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The only reason people are talking about terroist and airplanes is because the airport continue to remind people of it each and every minute on the speakers.

If someone say "don't think of the red elephant", its not odd for people to say "what red elephant?". That's normal behavior. In same way, if you stop someone at the airport, the first thought people will think is "I am not a terrorist!".

You right however that saying "I am not a terrorist" is a bad strategic thing in a discussion. It anchoring you to something bad in people mind. It would be better to say "I am not the president of the air line, but I am a VIP priority customer for united", thus anchoring "the president of the air line" and "VIP priority customer" to peoples mind.
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It has everything to do with 9/11, and the subsequent 'promotion' of flight attendants to security guards. If you doubt that, then just try to imagine the same scenario happening in year 2000...it would not have happened. This is also related to human psychology, as shown in the now classic Stanford Prison Experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
The early church had many disagreements, especially over observance of Jewish law such as circumcision. But the Judaizers (as they are called) essentially lost the debate, which Paul was active in, and the Church became rather Gentile-oriented. Many other things were up for dispute as well, such as the exact nature of Jesus, but these were ultimately ironed out under ecumenical councils which ratified certain dogmatic truths such as the Trinity. Beginning with the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, convened by Constantine, Rome sought to define Christianity properly and began to eradicate all heretics, such as Arianism and Catharism, though some remote groups such as the Copts evaded them due to being out of their jurisdiction.

Christianity thus maintained relative internal consistency under the Roman Church, and spread throughout Europe, until around the year 1000 when the Greek Orthodox split off from the Catholics. However, they still maintain very similar dogmas (including that circumcision is unnecessary).

Martin Luther did his work in the 16th century which caused a great deal of schism in the Church; until this time Protestants did not exist. King Henry VIII abandoned Catholicism and invented Anglicanism. All of these people nonetheless still believed circumcision was not necessary and it was not generally practiced in Europe, and many of their liturgical beliefs were much more aligned with traditional Catholicism than modern evangelicals.

It wasn't until the US, with its enormous variety, lack of traditional oversight, and radical re-interpretation of the Bible by individuals, that circumcision regained some religious significance in fringe groups. Pentecostalism in particular did not start until the 19th century. However, after looking around, I can't find any evidence that even they universally see circumcision as a religious requirement for Christians. Some Christians practice it anyway, but not as a religious requirement. Incidentally, so do many atheists.

I think it can be said that not only the New Testament but almost the entire history of Christianity is against circumcision being a religious requirement. There was disagreement in the early church, and there is disagreement in some fringe groups today, but it was never a mainstream view.
What kind of problems have you had with S3?

I think we've all been affected by EBS in someway the last couple of years but I've not run into S3 issues.

Could you elaborate?
Of course when you take the worst possible scenarios it doesn't look good.
"The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer", Neal Stephenson

(as always ;) provides some additional "nice" ideas for this kind of future warefare.
Less overhead, easier management, lower total budget. Unmanned Mars missions need not be terribly expensive, perhaps only a few tens of millions of dollars, depending on how it's built.
India has both signed and ratified the Outer Space Treaty, that prohibits countries from making territorial claims on celestial bodies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
Exactly the same video submitted yesterday, to extensive discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5245345
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Light grey or "wheat" (as defined by X11's rgb: 245 222 179) work well, too, and are more neutral than green. I have my terminals and Emacs wheat-on-black and I love it.
Found it
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1206086-BY-1103157IV31
There should be my email somewhere in the profile, no? (check again, just added in profile)
Well it was horrifying enough. I guess it's a small step to be terrified of another Transformers movie ;P
I've been in is situation, and the best feeling was when I called the shots and quit. The last thing you should worry about is investors: they are not paying for guaranteed success, and they should know that. It's exactly like a lottery ticket - they pay for a chance of success, and that's what you deliver.
>However, it would have been impossible for the pilot to verify this

The OP could have added the guy behind him who also took photos into the conversation. But I agree, the pilot was right to take him off the plane without any further information.
That would be really great. Me being skeptical pays off after all. This is why HN is so great.

I look forward to your blog post.
In that case, with the available information, you should strive to make the page better than it is. Under the circumstances, no one will be able to offer more apt advice (though some may try).
You want outlandish?

