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If possible, use public transport. Even if your total time enroute increases, you will have more time to do something productive

If you're lucky! I commuted on public transport for a while in the south east of England and if your face wasn't smashed into someone's armpit for the entire journey, you were doing well (or working unsociable hours) ;-)
The OP was judging a person by his job, and implying that the person in question couldn't be a genius because he worked at a menial job.

No, I was judging him by his accomplishments -- a measure by which your counterexamples shine, and the LSAT instructor falls down. All of the people you mention were successes in some way outside of their job, and they met my other criteria: they disproportionately advanced the state of the world.

We were talking about jobs as marks of genius ...

You were talking about that, but nobody else was.
Chemistry sets packaged as consumer products are regulated, as are their constituent chemicals whether they're packaged for consumers or for industries. Meanwhile, parents and teenagers are more terrified of chemistry sets than those products actually deserve. As a result, there appear to be fewer incidents of chemistry set accidents than there were accidental ingestions of rare earth magnets. (It turns out the search term you're looking for here is [chemistry set poisoning]).

I feel like this kind of makes my case for me: Buckyballs was marketing a desk toy that turns out epidemiologically to be more dangerous to children than leaving a chemistry set unattended on a desk.
Kaspersky’s Researchers Leave Microsoft off the Top Most Vulnerable List.
Can't speak about China, but most states in the US have laws to protect people with the proper training from legal exposure (for example if you're giving proper CPR and break a patient's ribs). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law#United_State...
Parents do not think cleaning chemicals are safe for children, and keep vitamins in the medicine cabinet.
Really good work. What are your plans for this?
I think the PCs are in decline among lower-income individuals and working class people who don't need to read a lot or write a lot. They were never that popular a purchase in the first place, but because they never got deep into the games and computer culture, phone and tablet products are adequate for their needs, and have some advantages.

The main advantage is always-on mobile networking, so that sms, twitter, email, facebook, etc. are always available everywhere. It's also a phone and a camera.

The clearest evidence I have of this shift is observing coworkers who don't have internet at home, or lack a PC at home. They tend to run a lot more apps on their iphones and android phones. I'd say, typically, a dozen or more. The phone is their computer. They also are considering tablets.

Personally, I make data: text, code, graphics, and now videos etc. My PC is my primary platform. My satellite system is my netbook. My smartphone is a distant third. I have maybe eight apps on my two smartphones: This American Life, Facebook, Twitter, GasBuddy, LATimes (just a bookmark really), Google Maps (again, a bookmark), RedLaser, Cut the Rope, and some visual mandala thing.

I don't feel like I need a tablet. I'm probably going to get one, because I've been writing toy apps on android... but that's partly for my resume.

Tablets are just like video game consoles. They're going to be more popular than general purpose PCs and will be a huge market, for better or worse. The PC made a lot of people smarter. It taught people to control their computers, and even to program them. It created a culture of creativity. It was kind of like buying a car, and then finding there's a set of tools and a small machine shop in the trunk. We lose all of that with tablets.

A tablet is like a car with the hood bolted shut, and a gas cap that only lets you fill up at specific gas stations. It's fine for mechanics and the gas stations, but crap for drivers.

Mhyrvold's prediction wasn't quite right though.

Early demand was not for videophone. It was for sms and twitter and email. Low-bandwidth, immediate services. The killer video app is still video on demand. High costs for data impede some applications.

Price was not cheaper by an order of magnitude. It was around half, or a bit more than half.

Gaming has been consuming CPU so quickly that it became its own category of computer.

Gaming, videophone and phone have only started to work on the internet in the past five years or so. Network latency has been a problem.
An indication that we need to flip the cards over to get the dates would be great; I didn't realise at first, I thought I had to drag to trigger something.
I see many comments wondering how this can be compared to an iPad.

Given the technology of the time - yes it was as close as possible to an iPad.

Microsoft made the OS (a windows CE with minor tweaks) and Siemens made the hardware.

A ARM powered tablet, with wireless (DECT), oriented toward consumption of internet content, without any user replaceable part besides a PCMCIA port.

It was impressive in 2001 - and still good enough in 2003 to get many followers when it was EOL'ed.
>Diverse double compiling is not "checksums and versioning". You need other compilers from sufficiently different sources as to minimize the chance that they all were subject to the same modification.

I was assuming you would write your own.

Of course, if you keep going along this line of thinking, you end up wire wrapping your own computer and writing your OS and other utilities in assembly.
You have to remember the constraints of the time - just like an early mac offered a windows (as in WIMP) experience compared to the prevalent DOS
I think we largely agree - differing only on the interpretation of the word "perfect".

