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This article is the most long winded explanation to a fact I've ever seen on Hacker News. DUHHHH Obviously they could destroy U.S. utilities!
> attribute their poverty to God and therefore do not blame the rich or seek retribution....If the Indian belief system was like the Brazilian system, over here there would be a civil war.

that's interesting. I've always considered religion to be a form of control over people by a certain elite group. This gives me more anecdotal confirmation.

I wonder if indian society could be better served if there was a civil war, where the poor raise up, and appropriate the land from the wealthy. I keep reading articles like http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/08/generat... and it sounds like that would be a painful fix, but may be the end justify the means...
It links to the same page, so the music stop and start again....
"rooftop solar fucks up the utility model even at relatively low penetrations"

I couldn't have said it better(funnier) myself
I don't need to get jealous of sublime anymore..
Too complicated for an average user, too simple for a developer/designer...sorry, doesn't sound good for me. This said, in your shoes, I'd probably try to find a very specific niche, or maybe to turn into a service for instantly hot page creation, like 1 short-lived pages, or something like that...my 2 cents
The cost of 1GB of extra RAM is $20 in a certain range, namely where your system fits fairly comfortably on a single machine.

Once you get past a certain level, though, the cost of the next 1GB isn't $20, it's $20 plus the cost of another computer plus the cost of exploiting multiple machines rather than just running on a single one.

Then it's $20/GB for a while again, then $20 plus the cost of adding another machine, and at a certain point you need to add the cost of dealing with the fact that performance isn't scaling linearly with amount of hardware any more.

That last bit might be a concern only in fairly rare cases. But the first, where you make the transition from needing one machine to get the job done to needing more than one, isn't so rare. And that can be a big, big cost.

(Very similar considerations apply to CPU time, of course. Typically more so.)
> The energy efficiency of LEDs still doesn't beat CFL, except for really really expensive LEDs.

Not at all!

CFLs cost $1.74 per bulb with an efficacy of 64 lumens/watt [1]. LEDs cost $12.47 per bulb with an efficacy of 84 lumens/watt [2].

As far as LED bulbs go, $10-$15 per bulb is a pretty typical price. A more correct phase is "The average LED is 30% more efficient than a CFL, but costs 7x more." Anyway, both halves of your statement are wrong.

The big savings comes in flexability. LED bulbs are easily dimmable. Dimmable CFL bulbs are expensive and don't work well. LEDs can be turned off and on quickly without wearing them out. I go through a lot of CFLs in my basement, because the lights are turned on for three minutes at a time, several times a day. They actually burn out faster than the incandscents! Though in most cases it does not make sense to replace CFLs with LEDs yet.

Eventually it will, see Haizt's Law [3]. CFL tech has been improving too but not as fast. In 1980 florescent tech was at 34 lum/watt. Doubling every 30 years is a dead end.

[1] http://www.homedepot.com/p/t/100687000

[2] http://www.homedepot.com/p/t/204084366

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitz%27s_law
Sure. Just find two billiard balls that are indistinguishable unless God exists. Give them to your Bible-blind friend, and try to guess whether he switches them behind his back or not.
Popularity is essential to 'revolutionary'-ness. It's not revolutionary if no one uses it
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but what you've said implies that the desire to own more than the next person does exist!

If there was a limited amount of a certain resource, i would certainly have to own more than the next person in order to acquire that resource.
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Thank you for posting this. I didn't even read the article but my mind is a black hole when it comes to remembering names and I have been forgetting Sublime for a while now.
(&) = flip ($) in Haskell
In this context one should mention

http://deskthority.net

which holds gems like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2415265

and their wiki, which sorts this knowledge a little bit more accessible:

http://deskthority.net/wiki/
Does anyone know how these open streaming webcams are detected? Do they stream on a particular port? By the way, this is really creepy and the people having those webcams should at least be aware of it.
I'm a long time Thunderbird user but recently started using Evolution. I've tried it a few times in the past but didn't find the interface very appealing. It seems to have come a long way recently though and is being actively developed (1).

