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Trains travel slower through populated areas. If you're stuck on a crossing jump out. Chances are the train will stop if the driver sees you in time and has the distance to stop (about 1mi/1.6km).

Steering doesn't shut down, it just goes from easy to hard. If the car is in motion it requires very little energy to turn.
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BMW is certainly working hard on MINI and now they have announced that they will be launching the new reveal film for the all new MINI Coupe on MINI’s YouTube channel.
Lots of cops are former Marines, soldiers, etc. Im guessing you've never hung around with guys like this? I was a Marine for ten years; stuff like this gets shared and no one's giggling about it. You are definitely making a mountain out of a molehill. I say that based on personal experience.
While Microsoft may not be shipping a LSM program to every user, they are doing a ton of scientific research, much more than Apple. For example googling "latent semantic analysis microsoft research" turns up several research papers on the topic by Microsoft. They do cutting edge research comparable to a good university on a large number of topics like programming language design, compilers, machine learning, distributed computing, graphics, automated theorem proving etc.
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... which are used to build web pages sent through a synchronous, request-response protocol that is HTTP. I understand asynchronous events are used in GUI design, where you have actual asynchronous sources (e.g. mouse), but what are the benefits for a web page?
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I actually just opened it to try and remember what annoyed me. It's really the UX which I just don't think is as good: feature-wise it's pretty similar.

(a) It's a lot more cluttered, (b) the UI components which are used are cumbersome: for example the right panel on firebug has a tab at the top while the alternative in chrome isn't as space conscious, (c) icons everywhere which just waste space, (d) I am not sure how to create new CSS properties to attach attributes to, (e) options which aren't obvious to me "Break on sub-tree modifications" -- what will this do?

I could go on. It doesn't feel as responsive as firebug and ultimately firebug just helps me do the most basic tasks as quickly as possible. When I use Chrome I feel confused by the UI, it's difficult to do certain basic things and there are extra features which I don't understand.
That makes sense - unlike TF2, you can pirate CS and your computer's specs don't need to be that great to play it. So even children can easily get a copy of CS and a computer to play it with.

I'm hoping that the fact that TF2 is free now isn't enough to cause a large enough demographic shift to ruin the online multiplayer experience.
Wired Article: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/10000-year-clock/all/...
That's how Blizzard's doing Starcraft 2 in China.
Great to hear that! As a customer from pinboard I really appreciated your communication during this.
Maybe the Jedi mind trick worked on them: they left off Github's.

https://github.com/404

See also:

https://github.com/500

http://blippy.com/404
I thought this issue had been partially addressed by overwriting the memory containing the keys on unmount. Of course, that doesn't work if somebody just pulls the plug on the machine.

There was an article I read recently about a patch for the Linux kernel to store the key in CPU registers instead of memory as well...
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So is anything like this available on other platforms? Because it's way faster than http://classifier.rubyforge.org/ , even with rb-gsl installed. I'd love it for generating related posts on my Jekyll blog.
Except for the TF2 in-game store. Valve does a pretty brisk business in hats, weapons and gadgets, so much business that they're able to offer new content regularly for a four-year old game.
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I think that just like with TF2, it depends broadly on what server and community you happen to be in. I've seen incredibly welcoming communities in both games.
Valve has Steam from which they take 30% of any game sale. So they will never hurt for cash. They can give away every game they ever make and still make a killing from selling others' games because they have the most popular and best working platform.

Valve is now in the content delivery network business and just happen to have a department that produce video games.
99%? I'd assume that the first thing they do on seizing a machine is pull the hard drive out and drop it in a disk cloning machine?
Would it not be prudent to port it to Android and make further revenue, then?
Why is the Google Talk application for Windows considered legacy? Are you hoping to shift them to WebRTC in Chrome?
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This study only adds new data to a fairly old (and rather simple) model that falls back on persistent character traits ("true character") and consistent individual perceptions to explain the behavorial effects of visual anonymity.

