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I don't understand why a large paper map is better at conveying "the gestalt of a subject" - I appreciate the work Imus did from the perspective of craftsmanship/artwork - and, indeed, it might be a great paper map - but, I'm guessing that 95% of the readership of HN uses digital maps for more than 90% of the time (and, who knows, it might actually be 99% and 99%.) The fact that your map will place your location on it, give you a reasonably decent satellite overlay, and is zoomable to the level that you need it, and will put _dynamic_ layers like weather, and/or traffic with _real time_ data. There is a reason why I haven't thought of turning to a paper map in 5+ years.

It would be interesting to see where a paper map performed better than a digital map.
Second this one - choose a window seat on the left if you have a flight into DCA. If you are lucky, you'll land from the north, and get an amazing view of the city as you approach - at pretty low altitude so you see everything very clearly.

I've lived here all my life and fly in and out of DCA every week or so, and that view still never gets old.
I tend to view designing database schemas as an evolving process. Picking larger datatypes to me is sometimes easier than having to change it at a later date. If space really does become an issue I can deal with it later.

You need to really understand the data you plan to put in.
Wil Tirion plots star maps. At one stage he was using Illustrator on a Mac. Graduated from a drawing table and Rotring pens. I find his maps easier to use in the field than a laptop or netbook with 'red screen'. Its the overview aspect I suppose.
How exactly is that note worthy?
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no i have no problems. macbook air 2010 w/ lion + file vault active - no crashes or instability. i do time machine backups on a regular basis and work with Xcode, photoshop, iWork, vmware fusion - never had any problem.
A really interesting finding in studies of homeschooled kids is that blacks and whites do pretty much the same, whereas in school blacks do much worse. This is also completely decorrelated from whether the parent teachers have any background in education, how much they spend, or even whether they have college degrees. I see this as evidence that outcomes are not because of intrinsic genetic factors but because of systematic bias within institutional education. Bias is unlikely to be intentional, but it likely does exist and has significant influence on results.
Heh. Turns out Benchmark and Raven maps use the same studio to produce their maps.

http://www.allancartography.com/
I know the Pandora app will sometimes delete playing history between times when I have it active. I have always assumed this was because of some memory early-warning system.
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Not if your secondary partition isn't mounted automatically. It's not a stretch to assume that customs agents (or whomever) aren't going to look for unmounted partitions when the computer is booting and running normally.
Final Fantasy on the NES. That's supposedly what the "final" was for; it was to be their last game before the studio shut down. It was a hit, and it and its successors kept them in business until they morphed into Square Enix and became Japan's EA.
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With a very large, very high-resolution screen, and the same graphic/information design expertise, I'm sure the digital map will do just as well as paper.

The issue is simply that paper is (typically) more dense than pixels, allowing your eyes to take in patterns across a larger area, and allowing you to continuously and effortly adjust your vantage point.

Nobody could possibly argue that paper is superior to digital for weather or traffic. Digital maps are, in general, probably superior to paper maps.
That's a more reasonable comparison, sure. I'm not finding exact numbers on aggregate european population but seems to be between 731 and 857 million, about 2.5-3 times that of the US.
Do you have a source for the EU SC verdict that such a tax is illegal? The reason I'm asking is that Sweden has similar rules. (For instance, all external hard drives have a tax of ~$10, a DVD-RW $0.60 and DVD recorders with HD's larger than 250GB are $40.) This "private copying levy" is payed by manufacturers and importers but of course passed on to the buyers.

The levy is in place "to compensate authors, performers and producers to some extent for the copying of copyright material for private use allowed under the law" [1].

[1] http://www.copyswede.se/in-english/activities-of-copyswede/t...
It's a kill -9.
Google most certainly has been focusing this past year, and will continue to do so into 2012. It wasn't just rhetoric when Larry said back in July: "Greater focus has also been another big feature for me this quarter--more wood behind fewer arrows". (https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/dRtqKJCb...)
It makes the business district look sleepy and quiet, rather than active and bustling.

Only to people looking at pictures on the internet. When you're there, there's just as much commerce happening as ever. Note that Brazil is one of the few countries that was able to evade the global rape that the finanical industries committed over the past few years.

