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The cold war didn't kill many Americans, it was mostly about Americans killing Latin Americans or Koreans or Vietnamese or Laotians or Cambodians either directly by napalm or by puppet dictators that were installed after CIA-backed coups, such as the original 9/11: the 9/11/1973 coup against President Allende of Chile (or 1953 Iran or 1954 Guatemala or 1964 Brazil).

The Russians weren't in Cuba for no reason, we were in their backyard before they started their attempts to close the "doomsday gap" (quoting that term from Dr. Strangelove).

Quoting Blum:

Let's also not forget that Eastern Europe became communist because Hitler, with the approval of the West, used it as a highway to reach the Soviet Union to wipe out Bolshevism forever, and that the Russians in World War I and II, lost about 40 million people because the West had used this highway to invade Russia. It should not be surprising that after World War II the Soviet Union was determined to close down the highway.
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AFAIK, Fab is more like a Gilt than a Groupon.
So you basically get hired by a shadow company?
those are rockets launched to create smoke trails. The smoke trails were used to study the velocity of the shock-wave emanating from the explosion.

A comprehensive explanation can be found here.
http://www.atomcentral.com/atomic-smoke-trails.aspx
Fallout is of course dangerous. It just isn't as dangerous as it is commonly thought. We actually had a recent demonstration of this fact courtesy of Fukushima, and people in California being worried about the fallout. These worries were many, many orders of magnitude away from being well-founded.
$99 for a native iOS app, cheap? This is an MVP, your opinions..
Just out of curiosity (and not wanting to assume anything about you) but do you have kids of your own?
For comparison, here is Red Hat's pricing: http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/articles-red-...
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>if...anyone of us came up with a phenomenal idea worth billions, and some company produced exactly the same thing in 6 months, we'd be pretty pissed about that.

Only since we're conditioned to the current environment where patents play a role. If I know very well that anyone could copy the idea readily, then perhaps it wasn't ever worth billions to me. But maybe it is a little hard to copy, or at least takes some time to implement well. Then I have a first-mover advantage that's worth something. And of course the really tough-to-copy items can possibly net me those billions.

I think removing patents from the equation would result in everything settling to a new norm. Maybe that results in some ideas/investments not being pursued because they are then considered too risky. But you've also just removed a huge tax across the entire R&D process--for everyone. Perhaps that offsets the abandoned inventions.

It probably won't happen in my lifetime to that degree, but I think we'd be better off the further we move in that direction.
A few things.

ICs are a lot more sensitive to EMP than vacuum-tube devices.

The amount of EMP experienced is a function both of the size of the size of the nuke, and of the receiving antenna. One reason the Starfish and Hardtack bursts affected street lighting systems is that these were attached directly to the electrical grid: power lines == large antennas.

Blast yields were also in the megaton range, 1000x greater than the one here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_altitude_nuclear_explosio...
If you haven't seen a lot of atomic blasts, look up Trinity and Beyond. It's a documentary about nuclear warhead development and testing, with a lot of historical footage of the blasts themselves. In fact, I think the clip you reacted to is from that documentary.

Anyway, the damage you're seeing isn't actually typical for a nuclear blast. It's an effect called the precursor wind, and is in fact one of the distinctive things tested by shot Grable.

A precursor is a very strong dynamic wind caused by the
shell’s oblique angle of approach, and its high
horizontal speed. The nuclear explosion essentially
inherits the shell’s forward momentum, which sweeps
across the landscape causing extensive drag damage in
addition to the typical destruction. For instance, a jeep
which had been left virtually untouched by the much more
powerful Encore device was completely torn apart by the
artillery blast, and thrown a distance of about 500 feet.

http://www.damninteresting.com/atomic-annie-and-her-nuclear-...
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Legally, 'not guilty' is not equivalent to 'innocent'.

This made me think of Schrödinger's Cat.
The notion of "life hacking" something as sacred as friendships will no doubt offend a lot of people, as evident by all the negative responses. But I do believe that your closest friends influence your goals, priorities, and outlooks on life. My social circle took a drastic change when I moved from Seattle to Palo Alto 5 years ago. The new friends I made were on average a lot more ambitious and driven. Collectively they've had a profound impact on who I am over the years.

