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> "Michael performed a stunt he and other students and teachers have been doing for years," says Thomas Keil, professor and head of WPI's Physics Department. "Only this time, for some reason, he swallowed the liquid nitrogen. That turned a trick into a life-threatening medical emergency."

The evaporating liquid nitrogen creates a buffer of nitrogen gas between the liquid nitrogen and your mouth. Nitrogen gas conducts heat very poorly, so you won't get burned, as long as you're careful.

Swallowing the liquid nitrogen is different, because the nitrogen gas is trapped inside your body. According to the article, they estimate that the liquid nitrogen he swallowed expanded to "3 or 4 liters" of nitrogen gas. That won't fit in your stomach, so it will go to other parts of the body, rupturing tissue as it goes. That's what hurt him -- 3-4 liters of nitrogen gas gave him ruptured organs.
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And then what, you have a scattered handful of very very small bombs going off? That's a lot of effort to go through for not much impact.
When programming in C, I think it is far better to leave the compiler you use as a free variable. Program to a standard (C90 is sensible, because there are still compilers that only support this standard... including one from a small multinational in Redmond) and then you are free to use whichever compiler produces the best code.

A similar approach applies to the standard library. Write to the language standard, and you are good to go everywhere.

Though, I'm also dubious about using C90 for multi-threaded stuff given that there is no concept of threads in the language until C2011.
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Aw, how did you guess. What did you find full of it? In GC languages you still have to have to manage reference life times so that you don't leak memory by holding on to references too long(Yes I have fixed that bug in someone else's C# code). If you are already doing all the reference tracking what is wrong with making it explicit and typing the delete? Good build tools doing the minimal rebuild thing make builds manageable, sure Go's are faster but it wasn't a pain I was feeling, or have lived with so long I forgot. So for me the differences boil down to type safe generics vs the way interfaces work. Go is a worthwhile experiment(God I hope Google is doing IBM style research on Go's effect on quality, and that they share it) in how to make development better, but I don't currently think I will see enough payoff to justify the effort of switching. That is especially true when you consider all the external tidbits like library support.
Sell up and buy stuff abroad.

Or, since you mentioned above that the tax is on net property ownership, get a loan in the UK to the amount you own there, and buy stuff abroad with it.
The Osprey is incredibly complicated to design and operate. The only reason the Marine Corps even bothers with it anymore is because it makes the impossible possible in terms of long range vertical insertion. The cost-benefit just isn't there for tacos.
The article suggests a "modest" speed of 40mph for the quadrocopter, which seems pretty fast to me. Let's call it 30mph. Our car on the freeway is doing say 60mph. Presuming they're travelling in opposite directions, that's 5lbs travelling at 100mph.

So what you're saying is that if I fire a MacBook Pro at car at 100mph then nothing will happen. Unlikely...

And one of these smacking a pedestrian in the head at 40mph isn't going to be much better.
Yes, laws can change. Though copyright is a hard one since that's a Constitutional power.

Can you answer my specific questions? Do you believe that all of those actions (regarding Harry Potter derivatives) should be allowed under the law? If not, why?

Is it okay for me to I take the top 10 best selling new novels for this week, put them into an anthology, and publish them on Amazon for US$0.99, without paying anyone, so long as I acknowledge that I'm not the author? What if I publish them on Amazon for $0.00? What if I put them on some torrent site somewhere? Do you believe that all of these are acceptable behaviors?

We can abolish copyright. Would you replace it with anything?
I also don't think it's too alien from modern American liberalism, which similarly places a high emphasis on patriotism and national greatness. Remember when we used to be the greatest manufacturing power, with a glorious middle class? The state can bring our next golden age.

Similarly, "Nation Above All" sounds a lot like "Ask not how the State can serve you, ask how you can serve the State" (JFK's verbiage tweaked only slightly). "All within the state" sounds like it describes the "Life of Julia".

I'd really like to know what modern conservatives you feel embody the "Nation/State Above All". Isn't Romney's slogan these days "we [individuals] built it, not the state?"

As for punishing those who deviate from what they see as the good of the community, most major ideologies favor that. It's nothing unusual, which is why there is also traditional liberal support for censorship (of slightly different topics).
I never said you can't find those things in California, nor did I even ever directly compare any city in California with NYC.

