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It's indexed by a number of scientific abstracts services[1], but not being a physicist, I can't tell you how significant that is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Moder...
yes but the number of bins isn't increasing.

EDIT: nm, I saw where you can increase the bins.
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Awk is definitely one of my top 10 useful utilities.
No, it is a property of Bernoulli trials. The distribution is a Binomial distribution, not a Normal distribution. They do, however, look similar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Binomial_Distribution.svg
I feel like my ability to focus is better now than it was 20 years ago, but my motivation is lower.
It may not be a big change in the scheme of things, but if less government involvement in an industry can be accomplished without any noticeable effects to that industry, then isn't it almost true by definition that the government involvement should be decreased?
"One crazy trick. HR managers hate him!"

Let's stop looking for crazy tricks. Generally, there aren't any.

Some stuff is simple, some stuff is complicated.
So, i'm pretty disappointed that you took an article posted on FireDogLake (http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/29/imprisoned-cia-t... ), simply pulled the PDF and the text which they transcribed by hand, rehosted it yourself, and then posted it to HN.

Especially since you did it without any citation/reference (and since FDL notes that they did the legwork on this).

Edit: I'm going to give the OpenWatch guys the benefit of the doubt, and assume that they never saw the FireDogLake post, and that they were linked directly to the PDF of the letter that is hosted on DocumentCloud's S3 account.

It would be nice if they acknowledged the original source of the letter.
I have to agree. At this very moment I'm printing on a consumer grade Afinia, and its an absolute nightmare. I'm just printing a 4" by 2" enclosure, and all the corners are curling in and the whole thing's a mess. And this is my 6th try. You have to wonder what the testing is like at these little companies, "well, it sorta works. Let's ship 'em."

Though, $250 was just too good to be true, so I went against instinct and bought one anyway. :D
And of course, there's OSX. See the 58s cold build stat for ninja/Chrome on OSX. And the fact that OSX's cache gets cold whenever you sneeze.
I think it's disrespectful to call it quirky, especially considering their international customer base.
There are hospitals doing fecal transplant procedures, especially for difficult cases of C. difficile that aren't responding well to drugs like Vancomycin. Though some FDA rulings are making that complicated recently as it's gaining popularity.

I've talked to a number of doctors who do it, and while "It's hard to bill insurance for something like this" comes up, much more common issues are the patients being like "You want to do what?", that there's no real standard delivery mechanism, and that it's fairly lab intensive.
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Terabytes are cheap compared to my time. I've also never required that much training data, so perhaps your use case does not lend itself to these services. I've built automated ML model training systems myself with TreeNet and Mahout, as well as used API-based ML systems, and I'm comfortable saying there is a strong case to be made for services which save much unnecessary effort.
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> The "free" market, at least as we understand it, depends on a fiction: interactions between people happen in terms of transactions in private property according to enforced contracts.

No, the idea that a "free market" would lead to a perfect society with perfectly efficient allocation of resources depends on that fiction. It's still quite possible to prefer a free market while still acknowledging the inevitability of market failures. Remember, governments inefficiently allocate resources too, for many of the same reasons as do markets.
Ozten, we completely agree which is why we also provide an on premise version of our Machine Intelligence Engine. Our mission is to democratize ML and allow companies to easily deploy it in production.

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Thanks too!
Well... let's do the math!

Incident solar radiation is about 1 kW per meter squared. Assume 10% end to end efficiency (including solar -> electric, storage, and actual charging efficiency... this is optimistic, but doable... certainly not the cheapest though). You now need 10 square meters of panel to supply 1 kW. Assume sun is out for 12 hours a day, and for the full 12 hours you get all 1 kW/m^2 incident radiation (this is very very generous). The car has a 60kWh battery. So if we want to find out how much panel it takes for one station to charge one car a day...

60kWh to charge, but 12 hours to charge it up, so you basically need 5kW, which is 50 m^2 of panel. Which honestly isn't -THAT- big. Its a 7 meter square. Now... from my random snooping around, and my own impressions, I would say that a 'large' gas station typically covers something like... 500-600 meters squares (thats 5300 to 6500 square feet). That would be enough to super optimistically charge 10-12 cars a day.

I saw optimistic, because incident solar radiation is not that kind. Can take a looksey here: http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/1961-1990/redbook...

If you pick average, annual, and single axis east-west tracking (which I believe is the best bang for the buck), you see on the solar map, the BEST places in the US gets 5-6 kWh/m^2/day, compared to our assumption of 12 kWh/m^2/day.