This article unfortunately came out in a Tim-Ferris-four-hour-work-week-over-the-top-douhbagery sort of way, but I think the author means well. We shouldn't be sucking up to successful people in hopes of befriending them for profit, nor should we ditch our "go nowhere" friends for fear of drag. But we can always strive to put ourselves in environments that positively influence us.
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It could also be an idiot who is trying to engineer some sort of stability in the currency at his own expense. That is the only other thing I can think of, and it seems quite unlikely.
I found it pretty interesting that the donation web site Walter Jr. sets up for his dad in season 2 episode 12 actually exists:
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Right, so I can look at the diagram and see that 59 and 61 are prime while 60 has many divisors. I can kinda see that the density of primes decreases gradually.

But I can't see a broader pattern beyond that.

Now here I can see some patterns!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
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Couple of things - replace "majority of new" with "ivy bridge chipsets ". A lot of people actually buy sandy bridge or even AMD you know.

Second, while I share somewhat common opinions on Unity, this particular example is a kernel bug. Most likely, ubuntu will backport those changes to 12.04 or has already provided a ppa for a newer kernel.
Indeed - one of the biggest learning moments for me in life is learning how much natural radiation exists. Housebricks and other items are radioactive.

A lifetime of anti-nuclear propaganda had made me fear anything that was radioactive. This ranges from the harmless (radiation plot points in movies) to the outright idiotic (Fukushima spawned plenty of this). There needs to be public education about what levels of radiation are safe, otherwise we're all as irrational as someone with arachnaphobia when a tiny spider walks into a room.

Yet in truth there are safe dosages of radiation, and all the man-made radiation in the world has actually been a strong net positive.
>If I appear to be moronic, self-centered, or sexist… it’s only because I am (I’m a guy). Still I believe my heart is in the right place, and unlike my head, hopefully it’s not in my pants.

What the hell? I feel like I'm watching a US TV commercial.

"Whoops honey, if I didn't have my sports cap on I'd probably lose my head."

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Care to expand on that? Recall that Mac OS X is a certified UNIX, so I'm not sure what "unix-y" features it's missing.
Is this a Back to the Future reference?
Right, this is just a call for something akin to affirmative action, which has had questionable results at best.

The onus here isn't on women. And the right solution is not to preferentially favor women in the tech field. What you'll end up with is a situation where asshole misogynists consider themselves even more justified in treating women in tech as second class citizens. This time because "they only got there through charity".

The solution is simple. People in tech need to treat other people in tech like human fucking beings, regardless of gender, race, or age. And more importantly, when we see people treating others based not on the quality of their work but on superficial qualities like gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or what-have-you we need to call them out on it. Loudly. Publicly. Repeatedly.
Women don't need to be "empowered". It's not some socieo-ecominic reason that's causing girls to steer clear of tech. It's been discussed here before many, many times and women have weighed in. According to them its the culture and insensitivity towards women thats causing skewed gender ratios.

This isn't a problem you can throw money at.
It's hard to imagine a single programmer being worth a million dollars a year to a company.

AdWords is worth, round numbers because I'm lazy, $100 billion a year. One million dollars is 10^-5 times AdWords. Want to make a guesstimate as to how many engineers are associated with 10^-2 improvements in AdWords in a given year?
I would suggest that instead of affirmative action in funding women in startups, instead we should encourage successful women in tech to become evangelists. I don't think the issue is as much in the "nobody gives money to women who want to start startups" but rather in the fact that fewer women are in technology because of the cultural bias against it (and as a consequence, less women get funded startups).

Just think, if you are a teenager or college age girl, what women programmers do you currently look up to? They exist, but they need to be more visible to break the perception that "women don't become programmers"
> So a kid, who gets very low grades, can get into a good institution, just because he is from a lower caste, even if that kid's family is rich.

Wait! You're saying that the process of undoing centuries of systemic unfairness might not be perfectly fair itself? And that groups who were historically privileged are now sometimes experiencing a small fraction of what their ancestors dished out? The horror!

That's not to say that we shouldn't work toward a world which is perfectly fair. But I'm ok with the unfairness getting sloshed around a little as we reduce it. As a white USian, it kills me to see people who suddenly discover their sense of fairness only when they might be on the receiving end of a little inequality. Or, often, just getting demoted to mere equality.
If you love markdown and ease, I created an online editor for markdown.

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A gist is basically a mini-git repo. There is a revision history and they are attached to your github page. You can also folk or edit them and there is a permalink to each revision.

