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You would cringe if you saw what I just ate.

Made some spaghetti last night, with sauteed onions and mushrooms, with olive oil as sauce. Heated it up today in the microwave, but not long enough, so I just ate it cold, shoveling it into my mouth while reading.

Sometimes I like taking the time to make good food. But most of the time, food is just calories and nutrients.

(I've also had friends tell me that I should become more of a connoisseur of food, or coffee, or wine - but then, I'd never be able to enjoy the food/coffee/wine that I do now because it would taste like crap by comparison.)
Within the mainstream of jurisprudence, as well as good case law, the Federalist Papers are absolutely used to clarify and explicate the original meaning of the Constitution. They are far and away the leading source for that purpose.

If you're interested in how well the Papers do (or don't) reflect the intent of the framers and contemporary understanding of the Constitution, I can suggest a 40-ish page law review article [0] by Gregory Maggs. It also covers the history of the Papers' citation in legal scholarship on constitutional interpretation and in decisions of the Supreme Court.

0. http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/bulr... [PDF]
You make a lot of counter arguments without supporting evidence.
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For the record, the smallest validating document is actually:
<!doctype html><title></title>

Although I can't right now see the part of the spec that allows an empty title element, which is either a bug in my reading, a validator bug or a spec bug.

Of course, declaring a charset is generally a good thing to do (arguably more useful than a <title> if you expect the document will be in an <iframe> for example) but even if that were required you could get rid of the entirely optional trailing " /" and save two characters. And strip the quotes around the attribute value for two more characters.
Speaking as a long-time WP editor, if the Foundation decided to fly Wales around First Class, that sure wouldn't bother me at all. The man has devoted himself to a widely-recognized and ever-more-succesful project ... I think he deserves some perks. (A helluva lot more savory than W's frequent flights to 'cut brush' on his 'ranch'.) He's the man who's got to answer the world's questions, after all (and who was, I'll add, right about a LOT of stuff).
As an old-school software gal, it's amazing to me how software engineers these days think, too. The sentence "ever wondered why integers in software are powers of two?" made a very powerful point for me - namely, how far software engineering these days is removed from the underlying implementation.

Mind, I don't fault the author for being surprised. It's a logical consequence of that remove. But as somebody who grew up with blinkenlights and core memory, the idea of not knowing this fact is completely foreign to me, even though I have no HW skills worth mentioning.

Part of me wonders if that means we should teach SW engs about those realities. Especially given the authors wide-eyed realization that all that code executes in parallel, all the time. It's a mental model that seems rather useful given the amount of parallelism we see and will be seeing.

Or maybe I'm just old and grumpy ;)
I agree that it is a neat implementation. I just meant that the idea of a non-reversing mirror is not new.
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> One neat trick that I think is worth adding to the discussion: URL templates.

100% agree - URL templates enable succinct discoverability. Moving link generation to the client reduces computation time on the server which no longer has to generate inline links as well as the payload size of the response.

The RFC6570 spec is great, has numerous implementations[1] and a through test suite[2]. I am also surprised that this is not a standard part of every hypermedia implementation.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/uri-templates/wiki/Implementations

[2] https://github.com/uri-templates/uritemplate-test
This is interesting because I've seen the opposite trend. You seem to view food as a kind of art (and more power to you), but many people hold the very American view that food is magic. It's medicine for sadness, it's a symbol of manliness, it's a aesthetic necessity--it's anything BUT fuel for your body.

Americans are very overweight, and the reason is that they somehow do NOT view food as fuel. If they did see it this way, they would use the right fuel to power the body correctly, and enough but not too much. That's unfortunately not the case.

What I can believe though is that many people who view food as an emotional companion don't have the refined taste that you have, and so they end up eating too much bad food that's also bad for them.
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I totally agree. There are certain explanations out there which have orders-of-magnitude differences in ease of understanding (seeing i as a rotation, seeing radians as the "mover's perspective", seeing integrals as "better multiplication"). My personal mission is finding these aha! moments which unravel years of confusing symbol manipulation. Calculus is definitely more easily understood with infinitesimals vs. limits (ask any physics major or engineer).

Personally, I'm looking forward to a world where the very best explanations / analogies can bubble to the top. It's ridiculous that 200+ years after Calculus was invented, we still teach it poorly, and nearly everyone struggles.