What was the last thing you bought that was directly attributable to seeing a street advertisement at a location?
They said the same thing about technological advancements during the industrial revolution...
And keep your mouth shut about them: http://ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yoursel...
Speaking of distracting advertising, the massive, bright LCD screens on 101 (here in the valley) are an accident or two waiting to happen.
I'll have to check the published literature for what it says about reading instruction in Finnish. Finland has a minority of native speakers of Swedish (not a closely cognate language). Finnish (Suomi) and Swedish are co-official as national languages in Finland.

http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/f...

Finnish, by far the majority language, has an alphabetic writing system that is recently reformed enough that it has very consistent sound-symbol correspondences.

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/finnish.htm

The late John DeFrancis

http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Diverse-Interactions-Co...

and current researcher and author Stanislas Dehaene

http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Brain-New-Science-Read/dp/0143...

develop historical and international comparisons, backed up by brain imaging in Dehaene's book, to make the argument that initial reading instruction should at its best focus students' attention to sound-symbol correspondences in the written language taught in primary reading instruction.

But initial reading instruction in the United States specifically and in English-speaking countries in general is only half-heartedly done that way,

http://learninfreedom.org/readseri.html

http://www.mackinac.org/5365

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024599/

and when school pupils in English-speaking countries struggle to learn to read independently, they are also likely to struggle to learn other subjects thoroughly.

The best current information I have suggests that initial reading instruction in Finland, whether in Finnish or in Swedish, is better done than much reading instruction in the English-speaking world, and that advantage may account for much of the national advantage Finland enjoys (and partially explain why immigrant families who use Finnish as a second language are the bottom group found in national-level sample testing of Finland for international surveys).
Over the last year we've seen people use idonethis to help achieve personal goals and build habits. With our product for teams we've also seen how groups help each other stay motivated. We're bringing those two together now.

To capture the new year's spirit we thought we'd help everyone and anyone by creating groups of people with similar goals. The frequent reminders and updates help everyone stay motivated.

Happy new year!
I think the reason why this is able to get grow even stronger in 2012 is because our phones are able to make us more beautiful than our laptops. The easiest photo processing I can do is on my phone (Camera+), not my laptop.
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Social games already know this. Most people would be flabbergasted by what the big guys know about their players.

It's really like a money-printing machine when you have the data and tools to analyze it.
did you ever figure out why upx had such a large performance penalty?
The label for "Kettering" in National Geographic's map is distorted (to "fit"), set in smaller type, crosses two road paths, and eliminates more smaller city labels than Imus'.

The irony of this is that these are all very common constraints to graph layout algorithms --- simple type, minimized crossings, label size and placement --- and the label you called out as "better" pessimizes them.

Add to that the fact that Imus' map subtly indicates Kettering's position in a population center (the yellow blob) and gives topographic and foresting information for the area with a clear contrast between the western and eastern sides.

Be careful. The Imus map is deceptively detailed (again: forestation levels), and is not shown in its best light in a PNG clip next to a simplified National Geographic map. You're right; the Imus map looks muddy and harder to read. That's because it's doing more, and is thus not as well suited to a laptop screen (or a clip in a web page) as National Geographic's.
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There are built-in tools to measure CPU, memory and battery usage, you simply need to have a Mac (or a 3rd party app)to get at the data. For example, here's how to get rather detailed energy diagnostic information:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Develo...
You're not the only one. The ads are often funny, or beautiful. Flashing lights (in my opinion) help give cities that city feeling.
Perhaps try one of the new bootcamps and get a couple of months of code education. You sound like the kind of person who would be a good intern hire, according to your post you have plenty of self-motivation which counts in your favour.
My point is that 2x slowdown is critical for many systems - embedded, gamedev, HPC, systems software. Controlled measurement of slow-down and heap slack caused by GC is beyond capabilities of most embedded devs. Academia provided us with some experimental results saying that in half-empty heaps GC is lightning fast, but there's no (recent) data for 90% full heaps and for very large heaps.
They are top universities in only two aspects: they provide connections and -- particularly some, like Harvard and Stanford -- the ecosystem for making success later in life. In terms of pure education, most US universities are far below many others elsewhere.
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Thanks for the feedback.
I've recently opened up a github account. My contributions thus far are minimal(bug reports and a documentation patch) but I am watching the Symfony (php framework we use) issues page to see if there is anything i could write a patch for outside work hours. A small goal i have set for myself is to get enough commits to be in the top 100 of http://symfony.com/contributors, but so far i haven't found the right place to contribute.

