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Hmm those are good ideas. At the moment, a rather strange side effect of having these boards mass produced is that the completed boards are cheaper than the boards + parts separated. So I'd actually make much less money selling deconstructed kits.

But yeah it's kind of strange, I frequently hear complaining that start ups can often seem to be marketing people looking for a technical founder to deliver their product on a silver platter. For me, it's just the opposite. I've got the product now I just need somebody to help put it on the map.
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What kind of productive, actionable result can this notification lead to for a regular user? "Oh, my government may-or-may-not be attacking me, I'm not even sure because it doesn't say, in any case I better just push this magic fix-it-all-up button I have right here."

I can't see how this can be differentiated from simple underhanded FUD-driven political activism.
isn't this like http://ifttt.com/
Agree++
As someone who has lived outside of my home country (born in US, moved to UK and now moving back to US), I agree with that sentiment.
We might also want to think about _why_ some foods taste bland. I feel that I'd never really tasted what a tomato tastes like until I had some at a monastery in Greece.

I was surprised to see tomatoes sitting out at dinner, seemingly to be eaten as-is along with the meal. I bit into one and it had a flavor unlike any tomato I've ever had in the USA. I could finally understand that a tomato is a fruit! It was nicely sweet with no bitterness and no discernible acidity.

In the USA when we ship stuff across the country, gassing it to stop it from ripening, and then gassing it again to cause it to ripen again -- all the while eating things mostly out of season -- it's no wonder that our foods taste bland!
Someone didn't like my comment. Fair enough. I'll put it another way.

Are children, left to their own devices, naturally deficient when it comes to critical thinking?
How does a less strict security model not imply less security?
I think kids (usually boys) with behavioral problems getting misdiagnosed with ADHD is more due to the conformist structure of our godawful school system than delusional parents. Parents want the best for their kids, and if the child is underperforming by the metrics of grades, focus and class participation, then naturally they will want to figure out how to compensate. The answer could be tutoring, better impulse control, change of diet or (gee!) learning environment, or the introduction of a psychiatric evaluation, and sometimes the last option is considered first.

I was actually diagnosed with ADD when I was in second grade. My mom refused to acknowledge the diagnosis, claiming it was bunk and that it was the Montessori school's ability to run a classroom that was lacking, not my ability to focus. She reasoned that I could draw for four hours straight, so I must not have ADD. (This was back when all studies on ADD were on boys with hyperactivity as the main criteria - "hyperfocus" and "low arousal theory" were barely off the ground then.)

My mom moved me to a public school and, wonder of wonders, the focused group environment of second and third grade was much more engaging for me. Then I got to the more rigid structure (separate desks, "all eyes on the blackboard" style classroom) and I started to slip. My mom made a little sign for my desk that said "PAY ATTENTION," as if that was going to magically snap me out of my daydreams. My poor performance continued all the way till high school - every report card insisted that I was bright, but not trying hard enough. Finally, when I got to high school, the challenges of AP classes and college prep got me motivated and goal-oriented. But once I was at college, all my old problems came back. It was like I was back at Montessori, totally lost and dazed and losing credits.

Then I got RE-diagnosed with ADD, started medication and group therapy, and voila! I graduated. Had I tried medication in middle school and high school, who knows what I might have been capable of.

For every diagnosis that you may think is unnecessary, I guarantee you there are kids (mainly girls) out there who are humiliated constantly by their mysterious "laziness" and "flakiness" who suffer in silence and parents who are frustrated and sad for their kids' unexplained struggles. Had I known that there was truly something about the way my brain worked that gave me these challenges, I wouldn't have gone through the shameful years that I hated myself for trying twice as hard as anyone else to do half as much as they could do without trying.

The problem isn't cut and dried and your insistence on belittling the choices of well-meaning parents undermines those of us who are fighting to be understood.

tl;dr - "ADD doesn't exist" isn't helping.
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It's worthy because within 21 minutes, 32 people, based on their internal criteria, thought it was worth upvoting? Isn't that the whole point of voting?
Taubes has written a bit about salt before. Unfortunately, the only thing he's written that I can find that goes into more detail is this Science news focus article:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/281/5379/898.full

It talks about the DASH study and some others in a little more detail, but unfortunately it's 14 years old now, so I don't know what research has been done since.
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Sounds incredible - you are really solving a problem. As primarily an online shopper, I am often disappointed by size. Thank you!
Scientific American has also had a couple articles about this recently. Here's one:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to...
I should point out that several top tech innovators were trained, not in traditional boring schools, but in Montessori. These schools emphasize the Learn By Doing model without grades or tests.

