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> A scientist can create a new measure or a new tool.

Don't you mean, engineer a new tool :P

A Scientist is someone who accrues knowledge using the scientific method, that's it! Do you hypothesize, test and measure? Well then congrats, you're a scientist! All other distinctions are semantic and egotistically driven and unscientific.
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Unless they spent a ton of time making the cartoon

I'm thinking that promotional site cost somewhere in the five figure range to produce (perhaps less out of pocket, but if they were charging at their normal billing rates, certainly).

Edit: Crikey, I may be underestimating.
I agree that.
There are certain cognitive abilities that improve with practice. You'll find that you can get faster at most things you practice if you're able to do them already. A well known example is games like "Brian Age" on the Nintendo DS and Wii. If you play them often you will definitely see improvements on your performance in the exercises in the game, however not in general, as has been recently proven [1].

Intuitively I'd say that your cognitive ability isn't (to put things simple) a value but a range, and you can train yourself by studying to be higher within your range. I believe there are actual physical barriers that don't allow you to push over your "range" - or we'd see obsessed people turning into Savants.

(Regarding your marijuana point: I have seen the impact of daily pot smoking on friends, and it is quite real. I have also seen the effect go away when they stopped smoking. Sounds like a cliché out of a book on morals, but it is the truth)

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7610884/Popular...
Nevertheless, there were a lot of dramas when ext4 first came across to the mainstream Linux distros (as per the extra reading links in the blog post.)

So I can see why Google want to make it perfectly clear that this is happening.
Try the logo lab, or if you don't feel like it, the direct download

http://mit.edu/graphicidentity/logo/forweb.html
The last few studies I've seen on moderate alcohol use have concluded that its short-term effects on the brain aren't necessarily cumulative over the long term, as opposed to conventional wisdom.
No huge impact on Scientology as a whole, but it did raise awareness about the cult which I consider a good thing.
I'm confused. A few years ago, the perceived wisdom was that dedicated flash filesystems like yaffs2/jffs are better (performance & longevity-wise) for running on flash devices than more general block filesystems like ext4/3/2.

What am I missing here? Are flash controllers, or the mtdblock kernel layer, now smarter than they were previously?
I would call made up statistics about the greatness of your framework (11x better!) hilariously inflammatory. In fact the humorous depth of the statements' detachment from reality kinda takes any real power to incite away from them.
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I guess we have to thank Netflix for this? :D
It might, but at the same time, I doubt that the difference would be noticable if he only realized it once the doctors were puzzled at how he was alive.
Lego gears only come in specific sizes (and therefore are limited to certain ratios).
To follow exactly the RFC.
Why not? There's timing events and etc that should operate at a high enough resolution for any such syncing.
Chrome with Crankshaft (which is currently only for 32-bit architecture) is faster on Kraken than Firefox nightly.

http://www.arewefastyet.com/awfy2.php?machine=9
I don't like "webapps" in general. I prefer command-line programs
True.

My point is the design of Chrome OS doesn't seem to have superusers in mind.
side note, the church did send out some aggressive DVD & pamphlet sets claiming anonymous was a terrorist organization to anyone they pegged at a protest.
There is a whole branch of philosophy that deals with this: aesthetics.

There is a gentleman called Theodor Adorno, and he wrote some very interesting coverage of the area, and influenced a number of important aestheticians. Definitely worth checking out.
I think it's funny too. Watching videos make me sweat like crazy but actually climbing doesn't do it as much. It makes climbing tougher but you can chalk up and it helps a lot.
Even worse is our definition of temperature... it should really be the reciprocal. The thermodynamic definition is:

1/T = dS/dE where S is entropy and E is energy

dS/dE has a nice intuitive ring to it "if I put a small amount of energy into the system, how will its entropy change", but since we declare that to be 1/T we allow crazy things like negative and infinite temperatures (these actually exist - and the negative temperatures are hotter than the positive ones).
What's it going to cost you to host this thing if it replaces 4chan?
hmm what if you 301 redirected (if http) the ddos flood back at 4chan, would that end up disabled their site?
Re: mundane things I do - When I sit down to start 'producing' something I will write a short list of to-do items (as few as 3-4) and try to cross off the first one as soon as possible. This first thing could be "purchase xyz domain" or "download latest version of Wordpress".

The act of crossing off something gives my mind a mental high and I then become really productive as I add more items and begin crossing them off.

Another strange thing I do is I will close down all programs and restart my computer. Once it starts up I will only open the one or two programs I need to use because it feels much 'cleaner' or perhaps 'fresh' when I do it like this. I think this may be due to my experiences in the past with windows and memory leaking programs and TSRs.
lint(1) [or splint(1)] is your friend.

