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I have to strongly disagree with your post. First, millions of people do "waste" the time it takes to exercise daily; it can even be enjoyable. It's certainly not an impossible task to motivate people to exercise.

Second, it seems somewhat odd to talk about "figuring out" how to get the benefits of exercising, when you could always ... well ... exercise.

Third, with a biological system as complex as the human body, it seems to require a lot of hubris to expect a pill to completely replace the role of exercise in maintaining health, with no side effects etc. I have trouble picturing doctors recommending such a pill instead of regular exercise; even if they do, I have trouble believing we are anywhere close to understanding the implications of trying to put the entire world on a pill to replace normal biological function.

Fourth, even if the pharmaceutical companies did assure me that their drug was a healthy, legitimate replacement for exercise, I personally would feel weird about living off of a pill. And it couldn't replace the role exercise plays in my life anyway (see also spodek's post).

Fifth, it seems a little odd to put a problem with a known solution (going to the gym) up next to finding the cure for cancer as a priority/challenge for humanity.
Serious question: is there a single system in the country at any level of government that works as it is intended? Can someone name a single one?

My mother recently "enlightened" me as to how backwards medication pricing is and how its shouldn't be legal what medical companies are doing (its a long, unethical, story). I retorted with: We have people who don't even know how the internet works deciding how to regulate it, and yet we have these very same people regulating countless number of other industries that they don't understand. A great many senators and congressmen don't even read what they vote on, never mind understand what they vote on (ndaa anyone?).

So getting back to the topic at hand. How is it that "we" can read this story and be disgusted. The men in power in our country have spent the last few decades (imo, perhaps longer) making our country worse and have deluded themselves in to thinking they have made it better. I am annoyed with them, but I am really annoyed with the people who know what is broken and instead of taking the initiative, sit back and talk about it. They sit back and they talk up a storm about how crooked companies are and this that and the other thing. And oh yeah, its racism , or its this or that.

And you know what? Its not even worth it to point any of this out. In the off chance you actually agree with anything I have said, your an American, a docile consumer. You will go find some company, some NPO and throw money at it. Problem solved, case closed, you accomplished your civic duty for the day. Maybe you will go the extra mile and share with your facebook friends some pointless meme that suggests they share with their friends. What a joke. If our country's forefathers saw what has become of their great nation, they would writhe in their graves. In all likelihood, you don't agree with anything I have said, you are content with people telling you what to think and what to buy. You believe this country is great and are content letting the "little" imperfections of our government programs go ignored or worse, broken further.

But yeah, totally agree. Let me know when you share a "lets fix immigration" meme on facebook so I can share it with my friends and we can fix kono 2012, -I mean whatever really important thing we were talking about. Hey, did you see my new car. I know, its banging right.
By most definitions narcissism is self-love, inwards pointing. Going to space for the betterment of humankind's future doesn't seem to fit.
Not again! Maybe suspended for ever?
As much as I dislike Goog for it's terrible costumer service, but these kind of investments make Goog as a company -- as well as it's founders -- so different from other corporations. Autonomous cars, Google earth/sky/moon/mars, Google glass, asteroid mining. Having some crazy idea and just doing it, even though it could fail, but at least trying it.
This is a frequent occurrence.
virtualenv isn't just used for testing, though. it's widely used to isolate applications' python environments/dependencies from one another.
Maybe. It's worth pointing out that the PhD Movie was actually released many months ago, has already screened in many college campuses, and is now receiving a buzz of revived interest from us today. So this isn't t = 0 but t = 1, in the appropriate units.

The DVDs you propose buying are actually probably one of the most successful implementations of this strategy, and the key fact is that sometime a year down the line you say to yourself, "hey, I never got around to seeing that movie, it was too expensive, or they only had it in 3D and 3D makes my head hurt, or any number of other things -- why don't I just buy it at the reduced price on DVD?" It works.

(I'd say it works "very well" but honestly, DVD sales are pretty thinly reported across the industry, so nobody really knows how well it works in terms of hard numbers.)
I know, it's impressive. If I'll ever have to do a non-dotnet app, Delphi will be the first thing on my list.
Great work! What other work has the artist done?
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From the description: "[...] shifts attention to extreme hypotheticals [...]" (also present in the A1 poster)

In any case, I see this poster as a cheat sheet: not something to learn from, but a quick reference for someone who has already done their homework and learned about those logical fallacies.
But why does .hushlogin makes Terminal.app come alive faster?
This is actually one thing I've always been wondering about as a non-native speaker when reading English headlines. Is there any reason newspapers prefer this style? It sounds weird to me.
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This is excellent news. WHATWG has been a dynamo for shiny things, and they deserve praise for transforming front-end development into a hugely exciting technological frontier. (Let's track popular usage and call that transformation 'HTML5', even though it's a misnomer.)

