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Maybe I shouldn't have used that term. I am aware of the basic physics of the situation, but that's not what I was talking about. I think it's likely there are already devices in orbit with the capability of launching "dumb" (i.e., non-explosive ) munitions to either take out other satellites or small targets on earth.

When people discuss the weaponization of space in terms of the treaties, implying ignorance because it isn't about basic physics doesn't provide any constructive input, and is frankly just needlessly hostile. These treaties are about weapons in a military sense, with the ultimate issue being the presence of nuclear weapons in orbit. I don't think it would be news to anyone that the whole business is inherently dangerous and that anything in orbit can come down anywhere on earth with little warning.
That kid was dead within 15 minutes of the plane leaving Charlotte. If the hypoxia didn't kill him quickly, the cold certainly would have. And then there is the hydraulics of the wheels themselves. It's just an insane thing to do.

Seems like anybody with half a brain would have known that this was suicidal, especially after the Payne Stewart crash http://www.airsafe.com/stewart.htm

Very sad story.
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Sweet! Just what I've always wanted :)

/waits
Aren't you associated with the project? Your SO went through the regular channel?

BTW, quick question: Are the Chrome team using these for development? Like a self-hosting compiler :)
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I don't understand why people expected so much from Gingerbread in the first place. So they expect Google to only release updates with massive feature additions? Personally I would rather have small incremental updates than nothing at all.
This might make sense for Clojure (I haven't used it) but in my years of Ruby programming (after 10 years in Java and C#) I have never thought to myself, man I'd love to have an interface here. Ruby's lack of class-level contracts is essential to its idiomatic nature, a strength not a weakness, imo.
nice, remind me again why IE6 is on that list? Its like beating a zombie horse, we know its dead, undead even.
He doesn't have the balls to say that. Sorry.
That's how I used to remember things. You call a library, a framework calls you (is how I kept things straight when I started out in CS)
Seems to me that Ruby modules affect the same outcome as an interface without all the overhead. Just include the module & you've got the desired behaviors and data types without all the fuss.

You get exactly the same benefits as you would from an interface (minus the rigidity)...
Phones in the US have a 30 mandatory day return window by law. Easiest thing to do is just buy one and return it after testing it out on another GSM network's sim.
I'm not aware of any JavaScript sandbox widely regarded as flawless. AdBlock is one thing, but I have no qualms about not running arbitrary scripts that aren't even hosted by people I know and trust. If a publisher doesn't bother to use <noscript> or <iframe> to show me an ad anyway, it's their own oversight.
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What does 'defensible' mean in this context?
hey google apps does that, too! :) i can create a calendar event right in an email, or click "create an event" to take me to google calendar. google calendar then populates data from the email and tries to guess the date and time...it actually gets it right sometimes, too. conversely, you can email attendees to a calendar event right from google calendar. not only that, you can select groups of people to email based on their response status. the integration between gmail and google calendar is very tight.
Yes. The net is a "web of services" by design. So, a web app is the natural evolution of content, from static to dynamic, which parallels the needs of human social behavior.
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Allowing a class-level contract would fundamentally alter the dynamic nature of a language like Ruby. It might be cool (although I personally don't see the benefit), but it wouldn't be Ruby.

What mechanism would enforce the contract anyway? The best you could hope for would be a runtime error thrown when the interpreter detected the incompatibility, and you can do that manually now (I do it frequently to imitate abstract classes).
oh this is getting TIRING ...
Christopher Hitchens wrote an article for Slate a week ago pointing out that a recent (successful) assassination in Saudi was carried out with a body cavity PETN bomb.
If you're looking for a place to make snarky comments and congratulate yourself on what a hilarious Internet comedian you are, go to Slashdot or Digg. That kind of pointless babble isn't supposed to be encouraged here.

PS. Don't act so offended. You just aren't funny.
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Christopher Nolan bookended Inception with two references to Matthew 7:24. Spielberg snuck a passage from Sleeping Beauty into A.I. at a critical point. Lucas associates water with the subconscious throughout Star Wars.

One of the comforts in being human is our ability to take pleasure in ideas. The vehicle for this doesn't need to be "fine art" by any means, but it helps to read/watch/listen to the same sorts of things as other people if you want to understand them.
You can still do this with many of the newest Thinkpads. They call it the "Ultrabay". Example: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...
If a 2 year-old is mature enough to be capable of illegally overstaying a visa on their own free will and understand the consequences, then 3 year-olds should be able to vote and 4 year-olds should be able to go to jail for a lifetime. He was 2. He shouldn't pay for a crime his parents committed.
I'm surprised you got 2 up votes; I came to the HN community not looking for advice on how to break the law or get a condescending response from some internet tough guy.