--- aggregate all the google Places entries in your city

--- ask your local chamber of commerce (if that exists in the UK?) if they have a listing for every business in the city. Chop up and categorize

--- Using the google maps api, create bundled experiences for visitors. It's one thing to find the best restaurant. It's another to find the best restaurant next to a good theater. It's an entirely different thing to go from park to bar to historical mansion, tracing the life of Count Dead-for-a-long-time. Ask tomasien on HN about his experiences with thecityswig.com

--- write a business-owner-facing page (that is basically an API for humans) allowing them to have special deals, pushed to mobile apps. Charge business owners at least $x to avoid spam.

--- record meetings of the city council and upload them.

--- consider a discussion board. reddit style, discourse style? I don't know.

--- take inspiration (of the positive or negative variety) from my hometown: moraga.ca.us
Google is working on creating a new protocol named QUIC to replace UDP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc
How do they make the evaluation evaluation, when they don't earn anything? I would imagine it is hard to put a number on a user on their site, when they dont generate any income?
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Your choice of filesystem makes a big difference. We tested 14 FS configurations with 5 embedded database engines. The results ... none of these new journaling filesystems are worthy for these workloads, EXT2 creams them all (with one notable exception). (Note that newer DB results are on http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/. The spreadsheet of filesystem-specific results is at the end of the july/ page.)
For all those curious in this thread.

And

For those wondering what benefit this can possibly serve.

There is no cold war like situation here in India. Also US and Russia have already been there. There is also a huge problem of poverty, corruption and every other social evil known to man exists in India. So why go to mars?

For a country of India's size, you will never ever go to space if you wait till all other problems are solved. Because given the very size and population of India, problems are a given. Of course a mission of this importance will serve your usual technology and science benefits. Like ISRO's previous mission to moon, there will be important findings and discoveries. But besides this, its a matter of huge national pride.

Contrary to whatever you may think a lot of development and great work happens in India. So its not like we only have call centers, or IT services companies here. We have everything from Nuclear weapons development to Mars missions in India. And like every other country we would like to send out a message that we can do it too.

Sounds naive and childish?

No, if you think from an Indian's perspective. I find this project a worthy endeavor in many ways because it serves more than one purpose. Growth of technology and science, inspiring the youth to work further in this area, ensure India earns well deserved respect in the global space research community and also pave the for further space exploration.

Coming to budget, 454 crore spent for a project of this importance is chicken feed if you ask me. Besides if you can prevent one minor scam in our country you can run a project like this.

Overall I feel this is an amazing project, and I feel proud that my country is executing it.
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Azure also seems cheaper than EC2 right now. Or at least in a couple of micro instance scenarios I just looked at they are...

I might have to give Azure some time.
Like everything from Science Daily, this is a pure reprint of someone else's press release. Here's the original from Springer:

http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select...

and here's the article itself, from the lead author's website:

http://wdeneys.org/data/De%20Neys_substitution_revision.pdf

Incidentally, the article addresses mistercow's criticism: "For example, some critics might spontaneously argue that since our control bat-and-ball version is easier than the standard version our findings are trivial since they simply show that people are more confident when answering an easy question than when answering a hard question. It is important to stress that this critique is begging the question. The crucial question is of course whether or not people realize that the classic version is hard. That is, the control version presents the easier statement that participants are supposed to be unconsciously substituting. What we want to know is whether or not people note this substitution. If people do not notice it, then the two problems should be isomorphic and they should be considered equally hard. In other words, arguing that people notice that the classic problem is harder than the control problem underscores the point that they are not oblivious to the substitution."

I'm not sure quite how convincing I find that, for two reasons. Firstly, since it's possible to ask equivalent questions in different ways, it seems like someone might (1) genuinely think the question they've been asked is the same as the easy one, but (2) have found it harder to parse or something. Secondly and (I think) more importantly, isn't it possible that asking people about their level of confidence provokes extra reflection? Participants may have substituted obliviously, but then -- only when asked "how confident are you in this answer?" -- realised on some level, to some extent, that something wasn't quite right.
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Suggest HN: Anonymise usernames between threads 
There's a pretty common problem of "hero-worship" that happens in many discussions on HN and in other communities. Various users tend to use the notoriety of their username as a club in discussion, and to be honest, act like pompous asses. Their opinions are held in higher regard, not because the words are thought out or relevant, but simply because people know who they are.

So my suggestion is fairly simple: for each thread, assign people a randomized hash for the conversation to show instead of a username. The hash persists for all their posts in that thread so that you can follow back-and-forth between users, and clicking on the hash will still take you to their user page, but the initial "this was said by XXXX, so it must be an important opinion" would be broken.