The model seems to be based on an archaic idea of man, much like the late 1960's concepts of deindividuation--the idea that underneath our civilized personality, there resides an instinctual force that is inherently wild, dangerous and destructive (neglecting any peaceful, friendly or cooperative traits that we also seem to possess).

More recent models like the 'Social Identity model of Deindividuation Effects' take a more systematic approach to considering further individual and situational variables and how they work together.

Owing to the enhanced complexity, these newer models do a much better job at explaining the factors and processes at play in computer-mediated communication, but they of course make for a much less catchy story.
Why bother signing up for the class in the beginning? A quick Google search would result in good textbook recommendations.
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Why no specific model number?
AFAIK, Dell's Adamo with "similar" specs to MBA ended up being more expensive than Macbook Air.
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Compared to a naive solution, "putting things in a hash table" should take just as long to implement, not change the size of the executable, not be bug prone, not increase the size of the source code, not take longer to compile, and not take longer to link. The only way all these things could happen is if the programmer decided to implement a hash table from scratch every single time he or she wanted to use one.

This could also happen if the programmer simply never spent the five minutes necessary to get a library with a hash table implementation in it, opting instead to spend a third as much time on hundreds of occasions. I suspect that this is closer to what's going on...
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Actually, since my parents' house has been robbed recently, this gives me a great idea:

You put an easy to open fake safe in a clandestine but still fairly obvious location (eg: behind a picture frame). Sort of like a real life honeypot.

You hook up a surveillance system pointing to the safe or maybe even inside the safe that triggers when the safe moves or opens. Maybe hide a gps chip inside the safe (they are tiny these days).

Bam, you have a photo of the criminal, time of the crime, and you get alerted instantly and silently. Chances are you or the police can interfere in time or you'll have some sort of lead on the criminal since you know what they look like but they don't even know you're after them already.
Human intervention to activate the dials and wind the chimes, but the timekeeping is good for 10000 years (they went for daily temperature changes as well as the pendulum.)

From http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/06/the_clock_in_...:
So how does the Clock keep going if no one visits it for months, or years, or perhaps decades? If it is let to run down between visits, who would keep resetting it? The Clock is designed to run for 10,000 years even if no one ever visits (although it would not display the correct time till someone visited). If there is no attention for long periods of time the Clock uses the energy captured by changes in the temperature between day and night on the mountain top above to power its time-keeping apparatus. In a place like a top of a mountain, this diurnal difference of tens of degrees in temperature is significant and thus powerful. Thermal power has been used for small mantel clocks before, but it has not been done before at this scale. The differential power is transmitted to the interior of the Clock by long metal rods. As long as the sun shines and night comes, the Clock can keep time itself, without human help. But it can’t ring its chimes for long by itself, or show the time it knows, so it needs human visitors.
Sure - you create a workflow graphically which you can keep changing runtime, do A/B testing etc. - that's one plus.

#2 - you just install Javascript code (Like Google Analytics) on your site with userid as one of the params - we will track it automatically
In this case since the warrant probably didn't allow for the seizure of Instapaper's servers / data you run a serious Fourth Amendment risk of any evidence within being inadmissible. That said even if it is inadmissible the FBI now know things they might not have known before. There is the obvious point that there is very little likelihood of any direct evidence of a crime in Instapaper's data, there maybe indirect or circumstantial evidence though.
Indeed, that seems very likely. Thanks.
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In my experience vanity items with no effect on gameplay attract droves of people with to much disposable income. When I was still playing WoW lots of people were buying things like pets and mounts with no benefit other then looking cool and showing off. I don't see how TF2 hats will be any different.

Regardless, as people said the sales of TF2 have probably mostly dropped off, distributing the game for free costs nothing (well, it costs hosting and bandwidth but I don't suspect those costs make up any significant percentage of Steam's total costs, so effectively the hosting is free) so they have barely any income to lose and a massive fanbase and ingame transaction economy to gain.
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This is great news as it should raise adoption amongst Windows users (and customers who have their infrastructure based on windows systems)

My only worry is that hopefully MS won't take it, customise it heavily, and we end up with two competing, slightly incompatible implementations.