The feasibility of superchargers being even 90% off the grid is of course completely dependent on the ratio of size of supercharger panel array and rate of cars charging. But given the above, I'm inclined to believe that it is highly impractical for the majority of super charger stations to become actually self reliant, especially in high traffic areas.
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> For the longest time it was the "consensus" that the earth was flat and that existence was only 6000 years old

Actually, the educated (still pre-scientific, as the scientific method wasn't really established as a thing) consensus had turned against the former before the latter was even a thing, much less a consensus (which it never really was, either the first time, ~AD 500 with biblically-based -- from the Septuagint -- estimates of the date of creation ~5500 BC, or the second time ~AD 2000 with biblically-based -- from the Masoretic texr -- estimates of the date of creation ~4000 BC.)
What happens when China bombs the plant in Brazil and cuts off 25% of our supply?
I always used to turn off delayed acks when tunnelling X11 over SSH, for substantial improvement in interactive responsiveness.
If the most powerful nation conglomerate in the world has to appease a corporation and negotiate, you are already off the deep end.

The world can't get netflix because big studios want to release content where they want when they want, and instant data transmission over great distance impedes that if everyone can watch the latest show in their home country before they had 3 months to buy the box set in stores.
That's when someone realise and came up with the idea of American Idol and screws up the whole process.
What's the most entrepreneurial thing you've done to get a job at a start-up?
The sooner you can you can ditch eLance, the better. Spending all your time writing well-thought-out proposals for people who simply want the cheap price is rather disheartening. You're better off finding clients in your local area. Go to meet ups, meet other devs, meet people within your own community. You'll have a much higher return.
As I said in my comment, to each his own and I don't think badly of people who work to protect their privacy. It just so happens that I have nothing to hide, everyone knows about my sexual orientation, hobbies and political opinion (I have none). I happen to be in a state where I can (I believe) afford to not worry about anyone finding something about me that I don't want them to. Prn habits however always go to incognito, I don't have anything worthy of a TOR setup for example.

This also can be because I have never been stalked or harassed. If I were to go through that then maybe I would change my stance.
This is not really a surprise. If MtGox expects to survive as a business (if it can at all), then it will need to start tightening up the rules or else it will suffer the fate of not following regulation.
At the very end:

> Tell me what you think about it by sending me a tweet.

ugh, really?

Other than that, quite cool, though the first question was needlessly oblique and I stopped playing right there the first go around.
German clone of Airbnb, Wimdu: http://www.wimdu.com/
I almost booked with Wimdu in the past but was put off by the fact that they didn't escrow the security deposit. I was expected to hand it over to the host when I arrived, and in theory get it handed back to me when I left. I hope that Wimdu has fixed this.
Can't really compare to Apple releasing Maps though. They released maps because they had to, it isn't a feature neither a selling point. The contract with Google expired and the original Maps had to be phased out, also the YouTube app, and they had to come up with something. The app itself was superior, had good usability and cool features, but mapping data is largely a monopoly and you can't really compete without owning Navitec/Atlas/whatever.
Unfortunately, I've noticed this is quite common on HN. The top comment is quite often some long discussion about some minor point of the article. I really wish HN would implement collapsed comments so I could choose to expand the discussion or just easily skip to the next ones which address the article directly.
I still like http://throwww.com better. I'm only saying that cause I built Throwww, though.
Blue and purple are problematic because of the red component. If your color blindness comes from a deficiency in red then it's difficult.

On the other hand, if you're deficiency stems from lacking green, then blue and purple won't be as difficult.

Red-green color blindness stems from a deficiency, and therefore some colors are aliased. It is not a substitution where the total unique colorspace is the same size but with different elements.

The colorspace has is reduced. So it is not matter of memorizing that a shade of X is really Y. That may work in some cases that are likely unique to the individual, but there WILL be aliased colors.
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"Kickstarter is meant for people who find value in not just receiving the product, but in watching, and discussing it through its development and also allowing creative people they respect the opportunity to the do the work they'd like to do."

You didn't constrain your comment to just "pre-buy this thing so I can pay rent while I develop it" campaigns. What you said certainly goes for those. But you were suggesting that ALL of Kickstarter is about that.
Varies, but a common favourite is:

Time: Nighttime, preferably after midnight.

Location: In bed, with my laptop propped on my knees and waist, and my head up against some pillows.

Temp: Thermostat set on about 65.

Light: Just the glow of the laptop screen, maybe a lamp sometimes.

Beverge: A pot of strong coffee on in the kitchen. Usually a Sumatra or Columbian of some sort.

Music: Queensryche, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Savatage, Dokken, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Iron Maiden, Testament, Godsmack, Vains of Jenna, Emperor, Nocturnal Rites, Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Crashdiet, Bon Jovi, Borknagar, Bonfire, KISS, Kix, Journey, Lacuna Coil, Lizzy Borden, AC/DC, Annihilator, Agnostic Front, Armored Saint, Alice Cooper, Cinderella, Twisted Sister, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Death, Van Halen, Voi Vod, Vader, Warlock, W.A.S.P., Whitesnake, Five Finger Death Punch, Exodus, Overkill, Sepultura, System of a Down, etc.