As the hash is still tied to the user account, hopefully people wouldn't start acting like they're fully anonymous (it's just a random, very thin mask, after all), but what they say won't be held in massively high regard just because of their username (instead of what they say actually being worthwhile).
How important is to conduct a remote task in usability testing?
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The current look is much, much better than anything on Warby Parker's website. Those look terrible.
> Now, understand that being average is OK, and pretty awesome too.

I disagree, anyone who has the balls to start something new, whether they succeed or not, is far from average.
Azure also seems cheaper than EC2 right now.

Probably by design, MS has a lot of leeway when it comes to spending thanks to Office, Windows and Enterprise. Amazon's profits are razor thin so MS might be trying to pressure them even more.
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Prior: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4854839
You beat me to it...I was primed to type "How much did Microsoft pay for this review?". That said, I cannot make any direct accusation. But, having been in this industry for >25 years, I did learn long ago to be very leery of such reviews when made by an industry "trade rag". I know from having worked for very large technology companies that, cynicism notwithstanding, reviews in trade rags are indeed often "bought".
Some of these things doesn't seem to infeasible, although some of the suggestions to solving the technical problems may not be very accurate? The wings seem rather awkward.

The capabilities of these quad copters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2la4pIyXOEQ) aren't so far off. Then you have to add person recognition and a bunch of other stuff. It's supposed to be "moderately visionary".
Yeah. The US sorted out all THEIR problems, like poverty and civil rights before they started building all those spaceshi...uhmm, wait...
Wait, 454 crore is 83 million dollars? That _is_ amazing! That's like 8 pebble watch projects on Kickstarter.

"An engineer is someone who can do for $1 what any damn fool can do for $2".

India has a ton of great scientists and engineers, and I agree this is a mission the nation should be proud of.
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You know what has become the "Best Java" for me?

Lua.

With the LuaVM, you really can fulfill the absolute promise of 'write codebase once, run anywhere', where "anywhere = wherever you've got your LIBS+LuaVM host code running", of course.

You can do it in a compact, highly performant manner. One host binary for each supported platform, much work at the vendor layer to adopt to a common Lua dictionary/table, and the rest is .. as they say .. fat city. All nice app case logic in a comfortable, friendly language.

Java long ago become an unweildy beast replete with inane dependencies and insensitive amounts of hassle to get things in and out, whereas with the Lua stack, it seems, one need only know how to do things at least with a C stack, first, to gain immense benefit.

I daily dream, in my idle moments, of a complete OS based on a selected set of normal/plain-ol' /usr/lib C-libraries, but booting directly to Lua, for GUI and all higher-layer goodness. Such fancies are already tickled in places like LOAD81 and MOAI, and so on, and I think sort of prove the point, a little, that the VM is no longer something a vendor controls, but rather .. the developer.
Amazon had about 60 billion in revenue last year. 1/3 of 150M inst so much. Jeffy B wrote a personal check for ~30M to get in on über, for comparison.

Edit: totally forgot, amazon already wrote most (all?) of the living social investment last year. So I guess they got out when the gettin was slightly less terrible.
If flight attendants got everybody that they didn't like kicked off flights, it would seem[1] that there would be barely anyone flying.

If I pay for a service and it isn't delivered there better be a damn good reason. A lie about me doing something that I wasn't or me stating that I am not a terrorist are not good reasons.

[1]http://longhaulflightattendants.tumblr.com/
"Oh, and that culture fit crap? That's just discrimination - rebranded! "

On this point I couldn't agree more – thanks for putting it so bluntly. I've been trying to figure out what irked me about "culture fit" for a long time.
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In the case of phones maybe it's the fact that you've just been holding it against your body for a few minutes.
I had been lurking for years and just started to chime in. Kind of wish I had made an account earlier to get more cred ;)
Maybe, but whatever keeps the market competitive is fine by me. Without Azure then Amazon has no reason to even re-evaluate their pricing.
The US was far richer than India is now when the space program began.
This was really interesting. There's some stuff that seems similar to the way I work and some stuff that is completely different.

Like for you, you process math as a visual representation of what's happening. For me, math is just a written language. I don't see anything, I just read it, write in it, and think it when neccesary.

If there's something I can't understand without a diagram I can try to imagine one, but I usually just draw one. To imagine a system it's like 'speaking with my hands'(or like I've read that sign language works), I arrange the symbols in space, I know where they are in relationship to each other and how they interact. This set is over here, its members go through this function over there, ends up in this bucket here. I guess it's more symbolic and spatial than visual. It's like building a factory or some other kind of apparatus out of symbols that have various relationships or interactions.

