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The point you make about design of the 787 is fitting. Many of us can appreciate its awe inspiring technological splendor. However, one does have to wonder if it's possible, that this feeling could be overly motivating your defense of Boeing, and criticism of Mr Musk?

We can probably agree that no one (Musk included), is without reproach. However historically we see a person willing to go all in, literally putting all his liquidity toward his new ventures. It does seem somewhat implausible he simply keeps striking it lucky.

I haven't the foggiest clue if he's right or not, but it does appear he's taken a calculated risk. Accordingly, he will be punished or rewarded as the story unfolds.

His approach seems somewhat harsh/brazen, but is that what really matters here?

When your're the unlucky patient strapped to the operating table, in need of critical surgery (assuming only two doctors were available), would want the specialist with the highest level of competency, or the one with the nicest bedside manner?
We might also be able to solve the world hunger by giving heaps of homework to mediocre students. Valuable nutrients which now end up in dog food could be made available to the starving masses.
Holy wow this is dumb.
need to work on the site speed for those lookups.
Stores Can Now Pass On Credit Card Fees to Customers
Curious: What do you consider adequate math for an beginning CS student?
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Awesome, looking forward to the update, and speedup.
Don't take dreams so seriously. Think of them as a reality check. You just asked yourself that "do I really want this?" and if the answer is yes, then don't worry.

If you do worry about money, stop :) Follow what you are passionate about and the rest will come.
Hey droithomme, could you please email some concrete examples (like I'm on page X, do Y after which there is a long delay) to attila [at] udacity.com? We're trying to iron out all the issues as quickly as possible.
Looks to be a different case. The mention was in the following article "The Cold, Hard Facts of Freezing to Death" which was posted to HN recently. I cannot find a more detailed source:

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/As-Freezing-P...

In fact, many hypothermia victims die each year in the process of being rescued. In "rewarming shock," the constricted capillaries reopen almost all at once, causing a sudden drop in blood pressure. The slightest movement can send a victim's heart muscle into wild spasms of ventricular fibrillation. In 1980, 16 shipwrecked Danish fishermen were hauled to safety after an hour and a half in the frigid North Sea. They then walked across the deck of the rescue ship, stepped below for a hot drink, and dropped dead, all 16 of them.

Reddit has some discussion of this, largely dismisses the 16 Danish fishermen story as a myth (though points to a couple of published sources as well).

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15jz7b/til_in...

http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/othpdf/500-599/oth519.pdf (UK compendium of sea immersion rescue issues, no mention of Danish sailors).

Basic Essentials: Hypothermia, by William W. Forgey, 1999. Does include a mention, but includes no citations, references, footnotes, or endnotes.

http://books.google.com/books?id=lFjkjoJKi-QC&pg=PA9&...
Yes, every teacher has experienced this.

A lot of teachers have become jaded and will assume every student who brings this up is a liar and a cheat.

The problem though is that although the majority of the cases are made up to get out of exams or assignments, a small number aren't. These students, in addition to losing their beloved relative then can become very distraught to find themselves unexpectedly saddled with a false accusation of being a liar.

Because of this, when I taught, I would nod and sympathize, then say that because there had been some abuse of this in the past, they could have an extension or such only if they provided an actual published obituary from a newspaper or funeral home. Some other teachers use another method, of having a certain number of exams or assignments that can be dropped without penalty. Of course what often happens in those cases is students drop an early exam, and then later claim injustice at not getting an extra one for the deceased grandparent.
> musk not an engineer

> ford not an engineer

> brunel not an engineer

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You have to consider the fact they probably didn't give out all of the optional pool. Depending on how many employees they hired and at what skill level. My hunch is they only gave out 8% of the optional pool. At most.
I can't say they are not important to me, but I can definitely see that importance, or rather pleasure from earning more than certain amount flattens out for me rather quickly. Very much like in this paper [1].

A bit of a personal story. When I just moved to Australia from Russia, there was a sudden and pleasant change in both levels of income and quality of life.

I started with mere $50k salary (2006) that I managed to double ($115k) in a couple of years (2008). This second change probably didn't feel as great as the first one, although it registered as kind of being nice.

Fast forward to 2012 and $140k of income - I honestly couldn't care less. Although it wasn't linear increase in after-tax money, yet still it was rather significant. Did it feel good? Barely. I have a blog post [2] that somewhat touches on that.

What's more important for me now? Being owner of my time and how I spend it. Money? Important, but only up to certain limit.

Hope it answers your question.

Thanks!

