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OK, right, I did, though that doesn't really change that much.

Well, let's start by saying that intimate human relations are achievements as well. Also, computer programming, climbing and drinking soft drinks offer things no intimate human relations can. It sounds like sarcasm, but it is, actually, true.

I was, too, upset at first. I just noticed my upset has no real reason. It was about someone choosing a radically different way of life than mine, based on their own needs — that are radically different from mine. He's not even telling "no intimate human relationships." It's more as if he's satisfied by the relatively small group of close humans — his relationship with his brother seems quite close.

To sum up: I don't think his choice is sad. It's actually our limited view of possible life choices what's sad.
Even Charlie Miller says he doesn't know how you would embed malware on a device using this attack.

That's of course beyond the point that a great many other things you buy at a computer store could more easily contain malware.
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Really? I would have thought since we are expanding outwards, an event could be really far away simply because it is on the other side of the nexus. In other words, the universe is (28 billion) * (speed of expansion) across, rather than 14 billion
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Just to throw a stat out there, my forum gets 80k visitors and makes $1,000/month in Adsense revenue. And a good portion of those visitors are super-repeats that are blind to the banner ad.
Oh, the ego of us humans.

The one constant throughout the history of science is that Nature's imagination is substantially more vast than our own.

What if we discover that "old" has an entirely different meaning after light has traveled for some billions of years?

I can't think of any reasonable examples, except I remember my friend showing me a very old book about Chemistry. It had chapters about how "everything is made of a mixture of earth, water, and fire". And so on.
so wait this would allow anyone to create tutorials and get them working on khanacademy?
Facebook Vs (email + IM) = Telephone Vs (post + telegraph). Really? You think that these two jumps in technology are equivalent in the difference they have made to peoples lives? I don't use facebook but I would not be able to work without telephone and the internet.
A few notes:

* Dalingrin's overclocked kernel is very nice- it can overclock from 800mhz to 1.2ghz stably, and 1.3ghz slightly less stably. Works on all 2.2/2.3 ROMs (Stock 1.2, Nookie Froyo, CM7), and is included with recent CM7 nightlies: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925451

* The app Nook Color Tweaks (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1104039) is also very nice- if you have Dalingrin's kernel, it'll let you customize the voltage settings for overclocking, increase speaker volume, and this:

* USB Host support. If you buy a microUSB male to USB female adapter, you can plug in a mouse, keyboard, game controller, webcam, flash or hard drive, what have you. Works extremely well. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105497 (note that the Nook Tweaks app with the Dalingrin kernel already has this built-in)

* CM7 (and maybe Nookie, not sure) have Bluetooth support, meaning that you can use a BT headset or controller (Wiimote, mostly) with it. The main downside is that it's kinda wonky- it works most, but not all of the time, and it has a really terrible range (I think 11 inches was the last I heard). However, when it works, it works fabulously.

* In CM7, if you'd prefer using the internal 5Gb of storage as opposed to a microSD card, flash this in recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034939

* The Netflix app won't show up in the Market by default, and even if it does, browsing the menus won't work in landscape. Grab a fixed APK from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1159266

* If you want to get Hulu working, look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1040971

* There are a few apps that crash if you don't have an IMEI, which the Nook Color does not. It's not a fantastic idea, but here's an IMEI generator: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103766

I've had a CM7'd Nook Color for a few months, and it works fantastically. As long as you're not gaming and don't mind the lack of webcam, it's better than an iPad and half as expensive.
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The universe is (as far as we know) far larger than that. The thing is that it's literally impossible for us to interact with the parts of it outside one particular sphere.

Additionally, the universe is not expanding from one point - every point is functionally the "center" of the universe.
Give or take, about 59.2% more trust making me about 27% more likely to buy from a site designed to a level 3 standard over a level 1 standard.

Seriously though, response to design is like response to advertising - subconscious and subtle, something that the user may not understand themselves.

http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-... was an interesting find, showing a conversion rate jump for a small web app based on positive design.

I think it would be more accurate to measure this in terms of conversion rate or other results-driven measurements.
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I use Google for everything from Google Apps to Google Voice. Given this recent behaviour of Google, I'm doing something wrong.

Over the next few weeks, I plan to do the following:

1) Transition my gmail account over to a domain I own. I'll email everyone I know, and change all my known addresses. Thankfully, Google lets me connect via IMAP to retrieve all of this.

2) Move my Google Voice number to my VOIP carrier. The directions are here: http://kevinpaffrath.com/2011/06/22/port-number-google-voice...

