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To offer a countering point of view, my 4 year old MacBook started dying on me yesterday - if I hold it wrong it reboots, so I had to go looking for a replacement. I ended up going for a new MacBook Pro 13" for several reasons:
- I like being able to rip DVDs and watch them on my iPhone. It's one of the cheapest ways of watching TV series, if you don't mind not being up to date with the latest episodes...
- 4gb RAM. More RAM never hurt anybody in the speed stakes.
- Firewire - I work quite a lot with video, so being able to suck stuff in over Firewire 800 is a very nice feature to have.
- And then, last but not least, battery-life. The MacBook Pro is a beast for battery life, and that is very important for me.

Some of the advantages of the Air include the fact that the screen resolution is better than my MacBook (but as I'm used to the MacBook resolution, it's what I currenty have, I'm sure I won't miss it)
SSD drive, but I'm thinking that that is more about headroom on my MacBook Pro. In a couple of years time when it starts to feel a bit old and slow, I'll pop in an SSD (which should be cheaper by then), and my machine will get a new lease of life.

Just as an aside, my use case is mostly centered around programming in XCode and Textmate, but this is my principal machine at home, so lots of web surfing is also done.
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Double shot of freshly ground Kotowa Red with a splash of half and half an one fifth of decent bourbon.
In no particular order, what I drink day to day I vary with no set routine. For personal health reasons I've cut out fats/simple sugars/alcohol/carbs from my diet so this list is much smaller then it used to be.

* Iced Tea and Arnold Palmer's

* Americano's

* Diet Barq's

* Water

* Fat Free Milk
Yeah, basically there's a point where you come to an ultimatum: "Do I want chess to be my life?" and we chose no -- simple as that. And it seems we're both happy we took that path! :)
Algebraic multigrid is usually called in the same way as a direct solver. For example, there are three distributed-memory parallel algebraic multigrid packages (and a bunch of other methods, direct and iterative) that may be used as runtime options with PETSc's same Solve call.
There are a number of places that carry Orangina these days, Trader Joes for example.
Free time: Water
Restaurants: Coke
Cafe: The arabic tea my favorite coffee shop serves
Cafe: Black coffee
Off Time: New Belgium's 1554
Having talked at many conferences there are a bunch things I do:

# Practice, seems simple but when I don't then it will not be as good as when I do.

# Go early and talk to a couple of the people that will be watching the talk. This calms me down as I now have a couple people on myside. It backfired once when I started talking to someone and they turned out to be a jackass, but I moved onto someone else.

# Use the people I talked to as my eye contact, there now friends I should be able to look at them

# Take everything out of my pockets and anything I might start fiddling with off.

# Slide Remote is key as you can interact with audience better.

# Simple slides - one phrase or simple list is usually best, for tech talks I write a snippet on the slide

# Pause and Breathe, it may seem like a long time since the previous word but its not. This tends to be why people start adding filler words (aww, like...)
Can't you also use OpenMP for the quick-fix "parallel map" abstraction? The typical C way of mapping an operation is to do it in a loop, and if the loop iterations don't depend on each other (as in the mapping case), you can just add a "#pragma omp parallel for" at the top of the loop to make it execute via the worker pool.
The founders are the foundation of the house. The product is the house. While the product (in the broader sense, including e.g. customer support) is ultimately what's going to make money, you won't get a good product without good founders.

Since we see startups so early, it's rarely a choice for us of founders vs products, but rather founders vs ideas for products. Between those two, founders are the more important.
> Lagavulin

Absofuckingloutley.

This particular spirit has been my drink of choice for the last two weeks or so.
Visit:

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Rooibos tea - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooibos
as a beginner to programming - what programming languages / platform you used for it
Water, coffee, protein-things as I'm lifting

Alo Drink: http://www.alodrink.com/
The citrus, melon, and wheatgrass flavors are the best.
As ohers said, it is a very subjective qestion. Personally, my hands start to hurt after about 15 minutes typing on a "real" keyboard.

