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This is (to me) a weird way to evaluate smoothness. By slowing it down, the default space between the frames is larger. So it seems like minor glitchiness is going to be harder to catch, not easier.
As we all know, every situation in life can be exhaustively and accurately resumed by an XKCD comic.

Here's this thread's: http://xkcd.com/874/
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Facebook requirement is a nonstarter. Even if it cuts down spam, requiring FB already eliminates a good portion of the population.
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I had this happen to me in similar age a few times, only with things fading to gray instead. Once blacked out totally and was later surprised to find myself having managed not to drop in place but seat myself beside the bed.
> What is striking is none (or I haven't come across one) of these articles end with the developer washing their hands off the App store and vowing never to develop another iOS app.

Probably because that's a foolish approach as a developer. If your app is worth a damn, then preventing it's use by potential customers simply because of your personal opinion is fairly inconsiderate. Should someone be deprived the use of an app simply because they bought a different phone then the one I approve of?

That's a hard line to take, I understand, and realize not everyone will agree with that. =) I just feel that from the customer perspective, the only thing that matters is the developer. And if the developer choose not to release on the platform I am using, then the developer is essentially telling me I do not matter.
The term assault rifle is laden with emotional and legal baggage in the US. Better to say 'rifle'. Which is what the shooter in Aurora had.

What do I need a rifle for? Just because. They're fun to shoot. Because I like owning a few of them.

But the list of things one doesn't 'need' are long.

Don't need a computer.
Don't need a cell phone.
Don't need a nice set of dishes for special occasions.
Don't need a bread machine.
Don't need a microwave.
Don't need a car.

Etc. I have those things not for any particular economic justification but because I _like_ having nice things.

A rifle (or two, or three) is one of those things.
I will upvote but I disagree. There exists a nontrivial subset of things which I think are incredibly fun when I am doing them, which I am not normally inclined to do. These range from practice with the Delft ultimate frisbee club Force-Elektro to my novel to my religious writings and the code-in-progress for my web site.

I think we are facing a severe crisis of authenticity, occasioned by the structure of our brains as associative-memory anecdote-followers. Productivity-porn is not bad because it's useless, it's bad because it's porn -- it is like a Cracked.com or Wikipedia article, leading to all sorts of other topics which suck up our limited daily attention as an occasion for a quick release.

We need, in other words, interrupters which say "stop focusing on the unimportant and return to that which is fruitful. Stop seeking the sugar of "now now now" and start seeking the deeper fruits.

In these regards, my most important tool is actually just the alarm on my cell phone, which tells me at 11:30 pm that it's time to get the hell off the internet and spend my last hour of the day either meditating or practising my religious writing. All of the distractions should be quit at that time.

EDIT: the word "attention" above somehow didn't exist where it should have existed.
That's what I dislike most. It doesn't have the feeling of flow that you expect from a community-content site.
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There's far too much scrolling for far to little content.

This just wont be able to compete with reddit in its current format. People who used Digg before wont come back to Digg because this Digg isn't what they want.

Also, as I have the tab open, I have a notification at the bottom of the screen:

"We're hard at work on finding new stories for you... Try refreshing in a few minutes."

Extremely professional.
I wonder why the environmentalists never weigh in. Probably too technical for them (as a group) to understand, or maybe there's political implications WRT who to support and who to trash talk. I've been in RF for quite a while and at 10 to 500 KW output for each station, broadcast TV and radio electrical demand adds up pretty quickly, for frankly fewer users every year.

The killer is you usually see stats like 500 KW for a UHF transmitter (which is not entirely unusual, I know there's a 800 KW in Ireland where birds flying nearby must fall out of the sky cooked well done). So 500 KW for a coverage area of 4 million residents where I live is only an eighth of a watt per person per each transmitter 24x7. However ... only 1% of the population might watch that individual station at any given time... and only 10% or so still get the station OTA instead of cable or satellite or uverse or internet or whatever ... so suddenly thats 125 watts of transmitted RF per viewer, or perhaps 250 watts input power to the TX per viewer. Yikes.

Its interesting that the power budget for watching TV OTA is now roughly, insanely, 50:50 where roughly one watt of transmitter power is required for each watt of TV power. This ratio is going to get even worse over time. "Soon" there will come a time when you need to transmit a KW per viewer and that's not really economically sustainable, aside from being a really bad environmental idea.
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Model A is specced for 128 MB, but that's not available yet.
"If you really deeply care about something, you will do it."