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My experience of StackOverflow users is that they are generally polite and very helpful although I've noticed a trend over recent month towards less tolerance towards people asking questions who obviously haven't even done a basic Google search first. I think StackOverflow users see it as a place to get answers to questions that aren't answered anywhere else on the internet rather than as a way of getting someone to do a Google search on your behalf. Not that I'm suggesting that this is your situation.

If you're looking for an alternative to StackOverflow where the quality of content and discourse is high then Forrst (www.forrst.com) is a great place. It's an invitation only community of web designers and developers which is in part, I think, what keeps the place friendly and helpful.
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true on that.
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also, they don't want to give them any google money.

good luck with that, bros.
I'm just amazed you use divs containing data-uri images instead of, say, a canvas element for drawing icons like the battery level and connection signal bars. You must have fought hard with superhuman patience to do battle with the DOM in this way.

I myself have neither the grit nor the will to endure what you must have suffered, but I recognise this amazing achievement. As another poster has said, you deserve your $29 a month for your effort. I take my hat off to you sir.
I don't get what is so great about DuckDuckGo's bang syntax. Whenever I want to search Wikipedia, I simply go in Chrome's address bar and type "w<tab>".

Google is "g<tab>".

Hacker News is "h<tab>".

DuckDuckGo is "d<tab>".

This all works out of the box with no manual configuration given that you have used those search engines in the past. Is there something I am missing?
I disagree. I don't see it as 'tokenism' or 'charity'. We are solving a big problem (gender-inequality).
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I agree. You would also see resentment towards women founders from the guys who are pitching if startups are being picked based on the gender of the founders rather than quality.
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There's a shocker. Employees lied about altercation. Stop the presses!

It would have helped if Mann hadn't blocked out the faces of the "perps". They deserve no anonymity.
Those are just two examples that I gave. Two examples of customization that aren't available that I have are 'wf' set to search Wikipedia for <search term>+ " (film)" and 'wtv' set to search Wikipedia for <search term>+ " (TV series)".
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I would say that we don't mind because we understand that there are many features on "modern browsers" that are not available on IE 9 and below, but yet are web standards (ok, not all the time). Hackers also tend not to use IE, so that also helps explain it.

It really only sucks for general consumer-facing apps to not support a large variety of browsers. Otherwise, for specific apps with more tech-savvy users, just supporting a couple of modern browsers is just fine IMO.
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Whoa you made a huge leap a the end there. Does body fat really dissolve in blood?
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> by which I am guessing you mean the unemployed

no, by moochers I mean people who live off unearned income. In this context, from forced government dole outs.

> the bureaucracy of organising the benefits system costs multiple times the amount actually paid out in benefits.

you got any citations for this?

> so there are actually more people not receiving benefits they are legally entitled to

the whole of your argument and point of view, is based on legally instituted perverse "benefits". We have instituted morally corrupt systems of welfare and people nowadays take it as a matter of fact.

> Now cheer up and learn to mooch a little

Thanks, but no thanks. You obviously feel a lot better if you spread your moral corruption to every one else. I work for my own bread.
Welcome back Dell, now if HP and Lennovo join in people will start to remember the power and elegance of a laptop over a table and a laptop running Ubuntu is unreal.

Except...Unity sucks (the UI). Gnome 2 rocked.
But that's just a transitional thing. Once you build a bigger more vibrant culture of women in IT, the artificial bias can be removed.
Eh, small teams have to have focus. Of course they'll get around to fixing it in Firefox, but maybe they needed to work on something else first.
HN, I need to learn how to ship
(Using my favorite throwaway account.)

The title says it all, HN. I can't ship.

This isn't about shipping the first version of my nascent startup's web app, though. This is about completing anything in life, putting a big bow on it, and calling it done. I'm terrible about finishing things in all areas of my life, whether it's chores around the house, libraries I need to finish at work, or OSS bugs I've promised -- but failed -- to patch.

I hate it, too, because it is a particularly flaky behavior characteristic of people who are "big talkers" or commit to doing too much. I don't want to be unreliable, but I really just struggle to finish things up.

Has anyone solved this problem for themselves? Have you gone from someone who underproduces to one who knocks things out of the park? I'd love to hear your advice.
Is it a problem that the nursing profession is dominated by women? If so, why?
As I'm sure you've gathered, I do not.

I do intend to raise children. I suspect I'll feel differently about those then, and probably even about other people's children.

