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That answers my question then - they get castrated and used for transport.
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Problem with puzzles like this - if you see the answer quickly, what do you do? Any conversation fills up with uninformed, idle speculation, then someone kills it with the answer, then it's kind of all over.

What would be interesting would be to have a site that solved the problem of puzzle sharing and cooperation. Has anyone done that?
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I'd actually like to know more about these "repositioning voyages". I did some googling but it seems like it's a travel agent thing which makes me wonder if there's a decent website that I can get a look at prices on.
Apple doesn't need resolution independence. They just need to get everything on retina displays, then it won't even matter anymore.
It's also a weird marketing tack to take since "thinness" doesn't really matter on a desktop system. It's another example of Apple's impressive ability to shift the conversation (as polshaw mentioned above) when their products don't come out on top in traditional specs.
Repost because the old article had a spelling error in the url.
That's fine? $200 (a figure I saw quoted somewhere for a single college coursebook) is more than the annual fees for some government-run colleges here (in India.)
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On my 2. gen ipod touch scrolling is slow and lags. It was fast when I bought it though.

Anandtech did a writeup on the iphone 5 performance and on the sunspider test it outperforms the galaxy 3. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6309/iphone-5a6-sunspider-perf...

However I didn't really look at the other tests.

The ipad mini though will probably be slow. It has a chip introduced in march 2011, and back then it wasn't even the fastest chip on the market. It'll be pretty much as slow as the iphone 4s.
No longer the case. They started renting/selling 1080p content with (or perhaps before) the release of the 1080p Apple TV.
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Then it's your turn to pose a riddle.
The problem with the social networking is that it needs a big community in order to be useful. But in order to maintain a community, you need money (for servers, software development, investors, ...), and most members of the community don't value the community enough to contribute physical currency to it. So you find someone else willing to fork over physical currency, and then tell the community to like them. That's all Facebook is.
If the market is fair but the price is wrong, the price will change.

Creating fair markets should be the #1 goal of capitalism.
Feel free to remove/censor/hide my posted solution if you want to keep it going for a while longer. Mind you, there are almost certainly other solutions to this puzzle.
I agree with everything kfullert said, but wanted to add that the ethics here are quite clear: you've entered an employment agreement, which essentially says that as long as you're both happy and you both follow the rules, you'll continue to do the work and they'll continue to pay you. There's nothing unethical about realizing you're unhappy and leaving for employment somewhere else. You don't "owe" your employer anything other than the work you've agreed to do. It would be unethical to get paid to work on your CV or interview elsewhere, but there's nothing unethical about saying "I'm unhappy with this job" and getting another one. Jobs are a lot like relationships: both partners have to be happy, or it winds up being abusive, and once it's abusive, you're better off ending it than trying to rescue it.
I think the meta discussion of interest here, is how even HBR are choosing to cash in on the popularity of the song with this article which is, let's face it, fairly thin on researched academic business substance.
I did a university project in Clojure that fed Final Fantasy midi tracks into a Markov chain.

https://github.com/IsaacLewis/MidiMarkov

The crystal theme worked the best (it's basically some scales on the piano that go up and down).

With a first order Markov chain, the output was a random walk of notes going higher and lower. With a second order chain, the notes went up and down fairly steadily, but with scales peaking at odd points. With a third-order chain, you get close to the original song out.

(It's hard to explain in text, without knowing the correct music vocabulary, but I hope you get the idea).
>""our culture, especially our technology, is too heavily skewed towards consumption over creation" - This really cuts it to the core!"

Perhaps, but I don't buy it. In my opinion, our technology has enabled us to "create" on levels never seen in history. The ability to "have an audience" at your fingertips has provided everyone and their mother with a platform to generate media, be it music, literature, movies or graphic art.
>Pointing out research, or writing, or anything else, ignores the reality that if the production cost warrants a sale price of $x, charging $x * 5 or in some cases $x * 100 and using legal protections to do so is inherently greedy and immoral.

Why is, for example, a student discount, "inherently greedy and immoral"? I don't see why there's intrinsically any moral element to charging groups differently based on their willingness or ability to pay.
This looks similar to the picture-hanging puzzle, where a picture is hung around a number of nails, and the removal of any one of them will cause the picture to fall.
I feel like this will end with testimony before Congress.

The catch is of course they won't legislate against Facebook, they will make it a felony for you to buy the data for $5.

(added: oh I missed you are in the EU, not USA)
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Our tech startup ToolSpinner will help out those left without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

ToolSpinner is a peer-to-peer tool rental service (Airbnb for tools). Millions are expected to be without power and we hope to connect folks with unused generators.
I'm not really shocked by the slant to the advertisement.

However it's interesting because Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and they're using their advantage in that area to push their products, now that they make products.

