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Hitting an aircraft carrier with an non nuclear ICBM would be vary difficult. The primary advantage of an ICBM is speed, but they easy to direct so the aircraft carrier has plenty of time to move around. As to missiles a single impact above the water line on a modern US carrier is unlikely to do all that much damage unless it's a ridiculously over-sized thus making swarms an expensive proposition. Torpedo's are a much better option, but they trade range for utility.

PS: For reference: USS SARATOGA (CV-3) - The "Sara" was struck by 2 bombs and 5 Kamikazi's while supporting the Iwo Jima invasion on February 21, 1945. She lost 123 dead with approximately 300 injured. But this attack did not sink her. She survived the war but did not survive the atomic bomb tests off of Bikini Atoll. She went under after undergoing her second nuclear explosion on July 25, 1946. She was a tough old girl. http://ffhiker.tripod.com/index-7.html

Edit: The US is also using much larger aircraft carriers now they they did in WWII.	Picture a 100,000 ton boat with 2 × nuclear reactors AND 4 × steam turbines, vs the 36,000 ton Saratoga (CV-3). There are many reasons the US has not lost a carrier since 1945, suggesting they are an easy target is ignoring a lot of navel history.
The big win for me with Instapaper is the cross-platform and cross-browser support. Apples offering is Safari and OSX centric. What use is read it later when I potentially can't get access on the device I'm using?
True, but they are ideas worth pursuing, no? What you say just means that you'll need to do more research than just this blog post to get yourself started.
same here, no record or playback. Chrome 12.0.742.91 beta-m in Australia.
If you go to entrepreneur events, it's definitely a reality. I've been part of the scene for about 1.5 years and there are countless meet up group/events for new tech. There are coworking spaces that litter a certain part of SF. In Palo alto, I often run into entrepreneurs I've met at other events. At certain cafes, they are loaded with people hacking.
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It is a great thing to gift it to someone special in family, friend or just anyone who love to eat popcorn or like to pop it.
Canada here, too. Google hates us.
Les Paul is dead. Died in 2009.

The only "living people" that get a doodle are you. Search from the homepage on your own birthday when you're signed in, and if your Google Account has a birthday associated with it, you'll get a special doodle.
Ask HN: Agency's client hates agency, loves me (the contractor)
Dear HN, I got hired few weeks ago by a small agency to rescue a project that had gone through multi levels of offshoring screwups. In the first phone call between the agency, client and I, it was apparent the client does not like the agency too much. Yet, he took instant liking to me and finally felt a bit at ease.

This was few weeks ago. Since then, little has changed. Since bringing me on, we've made significant progress on the project. Yet, the agency still leads the demos to the clients and they are very painful to me. The client has very little regard for the agency and it is clear the only person he respects is me.

In our last call between the client, agency and me, the shit hit the fan where the client almost began giving me orders on what I should work on--something typically done by the agency.

The agency can't stop badmouthing the client. My feeling is if I had a private conversation with the client--which I've never had--he would do the same about the agency.

Yet, I am afraid to really speak out my mind because I feel my loyalty belongs to the agency that is paying me. If I could speak out my mind, I would just tell the agency to let me work directly with the client and I am pretty darn sure I can make him happy...only faster than when having the agency leading the demo/calls. At the same time, I'm afraid of the agency thinking I have other motives(such as stealing their client) which I don't have any intention of. I care more about my longterm relationship with the agency even though this is our first project together.

All I want to do is get this agency through a nightmare client.

I usually work directly with my clients without agency involvement. Any tips on the best way to finish this project most efficiently while keeping my relationship with the agency intact.
There are 2 types of naval vessels: submarines and targets.
Don't worry about the disadvantage in manpower and industrial capacity, military technology has advanced a great deal since WWII.

I'm sure the majority of military planners are bright enough to have a nagging suspicion, somewhere in the back of their heads, that an open war between China and the US would be over in a matter of hours.
Recording and playback only works when one is browsing from the USA. I have tried from both sides. Only after loading it from a USA IP it played back successfully.
Sometimes I get that sense but these days it seems everyone i meet sold everything back home (a bunch of them European) and moved to the bay area. Most of them took. A short trip first and decided that the scene was infinitely better.
Seriously. wtf.
I assume you've read GEB. That wanders all over the map, and is fascinating for it.