[1] http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/if-money-doesnt-make-you-happy-c...
[2] http://blog.nimblegecko.com/why-i-quit-my-job/
Before the iPad and iPad mini, they had the iPod, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch, and then the iPhone that could do everything that the iPod Touch does. Guess what? They all still exist today.
> Apple has transitioned from a small company with a narrow focus to a really big company with a much broader focus... Amazon, it seems, is more true to their brand.

Exactly. Amazon has always been regarded as a focused webhosting/video streaming/grocery/general store/digital device company. It's not like they started out as a bookstore or something.
Nope: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/duckduckgo.com
I'm willing to be convinced either way, but it seems to me that there's nothing in computer science you can't figure out by thinking or using pen and paper (maybe a lot of pen and paper). You don't have to "ask nature" as Feynman would say. Contrast that with figuring out the Gravitational constant, say. The only way to estimate its value is by doing some careful measurements (i.e. asking nature). Sure there may be some calculations, but without the measurements, they're a waste of time.
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This new material produces way better quality and bass compared to piezoelectric or film type speakers, which are used in our smartphones and speakers today.
No, the FAA says so, leading to a grounding of all the planes.
> If they don't, the surrounding ecosystem is less likely to standardize on a single promise implementation.

There's no need for a single promise implementation as long as they all implement the same API, in this case CommonJS Promises/A. And for the most part they do and are interoperable.
And that the safe modes are broken and still not safe.
I tried them all (including in other threads below) and litewrite was the only one that supported image drag and drop from the desktop! Wicked.

You can even resize! Awesome. And store your writings in owncloud. Ladies and gentlemen, this is how it should be done.

One minor nitpick: it would be perfect, if the text flowed properly around images. Currently images behave as thought they were each a single character.
Also, not sure if it is multiplayer (like google docs), but I don't need that.

Thanks for the link!
So they have a recent history of starting with an iconic product and then diversifying product offerings from there. I guess that does give their customers greater choice (which is not always a good thing) but it also complicates their production process. Since they're used to doing this, the iPad mini as a diversification of the iPad is easy for them to digest. I still get the feeling they're confusing their customers and complicating their jobs. Signs of a big company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

Its not without precedent...
Well, here's what I think: France had a religious rift in the past due to horrible religious wars, our brand of Christianism is mostly catholic as a result.

Self-determination and the myth of pre-disposition are core values of protestantism which largely influenced the way Anglo-Saxon societies approach self-enterprise and self-reliance in general. Luther was quite insistent that each individual should have direct relation to God through scripture, which promotes the idea that one gets to decide things for oneself and should not rely on middlemen. Protestantism also doesn't promote self-castigation as much as catholicism, which creates an atmosphere where people are actually encouraged to acquire wealth, thrive as entrepreneurs, etc.

In France on the other hand, our culture, due to the aforementioned mostly Catholic culture, success and the amassing of riches is seen as something you should not boast about and almost repent for.

I'm talking general religious influences on the collective unconscious of a nation as a whole here, particular cases might of course be much less coarse in their specifics. The other very important difference is the fact that France has traditionally tried to preserve a strong social safety net and government involvement in most matters (education, transportation, health care, roads, investment in research, major companies, national defense, etc) is still strong and has wide support among the population, which as you know means that everyone and businesses in particular have an obligation to give back to society as they grow (through high taxes), to ensure that we can then try our best to share the benefits with everyone for the greater good.

As a result of all this, there is much less of an incentive for self-entrepreneurship and much less possibilities for the likes of Google, Facebook, Enron or other American business behemoths to emerge, which creates an atmosphere where the emphasis on business is not as strong as it is in the States. We don't have channels as big as Bloomberg or other 24/7 stock market channels here, we don't know the ins and outs of lemonade stands at age 8, we don't read about trading theories, MBAs are not as big, etc.

TL;DR: The emphasis on business and self-entrepreneurship in particular is not as big in France as it is in most "Protestant" societies because we favor a model where everyone is in a mediocre middle rather than having people going through the roof and others down the gutter. Different approaches and I don't reckon either to be inherently superior to the other, they're just, well, different approaches.
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My senior year of college I wrote to the provost expecting a close relative would die close to my exams. His sympathy was immediate, and separately from that, an obituary or other certificate would set the incomplete/rescheduling machinery in motion. He did not apologize or explain, so by presenting his personal sympathy and his professional administration of a system he was able to protect both the school's expectations and an emotional, stressed student. I think this is the best approach.
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See my edit. Australians and Americans have quite different causes leading to attendance at law school.
Sadly I have experienced this.

