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It's how they are tuned to be "fun". They might make the engines extra noisy for a second after you hit the throttle, so it makes an exciting "zrooom". Performance can vary with speed - at low speeds, after you've been driving a few minuets, they might go into racecar mode. At higher speeds, or when you are just starting driving, they'll re-tune for safety.

Basically, the car should "feel" responsive. When you change what you are doing (i.e. accelerating) it should respond with a lot of gusto. The trick is, not doing this when the driver doesn't want it.
An open discussion on a very low level technical implementation with a heterogeneous crowd on Google+ seems to be the dawn of a new era; open source programming becomes public in full sunlight the same way books or mathematics became public after the invention of the printing. Compare it to mailing lists or earlier forms of engineering discussions behind closed doors. Many outsiders all around the world are now working hard on sunday learning C or with their gcc compilers trying to solve Linus's bitwise calculation optimisation problem and they previously had nothing to do with kernel programming. Their results may go into the next Linux kernel release and that is exciting for a puzzle.

and as opposed to you I find this to be a nice thing for everyone++ to be invited to think Linus's question on Google+ (which is better than facebook or linked in or pinterest for this purpose)

'...so it's not a generic "count number of bits" (or even a generic "count number of bytes"). So I was hoping somebody would come up with something simple like (x & mask1) + (x&mask2)>>shift that just got the four possibilities right.'
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This completely beside the point, but Mezzanine immediately struck me as a wonderful project name - exotic and at the same time mundane. Congratulations for a 1.0 release!
Assuming it's not actors, they were probably posing for their friends on the other side. Some of them are bound to be photogenic.

If you did it anywhere in East Asia, you'd have a line (or what passes for a line) of thousands of people waiting to pose.
I think you've misread your article. SSTAR is a not a thorium reactor; it is a liquid-metal cooled fast reactor. It's a sealed "nuclear battery" type reactor which lasts extremely long without refueling (15-30 years). It uses medium-enriched uranium, ~20% U-235 (on the border of what regulators consider "highly enriched"), far higher than commercial LWRs (~3-5%). It also burns a large amount of plutonium which it creates in situ, transmuting non-fissile U-238 into fissile Pu-239.

(Actually it looks kind of similar to one of the reactors in the DoE agreement, the one from Hyperion (developed at Los Alamos). Both are small, liquid-lead cooled fast reactors designed to never be refueled in their lifetime.)

[1] http://www.gen-4.org/Technology/systems/lfr.htm

[2] https://smr.inl.gov/Document.ashx?path=DOCS%2fSMR+technologi...

Here's a nice, succinct overview excerpted from [2]:

"The secure transportable autonomous reactor (SSTAR) fast neutron spectrum lead-cooled reactor is a concept designed to achieve the major desired attributes for the worldwide deployment market described above [5]. The SSTAR reactors are ‘right sized’ for initially small but fast growing electric grids; they provide energy security for nations not wanting the expense of an indigenous fuel cycle and waste repository infrastructure but willing to accept the guarantee of services from regional fuel cycle centers by virtue of a long (15- to 30-year) refueling interval [6]. The SSTAR initial fissile inventory is relatively large; nevertheless, the one-time initial fissile loading is substantially less than the lifetime 235U consumption of a LWR for same the energy delivery."

"Once loaded, SSTARs are fissile self-sufficient as they operate with a conversion ratio of about 1.0. As such, they provide an alternative approach to actinide management in which these nuclear materials are securely ‘stored’ in long core lifetime power reactors instead of being transmuted in advanced recycle reactors."

"The current design concept for the SSTAR, under development in the US is a 20 MWe natural circulation pool-type reactor with a small shippable reactor vessel. Specific features of the lead coolant, transuranic nitride fuel, fast spectrum core, and small size have been incorporated to achieve proliferation resistance, fissile self-sufficiency, autonomous load following, simplicity of operation, reliability, transportability, as well as a high degree of passive safety. Conversion of the core thermal power into electricity at a high plant efficiency of 44% is accomplished by utilizing a supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle power converter."
Voted. Thanks for doing this!
Suzam Pal: "How does it really matter if the course is non-profit or not? Why should that stop us from calling a mistake as a mistake, a bug as a bug, an ugly solution as an ugly solution? I've participated in a few small and medium-sized open source projects where we give away the product of our hard work for free, and users benefit from it without paying anything. If there is a bug in my work, or if a user suffers due to my work, I take responsibility for it and I fix it. If a student submitted an answer without violating Udacity's specifications, and it was graded incorrectly, then it is clearly either a bug or a mistake in the specification, and in a free society, people have the right to complain about it."
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Unity is great for a restricted problem space: applications that almost fully define their own GUI, namely games.

