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You can't uniquely identify each point on its surface using only two dimensions

Yes you can. Run a sharpie along the bottom edge of the paper so that it bleeds onto both sides of the paper. Now tape the ends of the strip together with a half twist to make a Möbius strip. Place a point anywhere on the strip. Draw a line through that point such that the line meets both edges of the strip at a right angle. Measure the distance along that line between your point and the darkened edge; call this x. Now, hold the Möbius strip in your left hand so that you're pinching it by the tape. With your right hand, run your finger along the strip, starting from the tape and moving to the right. Measure how far you have to move your finger in order to reach the line you drew; this could require up to two loops around the strip. Call this distance y. The tuple (x,y) uniquely identifies your point.
The 100 megaton version of Tsar Bomba was only a design. The biggest one tested was 50 megatons, because anything more powerful would have been too large and/or too heavy to carry, and the pilots would not have had enough time to get to a safe distance before detonation.

"The bomb, weighing 27 tonnes, was so large (8 metres (26 ft) long by 2 metres (6.6 ft) in diameter) that the Tu-95V had to have its bomb bay doors and fuselage fuel tanks removed. The bomb was attached to an 800 kilogram parachute, which gave the release and observer planes time to fly about 45 kilometres (28 mi) away from ground zero. The fireball reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane and was seen almost 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) from ground zero. The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 64 kilometres (40 mi) high (nearly eight times the height of Mount Everest). The base of the cloud was 40 kilometres (25 mi) wide. All buildings in the village of Severny (both wooden and brick), located 55 kilometres (34 mi) from ground zero within the Sukhoy Nos test range, were completely destroyed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
> only a court order away from being exported to government

This would actually be an improvement over the current state of affairs where companies are under no legal obligation to force the government to get a court order in many cases.
We're there now.

How many people lay out CPU circuits at Intel any more? Computer (using a CPU) does that.

How many people physically make chips at a foundry? "Robots" do that.

There are a lot of tasks in designing and building computers that can only be done with computers these days. Sure, someone runs them, and someone does some significant level of design, but the final designs and products are no longer possible without the very products that those efforts produce.

Lather, rinse, accelerate.
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Good response! Another part of the problem was that the company preferred contractors over full time staff. It had very high turn over because of this. Many have already replaced subsystems with their own versions over time. There had already been many implementations of the Cyclotron subsystem :). To be honest I probably ended up being one of them. Working there was too stressful and the rewards for trying to achieve more were not recognised.

The place had a reputation for hiring highly motivated engineers and burning them out. Just to be replaced by another. When I left, they hired a very talented guy that I worked with for a couple of months. He left recently and the cycle begins again!
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How can we know that, for instance, giving people money doesn't prevent them from working, thereby decreasing GDP?

I'm not familiar with the methods used, but the article claims exactly that, doesn't it? By spending money on food stamps, GDP is increased.

Mind you, there might be types of spending with an even higher multiplier. And there might be types of spending that would be seen to be more beneficial for society even if their impact on GDP were smaller; for example: Why not just spend money to create jobs? Then spending on food stamps reduces automatically, as the number of eligible recipients decreases.

After all, there is no control group in economics, which is why (frustratingly) there are still totally opposite camps who keep claiming that current events prove them right.

This is indeed very unfortunate. Perhaps somebody clever enough with enough stamina could work on increasingly realistic simulations on the micro level and see which macro patterns emerge? Though of course then there would be an endless debate about how realistic the modeling of micro behavior is.

The current story told in mainstream textbooks (utility maximization etc.) certainly isn't very credible, given all the psychological insights from behavioral economics; and just the mere fact that marketing exists and how it operates tells you that the classical micro story is rather fishy.
> "Who's to say which is objectively nicer to read?"

The one that's written clearly. An ugly, obfuscated loop is worse than clearly-written and commented recursion and vice-versa.

If the most pressing readability concern in your code is whether an existing loop would be more easily-read as recursion, you're already done. The code is clean enough. Move on.
That anti-intellectualism seemed to be more or less the theme of "Barton Fink", a Coen Brothers movie where John Turturro is a socially conscious Broadway playwright who gets lured out to Hollywood where he agonizes over writing a script for what the producer intends to be just a dumb formulaic wrestling picture. (Though the movie eventually gets really weird, and it's been several years since I've seen it, so maybe I've gotten something wrong.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101410/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Fink
The legal and medical definitions of narcotic are not the same, unfortunately.
Thanks, now I know and fixed it.
No, that's just a straw man arguing for the opposite extreme. It's even better established that consistent failure and lack of praise anticorrelates with educational achievement. The point is balance and sanity, not policy flamage.
Agreed this is exciting, emerging stuff. Related... Checkout my Android app for monitoring and maintaining your caffeine level.