"Complexity" by Roger Lewin is a sort of journalistic take on the early history of the slightly vague field of complexity science. But its fairly interesting.

"The Computational Beauty of Nature" by Microsoft R&D dude Rob Flake might also be a good candidate.

"The Jaguar and the Quark" by Gell-Mann, complexity theorist and Feynman nemesis, is enjoyable too.

A complexity theorist friend of mine also recommended Rudy Rucker's "The Lifebox, The Seashell, and the Soul" to me, but I haven't read it.

"Darwin Among the Machines" by Freeman Dyson's son (!) is frigging great, but that's now getting off topic.
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If I said that scientific theory was all perspective without right or wrong I'd get pilloried here, and with good reason.

Any interpretation of historical observations is analogous to a scientific theory like gravity. It may fit the observations or not, and we can use Occam's to winnow the likely from the unlikely. The only bummer is that observations are generally not reproducible as in the hard sciences.
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Y Combinator is a stupid idea
It's seriously like a Scientology type cult. Stay away start-ups!
Forget piracy, U.S. government is going after Bitcoin
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it doesn't look very "flash"
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I've been in a similar situation. Twice. Although I live with the guilt of my career potential, I don't really regret the sacrifices I made to tend to my family over the last couple of years as some interesting opportunities have come up as a result of it that wouldn't have been available had I made my career a priority. Not to mention valuable life experience and a different perspective on life after going through all that crap. Yeah, this path may be a lot bumpier than others and full of potholes, but at least one will have the opportunity to admire/observe the landscape while traveling through it. Who knows, perhaps you'll come up with a new startup idea as a result of it...C'est la vie.
Oh wow man. Enough with this. Run away.
ARM.

Seriously, Cortex-M3 microcontrollers are much more powerful than any AVR or PIC at the same price, with roughly the same level of complexity as a high-end PIC/AVR.

ARM already dominates high-end embedded systems, and is quickly penetrating the low end. Atmel and Microchip both see the writing on the wall; control of Atmel's ARM line was a major factor in Microchip's failed hostile takeover bid for Atmel several years ago. If you have any professional interest in embedded systems, it may be a better bet to invest time in ARM rather than an 8-bit architecture.

There are a few arguments left in favor of PIC/AVR: ultra low power consumption, pin count, and price for the low-end chips, DIL package availability, and support for hobbyists in the forums. I'm not sure a difference of $1/unit and a few uW/MHz is relevant for hobbyists, and the Arduino is probably a better solution for people who aren't comfortable working with SMD. (Which honestly isn't that hard, anyway...)
Then you can make your own better video and YouTube or Khan itself will host if for free and show that what you were afraid of is not actually possible and the social networking analogy does not hold up under cursory analysis.
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Thanks guys, anything else?
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As a former Apple employee I cannot disagree more. Everyone at the mothership needs more sunlight, not less.

I can't even remember how many days I got to work when the sun was coming up and left as it was setting, or after it set. It was like a perpetual winter.
It is a 15-minute video. That leaves approximately 99.995% of a viewer's life free to dig a little deeper into the subject matter.
The quality contest is not Khan vs a Ph.D program in history, it is Khan vs Insane Clown Posse. Khan wins.
Can you link to some equivalent starter boards?
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I first met Dr. Werbos at a conference in China and was impressed by his vision and his emphasis on the need to understand the human mind. Wanted to share his idea of mega-challenges with the hacker community.

Here is a link to Wikipedia page on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Werbos
Thanks for the info ..!
this article could have sparked some interesting discussions...
I can confirm, doesn't work from UK IP but does work from USA.
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Your contract with the agency should have a non-compete clause that says you won't steal their clients.

Mention this if you do bring it up.
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"Manually doing reset" means that you do "reset" only on needed elements (and you target them by id or class).
Friedman is an idiot[1], but even a stopped clock is right twice a day[2].

[1] Try reading The World is Flat — it's 300 (edit: apparently 600!) pages of stupid platitudes and anecdotes. I literally threw it away after I made it through the first third. It's like The Four Hour Workweek meets the worst aspects of American liberalism (and that's spoken as a self-described liberal).

