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I'm kinda torn about such announcements.

Here's a new material that is stronger, lighter, and thinner than anything else on Earth. 300 times stronger than steel! One atom thickness! How cool is that!?

So you have this amazing breakthough and the (first?) application to use it is... "build cell phones that are extremely light, durable, and less susceptible to overheating"? Seriously? Should we feel excited for shaving off a few grams of weight from 0.12 kg toy gadgets and making them last longer? Most people rush to replace their iThingie N when then iThingie N+1 hits the stores after a year or two anyway. Are these real problems, even as first world problems go?

Reading such news feels like hearing about a child prodigy with PhD in quantum physics at 16 working on ad targeting problems for Zynga...
Is the issue interference or they want to stop people taking pictures and sending them or offering free hot spots?
Hopefully this is a fixed-gear aircraft...
someone else released a paper: http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/052.pdf
"All big (and finally successful) ideas and ventures were born by sitting together, day for day"

Github are a distributed team, Digg's programmer was a remote employee (from elance IIRC). Linux would be another biggie.
An unconventional bonanza: New sources of gas could transform energy markets
Facebook Data Provide The Most Accurate NFL Fandom Map Ever Created
Someone I used to work with called Conshohocken, "Workpants, PA" because it seemed everyone walked around in blue overalls.
I want to second chc's comment that something can be important and impact many people, yet still not be news.

(Also, HN meta-discussions or any articles about Bitcoin tend to get flagged into oblivion as well. I guess people are just tired of reading that stuff.)
Compass lags, trying to keep a heading via the heading indicator is trickery than it sounds. Ground references are the way to go.
Ok this sounds interesting and and is new for me (having informal hangout time on Google Hangout).
Here's my big secret about remote working...

I sit at my desk a lot less, but work a lot more. I'm one of those people that simply cannot solve complex problems while sitting at a desk. Because I'm not beholden to butt-in-the-chair syndrome, I am free to spend an hour or more going for a walk, visiting a local coffee shop, or taking a bath so I can think and problem solve before typing into a console. As a result, my work takes less time and requires fewer revisions than when I was sitting in a chair at an office.

The down side...I'm always at work. In order to create the separation I have to make sure to leave the laptop upstairs in the office or else I'll just keep working at the kitchen counter.
Your comment is derisive and not useful or appropriate. Not only do you mock the parent poster, but you don't provide any counter evidence besides a mixture of anecdotes and opinions.

Please work on your civility.
Thank you, I was skimming through a lot of posts to find that.
We were there last week and I didn't see anybody at all walking around in blue overalls!
SEEKING WORK - NYC or remote.

I am a mobile software engineer who focuses on building Android apps. Within the last 2 years, I have built five Android apps plus two reusable Android SDKs. You can see all my work below:

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Food for thought, here is a visualization I've made in an app for tracking team mood: http://i.imgur.com/PUUYGKI.png

It's pretty easy to spot what days were good, bad, and in between. You can start to see patterns (Every other Tuesday seems to be better, why is that? Oh, that's when we had donuts!).

If you were to apply the Three Chart rule, this would be a line chart since it shows change over time. I find the calendar visualization much easier to interpret than a line chart in this case.
It might be worth mentioning "We determine this by sending a harmless request to your web server. The request doesn't do anything -- it is designed to be rejected with an error, much as if someone typed a URL incorrectly and requested a web page which doesn't exist. If your application is vulnerable, it will respond with a particular error code, whereas apps that are not vulnerable will not. [bold]This vulnerability allows attackers to execute code on your server, but we don't actually do this.[/bold]"

I mention this because I have lately had a lot of experience dealing with Rails devs whose attitudes with regards to security are akin to "If you don't do voodoo then voodoo can't hurt you." We should take special care when communicating with them to a) emphasize that we're not the bad guys and b) explain, as many times as required, that ignoring the bad guys does not make the bad guys go away.
One of the key facts I hear about privilidge over and over, is that it is so ingrained in those who benefit from it, that they don't even realize it. So how else are they supposed to understand if you don't explain it to them? Essentially your message then becomes "You're bad but I can't tell you why, you should just know" which just seems like you're wasting their time. If it's worth their time to care, it's worth your time to explain it.
Slightly more advanced guide that I like -

http://giveupinternet.com/2009/01/16/chart-of-the-charts-cha...

They hit the most important thing about chart making right on the head: What are you trying to communicate?
During my first flight, my instructor let me try what I could. I was well on my way to crashing short of the runway when he informed me that I was done.

