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Perhaps very few readers of HN would like to be in Topeka, but there are also families that have lived there for generations and all kinds of people who I'm sure absolutely love Topeka.

As an additional note, there are also families that have lived in New York City for generations and all kinds of people who absolutely love New York.

Then they get priced out, too. This is why my family moved us to New Jersey at age 5: between crime and school zoning, my parents couldn't stay in their home city of New York and raise children. So to the suburbs we went (in roughly 1994) and by even the mid-2000s we were completely priced out of the city all four of us were born in and very much feel culturally attached to (what with our families having lived there for 100 years or so).

And both my parents had white-collar, professional jobs with salaries and benefits packages!
I've heard this same point made again and again for several years now. It's really a shame (or opportunity).
In my experience, one should just plain avoid the xmlserialzer all together. It's extremely unreliable sometes. The data contract serializer works much better.
"From the size of gravels it carried, we can interpret the water was moving about 3 feet per second, with a depth somewhere between ankle and hip deep," said Curiosity science co-investigator William Dietrich of the University of California, Berkeley.

Out of interest, how do we know it was water, and not some other liquid?
Sounds like an alcohol buzz.
It appears to be just an issue related to the rollout of timeline and people freaking out.

I joined in 2004 and remember how people always just wrote on each others walls myself (if you were an early user you probably also remember that people would have full conversations back to back on each others walls as you couldn't leave comments on wall posts). It's probably just a matter of people not recalling this was how Facebook used to behave.
You do realize that the reason this find is significant is because it gives us more information to answer that last question, right? Especially as we drive our rover over there and study the ever loving crap out of these materials.
> But less of it, since making it illegal would greatly reduce demand

It would reduce the expression of demand, certainly, but not the actual desires of individuals that produced that expression; or to put it another way, will reduce the fulfillment of demand while the underlying unfulfilled demand still exists. This yields a net reduction in total happiness, which is counter to your apparent utilitarian ethos.

> Empirically, that is a very minor concern, if it is one at all.

Empirically? What does assessment of subjective value have to do with empirical data, apart from recognizing that individuals' subjective value empirically exists and is the source of demand?

Apart from that, apart from your apparent utilitarianism - the criteria of which remain yet unsatisfied in this discussion - what's the moral basis your assertion that forcibly denying the extant happiness of many is justifiable in order to reduce the potential unhappiness of few, especially considering that the former is not strictly necessary in order to achieve the latter, and that forcing a single uniform policy indiscriminately upon all is merely a contrivance of convenience?
Could be more than one person with that name.
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This is apparently not the case, since a large number of people continue to purchase and consume supplements, and if the article is to be believed, this has resulted in providing the producers of those supplements with sufficient resources to successfully prevent their market from being suppressed by political activity, a feat which even the alcohol industry was unable to accomplish in 1919.
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Would be interesting to see some numbers for some (actually) low powered hardware. An i5 from a year ago taking almost a quarter of a second doesn't sound to great in my book.
Well, you know, if the President does it, of course it'd be legal.

;)
"... but water has essentially been confirmed for years now. ..."

From the article, "... This is the first time we're actually seeing water-transported gravel on Mars. This is a transition from speculation about the size of streambed material to direct observation of it ..."
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I can't help but think nearly free rent and a blank canvas like Detroit sounds mighty appealing.

I honestly hope that the nearly free rent and blank canvas does appeal to a lot of creative/artist/hacker types.

As shameful as it is to say, I've thought about buying property there (or somewhere similarly cheap) just so I could do cool stuff with it. My small residential lot doesn't have enough room (or a proper tree) to build a tree house with my kids, and I don't have nearly enough room in my shop to experiment with the crazy building stuff I want to do.
Because as soon as you meet someone who doesn't have NFC (iPhone) you're going need that card.
Most small companies cannot afford to invest the time into this kind of thing (obviously).
I just think that the topic is not very technical or interesting.
Interesting. Reminds me of Hugh MacLeod's book Ignore Creativity: http://www.amazon.com/Ignore-Everybody-Other-Keys-Creativity...
What's wrong with the Parallax Propeller? You can get a starter kit for $25 [1]. Granted, you used to have to program it in its own language, but C compilers are popping up [2]

[1] http://adafruit.com/products/791
[2] http://propeller.wikispaces.com/Programming+in+C+-+Catalina
Has anyone here worked with Epiphany chips before? Are there any special APIs required to use them effectively? How hard would it be to get Haskell code running on one?
Great point! And the recovery process is much easier in the Persona case... because you only have to fight to get back your Persona account. Today you'll have to

1) Fight to get your email account back

2) Visit each and every site and manually recover your account
True, but just because it's not very meaningful doesn't mean people won't use it. We don't live in an ideal world. If we did, nobody would buy prewritten greeting cards or flowers, which are essentially the same thing as a Facebook gift: Something that shows you care without requiring much thought.
The real question is where did the water go and does it still exist somewhere on Mars? Finding a little bit of ice or water is one thing, finding an old streambed is another — but potentially finding an underwater ocean/ecosystem filled to the brim with undiscovered organisms makes me excited not only from a study of different organisms perspective but perhaps because the key to curing diseases that plague Earth might be found on Mars not to mention unlocking other discoveries like how to live longer and even more exciting finding organisms that don't age and have been alive since Mars was created.

