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I don't know if these things work or not but the premise that improving people's abilities is somehow unethical is dangerous.

One could argue that giving good education to students gives them an unfair advantage to those without such an education. Does this mean that education is unethical?

Improving people's mental ability, whether through drugs or education, improves all of our lives. To win at being higher functioning and making better choices is not just a win for the individual but for the society at large. Those people can go on to improve the live of others and grow our collective economy. It's not zero sum as athletics can be thought of.

As an aside - if these improvements make us less human, then I don't see why modern medicine doesn't also make us less human. Do we define human purely as a certain cognitive ability?
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> "hand curated" approach does not seem sustainable

Seriously, you want to take people out of journalism? Even if it's an excerpt from the story, I wouldn't trust an algorithm to do it for me.
Recap:
X220 idling: 8.5W.
iPad's max 5W.

Agreed about one thing, Intel is finally starting to care about power efficiency. The CPUs have been solid since the Pentium M days, but the chipsets feel more neglected.
We have used passwords for thousands of years, so what are you getting at?
Intra-solar-system panspermia is far more mundane than the galactic-sized versions. It is well known that pieces of all the planets end up on other planets due to being ejected during meteor impacts and eventually landing on the other ones. We know this, because we have found some of the ones that have landed on Earth. It is a reasonable hypothesis that certain hardy bacteria could conceivably survive the trip. If Mars was ever hospitable to live, there is a plausible path for simple Earth life to get there.

So in the event Martian life is discovered, there's still some work to be done; is it "just" Earth life that got there, albeit presumably heavily-adapted, or can it be established that it is not from the same line as Earth? The second one is the real jackpot question that has profound implications for our place in the universe. The first one, less so. Not zero, but definitely less so. And if it is the first one, it's going to be a real bear trying to explain that it isn't the second one to a press that is mostly incapable of understanding the difference, let alone explaining it to the public....
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> "MutexLock l" seems like a perfectly reasonable variable declaration to me

Not to me. I use short variable names a lot, but I never, EVER name a variable "l" -- for the good and simple reason that "l" = chr(0x6c) looks too much like "1" = chr(0x31).

I would call this particular variable MutexLock lock. If I must name a variable "l", I'll spell out the letter name: MutexLock ell.

If I ever make my own language, maybe I'll make "l" a keyword that causes a compile error if it's ever used, to discourage others from this folly.
I don't want to step on these guys' PR, but I do have a similar personal project for anybody who is interested, http://newspaper23.com

Initially it's just an aggregator that presents commentary in plain text. I plan on adding a summarizer one day. For a personal project, I've been using it daily for over a year, so I know I find a lot of value in this type of thing.

As sites try to get more sticky, the signal-to-noise ratio decreases. You spend more time reading a lot of trivial articles that a Facebook friend recommended instead of a few articles that you've scanned yourself. I know Google and FB say social search is the cool thing, but in my experience the only thing it does is increase consumption of mediocre shiny stuff. Much better to pre-qualify sources and then control the depth of your dive. For newspaper23, one of the original ideas was a timer for each day. 30 minutes of scanning and the site would refuse to load until the next day.

I'd like to see more of this type of thing -- gearing content consumption to humans instead of site creators and advertisers.
This makes very little sense. The article suggests that you bundle many sizes of the same image into the same file; say, a 1024x1024 version as well as a 512x512 version. This means that a browser that only wants the 512x image will also download the 1024x image whether it wants to or not. So why not just pick the 1024x image and resize it on the client size, if everyone is going to download it? This is something that today's chips do very fast. At 2x resolutions you can even skip interpolation and just go for nearest-neighbour scaling.
Sorry but that calculation is just stupid. Thanks to deductions, the income tax paid for even a high earner does not surpass 28%. The 20% state tax is only paid on income in excess of 401 100 something that is always conveniently forgotten when discussing taxes. E.g. the tax scale is progressive which is to offset the trend that the more you earn, the likelier you have other incomes such as investments returns which are taxed significantly lower than salary tax. Yes, Sweden still has high taxes but the situation is not nearly as bad as you make it out to be.
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It is an easy place to be for a foreigner. I've lived there for 2 months earlier this year and for a couple of other month long periods earlier.

I love the food, the little shops, the tech community is pretty good as well.

Both the Ruby and Lean Startup meetups are great http://www.meetup.com/Lean-Startup-BA/

The largest problem is the current economic situation and the government there. You have to plan ahead a bit with respect to currency.

Bring enough US$ cash with you to pay the first month rent and deposit or you will get your deposit back in pesos the day you leave. Which will bring you deep into the world of black market currency trading (at a loss).

