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What Tau Sounds Like - New Scientist
I'm sorry - I was actually reading an article linked somewhere else in this thread, and forgot it wasn't the OP.

(http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Wave_Disk_Engine)

Still, even if we're talking about total savings for the car, 1000 pounds is a hell of a lot, and I'm not sure I buy it. For reference, that's 3x the weight of an average V6 (or some light V8s), so it would have to remove a lot and add nothing back.

I found an engine weight list here that seems to be legitimate:

http://fixrambler.com/engineweightchart.txt
I bought a Chromebook for my parents which are very similar to your dad in computer skills. Over Christmas I got them set up with a Google account using my CR48.

1. I always disable the mobile data when I'm on wifi cause I don't want to burn up my bandwidth. Otherwise I believe that once you turn it on it will connect. (after setup of course) As an experiment, my parents are trying 3G only until they can determine a usage pattern and find that $35/month internet through their ISP will be cheaper. They do travel to visit family and have the 3G as a fallback is great.

2. On my CR48, the camera is only useful for video chat. I never found an appropriate flash based camera app to just take photos. Likewise I haven't yet tried plugging an SD card in to see how it does uploading to Picasa.

3. Battery life is awesome, I charge my CR48 every 3-4 days with light use. Even if I use it a lot, I've always lasted an entire day (but I'm not watching videos or anything like that)

4. The updates download in the background and you will see a little green upward pointing arrow on the menu bar. Click on it and you get a dialog that prompts you to restart now. If you don't ever hit the button, the next time you shutdown it will start back up with the new code installed.

5. The apps are the web app versions so it's not like Android with the navigation. My CR48 has a GPS chip but it's not turned on yet in the builds. It is close though, because people have got the daemon started and Google Maps will find your location.

The other thing I like that I know their gmail password and can sign in to their account and can add apps/bookmarks and it will sync automatically to their Chromebook.

I can't judge how well your father will do but I had my parents using my CR48 just fine. The problems were things that just needed practice: Using the touchpad, knowing how to close windows and recognize links to click on. I feel _much_ better about their online safety with this machine vs windows or mac when I'm trying to troubleshoot from 800 miles away. Feel free to email me if you want to discuss any other points. (email in my profile)

To everyone who says just buy a windows netbook and install Chrome are totally missing the point. Yes, of course you could do that but it wouldn't work the same. If you already know how to run windows/mac and need or want native apps, the chromebook is not for you unless you want a 2nd machine. Both my wife and I have laptops that mostly stay on their respective desks now that I have the CR48. It is the form factor and the speed of booting/wakeup and the ease of switching users. Both of my young children have accounts and they can use it just fine. It really is 'our' computer instead of 'my' computer and that makes it perfect as a companion machine.

Of course this is all just my opinion.
I'm sold. Especially on Euler's equation.
Here's the teaser from the link. I don't own the book and thus have nothing else to translate.

Title: Search Engine Hacking with Google, Bing & Shodan
Author: Enrique Rando

Pages: 272

Price: 20 Euros + Shipping (includes IVA)

Though it's been 2500 years since Sun Tzu wrote "The Art of War", many of his lessons remain relevant. His teaching contains several passages that seem especially suitable for people who work in Information Security:

* "Those who disable foreign armies without combat are the best teachers of the Art of War."

* "Before you fight, first learn the skills of the enemy's workers, and then fight them according to their weaknesses."

* "When you can perceive subtlety, winning is easy."

Without a doubt, this information is key in preparing for attempted security breaches. Without it, determining what to attack and how to do it is impossible. Search engines have become important tools for collecting data and other intelligence. However, despite Google hacking's many years of use, its techniques have perhaps not always been well-treated or publically shared.
Does "Daily Babe HD" really need API's only available for 3.0 and up? You'd think displaying a picture would be equally possible on tablets like the HTC Flyer running 2.3
I'm with you. I will point out that fear of lawsuits also leads to being more careful.
The article does assume that bitcoin laws will be passed, and will be used to limit and persecute those who use bitcoin.

A bit of regulation may, in fact, be a good thing, and could be used to make bitcoins an attractive mainstream investment and a well used transaction technology...
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Stop the "wall of shame" shtick, please. It helps nobody. Projects know about Python 3 and projects are planning to move to Python 3. It isn't trivial and there is no "shame" in it at all.
The job posting and the separate discussion were deaded. Since there's no other place to mention it now, I'll just mention here how unhappy I was to see [dead] appear for a reasonable, calm discussion about a YC-funded startup advertisement (the only kind of ad that appears here). Having no discussion link on the ad isn't such a big deal, but going out of the way to censor discussion about it stepped over the line, for me.
It would be interesting to see if smoking among the French, particularly French women, coincided with a drop in rates of diabetes.
It's not a slam dunk case, it's a 50/50 case. What we know for sure is that it was a dick move on the part of Maisel. Sort of like calling the cops on your neighbor because their dog barks a lot, even though you don't actually hear it when you're sleeping or working or doing anything else important.
Congratulations you are one of the few people who have experienced the reality of being an entrepreneur. :). (Not many people learn this throughout their lives)! That change in perspective is worth quitting your 9-to-5 job (once) for IMHO. Its impossible to feel this while sitting at your desk making someone else rich.

