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It's part of making an overwhelming argument, overcoming as many objections as possible. Common component of rhetorical arguments, especially by economically minded people.

For example, fre market economists are usually pro economic immigration: Let resources (labour) go to their highest value use. If a graphic designer can make more in an Oslo design office than they can in Bucharest, there is a potential economic surplus. Opponents might make some objections: there will be increased unemployment among local graphic designers, the immigrants will mean increased costs in local services.

The economist-proponent looks at the surplus. Going from a €7k salary to €50k. Adjusted for costs, he calculates a €25k surplus. All the opponents objections can be overcome with €5k at most: new job training centres, schools and hospitals. He throws in another €5k to make the argument stick. He can have his immigration and unemployment will go down, hospitals & schools will be better funded, design firms will have better/cheaper designers and the immigrant will have a better income - even after they charge him €10k a year.

Makes sense on paper. It's a good way of simplifying an argument by creating an on paper ceteris parabus. When it actually makes it into policy ir law, it can be arbitrary and unfair at the best of time (eg immigrants pay higher taxes). It's also a potential faucet for funding that the hungry will flock to.

The weed smoker has a lot to gain. Lower prices. Better quality. Reduced stigma. Easier access. Not getting put locked a cage. Well worth the $500 per year.
African teenagers invent a urine-powered generator
Seconding this: Doing a post-post-install in a script installed in /usr/bin is horrible!

Is targeting Ubuntu 10.4 a hard requirement? I suppose it's the last LTS release, but surely the users Valve is targetting would almost all have upgraded past 10.4 by now, and the 12.04 LTS release has already happened. Anything more recent than 11.04 has proper mutli-arch support in dpkg/apt so you can specify that your package needs both 64 and 32 bit versions of some packages.

Your approach seems extremely fragile: is seamless 10.04 support such a necessity?

Incidentally, your compiled binary is compiled against a more recent libc than was shipped in Ubuntu 10.4, so it will currently refuse to run on 10.4 anyway. I'm guessing you compiled in on an Ubuntu 12.04 install, since it has a hard requirement for a libc version 2.15 or above. This means it won't run on anything older than Ubuntu (12.04), nor will it run on the current or the next Debian release.
Absolutely... how difficult is it to copy and paste?
High Frequency Algo's trading against High Frequency Algo's and it's okay because "they provide the necessary liquidity to the market". Right. Looks like stealing to me. Check out this TED Talk "Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world" http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_o...
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Drop the word, or use one of: actually, truly, really.
Apparently he did, they have already another domain ready.
Agreed, though I must admit to being slightly concerned about the potential increase in utterly tedious stoners banging on about Cheech and Chong movies.
What else could the Higgs be?
RISC OS was so awesome.

Windows looked like a dinosaur compared to this at the time
Yep first Romney one I saw was "Just because I'm white...... DON'T assume I voted for Romney!"
Already covered at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752023
Just because you donate a load of the proceeds to charity it doesn't change that it's a crime.

I'm in favour of decriminalisation but what they do with the money is neither here nor there.
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I was keen to bet on Intrade, but the ToS and such are long and confusing, and it wasn't clear how easy it is to get one's money out after a win. What was your experience like?
I'd hire him.
In the long run, does that seem like a very good thing? While we might think it's good that Joe the pot dealer doesn't end up with his life ruined, having a judiciary (and enforcement infrastructure) which decides, on their own discretion, to turn a blind eye is similarly empowered to throw out cases of abuse. In the short term I guess it's OK to have some crimes punished lightly, but a better long term solution seems like it's to fix the laws to reflect our desires.
It would be pretty difficult to get enough bandwidth and power to a place like Sealand. You'd probably need an undersea cable to have a big enough pipe to the Internet, and whatever country that runs to can cut you off...

That, and if you're in international waters and you annoy a country enough, you probably don't have your own army or anything to stop them invading you.
The subject line was: "Real time location and status startup struggling with the Infrastructure vs Application decision"

Also, on reviewing the email, there was some formatting which may have helped the readability and draw attention to the central question. There was a fair amount of whitespace between the paragraphs and the main question was center-aligned and in bold.
Great programming analogies - Age of Empires.
Behold the creative powers of boredom!