If you are a tech startup type of person I would recommend staying near (not necessarily in) the Palermo neighborhood. Thats where most activities and coworking spaces are.

Prices are not cheap there, but other areas such as Villa Crespo right next door are much cheaper and still walking distance to Palermo.
This is the American mindset.

They are targeting Europe and mostly Asia at the moment.
Living in India, I know for a fact that most people don't buy smartphones locked into carriers.

We do have conracts tied with devices, but the market for them is very small in the case of smartphones.

It just doesn't make sense to commit for so long to a particular telecom company, because here, carriers compete a lot and people do want flexibility to switch from one carrier to another.

So no, I don't think jolla is at the mercy of carriers.

Buying a phone that you don't have complete control over is seen as stupid.
Let's not use metaphors. This isn't about federally-protected mailboxes or taking information from a private place like an office. The information was already published when AT&T put it on their public web site. Weev's activity after that was publicizing and commenting on the data.
>the current "hand curated" approach does not seem sustainable in the long term

I disagree. I had the same idea for a news site and I'm disappointed they beat me to it. I think it would only take me maybe 30-minutes to and hour to summarize the news of the moment. Do it three times a day. How hard is that? You could easily hire extremely smart people to do this. What English major at a top college wouldn't love to put this on his/her resume for some extra beer money?
I don't know it this is what you need to know, but:

As far as the front wing is concerned:
- the bigger, the more complicated means more downforce thus enabling drivers to go faster in a corner but such wing leads to more dangerous situations, such as puncturing oponent's tires.
The bigger wings were introduced in 2009 when many parts of the cars were streamlined in order to improve overtaking and reduce dependency on aerodynamics.

The rear wing:
- DRS was introduced 2 years ago. It stands for Drag Reduction System - driver can "open" rear wing to reduce drag (downforce is reduced). Basically means that rear wing is split horizontally into two smaller wings. This system improves top speed so it can be only used on straight lines. The failure of this system can lead to lost of control of the car in non-straight parts of the circuit.
The usage of this system is heavily reduced by regulations.
I see no problem with it. Securing a room is a known problem, and relatively easy to do, particularly in a military base. You have physical locks and guards. If you know that the people who have access to the room should also be able to access that part of the network, the physical security secures the network.

The username and password, then, keep out people who don't have access to that room.
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Particularly for sites you only log into every few months. One time passwords, with a 6 week lag between use require a password manager. Memory will not cut it.

And if you are nontechnical that means paper. I consulted a decade ago with a team that had ~5 systems like this. The office was awash in sticky notes. Sometimes security policies are a menace to actual security.
Wow, this looks awesome! I love the controls on the right hand side. Simple large numbers with grabber hand. Also like your shape library. Only thing I would change is maybe let people directly change the numbers on the right hand side by double clicking it. Once people get used to it, they start knowing what numbers to put in.
I think that you ALMOST have it. You've even explained the following tantalizing quote from July: I think we could actually make it self-powering if you put solar panels on it, you generate more power than you would consume in the system. There's a way to store the power so it would run 24/7 without using batteries. Yes, this is possible, absolutely. The cars in the loop store power. A lot of it.

Now why do I say almost? Let's make one small modification. Let's put a lot of one way flaps in the tube so that it is easy for a puff of air to blow out, but not so easy for air to come back in. There would be leakage, but that is going to be OK.

As each car comes by, it piles up air in front of it that blows out of the flaps. Then the flaps fall back, and maintains a partial vacuum. The partial vacuum is no problem for people because there is a pile of air in front of their car that can be tapped for breathing air, that can then be released backwards, where it circulates through the tube (and probably out the flap).

This makes his evacuated tube comment even more of a teasing joke. No, the tube is not evacuated. Nor did you pump air out of it. But it winds up almost evacuated. However it is still fine for breathing.

Now the point is that reduced air pressure inside of the tunnel significantly reduces drag caused by the air dragging on the edges of the tunnel and being pushed by the cars. This does a lot to make the whole thing massively more efficient. Elon's claim is then that it is efficient enough that it can be powered by solar panels placed on the tube.

My big question is how hot it will be. There may be very little gas in the tube, but that gas will be very, very hot. Over time the cars will heat up as well. So you'd need to have the cars regularly coming in and out of the system so that they would have time to cool down.

