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I think this might be bullshit. [Edit: maybe not. See thread below.] The article is from 2005, and I can't find anything that is less than 3 years old that describe the device working.

I was working as an engineer near Stanford when this cooling glove was announced, and I remember hearing about the "$400,000 version by a name-brand design firm that really never worked." It's possible that the professors just gave up or moved on to something new after discovering that productization was hard. It might also be that the rate at which you can cool a human body through the small surface area of the hands without damaging the skin is too small to be useful.

Anyone find any good evidence that this could work?
Well, Rossi seems to believe in it, and I really hope it works. If it does, it'll not only be useful for generating power, but could conceivably be adapted for jet engines, ships and other vehicles, making everything cheaper. I guess we'll see in a few days...
It definitely needs nightly. I'm not sure what's up with salmanapk's setup, will need to dig into it.
A better source of info than what I linked previously:
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Neglecting their mental state does them no favors either. Entertainment and enjoying an activity absolutely plays into the grand scheme of things with younger children.
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Not if they'd also look for a Sisadmin.
I don't buy this either-or headline. Either the magic trick is going to impress the audience, or there will be claims of some sort of tragic last-minute technical difficulty that could be worked around with a bit more research. Either way, the game is likely to continue. Maybe one mark or another will drop out of the con, having endured one too many cycles of investment followed by disappointment, but there are new marks being born every day.

Perpetual motion machines are a really old dream. The dream outlived Clausius, Kelvin, and Carnot and it will outlive us. Dreams are durable.
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You are conflating the language with the runtime, first. And second, we were experiencing the occasional page taking maybe one second, which we considered unacceptable but 99% of the world wouldn’t notice.

(NB, languages like Ruby and PHP are lovely, but are over 10x slower than C# and Java.)
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Do people really try to become billionaires? they start companies intending to become (multi-)millionaires and they do better than expected and become billionaires.
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You asked for an example :)
Is this "motorola solutions" actually part of the real Motorola?

http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg52921.htm...
i don't disagree with your points. however, each company has a particular culture. in a startup, a new hire that isn't a cultural fit can be devastating. the kind of neutered, sterile job ads that don't ruffle any feathers will not draw the kind of applicants that most startups are seeking.

edit: obviously, the above point excludes job posts that break laws.
facebook ads don't convert into buyers - adwords ads do - that's why it cost more. if you do the proper research, set up your campaigns and ad groups correctly, add negative keywords, adwords can work really well. you need to play their quality score game, get a good CTR on your ads and always be testing new ads.
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It's not as simple as that.

Sure, she can do that if all she wants to do is copy it once.

But what if the folder's contents are frequently being changed and she wants to keep Bob abreast of them? If files in it are being changed, and new ones are added?

Then she has to make the effort to track changes and repeatedly email them to Bob.

It's a matter of the amount of friction involved, and there can be a big difference in friction between being able to share-by-copy things and just giving access to the folder.
And how do you build a community with a bunch of anonymous users?
Thanks for redirecting me here.

>3) Your group is a sufficiently large portion of the total super flagger population, say 30%. //

There will be populations that aren't interested in the original mix. These populations could swamp the site under such a system.

So if HN becomes popular with a particular niche who're not interested in the original mix and they become a large proportion of the population - for example: There are many ebay sellers ("ebayers") that like the site for occasional link they don't find elsewhere. These ebayers are usually inactive. But they start to vote against nerdy tech stuff and always upvote ebay related articles. The site focus will drift and the feedback loop will attract more users that want ebay stuff and put off others from voting (as their votes are getting ignored because non-ebay stuff starts to become a honeypot).

...

Anyway. Would love to play with such a system and see where it goes. Like I said before I'd love it if somehow the site could let you implement this whilst at the same time allowing me to ignore your honeypot system and just have displayed voting (+clickthroughs and saves). That is we'd be able to establish our own metrics. Then people could try different filter algos and choose which gives them the nicest site.
Probably, but I imagine there might be a massive build-up of salt, leaving the "mine" unusable after a while.
The concept of a 'honeypot' article is a little ridiculous.

The best you can hope for is "this preferred population of people overwhelmingly dislikes this article". The problem at hand is that you want foster the interests and tastes for that one group of people.