The life of parrots in the wild is too eventful for them to bother with making tools :)
I wonder what this means for the demo scene - I bet some awesome demos can come out from this.
Part 1 - http://www.philipstirpe.co.uk/2012/10/great-programming-anal...

Part 2 - http://www.philipstirpe.co.uk/2012/10/great-programming-anal...

Part 3 - http://www.philipstirpe.co.uk/2012/10/this-is-third-in-serie...
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They use an electrolytic cell to extract the hydrogen from the urine...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyhydrogen#Fringe_science_and_...

> the energy required to split water molecules exceeds the energy recouped by burning it
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You're forgetting washington DC
Looks quite nice so far. The startup/login time is still pretty long, though.
My understanding is that it takes longer to grow CBD-rich indica strains than THC-rich sativa strains, and thus most 'street' cannabis is the latter kind. It gets you 'high' but is devoid of any significant medical benefits, and may in fact negatively impact your mental health.

Many in the pro-legalization camp have been using medicinal cannabis as a kind of trojan horse for full-scale legalization. This is a dangerous, disingenuous strategy, and makes them no better than those on the other side of the fence pushing 'reefer madness' type arguments.

As with all things, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
It is a shame you don't have money. If your product existed before their patent was filed, them filing a complaint essentially saying the two are similar could be used as evidence (within its self) that your product is prior art and have the patent invalidated.

But realistically patents are just a giant cash pissing contest where the two parties throw as much cash in each others direction as they can until one of them runs out of money.
We've passed peak Apple
Sublime Text 2 intro videos. Good bye Notepad++
Hmmm

>The system works like this:

Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.
The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.
The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.
This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.

Don't electrolytic cells need electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen? Also why have they got 2 automotive fuel filters on top of that tank of red stuff and why are the filters venting to the atmosphere?
Isn't that wasting their precious hydrogen?
6 hours of elecy from each litre of pee? I'm certain that if pushed I could generate about a litre an hour and thus this machine would power my pc , my router and charge my iPad for free.

Or not because this story is bullshit.
Seems others think so too
http://nathan-lee.com/blog/2012/11/07/urine-powered-generato...
Something I don't quite understand, but maybe someone here can help me with.

As I understand it, the poll averaging works because of the central limit theorem. But with so few data points, maybe a dozen polls at most in each state, and often half that, why does it still seem to work? I thought you'd need a few dozen data points at least.

What am I missing?
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Listen to this man here. Who ever hacked the site got it perfectly right when they were saying:

> "He himself is an industry, only here to pollute"
Hacking your laptop power adaptor for weight when travelling?
Let me me correct my statement. More data does not necessarily lead to better prediction. I must add that it is not always about usage as well. In some cases, the data is insufficient to make any kind of prediction.
I actually made more taking directional bets on BetFair, which generally had narrower spreads and more liquidity.

I made a some money buying Obama on InTrade and selling on BetFair, at a time when Obama was at 65% on one and 75% on the other, but I didn't start doing it until Monday because it was a lot of faff to set up the InTrade account.

I haven't tried to get my money out yet. I'll let you know how that goes.
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At least they are honest about the true use case of their minidrone. Unsettling nonetheless.
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There's a lot of skepticism going on. I too don't see it working either, although I lack the knowledge to judge.

From what I've read so far it certainly does require power and doesn't jumpstart itself. Question is how much power does it need, and how much is it able to generate. Maybe not their simple experiment one, but an industrially optimized one.

Still looks like sth that has already been tried and the math just doesn't work, yet it's remarkable that these young girls are working on these problems. It shows what education can do and impressed me nontheless.
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I didn't realise Flight of the Conchords was an authority on proper English!

More seriously though, the title is extremely childish and doesn't really help to make me want to trust their service with my company's valuable data...
Apple loses lawsuit to patent holding company VirnetX in E. Texas court ruling
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Depression? My life is in a straight jacket... a prison -- everything is pointless. Highs and lows balance, though. My time is my own.

What do you expect?

God says...

Moon tumults Bouverie weal excursive grammar wilfulness
Bread Whereupon greedy included settling why_didn'_you_tell_me
you're_in_big_trouble healthy causes My gainful bye are
life- ideas

----

God says Line 64031

26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not
hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, 26:5 To
hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto
you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not
hearkened; 26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make
this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

26:7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah
speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

26:8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking
all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that
the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou
shalt surely die.