And my own story: I quit about 2 months ago and it feels like I have been going around in circles. But I've learnt hell of a lot - customer development, building a prototype etc.

Go to sleep and tomorrow morning you will feel like you've gotten another chance, another opportunity. If you need inspiration read Paul Grahams articles or
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-inspiring-entrepreneu...

Best of luck!
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I'll do my best to answer your questions, as my girlfriend was the lucky recipient of a CR-48.

1) I don't have a whole lot of experience with this as we were pretty much on wifi the whole time. I do know you have to manually enable 3g in the settings though. Once 3g on I assume it's automatic when there's not wifi around.

2) Unfortunately I don't have a whole lot of experience with this one either. The only pictures we every took with it were the initial user pictures, which didn't turn out all that well (although the newer chromebooks may have better cameras). I would assume you would be able to take pictures through any site that cam make use of a webcam though.

3) Battery life was pretty excellent. My girlfriend would use it all day at school for notes. It pretty much goes into hibernate when the lid is closed.

4) This is the part about the review that confuses me. The CR-48 we had always updated silently. It would update in the background, and then when the laptop was restarted it would install. I don't think I ever saw it prompt for an update.

5) First off, there are no native apps. It's literally chromium on a minimal linux build. The maps 'app' that he would have to use is the full blown maps.google.com. As long as he had a 3G connection I would think he'd be fine, otherwise I'm not too sure how much caching the web version of maps does.

I hope this helps. Sorry I wasn't able to provide more info about some of your questions
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GCC front-end (1): driver vs. compiler
CRT screens have been around since 1907, Liquid Crystal Displays have been here since 1964. If there were clearly harmful effects from spending time near them, epidemiologists would've noticed by now.
Google Faces Backlash for Testing New Black Navigation Bar
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The wave engine has neither spark plugs nor a compression cycle. It appears to achieve combustion by causing a localized region of sufficient pressure, this in turn is created by blocking the moving fuel air mixture and letting inertia pile the molecules up in one spot, more or less.
Always surprised to see how diabetes coverage in the popular press blurs the difference between Type I ("juvenile") and Type II ("adult onset").
I seriously don't understand why people keep saying "everyone does it", as if that makes it secure or even allowed by Facebook. Facebook's documentation clearly states you should not do that, one developer here even said it was against Facebook's terms of service, and Facebook's documented mechanisms for allowing desktop applications to access their service does not involve doing so.

Regardless, if you read the documentation that I keep referring (and even linking to), it has a very clear (if arguably stupid seeming) mechanism for desktop applications to operate: you use the OAuth 2.0 flow, but have the landing page be a specially designated page on Facebook's server. Then, as you are running in an insecure web browser (as you are inside of a desktop app), the desktop app can notice that URL being hit and steal the session token, and at no point did this require a secret key.

Now, if you have a session token, and for some reason you need a secret key for the API you are working with, as you cannot use your secret key (as that would involve disclosing it, which Facebook is very clear you should not ever do), you need to obtain a "temporary session secret key", which you can do by "promoting" your session token, using the client API flow that Facebook tells you to use at this point.

Documentation for the way I happen to know of for promoting a session token is at the following link. (Whether there is a newer way to do this that does not involve activating "legacy APIs" for your application, I do not know.)
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/rest/auth.pro...
If the URL is a publicly accessible webserver with no robots.txt telling them to stay off it, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets fed to the crawler.
The disconnect between 'adding an news source' then 'reading your news' is a bit much for my tastes. I couldn't figure it out for a good 30 seconds, which was frustrating.

I'd recommend using something like userfly to record the mouse movements of visitors and see how they may struggle with that part.

Also, for a site that says "no signup required", I didn't like getting hit with a "sign up now" form when I went to read my news.

Double argh.... so I went to the bother of doing the signup form, and now I can't read my news until I validate my email address? WTH? Bad UX in my book so far.

Nice concept, needs some UI improvements which will only come with testing/time.

Good luck!
Right, he says you will need to have electric motors to at least assist (hybrid technology) with rapid acceleration. Apparently this engine is probably very efficient at a fixed speed/rpm, and doesn't provide the torque of an ICE.
Great, now a feel sad. I miss BeOS.
In America we do have a very litigious society.

