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> What I would like to see is a Turbine/electric hybrid. It would answer most of the issues with running a turbine, and be able to burn a very wide range of fuels.

One reason this hasn't happened is that the goal is a fuel- and energy-efficient car, and turbines aren't very fuel efficient compared to piston engines, a popular misconception to the contrary.
What makes you think joe sixpack will ever know the truth? Chances are good that he is a birther or that he doesn't believe in evolution.
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I've never understood that notion of social stratification applied to modern socities. What kind of classes are we talking about? Isn't it just a plain linear function of your income?
I got stuck on Level 2 - created a few more branches and I couldn't complete the level. Goal completion check should be more open for additional work done as long as the main goal is completed.

Alternatively - some way of level reset should be provided.

Anyway - this is great work!
Yui3 over jQuery any day.
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Feedback in the sense of psychology, not systems theory.
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People used to use an IQ test scale that had 24 instead of the current 15 IQ points as the standard deviation. An 125 IQ in that scale would correspond to 116 IQ in the currently used one.
I always preferred to use MooTools http://MooTools net because it felt lighter than jQuery and the code you write is often less-hacky and sexier.
I'm not sure. The y-axis on this graph is just the rate of power consumption. It doesn't do much for you to use minimal energy while traveling 0 mph.

Efficiency, in terms on miles/gallon, is always a trade-off between traveling fast enough that the overhead of running the vehicle is less significant but slow enough that wind resistance doesn't dominate. There's a sweet spot in there.
I think the thing is that it takes something truly shocking to penetrate the defensive layers of "but liberal capitalism can't do this" thinking.

Our financial sector is currently hopelessly corrupt and, at least in the US, the banking sector itself has a total grip on any attempt to regulate it.
http://requirejs.org/ addresses the same problem (AMD style rather than nodejs require style)
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It says 70 hours, so I work those hours. If and when I can switch to a different unit of billing, I will. Per-hour basis is not without its flaws (the main one being that the last 2 hours are decreasingly productive).
> I know the WAIS caps at 155, but the Stanford-Binet test accomodates 160+, does it not?

Maybe, maybe not. Know why there's so much uncertainty? The population of possible subjects is too small. For a population with a mean IQ of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, the proportion above 160 IQ is only 0.003%. For a population of 300 million, that's about 9500 people. And remember that choosing the subjects would be a self-referential quandary -- you need an accurate IQ test even to select the population to submit to the IQ test.

So no, there's no basis for asserting accurate measurement in that part of the IQ distribution.

Extra credit -- Marilyn Vos Savant is supposed to have an IQ of 228. Oh, really? I'm not disputing that it's possible, only that there's no way to accurately measure an IQ like that. It's not reliable science or statistics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant
If Broder made factual errors, then Musk was right to call him on it. It's really as simple as that. Stop fudging and hemming and hawing about psychology and take responsibility.
This is not what I remember. I even have a printout of the full prototype doc hidden somewhere, it had clean and straightforward explanations for all the API.

Scriptaculous, built upon prototype.js, was nice too.
I couldn't seem to get this compiled on OSX :( Do you (or anyone) know if there's a OSX version available? What I like about ncp is that it first requires an action at the sender (push) and then at the receiver afterwards (poll).
"Breaking the internet" is a bit far-fetched. More like you should take considerations for the small percentage of people who don't have javascript/disable javascript/use NoScript (Yahoo places disabled rates at 1-2% [1]). However using Javascript form-submission to submit forms will work for the vast majority of users, if you're building an MVP a simple message stating "Please enable Javascript" will probably be enough. Accepting both javascript submission and browser submission should however be a longer-term goal.

[1] http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-...
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This is pretty embarrassing, frankly. Because once g3ene sequencing gets cheap, the money is not in sequencing different species, but in differential genomics on the same species.In the US genomics is friven by the hope of multibillion dollar drug discovery revenues or patents because of this idiot direct-to-consumer marketing of pharmaceuticals. In no other country do I know of so much money spent on selling products to people who are unqualified to buy them. Meantime the real (commercial and scientific) prize of individualized diagnostics and treatment is being ignored.
Somebody still needs to be the smart experienced guy. Somebody still needs to write the language VMs, low level libraries and interfaces, device support etc etc.