Seems like a poor path to go down if you want manufacturers to keep selling products through your store.
They left out the bullet point about the remote wipe feature. I hear that's a Kindle specialty.
It's easy to go "A cheap iPod Shuffle? Come on.", but it's not about getting the gift it's about getting the memento of the work that was done.

Plus that iPod Shuffle is probably now worth about 20 iPod Shuffles.
Of course it would be personal preference. But the way it is now people still upvote certain articles based on personal preference, but there is no way for the "opposite" group to express their personal preference by downvoting, thereby potentially cancelling out the people who upvote out of personal preference. So you get a sort of upward bias for these emotionally loaded articles.

I'm not saying that allowing downvoting will perfectly cancel this out, but at least it may do so to a certain degree.
I am ready :)
You know, that would make an awesome riddle... How do you pose a riddle and only accept answers that won't stop the discussion about the riddle...
The idea, however misguided, is that the consumption of child pornography creates a market demand. If nobody wants the images, nobody will be compelled to create them in the first place thereby eliminating the actual abuse.
Yes, you could probably share cars to a greater extent than we do today, but not nearly enough to get the ~20x reduction in the number of cars on the road that the parent suggested.

If you have optimized traffic, you could live further out and the commute wouldn't take any longer, so that could lead to more sprawl. You also would be able to do something while commuting besides watch the road, making the commute more tolerable, which could lead to even more sprawl.
The balloon has a loop underneath, you then let 2 kids (A and B), hold a thread between them, take a second thread, feed it through the loop, once around the thread between A and B, back through the loop and hands the ends to kid C and D. If any of the kids let go, the thread will unwind and the balloon is free.
I agree. I guess I'm an idealist when it comes to the online sphere. I have high hopes for Diaspora and similar entities.
Here's their full comparison:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_366177422...

Tell you one thing, apple.com's got them beat on URLs ..
So in general, Google's position is that (for the US, UK and EU at least) if the ad text doesn't contain the Tradmark text in question, it's ok if the keyword used to match on does, except for the countries you listed.

Thanks for the link.
I always thought the first cheese was made accidentally by storing milk in animal stomachs (which was a natural sort of Rennet). That, and the motion of being carried while riding/moving was enought to create a bsaic cheese/yoghurt.
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The issue is significantly more complex than "legislat[ing] profits their way".

It's very unlikely that the discounted overseas textbook market constitues a very large amount of profit. Indeed, it could certainly be seen as reasonable CSR project: "Let's sell our books at marginal cost+10% to poor asian students, but have legal make sure those copies can't cannibalise our domestic market". If it turns out legal was wrong, the response is more likely to be "though luck, the global price is now $100" instead of "drat, let's lower the US prices to $20".

Now, being nice, even charitable, should not be a ticket to get to write your own laws. But Wiley is unlikely to celebrate a ruling of global first sale doctrine by convening an editorial committee to produce a Filipino CS textbook (and a dozen other languages times a dozen other subjects), to then go and sell that at $20 there.

Also, on a tangent, as the lingua franca of CS is English, it's convenient to learn the subject in English. I was taught CS mostly in English, but one time where the teacher insisted on speaking Danish, it took me half the class to realize that oversætter (literally translator) was meant to describe a compiler.
>If the market is fair but the price is wrong, the price will change.

You're assuming that a price that no-one in a developing country can afford is the same as a price that is "wrong". It's perfectly possible that a price that no-one in a developing country can afford is "right" from an economic perspective in that it's profit maximizing for the producer.
As a Navy vet and a technical guy, I wouldn't mind seeing the actual specs on this beast. As a sailor, I'd rather crew on a ship designed more for performance than luxury.
Your claim that bits having color "makes no sense from a technical perspective" sounds like more geek misunderstanding to me. There is no technical problem here -- only a problem of geeks applying technical results where they shouldn't.

How dare you suggest that geeks and their rationality are not the rightful masters of the universe?
To be fair, neya usually posts positive thoughtful things.
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OAuth does not cut it.

Sure, it works... you can do it. But wow on the headaches you're going to get down the line and the volume of HTTP chatter.

You generally end up adding the ability for servers to impersonate other users, so that a server process speaks to an OAuth authority to determine whether it is allowed to generate a user token and perform some task in their name.

All kinds of hell lies that way.

Maybe there's someone from the BBC here? They have a nice system using server certificates. Every application runs in it's own user process and identity, and every user is authenticated by certificates. The different servers have knowledge of who is allowed to do what, and users (applications) that try things they're not allowed get refused and reported.