Be strong, Joyent.
How does this play with WebRTC? Are they complementary technologies?
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I agree. Those numbers are pretty good even for an AdWords advertiser. And the fact that you've been able to scale it really well is even more praise-worthy.

Do you have a blog/website that I can follow?
I use a 15.4" laptop for my development. It's a decent little machine (although it's HP, so it has it's share of problems) but I wouldn't recommend such a small screen.

I'm actually trying to decide whether I want to get a MacBook Pro or a new desktop. I'd love a new desktop, but MacBooks look sexy.

As far as the monitor, I've looked around and it looks like I'm attracted to a 24" or so. I'm sure 27" and 30" monitors have their place, but they are too big for me.

Have you considered multiple, smaller monitors? You'd probably save money getting 2 24" as opposed to a single 27".
Ask HN: How to deal with likely future-compromise of your passwords?
I am coming to the opinion that I should assume any password I give a webservice will make its way in to the hands of a third party in the future.

Given that, in a perfect world, I would memorize completely random and strong passwords for each web service. I consider that a bit of a non-starter (am I wrong?).

Password managers like 1Password seem to be an option, but if both the key file and the pin for it are compromised (or lost) you're extra screwed.

I'm looking in to remembering two random ten digit strings, and using a mental algorithm to combine them based on service name, but that'll require some thought. That said, this is the solution I'm leaning towards.

Any better solutions that you ACTUALLY use in the real world?
To provide anecdotal evidence of the contrary, anonymous discussions have helped me to become more honest about what I actually think and feel in real life. This comes with a side effect where one's social circle needs to be redrawn to reflect the change in attitude, since old friends only know the old you and habits and complacency and all that good stuff will end up holding you back.
How to Secure Your Wireless Router 
When you purchase a wireless router it is not secure and its default configuration will allow unwanted users that are in a neighboring building or sitting in a car that's parked outside your apartment. It will increase your monthly Internet bill especially when you have to pay per byte of data transfer.
I'll throw in my two cents on this one. If you don't feel like reading then you should pop on over to NetTuts and check out their "Ruby for Newbies" screencast. There are 11 of them I believe and you can find the first one here: http://goo.gl/jBBY

In addition to Ruby for Newbies they have loads of other tutorials and videos that aren't limited to just Ruby.
In case you're wondering (and you should) you can craft any item you can buy. I have pretty much the best loadout possible, without paying for anything, and it's all from items that you get when you die (which is a lot).
Yep. In fact, I'm fairly sure harmonies aren't protectable, just the top line, hence all the contrafacts (same chords, so same solos, but different themes) in jazz. There are hundreds of tunes on the Coltrane or Rhythm changes.

Rhythms aren't either, or James Brown, the Winstons, or Sly and Robbie and their billion reggae ridfims would be the richest musicians in the world...
With the free to play games on Steam, the two models converge. The advantage for the publishers is, apart from access to the large store window and access to the Steam tools and network for distribution and upgrading, that the micro-transactions become hassle free for the customers, as they all use the same shared Steam Wallet. The advantages for Valve is obviously that they can take a processing fee for the transactions.
> ..it seems it will require human intervention.

The article [1] linked to by nl describes it quite well.

There are three separate energy reserves in the clock. The hands (dials) mechanism requires human winding -- but only to indicate time, which is kept independently. The chime mechanism is to be primarily ran on human winding. The main (timekeeping) mechanism extracts energy from thermal differences between day and night, and may also be wound by humans.

Moreover, if the main mechanism's reserve accumulates enough energy, it is engineered to overflow and wind up the chime mechanism -- thus the chime will ring once in a while even without humans to wind it. Quite cute, if you ask me.