I'm asking for advice on how I could pay for college. That is it. I already realize I've unintentionally broke the law and I've been reminded often enough.
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But thankfully, that ever mythical "she" of the technical literature has got herself a blog and we note a shift in the tendencies of the clickety click crowd. Oh damn that CAP! Its so hard to scale. I think I'll go shopping for an off the shelf solution.
But that's the point. Anything nontrivial in space already is a military weapon. (Though most satellites are trivial by this measure, I'm really talking about the mid-term future.) It doesn't even have to be nuclear. It is not possible to really seriously use space without it being intrinsically weaponized. There's no such thing as non-weaponized space.

And no, I seriously doubt our political leadership really understands this at a gut level. You might even find some people in such positions that could pay lip service to the idea, but still don't really get it. You don't even need "nukes", which, frankly, are redundant pretty quickly and would only add a psychological scare factor.
why bother when you have 1000s of cleaners, baggage handlers, caterers etc who are allowed onto the plane unsearched and unchecked.

Of course they are subject to extensive background checks = are you willing to work for less than minimum wage?
I was one of the supporters in that survey. Curious to see what pricing sensitivity levels the HN community would support for this service. From a business perspective, this would help you focus on a specific segment, product mix and open up more discussion around the type of deals "we" would be interested in.

You might consider digging deeper into what the community wants. I would be willing to answer more questions.

Cheers.
How broken is our system that someone can manage to stay 16+ years without getting caught. I mean really, the laws and policies need to be adjusted to make that impossible.
You left out the code where you acquire the database connection and need to release it before returning as well as propagate the success or failure of the operation.
That's called 'being in a state of sin'. He's innocent until he reaches some certain age, and then he's not. His crime is continual until he stops committing it.
Then fix it - stop breaking the law.

> I came to the HN community not looking for advice on how to break the law or get a condescending response from some internet tough guy.

I know, don't you hate that? I came up to this girl just wanting sex, not to get peppersprayed and called a rapist.
I think it's worse that I can't earn my citizenship. The immigration system has neglected undocumented students: a very specific niche of illegals.

I'm completely American and you'd never guess that I'm illegal unless I told you (the stigma is all illegals speak broken English and are some sort of Latino, which I'm not.)
It has massive new features: SIP support, gyroscope support, NFC support in addition to the various Dalvik and NDK upgrades and APIs.

Feature-set was never a problem for Android.
The UI didn't get an overhaul though, just nips and tucks, and is the only quarrel in that post. Personally I like the Android UI specially after the black/green/orange refinements in 2.3.
The headline makes it sound like Facebook is now planning to buy Microsoft.

I suppose that might be an interesting scenario at some point...
I like the direction you're going here, but I would argue this structure is not unique to Kant. You could read Plato (or any idealist -- Schopenhauer or Philo or Hegel for that matter) the same way. The ontological structures are broadly the same, the difference lies in epistemology and the nature and origin of the formal epistemological structures to begin with.

Kant locates the origin of ideals/forms/categories in the mind only, as an essential pre-existing structure of the mind (think: hard-coded ROM), where Plato located their origins in reincarnate memory (not sure what the computer analogy would be there -- recycling a motherboard at Fry's?).
"Classical music (music from the classical period) was that period's pop music."

No, it wasn't.
1. If you're going to show off your datacenter, at least put the embarrassing portable fans away. No need to tell the world that your cooling is insufficient.

2. Google translate, you say?
I think the Ruby way wouldn't be ask the object if it's a duck, but rather to ask it responds to the fly method, or the swim method, or maybe even the quack method, etc. In other words, you don't really care if it's a duck, just if it can accept the message you're about to send it.
Queen, I'm here to talk about paying out of state tuition, not what I should do about my status.

Read the edit in the post. I cannot change my status with an overstayed visa, so it's not a matter of choice or lack of will. I didn't come to HN to be lynched.
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You're right, but look up gravity drag. Every second you're standing on your boosters you're wasting fuel. Imagine wearing a jetpack and wasting all your fuel hovering an inch off the ground. If you turn horizontal the thrust is invested rather than spent, but first you have to build enough speed to not crash.
I was under the impression it was the TCK that caused the issues. OpenJDK could be certified, but you weren't allowed to then run the "certified" version on a mobile device.