Or use "gcc -Werror" when compiling.

C is like a sharp knife: in skilled hands, it can do wonders. Unskilled hands end up missing a finger or two.
Based on my experience watching non-techy users using browsers, and the design goal of Chrome OS, I don't think it is going to happen anytime soon.

Quick question: if you can split into two windows, why not 4? 8? Then you end up with a Window-based UI, which is more complicated than simple tab-based.

It is very limiting, but I don't think normal people who just check their emails and Facebook updates would find annoying.
Nothing chan is ever safe. Chan means fired (unless you work at a chan).
I discovered another site that does exactly the same thing but with seemingly better algorithms for pulling the Last.fm data. The site: http://tv.timbormans.com/ was developed in 2007. Just not the same marketing story as viddyjam.
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The title says stupid but the details are about slow and forgetful. Forgetful people can be quick witted and brilliant.

I can tell your from personal experience that being stupid does not feel good especially when you know it. You never "get it" when others talk, you never have anything to say, you are always saying and doing the wrong things, or not doing what should have been done.

I do agree there's a lot more to enjoy. One is not critical and cynical. I like a lot more people, food, music than my smarter siblings. I am very happy walking in parks, looking at trees, or petting animals. Life is simpler.
HN 2010: Who is the person of the year in computers/technology?
It would be of course fair to give credit to the open source community that becomes bigger and more diverse by the day. But what about individuals?
but that would mean that you only redirect packets based on filtering out the botnet IPs, which would be pointless because if you could distinguish between botnet IPs and valid users, then you'd have the ddos problem solved
I read an article a while back talking about how games like that don't boost the brain's overall ability to think and reason quickly in general, they just improve your brain's performance on those games. That is to say, you're not getting smarter or faster, you're just getting better at Brain Age.

This isn't the article I remember, but it's a good counter-example to the games' claims: http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2009/0126/ninte...
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I like to share the idea into the public domain to prevent it from being patented.
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see also

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1990612

for the discussion of the TIME's person of the year
I'm not sure I understand the concept of pair programming. It seems to me that the keyboard clashes, while able to be avoided, would be rather annoying and be less efficient. I could see collaborative editors working out much better.What does the second programmer do while the first one is writing code
I have observed most of HN community to be pro-marijuana. Having no real experiece here and being really curious, I would like to ask you guys this simple question: Is Marijuana risky for your health? Have you personally been affected?
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Disagree: A lot of people are on the fence simply because they have no idea how WL works or why it's important. Explaining the issue to these 'under-informed' people (normals) could have a good amount to do with swaying public opinion.
I'm thinking that Wikileaks is stating that it's the 'Wikipedia for leaks,' but IIRC they were originally running on a mediawiki platform.
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Exactly!!

Youtube generates a ton of serendipity watchers.
Now seems like an ideal time if someone wanted to release a viral infographic video related to the material contained in the leaks. (a la the credit crisis explanation video)
It is hard for me to even imagine what the world was like before Amazon Web Services, despite having only used them for half of a year. I truly hope Amazon is making ungodly sums of money with this increasingly powerful platform. Why Google is laser-focused on social and local, yet letting Amazon eat their lunch in this space is beyond me. I know Google has AppEngine and Storage, but they seem to be lacking the full-featured, cohesive collection of cloud services that Amazon has so clearly invested themselves in. I truly wonder if we will wake up five years from now and the vast majority of the web will be running on Amazon infrastructure.
Thanks guys.

Indeed my choice is Youtube, Vimeo, Brightcove or Blip.tv :)
You might as well just pick one now, because if you're getting into this game chances are you'll need to deploy on both platforms sooner or later.
That may be true but the way young people use alcohol is usually binge drinking rather than having one glass of wine daily
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Maybe now someone will use camera to picture from the screen, or retype everything, or tell someone by telephone, or something else.
The preordering is now live on the site http://notionink.com/

The site says the product ships in 6 to 8 weeks and there is a flat $50 shipping fee!(Irrespective of location i guess)

Also, if you are curious to know about the warranty/service/return terms hit proceed to buy on the order form. Don't care to fill it, there is no validation in place!
He didn't wait terribly long: he filed in Dec 2009, and IIRC the ConnectU settlement was in early 2009. Between finding a lawyer, tracking down details and all that, I don't think that's a very long time between the action and a lawsuit related to it.
The problem with -Werror is it causes trouble with autoconf-based scripts: Test programs that should've compiled can fail because of a warning as opposed to an actual error. I prefer to compile with -Wall -Wextra and not commit anything that raises warnings.
Seems to me like these "effects" could have a lot more to do with a change of lifestyle and self image, rather than becoming "stupid".
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This just reminds me of SnowCrash. Y.T.'s mom routinely going through lie detectors and what-not just due to being a government employee:

http://books.google.com/books?id=RMd3GpIFxcUC&pg=PA290&#...
Boing Boing is the website where the article is, cherry picking is a cliche for "picking only the best," and there could have been an "Is" at the beginning. It did take me a minute to understand, though, if that's all you meant.
Is Marijuana risky for your health?