Mark one datapoint for "would have died".
The laws and boundaries around citizenship and taxation really need updating in these high-tech times.
How long did you expect the article to stay on the front page?

Which story currently on the front page should be replaced by your article?

As I write this it has 41 pts and 121 comments - that seems like an article that got some attention.
Robohand: how cheap 3D printers built a replacement hand for a five-year old boy
Adding power is one of the first things you learn when covering stalls during the private pilot license progression.
I love working remotely. My current arrangement has a gotomeeting standup every day, jira for tickets, hipchat for persistent chat (I had to recommend persistent chat to them but now they love it), and frequent code pairing through screen sharing. They all go home at five so I can stop then, too. I wonder sometimes if there are other similar arrangements out there - java, spring, etc - but it seems like a pretty high bar to clear.
Well, I too was part of their customer base, but not anymore. If this is what the company stands for, consider me out. I'd much prefer purchasing products on their merits than some played out douchey marketing scheme.
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It looks like he's arguing that ideas, art, and smells should be freely shared.

He says that data moves like smells. The only thing is, there are laws that are meant to protect you from having your medical records smelled by arbitrary folks who shouldn't / snoops with no right to do it.

I do not expect to have my medical records performed in a public setting by third parties, and I would not accept any amount as compensation in the form of royalties if they did. Those people should go to jail!

I have no argument with Paul Graham's position on smells and data. There's a difference between a thing that is sold and published, and a thing that is shared under confidence. That is the whole idea of HIPAA and other data privacy laws.

I am on the fence about copyright in general. That is not what's at issue here.
yet total government revenue as a percentage of GDP has been pretty stable since then

I'd be very careful using GDP for anything. A while back I took a look at the finer details of how GDP is defined by the US government, and more importantly, how that definition has changed over time.

I wouldn't trust GDP further than I can throw a truck. As a metric it has become nearly useless, and (I feel) highly deceiving.
I dunno, if there's one company that I can imagine would drop an entire market, it would be Apple. I wouldn't like it, but fortunately for me I don't really need a really powerful machine (I do mostly web development on a two year old 11" MacBook Air).

I'd hate to see this occur, and I don't think it will anytime soon, but it seems possible to me.
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Show HN: I made a shimmering web version of my agency's annual poster
Heh. I've found HN meta-discussion actually is really controversial, so it usually goes that way. Some people will upvote it because they think it makes a good point, and then others will downvote it because they feel like, "I don't come to Hacker News to talk about Hacker News."
I know what you mean. No matter where I work, big or small companies, I never really feel in the same peer group as CEOs. I am working in tech, though, so even if I don't feel like I'm a part of what they are doing I recognize that people outside of tech don't really see it that way.

As unfortunate as it is, businesses produce a lot of technology and hire most of the people working in tech on a daily basis. Even if I don't like it, those businesses are a part of the field I'm in and what they do affects me, esp. if they are contributing to alienating women who already have a hard time breaking into or working in tech.
I have no idea why but, that thought just stuck with me. I rode a bike through there a few months ago. The outer Philly burbs are indeed a nice place to live.
I just got the email the other day about PHP integration, thank you!

These guys are awesome, when they released all the other libs (ruby, node, etc) I reached out to them about PHP but had an issue with the email address they provided. I tweeted at them and got a reply almost instantly with a different email to try and once I sent my message I got an email reply almost as fast as the tweet. They were super friendly and helpful and told me they were working on it.

Thanks for everything, keep up the great work!
If you don't do it, someone else will. And likely with less pure intentions.
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The author has it wrong, and I hope he corrects it. If you hear a buzzing noise, that means the airplane is going to stall if it loses more speed, but there's a chance that the speed is too low given how high the nose might be. Adding too much power at that moment, depending on the exact level of the nose, will cause the plane to lurch upward, which would definitely increase the chances of a stall. The right step would be to lower the nose to get more lift over the wings, and slowly add additional power as more airspeed is gained.
> #2: When done right, it makes people extremely productive.

Do you have any tips as to how to make this "done right"?

I, and a few of my remote friends, have hard a really hard time being nearly as productive while remote. I find myself really proud of being able to accomplish 4 hours of dev work when at a coffee shop or at home, but in an office I can work 8-10 hours without putting much thought into it.
Mind if we copy that verbatim? :)
Why isn't this posted in cockpits?
Nice job; love the fluid to mobile layout. Excellent idea! I can see myself using this to pan for new project ideas. Good luck!
The major difference being that the US ranks dead last among developed countries in every way that directly impacts the life of the average person on the street. Life Expectancy, poverty rates, murder rates, education, etc. etc.
Thank you. I am shocked by the comments and finding it hard not to take it personally. But I know you are right.
I have a friend who is a small-plane pilot -- think Cessenas, things like that. I asked her, "Would you be able to land a 747 if the pilot died and the copilot was incapacitated or something crazy happened?" She said, "I think so. Get on the radio and ask tower where the autopilot switch is. They can land themselves."