My mind is teeming with excitement of the possibilities, is anyone else as excited as me?
Yes, and I do realize I sound like a buzzkill - I was just trying to curb enthusiasm. "Streambed confirmed" conjures ideas of desert playas or dry gullies that are just waiting for rain, when the reality is that we're investigating a planet that hasn't seen liquid precipitation in perhaps billions of years. Condensing out all of the water currently in the Martian atmosphere would produce a layer a few microns thick. It's dry.
I took a different approach to creativity than Hugh did in his eBook "How to be Creative". One of things he says is that creative type people have 2 "jobs", one to pay bills and one to be creative. I think he is dead wrong.

Creativity is a problem solving technique. It's not art.

Me mentions religion, and some scientific ideas, where I try to take a new angle on the subject.
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The staggering implication, as someone mentioned in another reply, is that it brings us one step closer to answering whether the existence of water led to existence of lifeforms, alive or dead.
Treater is more about instant (treat your friend to something which they can get right away) and small "just because" type stuff. Disclaimer: I work there.
The Propeller doesn't have sixteen cores running at 2+ GHz with a gig of ram. The Propeller can't even run a real, modern OS.
Interesting but I think the problem is that most founders are not building companies to minimize their losses, but to maximize their upside potential. Especially for a developer founder, the worst case scenario is you fail and go back to having a high paying day job.
Even the Hispanics in the Mission are a relatively recent influx - the Mission was traditionally an Irish and Italian neighborhood.
The copy at the top of the page threw me for a loop. I read it as "You don't have to be artistic to be creative", but then it's followed by "Whoever told you that, lied to you". This negates the first statement making me think that I do need to be artistic to be creative. Maybe I need some sleep. Let me know what you meant by the copy.
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For those not willing to take the orgmode plunge, http://workflowy.com is a great alternative.
It's 2012. Credit card companies repeatedly said you're responsible for $0 of unauthorized charges. Vendors have to be PCI-compliant.

What other provisions would make you more comfortable regarding transacting online?
I agree. Has anyone ever bought anything through a live chat feature or after using one? I always treat them like a pop-up window I have to close so I can go back to reading the page to see if I want to buy or not.
On 2.6.3x, someone posted a year or two ago to one of the linux mailing lists demoing an ipv6 stack hang under high traffic when tcp_tw_recycle is set to true.

Be very careful and test it yourself.

edit: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg154040.html
It depends on the exercise modality.

If you're doing cardio for VO2 max or endurance training, end-of-set effort generally counts for more (though a proper warm-up sets you up for success).

For skill activities, cumulative experience matters, but form breakdown with fatigue limits single-session gains. Going flat-out all the time isn't beneficial.

For weight training, hypertrophy (size/mass increase) seems to be based on time-under-tension and total volume (so that last set matters), while strength and power training rely on motor-unit recruitment and/or speed, both of which are maximized when you're relatively fresh.

Even for hypertrophy and endurance, there are diminishing returns to additional sets. Somewhere between 3-5 sets for a given exercise and you're not going to see much additional advantage. A training session may include other movements to stimulate muscle from different angles, at different ranges of motion, or independently of other synergist/agonist muscles.

The article is discussing one aspect of one form of exercise. The conclusions it reaches (happiness / mood influences of cardio) aren't generalizeable to either all effects or all forms of exercise.
It has grown on me big time. It is so much easier to judge quality and relevance from a screenshot than from an icon, and having to click through to compare apps was tedious. It works especially well on the iPad where you can see four at a time instead of one.

I was initially worried about the impact on discoverability, but it seems to have increased my downloads if anything, and I do not have #1 apps, so maybe it hasn't had such a big impact on the number of apps people scroll through. I haven't actually seen any data on this.
I can understand that using freemind is an easy way to find functions & syntax of a new language, and as a lot of users notice it's great to make manage information or make notes but..

Using freemind is the solution to the problem "can't product quality code in a language you don't know 100%"?!