I really don't get on with this mindset that someone else can fix it.
The FUCK?
now what we need is a bit-tally-stick to handle IOU's in bitcoin the way that split tally sticks were used to handle IOU's in medieval times. In this way I could loan out the same money I have several times, with the assumption that I get it back before I have to pay it out really.

This may sound a bit far-fetched but there were cases in the Middle Ages of artisans doing exactly that. In fact sometimes they'd even issue their own token-based currency and settle the accounts with other artisans after market day.....
HN do not have a topic.
So it's a more discerning ThinkGeek... to other stores ;)

I must say, I found a few things I didn't think I needed, but I guess I do. Being a tinkerer, I can see myself getting a wee bit out of hand here.
I am surprised that node.js performs significantly better than python & pypy.
Can anyone have some explanation?
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No it doesn't. The entire point of having corporations is to shield investors, not to shield decision-makers.
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Shameless plug here but I'd say Common Node is pretty good: https://github.com/olegp/common-node - it lets you write your server using a synchronous style while retaining the low memory usage and quick start up speed of Node.js.

For example https://starthq.com is using about 35MB of RAM and is easy to debug despite some pretty complex business logic around generating site thumbnails.
We could have a bitcoin iou protocol.....
The y-axis has units of [energy]/[distance], I think I'm interpreting it correctly? It seems to take everything into account in there.
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Gnucash can download the transaction history from my bank directly, so I guess steps 1 and 2 could be folded together into one.
I found that browserify tried to do too much by emulating Node within the browser so wrote JoinJS which just implements CommonJS modules without trying to parse the JS files: https://github.com/olegp/joinjs
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No, a different standard deviation doesn't change the scores, only the predicted population distribution of the scores.

If you sit down to a standardized IQ test, your score won't change because someone thinks the distribution of scores within the population is wider than someone else does.
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If you're an Emacs user, you may want to give Emacs IPython Notebook [1] a try. I suspect that it would solve the keyboard shortcuts issue.

[1] http://tkf.github.com/emacs-ipython-notebook/
Tesla could do themselves a big favor by simplifying the display of range estimates. And improving their accuracy. It sounds like the kind of thing where you have to always assume it's a lot less than is being displayed.

How does that help anyone, including Tesla?
well, for a lot of Chinese students, they tend to study the courses that may help them get a job. These engineering courses are much more helpful than humanities course.
Would you actually hold your shoe up to your head? I can't even imagine..
CurtWelch's comments in that article are fantastic.
The website of the host company Veber (nee POBox Hosting) is also down: http://www.veber.co.uk/. See also http://www.linkedin.com/company/pobox-hosting.
Yes, I mostly agree with you here. You meant 'contemporary' western civilization - hence my confusion.
Ask HN: Where do you get ideas to build side-projects?
I'm a 24 year old developer.
Evidently I like to program, but I have no ideas of what to program.
I've looked around, to my friends and family, but they have no problems they'd possibly pay for to see solved.

Some people say they have too many ideas to ever work on, but I have the opposite: time, but no inspiration.

Any input appreciated.
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After the initial reaction of "Neato!" I started thinking what it would mean if when I first got my legos (a big tub, hand-me-down from an older cousin), they had come with a few dozen of these. I can't imagine what I would have built, but it certainly would have been more interesting... and I might have grown up with somewhat stronger convictions about interoperability and the senselessness of walled gardens :)
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Yeah, I'm definitely confused. I don't understand how a car traveling 0 mph can have a finite value on that graph if the y-axis is [energy]/[distance]. I was hoping the units were [Watts][hours]/[minutes] or something to make everything better.
Very common here in India too. At least when I was studying it was all about, "Get your kid to do Engineering/Medicine and then every thing will take care of itself".

There is a big reason for this. Uneducated people get played for easily and there is that huge disadvantage in non-knowledge driven based jobs. Take for example the job of a cab/bus driver. Or some body like mason, the problem the money you earn is directly related to number or hours/quantity of work you get delivered. And since quantity is largely related to a physical activity in this case. It means you will do a lot of physical labor to earn more money. This is not scalable and becomes blatantly clear to a lot of people involved in this. Add to this that these kinds of jobs don't get much social respect.