It worked out of the box with PGP. It worked out of the box with my LDAP based address book (both read and write unlike Thunderbird). It also seems much faster to me.

(1) https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/log/
I used to be a huge mechanical keyboard user and advocate (model m and apple extended ii), but in the last year I've switched to the modern Apple chicklet style keyboard. In my personal experience, I can type much faster and they still have enough tactile feedback to be accurate and satisfying.
http://www.reddit.com/r/keyboards is also a good community for mechanical keyboards.
A better way to understand Searching and Sorting algorithms
Also: http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/
I imagine anyone worth bringing on is busy working on their own stuff. It's in your best interest to explain your project. Most people will see your post and not contact you. They won't contact you, and you won't get the opportunity to show or say anything.
Python already has a feature called __slots__ which replaces the dictionary normally used to store object attributes with fixed, well, slots.
They just can't pay anything on government bonds, given the deficit that has been accumulated so far.
I think it's a bit short-sighted of a comment you're making. It doesn't need much work to make it simpler, nor to make it more advanced for a developer/designer.
That's awesome tma. Thank you for hacking on this. I'll plan to include this into subvim (ST2 like Vim) :)
Not so sure about #3 (random password generator).
This might be true in the case of a true brute force where each attempt is almost free, such as somebody getting your password from a database secured by a single round of md5.

In reality, most brute force attacks are attempted remotely where there is a bottleneck in terms of bandwidth and many services are rate limited.
In such a case it would always make sense to try the most common passwords first.

The problem with letting people choose their own passwords is that most people just aren't that good at it and will choose stuff like p4ssw0rd1982, because people's minds are somewhat similar they will tend to converge on similar "good" passwords.

I ran an IMAP service for a time. We would constantly get bots attempting to brute force email accounts, we had fail2ban set to ban them after 5 attempts but they could get more guesses simply by having a lot of IP addresses.

When I looked at the sort of passwords they would try they didn't start with aaaa and move on from there, they would start with stuff that looked like it had been pulled from a common password list.

About once every 3 months we got a call from somebody who's email had been hacked. They all insisted that they were using strong passwords that nobody could have possibly guessed, however when I enforced a strong password policy on the server and offered a random password generator these problems went away.
Or, of course a keylogger which will can just sit on your PC until it's got them all.
I am using a Ducky Shine 1 (DK-9008) with Cherry MX Blue switches. It's a lovely keyboard and I've really enjoyed using it. Definitely a keyboard I would recommend. The Shine 2 is out now, but afaik the difference is minimal. You can probably pick the Shine 1 up for a bit less now.
Goodwill loss is probably worse than the financial cost of replacing the phones under warranty. I figure anyone who lost their phone under warranty is unlikely to buy AppleCare in the future, and possibly not other Apple products. The lifetime value of a customer far exceeds Apple's cost of a warranty replacement for an older device.
Why is the Truly Ergonomic missing?
I tried TEK, Kinesis Advantage and SteelSeries Keyboards, and I think the TEK is the most comforable one and I definitely love it.

I suggest that you take a look at http://www.trulyergonomic.com
Schools here [Belgium] teach their pupils British English. Rightfully so, I'd say.
You do have a choice of where you work

Only if you don't care too much about where you work or what your work on. If you're happy to work on any old Rails app anywhere in the US, sure you have plenty of choice. If you want to work on cutting edge quantum computing close to New York, not so much.
The biggest problem with a Model M: it doesn't translate very well to portable use :) I enjoy using it when I can, but have an X1 with a traditional keyboard that works well enough (I'm also used to Chiclets).

I would love to see laptop makers innovate more on tactile keyboard feedback.
lets discuss ember data issues again. this time we'll have a breakthrough.
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with...

