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I use a number of keyboard shortcuts, but I still use the mouse a fair bit, especially when surfing/doing email/etc.

The nice thing about forward/back gesture is that it works almost everywhere, and I don't have to learn a different keyboard shortcut for each program. I accidentally discovered it worked one day and it stuck. It had never occurred to me to go searching for a keyboard shortcut to do it.

Expose is quite nice. In OS X command-tab switches between open applications (not windows, applications). There is no list displayed like Windows XP had. When you trigger Expose, every open window is automatically arranged on screen. You just click it with your mouse and everything moves back into place with the window you clicked now at the top.

I use command-tab when I'm in keyboard mode (such as coding) and Expose when in mouse mode (surfing, browsing email, etc).

I think you're right bout the Super-1 shortcuts. I don't think there is anything like that in the Mac. I usually have every program I'm using open, but when I need something else I just use Spotlight. Command-space opens it (I believe that was the old key combo, which I set Mountain Lion to use), I type a few letters, and hit enter. There are other programs that are faster or more powerful (Quicksliver and Alfred are popular), but Spotlight was good enough.

Tab switching doesn't seem to be standard. I know that in Safari the key commands are Command-[ or Command-], but I don't know if that works in other programs. When I first switched it didn't take too long to learn when to use command. But I also used Macs when I was a kid, maybe that helped.

One pleasant side-effect of the way the Mac has evolved is that the keyboard shortcuts work perfectly with Terminal. Both control and meta ('option' on the keyboard) work exactly as you expect. Control-c quits programs, control-d sends end-of-line, emacs is easy, etc. But the command key isn't used by any unix program I know of.

That means it's free to make life easy. Copy and paste are still command-c and command-v. You can clear the terminal with command-k, and standard window management things (-h for hide, -tab for program switch, -` for window switch) all work without interfering with whatever program you're running.

It's a total accident of history, but it worked out great.
These electronic cigarettes are pretty cool, nicotine without all the other downsides. There's no point in banning that.

Could this be used for ganja too?
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Is there any indication that the FDA will actually do this?
I'm going to go with "etc" from your list of choices.
A great part of the success of Skunk Works, or at least what I took it to be from Rich's book, was how coupled manufacture and design was done in the division. About a cardboard wall as separation, with design ideas and manufacturing troubleshooting going back and forth.

So that would've been counterproductive.
While I think you're correct that it may take some time for the newly sighted to be able to process the visual signal at all, the question as stated mentions:

"... the blind man, at first sight, would not be able with
certainty to say which was the globe, which the cube,
whilst he only saw them..."

The phrasing of "which was the globe, which the cube" presupposes that he is able to visually distinguish the two shapes sufficiently. If he can distinguish the shapes, this implies that he is able to process the visual input already enough to understand that there are two shapes. Given this, I can't understand how a sufficiently intelligent person would be unable to tell which is which through logical deduction.

Besides which, it would be a pretty lame philosophical question if the man couldn't even process the visual input to know that there are any shapes at all.
It's called bankruptcy. I'd get on it. Austerity is going to start civil wars at this rate. Oh yeah, and next time, don't bail out banks run by sociopaths.
I just VSRE anyways.
If I were a cigarette company lobbyist, I would be trying my damndest to put e-cigarettes on the same legal standing as regular cigarettes.

I would be stunned if this were not going on.
That's an oversimplistic evaluation of the situation. We didn't get into the financial crisis simply because people bought homes, we got into it because banks found clever ways to issue mortgages to unqualified borrowers and pass the risk off on someone else.
Nicotine is harmful in high doses, like > 10g. Cigarettes have something close to 1mg of it. You get intoxicated and die for all the other crap in it way before Nicotine is a problem.
(For historical clarity, in the code that was released after these comments were posted.)
So is caffeine.
Was it really not obvious what was meant by my previous comment?
The entire idea behind HSMs is to reduce the potential for them being hacked. These are FIPS 140-2 Tamper Proof devices. You rarely hear about these being hacked, if ever.
What’s the role of a personal journal in the digital age?
There are already FDA regulations which severely restrict their advertising, FTA:

"The companies are not allowed to market them as smoking cessation devices because that would put them in the category of other nicotine replacement products that are regulated by the FDA, such as nicotine gum or patches," Felberbaum says.

Certianly this slows down their adoption. This is his point: FDA restricting something harmful without regard for harm reduction. This kills people, in the net.
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> All I need is a product idea and a vision and I can bootstrap my company.