You write quality code by knowing programming concepts, how to structure your code etc. once you know which programming concepts a language you don't know uses, you can look up the syntax of the language & program quality code with the concepts you already know.
A good piece of evidence is that the dust of Mars is significantly composed of 'goethite', essentially hydrated iron rust. There's an awful lot of dust, and if you do the work backwards you can get a decent idea of how much water it took to make it happen.

Furthermore, most liquids found at reasonable temperatures aren't all that voluminous, and a number of the minerals scanned and inspected on Mars show evidence of water contact.

Basically, there's not much else it could be. :) That said there's some really cool theorizing on underground carbon dioxide flows that might explain some washouts seen later in Mars's life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethite
My intention is to make people realize they do not need artistic skills in order to use creativity.

I believe creativity is just a form of problem solving, and some people happen to know how to tap into it better than others. This is an attempt at shedding some light into my mind and how I view the subject.

I want to make the copy less confusing. Did my answer help clarify how you feel? Do you have any suggestions how I can word this better as a headline?
Nice work. It's an interesting problem but I don't think it's solved yet.

In the video and from my experience I see a bunch of dead users spawning from a single point making a 'pillar of death' and a few users moving that are skipping around, but none in any kind of fluid motion.

Perhaps have multiple spawns, offset by a small random amount.

Not sure how your system works but perhaps have areas in separate channels, and users only subscribe to updates from that area?

I'd rather see a few users in my area that can interact with me quickly than a flood of non-responsive ones.
I'd wager "Whoever told you that, lied to you" was meant to say "Whoever told you 'you have to be artistic to be creative' lied to you."
First Round Capital did something similar a few years ago with their portfolio companies: http://redeye.firstround.com/2010/01/sharing-and-exchanging....

Speaking personally, I want to own as much equity as possible in a company I start. 3% is a ridiculous amount of common stock to go towards something like this.
1) On the rare occasion that I've used live chat I haven't had this problem.

2) Isn't this just an ad for hipmob.com?
There is a C/C++ SDK available.
Didn't know about WikidPad. I downloaded it and will be playing with it. Of course, MediaWiki and XAMPP (or a server) is an interesting possibility for other reasons.

I also came across this:
http://tiddlywiki.com/
>See http://leanpub.com/leprechauns (disclosure: I'm the author) for the long form, with a detailed bibliographical investigation of the "10x studies".

Forget about the studies. We all have seen empirical evidence of this.
Yes, it is good foundational geology being reported upon.

What's cool about that is that it allows you to directly calculate how much water flow was involved in moving this gravel (taking in to account the much lower Martian gravity), you can use the pattern in which the gravel deposited itself to determine what direction the flow was going, and more.
It's interesting to contrast that with the way Valve was run, given Half-Life was a contemporary of Daikatana, but obviously did much better.
Isn't Google Alerts the Google Alerts for patents?
i don't think pooling is about loss _minimization_ so much as accepting that startups are often risky.

the idea would be to give up a VERY small sliver of your upside in hopes of participating on other wins.

I understand founders' desire to "maximize their upside potential", but if you cash out for 100mm, the incremental 5mm you give up has relatively small utility after the 95mm you cashed out.

However, in the more probably 0 dollar scenario, the shavings of the successful startups will be a nice hedge. Probably won't pay your bills, but better than zero.

Hopefully you pool with a group of founders that increases your expected utility (not dollars).
I am not sure that is true. As small as the ecosystem is, I would not want to try to duplicate it.
OP here. Understand the skepticism. That being said, companies as varied as Zappos and Airbnb have used live chat on their sites to make customers happy a while now . . .
How hierarchical is language use?
Jeff Garzik, Con Colivas. Anyone else?
Former servicemembers can be recalled to active duty for the explicit purpose of charging them under the UCMJ, although there are some restrictions. This occurs only very rarely (I only know about the time it was used to convict a murderer).

Defense contractors are not bound by the UCMJ.
"Condensing out all of the water currently in the Martian atmosphere would produce a layer a few microns thick. It's dry."

That's an interesting, and very specific number that I hadn't heard before. Is there a story behind that?
The "Making parallel computing easy" and "The goal of the Parallella project is to democratize access to parallel computing" lines made me immediately think of the Parallax Propeller.

Turns out their product isn't remotely similar: up to 64 cores at 800mhz, plus a dual-core ARM CPU. I wonder why they are doing a kickstarter instead of harvesting their dollars from server appliances.
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Doing anything with addresses is risky from a legal and privacy perspective - I doubt facebook can get away with snailmail spam without permission, for example. Nor do I think they want to do that.