Another cunning contraption uses Sun's thermal energy for adjusting the clock to solar time (apparent time).

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[1] http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/06/the_clock_in_...
Prototyping web application using Excel: TutorSpree clone
There are many tools currently available in the market for prototyping. But among the one i have used, I feel excel is definitely good. With some Macro (VBA) programming, you could actually make working prototype in super fast timeframes.
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> it turned out to be quicker to just write a C# program

I you really should install cygwin (and MinTTY).

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/shell-tools.htm...
DDB? I've not heard of this.
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I think you're taking things out of context, I never said you don't have to built a viable business. Or that building a business is easy - or that you don't have to work hard anymore - or that you have some crazy ass dream, you didn't do any market research etc.. If your dream is to built a great business, deliver lots of value to your clients etc. than I don't see a problem - for most idea's you need some investment to be able to find out if they are good. And if you get funded, I assume you have done the numbers on your idea, worst-case/best-case and that you picked smart investors - who also did their numbers. So if you get funded that would also mean smart people believe in your idea.

I think it's good if you're excited about the business you're building. It is only logical to take outside money if it would help you build your business. Ofcourse you don't always need outside money to build your business - and in some cases it might be better without - but if you're in the case that outside money would help you - then I don't see anything wrong with it.
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Awesome! I've always felt dirty fixing text-overflow (more often than not a cosmetic fix) on the backend, albeit it's not often feasible to create web sites where content and presentation are truly separated.
Every big company has its string of failed products. I'm not convinced that Google is really worse in this regard than Apple, Microsoft or Yahoo.
This was 2003, when many fewer universities put their syllabi up on the public web (MIT OCW had been announced just a few months before, and most places still used private Blackboard pages if they used anything at all). It was still possible to get textbook recommendations if you knew where to look - I got many of them off the C2 Wiki a year or so later - but it was not immediately obvious that one could simply Google and the answers would magically appear.
I like the idea of building professional reputation and applying for jobs. I have some questions (probably dumb?) about the idea.

- How is getting vouched from your colleagues/friends different from Linkedin recommend feature

- Your rank will define how fit you are fit for any job posting. Correct me if I'm wrong, your rank will depend on the number of vouches(?) that you get. So, ultimately the person who is more active on the site will have a better rank and I feel this will destroy the whole purpose of legitimate reputation building

- "Vouched does not rely on Search to find jobs or candidates, instead it uses the knowledge of the social network" - It will be good if you can take leverage of any of the social graphs that the user already has (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin?)
Thanks for trying and your feedback :) Regarding getvouched.com, I like the concept and left a comment on your thread.
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I think everyone is overreacting to this announcement, they are just lending a hand with IOCP to Ryan as he finishes up his abstraction layer in 0.5.x. Just like they denoted some offifical resources to PHP, Ruby, Python, jQuery etc..
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If you make a fake key, then you can walk in with people all around without looking suspicious. You can even act like the owner whilst in a group of non-conspirators. Even with a great picking kit, it's going to look different to anyone looking somewhat closely.

Depending on the level of physical security surrounding the lock itself, this difference could be as extreme as the difference between knowing the password and having a great rainbow table. In the former case, you can log in as the owner without arousing any suspicion. In the latter case, you have to have some time when nobody is looking (download the hashed password database).
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What a great book! Link to the whole thing:

http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf
A password manager with multifactor authentication?
Switching is hierarchical, so for every non-local call placed there would be several human operators involved.
What if your email is the account being compromised?
Password managers (or a GPG-encrypted file) work just fine. Yes, you're in trouble if you forget the password, so don't do that. (If you don't have regular backups and worry about forgetting the password, fix the backups issue first - drives die more often than you'll forget a password.)
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That only says something about the results, not about what they tried.

What worries me is that lots of Node.js code may get developed on Windows and be unable to run on other implementations. I have seen Windows-only Java code. I know it can be done.

And it always seems a waste, for it already should run fine under Cygwin, much closer to the original implementation.