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Tangentially, and pardon my ignorance, I'm not a biker: I can't understand people who shell out thousands of dollars for a bike, are these so much better than a $500 one?

As many other answers say, yes, there is a difference.

Here are some details (for 'racing' road bikes, which I know best):

For around $400, if you buy well online you can get something with an aluminium frame, carbon fibre fork and moderately decent components (eg [1]). It'll probably weigh a bit under 30 pounds (13 kg).

For around $700 you'll get a bike with similar specs from a major manufacturer and you can get it from a bike shop, where they will assemble it for you, make sure you get the right size etc. See [2][3]

For around $1000 you can get a carbon fibre frame on your bike (online, with terrible components[4]) or bikes from major manufactures where the components start getting better (eg Shimano Sora 9 speed). These bikes should be between 20 and 25 pounds. See [5]

At $1500 you get bikes from major manufactures that are suitable for racing (ie, Shimano 105 10 speed, eg [6]), or can get pretty good carbon fiber bikes online. You also start getting decent bikes from high end manufactures (Bianchi, Pinarello, BMC). Most of these bikes will weigh a bit more than 20 pounds (9 kg), but if you choose carefully you might get under that.

Over $2000 you get carbon frames and Shimano's second to top component set, better wheels, and began getting under 20 pounds more often. High end only manufactures (Cervello, Ridley etc) are making their base level bikes.

Around $5000 you start getting electronic shifting, or better aero frames, deep rims on your wheels. You can start considering custom made frames. Your bike should weigh well under 20 pounds, and you can probably get down to the UCI limit of 6kg.

At $10,000 you are getting bike similar to what they ride in the Tour de France. You can get a power meter built into your crankset or wheels. The carbon frameset has been wind tunnel tested and is engineered so carefully that some parts of your frame only have a single layer of carbon, yet you still can't flex the frame at the bottom bracket. You probably have to add things like the power meter as ballast to make sure you are over the UCU weight limit. You can consider custom titanium[7] or trying to buy onto the speedvagen waiting list[8].

Over $10,000: McLaren + Specalized: http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/03/17/specialized-mclaren-veng... (actually, to be fair there are plenty of ways to spend $10K+ on a road bike. This is just one).

[1] http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/windsor/wellington3_IX.h...

[2] http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-us/bikes/model/defy.5/9014/...

[3] http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/road/sport/1_series/

[4] http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/fuji/fuji_sl3.htm

[5] http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/road/allez/allezsport...

[6] http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/road/sport/madone_2_ser...

[7] http://www.baumcycles.com/bikes/romano

[8] http://www.adecadentexistence.com/?p=469
As the saying goes, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
It's not just an issue of freedom. It's an issue of the public policies that generate particular preferences. Our public policy creates tremendous incentives that push people to those giant houses in the suburbs. E.g. here in Illinois, the state is massively funding highway construction, while giving little to no money to maintain the Chicago commuter rail network. Aging trains and overcrowding on the rail that results from these policies dramatically affects peoples "choices."
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News stories like this are sometimes hyped but it's better to be safe than sorry.

I wonder if writing sky-is-falling style articles resonates more with people who would otherwise not treat their own online privacy/security as something to take seriously.
I don't think Firefox was ever asleep. They just had different priorities during the time when Chrome was advancing primarily in performance.
Buzzkill..
Pretty reasonable photoshops. The sad thing is so many people like this exist and more and more are starting to exist, the internet makes it very easy to pretend you're someone you're not and manipulating people that want to get something and think you have it (connections) is even easier.

I'm surprised she hasn't done the customary purchasing of Twitter followers, that seems to be an oh-so common way to artificially inflate your supposed value to the world.

What I don't understand about people like this is if you have the skills to manipulate people into thinking you're connected to important people and get jobs because of it then you can use those skills "legitimately" (in the sense that you're not lying to the people you work with).

oh and also the headline seems pretty sensationalist, it seems she tricked a few no-name startups (ones without a reputation of being important) and got caught making claims of associations with others, although I think what would be most interesting would be "Zaarly" to explain whether she was a good "consultant" or not, not that it ultimately matters at all.
The point I'm trying to make here is that you can negate that attack vector by just using an xkcd-style passphrase, which always works, and which is typically more memorable than a mangled quote.

The xkcd-style passphrase is simply better than ad-hoc solutions.
Why would they, unlike PadMapper, it's not doing anything that's prohibited by CL's terms.
You wouldn't. You can't change history either. You would insert a compensating transaction and the data would be fixed from that time forward when you inserted the compensating transaction.
Nice! But what are the security implications of giving web pages access to the GPU?
You don't understand what I'm saying: if the process was "click this so all your fans will see it instead of just the ones who tend to care" every band would click it every time.