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Satire. Come on people, I know it's early but this is hard to miss:

Sure, you might get your precious “predictability”,
but at what cost? I mean, can you even still remember
that rush of intrigue and anticipation you get when
your application refuses to work on two of the twelve
servers it was deployed to? The thrill of the hunt as
you figure out exactly which configuration settings are
different and, of those, which one is causing the
problem? The sweet taste of relief that you get after
hours upon hours of debugging finally narrowed it down
to a rogue registry setting?
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You are forgetting that tax dollars have to come from somewhere. the money has to be taken from one group of people or financed. Those activities are not costless. This is one of the reason why other studies find that reducing government spending stimulates growth (some of those studies are described here: http://mercatus.org/publication/does-government-spending-aff...)
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Hang back and smile a bit, gentlemen.
I could write a book about how bad everything was set up :). This place loved to abuse XML. It had > 2000 XML files to configure the system. Objects in code were "generic" and instantiated based on XML configuration. You could inherit configuration from base XML files. It was basically impossible to determine where a piece of the system was set up from.

As bad as everything was it was a fantastic learning experience for me though.
Last year there was discussion where some HNers suggested that they'd be interested in participating in the competition if we allowed other forms of data:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2321009

This is the early announcement this year, where we're soliciting suggestions about other forms of data to include for this year.
Exactly. In my opinion if it's not a constitutional amendment it's not worth anything. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies barely follow the constitution at times, forget following simple bills.
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I use shiftit because I miss awesomewm since my work machine is a Mac now. Shiftit is fantastic.
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Personally, I just want a cheaper Kindle DX. I've been waiting for years for those suckers to get down to a reasonable price. I want to be able to read conference papers, the Linux Journal, and my O'Reilly ebook collection on something of a decent size.
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They somewhat appear to want to: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/21/apple-google-col...
Same here. I'll stick with my xmonad Debian VM and iTerm2 - I only use tiling WM's for terminal management anyway. I've found these work pretty well with Mission Control for me.
Wealth statistics are an actual metric that exists

For example, http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/scf_2007.htm
I think a lot of people, for either environment or genetic reasons, just have crappy brain chemistry for succeeding in our modern, deep-focus oriented world.

Back in the day, you work on the farm, you chat with people, you do your regular business. You didn't have to sit still in a large box for 70% of the day, and so it wasn't such a big deal if you were a little "light headed".

I have a wee cousin who has ADHD and she's a problem child from hell. We know this 'cos her father was also a problem child from hell. She literally has an immense problem sitting still.

Once she takes her meds though… it's hard to describe the feeling I had when I realized she had spent the last half an hour quietly colouring a book.

So yeah. Some people pop it to do all nighters; for a lot of other people it's necessary in order for them to achieve the neuronormativity expected of them in say, an office job or 12 years of mandatory schooling.
Take a good look at Greece. That is the future of America if we keep spending money this way.

Care to go a bit further into this conjecture?
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Is that the group that built a shoe-heel embedded computer, a one handed keyboard and some red monochrome one-eyed glass ?

I saw this once on TV, can't stop dreaming about it since.
"If you leave your $40k battery pack alone for months without a trickle charger, you will kill it" is no more challenging to communicate or implement than "if you run your ICE without oil, you will kill it."
My objection is that all too often you see the attitude that because some baseline level of government spending is good and profits the economy (and society), that Program XYZ I Just Proposed For Widows And Orphans[tm] is also good.

And most fiscal conservatives have better things to conserve than food stamps. Let's talk about where the money really goes. Oh, wait, white elephant in the room.
The 3rd party sells their service, which is web-based chat application, to any company. Think of it as a company that offers hosted forums (SaaS model), but chats instead of forums. It allowed Youporn to offer a chat service to users, without us having to develop and maintain it. Again this decision was done before we took over.

Using chat.youporn.com is not that different than using ypchat.com, personally I would have preferred the latter for obvious reasons.
That about covers it.

But his point is still valid...tech people could easily have gone to med school. If they had...they would have had a more solid chance at accumulating that USD10Million than working startup after startup.
I can imagine that while Evernote has a lot of data to store, it doesn't have the massive amount of concurrent reads that might occur with an equally large web app. Do they publish numbers on read/write usage?
Paying food stamps is a great way to reduce crime and bolster the stability of your country.