I don't know the nitty gritty of their system, but the gist is "certificates everywhere", it's proven and it works.
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This makes a lot of sense, but I'm curious about whether leaving after 7 months will look bad on me if I go to an interview with another company. For instance, when I explain that it is due to money issues, will it make me look greedy or lacking dedication?
Agreed. Regular milk is only 4% fat, I believe, and skimming it removes most of the fat-soluble vitamins from the milk.
A large version is available here: http://xkcd.com/1127/large/
Tie a knot in the thread to the balloon, then trap this knot in the middle of a gap between two twisted threads, the ends of these held by the children.
Always “hover” before you click? Wrong.
OTOH, if you use the iPad as a model, that would mean it gets slower and thicker and heavier. Which was kind of OK in the iPad but probably wouldn't fly with the iPad mini.
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Absolutely true that gradual progress is very powerful.

I write 500 words a day on my personal site at http://kibabase.com. Some articles are not as good as others, but they can get better though mericeless editing. I estimated I have 19K words of content thus far.
Why don't we learn from our mistakes?
1: holded

0: not holded

binary AND: ==O--

binary OR: ==>--

So the generalized riddle for any monotone boolean function can be easily solved because all boolean monotone functions can be built up of binary ORs and ANDs.

(Edit: accidentally mixed up OR and AND, fixed now.)
The only thing that makes the "illegal number" view wrong headed is a belief that the law as currently on the books has the final say on what is ethically/factually/morally/intellectually right and wrong.

I believe you are too hard on those who disagree with you, as you don't seem to acknowledge that those who disagree with the law's desire to stamp a color on everything have valid reasons for their disagreement.
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Chain link system.

Each string acts as one chain link. Kid technically could hold both ends of their string, but you could tie it if kid holding one string was an absolute condition.
Who says it's the way the thread is arranged? Maybe the helium would lift the other kids up if one decides to let go.
Ok, fair enough. Britta touches on some of the issues, but not in its entirety. Notability is about a) requiring there be at least one reliable third party source (so that the article has a chance of containing verifiable information) and b) ensuring that there is some limit on the scope of Wikipedia. It is this latter one that is the key facet.

Whilst Notability is closely related to Verifiability it is not quite in the way britta cast it, but rather related to requiring the material used to define a subject notable (i.e. a significant claim to importance) is verifiable. i.e. the relationship works the opposite way.

I was intending to be using a different example, but you took me to mean the Diggnation example: this is my fault, I should have been more clear

Ah, my apologies, I'm reading quickly as it is a busy day.

Please don't get me wrong; the issue you highlight is a major problem, one I have raised a few times internally with the community. But there has been no easy resolution.

It's worth noting that the reliable sources policy explicitly notes that reliability hinges on not only the publisher but also the content and the author. If an author is seen to lack the qualifications, or has a bad reputation, these factor into consideration.

With that said; a lot of Wikipedians don't know this. A problem I run into constantly when discussing sources ("Well, it was published by the NYT's so it doesn't matter what their reputation is"). It's not the policy at fault there, but the lack of interest of our own community in the rules...

"that dude at Wired that finds this stuff gets him readers" is not somehow more trustworthy than the place he got the information from...

The intent of the policies (and bear in mind what I say above as to how much that holds up..) is that the secondary source is used to filter what in the primary material is considered important to the wider community. To take an example: when Microsoft released Windows 8 there was quite an extensive list of new features. Simply recording that isn't what Wikipedia aims to do, instead you would use secondary sources to highlight the new features that were considered by "experts" to be important, groundbreaking or otherwise worth a comment (of course, the full feature list would be linked to as well).

I'm not arguing this policy is perfect, nor that it doesn't break down in the scenario you cite, but it does have a solid basis.

One other policy is that Wikipedia does not have firm rules (for this very reason) and so you could say that making a convincing argument such as you have should keep the material out. In principle this works, in practice it doesn't but only because of the community dynamics (a whole other problem!).

while it means there is some possibility that the information was gathered in a way that we should indirectly trust, as we can't see it we can't verify it, and it is honestly not in any way better than if some random person on Wikipedia just asserted it to us...

To an extent it does. Because the reporter who you cite has his/her real name attached to the article and has a public reputation to uphold.
If they talk about the competition, they're scared of the competition, and the more they talk, the more scared they are. That goes for Apple, Google, Amazon and all the rest.
> oh I missed you are in the EU, not USA

That won't stop them from trying.
I hope there's a nearby friendly embassy. 8)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6324/the-iphone-5-performance-... - or do you think benchmarks are irrelevant?