There don't seem to be any long-term health risks. None have been demonstrated, a some you might expect (such as lung cancer) seem to have been disproven. Smoking can irritate your lungs in the shorter term, but fortunately there's no need to smoke.

Have you personally been affected?

If you use it frequently it makes it easier to fall into unproductive habits. For people who have a hard time staying committed or focused it would probably be a bad idea to become a regular user.

Edit: Oh, I read that as "has your personality been affected". Responding to the actual question: If I've smoked a lot recently I begin to develop a cough, but these days that doesn't happen as I use a vaporizer almost exclusively.
Posting from a throwaway account: most of the risks of marijuana are: bad short-term memory, if you're a new smoker you might be paranoid, if you're smoking (as opposed to vaporizing) you're taking in smoke (bad for your lungs). It's also potentially psychologically addicting (like being addicted to shopping, chocolate, as opposed to physically addicting like meth or something).

If health is a concern, invest in a vaporizer instead of combusting with fire.

I've never personally been negatively affected with weed. It's an excellent mind expander and pairs extremely well with music and video. For some people (like myself), I have clear thoughts going through my head faster than I can write them down. Sometimes I like to lay back and vape and read Hacker News (like now) — it's a nice relaxer. Life just becomes more real.
Those aren't the right kind of questions. How about: Is prohibition good for society? Who is benefiting from prohibition? Should people be allowed to willfully consume drugs of their choosing?

To answer your question, I think most people would agree that it's less "risky" than alcohol, but risk is a hard thing to quantify. The reason there's so much pro-marijuana on the internets probably has less to do with marijuana usage and more to do with the free, open, and evidence-based nature of online communities.
That article is enlightening - it changed my take on Assange from "guy who is really good at disseminating classified information" to "guy who is really good at executing a well articulated plan to reduce secrecy in government".

These few lines sum it up nicely:

Because we all basically know that the US state — like all states — is basically doing a lot of basically shady things basically all the time, simply revealing the specific ways they are doing these shady things will not be, in and of itself, a necessarily good thing. In some cases, it may be a bad thing, and in many cases, the provisional good it may do will be limited in scope. The question for an ethical human being — and Assange always emphasizes his ethics — has to be the question of what exposing secrets will actually accomplish, what good it will do, what better state of affairs it will bring about.
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That's a good question. I simply don't know enough about Li batteries to answer it. I would think that nanoscale electroplating, as this effectively does, wouldn't add huge amounts of weight over current methods, in relation to surface area, but I could be grossly mistaken.
(the author goes on to complain about how the value ought to be whatever fn(a->x,b->x) returns)*

That was bad.
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Yes of course I would believe that.
Is it weird that I think Principia Mathematica should be on this list?

I feel that as a programmer my job is to very carefully axiomatize a little chunk of the world.

also, while I remember, Google cache (link was not workign when I came along):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:n25iPlE...
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One thing has been bothering me for years. What if I'm retarded and I don't know that? What if people around me pretend that I'm ok, being polite, or maybe I'm so retarded that I can't notice their reaction to me.

I haven't been able to find an answer.
I have never made these kind of mistakes. I have done the things in section 2 and section 19, but I did it on purpose and expected the result, it was not a mistake.

I use Enhanced CWEB for C programming. Many of these things will be caught because you can see in the printout of the book, that there are mistakes. (For example, it typesets octal numbers in italic)
Julian Assange - WikiLeaks
Steve Jobs - iPad
Ron Wyden - COICA

Odd, those are the only ones that come to mind.
I've heard it referred to as rapid cognition. I'd be very interested to see a study of the benefits of having a more rapid cognition vs. a slower.

In most cases I believe I lean more towards an average speed of cognition, however I have no doubt my brain has multiple speeds (noticeably very rapid in various circumstances). I've been attempting to figure out how to unlock these more rapid moments "manually".

As hinted at by the OP, there appears to be some significant negatives of having an always-rapid cognition. I've noticed this in a few of my friends who seem to operate consistently at that level - they tend to struggle in certain areas of their life, yet have amazing abilities to pick up and process and analyze information. What causes this?

