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You're making the mistake of thinking that wealth is correlated with suicides. In fact, the countries with the highest per-capita suicide rates tend to in Northern and Eastern Europe.

I can't explain why. I think the people there are more melancholy by nature. They also have some of the highest IQs in the world, so maybe there is a correlation there.

Sorry for the tangent, RIP Ilya.
Exactly. You can't put out an article like this while spewing our countless reviews talking about how one camera is so many megapixels better than this other camera.
As a Pasadena native I've always known Adam Schiff to be very open to communication with his constituents. However, I can't recall him ever changing his position based on complaints. Also, his district contains cities that employees of several major studios (Universal, Disney, Dreamworks) call home which may help to explain his position.
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Why don't people lose weight despite many free dieting resouces out there?
This may seem like a question with an obvious answer: because they too much and don't exercise enough.

But, it seems to me that it is not. Isn't it obvious that you will not lose weight unless you eat calories than what you burn? If not, why not?

I ask this in a specific context. I have been lurking at HN for over a year and I love how people can get straightforward advice on new business ideas. So I want to get your opinion on my idea.

I want to start a service for people who want to lose weight. But I want to use technology (Twitter/Facebook/SMS) to help them. I want their friends to help them lose weight by pestering them when they are at a restaurant eating a big portion. Sort of like a "social weight loss" program.

What do you think of the idea? Ask me questions but also try to answer my question above. Thanks.

EDIT: tl;dr: Would it be useful if just before you eat, you SMS out what you are about to eat and get an estimated calory count back instantly via SMS?
Would definitely be there but I'm in Kansas City tomorrow for our Entrepreneurs Unpluggd event. Next time!
Apparently node.js doesn't implement the DOMParser object, which means that you can't actually use jquery's parseXML method. That's a bummer :(
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Fiddler also: http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler/help/httpsdecryption.asp

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that's very well put. there certainly are people who cause others to commit suicide (such as an abusive spouse or parent), but they are precisely the sort of people who wouldn't feel any guilt over the suicide anyway.
Who you see as your primary audience for this type of thing?
I just don't think developers do CMS a lot
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There's nothing I want more from a politician's response than a simple, "Yeah, you're right, this shit sucks."
I have always thought that police are just keeping the status quo instead of really protecting the people.

We all break the law. Whether it is Jay Walking, smoking a joint, or being drunk in public. With the number of laws that exist today, it's hard NOT to break one every once in a while.

The only true law that is enforced is to fit in with society.

I drive like a maniac, but I am a young clean cut white male who dresses like the rest of us and drives a yaris (no tinting). I have been doing 30% over the speed limit, noticed a police cruiser directly behind me (for a few minutes), and casually moved out of his way. Didn't get much more than a glance. (No sirens, they were highway police so they were fully within their jurisdiction, should have gotten a ticket basically..)

A friend of mine who drives incredibly cautiously (because he is driving around a brand new Escalade, you know the cars all the rappers used to talk about) has been pulled over (and harassed) no less than 10 times in the past 3 years. It doesn't help that he "looks too young" for the car he drives.

Anyways... that sure is one hell of a utopia like mquander suggests.
Right. IBM still invests in "technical breakthroughs or research level computer science knowledge" at well funded labs. The two biggest are at Almaden, CA, and Yorktown, NY.

Like any lab looking at fundamental science, it's hard to judge how much of that activity leads to profit. Some research groups do also make/sell products that are cutting edge, though, on a consulting basis. E.g. the storage group in Almaden makes insanely large custom storage systems for very big - often federal govt - clients.
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D'oh! Good luck out there!
The idea I had originally went out the door when I read about their "Cellular Usage Index" aka "their solution to their freeloader problem".

Basically if you use more than "$19 worth" of cellular service per month... they boot you off of their networks.
Yup, the API lets you do that. You can pull our your comments and sync to a local datastore.
> In Levy's 'In The Plex' it boiled down to Page not really thinking the cost of support came close to the benefit.

And let's not forget, the cost of support, even email-based, is huge. At Google's scale, with the number of customers they have, it would be significant. Plus, this way, they can drive customers towards using Search to solve their problems (hopefully).
How is it the the license for a handful of patents is equivalent to the license for an entire operating system that incorporates a lot more than just those patents?