You (mostly) had me up to the first point.

How are food stamps a positive / negative on crime?
Looks great. Everyone is sick of crappy restaurant websites.

One nit-picky non-technical thing – the first thing I see is the h2 with "Manage your own Restaurants Website." You need an apostrophe in there... and maybe you should think about changing the capitalization scheme. Dunno, I'm probably the exception, but when I visit a website and see bad spelling or grammar, I immediately am turned off.
Streisand Effect though. Now people know that attempts were made to suppress the information, they are likely to take a much greater interest than they otherwise would, and the information will get a lot more attention and potentially do a lot more damage.
Is Tesla 'Bricking' Story Just An Angry Owner's Warranty Claim?
Have to say, the cynical part in me is kind of surprised that the police (in Minnesota) have an audit system that tracks each lookup. They could easily have justified a system in which license lookups don't track the officer.

(obviously they don't run automated audits, though)
You just helped me much more that you could have guessed: see, they talked about agendas. And it just occurred to me that the folding method devised by the OP yields a 7×5 grid, which is exactly what I need to fit a month worth of agenda. The squares are relatively small, but they suit my needs.

So, an A4 sheet of paper is worth 2 months of agenda. 6 will last me a year.

I'm too lazy to buy an agenda, but now I have one. Thank you.
I tried to write my comment very precisely to prevent this type of counter response. You are not saying anything that is different from what I said.

My central thesis is simply that playing the lottery is foolish because it is completely luck and the odds are against you. Entering the corporate world as a means to success is a reasonable move for many to make. It's not about "perform[ing] well to get ahead", it's about how are you going to make your way in life. You could join a corporation and be a backstabbing prick and perform terribly and still get ahead, and maybe that was your calculation and it worked...

The thing that bugs me about the article is the attitude of throwing up of ones hand and succumbing to fate. There's a difference between acknowledging the chaos in the universe and simply being a loser tossed about by circumstance powerlessly.
Lots of these things will be coming out of white house this election year. They will propose specific changes to woo parts of population.

This one is for those who are more technical oriented, couple of days ago white house talked about reducing the corporate tax, till now they were all about increasing it. But these are just things they will put forward which according to them will be done if reelected. We all know when happens once politicians get reelected.
What? A fact-based intelligent comment is down voted? Sadly, it says a lot about effects of politically-correct brainwashing in our society.

On the other hand, a comment on top about the true voodoo economics is up and running well...
I said "TV, Radio and Newspaper" and I also said "for decades" not just the last decade.

> ...they're not violating your rights...

I didn't say squat about "rights". I simply disagreed that tracking is "required" for web sites to make more money on advertising because that is utter hogwash. The ability to track people is a relatively new thing.
"The marketplace" isn't a market at all -- it's a bunch of people, with and without a medical condition, who get a third party to purchase a medication for them.

That infographic tells the story -- 50% more Iowan children need amphetamines to function as compared to New Yorkers?

IMO, this is a case where the DEA is doing the right thing. Improve the guidance for prescribing this stuff, and the folks who need it will be fine.
Even with 4.5 I haven't found the error messages to be nearly as helpful. Also with clang you can easily turn on a way to look for undefined behavior and turn those into warnings/errors which is fantastic and helped me track down a bug BEFORE it caused me huge grief.
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I was going to say the same thing. It's very much the same. Making 120k sounds like a lot, but when people realize how much we're giving up, you can see that its not worth the money. But people (like me) do it anyway to get great experience and get ahead of the game. If it was only for the money, I'd be out in a heartbeat.

The people that do want to do it for life are gambling that by the time they're 30-40, they'll be an actual investment banker with relationship and closing deals. Chances of that are slim these days.
re: grabbing the phone and disconnecting.

I remember that like it was yesterday. God, it was so painful to be in the middle of a download--even just a web page--and have someone pick up the phone. Aaaargh! Then you do the modem 2-step, wait for the lo-fi screaming ghost, and back on the web you would go.

People born today will ask, "You had to connect through your phone? And the phone was connected to the wall?"
I don't know the financial deal that is in place, but I don't see how it impacts the affiliation.