In my interpretation, perfect health means this type of malfunction doesn't happen. But these days, such perfection is very rare, though it's possible with sufficient knowledge and access to diagnostics.
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Despite the name, comas aren't generally categorized by GCS. If they were, most of us would be walking around in a "Category 15" coma all day...
I've said this before, but I've always been truly and deeply disappointed that groups like this didn't plant realistic-looking stories about an alien invasion. They had the New York Times! They had The Washington Post!

Imagine: one day, the biggest papers in the country simultaneously run stories about an alien takeover of the government. Then, minutes or hours later, "poof!".

"Oh, nothing happened. Nothing you care about. It was just hackers. And swamp gas."
Internet Explorer is evil
Holy wow. I had read about "Cat -v considered harmful", and I was familiar with cat-v.org, but I didn't realize the inspiration from cat-v.org's name.
By that definition, perfect health doesn't exist.
I'm aware. I don't expect to be able to change your point of view on this particular issue, so I'm just making my point for any interested third parties.

I'll also make the further point that chemistry sets aren't actually that dangerous (and never were). 'More dangerous than chemistry sets' is a largely meaningless statistic.
This rang a bell.

"We’ve made tools to sap our attention. We’ve made entertainments for a connected age. But what about the tools of protection? What is our candle to curse the dark, the bucket brigade to save our town?"
Candy shaped vitamins are not dangerous in and of themselves, but they train children to think that candy comes from medicine bottles. You could make a similar argument for tick-tacks and any number of other candies that look like medicine capsules.

Parents give their children tick-tacks (because it's just candy, so why not?) and children see their parents getting "candy" out of medicine bottles. When some of them inevitably come across dangerous medication (which happen to be small and easy to lose...), some of them will pop it in their mouth with the fairly reasonable expectation that it will taste good.

How parents perceive the danger of any of these things is not particularly relevant, particularly in the case of medication. The question we should be asking is how much harm are they actually causing.

Cleaning supply marketing and children vitamins cause far more deaths than magnets could ever dream of causing.
Why not just demux the AAC? Transcoding a lossy file is bad.
Completely guessing here, but it might be a tool thing. For example it's roughly what happens when I merge your code with git and then push it to subversion with git-svn.
> Just read John Gruber's gleeful posts deriding the (admittedly astonishing) lack of high-speed data on the Nexus 4.

Lack of high-speed data? HSPA+ 42Mbps isn't "high speed"?

Yes, LTE may be "the future", but right now, there are few places you are going to get better speeds over LTE than HSPA+. And there's enough headroom in HSPA+ for the next couple of years; it can go up to a theoretical maximum of 168 Mbps. LTE definitely has more headroom, but given that people tend to upgrade phones every 2 years or so, I'd say that HSPA+ has plenty for the lifespan of the Nexus 4.

I think that selling an unlocked, unsubsidized, $300 phone with only HSPA+ is a much better strategic move for Google than a locked, subsidized phone on Verizon that does LTE.
He's given the typical FOOLISH response people give after brushes with the death plague - live life to the fullest.

How about instead thinking of ways to fix the problem. That can also be considered - living life to fullest - and also fixing the problem.

In his case, he could have considered how can cardiac arrest be better dealt with. Have drones nearby that automatically go towards the patient and revive them. What's involved in that, collecting the data, manufacturing drones etc. etc.

The entire world is focused with having the latest shiny bullshit from the mall/walmart. Go there and see the masses of consumerist idiots picking up plastic crap and clothes like monkeys. How about they instead spend that time crafting a pitch for a new invention that solves a death-related problem on kickstarter. There are 7 billion people, probably only a few thousand of them are working towards actually worthwhile things.

Living life to the full doesn't have to mean buying or building crap to fulfill child-like urges to see shiny things, it can instead be using the "god given" brain to tackle the most important challenges, of which survival is number 1. Animals probably look at humans and think what retards, they themselves spend all their time trying to survive.
If the next release date is today, as in the case of walking dead, it should say!
otherwise, nice.
ImageShack and Symantec both hacked
Explain?

With "do" and the coincidental naming of "return", and IORefs if you insist, you can write imperative bottom-up code in Haskell.
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> I googled it but it leads back to this page.

It blows my mind how often this happens to me, even though I understand how and why. Especially since it's usually just a few minutes after the original comment is written. Google is awesome.

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Indeed, the technical progress allowed a finer device, but besides the thinness (and therefore the weight) it was as similar as possible to an iPad with the constraints of the day.
It's not their lack of innovation. It's their lack of supporting older devices and locking everything down.

The app ecosystem provides the innovation and that's the only reason why I'm still considering an iPhone for my next purchase.
I regret to announce that I share your sentiments with regard to the circumloquacious fashion of the writing in that article.

I think we've made progress since it was written. Eye-tracking shows how we read and which words or letter combinations trip us up.