Next time you're unmotivated to complete a task, think about why you're avoiding it. The answer is usually fear or boredom/disinterest. If it's fear, great, you're in a good place. If it's boredom, you should probably be doing something else.

Sometimes I wonder if so many programmers need Productivity Hacks because they don't really love programming, they just ended up programming because of social awkwardness.
There are some interesting projects trying to get broadband internet access to remote communities in Scotland:

http://www.glenelg.co.uk/news/broadband-solution-provided-fo...

http://www.tegola.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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The team had to make drastic changes. They wanted people to forget about the old Digg and its fiasco. The best way to do it? Become completely different. They also needed to become different from their rivals.

That's why I don't understand why people here are complaining on the new format. I personally find it great and novel. The clean design and only six stories in sight allow you to focus and actually pay more attention to each of the stories.

When I see 30 stories clumped into one page, I run through their titles like a mad man, often reading just 50% of the words. Having just 6 stories eliminates the haste, it allows me to relax and slowly study all the stories before deciding if I want to read them further.

I like the new Digg. I think the team made a right move with the new format. Now all they need is really good content on the front page and users will come. I know I will check it again tomorrow.
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It's great for pictures. In fact, it's better than great for pictures - you can digest thumbnails dozens at a time, and decide what you really want to look at.

But for textual content, I agree with you. They're rubbish. Let me read the headlines, middle-click links, and leave it at that.
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The polygraph isn't about lie detection. If you can't beat an NSA poly, they wouldn't want you. The poly isn't about finding 'truth' inasmuch as it's about your abilities to pass it. I can't speak to the NSA specifically, but in other agencies, the poly is a screening tool. Even if you're lying but can beat the poly, then you have proven that you can maintain while under extreme pressure. Intel agency polys are seriously stressful. Often 3 days long, sometimes administered in a generic northern Virginia chain hotel room with constant badgering. The goal is to maintain physiological control under mental duress. Polys are worthless as lie detectors, but they are a good test of mental toughness (or sociopathic skills.) the easy part is just to tell the truth. Unless there's something in your immediate past that's a disqualifier, usually within the previous 12 months, then there's nothing to fear.

If you're easily rattled, even if telling the truth, the poly weeds that out.
The use of RF frequencies to broadcast TV content is by far the best way to deliver that content for a certain subset of programs that cover live events for huge audiences[1]. Serving that stuff over IP would be a real challenge. I'd prefer it if we could keep a few RF broadcast channels around but move all the Family Guy and Top Gear re-runs onto on-demand IP based systems.

[1] Things like major sporting events, Saturday night talent show finals, large scale news events e.g. 9/11, Christmas specials and key episodes of certain soap operas.
Even people who operate on a much smaller scale need consistent, fast performance. For them, the whole effort and cost of setting up RAID across multiple EBS instances, measuring and dropping the slowest performance constantly is completely insane compared to the disadvantages of buying or renting dedicated iron.
I've studied computer science, but I don't recall this theoretical problem. Perhaps its just not as popular or well known as things like P vs NP?
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Honestly, it's like releasing a car without wheels. Comments are the bread and butter of social news sites. I'm shocked and horrified that they omitted comments. It's a glorified Pinterest at the moment.

I'm really disappointed - I really hoped they had learned some lessons.

Comments are where community forms.

Without community, you have nothing but a shiny, editor-controlled front page. Congrats, CNN 2.0 (No wait, even CNN allows comments...)
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> One of the comments on the Reg article[1] points out that there wasn't a single engineer on the committee.

They did take evidence from some engineers:

(http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201213/ldselect/l...)

Dr Peter Cochrane OBE

Francesco Caio

Steve Robertson

Professor Peter Buneman

etc etc.
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Probably old thermostats. Most of them used mercury switches. Also thermometers have a a tiny amount of the stuff.
I disagree. They broke it by not providing a fallback option. You always provide a fallback option, even if it is a simpler website.
Because EBS has astonishing variance in its response times that cause the entire raidset to have very inconsistent performance. Numbers here: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/02/21/death-match-e...

