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Surely we are still evolving. Since civilization started, therefore we stopped running around or did less running, more than 100 if not perhaps 1000 if not even more generations have passed. During that time, we were evolving, thus adapting to the environment of a civilisation and moving away from the hunter gather running environment.

Rats do not have a civilisation. Humans do. Rats may need running, humans might not. For humans, demanding intellectual work may be better or just as good as running as far as cognition is concerned.
Even just the first two combined would be amazing. I think what a lot of people are looking for is a start-up style company that offers a simple way of refining a design with industry experts and taking it to some kind of prototype stage within a reasonable cost.

Throwing in manufacturing and marketing expertise also would see an explosion of prospective products looking for a piece of the crowdfunding pie.
"But fructose is is the core of many fruits which are considered as healthy."

No, the core of many fruits considered healthy is FIBER(mainly cellulose) . We do not metabolize fiber but fiber has three important effects on us:

1) It is "in between" the sugar, lowering the effective concentration of sugar on blood. When you drink sodas all the sugar goes to the blood in a very short amount of time, this creates emergency responses on the blood control systems:

Biological control systems are very similar to PID controllers(we copied them from nature), with things like overshooting happening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_%28signal%29

This is the reason a lot of tennis players eat bananas now in between the game.

2) Fiber creates an environment to bacteria on our intestines to live. This bacteria flora helps us a lot in a lot of ways.

3)Fiber makes easier to transport waste as it hydrates.

This of course is an oversimplification, but you get the idea.
The principle is "compiler optimizations should pay for themselves."

This principle may seem deep because there is an element of self-reference in it, but it is really totally stupid. It's nothing but an arbitrary benchmark that will reject lots of useful optimizations. It's not "forgotten" wisdom from the golden ages; nobody ever abided by anything like it.

It's cool that the optimizing Oberon compiler did manage to make its own object code smaller than that of the non-optimizing compiler, but I'll eat my hat if they started out by stating this "principle", rather than just noticing after the fact that it had happened.
Probably not. The sleep study measures the number of events per hour and your blood oxygenation, and in the followup (which can be in the same night, at no extra cost) discovers the necessary pressure. It doesn't check for mask comfort or fit. (Should it? Probably.)
It comes with the filament you need to use so really all you need to do is have a computer and power to start printing.
If by sensible terms and conditions, you mean zero access and indexing of documents, then I think Google might offer that on business accounts.
Yes; it's next to impossible to buy a processor now that isn't really a "C-machine", just as Symbolics made "Lisp machines" (or Chuck Moore will sell you a "Forth machine" with hardware designed to efficiently deal with stacks). The concept that processors really aren't language-agnostic (i.e. they actually do care whence originated the machine code) needs more publicity.
The "True Hacker™" way: step1, reverse engineer the pulse ox usb protocol, step2, build a DIY CPAP machine, step3, release everything as open source/open schematics.
That's what I would have thought at first, but the problem (for Dropbox) I'm seeing there is that there isn't really that kind of differentiator.

You have a folder that exists on your devices, and the contents of the folder are automatically synced across all your devices. You also have a web interface that you can use to upload and download files. You have a certain amount of space and can buy more. You can share that folder or parts of it with others or teams.

Am I talking about Dropbox or Drive?
"illegal to have plans to smoke weed in Netherlands"
Thinkcrime?
A Soviet doctor had to remove his own appendix in 1961 - he was stuck in a base in Antartica during the winter:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/antarc...
I agree, but "password is not secure if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge" is better than "password is saved in plain text".
Finally, if you’re wondering what’s the best baseline to use, after much dicking about, we’ve discovered that going for something lower (like 11px or 12px) is the best tactic. Whilst this means that most of your elements will be on a double baseline (i.e. normal paragraph body copy might be 16px in font size on a line height of 22px using a baseline of 11px), it gives you more flexibility when determining the margin and spacing of items on your site so you don’t always have to have a large 22px or 24px gap between elements.

In that case, why not use a baseline of 1px for even more flexibility?

Seriously, using half-lines as a baseline must be against the initial idea.. As for the spacing between elements of different heights, you can always adjust the margins (smaller top margin / larger bottom margin, or the other way round) to compensate.
Ubuntu also has Skype in their official repository.
I am confused when people even consider measuring productivity with hours spent. It's like trying to measure the brightness of a lightbulb with the amount of time it's been turned on - two totally different quantities.