I was in mourning after losing a relative and refused to participate in an overtly cheerful activity.Not only was I reprimanded for it, but later heard the professor felt the need to complain to other people as well about yet another kid 'whos grandma had died'. It just so happened that my grandma had not died, nor would have I cared much if she would've had, but a much more cared for relative.

Thankfully it was quite a lot of years ago.
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I like ST and have tried it a few times and liked aspects, but it doesn't make it easy to get started. For example a proprietary editor in 2013 it should have a gui for prefs and color scheme implemented. Also, not certain I want a package manager just for my editor.

If it had gui options and supported apt or pip I'd be sold. Still sticking with geany or notepad++ for standard text editing tasks and the heavy-duty ones for more.

Edit: looks like it may be in debian, but not ubuntu w/o ppa.
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You seem to think that the burden of proof is on the critics. When an airplane has multiple failures, I'd say the burden of proof is on Boeing. Especially when the critics know a lot about the technology in question.
The foundations of CS are things like sets, logic, formal languages, Turing machines, computability... all math.

Maybe you didn't learn that stuff in "math class" but that doesn't mean it's not math.
To be clear, we're talking about the Surface Pro here -- the one that has an x86 chip and can run your old existing Windows software.
In this case it is pretty pedantic I'm afraid. Engine subcontracting is pretty standard in aviation. Nearly all of the engine types I can think of are either GE or Rolls-Royce.

It's kind of like Rotax for motorcycles and Snowmobiles... give the designs or specifications to a supplier and have them do all of the heavy lifting.
It looks very amateur based on the front page. That's feedback regarding your comment about traction. I think it's great you got it out there. Clean it up a bit and pass out some flyers at job fairs!
Work on the URL-s. Consider that I write a page on iPad, and just want to copy the link to my laptop. /r53etZ would be better then a 1 mile long URL.
There's a simple pure frontend editor web app at http://litewrite.net - since it uses AppCache and localStorage you can also use it anywhere. Even sync with remotestorage.

Source is open at http://github.com/litewrite/litewrite
Major shout out for phishvids :)

I'd love to help with the transition to Redis if I get some free time in the near future, assuming you're still looking to go that route.
If you subscribe to versioning schemes like for instance semantic versioning [1], then the major version number must be incremented "if any backwards incompatible changes are introduced to the public API". In that sense, the change from Python 2 to 3 could warrant it.

[1] http://semver.org/
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Confirms this : http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_christakis_the_hidden_infl...
Furthermore, more conscientious students are more likely to grin and bear it, thus giving the A students a lower rate of reporting.
The text-file preferences are part of its charm, though.
Well, it depends. I would assume 50:50 as starting point. If there are 30 completely different screens, with little logic behind them - well then the designer needs a higher split.

Why not simply count hours on both sides until 1.0 ships and then split by the ratio of used hours?
I've found that humans are much better at doing than they are at thinking. Humans can generate countless hypotheses and evidence to support those hypotheses, and yet most human theories are flat out wrong. This is why we have the scientific method, which verifies hypothesis with good old fashioned elbow grease.

The real "five whys" question here is: "Why did this battery get through Boeing's (most certainly exhaustive) certification process and win FAA approval?" Boeing is well aware of the risks of lithium ion batteries and must have "proven" to themselves and the FAA that this design was sound through rigorous testing.

I suspect there is an "unknown unknown" here; something so unexpected a test couldn't be fathomed to exercise it. How does one find unknown unknowns? It's a fascinating question.
It really depends on your goals.
You can't compare conversion rates of a link to the homepage with a link to a blog post. Bounce rate on blog posts is always higher and the ppv is usually never over 1.5.

However when comparing HN to TC you should not just look at the raw numbers but also at what comes with it.
On HN if you're selling something on target, you'll get lots of advice and and feedback, Something you're unluckly to get on TC.
TC gives you credibility, it's a logo to put on your website's "Featured on" box and it helps you selling your product and doing fundraising.
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I recommend Adobe BrowserLab.
Which were all urban legends or misquotes, though.
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I have no financial stake myself. The funders do not get lobbying power and it is entirely non profit.
Diesel fuel and kerosene are good candidates for the "something other than gasoline". They'll both happily put out a lit match.
Is the site getting the firehose stream though? How do you get that level of access?
I guess the change in the law is significant. However, I thought that shop owners would assume that any large item would be paid for with a credit card and raise the price accordingly. I don't have any evidence for this, but, is it likely that the only effect of this ruling will be on items that are usually paid for with cash, ie those under $25 (or whatever reasonable number of dollars)
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Nope, I think it stems from the idea that a representation of someone=someone.