Money is one thing, but if you're a clever band and you engage the people who "like" you, you'll get the same effect for free. Truth is, most people who "like" a band don't really care about the FB posts, they're liking them for other reasons.

FB's policy is reasonable and fair.
Does anyone know what she actually did at these companies? By which I mean, it appears that she misrepresented herself in order to gain consulting work (which Zaarly appear to have confirmed), but I'm interested to know the nature of this consulting work.

Was it to secure further funding? It would be pretty hilarious if she was in fact successful at her job on the back of the same lies that got her hired in the first place. The Photoshops are definitely a little weird, though.
I agree with you except where you say it's not fair. That's totally fair. Engage or die, or as a last resort, pay. Why not? I LOVE the pay option: it allows me to pay when things are really, really important, and it's usually less than $10. Awesome! Without that, what could I do when I really need everyone to know about a show, giveaway, or video shoot?
Unfortunately this is not what I expected...
Bill Watterson should have been put in charge of everything years ago. I suspect he would grumble though if anyone tried to.
That statement is incredibly misleading.

Criminologists aren't anywhere close to a consensus on the causes of the crime rate reduction of the last few decades. Many theories have been offered, from decreased crack use, to fewer unwanted children resulting from legalized abortions, to your suggestion of harsher sentencing.

Yes, Harsher sentencing may have something to do with it, but it could just as well have increased our crime rate and been counteracted by one of the other factors.

There is no scientific consensus to support your claim.
Who is this, and why should I care?

There are dozens of unimportant people lying on their resumes. Why is this one newsworthy?
I actually met her at a YC backed startup where she was doing something with marketing.

She struck me as incessantly annoying with name dropping and...how should I put this? Valley fangirl-ism? It was obviously that something was a little off, but wow, did this article strike me by surprise.
Seeing this makes me a bit wistful.. it used to be if I walked into someone's home and didn't see shelves full of books, my impression of that person was forever changed.

Now, my home has no shelves full of books. All my (dead tree) books are in storage and I just have a kindle.

I still read as much as always, but I feel as if a certain degree of intellectualism is lost. No longer can someone look at my shelves and say "oh, I loved this book" and spark a nice literary discussion.

I should add, however, I am probably one of the few regular users of goodreads.com, though it is hardly a replacement (and I've only got one or two friends).
"Just because the risk of a crime is zero, that doesn’t mean that a criminal will engage in that crime. If that were the case, thieves would go about stealing dandelions and day-old newspapers"

Now, that's classic.
"One of my sources told me: 'If nothing else, I’ve learned a valuable life lesson — don’t trust anyone until they deliver.'"

But of course. And this is why hiring procedures should generally be based on work-sample tests rather than on reviews of resumes (which may just be a tissue of lies) or impressions after personal interviews (which may also be full of lies). Research shows that neither biographical data about job applicants (e.g., resumes) nor the performance of job applicants in interviews does as well as work-sample tests in finding workers who do good work.

Full references can be found for these facts in my FAQ post on hiring procedures,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4270768

last posted in complete form about a month ago here on HN.
It doesn't match the results though. The title is it doesn't work for "you". "You" may not be above 14 on the depression scale. "You" may get more than three sessions with a trainer. "You" may be in the part of the sample that did improve their mood.

It's always a stretch to over-generalize to "everyone", or the more annoying "you", from the results of a study when the effect on all people is not going to be the same.
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You still haven't shown that overincarceration is actually a problem in any meaningful sense. The solution could just as easily be to open more courts.
After seeing interviews with the foreman, I'm surprised he wasn't struck from the jury by either side before the trial even started.
We tried using open street map at mozio for a by. For u our primary concern was public transit data. T was too much bother and too expensive to do transit data, and googles release of the transit API a couple months ago solidified or decision to go with google maps for the foreseeable future. Osm is fine for applications like Wikipedia and four square which don't require much on top of maps but for companies doing more advanced things google is still the best choice.
I also think Wells is confusing the end product with the architecture, the latter being a product whose consumers are the developers themselves.

An architecture that supports iteration may be deemed good design per Rams if the support for iteration is more useful than if it did not. To developers, that architecture could also be more aesthetic, innovative, long lasting and even environmentally friendly (consuming less resources). Sometimes agile architectures are more understandable, but often they are less so.
The key, I find, is that you have to be on a schedule of lifting; for the first few times, you feel pretty crummy after.
>Is that unreasonable?

No it's not unreasonable to want that, but it's probably a bit ridiculous to believe it will ever happen. And it's definitely ridiculous to believe we're going to get there by just locking more people up.