The practical difficulties in building this are immense. But I do not see any physical reason why it is impossible.
Very nice too. But some advice: the titles are way too big and look unprofessional, and the front page needs summaries. Other than that I like it.
Seems like there are a lot of people trying to tackle this problem at the moment.
We are using a different route with our tl;dr Chrome extension for Hacker News: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tldr/ohmamcbkcmfal...
However, it looks like it has an SD card socket as well as a USB 3.0 slot. That means you could put a 32GB SD card in there and have plenty of room for projects. If that ounce is too important, you could probably get away with an Xubuntu distribution that's fairly stripped down.
I really hate dealing with short variable names. A recent project I came across a variable sfile. In some cases it meant the filename, in others it meant the file contents. I wanted to kill.
Unless I missed it, the article doesn't mention exactly how it gets on your web server in the first place, or what vulnerability it exploits. I presume some vulnerability in Nginx? This would be the most important part, how can I prevent my web server from getting infected with this specific rootkit. Did I miss this part?
I thought this long before HP acquired Autonomy. Had I shorted Autonomy I'd have lost. But you're right about HP.
Bruce Schneier address this very topic in his post on CYA security.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/cya_security_1...
An important thing to teach to the students is that when they are solving a (physics) problem with pen and paper and create a new variable they must explain clearly what the variable is. So in this case I agree that it's ok to have short variable names, but wit a comment that explains the meaning of each one.
Nice. My curmudgeonly response, though, is: "Now all we have to do is put another TL;DR on top of that: a monthly or yearly summary of 'items that actually mattered.'"

It's always interesting to pick up a newspaper from a year ago and see how few items are worth reading anymore, and imagine how many stories I've read and forgotten.

The same might be said for HN, for that matter... what am I doing here again? ;)
Also, one character variable names are much harder to search for in code review tools and source diffs. I saw code that always used ii, aa, etc. to make searching easier.
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Thanks. I threw it together using the first version of Bootstrap if I recall. I think the titles are actually buttons. Also the UI is buggy. I have to use the back buttons to get back to the main page. Many times it's easier just to reload the site to get to the first page.

But it scales nicely out to a tablet. And a phone. Part of the initial appeal for my writing it was to download all of the daily commentary as json to my tablet. Then I could walk around town and such without having to worry about an internet connection. The idea was -- how much real static text do you consume in a day? Can't be more than 100 or so articles. So why not just download the plain text and consume it at your leisure?

Another feature I wanted was the ability for people peering over my shoulder to NOT be able to tell what I was consuming. Many times at work or on the train I'd have some time to read commentary, and the last thing I wanted to do was load up a page with a branded look and feel. I wanted the plainest amount of pure text possible.

I appreciate the feedback. Although I use it daily, it's not high on my list of priorities. Next up I think I'll double the amount and type of content. Maybe after that I'll go back to the UI for some rework. For me this is more of a personal thing than a business feeler. So even if nobody else in the world likes it, I'm good. :)
For me, local variable names are short -- usually a single letter. Names that will face external code -- parameters, function names, class members -- should be longer. At least a single word, but often multipleCamelCase or multiple_underscore_delimited words.

Mathematical functions are a special case, in terms of variable naming. Equations usually use short variable names. For something like the parent's situation, I would use the short names (actually shorter names -- prefixing every double with the letter "d" is stupid, as others have already noted, and very confusing since to a mathematically knowledgeable reader dR would denote a delta-radius, i.e. a change in radius).

Also, realize that in mathematics specific letters are often used for specific purposes. I usually use r for radius, p,q for prime numbers, u,v for vectors or lists, s for a set, s,t for time, x,y,z for coordinates, theta,phi for angles, f,g,h for functions, h,i,j,k for indices/loop counters, m,n for counts/lengths, k for a material constant (e.g. spring constant). Since most mathematics textbooks and papers use similar conventions, mathematically trained readers usually have no trouble. Those who have a programming background but little mathematical training may struggle, since as far as I know these conventions aren't documented anywhere -- they're just something you sort of pick up over time as you read mathematics.

But, if it is not obvious, I would write in a function-level or module-level doc comment what each of the variables stands for, even more descriptively than the author. I would include a description of the geometric object the code is dealing with. Perhaps even an ASCII art diagram.

As others have noted, it would definitely also be good to describe what equation or algorithm is being implemented -- not necessarily a full description or proof of correctness, but at least a URL describing the situation more fully (I often cite Wikipedia articles), a Google-able name, and (if appropriate) a literature reference to a paper or textbook. (My preference is to include a citation to something online without a paywall, to make it as easy as possible to get at the information later, but less readily available resources like textbooks or papers can be very helpful as well -- they are sometimes the best or even the only resource that describes a particular algorithm.)