As an alternative:

Place: Barnes & Noble cafe or Starbucks or similar

Time: Saturday, from about noon, until ...

Temp: Whatever

Light: Whatever. I usually sit near the windows, and if there's a lot of sunlight glare on my screen, I roll down the blinds to nix that.

Beverage: a bottle of Fiji water and a venti sugarfree mocha w/ whole milk, sugar-free caramel flavour and no whip.

Music: Same as above

In either case, I may sometimes switch up the music for trance / electronic music of some sort, preferably with no lyrics, or classical music.

If I'm home in bed, I'll occasionally forgo the music and put a movie that I've already seen 100 times (The Matrix, The Social Network, Sneakers, Hackers, etc.) on the big monitor across from the foot of the bed, and turn the volume down fairly low. I basically ignore it, but when I need a break from looking at the screen, I can look up and focus on that for a minute or two.
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Some of the blur appears to have been added in post-processing.
Better Place was trying to do that in partnership with Renault. Unfortunately they didn't make it.
IMO, that has nothing to do with it. Especially because you often do know 100% that this function has no side-effects.

It's because with Haskell you find a ton of errors at compile time and Clojure finds most issues at runtime.
Temporarily ignoring all of Microsoft's specific problems (and there are many) and any other company's specific problems for that matter (every company has them)...

Nobody gets a product right on the first try. Full Stop.

The more interesting question here is this:

Why does Microsoft expose the first try to the public?
I'm with you here. An overlayed pattern can be very helpful.
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Can you list some of the save codes for us? I've lost state more than a few times (old habit of hitting command-r to run code doesn't work well in browser-based development).
WTF! 28.4 megabytes

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dYfjkg/http://www.teehanlax....
Success is like failure: it only exists backwards in time.

Generally we take a hammer and beat the messy chaos of reality until it resembles the monomyth.
Nothing would make me happier than being able to use Python with Game Maker's functionality.
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It's 28.4 megs.
A supercharger network is going to have a lot of stations on lonely stretches of highway. Given how few Teslas there are being taken on those trips, you're going to want charging stations in places where there will be very, very little usage.

I can easily see a random station on I-10 near the CA/AZ border being entirely self-reliant...
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Poor people of all colors suffer much more from class-based discrimination. Rich people spend their money on trifles like ipads and gaming computers rather than trying to help their struggling neighbor. Maybe it has something to do with how separated we all are, that rich people probably haven't even really talked to a poor person in years, and operate based on stereotypes and contempt.
Thanks for these; iStockphoto has gotten really nasty lately (higher prices, and restrictive licenses).
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I'm more productive at night. My office has good ambient lighting and I like to keep it between 72-74 degrees. In the summer, that usually means I'll keep a fan going, which provides some nice white noise, as well.

I develop on a 21.5in iMac, standard Apple keyboard (the one with the number pad, not the wireless one) and have both a magic mouse and a magic touchpad. I tend to use the mouse more. I only have the one display. I like the idea of two, but with only one eye, which, itself, has peripheral retina damage, the very narrow visual field means two monitors causes more neck and eye muscle strain than it's worth. My desk chair is a pretty beat up, inexpensive, generic office chair, but it's comfortable.

There's a couch in the office, good for sitting and reading, and a stationary bike, good for taking breaks and thinking sometimes.

If I'm not doing anything too mentally taxing, I will have music on - usually Pandora, so never quite know what to expect. Otherwise I prefer silence, or something like the fan running, or rain.simplynoise.com.

The office has to be kept super clean and organized, otherwise I have difficulty focusing and start to feel a bit cramped/crowded (it's a 14x16 room)..... a quality that does not carry over to the rest of my house, which is either a blessing or a curse..... not sure which.

I am occasionally accompanied by a cat that likes to sleep on my feet, or a hound who will make himself at home on the sofa.
Actually - i would have been more pleased if I had clicked on the first title. The new one sounds like its trying to sell me something, the first one sounds like a pet project.

Still - It is too general in both case and i can't seem to understand the use case.
What's the answer? I'm stuck.
Your use of past tense in referring to Gitmo and extraordinary rendition is, regrettably, unwarranted.
WindowsME was a band-aid. It wasn't meant to exist. Windows2K was supposed to be the release that merged the Win9x and WinNT worlds. It didn't end up working, so Windows2000 was released as the next version of the WindowsNT line (WinNT 5.0) and Windows XP (WinNT 5.1) did what it was supposed to do.