Look at the minds produced: Larry Page and Sergei Brin of Google, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, etc.

http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-...
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Err, that's him being funny. No one at his level just has chats on the phone and has contracts written up and walks into a studio to do lines.

He saw a paycheck and took it. Come on, a brooding Garfield movie by the Coen brothers?
Definitely. But, just like everyday people, investors can be sheep. The savvy see an opportunity, just like investing in stocks during a down market where you can actually get good value. Those looking for a free ride with big returns put there money elsewhere and that doesn't help anyone.
“You make it yuppie, nobody will want to come,” Walker said, improbably. “They like the old-fashioned way.”

Gentrified areas are probably the best place for a lifestyle business like those described; you can't compete on cost with the big-box stores, so you need a clientèle for whom cost is less important.

The point about chains treating a store in a trendy area as an advertising loss-leader stands, though I wonder how practical that actually is.
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I could use a little texture on there as well.
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I don't care if it is bad UX, I prefer it. I also turn off all the different types of preloading in Chrome, but that's another story.

The loading of a page hardly takes any time at all, and I generally have to reload the page when I finally get to older tabs anyways. And, this is silly, but it feels wasteful to have all tabs loaded all the time when I'm only using one or a few at any given moment.

Also I wouldn't mind if someone invented the "next great thing" to get us away from tabs. They are unwieldy, encourage tab-hoarding, and it is difficult to quickly locate a specific tab within a nontrivial number of open tabs. My overloaded tab bar causes more anguish than my email inbox.
I would love to be able to log things to a calendar like arrival and departure from a given location.
This is a really misleading article. What they're referring to is placing atoms (and molecules) into states of superposition where the state can be represented as 1/sqrt(2)|left> + 1/sqrt(2)|right>. This is an important first step towards quantum computers--being able to construct entangled systems of many q-bits, but this article is really quite poor in it's description. If you're really interested in this sort of stuff, I'd suggest reading Charles Seife's book entitled _Decoding the Universe_. It's about information theory and discusses quantum computing to a certain extent. I've also heard Seth Lloyd's book Programming the Universe is very good, but I have not read it.
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it would work for a fridge (provided you use a high enough resolution image), though of course if you were to view that in actual size on a laptop, you would only see a small part of it. You could certainly put it on a big screen in lifesize... it will work with projectors too. There are some measuring tools in the viewer as well, which would allow you to measure the object or part of it, which can be very useful even if you're not viewing it in actual size.
Sorry about the patent ;-) I have mixed feelings on them too, but the reality is that patents can open doors in terms of getting funding and building a successful product/service.
Yes, but that is often justified and understandable. HackerNews has one of the better communities out there but I know that getting downvoted without an explanation annoys me. This happens even on HackerNews occassionally.
Show HN: Like SmartGlass, deMobo turns phone into a second screen for browser
I've not really used a webcam. Are the feeds pretty much real-time these days? If so I think it'd be pretty cool to hop online and easily find someone to jam with. I play harmonica and have always had fun playing blues with even beginner/intermediate guitarists. Other than that I can't think of anything I'd want to use it for. Maybe it'd be more fun to play backgammon or chess across from a real person rather than a game interface.
Maybe you could stop using Gmail or stop discussing next week's protests.
With laminated woods you also have to take into account the glues used in the lamination process. While there might be some carbon-neutral glues out there, how many laminated wood products actually make use of them?
> What kind of productive, actionable result can this notification lead to for a regular user?

The users may make their account more secure and take more care of their physical security?

I don't understand what makes you so upset. I find this nice. Are you saying that Google will be misusing this to make some states look bad?

If you were at Google, what would you propose? Do nothing with accounts that you know are being attacked by states?
It is actually fun from 1 to 60 if you avoid the AH (though near the end of Hell you might need to). Replayability is totally down from Diablo 2 though.
I recently bought "APL an interactive approach" and read it. It seems that most of the good stuff from APL is already present in modern languages, and better when it's lazy. The OO stuff in APL looks kind of crufty. Still it's a wonderful fascinating language. In the age of mature open-source it feels very old fashioned with the expensiveness of a decent implementation. Btw, this is a fantastic tv segment from days of yore "The Origins of APL - 1974": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w
note that he's not just "chiming in", he's employed by the W3C. It is his job to be a part of discussions like this.
This looks like a lot of fun! Add a flying robot dead cat familiar (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-06/video-dutch...) and you make a serious statement of nerditude.
That was seriously hurtful to my brain.

There is certain aloofness to most cranks that oozes out of their writing.