Life is too short to worry about when Google will delete your account for silly reasons.
Where is there a current and crowd-updated list of accelerators? Does that exist?
You seem to think I'm quibbling over pedantry. I want to make it clear I'm not talking about wacky theoretical physics here, let alone metaphysics— this is hard science. You can't avoid getting "bound up in it"; relativity is, definitely is, how our world works.

In our universe, "It could all be gone by now" not only isn't true, it doesn't even make logical sense. There is no one such thing as "now".

Now, "It could all be gone by the time we get there" is a different, totally practical and valid statement. But that's just because of the amount of time it would take us to cross that distance; it has nothing to do with the distance that light has already traveled.
Refining search to your current location seems to work in the twitter android app. I just found out about some senior class trip and a guy looking for a beach with parking in South Lake Tahoe.
I see what you're saying but I hoped to provoke a discussion on how we as hackers and founders can use this to our advantage, and whether or not it would be ethically/morally right to do so.

By this I don't mean start pretending to be terror experts or distort the truth, but I do think that understanding how these things escalate and are distorted can prepare us for an advantage in our own media relations.

What does HN think? How can we use knowledge of the way modern media jumps on bandwagons like this to our advantage?
Speak for yourself. I fully appreciate this guy being the one carrying the torch for all of us, who have or will be in the future, wronged by Google or any other big corporation where we have no recourse. Hopefully something positive will come of this.
He may actually believe he's doing the world a great service, but surely you don't believe that just because someone is fantastically wealthy relative to the average person means they automatically stop doing things for the money?

At some point it becomes more like watching your Hacker News karma go up than it has to do with having a real impact in your life, but that doesn't mean the wealthy stop caring about it.

In other words... well, sure Myrhvold is wealthy... but he's not Helú, Gates or Buffet wealthy. He's just a chump compared to those guys.
I actually think this is a symptom of something healthy: high density of information per word.

As a recursive example: Let's say I agree with your post - as in, I think "you're right, posts are negative and I would also like to know why" - what should I post?

I believe the correct answer is nothing. Nobody wants to read the same opinion in two comments - that's bad etiquette on a site with upvote arrows.

On the other hand, let's imagine I disagree with your post. For example, if I think that the ratio of negativity to positivity represents the diversity of ways you can disagree and the paucity of ways to agree. What should I do? Well, I think the right thing is to post saying so, and to justify my disagreement in as much detail as I can. One opinion, one comment.

As a consequence, I comment negatively much more than positively. Generally when I have only nice things to say I upvote and move on. Is that bad? Like you, I'm not sure, but I believe it emerges from good.
I fail to see how "right now, over there" fails to have any meaning when at this very moment that point in space does exist, the assumption is that we are moving between there and here without any lag (instantly) when comparing the sets of areas.

In our minds, where the comparison is taking place, we need not account for how long it takes light to travel. We can simultaneously hold the thought that we are here on Earth, and way over there, there once was a giant cloud of water vapor.
Did anyone submit a pre-processed version of the code? (Assuming your assignments were in C.) If only one person did it they'd probably have high-uniqueness, but if >1 did it they'd all have high-sameness.
Is the use of the "presentation enhancer" to deter people from actually reading it? Because that's it did to me. The font is illegible, scrolling must be done via the bar (otherwise it crawls at ~1px/sec), and turns my cpu fan way up. Is it really still "cool" to misuse technology nowadays?
By "light today that we know has been in transit since the start of the Universe" may I presume you mean the microwave background often referred to as "remnants of the big bang"?

Where should I go to understand the derivation of the figure "now 46 billion light years away"? It's not clear to me what you mean by "now" and "away", since time and distance depend on the frame of reference, and it's not clear to me what it means to be "at rest" in an expanding space. "At rest" enters in because we're not going backwards in time, and thus we cannot reach the source of the radiation (the event which generated the radiation at a specific space-time coordinate), but only the event's spatial coordinates, and, absent other specification, those spatial coordinates are "at rest" with respect to our own frame of reference. But again, what does "at rest" mean in expanding space?
Matt, could we suggest that ban should be suspension of posting rights until naming matter is resolved..we keep hearing reports of people being banned o n G+ but also loosing access to other Google Services..
> Life is too short to worry about when Google will delete your account for silly reasons.

which is exactly what you're doing...
Probably, but sometimes you have to work on other peoples's code. The worst for me was a 312 line function, which nearly caused me to quit.
Heh. For what it's worth (and at the risk of karma annihilation), you're probably correct. A lot of the seemingly-godly things people have done are from 'simple tricks' that they've learned. People just don't like to admit it.

Woz was as brilliant as technical brilliance could possibly ever be, though.
Distances derived from purely the Hubble law would have pretty large margins for error, wouldn't they?
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Yes, but it's great to see your functions in context.