Of course this was not in the spirit of the question but I thought it was an entertaining answer.
I didn't get the impression that neya is too concerned about the pilot's safety, or anyone else on the flight for that matter. Seems like a solo jump to me.
With a megalomaniac leader who has already dispatched two key developers, setting the project back months in the process? I suggest you don't. Instead, check out the http://diydrones.com site founded by former Wired editor Chris Anderson, and particularly the open source / open hardware Arduino based Ardu Pilot Mega (APM) flight controller, and software http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/ArduCopter.
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Thanks for the warm welcome, Nicole!
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It's more of a toy than a game, per se. The thing is, it's set up to generate great moments of gaming fun, but in a different way than a more scripted game is.

In a scripted game an NPC might give you a quest to go to some particular place and do a particular thing. In minecraft you create your own quests based on your own needs and desires. For example, you might decide that you want to create potions, for this you need netherwart, which you can only get from the nether realm, but to get to the nether realm you need obsidian, which can only be mined using diamond tools, so you start off by deciding to get diamond tools and mining some obsidian. To achieve that you may have to travel far distances, explore deep caverns, fight off hordes of monsters, and narrowly survive many threats. And along the way you are likely to have an experience that is just as exciting and just as memorable as any scripted quest.

Also, getting lost is a big deal in minecraft, which makes it a bit unlike many other games. Ending up several days walk from your home with no idea where you are and with night closing in and monsters soon to be everywhere is something you don't get in most games. You are far more in control of your fate in minecraft which makes your successes that much sweeter and your failures that much more painful.

It's not for everyone, and there's a good argument that the game is too easy once you've mastered it (although there's always hardcore permadeath mode) but there's no denying that there's a lot of fundamentally good gaming in there for people who enjoy the style of play.
Many popular games have been built on XNA.

The Dishwasher, Elysium [EDIT: actually called Dust: An Elysian Tale], Eufloria (the first version), Terraria, Magicka, Skulls of the Shogun, Bastion, Breath of Death VII, Weapon of Choice, Fez, Sol Survivor, and The Harvest, to name ones that I can remember off the top of my head.

This doesn't include games in the pipeline that are being built in XNA.

EDIT: Forgot Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 and 4 (forthcoming).
Would you define someone who gave away until they only had 100million remaining as more or less generous than someone who gave away until they only had 25k remaining?

How about if the person with 50k gave away 25k, but the billionaire gave away double that? Who is more generousness in that case?

It seems fairly plain to me that utility of what was given away is by far the most important factor in determining generosity.
I'd probably move to work at Matasano if they thought I had something to offer. Getting my wife to move is another story!
I really don't understand how objectifying men makes objectification of women less offensive. It's OK to dehumanize people as long as we do it equally?
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Nothing wrong with employment.
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Thanks! Meant to be fun, simple and useful, that's it ;)

Which mobile device were you using, out of curiosity?
As with microcopters, there are plenty of duff microquads on the market, but the Hubsan X4 (google it) is easy to fly, and very durable, and a cheap way to get into the hobby at about $50-60.
Actually what happened was that the post triggered the flamewar detector. And judging from the comments, correctly so.
So you don't see how protecton of privacy of children is a subset of protection of children?
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> it would be an emergency, and the call would be "MAYDAY".

Came here to say this. An untrained person in control of an aircraft most definitely justifies declaring an emergency.

I didn't really like the article. Honestly, if you're in a light aircraft and the pilot conks out you're going to get badly hurt if you survive at all. Landing a plane feels very weird for a very long time. In a big jet you'd have a far better chance: your controller can talk you through setting the autopilot to take you to a big airport, and then have you set autoland. (Of course, that scenario is pure movie fantasy, whereas the first is actually quite likely!)