The things have not changed much since Gardner's "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science"
they are in the top few percent of intelligence

Citation needed
aka China, right?
Blockly was influenced by App Inventor, which has Scheme inside:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Inventor_for_Android#Histor...
Potential productive responses are detailed in the OP.
Helpful for online shopping -- should prevent disappointment on size and reduce returns.
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How about the steps noted in the post? Make sure you have a good password, use two-factor authentication, and be careful about clicking on any login links? It could also be incentive to change accounts, or change to a different communication mechanism. As long as this warning is triggered by actual data, I am not sure how you could categorize it as "FUD" or even political activism. Hacking into accounts should not be political - it should be criminal.
This is really cool. Just set up a message to my wife when I leave work. "I'm heading home from work. Based on traffic data, it should take me XX minutes to travel XX miles". Took about 10 minutes to write thanks to some good examples in the documentation.

Looking forward to watching this evolve. Should be extremely powerful with the right set of triggers and hardware integration.
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Conversely, it winds me up when products boast that they have no artificial ingredients, yet have colours or flavours which are mixtures of natural substances that have little to do with the products that they are being used to imitate.
Being able to lock the pseudo class on the inspector is pretty freaking great (though not quite as intuitive to figure out how just yet). Also, a very happy change is that the panels remember what you want to have open.

Next on the list should be further integrating the console.
maybe you don't want a web browser inside a browser, but think about something like mozilla's boot-to-gecko project. the browser engine is a given, and the browser UI is actually just a web app.

similarly, an online calendar is a calendar client. It interacts with some server somewhere. Same idea with mail - Gmail is an IMAP client.
I guess the answer is to somehow handle this transparently, for example putting most commonly used files on the SSD.

Think about the Unix way vs Windows.
In Windows you have a C drive , D drive etc, all of these are seperate partitions and if you want to locate a file you need to know which partition it is on.

In Unix you want your personal files , so you go to /home/username or programs are in /usr/bin etc. This is because the filesystem is providing a layer of abstraction over the physical disk.

Of course this has a snag that if one of your disks fails you won't be quite sure what you lost because you don't know what was on that specific disk, but I guess anything important will be persisted to the cloud anyway.

The filesystem is really a very limited way of organizing things. You have to choose one criteria to categorize on which means you end up in subfolder hell.

The big problem is, how do you store your data in a way that means it can be accessed by multiple programs. For example you catagorise your music in iTunes but you want to move it into a different media player?

The Apple answer to this seems to be to simply say no, you have one program for each type of data and that is it.
Where I'm coming from is that I want to work on open source software, and I get really down on the hoops I have to jump through to do it--consulting, employment, starvation. I want to add value to society and I want society to value me in a more direct way.

Tips are small so there's no strings attached. That's different than with other uses of money.
I wonder if google will be just as open if the state sponsoring the attack was US.
Not to sound like I'm putting on my tin-foil hat, but a lot of money floats around in this space. It's entirely possible for a segment of the food industry to be viewed the same as cigarette companies if extensive studies show that, for example, eating cereal is actually killing you. No company wants that death sentence, pun not intended :-P
Actually I've heard him say that it was a misunderstanding in multiple interviews, quite candidly.
I've tried writing this comment multiple times and I'm struggling to find a way to explain it well. We sold our company[1] and part of the sale terms were we would be retained as the "managers" of the products (websites) and I always approached the sale as: "We take their money, they use their experience and assets to increase the value of the products and we continue to manage the product" and in theory that's what happened, unfortunately I made one big mistake: I didn't at any point realise how much control (freedom) mattered.

The company that acquired us is fine and I have no problems with them in any way and I enjoy my job, but it's just so different to how it was before. I guess a good real world comparison is renting vs. owning, if you own your home you can paint the walls, install a new floor or turn an entire wall into a television. When you're renting you're limited to very insignificant and inconsequential things, you can move around your sofas, have red plates instead of blue and get a new desk, but what sort of control is that? It's all cosmetic.

If I ever sell a company again I will absolutely make sure that the sale is the end of my involvement. If I wake up in the morning and have control I can think "today I'm going to make my company so fucking awesome, yeah!" because the sky is the limit, but as an employee it's just "oh, today I'm going to work... my goals are x and I can't change that" and when the former was previously possible and is no longer an option it's very depressing. I guess depressing is a dramatic word, but that's how it feels. Maybe stifling would be better, or trapped.

[1] I say company but the company was just for the sake of legalities, we didn't have an office or any formal structure, we just ran a couple of websites.

(I've been thinking about this for a while now and this blog post reminded me how I felt, sorry if the comment is too off-topic)
Could you suggest better alternatives to shelter ourselves ?
Could use a bit more laser.

http://www.appliedenergetics.com/downloads/product-offerings...