Which is an additional restriction onto of the GPL.
I believe you can disable it in about:plugins
I am absolutely with you in thinking that politicians don't get this at all. My main point is that there is a context in which those terms are used that doesn't immediately mean that anyone who uses them doesn't realize that mass in space == potential big boom somewhere.
EDIT: I should read more... :)
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And you're right; final approval won't come because well, it ain't done.
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Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

...

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
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Why? They've settled this lawsuit for a pittance and now presumably OPTi will scamper off and harass Apple's competitors with similar lawsuits.
While I don't necessarily agree with this statement, I wonder why you've been downvoted :/
I'll be taking a DSP and RF class soon - so, yes, I'll be able to go lower eventually :-) My background is in CS with the bare minimum of EE. For the most part, this is all new to me.

I'll take a look at the sensor networks. Thanks again.
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Google Chrome blog has a post about this. Congrats to the Jamendo guys.
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"The cold certainly would have"
This is not necessarily true.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285231/Stowaway-sur...
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Hi there,

Keep in mind that writes will always be faster than reads thanks to cache write-back. This is because writes are asynchronous at the kernel and controller level. When your app writes a file, it indirectly writes it to the disk cache. If the data is needed almost immediately after the write, chances are the read is going to be as fast because it's still present in the cache.

Now, the reason why reads are generally slower than writes has to do with the fact that the app must wait for the read to complete (to present the data to the user). So be sure to focus on read performance and get a good UPS.

I should have asked for a budget ballpark. But let's assume you can't afford buying several 250GB SSD disk (double for RAID-1). That's where I would recommend a stripped mix of SSD and SATA RE3. So if you have, say, 2x250GB SSD and 2x1TB SATA, you would RAID-1 the SSD pair and RAID-1 the SATA pair then +0 RAID across the resultant logical volumes. That's RAID-10 but with manual stripping. You can save quite a bit this way. Also, be sure to choose a small tripe size so each file is split amongst the RAID-10 evenly and improve performance (ex: 40% of the file is on SSD and 60% on SATA).

I'm not sure what to recommend as far as hosting because I don't have any info here. Colo has its advantages but it can get expensive. Colo costs can be excessive. The hardware, staffing, electricity, bandwidth, routing/switching equipment, maintenance, etc. Be sure to colo as close as possible to your office/home so you can take care of emergencies quicker. DC staff isn't always to the most competent so you'll either have to learn as you go or hire someone.

Renting is interesting (let's say you're getting a fully managed node). You don't have to worry about staffing, 4AM trips to the DC, contracts, hardware depreciation, replacement contracts, or contingency plans when the main server decides it won't boot. It's all handled by the provider. If you pick a smaller provider, you'll be sure to get better service as they tend to have more of a personal service.

Renting a multi-TiB dual quad core server with SSD and SATA can be anywhere between $800 and $1200 per month depending on server management and bandwidth. Colo costs are more complex and depend on many factors.

Keep in mind that I can be biased considering my role / occupation in the managed server sphere.

Regards

Joe
"Aristotle takes kind of the opposite tack - he is also very focused on building ontologies and taxonomies, but he views them as constructions of the intellect imposed upon their subjects, rather than being the most fundamental reality of the subject prior to its actual being."

Well, not exactly, and in fact this would turn Aristotle into his metaphysical opposite: a nominalist in the mold of Occam.

For Aristotle the formal cause of a substance is in fact absolute, every bit as real and 'prior' as with Plato, the big difference between the two being the question of epistemology, or how we become acquainted with the form to begin with. Yes, Aristotle argues that we know the form of a thing from experience, but the form of that thing, and the abstractions we produce from many experiences from similar things, are as real as with Plato and, as in Plato, point to higher, more organized spiritual structures that comprise ultimate reality.

Call me when somebody comes up with a Whitehead-ean programming paradigm.
This is probably the first time in my life that my jaw has literally dropped while watching an invention/recreation in action. Absolutely incredible.
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I always thought okcupid was the official dating site of last.fm users.

Regardless, nobody in chicago seems to care for steely dan, flipper, and landlord.

Nice site though. The ui is tasty.
Also note that it may break the functionality of some sites, e.g. paypal, since they route login/logout functionality through mediaplex (which I'm still shocked about).
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Some states may have a 30-day window, but I don't think the US does as a whole. I only had 14 days to return my Nexus One.
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Rails 3 is such a major improvement that I recommend it highly. The new modularity is enabling all kinds of interesting developments, like nesting apps within apps, authentications among multiple frameworks, and speed improvements.