Rigor & Intuition have a delicate balance in math. I see it as language: children can speak fluently, even if they don't know the "rigorous" rules of grammar & spelling [which are left to linguists]. I suspect the reason most adults have trouble learning languages is because they try to start from rigor (vocab lists and grammar structure) vs. absorbing an intuitive notion of what's going on (and later refining with rigor, "me want food" => "I want food").
Whats the difference between a rice cooker and slow cooker?
Being a music guy, I've played a load of shows in front of hundreds of people. There are a couple of things I've learned over the years that I'll share.

1 second feels like an hour. There were times where I remember a very uncomfortable moment in a set but when I played the video back later, it was really all in my head. It's ok to pause/wait. Don't let a 3 second silence anxiety snowball into something that will throw you off the rest of your set/talk.

They are there to see YOU. There is no reason to be nervous. People really don't care, they just want to get to the destination. You are driving the car. Present with purpose. You don't have to be some toast masters grand master. You need to have the conviction of someone who is up to bat. Like it's YOUR TURN and a line of 40 people are behind you. Go do your thing and dont dilly dally about it.

30 minutes TOPS. When in doubt, be like the Ramones. Do not go over 30 minutes. Don't give the villain speech. Convey as much action and pragmatic appeal as possible. Be blunt and concise. It's a street fight, not a fencing match.

Talk to the back of the room, and look at the back wall (focusing on people in the audience can throw you off).

TL;DR Go up there and own it. That's your platform, deliver a solid message.
Hehe, well I'm German. Terseness is somehow build in my firmware. Fair feedback though. Thank you!
Thanks. I love the conversion of equations into "math English" (that particular diagram is from Stuart Riffle).
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The new Flickr iOS app has pretty much all the features of Instagram. It's community, long dormant, seems like it's re-awakening. The #1 test for me is, when I come back to the app, is there new stuff from my friends. The answer so far seems to be yes.
And "Firefox" and "Chrome" are sensible names?
Maybe reassuring folks that the 24 hour counter will only start once the site is functioning again would go a long way towards stopping folks from hitting F5 so much...
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This has nothing to do with C# and .NET. I think it's some kind of ASP.NET framework. As far as I know, C# and .NET do not have this reputation (at least, no more than other technologies in the same space, like Java).
Shut-up and take my money!
Standards are awesome when you're not the market leader...
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It's actually both. Bad models and bad incentives, from black swans and the models that ignored them to corrupt practices and liars.
Oy, scalac
There's some equivocation here I think:

"Bad Model" in Silver's view is really "bad modelling" -- a problem with the statistical technique (frequentist vs. bayesian) used to model the data.

"Bad Model" in O'Neil's view is really "bad data" -- intentionally skewed numbers as a consequent of conscious or sub-conscious eliding or redactory effects on the data populating the model, for purposes other than accuracy: financial gain, for instance.

O'Neil's point is that even a frequentist model would have been effective had the data not been massaged. On this view O'Neil's view is correct: the cause was not "bad modelling" but "bad data." The "bad data" in the model was an "effect" of corruption, not the root "cause" of the financial meltdown.
Glad I'm not the only one who wondered. I was beginning to think I missed the "latest thing."
It should be easy enough to simulate with a webcam.
Congratulations to the guys at Addepar on releasing this. They have been contributing an amazing amount of stuff to the Ember.js community—not least of which is helping us build Ember Data.

Probably my favorite thing about Ember is that it isn't built by academics toiling away in an ivory tower; it's driven by real-world problems that web developers are facing.

Our goal is to provide a set of tools that allow developers to build apps and not have to solve the same problem over and over. Displaying large sets of data is one of those problems, so this dovetails nicely with the mission of Ember.js. Thanks guys!
It can be a lot simpler than that, depending on where you live. I have a wireless connection for my home laptop, for which I never had to give my name when I bought it, top up in cash, never use my name in emails on that connection, and use Startpage instead of Google. Total anonymity.
$51 million isn't really a shoestring budget any way you cut it.
Windows 8's shut down now does some sort of kernel hibernation. Shutting down isn't really a full shutdown in the traditional sense anymore apparently. Anyone know whether this means Windows 8 machines with Bitlocker are vulnerable?
Silver isn't just claming that A<-B. He is claiming that fixing B will fix A, and that fixing B is straightforward: just use good models.

mathbabe is saying that fixing B is not straightforward, because B<-C, and fixing C is very, very difficult. Bad models exist because people have incentives to make them bad.

She's also saying, I think, that fixing B by itself won't fix A, because B is not the root cause; C is. Fixing B without fixing C just means that C will manifest itself somewhere else, and A will still happen. In other words, there are many causal routes from C to A, and fixing B by itself only blocks one of them. So A<-C is true regardless of the state of B.
The slow cooker is equivalent to the 'warm' setting on the rice cooker - it applies steady heat (sometimes with a timer of some kind). The rice cooker adds one feature, it can test to see if the water in your dish has been absorbed and/or cooked off, and turn down the heat.
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That's correct, those terms come from Domain Driven Design terminology and are not related to C#.