So instead of crusading against lame newbs with a labour intensive system of 'silly articles' (who picks what is an article that ought to be downvoted?), you could compare their weighted voting history against your population of 'good users', yadda yadda yadda.
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#turing_test_fail was actually kinda funny.

I think people take themselves way too serious sometimes. Relax, there is really more important things in the world than getting upset about "brogrammers" or guys making silly jokes about Siri.
oh yes, fracking the US has caused both earthquakes and that awesome picture of a woman lighting her tapwater on fire.

just saying, earthquakes.
Good point. What easy prey I am to biased thinking.
But the claim is not that the output energy will be a "little bit more" than the input - the claim is it should be obviously much more.

So there has to be a clear result, where no amount of tweaking will fix the base principle if it's erroneous?
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But if the company is full of Raging Brogrammers, it is good to call it out from the beginning. Same problem as over hiring programmers (getting compiler hackers when you are working on a CRUD app).
maybe this is a dumb question, but why are so many packets dropped in cellular technology? is it an issue of the way the network is built, or is there some sort of physical constraint? or something else?
The reason there's a law against it is because bigots that still exist keep women from attaining equality and that's bad, not the other way around. It is in itself bad. You have a strange moral compass to me.

I know it's fun to be laddish when you're at college and uni, but cultural fit can often be a polite way of saying 'Hey, I'm a bigot, women are stupid and I'm not employing them above the level of secretary!'.

I'm sure cultural fit was used because some racist thought someone with a different coloured skin wouldn't fit in the office.

I don't like the way they phrased it because it was very easy to read that advert as advertising specifically for male programmers only. In other words, they're in danger of coming across as bigots.

And by association, so are we.

So I said something as it made me uncomfortable.
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Looks like a heavy-handed attempt to maintain their culture - as uncouth as it may be.
LOL - I assume you meant $0.50 each?
Very well said. You outlined everything that I've noticed and discussed with our IT team (who support a large number of Macs). Needless to say, they have come to despise supporting Macs.

And, yes, Microsoft Outlook for Mac is a horrid POS.

That said, I love Macs but I'm not in IT support and I completely understand their pain.
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This event was advertised on campus at UCL, but not specifically within the CS department. We received an email through JobOnline, but that's a service which you have to sign up to.

I have just sent out an email to all students in the Computer Science department; there were also flyers in the Engineering Cafe here which is the main hub for technical students.
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Personally I think this is the real reason behind the push for secure boot.
Pray tell, what language or framework would not experience minor performance issues running at the scale they do?
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I don't think those are mutually exclusive.

A lot of IT shops are accustomed to crippling the computers they manage, as a way to reduce need for servicing individual machines. Macs might not fit into that existing workflow, which make them appear harder to support. Just the prospect of having to loosen their policies incites all sorts of doom scenarios. Macs may be easier to manage, but it takes a brave IT manager to actually try it.

Also, many IT managers have dozens of Microsoft certificates, but little knowledge of Mac management. Noone wants to aide in their own replacement. It would be like John Henry suggesting the use of steam powered hammers.
Looks like "Motorola Solutions" is the other half - besides "Motorola Mobility" (the bit that Google is buying) - of the old Motorola, Inc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Solutions

Not so sure about this "Bob Higgins" though. I didn't find a Bob Higgins at Motorola on LinkedIn (granted, it was a quick and fairly superficial search).

Edit: Ok, upon further review, I did find a Bob Higgins @ Motorola, so he's real at least. Hard to say much beyond that...

What I do find suspicious though, is this: Take a look at the results from this search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bob+higgins+motorol...

and look at all the domain names on the first page.

ecatinfo.com
ecatreviews.com
ecatfusion.com
buyecat.com
ecathome.com
ecatexport.com
energycatalyzernews.com
rossireactor.com
rossigenerator.com
ecatnews.com

I mean, somebody has really poured a lot of energy into promoting this thing, and it hasn't even been properly verified yet? This comes off as a bit scammy to me.
It would be interesting to know how much influence Microsoft seeks to impose on these new BIOS implementations with their hardware partners and/or how willing the OEMs will be to bargain it away for more favorable licensing terms and hence, profits.

We can already see how willing handset makers are to pay them for Android related cross-licensing. That's extending into the realm of ChromeOS now too.