If anyone is interested in this sort of preparation, I'd recommend taking a $50 intro flying lesson or - better - signing up for the AOPA's "Pinch Hitter" course, which is designed to teach non-flying spouses of pilots how to do just this. It's saved a surprising (alarming) number of lives - a lot of private pilots are fat old men who get heart attacks.
Pitch, power, airspeed, attitude. Nosing down is the first move.
How is this better than working through a book? If I can't download and install Haskell, then learning the language is the least of my problems.
Welp, there goes every plan I had this weekend. Thanks.
Did you continue with engineering after the freshman classes? I also went to VT, and my classes got harder every year, except for maybe senior year but then I was expected to do a senior design project on top of regular classes. But talking to my other engineering friends, it was very dependent on the major. For Civil engineering freshman year was the weed out year, for Aerospace senior year is the weed out year.
But you can't run Xcode on Snow Leopard any more (well, the current version). Admittedly not as much of an issue, as it seems Mountain Lion solves at least some of Lion's pain points.
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The problem in the US is that the most vocal proponents of this are trying to use it to get their children into parochial schools rather than academically superior ones.
The USNWR college ranking is for colleges, not graduate schools. The law, medicine, business, etc, schools have their own rankings. Berkeley does very well in those graduate school rankings (indeed, Berkeley and Stanford probably get the most top-3 USNWR placements of any school).

At the undergraduate level, however, the rankings measure something different. Essentially, they measure: 1) the test scores and grades of the incoming freshman class; 2) the reputation of the undergraduate program; 3) how much money (directly or indirectly) the school spends on undergraduates. As a big state school, Berkeley can't measure up in these categories.

Incidentally, I'm not sure the USNWR rankings are totally senseless in what they measure. For undergrad, I went to a big state research university with very highly ranked graduate engineering programs. For law school, I went to a private university whose undergraduate program was ranked in the top 20. While the two situations weren't directly comparable, I have to say that there is something to what USNWR measures. The experience of being a student at the big state MRU was terrible. Enormous freshman weed out classes, professors and TA's that didn't speak English, outdated facilities, etc. The experience at the private university was wonderful. Very supportive administrators, great facilities, approachable professors, etc. My law department was about the same size as my undergraduate major school, yet I got more personal attention from professors in my first semester of law school than my entire time in engineering school.

That said, attempts to game the rankings creates terrible incentives for universities. Pretty much the whole ranking boils down to how much money you can spend. You can buy high SAT's by spending more on scholarships, you can buy smaller class sizes by spending more on professors, etc. That works fine for well-established private schools with enormous endowments, but not so much for state MRU's. Berkeley's $3 billion endowment supports 35,000 students. Duke's $7-8 billion endowment (depending on how you count) supports 15,000 students.
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mes amis, extorquer de Google ce que vous, mais il ne va pas changer votre modèle d'affaires.
That thing? Not a chance. The motors have no power, and the props virtually no inertia. A newborn pinkie would stop it in its tracks.

A full size quad, hex or octo on the other hand can do some serious damage, from serious cuts to digit reduction.
"GCC suffers from layering problems and leaky abstractions: the back end walks front-end ASTs to generate debug info, the front ends generate back-end data structures, and the entire compiler depends on global data structures set up by the command line interface."

Chris Lattner, "The Design of LLVM" http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/the-design-of...

(Seems possibly relevant to the boundary issue.)
That's true, but also the problem. Which university should, then, these best students hang out at? I think we all agree they should be at the one that is the best at teaching them, or which has a style of teaching that works well for them. But we wouldn't know that because most of the ratings can't (or rather won't) discern this. Why is school A the best? It has the best students. Why do they have the best students? Because school A is the best school. So it's not bad for figuring out where the school you belong at is, but a complete non-metric for the school itself - they can't tell how they rate at actual education or if they're a good choice teaching wise (or if all the students would be better off congregating elsewhere - they'd still have each other as well as potentially better teachers).
Not sure it was the best, but they worked very well. Powerpoint with some automation code under the hood can be absolutely brilliant in a presentation. All of a sudden your presentation isn't just a bunch of slides but you have a real instrument's control panel come to life and be usable on slide 59 (or whatever).
If your life depended on the bug being fixed, articles like that would be justified... (even if they can only help .01% that's still worth it.)
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LOL. This comment is awesome.
So what is the exploit, and how do we fix it?
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Californians pay 13% state taxes plus 37% federal at the top end. Not that far off the 57% then.
What, like this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH_k5TC433g
curious, how does faculty-student ratio relate to prestige?
A few years ago at AOPA I attended a seminar on this. Turns out the success rate is extremely high provided you are able to get in contact with someone on the ground.
I've posted a little bit more on our blog at: http://blog.tinfoilsecurity.com/use-rails-check-yourself-for...
You will essentially have zero cell coverage in the stadium.. iphone / imessage users can use the wifi to send/receive texts... "hey need another beer?"