26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This
house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an
inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the
house of the LORD.

----

Obama, give me more social security.

God says...

15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the
ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been
ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the
sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife
and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on
usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth
curse me.

15:11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily
I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in
the time of affliction.

15:12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? 15:13 Thy
substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price,
and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
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That’s a great point about the inherent ability to extend the number of tags that isn’t inherently present in Markdown.

I am currently writing a forum CMS (http://pygm.us/IbkgNZ4d), and I, too, have wondered how to expand the number of tags within a rigid nomenclature. Using a lexer that automatically converts links to tweets and YouTube videos to embedded scripts seems like an unintuitive solution, but on the other hand, people unfamiliar with the commands will automatically display the embeds in their posts.

For commands that don’t convert links, I was thinking about something like ':<COMMAND>:' with an expandable list of whatever people prefer. Something Awful already use this model for their emoticons, and it could be extended to things like images in general like states for election conversation and such.

I have always found the `[url]` solution to be incredibly bothersome and to some extent unintuitive, and with the advent of mobile devices, letting people write their posts in as few characters as possible is a big advantage to be taken into consideration when weighing the pros and cons.
It is very important to note that this is the probability that any two hashes collide in a set of hashes. It is not the probability to find a second plaintext that hashes to the same hash as a given one. It's far harder to find a colliding value to a given one than to just grab a group of values and have two of them hash to the same hash.
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1) No. Just look at the first RNC primary debate videos. These are the Republicans rocket scientists.

2) Right pundits are already arguing that Romney wasn't extreme enough. This is not a condition they can get out of. All future candidates will have to meet socialcon and Koch requirements before even thinking about swing or blue states.
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Take Florida, for example. He predicted a 50.3% chance of an Obama win. If Romney actually wins it, he's only a little bit wrong - counting him as 0/1 on Florida in this case wouldn't be accurate. If Obama wins it, he's only a little bit right - counting him as 1/1 on Florida here wouldn't be accurate.

It's hard to quantify just how close he was. I give him props because his prediction was that Florida was very close and that turned out to be true no matter which way the state actually ends up going in the final result.

Now take Virginia, which was one of the later states to be called. He had Obama at 79.4% chance to win. But it turned out to be reasonably close -- which makes me wonder if we really had enough data to justify such a large %. It's a highly polled state, so maybe we did and we just came somewhat close to hitting that 20% of the time where all the polling was inaccurate. Or maybe he had Obama's chances too high.

Another way to judge a prediction model like this is to credit him with .794/1 for Virginia, rather that 1/1. For Florida he gets .503 if Obama wins, and .497 if Romney wins. That doesn't capture it perfectly, either, but at least it doesn't give him 0/1 in Florida if Romney wins even though he successfully predicted that the state was super close.
This sounds pretty slick! I'd love to discuss more about the opportunities of this job, as we're a team, and lately we've been involved in building startups more than other type of projects. And we kind of love the change. :)
Is there a way to read up on the things taught in the workshop in particular on the more applied/practical material?
I don't understand why this was down-voted, the parent commenter clearly states that he is searching for employees and this comment states that he is interested in a job there.
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this: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/424996/why-your-battery...

There hasn't been much improvement in battery energy density over the past 10 years. There are some interesting developments going on promising 3x-30x improvement on li-ion, but none of it has emerged yet.

When someone finally cracks this, it will have disruptive effects on mobile computing to electric cars to renewable energy storage and a million other fields.
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Indeed, pretty much exactly that point is made in the third box on the right:

In case you are one of the many, many people who get this wrong
and are astonished, you may be thinking of a different question.
My birthday is a specific date. If we assume birthdays are
uniformly distributed, how many people must you ask before you
find someone who has the same birthday as me?

On average, about 182.

If you ask some 150 to 200 people, the odds are about 50% that
you'll find someone who shares my specific birthday.