America has 5% of the world's population, but nearly 25% of the world's prisoners--do you really think we need to increase that. Over 3% of adults are under some kind of correctional supervision--where do we stop?
For the record, this is the patent held by the foreman. Imho, it is not the kind of thing I'd like to see the patent office approving.

http://www.google.com/patents/US7352953
http://curetogether.com/blog/2011/05/03/23-surprisingly-effe... I'm not using the curetogether survey to argue against the results from a peer-reviewed scientific study. But, if you look at the top-right corner, I think the survey "kinda" reveals "self-motivation" played a big part in fighting against depression.
Rich has a CS master's degree.
I don't think you can really jump to that conclusion. Prior art may have been 'ignored' but I have a feeling that the question in the minds of the jurors was 'Did Samsung copy apple?'

I think that what's probably more at issue is that the vast majority of the populace regards copying as plagiarism / and/or something that ought to be punished. eg. copying = theft = bad = you should pay a fine.

The jurors are just trying to stitch legal words and technical words together to create the impression that it was judged based on the law rather than the emotional feeling that copying is bad. The jury was probably looking for evidence to find for Apple, not examining the evidence to reach a conclusion. It's a hallmark of trials by jury, it's why when the facts and emotions are on your side you pick a jury trial and when the law is on your side you pick a trial by judge.

I've heard that at one point in the trial the samsung lawyer said that the design of their tablet was so different that it couldn't be copied while pointing to an iPad. A gaffe like that in connection with the idea that copying = bad is game over for Samsung in court.

Errol Morris interviewed a mob lawyer about how he got a mobster off a murder charge, it's a very telling insight into how the average person's mind works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLEe496IS1o
How about 10 - 20 years from now?
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Previous submission of canonical URL, now on front page with multiple comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4446662
Survey: 51 percent think 'stormy weather' interferes with online cloud
I've been waiting on this. I've come to the conclusion that half of Tony Stark's JARVIS is essentially Watson.
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Adding "with a voltage regulator" shouldn't be any more legit than "...but on the interwebs!".

It looks to me like a snow job. Putting a camera in a smartphone and then (steady yourself) emailing the pictures you take! Seems pretty thin. So throw in a bunch of the technical details that all electronic devices have in common like voltage regulators, chip enable lines, data busses etc, and a bunch of the mundaneness of networking, like the sizes of email headers etc and now we're looking like we've got something that will sneak past an examiner or impress a layman.
Only ~100 backers to go to for everyone to have an extra SmartThing
> You don’t sue us and we give you the power to disable any song you choose immediately without having to go through us.

There, I fixed that for you.
In all seriousness, wouldn't it be logical to keep records of all IP addresses that attempt/login to the system.

If you mean specific to WiFi, then no, it wouldn't be logical - often the WiFi access point acts as a DHCP server and assigns an IP. If you mean more broadly, then yes it would - see [1].

Further, for Wifi, wouldn't it be logical to record the MAC codes of computers trying to access the network and if one you don't recognize is frequently trying to access the system, simply block it

No, MAC addresses are trivially spoofable (as you note), and in some cases I believe this spoofing is automated. MAC blocking isn't a real security feature at all.

[1] http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Just to add to this. For mobile compilation targets, Android, Blackberry, iOS and webOS, support is added through the Haxe NME framework: (www.haxenme.org/).
Haxe doesn't provide those compilation targets on its own.
See also: http://www.lookshelves.com
You can retract facts, just like you can assert facts.
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Those who don't write it down deserve to be locked out.

I've written down mine on three different pieces of paper (in my wallet, my bag and my closet), and also took a screenshot from it and `gpg`-ed it (with a passphrase, so no one can open it unless they know the password) and stored it in a few online repositories, as well as a friend's mailbox.

So, I'll never be locked out from my account.
For me it was mixed, but it was 8 years ago. mgkimsal@gmail.com if you want more details - not comfortable posting publicly.
That's still how they do it in Japan. Registration is mandatory for all bicycles. From what I hear you need to bring proof when there's a transfer of ownership, etc.
Now, my home has no shelves full of books. All my (dead tree) books are in storage and I just have a kindle.

Which in its own way may lead some visitors to get an impression of your reading tastes too :-)

The majority of books I own either aren't on the Kindle or couldn't usefully be on the Kindle in its current form (most TASCHEN books, megasets like Modernist Cuisine, almost everything in large formats, atlases, Edward Tufte books, art and design annuals, anything with even the barest flare of graphic design..)
Request PG: make "Unknown or expired link." a link back to main page
Do you quit and restart Chrome many times during the day?

