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I enjoyed scrolling to the bottom to listen to the different sounds the device can produce. The disclosed age/frequency pairs seem remarkably accurate and, of course, the sound is quite annoying.
I like how the author of the post explains his emotions and conclusions, it's like reading a mini drama :)
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In the case of Avatar, the only reason to see the film was to see a slightly too long demo reel on what the current state of the art in CGI movies looks like. The 3D was an integral part to the whole tech demo experience.
So does your "Great Unknown" have sentience? That's the question. If I understand you correctly it appears you are theist.
Silly Noob, it's a six pool now.

Also, really a seven pool because it makes sense to make a drone instead of saving for the spawning.

The ideal rush is an eight pool, unless you wish to do some sort of timing attack.
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So far I've received 11 emails, but 4 were some variant of "nice puzzle, happy where I am right now, but I'll write to you next time I'm looking for work."

A few more were "I solved the puzzle, but tell me more before I bother to update my resume." Such people are certainly in the right ballpark - if you jump into a puzzle without even thinking about whether you want the prize, that's a win.
You mean which of the markup standards to learn?

I'd say it depends on your goal. If you're currently designing and want to support older browsers then I'd stick with HTML4 standards. If you're not bothered about older browser support or learning for the sake of it (or for a personal site) or for a future job then I'd go with 5.

I've been doing web design / dev since about 1996 (on-and-off part-time) and just started doing sites in HTML5 about a month ago. Prior to that I tended to use XHTML-1 transitional doctypes.
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When the tiny pony is a negative thing, many call it Creeping Normalcy [1]. Sounds like the same phenonmenon to me: adjustments that come slowly enough do not get appreciated. Louis CK has a funny bit about it [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normalcy

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
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What's with all those hideous google ads scattered all over OSNews all the sudden? I don't know about other people, but seeing that many ads will keep me away from a site.
Evolution is not required for Homo sapiens to exist.

How do you know? If you were framing your statement scientifically it would be "Evolution may not be required for Homo sapiens to exist", which, of course, scientists already understand. Theories are subject to change, and even be discarded altogether in light of better information, unlike faith which cannot change.
> This is for a first programming language (if you could even call it that).

You really shouldn't... it's a markup language. Not that that's a bad thing.

If you are really new to it and are looking to learn and maybe make something fun to play with, I suggest you start with HTML5. The web is going that way and the browsers are a bit more sane with it so far. There is plenty to learn. Eventually you will get into databases, and server-side concerns and you will probably dip your toes into Javascript (a programming language).

If you want to build something to share with others, HTML 4 is probably more practical. HTML5 is mostly backwards compatible, but you really need to understand what will work for everyone and what won't.

Hope that helps.
Are you telling me they didn't use JS? I know I should look at the source, but can't!
What is it about the placement of the moon that makes earth so extremely unique as to support life. Does it merely deflect asteroids to provide more stability for evolving species? And how intelligent must life be to be considered the "Destined Entity" of the Anthropic Principle? Were dinosaurs not self-aware enough?

The moon's placement is also such that it's the same size as the sun when viewed from the earth, making total solar eclipses more stunning, and intelligent life viewing them may become a more inquisitive species, and maybe more likely to innovate Agriculture, and so sit around in cities considering philosophical questions. But is this the only Destined Entity?

Just as today's humans consider cats and apes to be not self-aware enough to be Destined Entities, maybe some future specimens of humans will consider today's humans in the same way. Or maybe humans today will create some future planet-wide automated intelligence that becomes self-aware, and be the Destined Entity, and the Anthropic Principle will really be the Robotic Principle.

But just as today's humans are the result of thousands of trial-and-error experiments of evolution, an automated intelligence has more likelihood of becoming self-aware if there are many separate instances of it. If it's planet-wide, then different vastly separated planets are needed. So perhaps a moon for the earth increases the ease with which humans can adapt to space colonization, then Mars providing the next challenge, then terraforming Venus, more difficult, until humans blast off into other solar systems, eventually colonizing the galaxy. And one day, one of those planet-wide automated networks on one of the colonized planets will become self-aware enough to be considered the Destined Entity the Universe came into existence for.

Such a self-aware automated intelligence will reminisce with itself that the moon "Luna" of old "Earth" had the correct placement not only to deflect asteroids, but also to display solar eclipses with a spectacular corona, and provide a baby step for space colonization by humans.
It seems funny that .NET got their own @formula engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_language).