[2] Unless you're: a) using a digital clock, or b) anywhere in the world that has abandoned the AM/PM system.
Wow. The site looks great. A few thoughts:
- The thumbs up/down are not that visible on some images
- I read the instructions but immediately forgot them. I saw the big "Generate list" button and I wondered what that was for :). Maybe you could try different wording.
- When I clicked on an image, sometimes a modal window is opened and at other times it takes you to another page.

I love the simplicity of the site!
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I use evernote all day every day, and I use mostly homemade flash cards. Evernote doesn't owe you anything if you're a free user, and if you're premium, then you obviously dig it enough to pay for it, so what's the problem?
Or don't use dropbox, use rsync, disk encryption, cron and SSH. Works across Mac/Linux & SCP on windows. With rsync+ssh+cron+disk encryption, you have full responsibility. Competency with rsync is empowering and can be as simple as dropbox, and way way way more secure.
Yes, I also found Apple's comparisons in the WWDC event to be fale claims. They seem to only compare themselves to Google and Amazon of PR reasons. THey know they can't compare to the streaming services...even though they are 1:1 competitors in my view.

P.S. You can buy music on Spotify as well, but it's not the core idea and I don't know any people that have. Though almost every person I know in Sweden pay for Premium.
Patronizing on purpose, I guess. I was trying to point out that the behavior was childish and not really welcome, at least not with me.
One ARM based board which comes in my mind is BeagleBoard (http://beagleboard.org/), its bit expensive 149$ but quite powerful.
I understand where you're coming from. It seems unfair. Don't worry though, plenty of cocaine and prostitutes are left for the proletariat. In fact I think average consumption is about even down the ladder. We no longer have to make do with religion.
And worth to mention: Every user of Spotify I've talked to laugh at the iTunes move, they won't leave Spotify for sure. Even my mom consider "the new" iTunes a failure.
The only location on the main campus that I think the general public is allowed into without a badge is the company store at IL1, although if you go inside you quickly realize that there is no way into the rest of the IL complex from there. Gives you an interesting perspective on the mentality of how Apple wants to interact with the public.

I, too, worked as a contractor at Apple for a while and it was a little depressing how few people actually used the interior courtyard. Occasionally I would have my coffee out there to enjoy the sunshine, take some notes and people watch, but mostly it was an empty space that collected dead leaves and dust. My impression of the cafes in every building is that they were slightly subsidized to encourage employees to take their coffee break without leaving (which has the added benefit of avoiding potential leaks). Every aspect of life at Apple is highly controlled (to a degree, some areas less than others), so it isn't surprising that this extends to the cafeterias, stores, cafes, parking and even the printers.
This is freaking brilliant.
Instead of carpet bombing prospective users with whitepaper sales bullshit (hello, Pentaho!) put out a good freemium or open source product with a straightforward pricing model, and lace the software or web site or mailing lists or IRC channel or other techie hangouts with practical advice for setting up a purchase order and explaining the value proposition to management.

Most of the "sales" guidance is not really specific to a specific product, so a core set of materials an tools for building a pitch deck could be deployed with minor customizations for each product.

win-win win:

Software product companies need fewer salesmen, so they can sell at a lower price for higher profit, and users get easier access to the tools they need to be efficient, and engineers develop credibility as business leaders in their organizations.

Keep me posted on your progress.
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How do the low-end ARM devices compare to 16bit and 32bit AVR and PIC offerings?

Recently, I have been doing a lot of development for both the (8bit) AT90USB162 and the (16bit) PIC24HJ. The PIC24HJ range of 16bit PIC microcontrollers packs an awesome punch at 40 MIPS, has mostly 1-cycle instructions and two hardware SPI peripherals (which, for me, is important. On the other hand, the AT90USB162 only has one). I have been interested in ARM, though, so am wondering if it would be worth switching before I become to reliant on other microcontrollers.
I got a PICKit 2 on ebay for about $10.
NXP sells CM0 and CM3 development boards for $30 on Digikey. For example:

http://ics.nxp.com/lpcxpresso/
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&...

