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Essentially the pagefile.sys (which at a high level is a massive memory mapped file that Windows uses for virtual memory) gets stored on a flash drive. It very much helps the overall responsiveness of a computer that doesn't have enough RAM to do without a pagefile.sys -- especially if they have a slow hard drive (I inadvertently installed Vista on a slow computer and this helped quite a bit).

ReadyBoost is different from PreFetch (they are features you can turn off/on independent of each other) which I believe you are referring to when you mention "pre-loading". The wikipedia article is decent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost
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If he were carrying it on his person perhaps, but it was mentioned that it was in a pocket of pants in packed luggage. Considering the proliferation of bullets in the US, smuggling them in one at a time in your stowed luggage seems a little inefficient to me.
There might be a bit of confusion here. In the post that you replied to directly, I am referring to Henrietta Lacks, not the Greenbergs.
As someone else who has been using tablets for a long time (going back to Windows 3.11 for Pen on a Compaq Concerto), the key difference between these devices and the iPad is their choice of a reasonable input device: a pen. Mushing around with your fingers on a surface you have to otherwise actively avoid touching (such as by resting your wrist on the surface), implying your fat hands and fingers are covering the thing you are trying to draw/write and you are relying on the fine posture control of one or two fingers for precision input (something many users don't have, and which I can already feel slipping away at the relatively young age of 28) is utterly ineffective.
WakeMate without any 'additional' science

The science of monitoring motion for sleep analysis is called Actigraphy and necessitates the sensor being placed on the user's wrist. WakeMate prototyped a 'phone only' solution and it was very inaccurate and therefore never released.
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I travel a lot and have made many border crossings. Like anyone who travels a lot, occasionally I get searched.

The first time this happened, I would stand there passively and take questions. This seems to be most people's default reaction.

Now, however, I take a bit more initiative - I help a customs officer unpack my things, and I intentionally point out things they'd want to question me about and explain their usage. For instance, I was stopped flying into London from Barcelona, and I had some Spanish anti-inflammatories, anti-biotics, and a freezable gell-pack for my knee for after working out.

I said, "Sir, I'm going to unpack this part of my bag. I've got medicine in here - the Spanish equivalent of tylenol and antibiotics that I bought at a pharmacy, and a gel pack. I have these because I have a knee injury, and I also work out, but I need to take care of my knee after workouts."

Then - no problem. I used to travel with some audio/visual equipment that would get searched like crazy, until I started saying, "I've got some A/V equipment with me, I make short little snippets when I travel. I'm not a formal journalist, it's just a hobby. I can explain what any of it does, if you need me to."

This kind of preemptively explaining medicine, electronics, etc. would've probably helped this guy. "Excuse me, officer, I collected some weird artifacts while traveling. This here was a gift I received from a child in XYZ city, I bought these books while traveling since I was trying to learn about the influencers of the culture and they came sold in a pack together, etc, etc..."

Take the initiative, be polite and friendly and explain well. It'll help, especially if you have things they'd typically question you about.
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HAHAHA. I wish! So far, everything's taken 5-10 times longer than what I hoped.
Sometimes it confuses me when people say they code this huge number of hours per week.

To me a large portion of coding (over 75%) is just sitting down and thinking about the problem. Most of coding these days is about researching libraries, designing, playing around rather than typing.

Try to be more effective in these bursts. Use tools that help you get ideas to code faster.
1. Okay, but this is not relevant to the story in question (see point 4).

2. Okay, but this is not relevant to the story in question (see point 4).

3. Okay, but this is not relevant to the story in question. (see point 4)

4. I'm willing to cede this and the previous 3 with regard to the parent. The question then becomes, do you believe in religious freedom enough to take the risk, or would you rather remove this threat and lose the religious freedom? The hypocrisy of subverting the constitution in order to protect the constitution is untenable. If you are truly concerned about this, it seems you should be explicitly campaigning for an amendment to the constitution to more strictly define the "acceptable" religions. If you're too ashamed to explicitly get behind that, it shouldn't be hidden by unwritten policies of arbitrary harassment of certain religions.

5. I'm embarrassed someone on Hacker News would except that video as "legitimate interpretation". The fundamental factual errors about the Qur'an and Islam would be comical if it wasn't juxtaposed by the sadness of meeting someone that actually believed that without independent research. (Nearly?) every factual statement made to support the opinions presented is factually incorrect:

(a) "The Qur'an is not full of symbolism or vague analogies-- implicitly stating that the New/Old Testament are "full" of symbolism and vague analogies and not meant to be taken literally- a self-serving, unsupportable implication.