It comes out looking something like this:

license for WP7 (1000 MS patents) = $40/device
license for Android (6 MS patents) = $40/device

(obviously the numbers are made-up, but you can get the gist)

"a mobile operating system which incorporates Microsoft technology" is a gross simplification.
That's correct. It wasn't clear which one was going to end up on the front page and I was covering the bases.

Stand by :-)
> Popular science, sometimes called literature of science, is interpretation of science intended for a general audience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_science

Conflation of genres imo, both science shows and "popular science" shows can be enjoyed independently of one another, similar to how adults may enjoy both drama and comedy. From what I've seen of Bang Goes the Theory on youtube, it appears to be a clone of MythBusters and cover much fluffier one-off engineering problems simple enough to reproduce on TV.

On the other hand, ScienceNow is more of a newsmagazine that highlights what several different researchers are currently working on, and why they are interested in that problem. Ex: natural language processing robots, growing human ears on mice for reconstructive surgery, etc.
I guess I'll start salting my dupe comments :-)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-building/y0Z...

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I can't reply to your last comment, so I'm going to to it here:

> The point is that it's trivial to make a site like this usable without JS, with little effort. You just have to start with the right mindset.

How are you supposed to make a instant search usable without JS?

If it doesn't need to be instant, just normal search with a nice GET /search?q=border, one would have to program a server side script to do that search.

Or maybe you'd just want to show the whole reference on the HTML, then the JS would have to use that to do the search and hide/show the appropriate div, or you'd have to load everything twice (once in the HTML body and again via ajax). Even then, what's the point? It's a instant search. If the user can't use the only feature of it, he's better off googling.

Is there other way that I'm missing? I don't see that as "trivial".
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Counterexample: you failed parsing some number correctly, but the backend where you log broken transactions is corrupted and cannot be written to. You'd rather drop the second information?
Do you mind expanding on your comment as I am not sure how it pertains to the article, which actually states that we are NOT in a bubble.

The idea that companies are valued above the value of their infrastructure is not new and it has nothing to do with web based phenomena.

Hennessy Cognac (as an example) was valued three of four fold above the actual value of the companies assets and the difference stems from the fact that the logo and the name are some of the highest valued in the world. (This information is about 10 years old - from my Engineering Project and Trademark Management days - but it illustrates a point).

We, as people, will always value intangible assets and we did not need web to do it.
this happens now. But rather than focusing on what you said we try to find what you are :)
I think you have it exactly backwards - the iPhone 4S/Siri speech-to-text/natural language processing are done in the CLOUD. The text-to-speech is done on the phone itself. My (non-Siri of course) iPhone 4's Voice Command stuff is COMPLETELY on the phone itself, and would do TtS of my contact list and Artist names, etc.
News flash: Consumer Reports is not a cheerleader for the top selling products. They are an organization concerned over what you get in actual fact for your money.

Consumer Reports is read by people who want to know all of the quality issues and hard facts about a product before making a purchasing decision. Such consumers always have, and always will be, a small market segment.

This "credibility rant" reads like a sycophant lamenting those who don't heap lavish praise upon the popular kids.
> Disqus ... is not ideal because it slows down page load times

Do you know to what degree they are slowed down? I am observing that they load particularly fast (< 1 second) on this blog post.
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Guide: http://docs.disqus.com/help/58 (though it's already automatic in our WordPress and MovableType plugins).
I think it comes down to hardware vs. software. In the "PC" era your hardware was the sole determiner of what you could do with your machine. However, in the "Post PC" era the software has become just as important. Your tablet's API and App store policies now determine what you can and can't do. When you consider that software is much hard to provide comparable specs for than hardware, the falling importance of specs makes sense.
How does this differ from previous releases? Can I finally attach sources to the actual Android sdk jar and attach a debugger?
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For political/military strategists to take an morning stroll on? See if any bright ideas pop up?

It's eerie.
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indeed. as an employee, you have a price. you have expectations. as an entrepreneur you have a dream. some entrepreneurs sell out and relinquish their dream. maybe they find a new one. others will never sell out, as a matter of principle. they are uncompromising in that regard.
I searched for "layout" and found nothing. These are not docs I always wish I had.
I was born in 83, and I agree. I was homeschooled, so growing up I was never part of a group of children my own age. I was smart at the time, and so I tended to spend most of my social time hanging out with folks who were 5-10 years older and absorbed a lot of culture from them. I've always identified more with the "ideals" of Generation X than with those of the Millenial generation or Generation Y. I'm cynical almost to a fault. I have extreme problems accepting un-earned authority, such that my wife said "you just aren't meant to have a boss" the other day. I really just want to be left alone to live my life in peace, like a less violent Daniel Plainview.