I like subtle nods and references by MS towards Lotus Notes since Ray Ozzie went to MS - or is it only in my head?
I believe twisted was somewhat innovative in its space a few years ago, if you are willing to put it in the web development category.
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I'd be looking for

- General intelligence
- Enough passion to work long hours
- Good at what I'm not. (I can build a product, he/she could have a marketing background or something. Obviously we'd still both be working on both.)
Your definition of faith is very narrow.

What certain institutions define as faith may not have changed in thousands of years.

Peoples personal beliefs and understanding of the spiritual change over time. I know mine have.
Something similar, with Telepathy: http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/134350.html
>Are you writing for other people, or taking notes?

He says he's writing exam papers. Legibility is highly important and a consistent standard writing style is expected (proper grammar, punctuation, etc.).

That said my Mum is a maths marker and she takes great pains to try to read even the most unintelligible and poorly written/drawn answers.
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Yes, a couple of times in history we (I mean earth, humans, as I am not from the US) have been lucky, and some looming crisis was averted.

We avert stuff every day. It's just not "news" so you don't much hear about it. ("News" generally involves dirty laundry of some sort, not good outcomes.) When we had some huge earthquake in the East, it was News. When the world rose to the occasion and averted hundreds of thousands of expected additional deaths from famine and disease in the aftermath, big yawn. Moving on. Has Hollywood got some juicy scandal for us? When Iraq set fire to the oil wells as it was leaving Kuwait, Big News. When the entire world converged upon Kuwait with every available crack team for putting out such things and invented new methods on the spot to kill the fires in a much shorter time frame than was predicted, big yawn. Moving on. Can we come up with some juicy gossip from somewhere? When the desert bloomed like no one had seen in decades (if ever) from all the water and carbon in the aftermath of the fires and attempts to put them out, also hardly mentioned. Y2K also was a huge anticlimactic non-event after years of people getting ready for a global meltdown of our banking infrastructure...etc...

I've been talking about Peak Oil for years. I think it is a serious issue. But I'm an optimist and I think we can adapt. It doesn't have to be some nightmare scenario. It will only turn into that if we engage in too much denial and foot dragging and resistance to change.

Peace.
If disproofing God is fundamental to you, you have a problem. Atheism doesn't aim disproof God, it simply states that there is no proof of God's existence and rejects the beliefs.
> The Spiel that white people considered black people their enemies during Apartheid

Presumably what was meant was the common enemy was not the "darkies" but the rest of the world coming together and imposing sanctions.

> Yet the ideology of full democracy (i.e. tyranny of the majority) is also spectacularly failing. Yet no one would acknowledge the latter failings.

Naomi Klein does in The Shock Doctrine and a heck of a lot of people have read that book.
The problem with using the God alias is that most people do one more fundamental thing with this closet. They put answers into it on questions we have no way of knowing answers to.
Once when I arrived at JFK, the immigration officer realised it was my birthday and sang "Happy Birthday" to me. Sweet, and embarrassing. Didn't enthuse the thousand people waiting behind me in the queue either.

The difference with arriving in Australia and having my biometric passport checked, answering questions on a touchscreen, automated photo gates (and a total elapsed time from getting off the plane to waiting for my luggage of about, oh 10 minutes including walking) - it still seems that the US doesn't get it.

Friendly is good. Manual, time consuming processes (and don't get me started about the ESTA introduction confusion) not to mention irritating queues, are all dumb and just piss people off.
The main advantage we get from having a relatively huge moon is stability of the earths rotational axes, without the moon the earth would have periods where it had one sunny side and one cold dark side.
Agreed; it's surprising how many Atheists confuse this though.
I say leave it there. It's innocuous enough, and it'll be valuable demographic data later on. If you stop asking for it now, and then need to start later then people will be suspicious, and you'll have holes in the data from when you didn't ask.

Of course, with all user submitted input, don't ever assume it to be right. ;-)
Your rant doesn't mention that benign-sounding "separate development and rule for all ethnic and cultural groups" under Apartheid forced blacks onto 13% of the land, even though they formed by far the largest population group in South Africa.

Nor does it mention the fact that generations of blacks were forced by state policy into inferior "Bantu Education". Nor does it mention the fact that the migrant labour system, coupled with the other degrading laws to deprive blacks of economic and social freedom helped wreck the fabric of black society.

I am as disgusted by the current ruling party's corruption as anyone, and I am appalled by the way the west generally seems to turn a blind eye to its massive failings.

Apartheid was designed to turn black people into failures, and into an exploitable manual labour pool. And any attempt to decouple apartheid from its aftermath is, at best, highly inaccurate.
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From the outset when you take your cards you have a 2 in 10 (20%) chance of having the prize. The dealer has a 8 in 10 (80%) chance of having it. After the dealer looks at and discards six cards it is still a 8 in 10 (80%) chance.