For geographic targeting IPs and user-entered information are usually good enough. Also, as gsharma mentions, facebook has tons of geographic information on users from mobile, which is better because it reflects where you actually spend your time and doesn't go stale.

I doubt facebook will extract much value from physical addresses. Rather, I think this is purely part of their monetization strategy. They can double the average user's contribution to their revenue from a single five dollar purchase. Also, I'm wondering if this is facebook's attempt at building a payments platform. I think this industry will be worth tons of money in the short and long term future.
"... So people may be a bit wary until the images have been independently analysed...."

Good point. The theory of a flowing river should support all types of evidence at large & small scale: alluvial fans,

"... The imagery shows an alluvial fan of material washed down from the rim, streaked by many apparent channels, sitting uphill of the new finds. ..."

to pebbles and rate of flow of liquids,

"... From the size of gravels it carried, we can interpret the water was moving about 3 feet per second, with a depth somewhere between ankle and hip deep... This is the first time we're actually seeing water-transported gravel on Mars. This is a transition from speculation about the size of streambed material to direct observation of it. ..."

All directly observable evidence, each piece confirming the conclusion.
I don't recall seeing patents in any of my alerts. I have a few hundred on different topics/keywords, some of which definitely show up in patents. I could just be wrong, but it's possible that they are filtering out their patent search results.
Speaking from experience, that post is a good summary of the things that come to mind when you're used to good old-fashioned error codes and you're faced with exceptions for the first time. There should be a FAQ with good answers to these questions.
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The east side is by no means "as fucked as ever". 24th street has totally transformed and become another valencia street. Folsom/Harrison has been changing a lot. There are lots of fancy restaurants, cushy bars, theatres, climbing gym, nice cafes, etc etc. To think that this area is not changing is quite frankly delusional.
There are a lot of incorrect details in the article, although the premise is mostly accurate; the use of "spot on", for example, is certainly increasing on this side of the Atlantic, along with other phrases that aren't mentioned, such as "bog standard".

But a lot of the article's examples aren't quite right: "to book" a room or table has always been in use here; it just sounds more colloquial than "reserve", so the latter is what would be more likely printed in hotel brochures and restaurant menus. Conversely, "expiration date" is used in formal or ersatz-formal language, but "sell by" is what's actually usually printed on supermarket labels.

Some of the items ignore subtle distinctions in the way certain phrases are used. For example, there's always been "washing up" in America, but it's invariably done before dinner, not afterwards.
Without a strong magnetic field, solar winds would blow away the atmosphere -- water vapor included.

Earth has a hot, churning, iron core and therefore still has a strong magnetic field to protect our atmosphere from the solar wind. Mars cooled long ago and its magnetic field weakened.
And some things you don't have to prove, because you've seen them with your own eyes. Have you ever seen a programmer that is crazily more productive than another? If yes, then you know what we're talking about.

It might not be 10x or 20x --which is hard to measure anyway--, but we've all seen programmers that are far far better than others.

What's crazy to me is why would anyone try to argue otherwise. Isn't the same true for EVERY other field of activity?

There are painters (e.g Picasso) that are crazily more prolific than other painters. There are inventors that are crazily more prolific than other inventors (cough Tesla cough). There are athletes that are crazily better than other athletes. Writers. Composers. And so on. On some of those fields (like sports) we even have objective ways to measure how better they are. But in all fields, we know there are geniuses, crazy good guys and average ho-hum dabblers.

So, why exactly, would it be any different in programming?
> “You only got that internship because you’re a woman,” P. said. I was floored. [...]

> “Good one,” I said. After all, we were talking about my Microsoft internship. Microsoft has a program for women and underrepresented minorities, but I wasn’t in it. I was a regular old SDE intern.

Yes - but what if you had been in one of those programs? That is the problem with explicitly preferring some group over another, not based on their skill level, when the people you select want to only be selected for their skill and nothing else.

I'm not saying that sexism in the industry isn't a problem, but the solution is more difficult than "just hire more women"
It is a huge opportunity.
Any idea if HBase can work with this? Looks like there are patches for hadoop-core, a quick skim didn't reveal if HBase changes are needed.
elrepo has up to date kernels for centos.
ex-Jedi Knight modder/level editor here. There was a game with even more moddability and level editability than Warcraft 3.
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"Whoever told you that you need talent to be creative, lied to you."-- any better?
Yup. And in order for there to be flowing water on Mars, conditions had to be much much warmer on the red planet in the past. Warm enough to support Earth-like life.

If life came to Earth aboard a comet (as opposed to developing here), it most likely arrived on Mars as well. In that case, the early solar system was probably teeming with life (seeds), and in that case, it could be very common elsewhere.