I think you're omitting a key thing here. You can't do anything without time. Time comes at a cost. If you're building this startup as your day job then that cost is directly monetary, as you will either be living off savings or be supported by someone else. If you're bootstrapping in your part time then your cost is your free time and family time.
I haven't heard a case for banning things that smell a bit funny... otherwise, can we please ban microwave popcorn?
What a ridiculous statement. How many people do you know of that became addicted to nicotine via second hand tobacco smoke?
> Looks like you're right - I thought you could do it by injecting a quote or something, but apparently not.

Still, I think it's a good way to think. Expect that there's a way for that input to do something malicious, even if it doesn't seem immediately possible.

I have a dynamic DNS daemon that fetches my IP via HTTP GET, and the first thing I do is validate that it's actually an IP before I do anything else with it.
No; you can pass arguments to ping, of course, but that's not helpful.

Sorry, gut reaction to command interpolation with curl.
You can get vaporizers for pot. From uh, what I have heard... they are pretty good.
No, that's not true, because the middle-men were actually paying the artists. But, nice try.
Banning perfume would be nice while we are at it. If I can smell you in the elevator, and you are not in that elevator, then there is a problem. If e-cig "smell" qualifies it for a ban, then I cannot see any possible argument for not similarly banning indoor use of perfume.
Well, yes.

But considering that, oh, say, batteries returned for recycling are going to be a relatively rich source of lithium, the recycling waste itself is no more viable a source than any other ore.

You can separate minerals from one another given sufficient energy inputs, but then you're getting at the issue of EROEI for the entire battery storage chain. Pretty much anything, even gold, can be extracted from seawater, given sufficient energy investment.
I think you are quite confused about the issue. This is not a restriction imposed by the FDA, this is a restriction manufacturers impose on themselves. There would be no problem marketing those cigarettes as smoking cessation devices, they would then just fall under the same rules as other such devices (nicotine patches, gum) and manufacturers don’t want that.

That’s the issue. Surely, if those cigarettes are marketed as smoking cessation devices they should have to follow the same rules as other such devices have to follow.

As to why those devices are more tightly regulated? Well, duh. They claim to have a medical effect. If you want to claim that you better, well …

This seemed perfectly clear from this passage in the article. You seem to be quite confused about it.
Well since the question asked for one website, I'd say Google News. It gets me quickly caught up with what's what in the world.

OTOH, for a longer read with topics I'm interested in, I hit Zite on my iPad or on my Android phone. I've got Zite configured with my favorite subjects, and now I'm fairly comfortable that I'm hitting 80-90% of the most interesting articles/goings-on without having to hit dozens of feeds or sites.
Didn't they prove this happens only if the water is impure?

If the water is purified, ie. steam distilled, the warm vs cold effect disappears?
Any particular reason you need to proxy the data through your own server? Seems like a 302 to the original image url would be quite a lot easier and more scalable.
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> Minarchy is basically, "Well, you won this one argument, but I still believe!" It's like "Yes, I concede that the Earth does indeed revolve around the sun, but the Bible is still inerrant and literal!"

Idealogical and political absolutism is a cancer in our society. These type of dismissive comments reenforce that mind set.

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Politics_is_the_Mind-Killer

The goal is finding the best solution, not picking the best team to back. That involves experimentation and compromise.
Why is this on hacker news, I don't get it - most readers here would earn a decent wage - what's the interest in super cheap eating. Is it because people want to self-fund their projects and live as cheaply as possible while doing so?
Are you a retard?
Maybe it just seems that way to you because you do not think they have a reason to become indigent.
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No, that’s not all! Philosophical questions also have to be relevant. That’s a squishy condition but I would really say it’s that simple. There is nothing special about philosophical questions per se, it’s whatever humans find intensely interesting and cannot (yet or ever) be investigated empirically.

(I’m pretty sure I agree with you that something like morality can, at its core, not be empirically investigated, though empirical investigation can help create clarity in arguments about morality, though I’m not sure whether that’s an absolute truth that cannot ever be changed. Free will? Nature of knowledge? Those obviously are ripe for empirical investigation. I don’t see why we should never be able to answer those questions conclusively and empirically.)
We allow alcohol advertisements on TV; why should we ban e-cigarette advertisements?
>A male invests so little in procreation relative to a female, that it's easy to imagine an advantage conferred to massive promiscuity among males. (anything that gives a higher percentage chance to reproduce would tend to beneficially differentially propagate a male-promiscuous geneticly driven behavior, in a way that it would not be selected for among females, since they are generally limited in procreation capacity per unit time in a way that males are not.