The bottom line is to use whatever's most consistent with existing work, and communicate most effectively to others -- collaborators, future maintainers, and most importantly your future self -- what the code does.
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My word that looks awful. If you're trying to write seriously, drop the smilies. They clash with the fake stitching.
That is true: I could just leave a 32GB card in permanently. No reason to remove it.
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I think you are right. During my search prompted by your question I also found many complaints about phones acting as if they are half duplex though. Variously attributed to echo cancellation, low quality phones, low quality service, etc.
Agree. BA is a very nice place, nice and clever people, they are joking all time. A lot of culture everywhere ( in Spanish of course ) but the thing is they love the locals theaters and bands, a lot of country around Argentina are consuming always their culture, their movies, music, etc. and all this comes most of the time from BA. A lot of restaurants, excellent meat and food in general. Beautiful skinny girls, maybe they need to go often to their restaurants and eat a little bit more, but they are beautiful. If you like fashion this is the right place too, people from BA, porteños (that's how they are called), they really like to go shopping. A good place also to drink wine, wine from the city of Mendoza is everywhere in Argentina, they are very very good. Is a nice place to be for vacation. It is true also that they are in huge economic crisis at this moment, but even like that the people there always look happy.
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It is in fact pretty hard :) We are working on content summarization too, with a Chrome extension that lets you read a human written summary of Hacker News frontpage links. Writing the summaries and making sure you're up to date takes time. You need to make sure you stick to the author's point of view, that you really understand the article in depth and groked the key points. Of course it depends on the article you summarize but I can spend a good 30 minutes on one article by Paul Graham or Mark Suster.

PS: the chrome extension I'm talking about is here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tldr/ohmamcbkcmfal... (same one czzarr is referring to)
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Your math doesn't make any sense - the 81% (assuming that all is right, and bjourne says it isn't) is out of 131%, not out of 100% - so the actual tax is 61%. Still high, but on par with Tel-Aviv and NYC (assuming fiscal cliff) - and you get back infinitely more than NYC and just "a lot more" than Tel-Aviv.

I'd say it's great.
Isn't helium rather scarce, wouldn't there be much better uses for it than this?
Au contraire Oprah is pimping the cool tablet this Christmas

http://www.cultofmac.com/201944/oprah-gushes-about-her-love-...
Thanks, I forgot about the guidelines.
My point was that it was not nerd stuff..Citing the first phrase there,
"Anything that good hackers would find interesting".
Besides, anything in this world could "gratify one's intellectual curiosity".
I come to this site to find interesting content and I love it, that's the only reason why I posted that comment.
As an NLP researcher, this is interesting as a sort of summarization data set.

The thing is though, summarizing news articles is best done by just reading the first paragraph of the article. News articles are intentionally written this way, and it's a very difficult baseline to beat in automatic summarization.

Still nice site though.
WebP does support Alpha, now.

I think the true reason is that evaluating the quality of, and introducing widespread support for, a lossy image format are both really hard problems and Mozilla didn't want to go off half-cocked. Google on the other hand control both ends of the wire and so can see the benefits immediately and as a result are more keen to experiment.

I'm intrigued to see if they do the same with with WebM v2 including VP9 and Opus and just roll it out (in beta even, which makes much more sense for 'disposable' video conferencing use-cases than it does for long-term video storage or Youtube) rather than continue the usual 10-year upgrade treadmill for video codecs.
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I used to do some development in Notes/Domino. Desperately uncool....

Although you could describe it as a fork of Apache, with a solid auth engine baked in, tightly coupled to a BTree-based NoSQL persistence engine and a scripting layer supporting Java or a dialect of VBScript. Released in the late 90's....

So perhaps hipsters would say it was ahead of its time... :-P
Very true. I was able to attend the inaugural F1 event in Austin last weekend and it was a great experience. Although not the same as in person here's a video to give you an idea: http://f.cl.ly/items/2e3T093G2Z1N3A3Z1m1n/F1.MOV
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Which is why I believe we are still a long way away from solving that "problem": http://www.techdisruptive.com/2012/09/18/we-are-far-from-sol...
Do you avoid using the number 1 for the same reason, falling back on 2/2? "l" and "1" don't look alike in any reasonable programming font.
It's a rotten idea to overload or reuse a variable name, unless it's obvious from context (e.g. i is the loop index for a variety of different loops).
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Try reading "The 15 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark"... basically the art market is smoke and mirrors. The dealers actually don't want a website, as that would reduce their mystique and commoditize their wares. A small local dealer might be convinced to sell online, but as one shop owner said to me on this: "don't bother".
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Did something very similar to this in node with socket.io realtime updates. http://mashrd.com/