"Can't beat" is an idiom, it means I think those things are pretty awesome in NYC :)
not really. definitely not any more so than any other southeast asian country, and most definitely safer than some (southern islands in the Philippines for starters).
In short, while homeschooled, most of my socialization was with nice peoeple. Most of my social issues are from the jerks in public school.

We knew a few other families who homeschooled and met weekly; "The Moms" and occasionally Dads talked about parent stuff and the kids, around 20 of us in our heyday, just played whatever. We eventually took martial arts and rock climbing classes together. For the most part they were all pretty nice. They're still the best friends I've ever had.

Besides that, a lot of homeschoolers (like us) are religious, so we have religious gatherings we go to. I know a lot of my homeschool friends' friends from church, too.

My homeschool friends eventually led me to my last couple years of internships, including this summer at Google. It didn't hurt that homeschooling had given me lots of time to concentrate on programming.
I worked at a startup purchased by IBM and they had everyone sing a few of these songs during the first indoc session (year: 2010).
Native apps are better, sure. But as a developer, do you really like porting apps and maintaining duplicate code? I'd rather invest my efforts in CSS styling HTML 5 to get a very nice looking interface than maintaining one app with 4 different code bases.

But you have a point. People never liked Java desktop apps. But part of it was that you had to install the Java runtime and they didn't have the familiar .exe extension.

With HTML 5 you can just plug it into an embedded browser and let users download that. Then you can add a hybrid approach where you add some native features such as notifications and camera support while the main content is HTML. Plus, designers can work a lot better with developers on the web paradigm.
Is it morally wrong that this was created? I appreciate that this exists, and personally am more likely to purchase or promote official Pac-Man products because of it. I think it's a good thing.

Legality is important, but underneath that is the purpose of law itself. I like the idea of keeping in mind both legality and the intent of the law.

If you are making something cool, that adds value (including entertainment), and does not pretend to be, or detract from those you borrow ideas from, it seems ok to me. You may disagree with my particular idea of fair use - the main point is to promote thought about general morality, and not just condemn on the basis of legality alone.
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At least '..' is defined by default in zsh.
"ego depletion"... sounds like something from zen buddhism
i can tell you i walked into a clinic and saw a doctor within minutes, ran bloodwork, got tested for dengue and yellow fever. in and out in 20 minutes, had my results the next day. that cost $45. everything was clean and sterile, needles came from packages, went into biohazard boxes.

also, i walked into a pharmacy and bought a round amoxicillin without the need for a prescription. i had a note from the doctor to make sure i had the right dosage. that cost me $4.

also, you can wear a t-shirt and shorts with sandals all year round. you can eat all you can fit inside your body for less than $10 a day ($3 if you eat local food). you can visit some of the world's largest and most amazing ruins as well as some of the world's last undeveloped paradise islands.

how many gorgeous beaches are in Sweden? ;)
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Where is the music coming from? Blogs? or Mixest is hosting the mp3?
I know of two very early stage systems in ruby:
https://github.com/jdleesmiller/rucas
(which I wrote) and
http://brainopia.github.com/symbolic/

I don't think either is really very useful at this stage (certainly mine isn't), but ruby does provide some very nice metaprogramming support for encoding and manipulating symbolic expressions.
The GPL only uses copyright to prevent copyright from being used in far more harmful ways against future recipients of the work. If reverse engineering and redistribution were assuredly legal, we wouldn't really need it.
There are (2^(6 billion)) / 2 subgroups which comprise the majority of the population. Your criterion doesn't distinguish between any of these.

Your criterion also says we should not be concerned if a minority group (e.g. black people, people with ssn % 7 == 2) is underrepresented.
There's no checkbox on your hiring page for "thinks about graph algorithms and graph analysis in Dolores Park on a Saturday" or Perl or R. I'm interested but I'm not sure I'd land in the right pile checking off the languages you have listed.
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That's the norm with Apple, remember "You don't really need MMS and Cut/Copy/Paste do you?"?
Even though I've been researching with interest, so far I haven't run across much in the American healthcare system that makes me question my decision (as an American) to move to Denmark. My taxes are higher, but my costs are very predictable, and by design cannot ever bankrupt me: I pay a flat 8% of my income to support the national healthcare system. I won't end up with a charge equal to 20% or 50% or 500% of my income in any circumstance, not even if I get cancer or find myself unemployed. So it's guaranteed that I will always be able to pay my healthcare costs without great hardship.