I hope the days of installing an alternate OS on garden variety hardware are not numbered, because I suspect the economic leverage Microsoft has vs. the economic incentive for OEMs to ship open hardware isn't enough. Hopefully, I'm totally wrong.
I was going to post this myself. Thanks for beating me to it.
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I wish Newegg shares how they do it. The site is always extremely fast, even under heavy load and the pages seem to be all data heavy.
Funny, but that's more mocking than really portraying bros accurately.

This is probably more helpful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqg01Nk3SYI

and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4uDPZGYWmE

and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm4KlxG1SEg&feature=relat...

bonus round: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJh-13maChY
There's a balance to be struck because the polar opposite - discussing features rather than benefits - is the norm and it's worse than ineffective for the average user, it's confusing noise.

I just came back from running two days of usability tests on-site at a security software company. I wish everyone could see the test subjects' eyes glaze over the typical marketing text describing exactly how the thing works and conversely, how they'd light up about 20 minutes into it when I'd guide and moderate them towards the hidden nuggets of real tangible value, like "4x faster than Norton" or a chart showing that the memory usage was a tiny fraction of competitors.
What term would prefer? Corrupt pricing?
Everything is a slippery slope - discipline is a slippery slope to bullying, protection to mollycoddling, teaching to preaching.

Research has shown that play is how children learn. Not hard things like cash flow, but vital investigatory, reasoning and communication skills, as well as building confidence and independence. The parent who forgets fun is going to be forgetting a major part of their child's education.
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Like HURD, I applaud Stallman for his vision but not his implementation.
Hey, that's great logic. Remind me to start a company where we have a dedicated "porn-watching hour", too. I'm sure it will make for a spectacular ad and attract a lot of serious talent.
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The difference, though, is that the money that Khan Academy has raised is donations. They're not investors who are seeking a (financial) return on their capital. Education is a tough space for startups trying to make money: http://avichal.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/why-education-startu...
Indeed, even the US justice department only pays $16 ;)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/20/taxpayers-fo...
Oh, there is always a third option in science: "Oops, the box would have given us a definitive yes-or-no answer if only the fuse hadn't blown, and gosh darn it, the local stores have no fuses in stock. Oh, and these fuses are special and cost $750,000."

You'll learn all about this phenomenon in years two through six of your seven-year Ph.D. program in experimental physics. ;)
Sexist? maybe, insensitive? probably, immature and cliche? absolutely.
That makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it. Thanks
Using terms in US job ads which you could argue are gender neutral is a great way to be given the opportunity to make that argument to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Cross Reference to a post yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3162917

The title: "Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment" and the comments delved into the same issue here.
I'm not going to believe it until they show a closed system, with only a hydrogen (or water) input, producing enough energy to sustain its own reaction for an extended period of time.
And by extension unwise that Y Combinator thought it was an appropriate ad to allow on this site.
As anti-capitalist, I oppose all corporations, including Samsung. On the other hand, as a free software activist, Apple has made itself my number one enemy in the past year or so with the considerable spread of the DRM-ridden iOS.
Nah. It was a bad idea from the start. When you inject the water into the well you'll end up with it carrying all sorts of salts it finds down there.
Can you explain your first sentence? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I'm not defending bigotry/sexism/etc. Hopefully, you didn't take my comment that way.
I meant not throwing away money in respect to suggestions that they out right refuse a legal order. Not that they hire more lawyers to attempt to change that legal order.

I was talking about the prospect of them breaking the law.
Exactly my thoughts, I really like that they actually exposed their cultural thoughts on this one, I hope to see this kind of trend in job postins more and it really makes me want to join that respective company.

On the other hand I don't understand, why, most of you, as males are really getting mad about this? Why do you feel offended? If you have a female programmer friend, ask her about this and make her post their opinions, not you. I'll bet my life savings that all females that are into tech (that I know) will not have the slightest problem with this.

Stop whining about this kind of stuff HN, you're better than this.
The job ad is awful. Maybe they do not mean to be discriminatory; but that doesn't matter. Any woman applying for, but not getting, the job can then point to the ad and ask if she was discriminated against because of her sex. The hassle of dealing with that will sap time and resources from actual work.

> You are a native english speaker (our tech relies on speech recognition)

This sentence is also unwise in the UK.
I'm sorry, but how is it at all difficult to figure out if a black box has more or less total electrical output than input?

You put in electricity, but output steam? Fine, use a steam turbine to make out electricity, or whatever technology you want. If the delivered output is not greater than the delivered input, you fail.