Usually productivity can only be estimated by your boss, who measures it with your salary, which can be converted to $/h or EUR/h. The work you get done is then logically measured by hours * salary. That's what it's worth to the company, anyway.
Its still a poor standard that should have died decades ago
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I agree on: have charisma, don't take out loans, work on what truly motivates you, and long idea incubation.
I wonder if a declaration like this will have any practical impact...
That's a really interesting claim.

Let's perform a thought experiment, all completely hypothetical, of course.

Suppose someone, call them R, has been on HN for over three years. Suppose also that over those years R has, for various reasons, ended up with more than one HN username.

Suppose that R noticed some interesting behavior in relation to flags and rankings and decided to investigate. Waiting until one of his (or her) submissions hit the front page, R then used the other usernames to flag it and watch how the ranking changed. Having done that, R then unflagged the submission to check that it returned to its previous ranking, providing evidence (although obviously not a guarantee) that there had been no other flags to affect the ranking.

At the end of that R would hve a pretty good idea of how many flags were needed to change the ranking of an item.

Would you agree?

Having worked it out, though, R might decide not to make this information public. Why? Perhaps because R respects PG's decision not to make various details of the rankings system public, and chooses to cooperate.

So now, you claim that I "have no idea how many flags are needed." In the light of the above completely hypothetical thought experiment let me ask:

Are you sure?

Added in edit: In response to the replies to the above thought experiment, let me add that "a flag or two" was not intended to be taken literally. My apologies if you thought I literally meant either exactly one or exactly two. I did not. In hindsight perhaps I should've said "a few." I do not, however, intend to make public exactly what I do know about this issue.
I don't think this is really a good principal. Some optimizations work really well for some programs - should they not be implemented just because the compiler isn't one of those programs? Say the compiler gets no benefit from object-size improvements - does that mean no embedded software will get to benefit from those improvements?

Here's a principal I learned from a fairly awesome compiler writer, Mike Hind of Jikes RVM (paraphrasing):

"Students often ask me how much speed improvement an optimization should provide to be publishable. If it speeds programs up by 10%, but will take six months to implement, that's not a good result. But if it can be done in a day, and improves performance by 0.5%, that's a great result".
Arguments?
I thnk Bangladesh is far behind Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Vietnam. Most of the issues you raise simply aren't a problem in Bangkok or Ho Chi Minh City (except, perhaps, the traffic in Bangkok... my god is it bad...) and as others have mentioned, it's both inexpensive and expected to have a maid to deal with laundry and cleaning.

Having lived in both cities for periods of time, I was amazingly productive because I didn't have to worry about mundane chores and could get healthy and inexpensive food at any hour of the day or night. And it was cheap.
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But it's not an incorrect usage of the term. Epidemic is not exclusive to contagious conditions.
Ask HN: Is the future about functional programming languages?
There's a lot of talk recently about functional programming languages (Haskell, Erlang, Clojure, Scala) being the next big programming languages in software development.

Reasons such as the slowing of the possibility for CPU's to become faster, instead multi-core CPU's becoming available, and the way functional languages are built for concurrency (on multi-core CPU's) and fit 'like a glove' in a cloud computing environment etc. are the main points talked about in recent articles.

Is there a real case for functional programming languages becoming popular in the future? What's the best choice for the functional language one should invest time in learning?
> Now, you claim that I "have no idea how many flags are needed." In the light of the above thought experiment let me ask:

> Are you sure?

Yes.
we have the same thing with startups, you agree on a term sheet before going to the effort of drafting up all the deal docs. what Obama is saying is that he won't sign the term sheet, so you obviously don't bother with the deal docs.
Let's hope device manufacturers add IPv6. Particularly for routers and phones.
Also, it's their money, they earned it. Let them spend it however they want.

For the record I think this is a really positive move.
I knew without looking that this was going to be about NUL-terminated strings.

Now, if it had been about NULL pointers, then Tony Hoare has called them his billion $ mistake.

Is there an anti-pattern here?
Bonus point if you also use interleaving whitespace [1] to hide yet another program.