To get meta, I think that it's probably easiest to envision generations as phases of an ideological sine wave. At any given time, one set of ideas and culture - one phase - will be dominant and will contain most of the population. However, no phase ever dies out completely - there's always a few oddballs who will find medieval chivalry, for instance, appealing. I think that you and I were just born in between the peaks of Generation X and the Millenial generation, so our values are somewhat harder to predict.
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It's true that "Bang Goes the Theory" has elements of Mythbusters, but it's focused on the science as opposed to the action movie stuff. The programme is basically "popular science -- you know, for teens!". Their magazine style format typically has one segment where they put a scientific hypothesis, law or principle in practice by building various gadgets. Other segments are news-related stuff, such as (just after the Japanese earthquake) a long segment on the science of tsunamis. I'm not in the target demographic at all, so I don't really follow it, but I appreciate their focus on educating kids and encouraging scientific thinking about young people.
The very-large antenna looking road-thingy they link to is explained here:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showpost.php?s=fd66faf505dcd60e57...
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Yeah - depending on the specifics of your case, as a defendant you may be able to do a "defense in depth" where you argue multiple, possibly-contradictory explanations why you might not be guilty, without actually committing to one of them as actually true.

Presumption of innocence is awesome.
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I'm really not sure how fast food product ideas contradict my point about adding unnecessary complications to home electronics, but... damn, a one-step microwaveable baked potato sounds great.
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Holy crap! I have a big meeting tomorrow night but I'm so blowing it off for this. It's not often I get a chance to meet other technophiles in Chicago.
Engineer from Disqus here, I work on the front-end side of our product.

Disqus doesn't slow down page load times because we use a non-blocking technique to load required files. We work hard to make sure that we don't add any performance regressions to sites using Disqus.

We are also working on making comments made via our product indexable by search engines.

As for the open source version of Disqus, I am not sure what you mean by that since Disqus is a service and not a program that you can download and install. People prefer Disqus because they don't want to spend time implementing and hosting discussion platforms for their websites just like people using GitHub don't want to spend time implementing and hosting developer collaboration software.

Anton

P.S. If you are having problems with Disqus slowing down your page, email me at anton@disqus.com and I will check it out.
Isn't it obvious that you will not lose weight unless you eat [fewer] calories than what you burn?

Yes, it is obvious. Losing weight is a simple mathematical equation. Burn 2500 calories a day, and eat 2000, and every week you will lose 1 pound (1 pound ~ 3500 calories). The difficult part is making it happen on a daily basis. Say your body burns 2200 calories a day...can you squeeze in 45 minutes of intense cardio each day to burn another 300? On top of that, can you restrict your calorie intake to 2000 when a typical fast food combo is 1100 calories and a Starbucks latte is 190? There is even a salad on CPK's menu that weighs in at a whopping 1800 calories. I think the problem with losing weight, especially in the United States, is not a matter of math, it is a matter of discipline. If you are American and you want to lose weight, I suggest moving to Japan. I have been there twice, and I lose an average of 5 pounds a week there because of a diet heavy on rice and seafood, but with extremely small portions, lots of walking, dancing til 5am, and lots of pushing on crowded trains.
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Get out of here with that. Maybe there are circumstances, in times of horrible war or famine or terminal illness, where suicide is the necessary step to end suffering. Maybe that's hell; I wouldn't know. I hope not to.

But I know depression. Depression feels like hell, but it's not. It's a treatable disease. Killing yourself to escape depression is like killing yourself to escape pneumonia instead of going to the hospital.

You should not respect that decision. You should help that person to get better.
OTOH, if you do need to write your own code, you could use the existing test suites to make it a lot easier. I think the GPL would allow this.
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Ha! I didn't know AmigaBASIC did that.

I almost mentioned the fact that pointers were pretty much always aligned on the 68k, but I never really head of anyone using those bits to store anything. The top-8 had the "nice" property that the hardware did the masking for you.

I do remember that certain parts of the Amiga OS (particularly in the file system, I believe) used "BPTRs" which were essentially pointers shifted down 2 bits -- in other words, the word index instead of the individual byte index. Normal pointers were called "APTRs" by the code that used BPTRs.
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"If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald."
So what would you want in a service that wants to help you lose weight?