A truly harder cross-platform problem is to abstract access to OS GUI in usable way.
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Not true. The largest savings would be in not having to deal with the administrative overhead of our current system.

A full 1/3 of the cost of healthcare in America goes into maintaining our system and not into actual patient care.
I remember having to do a similar compiler assignment in C in college. I think that it was the key assignment for making students believe that programming is absolute drudgery and in no way fun. It was the culmination of the semester, and considering how hard many of the students were working, there was frustration that this was all they could make after a semester. I think that your plan will not go well, and could quite possibly sour your students on programming for life. If you teach the text game first, though, that would make a world of difference.
The interface looks cool, but could the welcome screen be skippable?
Nice point. :) Which got me thinking ...

Maybe the "closest" we can make CoD and other FPS to REAL war is ... make the first person die permanently and render the software useless after a fatal hit. Once & only once.

The loss of $39 for the video game should teach em fine.
Or he naively thought the signal to noise ratio would be higher.
It has to be possible to voice dissent, though. If I post something for review on hn, I want honest opinions, not flattery.
But you can teach new techniques in the context of full pieces, gradually introducing them, to great effect. This is the whole premise behind the Suzuki method of music education, and it's highly effective in cultivating not only technical proficiency but also musicality -- and in young kids, at that (it also substantially improved the musicality in piano playing for my wife, who is obviously an adult)
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I think what all of these countries have in common is that they have a strong entity negotiating prices on behalf of the patients, drastically lowering the price, and to a varying degrees also dictating what treatment is appropriate.

The US has these entities too - they are called "insurance companies".

As others have commented, people don't comparison shop even if they could.

This is simply false. People with low deductible insurance don't comparison shop because they have no incentive to do so. I have no insurance (my startup is minimally funded), and I do comparison shop.

It's a bit like having no idea how a car works or what could be wrong with it, and then being asked to pick the best mechanic and strategy to fix it.

Here is what I did a few weeks back. I went to a doctor who ordered an MRI. I called around, discovered the price of MRI's varied from 5-7k (INR, not USD), and then picked the closest one to my home (the price difference was small enough that I didn't care).

When it came time to get treatment, I did research on the internet, as well as asking three separate doctors. They all independently had the same recommendation - microlumbar discectomy on L5-S1. This was fairly apparent based also on the pattern of pain I was suffering, and just by looking at the MRI. I ruled out one hospital because it seemed dirty, chose a doctor/hospital to have it done (not the cheapest, but not the priciest), downgraded from a deluxe room to a private one [1], and got myself fixed up.

This doesn't work for emergency medicine, but most medicine is not emergencies.

[1] The default over here is to give white guys the gold-plated options.
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Um, no. Patient care is the biggest culprit in US overspending on medicine. Administrative overhead is minor.

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/what-makes-the-u...
This makes a lot of sense. Their search results can't self teach for obscure things.
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Nice deterioration of the community we have here.
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Yes, but what value is this on this site? We would be interested in how you were using machine learning and the framework or what made this site different. I don't think ShowHN is meant to be an ad. I've always seen a description attached.
Not true. If the hydrogen is generated with renewable energies, driving a car such as the B-Class (Mercedes-Benz W245) shown in this video is in fact emission-free. A solar-powered hydrogen station was opened this week in Freiburg, relatively near to Mercedes-Benz's headquarters in Stuttgart:

http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/presse-und-medien/presseinfo...
(in German -- sorry, no English translation available yet)

Honda R&D Americas has such a gas station in Torrence CA since 2001. I don't know if it's open to the public though. The one in Freiburg is public.
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Sure and I agree on that point, but if I go by your HN profiles for who gets the most benefit the doubt, your track record beats his by infinity (we're dividing by zero here).
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Very bad example because Google trends to favor large and authority websites. Try a query where the answer is on a small (but very well informed) site.
That was Rumblefish, not Youtube. Youtube was a victim of that, since they could've made more money by simply putting the ads and not sharing them with Rumblefish.
Yes it can. The language isn't non-deterministic, rope has the ability to do both basic static analysis (which catches the common cases 95% of the time), or it can do dynamic analysis to determine what went where.