But that doesn't answer the nature vs. nurture question because the same evolutionary forces apply at the societal level: Societies with norms that promote greater procreation will have more offspring who are then socialized under the same norms.

It also doesn't explain the gender difference because females would presumably be under a similar incentive to procreate as much as possible, and doing so with multiple mates has various advantages, particularly if the initially chosen mate has some not initially obvious disadvantage (e.g. shares an unexpressed gene for a genetic disease with the female or is infertile). And the limited reproduction capacity doesn't resolve the issue because although it makes promiscuous behavior relatively less advantageous, it doesn't in itself create any disincentive for it and doesn't even entirely nullify its advantages.

So there would have to be some kind of disincentive sufficient to outweigh the incentive. And there is a significant societal justification for it: A man who mates with a promiscuous woman can't be sure whether he is the father of her children. In consequence the males have the incentive to mate with as many women as possible but primarily support the children of the women thought to be monogamous. And that creates the incentive for the familiar social behavior in which monogamous women gain an advantage by "slut shaming" other women in the competition for male support for offspring by implicitly but publicly calling into question the paternity of the offspring or future offspring of the promiscuous women, and each woman meanwhile tries to avoid such a reputation for herself so that a mate will expect a child she bears to be his and be inclined to provide support.

But that still doesn't answer the nature vs. nurture question because natural selection operates on both society and biology -- and it could actually be both. Over a long enough period of time society and biology influence one another. If females biologically predisposed to monogamy are preferred by males then they may proliferate, and when they are the majority they enforce a social order that provides incentives for their own biologically preferred behavior, which increases the biological evolutionary advantage of conforming to that social order and creates a feedback loop over many generations.

The practical question is whether modern society has broken the future evolutionary advantage of that behavior as a result of contraception, scientific paternity testing, etc., and left us with a vestigial set of social norms that we would be best to question if not abandon.
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This seems backwards. I think Germany is to blame, but for keeping interest rates too HIGH.

A higher Euro would INCREASE Spain's trade deficit. Spain needs a looser monetary policy than Germany is currently allowing. If the Euro were lower, they could export more and the real value of their debt would decrease.
I could also write my own version of /bin/cat, but that doesn't mean it's a good use of my time.
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" Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. "
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There would be no problem marketing those cigarettes as smoking cessation devices, they would then just fall under the same rules as other such devices (nicotine patches, gum) and manufacturers don’t want that.

If they are being deterred, then maybe the FDA regulation is too burdensome.
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Nor did anyone force countries like Germany to share a common currency with them.

I've never really gotten why one country would want to share only a currency with another country, while leaving their social and economic policies independent. But now that that's happened, the combination gets to stand or fall as a whole.
Actually....

>The original outside of pyramid consisted of smooth, white limestone that hid the layers of brick, giving the effect that a pyramid was one giant solid piece.
Nothing a little austerity can't fix, right? Time to fire more government workers.
Thanks for writing this Gem, looks absolutely awesome. I hope Ginger Proofreader keeps their API up also, but I will definitely write some tests in my app to make sure it's working. I noticed in your gem you are using your API key, and I'm not sure about their rate limits, but it would probably be in everyones best interest to get their own key.
I cannot believe how many people still buy cigarettes and smoke though. Stand and watch at your local drugstore how many people come in within 15 minutes to buy cigarettes.

If they are addicted then the industry failed at helping them quit and the government needs to force the industry to provide direct free assistance to quit. It's not a game where they should be able to keep making profit off known death.
I can perceive this as nothing but a horrible, horrible failure to account for unseen variables.
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It seems Iceland was in worse shape than Spain but they have managed to resolve their issues by revaluing their currency (similar to declaring bankruptcy?).

Why is Spain not able to do the same? I'm guessing it's because they are part of the EU and do not have their own currency?
My misunderstanding.
I need to update my citation:

"Land of Silence and Darkness" is the better source, though both may cover the subject. The two films are closely related. I think I saw them together, hence the confusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Silence_and_Darkness
Was any part of the above comment offensive? I'm a little perplexed as to why I've been (I assume) banned...