I do hope someday to move back to the USA (mix of language / "feels like home"), and am mildly hopeful that PPACA will make it feasible, by 2014, for an individual to buy private health insurance without worrying about preexisting conditions and rescissions and whatnot. But we'll see. For now, Danish is growing on me. :P

Incidentally, this kind of emergency care would be free even for a tourist in Denmark. Regular use of the national health system is only available to legal residents, but acute emergency care is considered a basic service not subject to billing, like police and fire response.
Even more reason to eschew YouTube for another service. If I'm being sold, I'd rather not come so cheap.
> copyright is a hard one since that's a Constitutional power

From my reading of the Constitution, the only thing it says about copyrights is that they're one of the matters over which Congress has jurisdiction (as opposed to the states).

There's nothing in the Constitution which says that Congress can't change the requirements a work must meet for copyright to be granted, lengthen or shorten the amount of time a copyright lasts, or even abolish copyrights altogether -- in fact, in the past Congress has done all of these things, except weaken copyrights by shortening or abolition. No Constitutional amendments required.
The amount of formal logic fail in this two-sentence post is impressive.
How do I select "less obscure"?
I guess I shouldn't have assumed everyone thought like me. :) Is it more sensitive than intelligence in general, or just IQ? Would you react more strongly to being called "shrimp" than "stupid"?
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I glanced at klib and I noticed that a bunch of the implementations were straight up macros. This— this seems like crazy talk to me. But I am not a C programmer, and I've spent very little time in C++ until very recently.

Can someone shed some light on this? The trade-off may well be worth it, but I'm only aware of the negative trade-off, not the positive.
In most cities people can find much cheaper places to live within commuting distance. Cities can't support themselves when people are totally priced out.

For example, I know someone who lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn and pays <600/month (with roommates), and another in a studio for 1200/month. Bushwick is about 30 minutes from Soho by subway.
I suspect we're agreeing in at least part on the idea that you've got to have currency flows on both sides of the production/consumption cycle.

Definitely. I can say that at least right now, one of the major problems is that labor is "penned in" by national borders, but capital isn't. The labor side of things has gotten too weakened because capital can arbitrage itself to seek optimum pricing, and labor can't.

So yes, to a certain degree I'm in favor of capital and/or trade controls simply because I think a real one-world open-borders policy cannot possibly work right now, and free trade/capital flow without free movement of labor is just an arbitrage opportunity waiting for eager capitalists.

I'm not convinced that depression is strictly an issue of overproduction -- it's more a vapor-lock in which the currency pump between production and consumption seizes up.

True enough. A "real depression" also seems to have another major component: a weight of private debt that the nonfinancial economy cannot reasonably carry. This prevents price and currency adjustments from correcting the other imbalances naturally.
>No RC Li-Po batteries incorporate Smart Battery controllers

What technical impediment is preventing someone from building said controller?
What would you improve?
I think we need to look at each app on a case by case basis. You can't blanket say 'native is better' or 'web is better'.

If you're creating a mobile app that will mostly be used over 3G, your user experience is going to be different than an app used only/mostly with WiFi.
I love the concept. In the past, I've taken part in many communities and forums that had an immensely positive effect on my progress in learning to design graphics and music.

One thing you can improve instantly, that will probably reduce the bounce rate, is the landing page copy. Make it very clear what your product does.

Otherwise, I think you may be limiting the users and yourself too much by enforcing the time-trial and web-based drawing tool. It's probably quite engaging for those who dig in in front of their PC with a graphics tablet in hand. But it didn't work out for me on the MacBook trackpad or the iPad.

If it was my MVP, I'd just let people upload the image -- no matter how they made it -- and focus on community building. 9 times out of ten, the thing that helped me improve was advice from a peer or mentor.

You want to have an environment where people aren't scared of posting because of unsubstantiated negative reviews. But you need to have members that are capable of constructive criticism. Otherwise you just end up with praise and flattery, which belongs in a showcase more than it does in a Practice Engine.