My dad was a bus driver. And I know what it was for me as a kid. It was always to study my ass off or be doomed. And yes all other standard social problems apply. You are always considered poor and assumed to remain such till eternity. No one likes knowing that he being a educated white collar knowledge worker, his kids and the kids of a bus driver ultimately get the same destiny. I even had problems getting married. Coming from a low financial background creates big problems. People find it hard to accept if you win, and pass sympathies if you don't.

So the only way remains: Study and fight your way out of the situation.

My teenage through early 20's was the most stressful phase of my life. Because failure was not an option. No money to do business, So if I fail it will going back to same life.

I'm not saying life is rosy as a programmer. It has its own problems both financial and in other aspects of life. But yet its far better than what I saw in early parts of my life(Nothing I will tell you, can explain you what it feels to be in that place- I only hope no other kid goes through that). I don't feel sad that I can't buy an iPhone. But rather its satisfying to know I don't have break my back just to eat, wear clothes and live under a roof.

Its still same here in India for a large number of people. Education and a white collar job doesn't fix all problems. But it does fix enough problems in your life to make it livable.
That was REALLY obvious advertisment of your startup :P
I'm tempted to hide sshd behind websockets, partly for this reason. It seems too much hassle to be worth it though.

(To be clear: my concern is about reducing my exposure the next time there is a sshd 0day exploit.)
Here in rural China (on and off ~11 years), honestly the most educated and worldly person I spoke to in the last week or so was an exotic dancer from another province who had picked up some foreign language and was evidently far more intelligent and motivated than the majority of downtrodden graduates. She said she didn't finish high school. I thought to myself: "that's probably causation not just correlation".
My guess is that jQuery targeted and solved a problem that was bigger for a broader base of people doing JavaScript development: the DOM API (and some other browser APIs) was both pretty awkward and inconsistent.

Prototype.js seemed to be targeting the problem of providing a familiar class system, standardizing some functional features, and some utility functions. It was something else, and I loved experimenting with it and reading the source, but ultimately, I think fewer people were finding this to be their pain point with the language or that using it made them significantly more productive.

Of course, considering the fact that they seem to solve different problems, it may be an interesting question why they were fighting for mindshare in the same space.
Didn't the authorities recognize that as a Democrat she has immunity from prosecution, much less criticism by the masses?
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In internal combustion engines with manual transmission be sure not to overdo that, high gear and very low RPMs are bad for the engine/transmission due to high load and minimal oil lubrication, it's also not efficient on fuel, there were local magazine tests done, but I don't have references now sorry.

On an automatic transmission the transmission control module will figure out the gear for you at given conditions (won't let you get too low in the same gear) and what you say will be true.
I hear by 2015 they will finally implement these new fangled information windows called "Desktop Notifications".
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I don't find walled gardens senseless at all. One of the nice things about a box full of Lego (not legos) is that you can take consistency for granted. It's the difference between a language with a clear grammar and a pidgin language.

I'm not against things like this, but there's no guarantee of interoperability producing superior results. You're just as likely to end up with a chaotic mess if you don't build with a plan in mind; one of the other benefits of a single system is that it forces you into more creative problem-solving.
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When I click this link to read, the page turns out to be not avaliable…… I should get access to it by ssh, I suddenly remind that I am just a junior studying in China.
I went further still, and imagined a pitcher full of beer and a dozen topless cheerleaders.

I didn't read the article, though.
But driving at a slower speed uses less energy, so it should (theoretically) increase the range.

Of course, the energy consumed in 1h of cruise driving is less than 1h of stop/go "at the same speeds" (YMMV of course)
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Just looked again. She's left her hair dye off the sides of her face to make herself look older and more pitiful. Hogwash, I say!
Your life is perfect? Every single object your hand touches and every website you go to each day can be improved. Innovation is a sort of mindset. You're not going out looking for a quick billion dollar idea, you're trying to improve that 5 minute unpleasant experience we all encounter at some point each day.
Once you have a computer that powerful, you have probably removed the need for all human thought and have computers smart enough to micromanage literally everything.
For me it's often some new tech as main trigger for new ideas and projects. I see new stuff and I just want to use this tech and look what could be done with it. Not the best way because tech-driven ideas often bring up solutions which don't have a problem but at least you get started, play around and then better ideas come by themselves.