They come with a free license for code_red's customized version of Eclipse with support for firmware up to 128KB. It's apparently also possible to cobble together an fully-OSS toolchain, but I haven't tried yet.
after reading this [1] I realized I no longer had to take Friedman seriously.

[1] http://www.nypress.com/article-11419-flathead.html
Something based on the Cortex-M series (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10664) probably is a better ARM starter board for someone who's getting started on the embedded stuff. Cortex-A series ARMs are completely different beasts in terms of complexity.
You're looking at a pretty mature art form, although "hardly moved" seems inappropriate for a time period that includes the rise of the novel.

You might better compare the films of 100 years ago to the films of today to see an increase in complexity similar to the march of programming progress.
Could this be the push Bitcoin need to go bigtime? Anytime the government banning something it would inadvertently make it more popular.
There's some stuff that this article ought to have covered:

-The ship was bought, relatively cheaply ($20million USD), from Ukraine, 60% completed.

-At the time of purchase, the ship had no engines. To the best of my knowledge, we don't know what types of engines China put into it, but it was never designed to be driven by nuclear reactors. This is a huge gap in comparing capabilities (since US carriers use nuclear reactors(and they may be the only ones, though don't quote me on that)).

-Construction began in 1985.

-In 2015, the USS Gerald R. Ford is expected to enter service. This is a new class of carrier (the Gerald R. Ford class) which will slowly take over the Nimitz class. One way to look at this is that the US is a generation ahead. If you are going to compare a yet-operational ship, it wouldn't be a horrible idea to compare it to another yet-optional ship,

Finally, as others have mentioned, carriers are only good at projecting power against inferior forces. They represent a target of opportunity otherwise. They can be destroyed for a fraction of the cost it takes to build them. Russia's approach during the cold war was to build supersonic cruise missiles. Now countries are developing hypersonic cruise missiles.

They certainly serve a purpose, but only to a point. If ever the US has to leverage all of its 11 carriers at once, than we should all run for the hill (and the least safe place to be probably is on those carriers).
put email in profile. How can people reach you otherwise?
People have phobias for just about anything so I'm guessing, it's not just horror movies but in my case nearly any kids' movie that contains a certain kind of amphibian. It's even worst for others who are afraid of birds... damn things are everywhere!
Tell HN: My reasoning as to why points should be displayed on comments
There are two reasons:

Comments can appear at the top of the page for one of 2 reasons: because they were only submitted recently, or because they've been upvoted.

I'm assuming also there's some sort of interaction between time since posted and number of points - same as the home page.

So when you're judging a comment's popularity you need to be able to see both.

Why judge a comment's popularity? It's important to see how much others agree with a particular comment because +1 comments are frowned upon.

So this brings me to the second reason:

If you come to a page and see that there is one comment on the page, and you can't see the number of votes you can't see if the community agrees with that person and has simply been upvoting them, or if people have simply been arriving and leaving without interacting at all.
I second that.
The BeagleBoard is amazing. It can do real time (the original one can handle roughly 25 fps) computer vision, thanks to its built in DSP. The newer one should be even better (but I've not heard as much about it).
The p-value represents "Probability this is all luck". So why isn't 1 - p "Probability this isn't all luck"?

>> Another extremely important point is that the classical

>> statistics you learned to use to decide that something

>> was <5% likely to arise by chance, only apply if you

>> decided in advance to do exactly that many trials and

>> then stop.

I agree. Not doing that I'd say it's "fudging with the numbers". I can't find on their article where they did this though.
re: [1] bahaha, I remember when in the first few chapters he talks about how he felt so brilliant when he came up with the title he had to tell his wife about it.
I've never done any development for the non-8-bit Atmel/Microchip products, so I can't really compare. The NXP Cortex-M3 I'm currently using for a project has one SPI and two SSP peripherals.

My impression from talking to other engineers is that there isn't a lot of investment in those architectures (financial or emotional...) and most people think that economies of scale will make ARM dominant in the long term. From a business perspective, neither company seems to believe they can afford to be without an ARM product line.
The author never claimed the code should be written only for people, then it wouldn't work, would it? You're either trolling or mistaking the rest of us for complete morons.