You can learn more about it from this book:

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexi...
And a virtual moment of silence helps resolve this how? The SOPA blackout was to draw attention to an issue that threatened to potentially shut down the web as we know it. You'll find scammers anywhere. I stand by "doesn't directly impact the web". Scams are not a threat to the web, they're a threat to the people who fall for them. Do you think this moment of silence is going to convince the scammers to close up shop? The site doesn't even call out scams as a reason for this blackout.

Maybe to give your point more credibility, the author of this could add in a call to action to shut down scam sites, with a reasonable method to follow in achieving this goal. Instead, it's as effective as putting a ribbon on your car.
A ricer cooker cuts off when it gets too hot (when the water gets absorbed by the rice and the temp rises).

A slow cooker/crock pot keeps a consistent (and relatively low) temperature for a period of time. Some have timers, some don't. Some have thermostats some just have high/low settings.
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True, using "fake" was just to be pejorative. It is not one of the original Nobel prizes, it doesn't fit the original prize philosophy of Alfred Nobel but it is the only non-Nobel prize that is officially associated with the Nobel Foundation.

The same people (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) also award the Crafoord Prize as well as others, but only the Economics one put "Nobel" in the name and the fact that this was done to improve the image of Economics is just history.

I don't think you're being accurate to say they differ "only in name". There is plenty of controversy about the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel being called "The Nobel Prize in Economics". The Nobel family doesn't like their name being attached to it since it wasn't Alfred Nobel that created it. Hayek was given the prize and stated that he, if he had been asked, would have advised against it because "the Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess... This does not matter in the natural sciences. Here the influence exercised by an individual is chiefly an influence on his fellow experts; and they will soon cut him down to size if he exceeds his competence. But the influence of the economist that mainly matters is an influence over laymen: politicians, journalists, civil servants and the public generally". I like that quote because it nicely encapsulates the difference in the fields of hard science and economics and the different effects of this kind of prize.
A rice cooker automatically goes from "high" to "low" once the temperature inside is above 100C (once all the water has boiled). A slow cooker does not.
A rice cooker is usually smaller and hotter with a thin metal bowl instead of heavy ceramic. It usually cooks rice in 20min rather than the hours required by a slow cooker. A slower cooker turns off on a timer, a rice cooker turns off when the rice is done.
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That's really interesting. I'm not a lawyer, just someone who did his thesis on Madison, specifically why the Constitution didn't fail in the way he thought it would; I can only speak to that. I'll read the PDF, thanks.

If you want, the Library of Congress has copies of his correspondence and notes, they're a really interesting read. You can also find them at http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php
By what authority do you judge a VPN fine for torrenting (I assume you mean warez) or posting a forum anonymously (I assume you mean posting content that won't get you in trouble with your government)?

It entirely depends on your threat model, and who you are trying to be anonymous from. You could argue that using a VPN gives you relative anonymity for certain things, but that's a moving target. For warez, you might be safe, but using a VPN for something that gets more heat... well that gets you in hot water, even with a provider you suggest. [0]

Also, hosting your own VPN doesn't make you any more anonymous. Nor does putting that vpn inside a virtual machine. And I would specifically advise against it. Getting a warrant on your VPS provider account is as difficult as your ISP.

[0]: http://blog.hidemyass.com/2011/09/23/lulzsec-fiasco/
FTFA:

Only after all the water is either absorbed into the rice or evaporated, the temperature in the pot rises above 100 degrees Celsius and the thermostat signals that the rice is cooked. The rice cooker then switches from “Cook” mode to “Warm” mode and you can attend to it at your leisure.

A slow cooker attempts to maintain a setpoint for a given time period, usually.
No, that kind of information isn't stored because of the privacy policy.
That's exactly our thought, Jack. This is targeted at the "primary caregiver" of the patient. The person who is doing the visitor organizing, disseminating information, and spending the most time there with them.
I am excited to hear that your entire site is built around this mission of intuitive explanations for things! I'll have to bookmark it and read more.
The author isn't saying that A<-B is a confusion of cause and effect. She is saying that B is itself an effect of C, not a cause. (A better way to say it would be "B is not a root cause".)
um no; we all just want to get in on this before the end of days. Who doesn't want to go out with their favorite JetBrains product?!
I don't know if there is a generally accepted definition of 'rice cooker' and 'slow cooker', I have one of each in my house and the difference in those two units is that the
slow cooker uses a timer and low heat, the rice cooker always heats to 100 C until the pot temperature starts going up above 100C and then switches to 50C.
C# is a great programming language.
I think this looks a bit like a service bus to me!
Keep in mind not everyone that submits articles to HN are the article's author.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to dismiss them, I was saying that while Silverlight for Mac works for somethings, it doesn't work for plenty. Further, not a single person in this thread has defended interactive Silverlight in Linux because Moonlight has never been but a joke.