I also use Emacs for text editing, and I'm writing a major manifesto right now which is thousands of lines.
> It is not a simple matter of using a “real name” - as much of a problematic grey area as that is. Another person cited in my Google+ article has now had their account deleted for the simple reason that they were using Gmail and Google+ with multiple account sign-in:

Does this mean I can actually get banned for using more than one GMail account? What the fuck?
No, the evidence does not suggest that. At best, it asserts that it may have been possible. There is no evidence that it happened.
First you should read the Wiki article I linked, since it goes over it much more thoroughly than I can, and then maybe I can help if you still have questions. Here's the introductory paragraph to get you started:

Where an event occurs in a single place–for example, a car crash–all observers will agree that both cars arrived at the point of impact at the same time. But where the events are separated in space, such as one car crash in London and another in New York, the question of whether the events are simultaneous is relative: in some reference frames the two accidents may happen at the same time, in others (in a different state of motion relative to the events) the crash in London may occur first, and in still others the New York crash may occur first.

I emphasize again that this is the actual way the universe works, not theoretical physics. What you say about our brains holding the two ideas simultaneously in our head is true; our brains are wrong, and the statement "There once was a giant cloud of water vapor" is untrue, or rather, undefined.

Also: I fail to see how "right now, over there" fails to have any meaning when at this very moment that point in space does exist, the assumption is that we are moving between there and here without any lag (instantly) when comparing the sets of areas.

To move "instantly" from one place to another presupposes there is such a thing as "over there, right now", which there isn't. Your definition thus has no meaning. Isn't this stuff wild?
You know, I didn't read the article. I intentionally did not reply directly to any of your posts. I think you are being unnecessarily argumentative. I recognize the dynamic: People are arguing with you, so you argue back. They don't like you behaving X way so they do something not terribly different and just add fuel to the fire. Given that your complaints that this is off topic is the primary discussion here, this article is probably not of much interest to the crowd here. Flag it and move on is probably a better policy than arguing at length, thereby creating something akin to "the Streisand effect" of drawing additional interest to something you think shouldn't be here at all.

I probably shouldn't have replied at all myself. I'm just kind of pedantic about things like assumptions that an interest in female breasts is merely lurid. It's not. Even with a 98% male populace, I have found it perfectly possible as a woman to talk about things like breasts in a perfectly civil, logical, scientific fashion. (And even photos of breasts are also not necessarily about sex per se.) Not all men are pigs who treat women as nothing but sex objects and a majority male population does not automatically suggest a majority sexist pig population. Such implied assumptions bug me.

I suspect I will seriously regret having replied a second time as well, though my only intent was clarification: That is to say I'm not arguing with you about whether or not this is on topic. I'm merely being pedantic about an unrelated point, one that I think is a little more important than whether or not some specific article "belongs" here.
man, i viewed your demo video. You're trying to take on plastic. Plastic is "just swipe". If you make it simpler than that - you'll win big. So far, your thing is more complex. It has a bunch of nice advantages/features that stand on its own ( and that if marketed on its own to VC would possibly make it), yet not when presented as direct competitor to plastic.
From the C code I've seen, 300 lines sounds like standard fare.
Fair enough.

For me at least, it was a nice and well-written diversion from coding.
I tried an exercise on http://khan-masterslave.appspot.com and got a question wrong because I wrote "pi/6" where it wanted "1/6 pi". Any plans to improve the parsing?
LOL, another accusation. I looked at RangerSix's reddit profile, and I can confirm that he's definitely not me. Have you considered that my reddit name is the same as this one?
No. It's a 2nd hand unconfirmed hypothesis, that is how panic spreads.
I many people that just didn't use email or IM much, but have integrated Facebook into their lives. It's their main way of maintaining communication with many people.
So if I use 'Mithrandir' as my name, I could get banned?
AFAIK, there is such a thing as a CMB 'rest frame' (the Earth-Sun is moving relative to it at about 600km/s).

As for the weird distances, just imagine an ant moving across a rubber surface at constant velocity. The rubber is slowly stretched over time, so while the ant continues at the same rate it will actually cover less space. If the rubber continues to stretch, there is an event horizon effect, meaning some distant parts of the rubber sheet will become inaccessible.
> ... by the bot ...

Just wanted to mention this post:
https://plus.google.com/106912596786226524817/posts/A3mStMmX...