If you suspect batteries, run the test longer.

If you suspect that there is another process going on, then you have to open the black box, and look for unintentional wear and tear - are you accidentally performing another chemical reaction that is providing energy? If so, over a long enough period, it'll be obvious.

Debates about exit velocity of steam seem like a giant waste of time.
"It doesn't prove anything, but it does mean something."

No it doesn't. The history of science and technology is filled with things that people couldn't achieve, that were considered impossible, and then were done.

There is no way you can simply look at the fact that it hasn't been done and is considered hard and conclude anything about whether it can be done or not.

To hopefully avoid a potential misunderstanding: you can give specific reasons why X seems hard to do and not likely to be achieved, and these can mean something. But it's these reasons that mean something, not the fact that it hasn't been achieved so far.
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There is a study as recent as last year http://www.avacore.com/sites/default/files/document/Kwon-Sch.... There are also a lot of sports teams using it, and it is visible often on TV.
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Be discrete. You have nothing to gain from honesty in this situation.
The problem is the inanity of the culture is glorified. Techcrunch is often just entrepeneurial porn.

The community could do so much more if it first asked, "what does this do for people?" rather than "does it make us a billion dollars?" There's plenty of opportunity out there -- especially if you focus on delighting your customers.
Woman programmer here: I automatically assumed they were looking for college aged men. "Brogrammer," is not a unisex term, no matter how they try to spin it.
I don't see this. Carriers already compete with messaging services like AIM creating AppleTalk-for-mobile doesn't seem that disruptive considering. The article's evidence looks more like ATT responding to a bifurcating market with no-text and text-heavy users. It's profitable for them to fold mid-level users into unlimited plans and attract more people who'd rather have the $15.
This seems like AirBnB except with cars. Seems like they might run into the same liability problems.
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If that's the type of person you're looking to hire (say, for a porn site...), not sure why you wouldn't do this. Assuming, again, that you aren't breaking any laws. Not sure what point you were trying to make. Sarcasm doesn't translate well in writing...
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That's easy to say when you only have a small amount of money invested in ownership. If you had a lot more riding on this, you might take the opposite position. Not saying your current one isn't correct, but still...
I agree it will continue. Although a true perpetual motion machine is impossible, there's no reason that a device couldn't produce seemingly unlimited energy. The total energy of a mass system is incredibly high. At some point (maybe a long way from today's tech) we may be able to extract a constant portion in a controlled fashion in a small device. That carrot will lead many people to try and fail.

What's great is the empiricism of energy: we can measure the input and output precisely (given enough effort), and so its pretty easy (comparatively) to tell whether the box does what it says on the lid. Even this demo shows that: the consultants will only pay once the machine shows that the numbers add up.
This is not a political site so I'm not going to debate the merits/drawbacks of outlawing bigotry in hiring practices.

But one thing that ought to be pointed out is that free markets tend to punish companies, over the long term, that intentionally deny themselves access to talent due to bigotry. Conversely, companies who acquire talent with rational screening procedures will have a competitive advantage over those who use irrational screening procedures.

It's a sort of corporate karma. In aggregate, bigotry in hiring procedures will eventually harm you, legal or not.
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Well these stats seem to suggest that iPhone is half as popular with the African-American demographic (with RIM and "other" noticeably more popular):

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/among-mobile-ph...

And this suggests that "Demographically, Android phones are especially common among young adults and African-Americans, while iPhones and Blackberry devices are most prevalent among college graduates and the financially well-off."

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2054/smartphone-ownership-demogr...

Blackberry seems to win, probably through being an early provider of group messaging to a young, early-adopter demographic on one side and a business staple on the other and the twin lock-ins that provides.

Though note that "white people" are about 10-15 years older than other categories on average so white, middle-aged, and affluent kind of go together and can be hard to tease apart.
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10 bucks on the non-future of mankind if this fails.
I think some people do set out with the goal in mind of becoming a billionaire and I don't think these people succeed. Like you said, I think people who do become billionaires are fixated on a more proximate goal (like starting a company that serves an important need) and end up exceeding their initial expectations.
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Ah, I didn't know it was a "thing". Looking it up comforts the idea that the post is silly and childish.

I was indeed playing devil's advocate: it's not because the ad is clumsily worded that its author's intent was to exclude females.
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