I would trade my 20% chance for a 50/50 shot on the 80% chance which is 40%.

It's a good variation on the problem though. The thing is that the Monty Hall problem gets less intuitive when you deal with smaller numbers. When you're dealing with 10 cards you feel like you probably don't have it to begin with. When it's 1 in 3, you feel like you're closer.
I raise your anecdotal evidence with my anecdotal evidence.

I know 5 people personally who own iPads. All are over 30, two are male, 3 are female and all except 1 are what I'd consider "normal" people (non tech type people). I also happened to sit behind two people using them on the train on Friday. Oh, and I'm most definitely not in the valley.
Faith that a Creator exists without verifiable proof is inherently unchangeable -- that's why it's called faith. How one chooses to arrive at, or express that faith certainly may be subject to change.
How would you design security procedures? ... What about seriously toned down security like we have been doing for decades prior to 911 and just accepting that once in a while a plane gets blown up?
Michael Arrington: That's not really how things work.

See, an unsensational headline of "First-Class Emailer Challenges Grumpy Flight Attendant In-Flight" wouldn't generate any clicks.
Wow. Fuck this website.

I go to read the article. BAM, a social networking bar. Then actual inline popup bubbles, a-la Microsoft Clippy. "Do you need help reading an article?".

I want your content, not your bullshit. Fucking Web 2.0.
Are you implying that people would buy it, just because it's made by Apple (like they all went out and bought Apple TVs), or that if Apple were to make one it would actually be worth buying?
The most fun I've had in a game on Linux is Warsow ( http://www.warsow.net/?page=media ).
What's more : with online check-in I am not even asked for Id prior to boarding on my recent flights from Zurich. Just download your boarding pass to your mobile, go through security in ten minutes and board the plane. I used to arrive 2 hours in advance for a flight and now I am cutting that down to 1 hour just to be on the safe side.
I'm confused here - according to Wikipedia, (coital) prostitution is illegal in Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Japan

As you say, it takes a lot for the police to get involved - I'll speculate that they only pay attention when the monthly envelope of cash is light.

That isn't the model pushed by most advocates of legal prostitution that I've heard - most want prostitution to be legal in the same way that restaurants are. It actually takes very little to get the authorities to come take a look at your restaurant - complaints of a roach or the computer randomly selecting you for an inspection are usually sufficient.
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I believe it will become more popular if gaming takes it and runs. Virtually any game released on PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Xbox, Wii, N64... you know with 3D design can easily (more easily than a 2D video) be converted on the fly into 3D because it's already being created in 3D and 'broadcast' as a 2D image.
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Well, I think one of the distinctions that has to be made is investment debt vs consumer debt. OP for this thread is talking about debt for education (an investment), which typically comes with the expectation that getting that education will increase their earning capacity. The scenario you describe implies consumer debt. Someone with $200k in consumer debt is a very different animal from someone with $100k in education debt.
This device is not without controversy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10412057

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito#Opposition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito#Legal_status

http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/issues/young-peoples-...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-513822/Buzz-Outcry-C...
way off topic, but i can't resist:

> soon Cox College of Nursing and Health Sciences, where Rose was attending nursing school, refused Richard access, too. Stories started appearing about Rose and her monkey in the newspaper and on TV. “Suddenly,” she told me, “everyone knew I had a mental disorder.”

a monkey on one's back! idiom origin revealed!
The most widely used spam filter was written in Perl - http://spamassassin.apache.org/

Spend a couple of minutes thinking about why on in Java or C++ (the answer is - tons of modules it uses).

Now try harder question - why not in Ruby or Python? ^_^

The world is the way it is, because it got that way. ^_^
Yes, disrupt that space.
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Take a look at this HN co-founder wish list: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgCvDTyBjHdOdDFfMEN...
Java EE has something very similar to 0MQ in the form of JMS.

I've worked with JMS, and no. Maybe my implementation was flawed. (Weblogic) IIRC, you needed 5 different objects of 5 different classes just to do anything.
Lack of 3D TV standards - which causes the previous problem.

That's not true - there is a 3D broadcast standard. There's no standard glasses/TV interface, but that is a separate problem

Decreased 2D quality

There's no reason why 3D TVs should have decreased 2D quality. IF they do that's a problem with the current implementations, but something that is fixable.

I think the only hope for 3D TV is gaming. Everything else seems pointless to me.
Gaming. And 3D games might just save the 3D TV industry from being a complete flop.
Ask HN: "Work on something that matters to you more than money."
Tim O'Reilly mentioned in one of this blog posts: "Work on something that matters to you more than money...."[http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-fir.html]...