The other articles in that category are mostly equally exciting.
I didn't switch server-side languages, but I started from scratch 2 years later, in the beginning of 2008. I had developed my own Flash based AJAX system I called AFLJAX before then, and was using ASP.net 2.0, then started a new project with ASP.net 3.5, Microsoft AJAX and update panels.
Check out this story at Post and Courier.
why does it need to be anonymously sold?
An actual pyramid scheme involves you giving a cut of your profits to the person who signed you up, and getting a cut of profits from people you sign up. Nothing remotely like this happens with bitcoin.

Similarly it's not a Ponzi scheme because it doesn't involve the fraudulent transfer of new capital into fictional profits. Nothing remotely like this happens with bitcoin.

If we alter the definition of pyramid scheme so that Bitcoin qualifies, that definition would match every successful startup company.
That sounds exactly like my process of thought. Except for wild gesticulation, I rather trace the outlines of the object, which is less weird, but still gets me weird looks.
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Saving Private Ryan. It's the first time I had any kind of idea as to the suffering these people went through to give us our freedom. I know it is a film, and it is dramatized, but you watch that and it will give you some sense as to what it must have been like that. After watching that, and then Band of Brothers, the famous phrase "For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today" made a lot more sense to me.
I'm upvoting this until I ask to have my memories removed.
I have a Das Keyboard with Cherry MX Blue switches. At the moment it's just gathering dust as the home entertainment centre keyboard. The sound really got annoying after using it for awhile. I couldn't type at night because of it.

I switched to the standard Apple keyboard instead. I can't type as fast on it, but it's tolerable at least.
> it doesn't translate very well to portable use :)

Of course it does: you just need a proper bag like the guy in the Falling Down movie.
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Most one-time pubkeys are wrapped in RIPEMD-160 and SHA256, so you have to crack those first before you even get to cracking ECDSA. This also offers temporary protection against sudden appearance of quantum computer. QC can break ECDSA, but cannot break hashes fast enough. So people would have time to switch to another algorithm or at least agree on the last valid blockchain state and stop all transactions.
Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqncCjxGqGw
I use a Happy Hacking Pro 2. I think the tactile feel of switches are a mater of taste, and I'm not inclined to hard sell you on my preference.

Aside from a pleasant feel and sound, the keyboard's compact size makes it an ideal travel companion. It also has a control key where a caps lock key is found traditionally.

The HHK uses a Topre switch which is a hybrid between a rubber dome and a spring. http://deskthority.net/wiki/Topre_switch

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard

* http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards,hhk...

* http://geekhack.org/ -- quite informative about various keyboards and key mods.

[edit: formatting, and more HHK details]
I've been trying it, and do find it nice for small things, but a bit tedious for bigger things. Taking one of the examples in the animated GIF on the linked page, if you want to split a line on commas, with multiple cursors you have to select every single comma to 'initialize' the cursors. If the line has 3 fields, this is easier than using the regex, but if it has 10, then I find it a lot easier to just regex-split rather than spawning 10 cursors. I think I find 3 or 4 cursors nice, but past that prefer batch-style commands to manually managing a big set of cursors.
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So you can't see the matrix? Take the red pill (No, that's not Modafil painted red) Neo.

On a more serious note, when do you understand something? For me, it is when I can visualize how the parts of the function interact with each other, for example for Summation, how many little functions (those functions are visual images too) in a long finite line stack on top of each other and create a large something, that might get fed into something else.
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Alternatively, sell half your remaining BTC every time they double in value relative to the USD. Infinite money!
I learnt to type on a Model-M growing up in the 90s (on my father's IBM clone) and decided to buy one again 5 years ago for nostalgic value, but was astounded by how comfortable it was to type on.

After switching over to a Macbook as my main computer last year, I found it difficult to cope: my Model M didn't have the Mac keys, and Apple keyboards aggravate an RSI I have.

I managed to find a Model M with Apple keys (including media keys) made by Unicomp [0], and it is -- by far -- the best keyboard I've ever seen or used.