I.e. Node was the main trigger for many of my projects and brought me back to web development when it came out and web development was kind of crusty and stagnating.
Are there problems in your immediate community? (Online or otherwise)

Are there any open source projects you make great use of but have yet to give back?
I have heard from a guy with same hard-of-hearing problem and he was quite against implants ... his impression was that they are practically impossible to upgrade, and they replace whatever ability of hearing you might have left. Conversation has happened 3 years ago, so maybe things have changed for the better. (Another of his concerns was, that he felt pressured by his MD to get an implant)
I found they have another graph with the same units (written "Wh/mile", so that's unambigious). But it has a different shape, with a minimum at 20-25 mph...

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/model-s-efficiency-and-range
Yes, the only situation where it would increase your range is if you're going downhill (for a long stretch) and you're keeping your speed constant using the brakes

Not sure how Tesla does that (if it does 'engine braking')

And of course that's negated by the fact that you'll be going uphill in the way back, using more energy
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> But driving at a slower speed uses less energy, so it should (theoretically) increase the range.

My comment wasn't about low speeds, it was about stop-and-go driving. Driving at a steady speed is much more efficient than braking and then accelerating again.
While it would indeed be enormous, it wouldn't be infinite - after all, they are writing Servo (See https://github.com/mozilla/servo/wiki/Design for details) that's hopefully parallelizable. Of course, whatever that ends up being might not be Firefox.
box2d-jquery, (note: i mashed, hacked'n'slashed it myself) when it's done it will be an html/dom based (physics) game engine (then it might even be useful), now the feedback i get is just:cool
Heather's cat finding demos are siiiiick.
I'm one of those people with too many ideas. Can I give you my ideas to build and we split any profits?
People who write spam filters do though.
Great summary, and I too think that it's best to separate one discussion about blame/responsibility/trust and a different one about the architecture/technology.

What I feel is also missing from most comments about the technical aspects is the effect of running more than one process on each node (which is possible with rails using e.g. unicorn). Being able to process more than one request at a time on each node should alleviate wait times and bottle-necks, even with a simple e.g. round-robin routing layer. It might not be the absolute optimum, but it could still provide a pretty good / good enough balance.

As a side note about the overload scenario you mentioned - It's very interesting to consider, but we can easily get dragged into Denial-of-Service territory, and designing against DoS is an even harder problem in my opinion (until you considered handling 'normal' load anyway).
Now I'm curious - which of those courses covered the pumping lemma or LR(1) grammars? I'm surprised to hear that they are relevant to a Discrete Mathematics, Control Systems, or Digital Design course.

Or was those covered in your compiler course?

We covered graph theory in discrete math - it wasn't an independent topic - so I'm surprised that you didn't cover it in your discrete math courses. As I recall, first semester was more combinatorics and second was more graph theory, but I don't recall at this point.

Also, in reading the ACM curricula guidelines, I came across the comment "As is typical of most programs in engineering, this program has a smaller general education component than Curriculum A described in this appendix, with more hours devoted to computer engineering topics."

That is (and using your earlier terminology), a computer engineering degree is more specialized, while a computer science degree will include more non-CS courses and give a 'more versatile, open-ended' education. :)
I agree with your first point that 'walled gardens' or closed systems like Lego provide consistency, however the second video in the linked article demonstrates a kid who I would argue is more creative by thinking beyond one system. ( https://vimeo.com/37778890 ) In the video he is "thinking outside the box" and building a car by connecting three different construction kits. Of course this requires him to have an understanding of all three systems (rather than just one), but the potential is to build things by that would otherwise not be possible. [edit - link to video]
THIS. I've been using this in my projects and it cuts a lot of work and makes my code way cleaner.
Both of these videos are of the disintegrating reentering satellites, not meteors.
So, what you're saying is - you want to build an online community of people with time and skills, to match them up with people who have ideas and inspiration for co-founded projects?
Obligatory pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html. Start here.
Actually if someone asks you something point by point there's nothing to stop to you from copying the questions to your top post and replying "inline" there.