All of this happens as I move symbols around on paper or the screen also. It's how I learned how to do math in my head as a kid, repeating things to myself and placing symbols in space.

I also have a strong inner monologue. I tend to think mostly in language but there's also a 'compiled' component, in that when I've really processed something just the symbol is enough.. they don't necessarily have names, I can't put a name to them. In my internal monologue they're just spaces that are filled with feelings I guess. So f(x), that I've internalized might be something like "So, when we put ___ through ___(this one is f) we'll get.."

I suppose sometimes I have no idea what the hell I'm thinking about in terms of a specific symbol and it stands for some computation I haven't completed but I can see how to complete.

I wish I had started with functional programming and lambda calculus, thunks and lambdas seem to map pretty closely to my software.

I also love just when I nod off to sleep, but mainly because that's the best time for me to think. That's the time when I can truly visualize whatever I want and in that state I feel like I can simulate the machines I'm thinking about freely.
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I'm wondering if you would have said the same thing about quadcopters 10 years ago.
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Technology can be used in many ways, and I believe it has no inherent "evilness" to it; it's all in how it gets used. You can do both wonderful as well as horrible things with, e.g. medicine, nuclear physics, electricity, computers, 3D printers, etc. Granted, the video shows off a military application of this particular technology, so there isn't much particularly warm and fuzzy about it.

That said, I'm a bit surprised at the overall response from the tech sites I frequent (HN, etc); it's almost as if everyone universally agrees that this is the epitome of evil or something. IMHO, there are far scarier things that will happen in our lifetimes.
You don't have them going on a shooting spree unguided. Even an evil military superpower will have a human making the last call on pulling the trigger. Have the drone sending a video stream as soon as it discovers a target that seem remotely interesting. Let the operator choose what get to live another day.

Point being, a single operator can potentially control many drones spread out over a large area.
> When does it shift you to another parallel universe?

According to this interpretation there is no "shift", just copies. In fact, this interpretation is attractive exactly because it doesn't have the weird feature of the copenhagen interpretation where the wavefunction collapses when it is "observed", whatever that means.
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The PS3 could do that. Except it didn't work well for a few games. I remember horrible frame drop experience on Assassin's Creed, which was due to a game or demo that was downloading in the background.

Also, think of the power user case. I'd much prefer a 3W processor waking up during the night doing silent updates, instead of the whole 100W monster (or maybe a fifth of that if they do intelligent power-gating).
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"And say we don't have a replacement. Say we just have Altavista-level search technology. How much of your daily internet usage is still possible?"

Possible? Sure. But I have pretty clear memories of searching through _many_ pages of results in Altavista. I have very few memories of searching for things in Google, which arguably is the point.

It's interesting that the argument being made against Google here is much the same argument that fans of Google often make against Apple :) I think there's plenty of merit to saying that Google is a pretty amazing technology company purely because we don't have to think about what we use their products for, which in turn lets us use them more (whether that be navigation, search, etc).
I've no doubt that there are some 'power users' who tend to err on the side of arrogance, however there are plenty of well known users who's opinions I actively seek out simply because they are experts in their field and their insights are valuable.
checkout http://upverter.com as well
My startup idea for this round of YCombinator is to translate the laws into Prolog like clauses and have a search engine interface which replies with relevant sections applicable.

Not like the idea would be accepted but, this is a good direction to move into.
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When you’re looking for a bug it’s terribly hard to not get
bogged down in details at the expense of seeing the bigger
picture. An outsider doesn’t have those details so that
helps tremendously. The lesson I took away from that day is
that when I’m stuck I ask an outsider.

This pretty much sums it up and isn't limited to software engineering at all. Having chased some hardware bugs on my own I came to the same conclusion: one conversation with a not involved colleague ending in the question Well, have you checked (the obvious) X? was more productive then some hours or days of bug hunting.
I'm on Debian (unstable) too, I like it very much! I was commenting on the command line (bash, etc.), after learning PowerShell it just seems so... primitive. It's text-oriented, so you have to parse everything and there is no automatic tab-completion except for the commands themselves (i.e. I can't type nm<tab> --ti<tab> agg<tab> for `nmap --timing aggressive`). This is normal, as bash is MUCH MUCH older than PS, so I'm not expecting it to be on par with it, but I can't help comparing them...