Ruby 1.9.2 is also a major improvement in speed, and JRuby is icing on the cake especially for large scale projects, integration with legacy code, and detailed debugging.
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That happens quite often with government contracts. There is a lot of back-room deals, knock-knock, wink-wink, "I'm a friend of a friend" kind of stuff. There is some superficial formality and fake fairness tot the bidding process but it ultimately comes to who you know. Requirements are kept vague and only the "friends" are notified of what they are. Later during the review surprise! one company just happens to exactly read the mind of the buyers and gets picked.

This is even worse in the security related areas as the vagueness of requirements is justified to be security related.

Your best bet would have been to hire an ex-General or an ex-TSA high ranking official. Or at least hire someone who was a college roommate of some TSA official.
Seconded. It really comes down to whether you like Ruby or Python best.
Python will be more useful if you decide to do something with the language other than ruby on rails. People do all sorts of very powerful math with it as well (SPSS, SciPy, NumPy and various other things).

ROR is NOT for those who are willing to just get it done. You have to be the type who's willing to find the right way, or risk things blowing all to hell on you (Off the rails, as they call it).

I'd also say, the devs you hire between the two schools seem different. Can't explain it. Django seems to win it for me, both on a scalability ease and learning curve.

(I work with both as backends pretty daily, iOS developer).

Ruby feels cooler, but IMO, python lets you go home and see your kids faster.
The best way to pick a framework is the same as the best way to pick anything-- make a simple app like a blog or a forum with both frameworks and decide from there which one you like better.
the most recent post is more than a year old

It gets asked every month or so, the last time I remember was just last month: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830063

And I'm going to refer to my comment from that discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830895
Kudos to the director as well. The video wowed me as much as the machine it self.
Makes me sick when I read of the greed. Hope the trustee has a solid case and can retrieve the funds in whole.
Well, CubeHash didn't pass, keeping Daniel J. Bernstein (mostly) out of the running for SHA-3. Oh well. Meanwhile:

* BLAKE combines DJB's ChaCha stream cipher core with Eli Biham's HAIFA framework; HAIFA, like Merkle Damgard (MD), isn't a hash function but rather a scheme for turning things like the core of another cipher into a hash function; HAIFA is a response to MD that (among other things) eliminates length-extension attacks. I hope BLAKE wins.

* Grøstl (meaning "hash", in the "corned beef" sense) is a hash that borrows heavily from the internal components of AES, and includes among its contributors one of Vincent Rijmen's (of AES nee' Rijndael fame) gra students.

* JH is a Singaporean design similar to Grøstl in the sense of borrowing AES machinery, and is optimized for hardware.

* Keccak is a hash built on "sponge model", which (like HAIFA) is an alternative to the classical MD construction, and was co-designed by Joan Daemen (also of Rijndael fame). Keccak looks like the most interesting design in the contest.

* Skein is Furgusen and Schneier's design, based on their Threefish block cipher function (which they designed for the hash). Threefish is said to be similar to DJB's Salsa20 stream cipher; the Skein hash combines it with "UBI", a custom version of the Matyas-Meyer-Oseas compression function (which is extremely simple; just Wikipedia it). Skein appears to have more real cryptanalysis results against it than the others, and maybe a little less theory and a little more practicality.

Colin will I'm sure chime in with more math details, which go right over my head.

SHA256 is widely considered sound as it stands today. The big problem with it is that it's bulky and slow. So the first thing you'd hope to get from SHA3 is speed.

SHA256 is a classical Merkle-Damgard design. The MD construction is widely considered outmoded. So the other thing you expect to get from SHA3 is a cipher that uses a different fundamental construction for taking a block function and turning it into a hash.

A nice side effect of getting rid of MD is that you no longer have length-extension attacks. It's shocking when this sinks in, but the output of (say) SHA1 is simply the internal state of the SHA1 hash at the point where the input starts. The SHA1 design starts with a series of 32 bit registers and grinds plaintext through them; a SHA1 hash is simply the resulting 32 bit registers, catted together. What this means is that attacks can feed more plaintext to through SHA1, without knowing what the original plaintext was, simply by using the output of a SHA1 hash as the initial values of the SHA1 registers. Bad! This, by the way, is the reason you use HMAC-SHA1 and never SHA1 to authenticate messages.

I hope BLAKE wins, but if it doesn't, I hope Keccak wins, because its design seems to be the furthest from what we have today (HAIFA seems like a direct evolution of MD, and Matyas-Meyer-Oseas basically seems like calling CBC-MAC a hash function). But I am not the least bit qualified to hold this opinion! I just break shit.

Interesting how likely it is that either Vincent Rijmen or Joan Daemen (or both) will have their fingerprints on both AES and SHA3.