[1] http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
Why do I get the feeling that there will never be a pure IPv6 solution.

It does not seem possible to create a pure and complete IPv6 NAT solution. But NAT is way too useful and taken for granted to be removed. I honestly cannot believe they did not address this specifically during the standard's process! Why not learn from the past?

Are Teredo-like 6-within-4 solutions the only future?
7+ year journey from idea to distribution to revenue to (potentially) profitable year-round.
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My father used to tell me that I shouldn't eat so much sugar as it causes diabetes. This was happening 20 years ago. My grandmother also used to tell me that, above all else, sugar and starch makes people fat.

My country also has lots of traditional recipes for food that are rich in meats and fats. We eat more pork than beef or fish combined and some dishes would make anyone that's concerned about high cholesterol scream. On every national holiday, we celebrate by preparing lots of food and eating like pigs. That didn't stop my grandfather from dying at 99 years old, even though he was a total raw bacon junkie (when I say raw, I actually mean it, as in not smoked, not cured).

It seems to me that when it comes to nutrition, you're better off listening to the wisdom of older people.

On sugar ... a friend works for a local tobacco factory and he was describing to me how they add sugar in the mix, because when it comes to dependency, sugar is even better than nicotine.

I'm from Europe and while visiting the U.S. there's one thing I immediately noticed straight from the airport at arrival ... I have never seen so many fat people in one place. In fact this was the first time I ever saw people that are so fat they needed a wheelchair to move around.

I hope I don't offend anyone by this, but seriously consider eating real food, instead of sweetened junk or diet bars or low-fat milk. Also drink water or herbal tea, instead of soda.
Wow! Thanks Patrick - your ethic and advice have been inspiring along the way.
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I like the idea of hearing my keypresses through my headphones while playing music. I feel I am more intimate with my code when I can hear the keyboard. Unfortunately my headphones block keyboard sounds.
This is Zack as mentioned in the interview. Zack is awesome.
I know. That's why I mentioned clearly "especially for a medical condition" - because then you use a figurative word associated with a medical term, while you would expect in that context the other meaning of "epidemic". If you were talking about "epidemic unemployment" there would be no ambiguity, but "epidemic obesity" is a very improper use of the word, ambiguous in this context.

Anyway, most of the time if you use the figurative sense of the word, just replacing it with "growth/increase/spread" is good enough. Why use an overly dramatic word ?
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The "Object.prototype.toString.call" solution is guaranteed to work according to ECMA-262, and will only return true for a real Array instance (not something masquerading as an Array):

Object.prototype.toString ( )
When the toString method is called, the following steps are taken:

1. If the this value is undefined, return "[object Undefined]".

2. If the this value is null, return "[object Null]".

3. Let O be the result of calling ToObject passing the this value as the argument.

4. Let class be the value of the [[Class]] internal property of O.

5. Return the String value that is the result of concatenating the three Strings "[object ", class, and "]".
Maybe this question is stupid, but why do you consider NATs useful? I've always found them pretty obstructive (just look at Skype and other p2p software, they have to try and break through NATs or even use a proxy server). Or do you have other use cases in mind?
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NAT as a security requirement can be replaced with a firewall. If you don't trust the firewall for some reason put in a second firewall. People got this notion that NAT is the only way to really secure an internal network. NAT is just an easy way to do default-deny, a firewall can also do it.
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Not to derail, but the regulatory capture in this article is mostly an absence of enforcement of laws. Retractable Technologies had to file their own antitrust suit because the DOJ and FTC wouldn't investigate GPOs.

The next time someone suggests antitrust laws are uniformly bad and should be abolished due to their (mis)application in tech, this is a great counterpoint.
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This is my new startup and I'd love to get your feedback. It reached 150K+ members with only viral.

Basically you can think of it as Formspring with chat. You set up an account for people to chat with you anonymously. As their identities are anonymous your friends can ask everything to you that they normally cannot ask. They can tell their thoughts and criticisms about you.

Moreover, you have an opportunity to chat anonymously with celebrities you admire through Connected2.me. You can tell your problems to specialists such as psychologists by keeping your identity secret and get an instant answer. Companies also use Connected2.me in order to get anonymous feedback about their products and give support to their customers real-time.