By the way, wouldn't that table naturally have time in the left hand column, considering it's probably an independent variable, while temperature is dependent?
I don't think jessedhillon was saying that someone working a menial job must not be highly intelligent. His point was that such a person isn't getting much value out of being highly intelligent (he was presenting it as a supporting point in favor of his claim that 'being intelligent has no intrinsic value').
A friend of mine built something similar: http://watched.li/

Also I am not able to find two and a half men :/
That's actually a good idea ! will look into it and deploy it back.

however, it looks like downloading the videos is taking a long time as well, not sure if that is caused by YT servers or my python library.
I think when it comes to sites like this you should really make some sort of late registration available, that is, let us see what your thing does without having to sign up. You don't need an account to use craigslist, why do I need one to use yours?

Also, I may be wrong but this sounds like the kind of idea someone comes up when trying to come up with a good idea. Do you know someone that has this problem you're trying to solve? Are you "scratching an itch"?

About the UI, it reminds me of Web 2.0, no offense. How about using some Twitter Bootstrap? Have a look at Dribbble, Colour Lovers, etc to have a better sense of what's hot on web design. Check out this list on Kippt:
https://kippt.com/michaelchen/inspiration
I am a HN regular but I don't want to sound boastful so using a one time account.

I have a high but not super-high IQ, about 138. I went to a highly IQ-selective school, and as a result have met people who are smarter. Here is the interesting part: while they can do certain kinds of things better than me (puzzles, certain kinds of math, certain kinds of intricate code, analogies etc). Yet, I have gotten far more interesting things in life done than they have.

Even more interesting, I have discovered that I have thought harder and deeper about many problems than some of the exceptional IQ people I have met. As a result, I can simplify problems that they "only" (!) know how to solve. And this simplifying skill has proved to be extremely valuable in the real world. That skill doesn't seem to be directly implied by super-high IQ alone.
There has to be a point where we just throw our hands up and say the person deserves a darwin award. I don't think there has really been any epidemic concern over teenagers swallowing these though, and I don't think younger children use these as fake piercings.
The Russian underground economy has democratized cybercrime
Yeah, that's biting me right now :/ You need a degree to apply for the H1-B, but I've got a great immigration attorney and am applying for an O-1 visa. Wish me luck!
The romans used to say.. "memento mori".
I really like the idea but the drag 'n' drop user interface is neither convenient nor necessary to fulfill its purpose. But anyway, keep up the good work.
Memento mori.
I understand that you find this argument to be compelling, but as a parent and a friend of many other parents, you're just not going to convince me that parents think cleaning chemicals are safe, or that parents think children's vitamins are safe. I am terrified of children's vitamins (iron poisoning!), and they're not even empirically dangerous to my middle-school-aged kids.

Incidentally: I just looked it up, and it looks like children's vitamins? Also less dangerous, epidemiologically, than rare earth magnets. I find that surprising; maybe you can find a better study that shows how often they kill kids.
No plans yet, may be add it to git and let hackers play with it.
Do you have any evidence for that? Cardiac arrest is a pretty major malfunction.

I'll grant that there may be a few cases of spontaneous malfunction among people with systems functioning optimally.

But I'd wager that given the knowledge someone had cardiac arrest, the odds of something being wrong with their system are higher than 99.999%.

Specifically, I'd be interested in cases of spontaneous cardiac arrest among hunter gatherers or other groups that largely avoid the 'diseases of civilization'.
I would dispute that education is the key to all this success as well. Let us assume that educational outcomes (i.e., human capital as measured by test scores) are the driver of this success.

Even making this assumption, the bulk of the gap in educational outcomes between the US and Singapore is probably not due to education.

The US 8th grade PISA score is 495, whereas that of Singapore is 540. But Asian Americans have a score of 535. Several American states have Asian students who even exceed Singapore, specifically NY, TX and CT.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-well-do-above-...

If education were the primary driver of educational outcomes, that shouldn't happen. So we should reject education as the primary driver of educational outcomes.

However, the article also suggests a cultural explanation: "it's built into our [Singaporean] culture to study all the way through school". If Asian Americans share this trait but non-Asian Americans do not, this is certainly consistent with the data.
In-browser volume control was "all or nothing" for me (Firefox 16 on Ubuntu).

Edit.: Everything else was super nice though. Congrats! Great UX.
Mainframes are also hundreds of computers running scalable software. The hardware facebook uses is not commodity - it's a stripped down PC. I think google still uses commodity PCs, but I suspect they alter the power system. The use of the PC is driven by the software, which originated on PCs running linux. They're not going to rewrite it all to run on a mainframe.
I'm an IT guy in large office, and I can do all of those things (it'll work, but it may not look good...). However, not all of my coworkers can.

I think IT is kind of a master of use of software, and hardware. You can build the hardware, and use the software, though you may not know what's behind it. I think this is why people assume "IT guys" can fix anything. To some extent, they can, but only because they've seen similar things. IT is a whole lot about seeing something before, and knowing how to debug and troubleshoot.