[0] http://pckeyboard.com/
What's really hard here isn't so much the advice but the how which the article thankfully addresses (though only briefly). More needs to be written on this. Routinely I find businesses afraid to interact with their customers which means then that they can't gather the infomation they need to be successful.
I usually recommend supergenpass to friends for this particular reason.

Some prefer stuff like keepass that let's them store everything - i'm happier to rely on an algorithm.

Key point is to make using different passwords in different places really simple, so that people do it.
Sure. European schools teach European English. I'm not complaining about that, I speak British English.
They are in the sense that 100% transparency = 0% opacity. But in the end, aren't they both giving the same effect in CSS?

In Illustrator, for example, the interface has an opacity setting but the help file refers to it as setting the transparency since that is essentially what you're doing when you lower the opacity. (Personally, I prefer the word transparency, it just seems clearer to me.)
A keyboard is a highly personal choice, so everyone will give you a different answer. That being said, while the feel of the keys on a model M is second to none, there are a couple of things which really annoy me when you take the keyboard in as a whole: first it's _loud_, forget about using it with people around, they'll most likely be annoyed. And second it takes up a huge amount of space on your desk.

Personally there is a keyboard which I find better than a Model M, a Cherry MX5000 (http://www.geek.com/chips/cherry-mx-5000-auction-1491235). Yes, it goes for ridiculous prices when you can find one, but it's a unique keyboard in that it combines three characteristics, it's a space saver keyboard (if you leave out the numpad), it's got an excellent and highly adjustable ergonomic layout, and it's mechanical (brown MX switches). The feel of the keys isn't as good as a model M, but on the whole I enjoyed using it more.

That being said, while I have an MX5000, it's stored away and I just end up using the keyboard on my Thinkpad (the new Lenovo island style keyboards are slowly growing on me).

It's fun talking about keyboards because they invoke a near fetishistic fixation with people who spend their days using one, but in the end it's just a personal choice.
An ambition to achieve wealth breeds an inferiority complex? Actually quite the opposite. In the states snobbery of any kind is severely looked down upon, as it should be.
No, no one else did.
Also also: http://geekhack.org/
compact G84-4100 Cherry mechanical keyboard here, $20 new off eBay ;-)

Makes a racket _if you hammer away_

Wish the cord was a bit shorter (might be 6 feet), other than that, love it, tiny little gem.
Are you saying you can't hallucinataste chocolate? The soft melting of a piece of milka, the soft stickiness of your tongue against your teeth, the feeling in your throat, and of course, the sweet cacao taste on your tongue? I don't know why, but if I think really hard about it, I can actually vividly imagine the experience of eating chocolate, but I can't have any other flavour in my mouth at that time. I can mix it with other imaginary flavours though, which is why i roughly know how a sauerkraut hot dog tastes despite not having eaten one ever. (Sauerkraut ufm wurstbrötl? Sapperlot no ma!)

One really curious thing that happens to me though is that when I smoke and smoke gets into my nose, the burn in my nose might trigger one of my taste memories, leading to me tasting some random thing in my mouth, from Apple Juice to seared steak. I do get some weird stares though when I suddenly say that taste out loud.
Also a HHKB Pro 2 user here. Absolutely one of the best things I've ever bought. Apart from the excellent Topre switches, the small format factor is perfect as you don't need to move your hands from the home row to hit any key (Fn key with your right pinky opens up F# keys and numerous handy shortcut keys like /, *, + and -, and of course arrow keys).

They are expensive keyboards, but when you spend your entire working day and then some on a keyboard, there's no reason not to splash out a little. It has lasted me a couple years already and it's still perfect. Considering buying a Type-S for home to see how that is in comparison to the standard model.