That being said, the ergonomics of using a laptop-style keyboard is usually much better when it is external than when it is connected to a computer. The thinness of the Air might change this though, haven't tried it yet.
You just named my two favourite scotches.

Strangely enough, I've also identified Macallan and Glenlivet as two scotches that are less pleasant than they "should" be, given their price. This must be characteristic of having an Islay gene.

Talisker is also high up on my list.
Water, diet coke, coke. Beer: standards are fat tire and heinekens. If a recent trip was made to wisconsin, spotted cow beer(I'm in Illinois so it's not available here)
Indeed, and apparently this makes sense with applications as they are today. Running each app in its own container, virtualisation-style, wouldn't be usable.
Water

Lattes

Blue Moon, or any other hefeweisen on tap

Gin and tonic, either Hendricks or Tanqueray

I only got addicted to caffeine 2 or 3 years ago, but now I feel tired without it. And the sheer variety of beers astounds me.
The hard part is "in such a way that maintains an acceptable access time for 10,000 concurrent users". That's what you pay EMC the big bucks for.

Tho' I have an idea, you could "shard" the storage by placing a "volume" actually inside everyone's desktop computer...
Armin Ronacher is a stone cold badass. He created Flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/
Water (Probably about 1.5 liters a day)
Beer (Cases of Stone IPA from costco are nice)
Kombucha and Ginger beer that I brew myself
Mexican Coke (Sometimes with whiskey)
I try to get iced tea at restaurants (with lemonade if they have it)
Eight of my friends invited me to go with them to Europe. Working on a startup, I was pretty hesitant because of the financial hit. To make ends meet, I ate out less and spend a lot less time and money shopping online.

In the end, I had an amazing time over there and it'll probably be one of the most memorable experiences of my life.
Coca-cola. It's bad but I loves it.
Yesterday, I spent a half hour fighting with Kayak's UI in order to find a one-way flight from DC to Seattle, and never found what I was looking for. I decided to give Hipmunk a try and found exactly what I needed in under a minute.

The next time I need to buy a plane ticket, Hipmunk will be the first place I go.

So, yes.
Water

Fruit juices: Orange, Apple, Carrot/Orange blends

Ethanol: A home concoction I dubbed "Blood of the Kraken"- two parts Old Monk rum, one part Teacher's scotch, a full lemon squeezed in. Never, ever, more than a double peg.
All day - water, tons

6am Coffee

9am More coffee

12pm Iced green tea

1pm Coffee

3pm More coffee

6pm-9pm Wine, sake, or a few Manhattans (beer when I was in my 20's, but no longer)

Hangover hack: set a time cutoff and NEVER drink past that time, no matter what. That time can be > midnight when you're young, but move it back by an hour every few years.
please stop creating such groups. What do you want to do that can not be done at HN ?
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Yeah, that's a commonly mentioned problem with citation-counting. Much like linkbaiting on the internet, a poor-quality paper taking an inflammatory position can get a lot of citations from people debunking it. Another problem is throwaway citations: some paper gets cited as a generic example, rather than because it provides anything valuable that the paper citing it actually draws on.

Unfortunately, it's much harder to come up with better measures. Given a smallish corpus of a few hundred papers, humans could read through them and annotate each citation with things like, "cited to debunk", "cited to distinguish related work", "cited for general background", "cited in passing", "cited for result", etc. But computers are not yet very good at doing that automatically, so the large-scale citation analysis just does dumb citation-counting.
I don't understand why boot-up time is an issue for a laptop. I cannot remember the last time I rebooted my MBP; the only time it gets switched off is when I have to install security updates which is pretty rare.