I guess that might spoil the steampunk theme, though...
well this coincides nicely the the confirmation that Stuxnet was state-sponsored. This is Google taking a stand. (Not against the creators of Stuxnet, just in general.)
See this says more about you than Facebook.

Nobody other than you is forcing you to use it. You don't have to do keep hiding apps, photos etc. You don't have to "keep up" with anything. The social obligation is all in your head.

I have Facebook. I find it incredibly useful for keeping track of people. And yet I only use it when I feel the urge to.
The initial discussion about the hugeness and strangeness of AI reminded me of the godlike AIs in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos, which are so incredibly advanced as to be pretty much beyond understanding in their native forms. The friendly ones end up speaking in zen koans.

http://www.seanparnell.com/Hyperion%20Cantos/Web%20Pages/Umm...
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Awesome idea and execution!

The only problem I have is that I may want to open more than one, and you seem to be limiting it.

Say, for example, I have a phone that is on there and see a new phone I want. I may want to compare size without needing to hold up my phone to the screen.
A little too far is an understatement. I read GCBC when it came out and found its arguments compelling at the time. After learning more, I've reversed my opinion almost completely.

James Krieger's critique of the core chapter of GCBC is very worthwhile reading: http://weightology.net/?p=265. His blog also has other articles addressing the core Atkins-Taubes thesis of the link between insulin, carbs and obesity. Alan Aragon's Research Reviews had an Editor's Cut on Taubes, as well as pieces specifically on the role of insulin and carbs in obesity and weight gain, but unfortunately all that is subscriber-only. Lyle McDonald (who literally wrote the book on ketogenic diets) has also written a lot on that whole orbit of ideas--never an article against GCBC directly, though he has certainly expressed his negative opinion of it on many occasions.
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There is a long debate over this post. I personally found the best answer to the matter here:

http://paleohacks.com/questions/49970/how-do-we-reconcile-st...

Taubes also responded to Guyenet: http://garytaubes.com/2011/11/catching-up-on-lost-time-%E2%8...
If you're a normal human being, you're likely to notice over time that the things that you think will make you happy, when they finally happen, don't. It's just something people are really bad at predicting.

If you're a normal human being, probably the only thing which actually makes you happy at the end of the day is helping somebody else selflessly-- best is if they don't even know it was you.

We're weird animals.
They say people work on what they want but they still advertise for specific jobs (https://github.com/about/jobs), so surely there is some level of direction there. i.e. If you're hired as a Data Miner then you are expected to spend your time mining data, what happens when that engineer decides he wants to work on something else?
> He points out that the DASH study didn't conclude anything about death or cardiovascular disease. Yes, that's true. So sure, there's a chance that despite blood pressure reductions a low salt diet could cause problems. But it's not the obvious conclusion.

That's the whole point, you say it yourself. The idea that "salt is bad" has just as shaky underpinnings as "lower blood pressure is good". The only thing we care about is death or disease, not lowering blood pressure. So even if less salt = lower blood pressure, that doesn't tell us if this is good, or harmful.

The obvious conclusion is that there is no conclusion.
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Old growth forests are not suitable for building material. All of these wood panels came from plantations that are re-planted immediately after harvesting, often from places where there was no forest before.
Diablo III is a wonderful game and anybody who claims otherwise is probably a combination of:

- Whiner who likes whining more than playing games.

- Bad genre match: go play your mindless Max Payne or Counter Strike, we won't possibly feel any worse without you.

- Not really remembering Diablo II downsides that were fixed in Diablo III. Having idealized past and snarky today.

Of course you have to play on hardcore. AH makes single player softcore much less fun; multiplayer softcore a bit less fun (it was possible to trade even in Diablo II); and hardcore becomes a lot more fun. Because seriously.

Now, Diablo II had a lot of problems of its own that I'm glad are fixed in Diablo III. A clear improvement.

Come on! Meph running without maphack is NOT fun!
Throwing out every magic and rare item is NOT fun!
Ignoring every non-mandatory dungeon because the only good drop is from bosses is NOT fun!
Skipping acts 1 & 2 because good exp only comes in 4&5 is NOT fun!
Running thru huge levels killing monsters with lots of health but little scare factor is NOT fun!
First scene in act 5, where very good exp could be made but no scary monsters or interesting drop - a definition of boredom!

We loved Diablo II, but now we love Diablo III, so please ignore the whiners and give it a try! Hardcore.
The US doesn't need to attack, they can just use their legal backdoor.
What revisionist history ? Is there some club I'm not a part of that has decided Facebook was the birthplace of social media.

EVERYBODY knows what Myspace is/was and that it was the first large scale social network.