What you say makes sense and I will focus on getting some modern code out there with my name attached. My previous open source php app was the first i wrote and i'm not particularly proud of the code when looking back at it. Combine that with the fact that it is basically an app supporting illegal activities(downloading tv shows via torrents) and I have decided not to include it in my resume.
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I think you're right on the effect but wrong on the implied grave magnitudes "absolutely kills" and "much faster", because:

• not all SSDs even have hardware compression

• modern workloads have less highly compressible data than in the past: large-media formats include their own compression, and bulk data processing often does its own application-level compress/decompress on store/load

I'd be interested to see any benchmarks that quantify the speed/lifetime hit that whole-disk encryption might cause for SSDs, but my hunch is that the effect would be slight in normal scenarios.
I did this for four years, but I stopped because it's too easy to miss new files with the wide gitignore it requires.
First, the article seems to contradict your claim of there being very few immigrants in Finland:

According to the Migration Policy Institute, a research organization in Washington, there were 18 states in the U.S. in 2010 with an identical or significantly smaller percentage of foreign-born residents than Finland.

Second, the part you quote talks about variation between schools, and there definitely are Finnish schools with 0% immigrants as well as ones with 30% immigrants. Yet, a "remarkable lack of variation" in test scores.

Yes, the article claims Finland focuses on equality, but it also explains that socio-economic background is a major source of inequality and the Finnish schools have been able to diminish that effect.
I never took databases on college, don't have energy to learn about normal forms, but find "designing" the schemas for my simple services a joy.
I just move those into my ~/config git directory and symlink them from there.
but then couldn't people still get to your unencrypted data (through your backups)?
"So they didn't eliminate all signage, but it was rather dramatically reduced."

I was actually paying attention to that. They allowed business to put up their own sign on their own residence, but not other ads. For example you see the Mcdonalds sign at the Mcdonalds, the Xerox sign at the Xerox, and the Shell sign at the Shell. But I didn't notice anything other then that.
Great to know. Thanks! I will check them out :)
The thing you didn't consider with your post xmas mail shot is that when you send someone an email there is a cost associated with that. When people agree to taking something for free then they don't expect an email later.
It is a desperate problem with the freemium model almost as though you need to tell people that the price of this free gimmick is an email that's going to arrive in your mailbox.
There are a few airports I can think of around the world that are a little more concerning (and possibly more fun).

http://www.oddee.com/item_93109.aspx
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Yeah, great. Even if you believe him, that might mean as little as a year. What about the next administration? What about the administration after that?

Laws last much longer than the administrations under which they are born.
Mixergy looks good - can anyone comment on if it is?
One mistake I used to see a lot is not paying attention to indices. It's sort of like the "go big" error in that you just create indices all over the place even if they could never be used. Also, it could be adding columns to the index that won't improve access time, or not paying attention to the order of columns.

In reality, you need to analyse your code and profile your application to see what actually is needed for your indices. Also essential is understanding the overhead that an index creates.

I don't see this as often today, however. I think that in a lot of cases developers put off creating indices of any sort until a performance problem materializes.
Discuss my idea: social address book network
Presented in a concise problem-solving manner, so I don't waste your valuable time.

Subproblem 1:

People still have to enter all details about their personal contacts (e.g. address, phone numbers, e-mail accounts, birthday, …) manually in their address book, phone, computer, ... This is quite a tedious task. There should be an easier way to do this.

Subproblem 2:

The details about your personal contacts are never up to date. If someones moves, changes their phone number or e-mail, … they have to inform everyone they know through e-mail, SMS, Facebook, ... Some people get neglected, which is human, but sucks. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn only partially solve this problem. The information you share with these services is never complete. I, for example, only share my name, e-mail and birthday with my FB, twitter and LinkedIn contacts.

Solution:

A small social network where a user enters his full contact details and shares it with the people he chooses (kinda like Facebook where people can add you as a friend). He can request other people to have their information shared with him (Facebook: add people as a friend). The contacts are stored in the cloud. That way they can easily be synced across several devices (phone, computer, …). Whenever a user moves to a new place, gets a new phone number, … he just has to update his account on the website. All of his contacts (Facebook: friends) will automatically receive the new information, so their address book is always up to date.