Also, Apple claims it's the fastest _iPhone_ ever. I haven't seen any claim from them that it's the fastest phone ever.
Mare sure you are using the supplied 2Amp charger, if you use an iPhone one or computer USB port it will take ages!!! Still takes longer though...
Protein slows down the release of that sugar though, giving a more level energy supply [1], important for a runner that likes to carbo-load before races. I'd usually try to get some chicken in the pasta, or in my rice and beans as well (The actual effectiveness of carbo-loading is debatable, yes)

1. http://www.livestrong.com/article/500047-what-factors-slow-t...
I think you are supposed to simply share it. It's the privilege you get for being the first to find the answer. At least that how it works in real life. However on the Internet I guess that mentality doesn't bind well. Hackers are not content with simply knowing the answer. They want of find it themselves. That's an awesome trait in a community.
1. Much More for Much Less. Much More is obviously the kindle fire HD, and Much Less is the iPad Mini. Heck, if you remove the 'f' of 'for' you get to the central point here which is to turn the choice into 'Much More or Much Less'.

You are reading way too deeply into this. Unless you have some research to back up your assertion that people frequently misread "for" as "or", it's hard to believe.

5. Because the iPad Mini has a bigger screen in the same overall form factor, they make the same point a different way ("30% more pixels than the Mini" => "216 pixels per inch"). If the Kindle had a bigger screen but lower PPI they'd put the screen size in here.

To be fair, Apple started the density wars. Nobody knew what the acronym PPI meant until Apple started calling it a "Retina" display. It's strange that they can't continue to compete in this category, especially given the high price of their device.

7. The screen of the Kindle Fire is odd looking. The iPad Mini behind it is on its default home screen. I'm guessing that the Kindle Fire has deliberately been shown all in black (with the bg the same colour as the bezel) because it makes it unclear where the bezel ends and the screen begins. (I don't know if this is the default setting of the Kindle Fire HD or not).

The bezel and the UI are different colors, the bezel is shiny while the UI is pure black at the top and has a silverish-black gradient behind the content. I have no trouble seeing where the (large!) bezel ends and the screen begins.

8. Ultra-fast MIMO Wi-Fi vs. A BLANK SPACE. Not even trashing the fact that there is Wifi in the iPad but it's not as fast. It looks like they just gave up at this point.

What kind of Wi-Fi does the iPad have? If not MIMO, this seems to be a valid comparison point. (I would have preferred something more meaningful, like "3x3" or "450Mbps 802.11n", but I have an idea about what they mean.)
I don't really get it. Why would the AB thread go off if any one of the CD let go?
And [Special Offers] aren't available on the iPad either...
My pet peeve..

Redirects me to http://99designs.de/....

Top bar with '99designs.de now speaks German! Switch to English or continue with German.' and most content (the 'ui') is in German, mixed with original English parts (English contest title, English comments). The amount is listed as 512$ and seems awkward (for Euro that's fine, for $ it looks out of place).

My browser sends 'Accept-Language	en-US,en;q=0.5'.

Clearly the site ignores my preferences and web standards. I won't return.
You can still do the things you love part-time and support yourself with a job/contract work etc.

That's what I'm doing with Summon the Warrior: http://summonthewarrior.com

My interest is in hypnosis and self-improvement, and I want to use my imagination, so I carve out the time to do these things. My goal is to be able to walk away from contracting altogether and just work on hypnosis et al.

Just be prepared for possible economic hardships and be willing to sacrifice your free time to make your dream happen.
I expect they will say it's because having two speakers so close together wouldn't give you a stereo experience (be distinguishable).

<cynical> That is until the next version where it becomes a feature...</cynical>
Why will people be buying the Mini?
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White-collar work has even more age discrimination for reasons that have little to do with mental ability. Blue-collar workers can keep going into their 60s. White-collar workers peak in earnings around 45 to 50.

For a variety of perverse sociological reasons, companies measure people on their decline curves and bad-case performance. Investment banking analyst programs exemplify this. You don't have to be smart or socially suave to succeed. You have to be average-- after a double all-nighter (and most people aren't).

This is twisted because if a company's well-managed, no one sees the right side of the decline curve. Ever.

Older people retain their general capability, and have a lot more insight and experience, so normal-case capacity doesn't decline for most, but they lose the ability and desire to participate in shared suffering for 14 hours per day.

Sixty-year-old blue collar workers can still keep going. It gets increasingly painful to do the work, but no one fires them until their bodies can't handle it any more (on average, around 70). On the other hand, sixty-year-old white collar workers who haven't played the game well will have to deal with younger bosses (a sign of career failure) and mounting age discrimination.
The question did ask how the thread is arranged..
There will always be fanboys, but the sheer amount of Apple fanboys on HN is amazing. For a community with a supposedly higher intellect than others, to resort to petty comparisons and worshiping of a corporate giant is seriously pathetic.
My first impression is that Amazon is displaying the possible margin they could get with Kindle Fire HD. Maybe someone in AMZ is regretting pricing it that low.