How do you overcome laziness? 
hey everyone, i am a college student, and procrastination is something that is ruining my life. i know what needs to be done, but i don't do it and waste time on other random things that are not important. i realise where the problem is, and know that it has a simple solution: just do it; but more often than not, i am unable to execute the things that i need to get done. the pomodoro technique is great and all, so are some of the other techniques, but they don't click with me. i am wondering whether some of you were in the same situation, and would like to share some solutions, suggestions. i understand that hn is not a self help forum, but i would really appreciate your comments. if you would rather email me, my email is in my profile. thanks.
I'm not sure I like the present system or proposed solution. You'd then have four ways to vote:

* Vote question up
* Vote question down
* Vote to close
* Vote not to close

Why not simply close based on downvotes? Or remove downvotes and close algorithmically based on "flags", like we have on HN.
When you're done with that you should also read through the examples John Benediktsson's been posting to his blog: http://re-factor.blogspot.com
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I and my team are building a direct advertising tool for bloggers to sell ad spaces directly to advertisers. The project is about 80% complete. It is going to be a no-commission network. The goal of using our tool is that it puts more money into bloggers pockets. About 80% more money per month than using conventional ad networks. We would love to know what features you guys would love to see in a direct network? Thanks for your contributions HN members.
I'll miss him. He conveyed such incredible enthusiasm in his TV segments and brightened up so many of my evenings. He was an absolute, unabashed nerd, and I say that with the utmost of admiration and respect. RIP.
Sounds like you're happy :)
Anybody have data on what he paid for the brand?
>> It started out as a small project.

They'd always said that. Then at midway, suddenly "we need the money, and there is this client willing to pay if we make it such and such. It shouldn't be that hard eh? I know you can do it". On and on.

Till this day, if anyone says "I know you can do it", my alert level would increase.

To me, what made it easy for me to quit, was the fact that my boss didn't not want to spend any money on sales to sell the finished product, when all this while he had been spending money on the development of the product. For all the talk of "I am being most loyal to the company" and "I sacrificed a lot for the company", he hesitated on doing the final push.

As naive as I was, I suddenly discovered it would be stupid for me to stay. That made it easy.
Scientists in 1954 created this model to illustrate a home computer in 2004
Low-worth rant about using a free service to the max is saved by the hilarity of the comments, some of which are one notch above "why do you keep them all? I print all of mine out on paper where they are safe" or "Google might delete them when its maildir gets too big or uucp fails"
Many peoples have held that view outside the Amazon, including a few in Europe and North America.
>But in every case, the email ended up sitting there on my mail server until the problem was resolved.

Where has he been getting his email hosted? Every host I've used bounces when over quota. Even paid ones.

>But not once did Google send me an automated email saying that I was about to run out of storage space.

Which would be useful, I admit. But jeez. Download the messages, delete them off Gmail, and wait for the storage to go up so you can put them back. You can do that, you know, and it would take literally seconds to clear up enough to start receiving again.
Presumably the 67 tribes have more than one person in them.
12 character passwords found to be far superior to 8 characters
Two inspired individuals here in New Hampshire are starting a new educational venture, the Informal University. The idea of it is to bring people together locally who want to learn with people who want to teach, and provide a setting, while avoiding all of the trappings of formal education which serve to raise cost and barriers to entry.

I have been able to volunteer a small amount of time to help them launch a very basic website (www.informalu.org). You can see from the website that they have put a lot of effort into recruiting people who are willing to share their knowledge on a wide variety of interesting topics. But you can also see that a lot of work needs to be done to present and convey their ideas and goals. They are a non-profit and as a matter of principle refuse to accept any taxpayer funding, so they are relying entirely on private volunteer efforts and contributions for startup.

If I were to receive a free ticket for the Business of Software 2010 conference, I would pay it forward by volunteering at least 3 full days of my time to work with Kirk and Kevin to develop a top-notch website for the Informal University.

I hate to make whiny-sounding excuses as to why I can't afford the conference, but since you asked, I'm a relatively young (27 y.o.) self-employed entrepreneur and at this time my budget just can't be stretched far enough to allow for it.