(b) It is mostly direct commands-- false, by far, by any interpretation of "mostly"

(c) The Qur'an contains contradictory statements-- he seems to be confused about abrogated verses- actually, any statements of early Islam that were abrogated later were removed from the Qur'aan before its final compilation as a book.

(d) The Qur'an ITSELF provides a way to know what to with the "contradictions"-- ??? this simply does not exist

(e) "It's explained in the Qur'aan.... "-- Again, this does not exist. It's simply a bald-faced fabrication.

(f) The peaceful tolerant passages were "written" earlier in Muhammad's career-- again, false. The earlier passages did not deal with either peace or war, they dealt mostly with self-rectification. The later verses, after the establishment of a monolithic Islamic community with communal dealings with the outside world, added to that verses with guidance regarding both peace and war.

(g) "those passages have been abrogated..."-- see point c- if that were so, they would have been removed entirely during compilation

(h) "There is no picking and choosing" -- finally an accurate statement

That brings me to 2:54, and I'm too bored to continue answering nonsense that any 10 year old Muslim sunday schooler could have responded to.

6. See 5.

7. See 6 and 4.

Yeah, I just pulled a http://xkcd.com/386/ But you know what, it was cathartic after reading some of the embarrassing comments on this piece. I just picked the most ridiculous one and went to town.
Not railing totally on your comment, because the idea is on track, but black market booze is silly. Alcohol is just ridiculously easy to create. If you have a source of sugar, or starches and source of amalyse enzymes (your saliva has them if you're desperate) and yeast (open air is sufficient), you have alcohol. It takes a moderately equipped kitchen and a little bit of storage room and ingenuity, but it's an amazingly simple task.

Anyone with internet access should be able to sidestep this problem altogether. Manufacturing MDMA or Meth at least requires acquiring lab equipment and some fairly dangerous chemicals, plus some knowledge of chemistry, which is understandably above the abilities of some people. But any idiot can make booze.
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Just a thought, but maybe consider offering the ladies a bigger percentage? They're the ones doing the actual answering and you're taking 50%... Or, maybe increase the cost per question so that they get paid more (but still, you should probably give them a slightly bigger chunk).

Just a suggestion though, maybe $1 is enough.
Thanks, I am also thinking about hiring remote workers for ML style stuff, so this is very helpful indeed.
You can do a PTR/A lookup to check if an IP is legit Googlebot or not though. It's possible they're doing that.
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Ah, the high road! I'm glad somebody actually understood the message of the rally, and witheld from blowing a nonexistent conflict out of proportion for some fleeting eyeballs.
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Based on all the comments here (and the comments left on swype related threads) I have to wonder if I'm the only person who is genuinely happy with the iPhone keyboard? I can type extremely fast and extremely accurately on it. I honestly don't think either Swype or 8pen would improve my wpm.
Most probably misreprorting. Pro is a flat rate of $4.99
By the way, at http://slexy.org/view/s2QFWeNxZo is a (horrible) regular expression you can pop into "grep -xe" to test decimal numbers for divisibility by 7. (Found with a Haskell programm I wrote via conversion from the DFA.)
Hmm, I'm guessing that sidejacking attacks don't count. Orkut is vulnerable.
Between your current two, I would say Facebook because it sounds like you'll enjoy yourself more there.

That said, you also say:
"My dream is to one day create my own startup (possibly right out of college)"

In that case, I would recommend a funded startup with something on the order of 5 employees. I've never worked at a larger company so I can't bash them, but I could say my experience at a small company still in "startup mode" helped me tremendously with my own startup.
A regular expression to test for divisibility by 7
Just pop it into "grep -ex". I know the regexp is horrible. But I did not have time to make the program that created the regexp, clean it up as well, yet.
It feels like programming with websockets, except that it works with every browser that people are likely to use. Socket.io is wonderful.
I want to know if you really have these "ladies" who will answer these questions or is it just a mock up of what your plan is. Or in other words, is this a joke?
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Not quite to a typical engineering process but I'm guessing it's much better than a typical open source project where people just keep hacking the code and do not care much the quality (security, performance, code quality, etc).