Using an Air as your main development machine seems odd to me - I want a large display so that I can read docs/papers and have emacs open at the same time. I also want good separation between screen and keyboard for maintaining decent posture. I hate to use a laptop as my main machine for exactly that reason. My main development machine doesn't get picked up and moved around enough (at all?) to be worth using a high end laptop. For the same price as the machine at the top of the page you could buy a decent desktop and a 13" Macbook and lunch, I guess.
Water, milk, green tea, orange juice. Coffee, occasionally. Soda and energy drinks, I go by an "only if it's free" rule.

Alcoholic: Yuengling is my go-to beer, I'm not exactly picky and I'll drink just about anything if I'm looking to get drunk, which is usually. I love good Scotch and always drink it straight.
Chai, chai and some more chai. It is kind of milked tea but uniquely special to North Indians. In India, coffee is almost non-existent -- tea / chai rules the day.

Beer or vodka, mostly on weekends only (with friends).
Not wanting to discredit Innes' quick thinking. Though this kind of incident does show the danger of policy favouring roads and more driving over mass transit/public transportation. The greater the number of cars on the road, the greater the odds that someone will have a lapse of concentration, consciousness or make some kind of error. It was lucky that someone was able to intervene in this instance, but in other instances there's nothing much anyone could do. Short of designing cars that stop when the driver is unconscious (trains have had technology to ensure the driver is conscious for some decades now).
Water: tap, a lot

Coffee: whatever I get at my local bakery. It's good. 3 cups a day.

Beer: mostly cheap stuff, PBR, Budweiser, High Life, etc.
"McCallan"? I hope you mean www.themacallan.com, but probably not.

Drop JW, Grouse, JB, Chivas etc, and start investigating single malt scotch. It's a whole new world. Try Macallan, Ardbeg, Bowmore.
In chrome hit shift+esc, find the flash plugin process and hit "end process", it'll restart itself automatically as necessary (you may have to refresh pages hosting flash elements).
Funny you mention JWB. I was at my local liquor shop on friday night grabbing a bottle of JW Black, my normal "non special occasion" scotch. The guy in front of me bought four bottles of Blue, all the stock the shop had.

I felt so jealous of being able to just casually drop a grand on scotch that I spent all weekend working on my startup.
Ask HN: Who Plays Go?
I play on http://www.gokgs.com/ sometimes, with the same name.

I'm not super incredible (maybe 2 dan). At my peak, when I was studying in Japan, I was close to 5 dan. A week before leaving Kyoto, I hooked up with a buddy (who was also visiting) to challenge the locals at a smoke-filled Go club. He was perhaps 2 dan at the time. We walked in and slaughtered the room. They could not match us. Ah, but they insisted we return the following evening.

We did.

Waiting for us were some of their strongest players. I was seated in front of Kyoto's most ruthless amateur player, who must have been a scrappy 7 dan. He was a squat old man with grizzly eyes and a staunch, "I'm gonna' mess you up" attitude. The desire for revenge in his gaze was unmistakable.

The knives came out, we threw down dragon after dragon, chase after chase, launching attack and counter-attack, the board was intense. Eyes of groups were abandoned, trades were made, and the shrewdness of his plays were like his gaze. In the end he won four out of five games, and I learned a lesson in humility. It was a great experience, would do it again in an eye-blink.

Go is such an amazing game, with a rich history, pervasive through Asia, and unsuspecting in its simplicity. It's also a great way to make friends around the world, and meet some truly remarkable people.

Any dan players care for a game?
i was referring to the chances of 5% of the papers giving wrong results. using pvalue as the chance of failure in each research paper , binomial can be used to find the probability that 5% of the papers are in correct
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* Plenty of Water
* Carbonated Drinks - Pepsi, Coke, Thums Up, 7up and M.Dew
* Green Tea, Coffee (black preferred)
* Haven't had alcohol in my life!
You don't put ice in single malt scotch.. a few drops of water is fine, according to your personal preferences, but no ice.
http://www.toms.com and to some extent http://www.source4style.com
Re: eBook info:
Try Google, using search terms: writing ebook

You'll get back links like this that might be helpful:

http://www.copyblogger.com/write-and-sell-ebook/

(which led to this: http://www.copyblogger.com/create-ebooks-that-sell/ )

http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/articles2/write_sell_ebooks...