"we do not take automatic action based on the number of abuse reports submitted for a profile"

Also, a real-name suspension only locks you out of Google+, nothing else. A Google TOS violation, however, can cause you to be locked out of your entire Google account.
Have you considered exactly which frame of reference would be required for it to appear to happen in our future?
Where did he write about that?
I was actually working on this exact problem in grad school, but gave up when we couldn't start fires (and so did Barnaby Jack, according to Forbes -- http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/07/22/apple-lapto...). What put the nail in the coffin for us was finally discovering the PTC devices on the individual cells -- they make a rather loud click and shut off if you short the cell. We also found evidence of them on cylindrical cells pulled from a PC battery.

It's not limited to Macs, but Apple's the only company I could find that released battery firmware updates. Other machines do seem to use the bq20z80, but it was easiest by far to play with battery firmware on Macs (i.e. I never got anything working on any other kind of machine).

A semi-plausible fraud threat is that you can buy old batteries off ebay that have disabled themselves in hardware due to undervoltage, re-enable them, recharge them, and resell them as "like new." They'll work for a few days and then bulge.
NSA told Google they want real names only.
Yes. One-word names seem to be one of the targets for suspended. Plenty of the pseudonyms that have gotten banned have well-known existences at other sites. After appealing you might be able to get it reinstated but there have been a lot of complaints about the process as well.
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While I don't believe the google account deletion hysterics I did setup dove cot imap to trial hosting my own email. On friday I got an unshakable feeling of keeping all my eggs in one basket. squirrel mail is no gmail replacement but it's good enough so far, and I read mostly via imap
I see a humanities degree as nothing less than a rite of passage to intellectual adulthood. A way of evolving from a sophomoric wonderer and critic into a rounded, open, and engaged intellectual citizen.

This is somewhat insulting to to those of us who, despite being "sophmoric" technologists, are actually quite well rounded.
I agree. I used to be a read-the-manual-first type. Now I just want an overview, good help, a FAQ, an a lively user community.
If the Google spokesman's claim is correct and there really is manual review, it's remarkably shoddy. One of the accounts that's been deleted was recently on the cover of Wired. Another had assembled a page documenting all the people who called her by the pseudonym and posted it on her G+ profile. What kind of training are they giving these reviewers?
According to the link, this is being used as a source of entropy to generate random numbers. Fascinating.
Can't seem to jump while holding down the run key, which is usually my method of playing mario...
Just curious, what were those angel investment opportunities you passed on?
Sometimes you need to see context that extends past the boundary of a function.
Hmm, that is strange.. I guess that happened because I tethered an internet connection to my laptop using my phone. Guess I won't submit any links that way anymore :)
I had just filed a bug about that:

https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises/issues/377

We'll fix it this week.
I don't know if Nook Color is counted in the Android tablet category ( think it counts as e-reader) , but by far it is the best tablet for value.
I don't follow you. The light from this event traveled 12 billion light years to get to us and current best estimates put the age of the universe at 13.75 billion years, so this light was emitted relatively close to the beginning of the universe. To reach this object now, you would indeed have to travel much farther than 12 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe.
Yep. On the spreadsheet that repos mentions, there is a list of planned exercises.

As rubergly mentioned, this week we'll be focusing on fixing all the bugs and getting this deployed to real users but after that we'll definitely be open to new exercises and new contributors.
Despite actually being a big fan of the humanities (though a computer scientist myself), it's sadly not really what the median humanities degree gets you either. You can learn a lot of interesting stuff and become well-rounded, like in many fields. But, also like in many fields, you can also become the world's foremost expert on an extremely narrow subject that may or may not be even on the right track to anything. I believe this is one of several reasons for the big dropout rate in humanities PhDs--- signed up for the broad education in philosophy and knowledge, but dropped out when it became clear that it was a path to becoming the world's expert on Gendered Discourse in the Hungarian Mining Industry, 1872-1876; or perhaps on a very narrow technical problem in analytic philosophy.
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He won't be after he migrates his stuff. That strikes me as entirely reasonable precautionary action.
Well it was fun while it lasted. If they delete my account, I'm not going to lose much sleep over it since 95% of the people I interact with are on Twitter or Facebook. None of them have Google+ accounts yet.

Easy come, easy go.
How old are you current config files?
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Get the education, and the perspective that come with it- absolutely. But it doesn't require a retreat to academia for several years to gain it anymore.

The internet is the collective knowledge and experience of all humanity.
To seek this information is wise and wonderful- but I respectfully suggest that dropping ones life to go back to school, chained anew in debt, isn't necessary for the attainment of that wisdom.
Is there a good alternative to Google Voice? I want an online voicemail service and call forwarding for when I travel.
Entirely possible - I can't speak to school specifics. I just know of the practice third-hand from a friend who considered transferring because he was bored with his first year elsewhere.