I'm a hacker and also a pickup artist and would like to ask you for advice. I really really love tackling the problem of social dynamics, picking up women is something I love doing, yet I'm very keen on creating a business. I don't really like programming, it gets boring, I dont find it as challenging, nor design.

It seems like the only thing I really have fun doing and always find a challenge to tackle is the pickup artist society/social dynamics...

Any advice?

Thanks!
It's a great variant for teaching about probability, because switching is the right answer, even if you don't then get the prize. Sometimes you switch, but choose the wrong one of the two.

So for bonus points, what values of 10, 2 and 6 make this a 50-50 proposition? More particularly, what does the relationship between 10, 2 and 6 have to become?
It's an unsubtle nod to spark http://sparkviewengine.com/
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Do you have evidence for this?

(Note: I'm looking for something a bit stronger than "Country X has gun prohibition, a different social structure, different demographics and different laws, and has lower homicide rate than Country Y which does not have gun prohibition.")
Weirdly, actually having it doesn't seem to make a huge difference to me.

It does to me. But, then, I'm the bibliophile son of a librarian. So the new world manifests as a continuous series of oddnesses: I'm purging my book and map and magazine collection, and it is getting much smaller, and that is weird. The web changes the habits of a lifetime.

It is hard to perceive long-term changes, even when they are big.
No, it's not reasonable. Half the plane keeps their computer on after the notice to turn them off. Half of those are wearing headphones and don't hear it, and the other half just don't care (there is, after all, no real reason for this rule). On no flight I've taken in the past 5 years have I ever turned off an electronic device the moment the cabin was notified.

I've never seen someone get yelled at for it. If I got yelled at over it, I'd complain to the airline. What happened to this guy seems worse.
Concrete suggestions:
1. Accept profiling as a legitimate tactic.
2. Open up the airports closed to general aviation post-9/11.
3. Reduce the time spent outside the secure area, partially for the convenience and efficient use of passenger's time, but more importantly to prevent the massing of people in a confined space, subject to attack by trivially prepared terrorists. You could do a signficant amount of damage in the average security line, and your preparation required would be measured in hours or days, not months/years. With a poison gas attack, you wouldn't even have to die yourself, though perhaps that misses the point for some terrorists?

Frankly, keeping the guns and knives confined to checked baggage, and making it possible to get from Boston to NYC door to door faster than the train, and you're on to something. I believe we've gotten to the point where we're exposing the travelling public to a higher rather than lower level of risk by the current security measures.
A black president, whose father is from Kenya and mother is from Kansas, being elected President of the United States is a tiny pony.

When does the magic of a situation fade?

I guess that guy hasn't seen any poll numbers lately. It's still pretty cool that we elected a black president, but the magic faded a while ago.
This is based on Harmony by MrDoob.
Example: http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/
Fork on Github: http://github.com/mrdoob/harmony

Its a great bit of work, the brush engine is simple to pick up too.

I really wish deviantART would fork the github repo, its not a drastic departure from the current source. i'd love to see how the WACOM integration works!

I wonder how many people have paid for the extras in the DA version.
"at the end of the day you can't prove nor disprove there is a God"

Correct. In the same way you can't disprove that a race of super intelligent massive squid like monsters live at the center of the earth.

There are an infinite number of things which:

1.) We have no evidence that they exist

2.) They don't exist

There are only a finite number of things which:

1.) We have no evidence that they exist

2.) They exist

What puts God into the second category rather than the first? The first contains unimaginably more things...
Chomskyan libertarianism?

I'm not very familiar with Chomsky, but as I recall he has opposed freedom of speech, freedom of contract (for low skill workers), and favors taking wealth from some and giving to others by force. Wikipedia describes him as a socialist.

That sounds like the exact opposite of libertarianism to me. Could you explain what you mean by the term?
Emulated 3D - similar to how oldschool NES/SNES games did "3D" games. Each sprite is simply scaled down to make it appear further away. Transforms are used as well for the rotation of the node joints. The hardest part of all this is probably just the z-order business (the z-axis stacking).
I agree. But those who need to buy a new TV anyway may end up getting some 3D TV to be future-proof... then all you need it's a bit of spin doctor magic telling everyone how many 3D TV are out there, and bang: instant success.

... or maybe I am just cynical. :)

But yeah, don't you think that long-term thinking people may end up buying 3D systems just because? If the 2D quality is not any worse for it, I fear that may very well be the avenue to sell it.