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We actually placed the story in April 13291 AD via astronomy. There's a section that shows the night sky clearly and the stars have moved slightly from their current positions.

Also interestingly enough Antares has gone supernova in the intervening 11278 years.

See http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Astronomy#The.C2.A013291_Hyp...
Do your two friends agree with you 100%?
Because Apple hasn't executed the iPod strategy with the iPhone. The iPod was introduced in Oct 2001. The iPod mini showed up in Jan 2004 at the lower price of $249 (dropping to $199 a year later). The iPod nano arrived on Sep 2005. Each introduction took another chunk of the low-end off the table.

With the iPhone, we get the old model and how you sell cellphones is different. I get the feeling the payoff for independent shops is a whole lot better for an Android then an iPhone. I can see where Apple is trying to get more phones sold in its stores.

Perhaps the rumors about the new low-end iPhone are true. I can see that driving sales particularly if it is advantageous to local retailers. Something that can be sold for pay-as-you-go customers would boost sales.
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Please see my comment to your parent. Additional hint: you should also care about dropping/controlling your user's groups, see https://github.com/sarnowski/mitigation/blob/master/mitigati...
Yes -- which means you have to find someone to do that for you, and figure out if they're asking the right price for their services. Then you need to keep track of how well they're doing it.

If they do a poor job by doing too little maintenance, your renter will let you know about it.

If they do a poor job by doing unneeded or unimportant maintenance, and/or charging you too much for the tasks they're doing, your renter will be perfectly happy... so how will you know?

Granted, it's important not to obsess about this stuff -- if they're cheating you just a little bit, it's not worth worrying about. But if you don't know what you're doing, they may be able to cheat you pretty seriously, and you won't know.
The people likely to pay for WiFi are also likely to be valuable Skymall customers. E.g. I always buy WiFi on domestic flights and haven't touched an issue of Skymall in years. I have, however, made Amazon purchases while flying.
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So were the notes worth anything? What I always wonder about these types of experiences is whether the drug really does give you great insights, or it just tricks you into the feeling that you're having great insights.
On what basis do you claim that "most flights will have wifi for cheaper"? There really isn't much competition when you are at 10,000 feet. Also, if airlines wanted to differentiate themselves based on quality, they had ample opportunity to do so. From my understanding, for coach seats in the US, airlines compete solely based on price.
What is the value add of using 1 device everywhere vs multiple devices with all my data synchronized? Aside from needing a cloud solution to sync the data I don't see the upside to putting everything into a single device.
They're not totally unrelated to the license - all the good code is GPL, and hardware manufacturers sometimes would rather create an insecure software solution than use GPL code. If somewhat good BSD code is available, manufacturers will use it instead, and it will reduce the attack surface of many embedded systems.
> Maybe that’s why 85-90 percent of participants regain their original weight,

Weight is party fixed by epigenetic by end of puberty. It depends on how you mother did eat before and when she was pregnant (e.g. Dutch hunter winter children), and how you diet was when you was young. The highest likelyhood of being fat is if you are from a foreign family that lived healthy but on low calories, and moved to a country where lots of cheap fast food is available. Women have a good chance to change weight everytime they are pregnant, and at the menopause. Unfortunately most women will gain weight at that point. Men do not have those easy opportunities at times of hormonal changes. So if one loses weight by hunger, the body will bounce back to its epigenetic fixed weight again, once you stop being hungry.

So lets accept weight, and focus on fitness for fun itself.

Imho, the best sport for fat people is sailing. Every crew needs fat sailors as self loading ballast at the rail. Sailing is sport that is fun, even for the heavy weight.Its a sport that does not give you the painful feeling of being a loser, but its fun to be an important member of a crew. You think you just sit there, and move your ass once every tack or jibe, but in fact you move all the time constantly balancing against the rolling of the boat. You burn a lot of calories that way. You get a positive feedback, and time by time you become fit, even if you only lose a few pounds fat and gain a few pounds muscles.