Please try and tell me what do you think.
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apt-get --no-install-recommends is quite helpful in that respect, as is aptitude why | why-not if you have aptitude installed.
I wrote a small program named Oximon a few months ago to extract data from CMS-50x pulse oximeters and generate Gnuplot graphs. I use it to detect REM sleep and it does the job with a nice accuracy so maybe it could help someone suffering from sleep apnea as well: https://github.com/vinc/oximon
I can tell you I'm sure it's more than one flag to take you off the front page, and I'm 90% sure it's more than 2.
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Please excuse my ignorance, but what exactly does “final beta” mean?
It could be a motivation issue if it was a decline in work quality. If you're like most startups, and you're not profitable right now, it's important to quickly become profitable. Having a constant stream of real validation of your business's value is very important--make sure you're making the right product. Otherwise, there's no shame in pivoting or dropping the dead weight--but in my opinion that's like firing a canary because it stopped chirping.
I did that a lot in Autodesk Animator on my 3/486. And it did palette cycling!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk_Animator
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You did a lot of legwork to get achieve your dream, I really do admire your drive and focus.

Canada isn't a bad place to end up after all.
Very cool. I'm just shocked that secret service let something like this happen. The red flag mechanism in their brains must have been doing backflips.
Ayn Rand was a harsh critic of libertarianism. That's a bit funny considering how close her philosophy is to libertarianism.
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Since you didn't propose a better standard during these decades, IPv6 is likely to stay. Why it's poor btw?
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It sounds like this bodes well for measurement-based (aka one-way) quantum computers. a) We can make a massive amount of entangled qubits and b) each can be manipulated and measured separately.
Thanks..

"[snip]..one might envision that instead of worrying about a lack of resources, the elasticity of the cloud could actually provide a surplus of compute, network and storage utility that could be just as bad as a deficit"

http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/a-couple-of...
I think they're still yet to update the Ubuntu homepage (which still shows "12.04 LTS is in final beta now").
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Homepage hasn't been updated yet. I heard they are shooting for a 12.04pm UTC release, so just about nowish :)
This must be it. Thanks.
Yeah though not as much as that of the Mars Climate Orbiter team who's mission failed due to using imperial rather than metric units in a navigation program.
I think the funnier name is Persuading Pedobear.
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Maybe he said this about IPv4 - it's still not applicable though. Either that, or he would have said the same thing about IPv4 twenty years ago.
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Did you read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain? I am (slowly) working my way through it.

Have a look at this before/after (a 5-day workshop) gallery:
http://drawright.com/gallery.htm
When it comes to government, I try not to put my personal views in for just the reasons you cite. That's just my analysis of the language in the veto threat, nothing more.

ECPA, though, that's another thing to research, thanks. I just want to focus on getting founders the visas they need to build great companies; I don't know anything about this open internet stuff, but I keep getting dragged into it.
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Actually they have been known to profit from community improvements to their old engines as a result of their open sourcing. When they went into the mobile phone games market to create games like Doom RPG, there were already existing doom engine ports to work from, saving them a lot of work. I think that's kinda cool... you never know how these things might benefit you down the road.

I think Carmack talked about it briefly in one of the QuakeCon keynotes. Maybe 2006 or something.
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Jerry Seinfeld used this exact technique to become a great comic. As told by software developer Brad Isaac when he asked Jerry for career advice[0]:

He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker.

He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day. "After a few days you'll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You'll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain."

"Don't break the chain," he said again for emphasis.

[0] http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...
NO Migration stratergy it was designed back when the internet was just some academic curiosity which ment you could do disruptive changes over the academic summer break.

Even in the 80's it was obvious that this would not work for ipv4 to ipv6.

IPv6 have been dropped 20+ years ago and a more fit for purporse stndard devloped.
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I'll be sticking with dropbox simply for data diversification. I already run all my email through Google, call me paranoid, but I don't like the idea of them having access to all my 'cloud-y' data.
I think this is a bad idea as it's supporting bad, lazy developers who can't be bothered to learn their craft correctly.

I've written a bit more about these "WODs" at http://www.iandevlin.com/blog/2012/04/css/on-vendor-prefixes...
Everyone has different predilections, however, frequent/consistent physical exercise and learning might be applicable to most.
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