But there have been reasons to worry, too. Although anyone can participate in the mailing lists, where the meat-and-potatoes of standards development happens, full membership is by invitation only, and has not been expanded beyond the major browser vendors. This fact, coupled with the lack of of a serious effort to drive community involvement (IMHO), has distorted the conversation, skewing it in the direction of technical solutions that are implementable in browser code and that are useful primarily for developers working on enterprise-class web apps like gmail.

The good news is that this work made front-end development the most exciting place to be. Getting RIAs to work well at scale requires considerable expertise and ingenuity.

The bad news is that the web browser that you are using has been augmented with a slew of new APIs, many of which have only seen very limited adoption outside major browser vendors. It'll be a while before we can appreciate their full impact on the character of content on the web, and by that point the specs will be a fait accompli.

The W3C struck me as considerable more idealistic, with a louder, more explicit commitment to making the web serve truly human ends. I'm sure this makes them a lot less efficient than they'd otherwise be. But when you're steering the development of a platform that binds ever larges swathes of humanity together on a planetary scale, there are things other than efficiency or innovation to optimize for.
What we learned from HN last week.
This is soooooo cool (:
The hardware is that much better. 2x the cost but you don't have to carry a damn crap-top around that weighs 4 or more pounds and blows a fan when you move a window.
Wow! I can't believe we've only ever mined 25 cubic feet of plat. Reading your source I'm not sure it's right, "The annual supply of platinum is only about 130 tons" "one cubic foot weighs a little more than 1,330 pounds"

23*1330lb = 13,875kg ever

130tons = 117,934kg per year

"basement of less than 25 cubic feet" Maybe them meant basement of 25 square feet or 250cuft which is still tiny basement.
Well apparently I was very wrong! Thanks for clearing this up. Amazing.

So, for $1BN you could have: Instagram, SpaceX, or small asteroid. Ha!
No, you responded correctly.
But logic is much more likely to get you from A to B than imagination is to get you anywhere particularly interesting ;)
I'm just seeing this for the first time. I wonder how this doodle affected people's productivity. And considering the height, where was the search field placed?
More hubble telescopes have a limited use. We can learn mysteries of the universe, sure, but they aren't great for finding readily-mineable asteroids.

Even with the James Webb telescope discovering habitable planets, we're centuries away from doing anything particularly useful at scale.

We need to focus on the the inner-solar system, the asteroid belt and a few outer moons. There are trillions of dollars in immediately-useful research to be done locally. None of which needs a deep space telescope to succeed.
Maybe I'm wrong but I would have thought brokensaints.com was one of the first animated graphic novels.
If you use TCP proxying, you have no way to react on HTTP headers. So either your Websocket server runs on a different port or interface or you have to proxy _all_ traffic on that port to your websocket backend.
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Well, my point was that simply learning the alphabet allows you to get as far as being able to turn that into Espresso, Kapuchino, etc which is hugely useful, even without knowing the language itself.
Acceptable? Maybe. Beautiful? No.
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Are they considering also sources of energy (gases for example) to mine? I mean, metals are good, but we will need more energy too. Also, what metals can they mine? Can they mine lithium (maybe we can ship 'batteries' to charge on the moon or asteroids?)?

Cool stuff anyway.
User has lower expectation on the experience and functionality if the content is presented on the hand held devices. It does not need to be an Apps; you can still design a website which is for hand held devices.
I don't see a lot of excitement for Win8. The resistance to move to Win8 probably won't be as bad as Vista but I see some similarities here. I think the market is still digesting the Win7 rollout and once again people are asking if they really want to go through yet another OS change.
The interesting thing is, we have those budget cuts to thank for this. In the 50 years since we landed on the moon, we've put a massively expensive and questionably valuable series of tubes a few hundred kilometres from the Earth's surface, and sent a couple robots to Mars. These are both notable accomplishments, but they're hardly enough to give humanity any permanent presence in space. Space exploration has languished under the management of the federal government, and it has only been since the cancellation of the Shuttle that we've seen private enterprise truly step in with any sort of sustainable mission.