Pure IT is very fun, if your company has the budget to fund it. There are some very hard bare metal problems that need to be solved, including network topology, disaster recover, failovers, automation, and process efficiency improvements. Again, most of this stuff happens when you have lots of IT infrastructure, not when you're small.
I don't disagree with that, but remember that the development of each of these smartphones is made more than a year ago with the profits of the last smartphone. If LG is just scraping by with the Nexus 4, and Apple and Samsung are ultimately forced to lower their prices to remain competitive, can we really say that anyone in this industry is going to have the money to keep pushing the technological envelope?

On the other hand, maybe the big players have exhausted themselves of their creativity for the time being. After all, how creative is an extra row of icons on the home screen? Or an even wider, bigger version of last year's phone?
I had a good friend over for dinner recently, and learned that he had recently suffered a heart attack. Not a really bad one, but there aren't exactly 'good' ones either. Pretty scary, as he's still in his 30ies, like me, in good health, no smoking, not much drinking, some exercise, eats ok, and so on.
There's a channel on YouTube called "Ask Jay" that has some interesting videos where Jay Adelson answers questions about investors, VC, etc. Could be useful!

Good luck on your second round.
"Running at the gym" ..so many people do it, but wouldn't the energy be put to better use building something? Running barefoot outside would be my choice.. getting grounded and Vitamin D. Gym running is a weird sensation, and unnatural: it's more a striding exercise. Gyms can also be very dirty. But good that he recovered, he should try and work out the how and why so it doesn't happen again.
Isn't the reason you use that service (waste less time here) specifically to avoid getting drawn into the discussions? Serious question! :-)

How can curation be combined with possibility to discuss, in a better working way?

I think the issue isn't curation, since Slashdot is technically an editor curated news service, but the timing. That is, how do you have a good discussion when the timescales are so large rather than over the course of a few hours?

Sites like MetaFilter - http://www.metafilter.com/, Edward Tufte's forum - http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1, QBN - http://www.qbn.com/ - and numerous blogs have solved this problem to a great extent, IMHO, and intriguingly are all single threaded (or in the case of blogs, most, but not all).
A nice attempt. But I am not satisfied with the UI! Why to drag the picture when you can just click it and get the next release date. Basically, you are taking two steps to do a thing which can be done in one step, may be just to make the UI pretty. Plus some details are incorrect (like no new episode for the Big Bang Theory) but these are your content source issue. Apart from that it is good!
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I ran this survey with SurveyMonkey a few weeks ago and forgot about it. They emailed me that it had collected 213 responses. Here they are. There were some write-ins which I'll add and re-post the version 2 on Monday.
Nice idea. However, I tried checking the release date for The big bang theory and it said "No Next Episode :(" which disagrees with Wikipedia that says "November 8".
The Apple Newton was out around 1994.
Just so we're clear: I think most parents are unreasonably afraid of chemistry sets. I agree with you on that. But --- bear with me here --- that's also a reason why we don't have to crack down on companies marketing chemistry sets.
May I ask how you found out he survived?
In the UK? It depends. Any children anywhere around and he'd be in for a hard time. Unlucky with the police officers he got? He'd be in for a hard time. Not great with the answers he gives? He'd be in for a hard time.

Photography in public is one of those topics that opens the door to armchair lawyers. People who have no training and little knowledge who just make stuff up off the top of their heads.

Interestingly in the UK there are specific exemptions for journalists. I'm not sure how tightly defined journalists are; there are press badges and journalistic qualifications, but that feels like a little bit of law that hasn't caught up with the Internet.
But still, don't you think it's a little premature to judge your Target worker? Einstein was a patent worker while he thought about and conceptualized Special Relativity. Do you know what that fella' was doing in his free time?

I still agree with the main point though - IQ doesn't mean anything except another avenue of high potential. Just like being extremely physically fit and a better athlete leaves you with high potential to succeed in something physical. A high IQ gives you the potential to succeed in something mental, but you still have to put in the work and do something with it.
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The Nexus phone is a single phone that comes out each year and it designed to progress the ecosystem. It isn't about pushing the boundaries or picking up sales, it's about setting the benchmark for the ecosystem. Hence why it's called a development phone. I think you're overestimating its importance.

The majority of Samsung's customers are Samsung customers. They've bought into the brand. They're not about to jump ship to LG.
I ran this survey with SurveyMonkey a few weeks ago and forgot about it. They emailed me that it had collected 213 responses. Here they are. There were some write-ins which I'll add and re-post the version 2 on Monday.
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Specifically, I'd be interested in cases of spontaneous cardiac arrest among hunter gatherers or other groups that largely avoid the 'diseases of civilization'.

+1

It would also be interesting to know about any similar studies on the most advanced species of non-human primates.
ah I see, I am having same issue on FF 16 on WIN7.
Yeah, the same happens with Suits and others.