I remember reading a book from an american guy who recalled what happened to him when he was travelling in another country. He suddenly realized that he had lost his wallet (it was stolen) and it contained pictures of his children inside. Those were just simple pictures and he could have made copies once coming back home, but instead he wandered in the dangerous quarters of the city to try to find back the pictures from his wallet. He could have been robbed or worse, but he explained he was not aware of those risks at that time because the only thing he was thinking about was that "I have to find my kids back". He made a clear association between the pictures and the persons.

He then said he could understand the saying regarding pictures and souls, since he went through this experience.
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A full version of Windows 8 Pro and backup partition of the same (which, from what I understand, you can put on an external drive and have an extra ~20GB)
The only thing remarkable about this blog is how completely unremarkable the concepts chosen by the author really are. Let's go through them:

fetch - fetching the objects and metadata from a branch or branches from a remote repository

pulling from upstream - fetching from a remote repository (upstream, in other words all the changes flow down the stream to you, colloquial expression), then merge in the objects you fetched

cherry pick - choose which changes to apply ("cherry pick" them, colloquial term)

filter branch - modify a branch's history via filters

untracked - files that aren't being tracked by the source control system

symlink - a symbolic link, not even a git concept.

rebase - replaying all the changes committed from one branch onto another. Literally taking one base, and changing the base of a branch. i.e. re-basing the branch

tag - marking (or "tagging") a significant change in the repository

HEAD, head (note, mentioned twice by author) - a reference to the head of the revision history

working copy - the copy of a branch that you work on

path - really?

stash - you start working on some code, then you realise you want to change to another branch. So you stash away the working copy for later.

clone - cloning an existing repository so you can have your own to work on. That's why it's a DVCS

submodule - an external project from the main repository

fast-forward - when you merge a branch from another branch, git has the ability to forward the revision pointer quickly to the right point, see [1]

merge - merging changes

origin/master - the original repository. Convention.

staging area - also known as the "index", basically the concept is that you checkout a branch into a directory (called the working copy, see above), then you commit any changes into a staging area, then you push the changes into the repository

See? none of this was particularly hard to understand (although I grant you that "rebasing" and "fast forward" is a tricky concept, but hey, it's a source control system)

[1] http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Basic-Branching-and...
So, you would suggest that Apple provide the information to be used with Google Maps? Somehow I don't see that playing out too well for them.
Can't you do a P2P system when a lot of users are interconnected and then send some information to the prime server?
Looks fully clothed to me. Imagining him naked?
Thanks! That's the plan for sure, so we'll just have to see how it all works out
The best way would be to have access to Facebook Ads API. That would make everything really simple.

However keep in mind that you could only get a generail indication of the price through time for your given target. The real CPC Facebook apply to your ads change every minute and it's highly influenced by the quality of your ad.

The better your CTR is, the lower the CPC goes. Another factor that influence the CPC is how wide is your target. Usually targeting a small segment is more expensive than a broad target.

Anyhow, you can probably gather some useful data on CPC for your market from Optimal Social: http://www.optimalsocial.com/
The recently discussed http://mindmup.com works beautifully for me for this -- I just start lobbing the features and head noise into nodes and organize until some watershed where I realize I know what I need to do.
Okay thanks, I'll make sure I pick it up before we leave.
> It's the opposite of a meritocracy ...
You seem to ignore the part where I mention that the two candidates are of equivalent if not equal skill set. If pure technical expertise was all that was expected from people, we wouldn't be singing songs about people-skills, entrepreneurial spirit and cultural _fitness_ like we do. Most of these values decide only how well the person is going to gel with the team.
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Three meters long when it was cut. Two meters of it were used to attach the plug.
That's what he's saying. 4Chan came from SomethingAwful
A few comments about the text editor:

1. The first line, once selected, show the (b/i/") box too high up to be able to click. Need to let the pop-up-on-hilight change orientation based on position on browser.

2. Once clicked, the " makes the paragraph a quoted block. But there's no feature to unquote.
Wohoo, glad you like it! Image drag&drop and more goodness implemented by the awesome @jorin-vogel.

It would be cool if you can submit the text flow issue (and any more suggestions you have) at http://github.com/litewrite/litewrite/issues
Thanks!

Edit: Currently it doesn't support multiplayer, but we want to have public sharing in soon. Come contribute if you like. :)
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