But that's not the question I asked. They don't just need to share
my birthday, it can be that any birthday is shared among them, and
that changes the odds dramatically.
Better candidates may have decided to wait out this time - battling against a incumbent is always harder.
Show HN: Test what ultimately matters -- how customers experience your web app.
You hit it on the head. It wasn't the idea itself, it's his marketing of it. This is how Levitt broke out of the pack with Freakonomics. It wasn't just being novel or counterintuitive, it was getting up on the roof an shouting about it.
It was an Indonesian ISP, not Indian.
Famo.us is a front end framework that solves performance for HTML5 apps
would love to know how much noise this wing design makes. The quadra/hexa/octocopters we fly are great but pretty noisy

Ours are slightly bigger though - designed to lift a RED Epic camera and a big bunch of batteries :) http://londonhelicam.co.uk - password to see the video is 'helicam'
I don't know, I still think Kim has some tricsk up his sleeve.
A quick internet search suggests the price for "high quality" marijuana is roughly $250 per ounce in California.

That's $9000/kg. For comparison the price of Gold appears to be roughly $55000/kg.

If you're right about it being as easy to grow as cabbage, then I think it could be taxed quite a lot...
Let's take two examples - Ohio (a contested state with a lot of polls) and Alabama (only one poll since 1st August, but not contested).

In Ohio there were 44 polls in the month preceding the election, with a mean of 51.4% Obama, 48.6% Romney. If the confidence interval each poll is 4%, then the interval for a single poll is 4% / sqrt(44) = 0.6%, which is easily enough to make a confident forecast of an Obama victory in Ohio (my model was > 98% confident in its Ohio forecast).

In Alabama, the last poll was on Aug 16th, and it was 40% Obama, 60% Romney. Even with a margin of error of 4%, this state was clearly going to go to Romney (my model had 99.9% confidence in this forecast).

This pattern is repeated for almost every state - the states with few polls are not contested, and the hotly contested states are a focus for pollsters, so there are a lot of polls there. The only really difficult states were Florida, Colorado and North Carolina, where the candidates polled so similarly that even with 30-40 polls you didn't have sufficient sample size to make strong forecasts.
Gotta wonder, now that Obama is a second term president and doesn't have to think about re-election, whether we could see some of this stuff start to happen at the federal level...
You are right. The upper screen was definitely black and white, but the bottom in colour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ6PjWP34Kg

In the BBC B Master edition the top was in colour. I always was jealous of my friend who had one, since it had so "much more" memory! :-)
FWIW, I have running RISC OS machines that I still use occasionally for the few applications that had, and have, no peer. I'll be watching closely to see if any of my older work will be of use to the community.
Typically, you'll have something like the following:
- The government funds the research
- The developers get first refusal on patenting
- If they refuse, the government can patent
- If they patent, the government is given a perpetual free license to use the technology
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That would require some serious work I imagine. Sibelius was 26-bit ARM (the status register was mixed with the program counter if I remember). It would require some extensive rework to do anything useful on later fully 32-bit addressed ARM processors.
Here's one theory for that line of blue:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/02/162163801/obama...
They could decide to separate consumer and business customers in windows 9. No desktop for consumers and no tiles for business. The effect would be similar. Walled garden for consumers. No market for mature games, or home brewed software because business's have become the only pc users still capable. Don't underestimate balmers jealousy of apple.
The only data that is insufficient to make a prediction is either no data at all, or data suspected to be wrong (e.g. faulty observation equipment).

Even given a single sample, one can make a prediction of what the next observation will be: the same value. Once you get more samples and more knowledge about the subject, you can bring stronger statistical tools to bear to get error estimates, prediction intervals, improved models, etc.
I personally use Route 53. It is the same price as a lot of the competition but a lot more flexible/powerful.

That being said however you need to understand DNS at least moderately to be able to understand what is presented in Route 53, it doesn't "baby" you at all.
Ask HN: Which clojure implimentation is primary?
Clojure runs on CLR, JVM and JS. Which implimentation is meant to be primary? Does clojure suffers from 'implimentation switch'? (ie Primary Development like libraries, compiler optimizations and documenting shifts by the mood of the community)

For example, imagine, today the main development implimentation (supported by the community) is CLR, I start learning/using that implimentation, and suddenly in a matter of days the community switches to Javascript and start implimenting new technology in it. There are only few people mantaining the CLR version. Now after some days, I not only have to change my codebase, but also my platform....
Call me paranoid but I've always struggled with free services that almost seem too good to be true.

Cloudflare offers a good service, there is little debate surrounding that, but how long can they keep on giving it away for?