In many cases it seems absurd. For some reason people believe that if something bad happens, someone is at fault. They expect 0% probability of anything bad happening and if they don't get that, they may sue.

I don't think anywhere in the world is like this. It's completely unrealistic. It's impossible.

And yet, at the end of the day, perhaps it forces our society to always be improving. Maybe our country is where it is today because we demand the impossible.
The intended beneficiaries would be kids learning basic math, not mathematicians.
It's obviously going to be IE8. Anyone can upgrade from 7 to 8, but to upgrade to 9 you have to be running something more modern than XP, which isn't going away anytime soon.
I understand.

However I didn't claim it improved quality, just that it's an insurance policy.

What I mean by that, is that you pay up front in time, to help protect against things going wrong in future... such as shipping code to production that allows anyone to login to anyone else's account.

All unit tests are, are externalised asserts about what your code should and shouldn't do.

There should certainly have been one that said, "User A should not be able to login to User B's account.", or at the very least "Login should fail when the password is not right.".

My point remains: You should expect people to make errors from time to time, just like you expect servers to go down from time to time. Whilst you're busy handling what happens when servers fail, you should also be busy thinking about how to deal with human errors too... and that means detecting and catching those errors early so that the impact that they have is minimal.
Please should look more into Diesel viral campaigns, they are really good at it. This is just genius.
BeOS (and QNX) amazed me with how much could be done with so little hardware.
+1 buttons now showing in Google search results
Has this been rolled out globally, or am I lucky enough to be part of an A/B test?

(I'm personally going with "no +1 button", if that's the case; these particular ones have an animation that plays when you roll over the item. It got me to notice the feature, but it also got me to spend 10 unsuccessful minutes trying to figure out how to disable it. It's very unlike google and very distracting.)
Me too :( If you haven't already, checkout The Haiku Project http://haiku-os.org/ (inspired by BeOS).
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http://help.dottoro.com/ is useful too though has no usable search feature (relying on Google is not enough).
Again, I ask: have you read the Tau Manifesto? If not, I suggest you do that, as it makes the case there much more clearly than I could here.

The point being: for children learning the basics, the odd 2 or 1/2 here and there masks the underlying relationships. But don't take my word for it-- read the manifesto.
Searching on cache:http://www.sosasta.com/uploaded/ doesn't show a result now from here (Australia.)

Also, searching on link:http://www.sosasta.com/uploaded/ doesn't show anyone linking to it. Even if the directory is there, it had to get there in the first place somehow.
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I've been using resources provided by Quirksmode since... maybe 2002. A long time. It's been exceptionally useful. Donated.
Ask HN: Why Google does not love GitHub?
Why google search is not loving GitHub as mush as StackOverflow?. It already has the metrics to decide which github projects are popular and relevant and which are not. The latest evidence is I have searched for "email_spec gem". It lists the h-lame fork as the top one instaed of the original bmabey one. Why google is ignoring the releveant data like number of people watching the project and the number of forks for the project.

This is not a solitary case. I have a strong feeling that Google is at least not giving proper importance to GitHub projects. Thoughts?
I can guess, how this can happen.

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First,Take the db dump, for backups/setting up another server etc.

$ mysqldump -u <user> -p <password> <db name> > xyz.sql

Now, lets move db dump file to webroot, I hate SSH,FTP,RSYNC -- too complicated for me. I like clicking hyperlinks. KISS FTW!

I guess nobody will notice that file is present here. How can they know, I won't tell them!

$ mv xyz.sql public_html/uploaded/users

now, I can download it simply by going to

http://www.sosasta.com/uploaded/users/xyz.sql

See how easy this is, why complicate things unnecessarily.

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I guess the guy wouldn't have even imagined mighty google will index this & people from around will download the file, resulting in major security breach.

This is what you get when you act ignorant or plain lazy. poor guy...lol
Thanks, thats a good idea!
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I think in this case the critical issue was that they needed to focus 100% of their efforts on preventing the damage to those <100 users who's accounts were accessed. Some person out there could now be inflicting serious harm on these <100 people. I'm really hoping Dropbox is working with the authorities to catch him or her and minimize the potential damage.

I emailed Dropbox asking if my account was accessed and they replied quickly saying no it wasn't. I think that's a perfectly good response.

A mistake was made, and 1 person made a terrible decision to take advantage of it. I hope we can all rally around Dropbox and cut them some slack so they can do all they can for these <100 users who should have huge concerns.