I have long argued that the cuts to NASA are short-sighted and a net loss for humanity; perhaps it's time to re-evaluate that notion. They may well have been short-sighted, but the hole left by the fading government monopoly is opening up some incredibly interesting opportunities.
No doubt with SpaceX leading the way to lower launch costs we'll see more private ventures and public/private partnerships.

However, more than likely there will need to be new designs purpose built: The manufacture of new telescopes and probes from old designs is not really practical. These craft were mostly "one offs"; their supply chains, tooling, and work groups are not waiting and ready to go. Their optical, structural, guidance, and computational technology is no longer state of the art, so you'd have to kludge together new systems based on old design docs and specifications. Not the kind of efficiency a privately funded venture would aspire to.

Far better to start anew, using the cumulative data of previous missions as a stepping stone, and employing lean design-build techniques such as SpaceX, Scaled Composites, and others have done.

I'm aware of one new generation of lean-manufactured, government-contracted observational satellites that are designed to be cheaper and replicable, but they're tactical in mission: they point towards targets on earth.
Another barrier to fusion falls?
The problem is that I can't see how this is correct, even to the trained eye:

Argument from authority -- It is important to note with this fallacy that authorities in given fields may very well have valid arguments, and that one should not dismiss another's experience and expertise. To form an argument, however, one must defend it on its merits i.e. know why the person in authority holds the particular position that they do.

Only vaguely. You don't actually have to know what general relativity is or how it works to form an argument based on the statistical likelihood of physicists being correct. You don't really have to know "why" the person in authority holds their opinion, only that they are both an expert on the topic they are covering and that there is a general consensus among other experts on the same topic.

It is, of course, entirely possible that the opinion of a person or institution of authority is wrong; therefore the authority that such a person or institution holds does not have any intrinsic bearing upon whether their claims are true or not.

I'm not sure what this is trying to say, but there's certainly justifiable basis in believing that person's authority has an intrinsic bearing on the probability that their claim is true.

How is the quoted definition at all useful -- to either logicians or laymen?
here http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3882617
(1) As for forgetting, well, good companies often market their price reductions. I mean, famously, Apple released two iPhones in 2007, a 4GB one at $500 and an 8GB one at $600, and rapidly killed the first and reduced the second to $400, after about two months. It made a terrific marketing splash, lots of people bought the $400 one. Granted, this sort of marketing is easy for them because they're Apple and everybody is always listening for news on them, but my point is just that "we're reducing our price!" can be a subject worthy of a new press release and a new Hacker News bump.

You may also remember that so many people criticized them for the above, that Apple gave away $100 certificates to the people who bought at the $600 price point. There is a valid criticism of what I have said above which nobody has yet mentioned: which is that people like to get a "good deal" and think of you better as a company if you provide that to them. As you try to extract out ∫ D(p) dp from people, you are also squeezing a commensurate amount of happiness out of them, and that can be bad for long-term customers.

(2) The top isoHunt torrent lists 20-ish torrenters, so I'm not sure whether piracy is a valid concern on this matter.
See also bass, close, desert, does, dove, have, intimate, invalid, lead, lives, object, present, produce, read, refuse,
sow, subject, tear, wound ...

Plus, from a different angle, words which mean the opposite of themselves, such as cleave.
> - James Cameron (goog)

I don't think Cameron is involved in Google, is he?
The "push" factors for emigration are probably strong in many non-democracies, but it's it possible that the "pull" factors for immigration could be weakened by the internet?

Some people don't seen to care about moving to the US to live "the American dream" or whatever.
I'll be at Google with the AdWords team. There is a big Quora topic on this: http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-2012-summer-interns-in-Sili...
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Indeed. Similarly, if you barricade yourself inside your house you'll be well-protected against thieves.
Awesome game! @doronlinder you should really put a "retweet" button there asap!
Any idea which one to use for the Chrome Canary tools detailed in the article?

+ https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/stable (Stable Channel)

+ https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/beta (Beta Channel)

+ https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/dev (Dev Channel)

+ https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa (trunk/daily builds)

https://launchpad.net/chromium-project
I still don't see their endgame being traditional display advertising. It just can't provide the kind of cash they need. I think we'll see the engineers at facebook find ways to directly exploit the value of their network, but I only have vague notions of how they might do that.
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Easy to purchase, install and update. You cannot discount the lack of friction in purchasing apps. It is (IMHO) incredibly important;

Compared to what? Not having to purchase, install and update at all? Lack of friction compared to not having to travel the mile at all?