I think the idea is that developers should have some sort of SOP (Standard Operating Procedure). I know some people will moan when they heard that abbreviation, especially if people just want to "hack some code".

It comes down to discipline and professionalism really.

Interesting video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pkyDUX5uM

"Twelve years ago OpenBSD developers started engineering a release process that has resulted in quality software being delivered on a consistent 6 month schedule -- 25 times in a row, exactly on the date promised, and with no critical bugs. This on-time delivery process is very different from how corporations manage their product releases and much more in tune with how volunteer driven communities are supposed to function. Developer and testing laziness is mostly circumvented and leader frustration is kept to a minimum. The reasons, mechanics and social workings of our process have never been detailed outside the project, but now will be, hopefully providing some insight to others who face delays and quality issues with their own product lines."
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Under a certain demographic, is it the higher the bid (for CPM), the more impressions you would get?
We are not ready for immortality yet. Just think of the strain it would put on the already overpopulated earth. Resources are already scarce and we are searching for more efficient ways of using energy. Moral, Economic and Social Consequences would be disastrous.
> A single bit of data loss is a data loss, no matter what the file size is.

Sure, but in a lossy JPEG, or a heavily compressed video file, a single bit in a single frame of a two hour movie really isn't going to matter much.
As crazy as this time feels right now, it gets worse/better over time. Whatever you're doing now, it will be more in 5 years time. You will look back and ask yourself, "how could I have been so naive?" But at the same time, you couldn't imagine what more you could have known. And this continues, it develops and expands. If you take it for what it is, it's incredibly exciting, because it means the best days are still to come.
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I sympathize and agree. For those who don't know, the word "decimate" comes from a practice of the Roman army in which they would kill one out of every ten soldiers as a punishment for mutiny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)
This is a great list but it strikes me as just a list of The Realities. The harsh bit is that you will work 80 hours a week for weeks and months for no money, that you will prioritise your coding and design time over friends and family and may loose some along the way, that you will fund marketing with your rent and servers with your food budget, and that if you are successful in doing this you are statistically likely to be a rather disappointing "profitable small business" rather than the internet rockstar Social Network sensation your friends associate with entrepreneurship.

The nice bit is that if you have your feet planted firmly on the ground, all of that is probably OK with you.
For something as personal as a mobile phone. I am not surprised.

For a start, not everyone wants a phone everyone else have. And since Apple only come out with one model of iPhone every year, well...
As a quick rule of thumb, any time a mainstream science article mentions the word "immortality", it should become suspect. People say silly things when they view age extension through the highly mythologized lens of "mortality versus immortality", rather than seeing it as a difficult set of scientific and engineering challenges, each of which merely extends your life expectancy.

For example, suppose that we had medical treatments to prevent cancer, almost all infectious diseases, and aging. Your life expectancy goes up, but sooner or later you're going to be hit by a bus or something -- not exactly eternal life. But still a darn sight better than having a mere 8 years as your life expectancy.
For those Python developers who want to try socket.io, there's an implementation of server part of socket.io in Python: http://www.gelens.org/code/gevent-websocket/
As an aside, I find it interesting that you're Gold 1v1 and Bronze 2v2. I'm Silver 1v1 and Gold 2v2. I'm not convinced the ranking system for 2v2 and above works very well.
The image kinda reminds me of an abstract human heart.
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Nonsense. Human beings have turned thinning our own population when resources are contested into a science and that's before you factor in the odds of any true immortal being torn to shreds by the masses of have-nots doomed to a "normal" human lifespan.
Because unicode support still sucks in a lot of ways. The '—' character doesn't display always properly on my Prē, for example.
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Yep, exactly right. I'm just going by the fact that they probably need to optimize for running time first of all, as this will need to run in real time (or so I assume). GAs would make this very hard, even if the results are good enough.
Rauchg: I'm sorry I didn't check back in with the changes I suggested (using a filtering function in listener.broadcast as a complement to an array with exceptions).

I have the implementation down but I'm struggling with the tests. I wanted to create tests for all means of calling with exceptions, and I think I have the other ones down.

I'll ping you when I get it fixed, promise!