Please don't comment on what Rope can or cannot do unless you actually understand how it, or Python for that matter, works.
If the US has the leading healthcare for the elderly in the world, how come it comes 36th in terms of life expectancy?
I am sure the quote is much older, but I found this: http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-design-po...
In my family, it was always the toys you built things with: wooden blocks, Tinker Toys, Lego, Lincoln Logs, and Erector Sets, plus clay. Also drawing and painting tools.
I second this. The whole 'video game' and game mechanics culture of most intro programming actually kept me out of it for awhile. I truly dislike making and playing video games, but I enjoy writing useful software and learning about cool topics like computer vision.
I love that Linus does his thinking out in the public, but that's nothing new. Google Plus isn't enabling anything that he didn't do before, it's just being exposed to a new audience. Frankly, I love that this new audience is seeing his writing. I love being able to watch smart people doing their thing and I hope they inspire others.

But, I'm afraid you you've totally missed my point. What I don't love is the commentary being mixed in with the game. This is why when you have a panel discussion, you don't hand a microphone to everyone in the auditorium. When you go to a concert, you don't hand everyone an instrument. People have varying levels of contextual awareness and/or self control: it's not really their fault for throwing in their $0.02. I'm just pointing out that Google Plus is a type of forum and I'm still not sure what kind of conversation is supposed to go on there. This kind of discussion feels unnatural to me.
WebRTC will be the turning point, it will be ready in a year or so.
Author here.

>.."distribute on the App Store, without an explicit exception".

That is a good idea, thank you. I'll add such an exception so libzdb can be used by any iOS/OSX open source app on the app store. I'm a big fan of Open Source Projects and happy if they can find some alternative income such as from the app store. Growl for instance seems to do good there which I'm glad to see.

Otherwise, my goal with using GPL is to preserve the concept of copyleft with the library. The GPL only applies if you plan to distribute libzdb to third parties. In that case, my hope and the reason I use GPL is that any modification done to libzdb can be contributed back so others can benefit. Otherwise, you can do whatever you want with libzdb without any restrictions.
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If you combine the money spent on state and federal health programs, the US government spends more per person on what people label 'socialised healthcare' than the UK does as well.

Also, last time I checked the numbers on this was towards the end of Bush's presidency, so this is not a recent development.
I'm glad you said that.

"College almost makes me sick, but I attend because it gets me out of my apartment."

I think that the author of the article should work on his interpersonal skills a little bit. It makes life more interesting, and leads to better prospects.

The whole piece gave me the impression of a rather isolated person.
Doesn't Microsoft have a disincentive to support it here? It would encourage people to use open-source alternatives to The Microsoft Way.
Because if it was $280 in America the insurance ceos, investors, doctors and administrators would not be able to buy their second vacation homes.

As long as healthcare is a profit center, you will only have the right to die quietly if you cannot afford it in America.
Because healthcare is but one of a zillion factors that influence life expectancy?
This came up on the mailing list a few weeks ago and it is doable. The Docs are geared towards new projects but you'll want to look at the INSTALLED_APPS and the urls.py to see what you'd need.
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Same here. I started out as a CS major but got my degree in CIS b/c the courses and material were much more real world, and fun. I was doing practical programming in my first course, learning about web apps, creating databases, and I even learned about hardware and how to build my first computer (not in a low level engineering sense, but piecing them together like modern day enthusiasts do). For someone coming from a music background with little to no heavy experience in computers prior that time in my life, CIS resonated with me much more at the time.

However, I always found myself missing the math aspects of CS, and to this day I regret not having the lower level foundation that CS offers over CIS/MIS. In hindsight, I would've stuck w/CS.
> Most of the work will probably be in porting our calling convention, which does not resemble C's in any way. Like many frameworks, it's a modular compiler framework for building C compilers, not really a modular compiler framework for all types of compilers.

GHC folks succeeded in including GHC calling convention in LLVM, so there is hope.

http://blog.llvm.org/2010/05/glasgow-haskell-compiler-and-ll...
There are exactly 2 features which were mandatory in C99 and are optional in C11: variable-length arrays and complex types.

C11 adds some non-optional features whch needs compiler support (alignment specifiers, type-generic selections, unicode literals, ...).