Ease of discovery

I think "read tweet, click link" is as fast as it can to go. And still, the most used mobile app is the browser.

My personal opinion is that native apps that have a WWW equivalent are doomed: Their appeal rests on the fact that they can still do "cool" stuff by taking advantage the touch interfaces that the web was not designed for. Otherwise, they are indistinguishable from desktop apps: games and other heavy-duty processing. The web is not going anywhere.
Nope, the lowest 16k of address space was ROM all right but on top of that the ZX 48k had a total of 48k RAM (as the model name implies.)

The lower 16k RAM was in fact a bit special in that it was shared with the graphics chip (which read the lowest 8192 bytes of RAM constituting screen memory and interrupted the CPU while doing that) System variables (POKE for the win) sat on top of that. The upper 32k RAM was a bit faster since CPU had it all for itself.
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The uwsgi upstream module has been bundled for a long time now.

Here is the doc from the uwsgi site: http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/RunOnNginx
You are obviously making up this benefit:
"I also know not to waste time talking to people who consider exercise a waste of time. We have different values."
since you've obviously wasted a significant amount of time writing this relatively lengthy comment as a response to someone who considers exercise a waste of time..
As I cannot replicate this behavior, I am not certain. On my OS X 10.6.8 11" Air, terminal sessions are only being delayed by my 2.5MB .bash_history; if I clear that file ( something I sadly wouldn't want to always do ;P) terminals come up with almost no delay.

However, assuming that is the case for some people, we have to look elsewhere than the last login lookup. There are only a few other usages of quietlog: motd (open file, read it), mail (check environment, stat file), and pam_silent.

The first two are not going to cause any kind of performance issue, so we have to look at pam_silent. This variable is particularly interesting, as it is only set to 0 if -q is not passed (and it is not) and there is no .hushlogin (it is not directly controlled by quietlog).

If it is not 0, then it is left at a default value, which is PAM_SILENT, and is passed to almost every single PAM function. It could very well be that there is some crazy-slow logic in PAM that is activated if you do not set PAM_SILENT.

Given this, someone experiencing this issue might look through the code for PAM to see if anything looks juicy (and this is something that will best be done by someone with this problem, as it could be that they have some shared trait, such as "is using LDAP authentication").

(edit: FWIW, I looked through OpenPAM, and I am not certain I see any actual checks against PAM_SILENT at all; the only mentions of it are for parameter verification: the library makes certain you don't pass unknown flag bits to anything.)
A billion -- whoa, we're talking Instagram money here.
Name the last self-taught great scientist or mathematician, and the year of their birth.
Because when they make a persuasive argument, it forces you to work harder. To confront the issues that other people are bringing up. If you don't want that then you can make software just for yourself. Otherwise it's best to keep an open ear, even if the voices do nothing to change your direction.

Criticism is no science, and sure they might not be making the same thing as you but that doesn't mean they don't have anything valuable to say about it. You could be a brilliant programmer but absolutely no imagination when it comes to UX, in which case a little user criticism would go a long way and may even bleed a little into the program architecture.
Only because we've decided as a profession that optimizing for binary size is low priority when compared to speed of development, maintainability, and framework's features, among others.
If someone needs to ask what dotfiles are, they aren't in the target audience of this project.
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The work done on the Perl SDL bindings of late has been sterling - it had been stagnating for quite a while, AFAIK.
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As I said, it was only part of the reason I shelved it.

It also turns out I rather like working on an 11" screen. Keeps me focussed.
I couldn't find all the numbers for any 2007 mainstream notebook cpu, but here is a comparison between 3720QM (an upper mainstream, 2012) and P8400 (upper mainstream 2008):

Model 3DMark06 CPU Cinebench R10 32Bit Single Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi SuperPI 1M* SuperPI 32M* wPrime 32
3720QM 6470 4810.5 16822 11 594 12.9
P8400 2014 2526.9 4700.6 22.1 1212 34.2
321% 190% 358% 50% 49% 38%

So you would see 2x performance in single threaded, 4x performance in multithreaded and probably way better battery life due to stuff like TurboBoost (and getting a new battery :-)
With enough time you'll find so many more interesting things. :)
I shared my experience with a community of thoughtful people from whose experiences I have benefited, not with one individual.

I don't consider sharing experiences relevant to the post a waste of time. I value when people do it for me.