From my perspective the accounts are not shared, so you needed to register there to create an account. We don't share databases. Also, it is not our company and operates completely independent from us. This is what I meant by not affiliated. Hope that clears it up.
I wish I had happened on this article 10 years ago ... I was always very good at school, so I picked up what I thought were bad habits. Reading this now, it's clear that what I was doing was protecting myself from failure. When I'd do badly on a test in a class that I thought I should do well in, I'd stop taking the class seriously so that when I got a 'C' I could kid myself and say "I did that and wasn't even really trying"

Oddly enough, I never made much of the fact that if I really wanted to do well in a class (because I was in love with the subject teacher for example ... :D) I could actually put the work in to get to the top of the class ... I just put it down to being smart.

This had a lot of bad repercussions when I went to college. For the first time in my life I was not only competing with a shitton of people just as smart as me, but almost as many people who were WAAAAAY smarter. Trying really really hard to only make B's was a huge blow to my psyche and I was very demoralized and uninspired for a long time. It wasn't until I realized that not only did it take hard work, but for me, inspiration or passion was necessary to truly excel at something. That's when I realized that I just had to shun things I really wasn't interested in and devote myself to things that I really wanted to be good at.

Even nowadays, I still look at people in this field who I consider quasi geniuses (DHH, Yehuda, Resig) and wonder if I can ever get to that level, and whenever I doubt myself, I go back and read this very deeply inspiring article from John Nunemaker http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2010/01/12/i-have-no-tale...
I'd actually like to do that too but have a hard time wrapping my head around the notion of building a website with node + nosql alone. My understanding is that node is best for realtime chat-like apps.. Is your project web related might I ask?
I don't think this advice fits well with agile approaches to building software.

I've spent about three years (on and off) building a Django application for a team where I work and, over time, new functionality has been bolted on as and when the needs of the team changed. We've also gone through one fairly major model change that seriously wrecked the sense of symmetry in the v1.0 I delivered all those years ago.

A bit later this year I will be making a whole lot more changes to the application and I've decided that rather than going from a v1.6 to a v1.7 this is a great time to throw away the majority of the code and re-build from the ground up so that the v2.0 is properly architected to meet the needs that exist today.

It's going to be a lot of work but I think it's worth it in terms of making new features easier to add and reducing the maintenance burden associated with a structure that has become overburdened with technical debt.
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The shortage is caused by our society's schizophrenic position on these kinds of drugs in general.

We're restricting production as if drugs like Adderall are special-case prescriptions, yet we're prescribing them regularly.

The problem that needs to be solved is the inconsistency, not the particular method used to enact policy.
I didnt read the article but I believe this is a state by state law, and some states use the term 'stakeholder' instead of 'shareholder'. A stake holder can be interpreted as anyone affected by the company's actions. If you live down the street from a manufacturing plant, you are a stakeholder because their emissions are going into the air you breath.
Didn't know these existed. There's probably uses for them in production too.
> I too consider myself an artist and a craftsman of server building. With each click of a mouse, I create a work of art.

I... You're setting up servers with a mouse?
I have a Kindle DX and it's absolutely awesome. It's not much larger area-wise than a large hardcover book, but obviously quite a bit thinner.

I can understand why Amazon keeps pushing the regular-size Kindles (price-point), but the DX should have had a price cut by now.
I, too, am busy being the worst possible application delivery protocol ever!
Ask HN: Your worst RFP horror story?
Let's compare RFP scars. What's your worst story involving an RFP from a public agency or large enterprise?

Having to print out 10 hardcopies and drive overnight to hand-deliver them?

Being disqualified for a $1M+ project because of some minor, stupid reason (i.e. your formatting was off)?

Being forced to use a weird web portal from the 90's that requires IE6 to use?

Share your worst RFP experience here and at
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(we're compiling a report of the best stories and aggregated feedback)

I think those of us on HN suffer the daily humiliations of the RFP process more keenly than others.
I don't know if you can really extrapolate from Greece to the US, but it is relevant to note that by living on credit for so long, Greece wound up in a position where they couldn't raise more money. So their GDP grew for years on borrowed money, and now that they can't borrow any more, their GDP is shrinking dramatically. In other words, you can buy an artificial GDP increase today but you may have to sell it back at a discount tomorrow.
This paper isn't worth the bits it's printed on.

Economist Mark Zandi (the author) missed predicting the biggest economic event not just of his career, but of three generations before him. Mostly, that was due to conflict of interest: Moody's was busy scooping up money to rate mortgage securities. What fraction of his oversight is due to just being a poor economist is unknown.

There are widows and orphans living poorer because of this clown. Don't waste your time.
So you borrow $1 and turn it into $1.73. That's a 173% return on investment. This is a net loss how?
Go fuck yourself, apologist.