Do you really think vendors which don' care about C99 will suddenly jump to implement all mandatory C11 features?
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Yep, most misleading title ever.
This is nice, but it looks as the team making the video hasn't used "real" footage, instead adding a layer of video of over the LEDs to make the image cleaner. Some of the shots clearly show the LEDs though.
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BTW, the name of the planetarium reminded me at first of Hadden. If you've read Contact, you'll understand what that name means.
It's interesting how Earbits is leaning towards being a people aware music startup. Music industry has mostly been power centered (whoever has the record deal) looks like it's shifting in terms of business and bucks.
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That remembered how I learn programing, at the beginning of the course I wasn't at all into that, learning pascal, printing words into a black window, but when I started my project, I got a goal and it become very fun and I was very enthusiastic into that...

I think sometimes the common sense of the right way of doing things its not the best way, other thing that comes to my head about that, is when you end up in big projects with very complex design patterns applied but since nobody b-sides the creator fully understand the pattern, and the shift of people in the project is very high, the thing becomes a mess.

teaching is about enthusiast your students and programing is about make programs with readable code...

but what i really see today, is teaching about be difficult with a ton of unused things, and programing about to be most complex that u can..
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Because we're also the fattest and least healthy (diet & exercise) of the nations with high per capita income and moderately high life expectancy.
yes i agree about g+, though i feel the same about facebook, linked in and disqus about any type of discussion. only on HN; i mostly feel "these are the right people here answering"

what linus does is more like an experiment, not on what g+ is but on what it can become. i pray the experiment will be successful, but i think i wont.
Wow, that was very motivational!

Oh wait, no... it was completely fucking asinine and naïve for too many reasons to waste my time listing here. I'm just amazed at the shit that's been bubbling-up on here lately.
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I dunno, everyone considers him sleazy, underhanded, and not trustworthy. If I had a startup and he came to me and wanted to invest unlimited money into my venture, I would tell him to get the hell out. If the opposite was true, and he had a venture that needed investors, I'd pass and go invest in a company ran by people who actually give a damn.
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Got a blast when I found this site:

http://www.commodore.ca/manuals/

I can vividly remember typing in stuff from the programming manuals when I wasn't older than 6... freaky stuff, I think my very oldest vivid memories are coding memories.
&hl=all

&filter=0 (if you like)

yes there is no "real google result" but the impact of personalization (as long as you are not self spammed with google plus your world) is in generally overrated.
So you are saying that US insurance companies are dramatically lowering the prices.

If so, then compared to what exactly?

The US has some of the highest costs per treatment of just about anywhere in the world, so if the insurance companies are dramatically lowering prices, then the only conclusion I can draw is that the US healthcare providers must be powering all their equipment by burning money for fuel or something.
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you can't tell google not to remember your search history...

you can only tell them not to personalize your search results with your search history.

you don't need to be worried, just aware that unless you put effort into it, pretty much everything you do on the web is knowable by google.
I am unfamiliar with the general problem you are solving for, but I am interested in graph dependencies in general. May I ask, How many nodes are in a typical graph? Is there a possibility of cycles?

Thanks
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Sadly it is behind a paywall. Somebody has experience with this constrained turing tests?
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On a related note, medical toursim is a great business/startup opportunity for other countries. Let them spend a weekend in a new city and get that dental filling done for far less cost. It's $4 in some medical colleges in India.
Am I reading it wrong, or he's admitting that he's ripped off the images for his application right from Apple ? That's not exactly legal, in my book...
Checking the "business" box on the immigration form always causes so much hassle with customs… Honestly just easier to lie, check the "personal" box and say you're a tourist visiting the Guiness factory. It's a shame business tourists are given more scrutiny.
He did that on his other posts as well. I won't post any links to them though. ⚑
It's a profit center whether you like it or not, with or without the government. With the government the profit goes into the bureaucracy.

The medicare + medicaid system has shown itself to be an extreme profit center for government employees and the bureaucracy. They take home massive sums in profit: wages and pensions.

The government doesn't make the system more efficient by reducing profit from the equation. They reduce cost by reducing care options, reducing salaries for healthcare workers, and rationing. For example, nurses in America make 50% more than nurses in Germany. Socialized medicine will decimate that pay variance.

http://www.worldsalaries.org/professionalnurse.shtml

There's nothing on earth more wasteful than government when it comes to spending money. Just ask the US government system (fed+state+local), it's a $7 trillion per year profit system, that flows directly into the hands of millions of employees that make on average $100k per year in wages + benefits, with that pay package doubling in size in just the last ten years, while the economy flat lined.