>> Firefox has always felt very unresponsive in terms of the UI and loading times. The only browser I've found less responsive is Safari (IE, is very responsive).

Part of the point is that recent FireFox has improved this.
Are we ever going to see a high resolution Windows implementation?
In my own experience, casual or minimal exercise has done little to affect my mood and since my early twenties depressive periods have been a very real problem, even effecting my employment at one point.

But going hard, and really pushing my body and pushing myself beyond my preconceived limits has done wonders. There have been times when getting that "runner's high" feeling has completely sidelined the depressive state I've been in. When it happens, I'm still astonished at how much that endorphin release can really make a difference to my mental well being. I realise this is all only anecdotal, with a sample size of one! But I believe runner's high is a recognised phenomenon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorphin#Runner.27s_high
There is a solution. A totalitarian police state with no privacy and draconian punishments.

Increased incarceration and police powers reach an eventual point of diminishing returns.

Do you know what the likelihood of a 6 year old being abducted or killed by a stranger are? Do a google search and you'll probably be surprised by how uncommon it is. Fewer children are abducted in the classic "stranger danger" manner (unknown attacker as opposed to a friend or family member) than are struck by lightning each year.

If we can save 10 6 year olds per year, is it worth incarcerating 100 extra people, 1000, 10,000...1,000,000? At what point does the increased risk of snaring innocent people, and the financial cost outweigh the small gains in "safety"?
For those of you interested, the first stage in the SpaceX interview process, at least for the flight software group, is a series of questions like these, with A-G multiple choice answers. You had to identify the class of bug.

The G choice was always "No, looks good".

It's timed.
(Coming from a nobody reading HN at night this might be ironic, but) She seems to be a nobody++ type person that is all too common in circles where people are loosely coupled and you can fake/social-engineer your way in. BTW, I totally understand inflating your impact on projects and even a little bit getting creative with titles on LinkedIn to make oneself more important. But Photoshopping yourself? To Timberlake? If it were pg I'd understand, but this is just sad.
Maybe the problem is you live in Mountain View. Absent of good vintage/used furniture stores, try Blu Dot (made in the US, even) or Craigslist.
No, I think everybody agrees with you there.

What I'm questioning is your proposed method of achieving that - putting more people in prison - is it likely to help?

Does anybody seriously think that the threat of prison is deterring people from committing drug-related crime? Do you suppose a typical homeless person considers risking being put in jail for stealing to eat to be a significantly worse option than sleeping hungry and cold under a freeway overpass?

Wikipedia has some quite alarming numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St... - one in every 31 adults, one in every 11 African-Americans " behind bars, or being monitored (probation and parole)". Surely that's pretty clear evidence that the problems leading people into committing crimes are significantly more powerful than the deterrent of prison time?
ssh key encryption isn't "lengthened" (it turns the password into the encryption key in the most obvious way possible). Unless your password is of the epic norse poem variety, it's crackable.
I think you might be right. I doubt they have rendered all the tiles though, it just takes up too much space to be worth it... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Disk_Usage

Looking at that same tile through my proxy (which is backed by the MapQuest map tiles), it is clearly different data.

Here is mapbox, which is also different... http://d.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/examples.map-vyofok3q/15/5242/1...
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I can't help but think every time I see a layout like this "oh boy another pinterest clone" and it's really too bad because I nearly instantly discard the idea no matter how cool it might be.

I realize the same cycle happened with digg, reddit, stack overflow, twitter, and facebook clones when they were the new hotness, but I really do wish designers and developers weren't so likely to take whatever the current fad is and apply it to their current idea.
Yes, surely a random internet commenter is in a better position to understand what is useful than someone who actually works in ER.
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You're missing the point. Perhaps it was my fault for using a word that is already loaded with meaning in the context of the patent system, but it wasn't my intention for it to be used in the same way. What I was talking about has nothing to do with how original the idea might be. Let me explain.

The problem with the secret guilds wasn't that they didn't create publicly available products. Of course they did. The point was that even upon seeing what they had created, the average expert would have a hard time figuring out how they did it. Patents made that knowledge available to everyone.

There is no need for the disclosure of any secrets with something like pinch-to-zoom. You pinch. It zooms. Even a child can grasp that. This is why I said it might make sense to patent a specific implementation of pinch-to-zoom, but not the concept.

Additionally, granting a patent here in no way even protects innovation. The patent holder would have implemented pinch-to-zoom whether they could monopolise it or not because it would sell their products.

Society gains nothing it wouldn't anyway, and is forced to waste time enforcing stupid monopolies.
The quick turnaround is probably due to a Google Alerts subscription.
typical bureaucrat completely throwing all common sense and decency all in the name of "protecting our children". fucking ridiculous.