Btw, Plaxo is not the way to go. It's really not user-friendly.

tl;dr:

Problem: Enter contact details manually.

Solution: Just add the contact to your network.

Problem: Address book never up to date.

Solution: Enter the new information once, everyone's address books gets updated.

Problem: Address book not always available.

Solution: Synced across multiple devices through the cloud.

Thank you for your time. I really appreciate it!
It's certainly an interesting concept if well applied, but I'm not sure it's suitable for all cities. For example, I have a hard time imagining Las Vegas without all the neons and signs.
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Up through high school, yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/20...

Here's an article from 2005. I believe they've also offered similar deals more recently.
Do you have a source for the EU SC verdict that such a tax is illegal?

The illegality was in the indiscriminate implementation. The sentence was issued a few months ago, sorry no link.

The foundation is the same as you quote.
Several things: from a 10k foot view, this sounds like a great intention (mass-wifi-coverage) with an onerous requirement (only for ~1200sqft establishments though) to mandate installation and maintenance of wifi.

On the other hand, it creates a government required cottage industry of setting up wifi (insurance, smog checks, etc).

On the gripping hand, those wifi-fearing freaks will definitely need to stay away from Malaysia.
I've always seen advertising as a game of iterated prisoner's dilemma. If every business cooperated and agreed to not advertise, consumers would still be able to seek and find products and services they wanted, and businesses wouldn't need to spend money on ads. As soon as one business started to buy ads, however, they'd have an immense advantage and competitors would quickly follow suit. So as soon as one business stops cooperating and starts advertising, the entire market devolves into the equilibrium we see today: our lives are completely saturated with ads.

The fact that business can carry on as usual when everyone is forced to cooperate in Sao Paulo shows that advertising is mostly a huge inefficiency.
Peter - Mixergy is awesome. Such a great collection of learning and lessons there.
IMO cables are much uglier than ads, but nobody else seems to notice or care for them. Most of them resemble this one: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2170/2056763887_4157b7a3a2.jp...
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Bzzzt! Wrong. This is not a technical innovation. This is government regulation of a market.
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I'm in Chicago and agree generally; National Geographic's choice of small town labels is better curated. My guess is that Imus worked from population statistics and optimized to fit the most "people" in the labels he chose.

That said, it seems straightforward that National Geographic would have better-curated detail (they presumably spent millions to build theirs with a team of people). Meanwhile, the actual map layout Imus constructed is pretty amazing, and National Geographic's is merely legible (look at the river label in Cincinatti again, and the confusion it caused on this very thread).
I think that in a lot of cases developers put off creating indices of any sort until a performance problem materializes.

Which is perfectly fine.
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Obama the candidate opposed the use of signing statements.

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To increase the tax base, the US economy needs to grow again (3% is the traditional "healthy" rate). To get it to grow again the government needs to spend money- infrastructure ( put people to work), education and the like. The danger we face is that for some reason we have forgotten economics 101 which tells us that governments need to spend their way out of a recession, that in the short term debt doesn't matter if you get the economy going again.
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Wow, what a sensationalist headline, how's the CTR?
I started using Yahoo instead. It has lots of problems and is not polished at all, but it does its job - searching and getting me to the result.

I do hope there will be more serious competition in mobile search field. Yahoo really should polish its mobile site. At least it should replace its blurry logo.
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Oh, please, if you accept that stats are fabricated, how can you defend such an anecdotic "evidence"? That's been a lie that everybody has come to believe after mass media has been uncritically funneling SGAE's propaganda.
iPhone data is encrypted by default - remote wipe works by destroying the key. Unfortunately, the key is obviously only protected by a user's passcode, if they've even set one. The 4-digit pin codes have been shown to be broken, but I've not seen (maybe I missed it?) evidence of those with alphanumeric passcodes being compromised.
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haven't used any of these -- but if you scan a couple class B's of popular hosting providers like aws, rackspace, etc. -- you'd be surprised at the % of things like memcached/redisd/hbase/etc.. that don't even have the most basic auth -- and people store all sorts of craziness in there

it's 2012 and everyone still cares not at all about security