In order for raid-on-ebs to truly perform well you have to setup per-volume monitoring that ejects volumes from the raidset (and runs in degraded mode) when they start performing 10x worse, and then rebuilds the back on to it (or a new one) later. It becomes a rather arcane wizard work contraption of on-the-fly raid config changes, which IMHO qualifies as "insane".
I actually find it very illustrative. It is a way of saying that something is just what it is, and we can't really say why. It is both succinct and rooted in culture, thus rather easily understandable. Using such metaphor is similar to writing poetry: you can compress a pack of thoughts and emotions in just a few words. And you can replace "God" with whatever you want if you're that much biased.
As mentioned the polygraph bluntly measures lying-ability (to a lesser degree) and measures mental stress-management, which in this line of work is very mandatory.
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In which case they're not hashing the password properly, they're likely checking the plaintext password as it's sent over HTTPS.
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The "potential civil war and all" is exactly the point. Private gun ownership is a constitutional right in America because we believe that government is legitimate only with the consent of the governed--and that the people deserve the power to revoke that consent by any means necessary.

Historically, the impetus for gun control, and the turning point in the civil rights movement, can both be traced back to the awkward moment in history when American blacks came to this realization. Malcolm X and the founders of the Black Panthers were outspoken about the right to bear arms. Since then, largely by historical accident, the supposed "liberals" in America started caring about every civil right except for gun ownership, and the supposed "conservatives" started caring about guns. But make no mistake--the Second Amendment was, in the 18th, 20th, and 21st century alike, a radical liberal notion.
> What is it about American gun control in particular that causes Europeans/South Africans/Canadians/Australians to care so much about what goes on in another country?

I guess a lot of people (me included) would sleep better in a world that had less guns. America is a large market for guns, which cause them to be developed and manufactured, which makes guns available and cheap. If America stopped buying guns many (most?) arms manufacturers would probably go away. Countries like America, Russia and China sell or give these guns to "problem" countries which are often our neighbors and then the guns are in the system and coming across the border (and no we don't think that us arming ourselves in turn is a good or desireable solution) and before long there are hundreds of millions of guns all over the world. Which many of us consider a problem.

Sortof like if America didn't buy lots of iPads and if China didn't manufacture them cheaply then they might never exist in the first place. So people smoking in China is perhaps not a perfect analogy as it doesn't affect us much. (Please don't stop buying gadgets ;)

America isn't isolated. What you do affects the whole world. What every country does affects the whole world. We're all very aware of what happens in America because it has a disproportionately large affect on us as opposed to what happens in Myanmar. But I agree that we care maybe a little too much :) I suspect you sometimes appear weird and alien and therefore interesting to us. Most civilized country in world in some ways, most uncivilized in others..

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Edit: I guess in a way whatever you spend your money on affects the whole world just because you're the biggest economy. If you slash NASA's budget it "affects" me. If WebOS is beaten by Android it "affects" me. If you prioritize spending money on guns over something else it "affects" me indirectly just because you're such a big market. In some ways Americans control the budget, priorities and direction of the free world;)
It's about time, the performance of EBS is horrible. It's currently only available for 3 instance types. Hopefully they roll it out to more later on.

m1.large = 500 Mbps

m1.xlarge = 1000 Mbps

m2.4xlarge = 1000 Mbps

Pricing seems reasonable, if they can guarantee the performance, but it is a pain to have to pay more for something we should get out of the box.

One thing that isn't clear is if we still have to pay for I/O requests on the new Provisioned IOPS volumes.

This is what they say for pricing on their EBS page:

Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes

$0.125 per GB-month of provisioned storage

$0.10 per provisioned IOPS-month

Amazon EBS Standard volumes

$0.10 per GB-month of provisioned storage

$0.10 per 1 million I/O requests
One thought is that you can get PGP functionality from a portable service. If you brought the javascript with you on a USB drive, you could use it from computers that were not your own.

Of course you could also install Thunderbird portable on your USB drive and implement your suggestion as well.
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Model A was later respecced to have 256MB as well, just like Model B.
This seems fairly likely since OTA can do 1080p and its only 19.39 megabits/sec complete with all the overhead. After all the overhead is stripped away the raw mpeg2 transport stream is around 18.3 megabits/sec.