I've seen it happen to several of my friends who have become fathers, I have no illusion that it will be different for me.
It reminded me of this comic: http://xkcd.com/927/

Add one more private feed company to the pile.
The problem is a service like this lives and dies by the network effect. Without enough people using it, it's not attractive to new people. Services like Vimeo don't have that problem because they provide the same value to paying members regardless of how many other paying members there are.
Have you looked at the Meyers-Briggs personality types? If not, you might read that to get some insight into your personality and how it's different from others around you.
Women in this field who try to be more visible are prone to being labeled as superficial, attention-seeking, untalented (and much, much worse) terms [1]. Culture change is what is required.

[1]: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/175064/forbes-c...
In case you didn't read the article, Mozilla was talking about app developers, not system developers.
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I've definitely looked before. How would being INTJ or INTP (somewhere between the two) affect anything?
Empowerment isn't just for socio-economic reasons... It's for all equality based issues.

> According to them its the culture and insensitivity towards women thats causing skewed gender ratios.

There are a multitude of problems, and they all need to be tackled, just because one solution doesn't solve all, doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.

> This isn't a problem you can throw money at.

I would rephrase that as:

This isn't a problem you can just throw money at.
There are far fewer women in tech majors than men and that happens before women ever hit the workplace. The skewed gender ratio starts much earlier in life.
I am not so sure that is the case. Kevin Kelly wrote about having 1000 true fans. I think his argument works here too.

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...

If you think about how Twitter needs to reach 100 of millions if not billions of users to possibly become sustainable, or figure out how to squeeze more money out of the users they have. Then compare that to the App.net proposal. Especially the part about making the user the customer. Then you can see how having a small set of faithful users might be more sustainable.

Dalton wrote more about this in his post: http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal

disclaimer: I work for App.net, but this post represents my own views.
I don't know anything about the nursing industry.

But I would comment, that increased diversity (whether it is gender/race/age/etc) always yields benefits as you have a more diverse range of viewpoints to draw from. So it is always a problem when one group is over(or under) represented in a given area.
I completely disagree.

Tech is supposed to be meritocracy.

Anyone here who would discount other's because of perceived charity is shortsighted at best and ignorant asshole at worst.

All we are supposed to care about is can you code and/or help our business.

Being red/white/magenta or whatever gender or permutation there of shouldn't enter into the conversation if Tech is really the "meritocracy" it claims itself to be.

Obviously money won't necessarily hurt but anyone who has ever paid attention on HN or even to the Tech industry as a whole should know about "dumb money."

who cares how much you can raise if you can't figure out what to do with it
Okay. I left Google because I was fed up with how things were going over there (read my posts - link in profile - if you want to know more). I started my own little business.

So, okay, let's go. Throw money at me. I'll make more cool stuff with it. I'm mostly a "plumbing" sort of person, but I've been known to make actual top-level user interfaces on occasion too.

Well? Who's with me?
That stuff works as well as it does on Windows 7 (I'm forced to use Windows 7 at the moment on a contract); everything you named is as reliable, IMHO.
Gather prior art and file for a reexamination.

You can file prior art for applications now, too: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120717/00232219721/
This no longer applies if you use Mac OS X. Most settings dialogs have no "Apply" button and applications no longer have "Save" buttons. The user expects that things will be committed immediately as you do them.

In fact, there is no "commit". You just do things. And that's the way it should be.

After getting used to that, it's pretty annoying to use Windows, which keeps asking you whether you want to cancel or apply things in every possible situation. Sometimes it even defaults to reverting your changes if you just close the dialog box (like when changing the desktop background image in Win8, for example).
Have you read this http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal
Surely the victims of the transition will demand their kids also receive a favorable bias anew.
Its pretty obviously a good thing if you bought some at 7 a week ago. 30% increase in a week is not bad.
Can someone summarise the vid? It won't play on Android ...
Sorry if I wasn't clear. The video was a clear hack job, interspersing many different pieces of footage from different tests. It was designed to fool a 1950s crowd. Let's be better than that.
As someone who has seen too many arguments about drivers between Dell & Redhat and between HP & Redhat let me just say that Redhat does a lot more than "just give you the latest security patches".
I disagree on your W5*0 point. I have a W510, and it constantly kernel panics. Thermal management is non-existent by default on Ubuntu 12.04, and the trackpad and wifi are extremely flaky.