When they've resolved the crisis, then if you want to complain about them it'd be the time to do so. Right now I just hope they are doing everything they can for the seriously affected users, because if I was one of those users that's what I would want.
"Advertising makes things shitter."

In your opinion, which is a minority viewpoint.
The email wasn't indexed but (maybe) a link in the email was.

Google honours robots.txt, X-Robots headers etc but everything else is fair game.
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i would guess that it's hard to get a good (reliable, long-life) seal between the rotating part and the upper surface (i don't think this is much like a wankel engine, but it probably does share that problem).

also, it looks like it's supposed to spin at a constant, high speed - that might imply high pitched whine (see someone else's comparison with a gas turbine).
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Potentially, However, since it's anonymity will continue to be an attractive proposition to a large criminal element it's mass appeal is unlikely in my opinion.

Has their been any word on a Bitcoin 2?
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Acupuncture is the permanent and natural solution for it.
Is there anything more than the apparent wild speculation here to actually substantiate any of these claims or is this just some guy ad libbing for attention?
Startup discipline and family--any hilariously-frustrating fun stories?
Hi gangs,

I've been a lurker mostly for a long time, but decided to start an account recently to contribute to the community more actively.

I quit my day job not too long ago (about over a month) to start on my own project. At first it was always 16 hours a day and really getting things done. For the last few weeks or so, my young wife has this trick: "If you don't want to go to sleep with me, you don't have to, but come put me to sleep/tug me in first." And I ALWAYS fall asleep with her.

I guess the hilarity of it all is that I would wake up at 7 or 8 realizing: "Aarrrggh! she did it again!" or "Oh noes, I've fallen asleep and I didn't get up!" And we would have a good laugh about it. But I'm getting a bit hilariously ...frustrated. I love spending time with the young wife, but gosh, I got to go conquer the world.

We have this thing where she would ask me every day before heading out to work: "What are you planning to do to day?" and I would answer: "Same thing I do everyday, Pinky, try to take over the world."

It has been about 40 days, and I'm only done with all the back-end functionalities--I guess I'm hoping to get to work on the design and front end this week.

What about you? any frustratingly fun stories? I'd love to hear stories about what you guys have "endured" with your oh-so-lovingly-but-clever trickster family/partner/pet ?

Graciass,

-V.

PS: by the way, I'm 28, but someone on #startups was saying I might be a bit old to do this whole startup thing. Heh, I thought that was sort of funny, but any take on that? Bootstrap startup sure has its ups/down, eh?! :)
I see the run by humans argument a lot, but what you need to keep in mind is that a company is NOT a human. No one's suing the individual employees here, but a company. There is a massive difference.

By their nature companies are entirely selfish (especially companies with outside investment) and unless you're going to hold the humans within a company individually responsible for a companies douchebaggery then by the same logic you also shouldn't give the company a break because it's run by humans.
Or they will learn that supporting Firefox is expensive and that they should steer users to another browser.
Long waves of software development – toolkits or frameworks
There's been quite a lot of talk about micro frameworks as of late. Especially Javascript ones (I'm looking at you Thomas Fuchs).

This article contributes with a historical (and at times Marxist!) perspective to the conversation.
If you're talking about fair use, context matters. Two pictures out of context don't really prove anything.
There was a book, "Practical File System Design" that went over the implementation details of the BeOS file system. Good reading for anybody interested in more detail.
OK - transmission and 'cooling system and fluids' are the only parts of that that aren't already counted in the engine, and with cooling system and fluids that's already being generous. So we're talking an engine that doesn't need a transmission and runs cool.

Hmmm.

Transmission often counts the differential, without which you can't very well turn corners. You're going to need a reverse gear at minimum and a big part of the point of a transmission is to let you keep the engine in an optimally efficient rev range, so I suspect it'll still gain one.

No radiator? Possible, but to productionise it it'll have to be able to run in both Siberian and Saharan conditions. They're both a regular part of manufacturer sign-off tests for road cars, that it can handle extreme cold with lots of short runs to stop it warming up properly and extreme heat with lots of long runs and soak tests to stop it cooling properly. Personally, I'd expect it'll gain a cooling system.

So, even if the gearbox, diff, radiator and all associated fluids weighed 1,000lbs (unlikely I think), I don't think they could gain their weight quota because I doubt they can really eliminate them.
Dogs in offices are just a nuisance, come on.
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I'm learning python on the fly, but I tend to ask a lot of question on freenode's #python. Installing lxml wasn't so bad. I just did "pip install lxml" (easy_install lxml should work too) on my Debian VPS and home server. Seemed to work for me.

I am sticking with lxml only for my scraping and html5lib to do my richtext parsing.
They don't spend six hours a day in zazen for more than a few intensive weeks at a time on rare occasions, do they?