Goood luck! I'll take another look at the app when I'm at a desktop computer.
exactly! Also a secondary upside for the younger set is that 24/7 good public transit is a lot safer for those folks to travel late at night.
I agree with this. As a senior, I followed Jeff's recommendation and bought Code Complete, but I found that a lot of it is becoming mainstream language. A book that thought me more personally is Effective Java, because I think some of its sections go way beyond Java and touch on some serious issues developers deal with, like how you structure and document APIs, when to use some patterns and so on..
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Depending on the design of the frame. Some are made of plastic and break apart really easy on impact. None of them, even the the aluminum frames, are even close to as dense as a MacBook.
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You are working with the wrong concept, m * v is momentum, not impulse. Impulse would be equivalent to the change in momentum over time [1]. Actually 5 lbs falling at 30 mph would probably crush a human skull or at least crack it open. It is easy to see why from the equations:

F * delta t = m * delta V, therefore
F = m * delta V / delta t

This means that the force generated in the impact is inversely proportional to the time of the impact. Since the skull is pretty hard, we can say that the impact time will be very short, probably in the order of 1e-2 seconds. Such a sudden change in velocity, from 30mph to 0mph in 1e-2 seconds, generates a big force, and therefore a big impulse.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_%28physics%29
Which is why tax flight would be a big risk.It compounds over time. You pay taxes on the same money year after year. Nevermind what happens if you save even more. Why stay in an economy that is dying from taxation when you could move to an area with a vibrant economy and avoid the tax.

The US and UK are slowly becoming dinosaurs. The amount of taxes they need to keep functioning as handout societies will be the end of them.
Whether two technologies have analogous roles in two essentially unrelated systems has nothing to do with their teachability to 14 year olds. Some things are just harder. Though in this instance, they could both be taught to talented kids well below 14.
Wow ! These songs remind me of "traditional school songs" that a lot of universities have.
Lots of puns in there:

- "There's been a lot of buzz online recently"

- "With public excitement about White House beer fermenting such a buzz, we decided we better hop right to it." (3 puns)

- "After the few first drafts we landed on some great recipes"

- "this video offers some proof"
What about internet speed?
So I presume that the person who made this knows it's "illegal" to use the pacman name and doesn't care. So that's fine, its not like I am not going to report him to whoever owns the ip.

The previous example, a) it wasn't clear that the author knew it was not right b) the people affected where the type of people who would post to HN.

Let me ask you this, do you see anything wrong with someone creating a hipmunk clone called "hipmunk.co" and use their exact CSS and HTML? It's the same situation. If you see nothing wrong with that, then that's where we disagree.

Edit: there's no reason why he can't provide entertainment and value but just name it something else, and use original graphics. To clarify: no one is arguing against the creation of a game that plays the same. The argument is using the exact name and artwork.
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> You see this, for example, in commercial air travel, where you get Soviet quality of service but the bizarre, unpredictable pricing you'd expect from a runaway market (that is actually not so much a "market" as an algorithm designed to fuck you over).

I don't do much air travel, so I can't say much about this personally.

My questions about this specific topic are as follows:

1. Why don't the substandard airlines have their lunch eaten by a startup airline which combines good service with a simple pricing schedule?

2. What alternative are you proposing?

> Corporatism is a system designed to give the best of both systems (capitalism and socialism) for a well-connected, parasitic social elite

As far as I know -- again, I don't fly on a regular basis -- you don't have to be part of a "well-connected, parasitic social elite" to fly business class; cash or credit card will suffice.

Likewise, you don't have to have any qualifications whatsoever, let alone be part of the "well-connected, parasitic social elite...[which is really] about 0.2%", in order to build your own company or become a shareholder of a publicly traded one.
Although a lot of pathnames match across US-UK, I don't think they've fully harmonised all the IDs or have any efficient way to tell which ones actually match. So apparently they're just playing safe by redirecting to homepage.

I'm not surprised as even those geo-targeted "Continue shopping" messages are fairly recent. I once wrote a Teleporter script to switch between Amazons (http://softwareas.com/domain-teleporter-greasemonkey-script) and if they're redirecting to homepage, it's still useful!
No, really? I had no idea.