Would it be useful if just before you eat, you SMS out what you are about to eat and get an estimated calory count back instantly via SMS?
That was unexpected! Hi! Will check out the Chaos programme. I actually watched your doc on the aftermath of Fukushima earlier this week, and was very pleased with how balanced and low-key it was done; it was also unexpectedly moving.

"The Story of Electricity" and "Everything and Nothing" is also in my queue. And your University of Surrey session! You're a prolific guy! Between all the documentaries and books and radio programmes and lectures, do you find any time to do science research at all?
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Would love to see this on Github.
They've open sourced every version but Honeycomb and had reasons for doing so.
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Why don't they just tag all of Honeycomb?

If the reason is that there's no combination of project commits that can create a building Honeycomb, they should just admit to it and explain why.

The current approach seems like a weird attempt to snow something over - I understand that Honeycomb was a rushed, trashy Android release, and that there's some pride involved, but supposedly all of the rushed, trashy code is in the tree now, and hence there's no going back. The first thing everyone on xda-developers is going to do is go hunting for bad Honeycomb code anyway.
I assume this is the 646 N Franklin location downtown, rather than the one in Evanston?
Flash has nothing to do with Google's reasons for not open sourcing Honeycomb.
That made me laugh:"This is not Tron or the Matrix where hacking against the system takes you to magical adventures". So true!
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I eagerly await the justice system that obsoletes appeals by always being perfect the first time....
You probably don't. The AOSP is hundreds of individual git repositories. android.kernel.org and the "repo" tool are the only sane way to deal with them.
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Does this make mongo a bad choice for storing real time statistics?
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As someone fairly overweight, I'm totally aware of all the resources available to me should I want to lose weight (I have a fitocracy account currently, I used to do Weight Watchers -- which worked -- and others)

I am still overweight because I love to eat, I know what needs to be done and I do not care. I'd rather be plump and have a carne asada burrito tonight than thin and have a properly portioned meal and well reasoned meal.

It's also much easier to get a carne asada burrito, or order a pizza, because my life is busy and easy where I can get it is appealing. When it's not busy I eat much nicer meals, but no less rich in calories. I do at least make sure I eat lots of veggies and fruits, but I also have a bag of salt & vinegar chips I know I'll tackle late in the evening when everyone has gone to bed.

A few years ago I did lose weight, about 100lbs, and it happened because I woke up one morning and decided I needed a change. I focused hard on monitoring what I ate, I used weight watcher's point system at first then figured out in general what was going on there and used my own tracking system and spreadsheets. And after seeing results for weeks and months, I stopped paying attention. I still monitor, but not as much.

My point is that people, at least a good portion of people, understand what is necessary to lose weight. It's making a significant life change that's difficult. People may or may not come to the point where that change is something they're going to make. When they make that decision, that's when good tools can help.

So don't make a tool thinking it'll convince people to lose weight, make a tool that works well for people who truly want to lose weight.
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But is it actionable? I have to answer email, sometimes.
Is it OK if I don't consider S&P ratings to be 100% credible?
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In order to answer the question appropriately, it would help to know what your objective is. Do you just want to rig your traffic numbers without caring about who comes to your site and what they do on your site?

If not, then the answer is it depends. It depends on who you're targeting, and on what action (reading an article? sharing it? signing up for a product or newsletter?) defines success.
Especially in early startups where one works alone quite a lot of the time. Very different than getting a job at a company.
Just because your product is at MVP stage doesn't mean you're B-team. It just means you're the new news :)
The directions from the link took me to the one on Franklin. I'd assume they would specify Evanston if it were there as there's enough of a difference to justify it. See you there!
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Apple has clearly had a difficult time keeping up with early demand for Siri services as it is.

I think keeping it limited to the 4S looks a lot more like a operational necessity at this time.

Given that, If Siri appears on the Mac between major OS releases, I imagine it might be only for new hardware (i.e. a Macbook Air with an exterior Siri button and purple LED) at first as well.

Eventually (once they can scale Siri well enough), it could be released as a modestly-priced Mac App Store app. I bet it would be more pricy than FaceTime ($0.99 US) though.

I presume that's what they'll end up doing for existing iOS customers, pegging Siri for iPhone 4 and recent Touches at a price that keeps 4S customers satisfied to get early access and/or "free" Siri for the life of their phone.