Thanks for your consideration,
-F.H.
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What a great tool! This tutorial definitely teaches you the Ruby language, rather than programming in general.
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The world doesn't know what K-Swiss is.
I disagree. I think that if, for example, someone offered you a free foot massage, and broke your foot, you would have every right to complain. Even if a service is free, you have a right to complain if the person does not deliver what he promised. In this case, the rant may not be deserved, but I don't think that your statement holds true in the general case.
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Fortran! Our salvation!.
Sounds like www.adtaily.com. With no commission, how do you make money? A monthly fee? Or with backfill?
Sorry! My english teacher would be really disappointed.
>Google behaves as though everybody using Gmail uses the web interface

And what is up with them including free imap/pop support? Seriously, Google, get it together.
So can someone with more math knowledge comment on how "Brand New" this theorem is? Comparing the Geekosystem post with the tone of the original APS article, it sure feels like a certain amount of breathless hyperbole was added to the former...
SplashID crypto fail
Twitbit on the iPhone will push mentions and DMs.
Zen Coding Visual Studio Plugin
Who knew CNN had Captain Obvious working for them?
Zen Coding for &lt;textarea&gt;
Boxcar is a free app for iPhone that will check your Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds, etc on their servers and send a push notification when there's something new. Much better for battery life than having Twitter and Facebook always running on the device.
I'm happy to be downvoted on the parent because it looks like I've made the exact point I had tried to make.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coven

Most likely the GGP meant it in the Wiccan sense.
You are currently using 642 MB (8%) of your 7489 MB.

I don't know, maybe if you have a lot of mail, you should check that once in a while.
How to keep your google search anonymous
From the article,

"But if we do run out altogether, we will have to recover helium from the air and it will cost 10,000 times what it does today."

Assuming he's correct, and assuming we are set to run out of helium in the next 50 years, a 3% a year return would be chump change.
Going through these would be useful for any Rubyist, not just those learning. I have been using Ruby for a while now and I didn't know there was a difference between string << 'foo' and string += 'foo' until now.
Not yet there unfortunately.
Apple eyes kill switch for jailbroken iPhones
Gmail Improves "Undo Send"
Mozilla's Popcorn Project adds Extra Flavor to Web Video
I say he trolls sometimes because, if I recall correctly, he's said that he (at least once) has made a post he doesn't agree with, so he could see how people responded. I'll see if I can find the post where discussed this.

I guess that's either trolling or performing a psychological study.

Edit: the closest I could come is "...I enjoy yanking the chain of people who think they believe things for actual reasons as opposed to taking a side." Which isn't very close. It's in an interview with him at http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/scott-adams... (Look for the second-to-last question)

Second edit: Found it! "As regular readers know, I sometimes like to make arguments for positions I don’t hold, just to test my viewpoint." (http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/12/next...) That's...actually not as damning as I remembered, given that his motivation is "let's see how logical I really am".
How to avoid your Start Up from getting a Hangover
But as always, you can compensate for lack of length BY BEING LOUD (not for the whole time) and/or being exceptionally (00L.
I've seen this today. It's interesting; I'm not sure if I like it. Pretty cool that Google can pull search results so quickly, but it can be a bit distracting...
Is it easier or harder to intercept a password over 3G than wifi? (I'm just curious)
Google Live Search: See Search Results as You Type
Google Chrome's PDF Plugin Uses Foxit Software
I'm wary of people at night, but that's because I actually got mugged recently.
Want Better Feedback? Be More “Brain-Friendly”
Perhaps the can smells bad, and the glass bottle smells neutral.
Demon to prioritise gaming broadband traffic
From SXSW to Your Distributed Living Room
Progressive Disclosure in Software Education
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Google Starts Charging a Signup Fee For Chrome Extension Developers
We hope to make money using a credit impression system where you buy the amount of impressions you need. e.g you buy 5 millions worth of impressions and if its not finished in a month can be carried over to the next month but expires after 2 months.