I personally don't find my observation about Ireland's large population of pale children particularly offensive. I happen to be pale and half-Irish myself (mom from Cork), as well as married to a pale Irish girl.

As for statistics to back up my claim that Ireland is a good bet relative to the remaining PIIGS, here is the % of population under 18 (from 2007, http://childrensdatabase.ie/sonc2008/part1/):
Ireland: 24.4
Italy: 17.1
Spain: 17.5
Greece: 17.4
Portugal: 18.7

Regardless, if I offended anyone, I apologize.

I still think youth is a strong sign of a resilient economy. True, Germany doesn't seem to be effected...I'd argue there are other issues there (a phenomenal capital market, for a start).
Fish oil is far more safer and effective...
Why is it the industry's responsibility to help them quit? Also, why is it the government's responsibility?
10 points!

Iceland is also a lot smaller than Spain.
Some of them don't smell (or at least the odor isn't nearly as much of an issue). There is at least one that my boss uses all day long that make it so that anyone within 40 feet of him knows it. I have no idea what kind he's managed to find though as it has no labeling and some bizarre cartridge.
I don't know why journalists, when writing about economics, invariably pick the least adequate people to be interviewed. Some time ago, there was a feature about unemployment for college graduates in the US... which talked about a woman with a dance degree. Now it's about a fucking cani [1] whose major accomplishment in life is pasting some rubber and metal together, earning 1200 undeserved euros a month. Before that, he did the same thing, earning 2500€ -- that ridiculous salary is the reason his Social Security benefits are so high. For comparison, many engineers here consider themselves lucky for earning 1000€/month.

What I find missing is how entrepreneur-social culture in Spain is, basically, the least funny joke you'll hear in all Europe. 23.3% of GDP are black market operations. The European country with highest quantity of 500€ banknotes per briefcase. 10% unemployment for workers with tertiary education. Esperanza Aguirre wanting to exile the poor from Madrid (it's a long story). Widespread, also not very covert, abuse from employers. That sort of thing.

Fortunately, the country is sort of duct-taped together, so it all works fairly well in the end. Not at all as gloomy as pictured here.

[1] Like a chav, but Spaniard.
London has an atheist church? Geez! Atheism is the opposite of religion. It is a LACK of belief. I'm atheist because I don't believe the claims of the church but I'm not making any claims myself. For all I know, there might be a god. The evidence just doesn't support it right now.
I think the author is focusing on the "self" in terms on her conscious state and how she feels. Like the difference between being drunk, sober, stoned, or hyped up. Look at patients on heavy anti-psychotics and you'll know what she means. Doctors focus on stabilizing people, not making them feel normal. If you can get up and shower and go to work, they're happy. They don't care that you might feel completely drugged.
That's a large part of it. Spain can't devalue it's currency easily, or get rid of their debt. Europe won't let them default and stay in.

They'd basically have to leave the Euro to do what Iceland did. And that would be complicated.
I was at an event recently where a man a few feet away was smoking an e-cigarette. After a while I noticed a sickly sweet smell coming (I think) from the cigarette. I found it very unpleasant. When I got home I searched for info about the smell, but mostly what I read was that e-cigarettes produce no odor, or at most a mild sweet one. Maybe I'm more sensitive than most to the smell -- it didn't seem mild to me -- or maybe it had to do with being in a confined space. If anyone else finds the smell repellent I'd be interested to know that I'm not the only one.
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I still don't really understand what you are trying to say

>> There is an effort from various direction to kill off content viewer plugins like them, and the APIs that allow them to exist, and it appears it's going to succeed.

While I agree that there are people trying to kill off the need for plugins, I don't think anyone is killing off the APIs that allow for plugins - can you provide any example of this happening? (Outside of phones)

>>You're right that EME is meaningless one way or another so long as plugins exist

I never said that. Nor do I think that. My point is that EME is doing the same thing as other - long ago implemented - plugins, but with a lot less of a surface area of attack and more likely to be made up of better code.

>> it's essentially a new plugin architecture

agreed.

>>that solves none of the problems of the previous ones.

I don't believe that most people would list DRM-ablility as an issue with previous plugins. Could you elaborate what issues you are referring to?

>>It's a bad idea for the same reason plugins are.

I think that those plugins are bad because it gives flash/silverlight/java/anythingElse access to a lot of native APIs that most users are completely oblivious to. If anything, it removes most of the security issues shown in those plugin systems.
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