There are probably some parallels to Longhorn/Vista. Except it seems like with Vista Microsoft bit off a lot more than they could chew, and had to massively scale things back for release.
It could be that there is a very large disconnect between those promising features and the team that ultimately decides on whether or not something is good enough to ship.

Let's say that the front office (those doing the selling) start promising tons of features because they want to really sell this thing. Perhaps those features might be a little more complex than the "visionaries" first imagined. Now the expectations have been set.

The engineers try to meet those expectations. They try their best, but then it gets to QA. The people doing QA really care about their job, about the quality of what is being released, and they do a good job poking holes in things trying to get it to a quality that was promised. QA sends it back, but the developers have moved onto producing new features. Bug fixes are not cool. Sometimes doing it right is hard. Things start to slow down.

The end product is something that doesn't quite meet the expectations and is late...just a guess though.
The anonymity aspect of bitcoin has always been overplayed. It's possible to be anonymous, but you'd have to work at it. And the transactions themselves are in the public record forever, so you've got to never slip up, even years later. Good luck.

The most interesting news today was the interview by American Banker with the head of FinCen. The questions are pretty probing, and they get some interesting answers.

http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_104/fincen-chief-q-...
I would much rather this sort of thing be handled by the OS along with other accessibility features.

One option would be to have the OS add a pattern to the red component of the RGB space. That would work for sufficiently large patches.

Another idea would be to add a time domain function to red that pulsates the brightness.

With options for always on or momentary.
DOS was still there under the hood. It wasn't until Windows XP that they officially killed off DOS (there was a cheesy skit about this at the launch event with Bill Gates killing off DOS).
Care.com for babysitting/daycare, etc. It runs lots of commercials on all the kids channels. Amazon.com for diapers, or plenty of other sites do subscriptions too. Diaper services are still around.

Healthcare and legal services startups sound like a great idea.
Here's a tip about A&E for the future:

While I have had nothing but great experiences with A&E in London over repeated visits (ex wife had several problems that resulted in ambulance visits, as well as managed to hurt her arm badly) as well as ambulance wait times, there are certainly differences between boroughs, both in funding but more importantly in policies.

If you find one A&E is not providing what you want, and ambulance times like that: Drive to another hospital. They are legally obliged to admit you at A&E (just don't tell them you on purpose drove there - it can't stop them admitting you, but it will make some consultants assy). Chelsea and Westminster is a good choice.

Outside rush hour, if you had ambulance waits of an hour you can likely have reached any number of hospitals unless you're far outside the centre.

In terms of budgets, we get what we are willing to pay for, unfortunately. As it is, our healthcare costs us half of what the extremely limited public healthcare funding in the US costs US tax payers (per capita), and for that we get universal coverage. Clearly we could pay more. We don't, because most people are satisfied with what the NHS provides - something we also see in the low takeup of supplemental private health insurance in this country.
Medium is so simple it would be a good candidate for beginner web tutorial examples: Build a Medium clone in Rails in 4hours.

Medium isn't a big thing because it's special in any way, it's a big thing because it was made by "web celebrities".
I wonder what fraction of (1) the trade traffic, and (2) Bitcoin asset ownership cares deeply about the anonymity aspect of bitcoin.

As a corollary, I wonder what fraction of each would stop using bitcoin as a result.
The WWW desperately needs a free and open search engine that everyone can hold accountable. The WWW is much too valuable to hand over to a company with blatant conflicts of interest in their search results.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707019
I don't know what it will be, but it most certainly won't be Google Glass. Until now, I've loved pretty much all of Google's projects, but I can't imagine ever wanting one until the technology is small enough to fit inside a normal pair of glasses and remain completely out of sight.

I also don't really get the whole smart-watch phenomenon. My smartphone easily replaced my wristwatch. The only time that it isn't more convenient is when I'm going for a run.

I'm cautiously optomistic about Ubuntu's shot at convergence. If they succeed, it would be amazing. I'm also pretty excited about Firefox OS, but I don't really know if it has a real shot.
Eh...the worst global warming scenario I've ever heard? Positive feedbacks like methane emissions take hold, and even if we stop emissions entirely the planet tips itself into its hot mode, when sea levels were about a hundred meters higher and most life on the planet was clustered around the poles.

No wait, the worst is a repeat of the greatest mass extinction ever, killing off 95% of the species on Earth, caused in part by ocean acidification leading to mass emissions of hydrogen sulfide.
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Yes - but doesn't that just beg for putting it on S3 and spinning up EC2 instances on demand? Amazon already handles mailing hard drives to them and has the download bandwidth if you've got the upload speed.

The other option is doing it all in-house, the storage, the servers, oh yeah, and that whole ML thing. Not a bad thing, but not necessarily your core-competency.
How likely does it need to be that we will destroy the world in the next century due to our present energy policy before it is worth the economic cost to change it? (I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't say 100%...)