Edit: Thanks again for your work, Socket.IO is really great!
Sucks for Reddit, but it's a great opportunity for Chris. Hipmunk fills a niche in a highly monetizeable market, and getting on early suggests to me that he'll get equity. Things are looking good for the team at Hipmunk.
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I'm not going to say that this program is useless, but the example shown (7 roach) would have been near trivial to find by a mere human. Tricks like premaking the overlord, using extractor trick, etc. Have been around for over 10 years since the early days of Starcraft 1. Any person could come up with this build, the question is where did the idea to rush for 7 roaches come from? It sounds like that was manually set as the target goal by the creator.

I have yet to see a programs which is better than human at finding optimal builds. But what programs do excel at is simulating a build so you can see how the timings work out, allowing you to find your own build by experimentation and tweaking. Sure a program can help automate some very minor fine tuning details (which would be easy to find but perhaps tedious).
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This argument seems silly when the world is already full of code like "self.view.frame" and almost any class uses @properties, which are very natural to access with dot notation.

Of course it's important to realize what dot notation actually does behind the scenes and use it properly. But I don't think that's so hard. The author just seems to be clinging to old ways out of stubbornness.
Yeah here's Google's cached version:
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Do you "trust" your iPhone to auto-correct?

One thing I've found helps a lot is to just allow yourself to finish a word with a mistake in it and hit space, assuming the auto-correct will get it right. It feels backwards at first, but I think "scrolling" or "backspacing" through text requires a lot more of your attention/a context switch than just correcting at the end of a word.
I completely agree with your argument for giving fair consideration. But put this aside, customer have the rights to choose their desired platform right? And since this is for government, they should have valid reason with their choice.
Ask HN: Is there any good reason to use Google Checkout?
I will be selling my software online soon. Is there any reason why I should support Google Checkout?

I would love to just use Google's solution, but I'm not sure there's a reason since PayPal has such a large market share.
Amazing story.

As stated in the article, assuming we do figure out how to make people live forever (or a very long time), Who is allowed to use it? The rich? The fastest? Strongest? Smartest?

Everyone can't live forever, there would be too many people. Unless we move to colonize space of course.
I agree with all of that, except GDP. In an age of Fiat currency, GDP is nothing more than a proverbial phallus measuring contest. Paper is paper, is paper. Show me a real currency backed by something (Sorry, "faith" in the government doesn't count), and we can talk about progression on the GDP front.

Beyond that, surely child mortality, literacy, and poverty are enough to prove your point, GDP doesn't really even fit!
Well, at the end of the article, there was mention of a 40 year old in the body of a 10 year old boy. We can probably observe him to see if such people can have abnormally long lifespans.
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To all those complaining about the article title:

a) Yes, you are correct that the article itself only talks about iPhones, not all iOS devices. The title here is wrong and should be corrected.

b) A quick Google search found Apple sold 14.1m iPhones, 9m iPods, 4.19m iPads in Q4 2010[1]. If Android Phones (devices?) outsold iPod 2:1, then Android still outsold iOS - although one might argue that ~1 million difference is possibly within the error bounds of the research.

The only thing that is unclear is if things like the Dell Streak and Samsung Tab are counted as "smartphones" for the purposes of this research. If they aren't then the lead Android has in Q4 shipped units increases slightly. Either way, I'm not sure these devices are shipping in significant enough numbers to move the results much.

[1] http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-q4-2010...
I think I still own the paper copy of this one:

http://books.google.com/books?id=rAAAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1...

Perhaps now I'll finally be able to bring myself to throw it out.
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Good point re: reviews as motivation to visit their site. Being an ecommerce guy, I was thinking "content" being product data related to products (and delivery/customer service) that Amazon itself actually sells vs. product data (and services) provided by 3rd party merchants (like me).
More importantly, did you see that you can pay less (significantly less) for less nines?
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Ask HN: Using Membase for your project?
We're thinking of using Membase for our next project.

Anyone using it for their current projects? How has your experience been with it?
I know it's only one part of your comment, but Steven Pinker argues very convincingly that human violence is at an all time low, even when including events like WWII.

Ted talk: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth...

Chart of warfare deaths: http://www.martincwiner.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/maled... (Note: that last one includes 2 world wars!)

Edge article: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/pinker07/pinker07_index.html
We have a significant % of customers who use google checkout. Not sure the breakdown of Paypal vs Google checkout. Some people (myself included) prefer the simplicity of using their same Gmail account that they're probably already logged into vs Paypal. The more options the more better, if the integration doesn't give you too much trouble. The more ways to say "you don't have to give me your credit card info" the happier the customer.
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