I don't know how you can find the new portal to be worse. That Silverlight portal was one of the single worst thing I've ever used in my life. The HTML5 portal is quite nice, it uses the same endpoints the VS extension uses, giving them a single point of entry for management actions. I'm happy with the management portal now but am already aware of the CLI tools too.
That is my next step. I just wanted to make sure I am not duplicating others work.
Alright, gives me more time to nail down a nice query DSL :)

Nice to see OSX support, simplifies development quite a bit for us mac users.
> It's HTTP that is hypermedia aware, not the content-type

1. That's highly debatable, the very content type from which REST was extracted is hypermedia-aware

2. The LINK header only works for very shallow and broad linking, making it contextual to the content type will have as high a complexity (if not higher) as codifying hypermedia in the content type (consider a resource listing other resources, the equivalent to the HN frontpage, how are you going to match a given entry in the media — which may have a number of inline metadata — to its LINK? anchor? now you need to define an anchoring scheme in your content type. A link-extension? Now you need to define that, and you need to define the relation between the link extension and the content type. And of course you also need a custom relationship, which you'll also have to define, and you need your clients to correctly handle upwards to hundreds of LINK in a single resource) (and even with that, you're also making the client more complex because he'll need an explicit link-resolution step... and then, are URI templates allowed at all in a LINK?)
You need two basic things.

One is at least a basic way to organize your projects and tasks, ideally in such a way that you "capture" everything that needs to be done, and also can "focus" on the few things you're prioritizing or likely to get to first. I currently use asana for this, but no amount of reading blogs and trying different apps is going to solve for the problem that you need to pick a system and just be disciplined about using it.

The second thing you need to do is apply yourself to your tasks in disciplined ways. It means finding blocks of time where you are un-distracted & in an environment that doesn't distract you, and forcing yourself to avoid obsessively checking email, facebook, twitter, and what have you. Try Rescue Time (and in particular their Get Focused feature) if you have a problem with this.
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Couldn't agree more, "Slim HTML5 Boilerplate" would be a better title
Facebook certainly serves part of this need, but it's a very public place to be talking about what is often a private thing. We wanted to make a central, private, easy to use tool that friends and families can use to rally around someone and make their stay better.
from your local soup store

Where does one need to live to find soup stores? I've never seen one in a half century of living.
Sending an email now -- I note that you didn't state your location, so not all of it may apply.

Edit: Acchile0 is probably right. I doubt you'll have a tough time finding meaningful employment, but I completely understand the nerves that come along with having just dumped a ton of money into your Christmas shopping at probably the worst possible time, as people are generally not hiring at times like this.

Christmas is a lot more enjoyable when there's a steady paycheck at the end of it, for sure, but try not to let this ruin your holiday. Take a couple of hours a day and pursue employment as you can, but try to relax if you're able.
The logic is that the cost of the tax will be less than the cost of the extra mitigation measures that will be needed in the alternative.

Plus, you get automatic standard of living improvements by destroying more of the other negative externalities of fossil fuel use, like coal mining deaths, air pollution and dependence on foreign oil.
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I wish I could give you a link to one of Prof. Hicks's published papers on the topic, but I'm having trouble finding one that isn't behind a paywall. This seems like a nice introduction: http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/papers/physics-today.pdf

If you have access to journals through a university, you could take a look at some of his papers yourself (His website is http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/). They're easy enough for a sophomore to recreate the results. (I know, because I did for an independent study with Prof. Hicks.)
Wikipedia serves more traffic than Amazon, Twitter, LinkedIn, or eBay. What's their budget?
>Steam has a package so dependancies can be satisfied easily without resorting to "install xyz beforehand",

This isn't even true. The deb has dependencies just like any other DEB you'd get through apt-get. That's... kinda the point of package management...
I'm not sure you can get to the financial crisis without faulty models.

Sure you can. The root cause of the crisis was people gaming the system. There are many ways to game the system; faulty models are only one of them.
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Sent you an email, good luck!