My thoughts:

1. It's lonely in a way (you feel left out). This causes psychological problems.

2. Arrogance is easier when you appear "smarter" than others and perhaps don't question yourself as much as someone who can admit there are smarter people in the world who naturally rethink things much more.

3. The speed could be a result of more efficient brain circuitry in general. Perhaps it's more efficient because it naturally skips "filters"/paths that "slower" thinkers naturally process everything through.

So should more rapid cognition be considered a gift in as many cases as it is? Should we rethink whether there's a direct correlation between unusual rapid cognition (or speed of thought) and what we consider general intelligence? What exactly is missing in our general understanding of intelligence to allow people to slip through who have psychological/emotional issues that prevent them from making proper use of their cognition?

What is the ideal state?
The focus of a large portion of media coverage here in the United States since the cables were released has been on the political response to Wikileaks' action, on the allegations of Wikileaks' criminality, on the severing of ties with the organization by major corporations in response to Lieberman et al., and on Assange and his legal woes. All of that is newsworthy, but it has come at the cost of focusing on the stories told by the cables themselves. The things said and done by US agents, in the name of the American people, have been, to judge by the cables I've read, sometimes good, sometimes innocuous, and sometimes unconscionably unethical and criminal. I'm all in favor of any action that brings the focus back where it belongs, and tries to defeat what I suspect has been a deliberate, massive US campaign of noise and distraction, albeit a campaign that increasingly seems of a rather dated style. I'll be massively impressed if Anon can achieve anything close to those stated ends. I understand people's skepticism, and even the occasional condescension, but I'm not ready to dismiss a phenomenon I don't really understand just because the participants are unseasoned and untutored in the art of studied apathy.
I would suggest taking a look at each market (the iOS market & the Android market) in terms of users, distribution, market opportunity for your particular idea, etc. Each varies quite a bit.

Some cliff notes:

The iTunes App Store is fairly mature payment system that includes the ability to do in-app purchases. This still requires a 30% offering to Apple, but a customer only needs to tap a single button to make a new purchase, as opposed to typing in his/her credit card info.

The Android market is growing rapidly and will have a larger footprint than the iOS market in 2011, by most industry forecasts. There is development overhead in supporting multiple OS versions and device types. This is an issue in the iOS world too, but it's not as pronounced as it currently is in Android.

The iPad rules the media tablet market right now. It will take a bit of time for an Android tablet to catch up, though Honeycomb looks damn promising. This assumes you're looking at tablet devices too, of course.

Although the mobile web doesn't quite offer the same fidelity as native apps do, this is something to consider as well. Mobile development has a much longer development lifecycle. The release process on iOS requires some lead time for the Apple approval process (which seems to be about 1-2 weeks). Android has no approval process, so releases can happen as often as you'd like - though you still need to consider the time it takes for your customers to learn about & upgrade your app. Mobile web apps don't have this overhead. I've found this to be a big surprise to many web developers moving into mobile app development.

One last point to consider is your marketing plan once on either store. There are some articles about how to optimize your ranking in the iTunes App Store. They offer very basic metrics too, so you may want to think about an analytics package.

The Android Market is younger and there is less info on how to optimize your ranking there. I'm sure they're working to improve the market, though it's fairly difficult to get your app seen just by trying to rank well here. You'll have to use other forms of marketing.

Bottom line: Both markets have their pros & cons. Your final choice depends on your particular app.

Of course, you can just build it with whichever platform you're most comfortable with, and learn along the way. There are a wealth of resources out there that can help.
Sad day here as well. I took the sticker quiz the day the cr48 was announced, but no luck. Hopefully soon.
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some very rough filesystem comparisons on a samsung captivate:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7647224&p...

jfs total: 73.82s
xfs total: 39.58s
ext4 total: 30.60s
nilfs2 total: 17.95s

If those hold up in general, perhaps it came from something as simple as an engineer benchmarking all the options.

I wonder if the nand fs design goals matter as much in a world where your kernel doesn't panic, you never* lose power unexpectedly and phones have a 2 year lifespan.
How long before the AWS division is spun off as it's own independent company?
100.000 out of 600.000 survived, and a lot of them were not french but from many places. They did not all died of starvation, many were killed fighting cossacks.
The guy's a sissy.
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he did s/approve of/find interesting/
"Firefox doesn’t need to privilege any particular website or application, while Google’s Chrome is “tied to their commercial purposes,” he said."

Ironically the Mozilla Foundation's primary (practically sole?) source of income is derived from the privilege they give Google in their default search box.
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