The person behind that, btw, did this, which demonstrates, by example, how one can sell an ebook...by selling an ebook about creating and selling ebooks:
http://www.easyebookcreation.com/

This is barely even scratching the surface of what's out there.

Re: writing a book based on dealing with a medical issue:
http://www.infertilitydiet.com/story.html -- it's a regular book, but this demonstrates that there's a market for such content. (The author also has a line of books on getting published and the like, which is her main thing, if you want to put out dead-tree books, which are described here: http://www.pbjpress.com/).

Good luck.
I learned how to play in Taiwan and it's become my favorite board game.

I'm not very good though. Do you have any suggestions for improving?
Agreed. We sent material like you mentioned. But we need to focus more on it.
Office Hours (05am - 16pm)

Water, Tea and Coffee, no particular order, just get up from the chair every hour or so and make myself a cup of hot beverage (Tea or Coffee) and a cup or two of water.

At home, water only.

On Weekends, (evening standard):

I treat myself with a double shot of single malt (Glenmorangie) or cognac (Remy Martin), and/or very few beers on the after noons.
Why shouldn't they? They don't sell Flash player, they sell Adobe Flash described as "Create web designs and online experiences complete with interactive content, exceptional typography, high-quality video, and smooth animation for truly engaging web experiences," not "Create .swf files".

So, while faster HTML5 adoption would give them less time to adapt (therefore, they say that HTML5 is "not ready" -- honestly, true: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/c...), they need to adapt and show that they're adapting -- because otherwise the creatives that are currently using Flash could start considering options (currently few, but that too can change).

Something like "well, by the time iPad is too popular for flash-based websites to be viable, we will allow you to make HTML5, so stop worrying about that".
They're blockbuster driven, like other entertainment media. If you get a hit, you can make a million in a month.
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~10 glasses of water/day . ~2 coffee/day. 0.5 Redbull/day.
I really like bottled iced green tea (available throughout Asia, and often in the US). I used to be addicted to Diet Coke (2-8L/day), but now that I have easy access to bottled green tea for $1/ea, that and water are pretty much all I drink.

When I'm at home, I usually brew green tea and then drink it hot or iced, but for travel, something you can buy on the street in vending machines, 7-11, etc. is definitely worthwhile. I wish a fast food chain in the US would sell it.
Scientists gotta eat like everyone else, they will do what they need to do to get funding. It's why so much "climate science" is dodgy, the sky is falling! type research gets more headlines. Witness the recent report on the Himalayas melting for a perfect example of this phenomenon at work.
Hot tea in the Winter. Sarsaparilla in the Summer. Outside the house it's the one and only Coke.
Lots of innovative projects failed because they hit too early, when the market or the technology weren't ready yet. There were dozens of sites like Groupon back in 2000. Tablet computing has been around for 30 years, and it almost hit the mainstream with Palm, only to languish again, until Steve Jobs decided it was time to tackle it.

Besides, there aren't crowded markets. There are just markets you haven't segmented enough yet. http://www.ericsink.com/laws/Law_02.html
Matrix math is covered in a few classes, it's all the abstractions that state the same thing in 10 different ways. Gaussian elimination, determinants, subspaces, eigenvectors, etc that make it a full course.
It's actually because if you give users 100gig shared they will manage to use it and be slightly miffed about having to do housework on it every so often. But if you give users 1TB shared they will manage to use it and be slightly miffed about having to do housework on it every so often.
Anyone know a SF Bay Area store with a good selection of mechanical keyboards?
Dunno. Offhand, if the HG diet is berries and meat, and the farm diet is bread and more bread, could be. But we already kinda knew that bread and more bread wasn't the best diet; cavemen don't add more information if that's what was going on.