As a point of comparison, no one encodes DVDs and bluerays at full rate because then you run out of disks, and can't fit in all the garbage that purchasers supposedly desire, like mandatory unskipable previews and piracy warnings and so forth. But a good rule of thumb is your typical DVD is a round 6ish megabits/sec and a blueray encode stream should be around 30ish megabits/sec.
It's no wonder, more people try to take craigslist data and push it in their own site while serving ads it's crazy. Yes, when I post an ad on craigslist I want that ad to be on craigslist, don't have a problem with that at all.
Seriously, it's been what, a month since they started working? They wanted to ship, and ship fast. It's not ideal (no software is ever ideal) but it works. I'm happy they managed to release something after just a month of work. They will now get the feedback and see how users are welcoming the new version.
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Funny thing about that is that the internet may have saved me in a similar way. I mentioned online that I wanted experiment with anodizing aluminum and I was warned that the household chemicals I was going to use -- sulphuric acid from an old car battery and potassium permanganate (for a nice purple color) for my water supply's iron filter - can form a pressure-sensitive explosive.

I keep forgetting to try it...
That's exactly correct. I'll been through the Single Scope process and it was brutal. Remembering what I had for breakfast yesterday is hard enough let alone remembering a coworker from 10 years ago. My clearance took over a year, of course I lived in various East Asian countries for 6 of the past 10 years, so it made it far more interesting.

Discovery of a "Potential to coercion" is the main objective of a poly. If it's all on the table, there'd not much that can be used against you.
The Apple II was amazingly easy to interface to the real world, thanks to its well-documented expansion slots. And let's not forget the system monitor in ROM, that made it easy to debug assembly programs. As a hardware hacker turned programmer, these features made it much better than a C64 or any other "appliance" home computers of the era.

I agree with you about the Amiga, it was a great machine that did not deserve to die.
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Your comment is interesting because it shows the lack of vision that the committee showed too.

Broadband internet isn't just about watching iPlayer. _If_ we had decent, reliable, two way 1 Gbps internet that would open up so many extra possibilities, including:

- many more people being able to work at home effectively (fast downloads, clear multi-way video conferencing etc)

- ubiquitous cloud computing

- processors in many more devices, all connected all the time (with rich video and audio feeds as well as mere telemetry)

- gaming -- playing, and enabling people to develop much richer interactive games

- home medical diagnostics

- all those things that we haven't invented yet

[Edit: It's a shame the lack of vision isn't just for the Lords. Judging by the replies it extends to HN too ...]
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I agree, it is challenging but there are already techniques which solve most of the problem. Namely IP multicast. Maybe this would finally push ISPs to properly support it?
This is pretty much just suggesting what industry started doing a few years ago already.

There's already several IP based "cable" services in the Uk, with BT Vision being the main one; all the main TV channels offers streaming, and BSkyB - the main satellite provider - offers their "Sky Anytime" service which downloads over a broadband connection, as well as Android and iOS apps to stream to up to 6 mobile devices.

With big performance upgrades being rolled out by both Virgin (cable) a BT, the number of subscribers that can trivially stream the TV shows is growing rapidly.
I think a call for restrictions on gun ownership is a natural reaction to the fact that any lunatic can (and does) load up with military-style weaponry and can go on a killing spree.

It doesn't happen everyday, but there are without a doubt lots of people who are stocking up on guns. Many of them are at least a little wacky, and long-guns are nearly unregulated in most US jurisdictions.

You can call these events statistical noise, but the general public put you in the category where folks who claim that nuclear reactor meltdowns are no big deal are.
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It's apt, as long as the locked down nature of iOS and the target hardware made it suck less.
Lot's of things I don't like doing at work. Still I love my work. So should I be doing something else?
Why? Because you don't agree with what they do?
Isn't it kinda like .. in a way Krang from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

He had this exo-body that he was able to hop in freely. The body was just a dumb machine that needed him to control. It was merely a tool, jet it had a head, harms, legs and can shoot missiles.

Well, we can't do that just yet. But in away, our bodies are just tools to that brain/consciousness uses to do things. If we loose a limb, we just build another one. Sure, we haven't mastered replaced limb awareness (touch, feel), but we're getting close. Like a machine, we need fuel (food), maintenance (doctors appointment, exercise), periods of rest and recovery (sleep).

I'm trying to figure out how sex, anger, and jealousy comes in, but we are essentially tools. And I guess the brain is really a complex OS that runs our bodies. Some brains/OS are, of course, have a better way of processing tasks/programming/apps than others.
You are free to believe that. But let us say I want to cater both to you and to another user that browses the web with NoScript (assume it is my goal to cater to as many users as possible). I have two options: A) make the layout accessible without JavaScript B) break the layout without JavaScript. Only with option A do I cater to both of you -- Regardless of deliberate breaking or bandied opinions ("Thou shalt never mix style and script").