Oh, and that beautiful sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWPH7FAUfUY :)
Yes, but the processor doesn't flip the values.

transparency: 0;

!=

opacity: 0;
I feel like Mozilla is currently what Google was once upon a time (around 2005).
I use Model Ms, though on my main dev machine I have switched to a Leopold with Cherry MX Blues. I find the actuation force to be more balanced between keys, and a more pleasing curve overall.
Also also also: http://deskthority.net
I won't point you to the HN posting guidelines since you obviously know where to find them but with 11 karma I think you should work a bit harder to show by example rather than by voicing your dissent what you feel HN should be like.
Could you please add lighttpd as well?
It reminds me of that priceline commercial.

"How do you know you are who you say you are?"

"You called me"

So make a backup your site, change the password to foobob, and give them the account info. Proceed to change the password on your hosting24 account after it's done.

Else, move it yourself.
The biggest confusion is seeing Python/Ruby/JS as a programming languages. They are not. They are scripting languages. Something you put on top of your core code.
I'm not going to comment on the first part since all of that data is readily available, in real-time, on various Internet sites already. No need for a radio.

As to the question about the radios in cell phones the answer is yes and no. Yes a lot of modern baseband are nothing more than an SDR, but that's only part if the issue. The other issue is getting appropriate signal levels into and out of that device. For that you need specific filters and antennas for the frequencies you want to receive and transmit. For example, an LTE baseband can work on any of the LTE frequencies (and then some) but specific handsets will have filters for the appropriate region the handset is sold in. While you can change these it's just easier and cheaper to use something like a USRP.

If your interested in radio at all I suggest you start liking into ameture radio. There's still a ton of interning tinkering with everything from Morse code to data communications from 3MHz all the way into the hundreds of GHz frequencies.
I use a Razer Blackwidow Ultimate, with Cherry MX Blue switches, that I got for free. I love the thing though it is quite loud, loud enough to where I'll have to turn up the volume of movies or music if I'm listening over speakers instead of headphones. Also, typing on a rectangular keyboard for hours on end doesn't bother me whereas some folks may have RSI issues.
Well, that's pretty content-free. If you're going to assert that his biggest mistakes were essentially cosmetic (choosing the names “Apple” and “Mac”) you should at least attempt to justify why they were bigger mistakes than e.g. getting John Sculley in as CEO.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you describing a dictionary attack, not brute force?
I'm pretty sure this is false.

In math, anyway, graduate applications are evaluated by math faculty.
Exactly, if you want shit done you need to use Ruby/Python. If you want actual stuff done you use something else.
"Single sisters of my friends"

Let the game begin...
The Kingdom (Lars von Trier, 1994) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108906/ (The Kingdom II, Lars von Trier, 1997: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127392/ ),
do not confuse it with the remake Kingdom Hospital, 2004 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324864/
No but I'm not running exchanges with people's money. If you don't know what a float number is, you probably shouldn't be in charge of handling thousands of euros people trusted you with.
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if you look at the blog post again, I added more screenshots of the back end dashboard. The platform is more advanced than you think. Designers can use a server-side markup language to handle custom skinning of web page content & UI, along with half a dozen other advanced core features. complex applications that can be installed, tableless responsive design, editable web design template for every web site with built-in source-code editor, javascript-like server-side/client-side scripting language, 3rd party widgets, google analytics, near-live-editing of web pages, DNS management.
There are several alternatives to the Model M's "buckling spring" switches. They all have a different feel and in the end it comes down to personal taste.

* Cherry switches. These come in several varieties. Many manufacturers use these, Filco is probably the best. Be careful, many gaming keyboard use the Cherry "black" and "red" switches which are non-tactile and not very nice to type on (though gamers apparently like them).

* ALPS-type switches. Common in old keyboards but rare today. Mattias uses these.

* Topre's switches. Also by the Happy Hacking keyboards. Topre has some keyboards with variable key weighting, which is reportedly very nice if you've learned traditional touch typing.

I use a plain cheap Cherry G80-3000 keyboard with "Clear" switches. Build quality is less than a Model M, but I love the key feel.