Basically, what I'm saying is that the truth about nutrition and caveman diets are conditionally independent given currently actually-known science about nutrition. If we didn't have science, and all you had was cavemen observations, that might be valid, but we do, so it's not.

(And by "currently actually-known science" I mean very basic things like that we can't make iron from scratch so if we don't eat stuff with iron in it then we get sick, and same with some amino acids, and same with noticing that if you eat 20 cheeseburgers a day you get fat quickly. Not stuff like whether fat is bad or good.)
Yes, it is. You should design your login system assuming that the username is public, of course (otherwise you would facilitate attacks targetet at a specific user), but for an attack on the site itself that needs just any one account, separate error messages reduce the complexity by several orders of magnitude.

Assume 8 characters out of A-Za-z0-9 for the username and 8 character out of 96 printable chars for the password. With a single error message, the search space is 62^8 times 96^8, with separate error messages it is 62^8+n times 96^8, with n being the number of users. This is far, far smaller if the number of users is noticably less then 62^8.

[edit: stupid comment parser ate math symbols]
For examples see
http://www.musanim.com/watch/

J. S. Bach's Air on a G-string, from his 3rd orchestral suite in D major on youtube (just for convenience, note that vimeo has better quality of his videos):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2j-frfK-yg

Or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 1st movement, Allegro
I've listened and compared my impression to the animation and now I see, even when looking at it the most interesting parts are not obvious to see but to hear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QHzI5HmXl4
I was once 11 kyu and improving, but I realised I was getting totally absorbed in the game. As a latent obsessive compulsive I gave it up. I'm pretty sure it was the right choice, but I retain deep respect and admiration for the game. Far, far better than chess.

Deep down I wish I still played ...
If you have some heavy computation parts that you could implement in some lower-level language like C, then you might want to check out Erlang again.

Erlang is really good at making the coordination layer efficient (the message passing and threads are fast) as well as usually rather clean. The original use-case for Erlang, telecomunication switches, are written in a mix of Erlang and C. The low level stuff (handling call-data and similar things) is handled by C, and the high-level structure of the program is in Erlang.
eBay: "Stamps? Coins? Comic books? You've GOT to be kidding. No-brainer pass."

Not saying that I would have made the right call on eBay, but I've learned to override myself whenever my gut reaction about a startup idea is a no-brainer either + or -. That kind of strong reaction often calls for a contrarian second opinion.
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Agreed on Tropicana fruit juice, including their orange and also their 100% fruit juice blends.

For apple, I like Simply Apple. It has a noticeably different (and better) taste from the standard juice aisle apple juices.
> This is one of the things that node.js is really good at

Why does every simple task motivate people to show some kind of "hello world" code in their favorite language and framework?

This web service is just a tiny exercise that is easily realized with a few lines in any language (even C or Bash) using any web server. In particular, I don't see in how far this code demonstrates the strengths of node.js.
In that vein, another microfinance institute I can think of is http://wokai.org
They focus on MFI projects in China.

A Singaporean startup called give.sg has been getting a lot of local press recently. It allows people to create fund-raising campaigns easily for their causes, while they take a
small percentage of donations for processing fees.
http://give.sg
I cringed when I read that. A splash of water is ok, but scotch is only drank on the rocks if it's mixed. If you really want to have it cold put a glass in the fridge serve your ambient temp scotch in it and let it stand for a minute or two.
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Help Cuddles dodge all the bullets fired at him by Flippy. How long can you survive? Good luck!
UK people are much of a muchness. Americans run a full-spectrum

I suspect in the UK you've unconsciously constructed an echo chamber around yourself, it's easy to do, especially in London where you can easily fall into a demographic/subculture and never interact with anyone else. Whereas when traveling you are out of your "comfort zone" and interact with a greater range of people.

People are people, and the UK has a reputation for eccentricity for a reason...