I do not have a overweight problem myself, even vice versa. I'm 5'10"/178cm with 120lbs/54kg in summer, and 128lbs/58kg in winter. But I have a neighbor, who did lose 15kg/30lbs just by sailing, and by getting in a positive fitness loop. She moves more now, e.g. shopping by walking instead of shopping by car, as she is able to move without burden. She still weights 30kg/60lbs more then me, but thats ok. She is fit, even if she is still a bit round, because the rounds are now at the right places. She does no longer look like an ugly fat women mid 40s, but like a chubby smiling woman who is happy with her body.

PS: You do not need to own a boat to become a sailor. Most boat owners are searching for crew. Owning a boat is an other can of worms, its a commitment to maintenance and club work.
Yes, I do it every four months or so now and usually try to bring new people with me. Every single one has said it has been life-changing. I make sure the surroundings are perfect and somebody is in the right mindset before doing it with them which is critical.
NSA Award for Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper
So they're basically a company doing adwords PPC/CPA (cost-per-action) campaigns and they managed to become public via reverse takeover?

A big portion of the PPC industry has always been shady. I build software for diabetics and constantly came across highly-optimized landing pages promising to cure diabetes for $99. With highly questionable diets or videos.

They buy up all the expensive adwords health keywords (competing with big pharma), so they must be raking in money.

I also have friends who worked as adwords marketers for people making millions selling non-FDA approved health products (for ex. cleansers and skin bleaching products).
That's part of it. But the more important part is that "black swan" events can have serious repercussions on people's perception of risk. If we had the 9/11-equivalent of an antibiotic-related problem - unexpected, sudden and with thousands of deaths - then the entire country would start pouring billions into making sure it doesn't happen again.

edit: It is my belief that most problems don't get treated as "real" in people's minds unless they are two degrees of separation or less from someone who is affected.
Ask HN: Where do you get your images from?
I am currently trying to put together the landing page for my project, but I havent ever realized before how hard it is to find images for a commercial website. I have found a few that charge, have limited stock, or simply dont have licensing information. What sites do you guys go to?
Because anything that mentions Go gets more Karma?
And yet there's research just last year from Duke that shows that cardio is the most effective tool for weight loss.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-12/dumc-aet12121...

More important (to me if not the author) is overall health benefits. I don't really tend to conflate bodybuilding types of aesthetics with health. I don't want terrible athletic performance, but athletic performance is pretty far down my list of priorities. Also, I think it's very unlikely that the ideal dietary and exercise regimen for bodybuilding is identical to the ideal regimen for longevity or feeling healthy.
Can you name some more long-running exceptions?

Amazon is an outlier in American corporate culture. Its founder and very active CEO is somebody who double-majored in CS and EE. My explanation of them is that Bezos never was indoctrinated with MBA dogma, and instead runs his company like an engineer. He's been lucky enough (and skillful enough) that Amazon has always done well enough that his investors have never pushed for a "real" CEO.

So for me, Amazon is proof twice over for my theory that MBA dogma isn't even very good for business. Not only are they doing well in the long term by not giving a crap about quarterly numbers, but they don't have serious competitors because typical execs don't even get how they're being run over.
I'm an iOS developer and while I agree iOS devices tend to be smoother overall saying there is no lag is just wrong. Loading Spotlight on iOS < 7 is a good spot to force just about any iOS device (except the iPhone 5) to noticeably lag, and it isn't the only consistent source of lag.

That aside, Samsung is the most successful company with the worst design aesthetic I can think of. I don't know why people buy their devices, even if one is an Android fanatic there are devices that lag less and look much better at better prices. I'm shocked they are doing as well as they are.
Corrected Link http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/27/hacker-death-idUSL...
For $70 a year, I can afford to lose a couple of books, all without the trouble of scanning them. What is the value of the personal edition?
If you are the author:
ctrl + F for "I put up a serious of large whiteboards"
i see a market emerging for implantable "tin foil hats", ie. a mesh of thin wires implanted under the skin over the skull, so it isn't removable by a police or court order :)
Someone just watched a Bill Hicks documentary..
All versions of both the LGPL and the GPL forbid imposing further restrictions other than each of their respective terms. If you think the app store has a problem with the GPL, then the app store also has a problem with the LGPL.
I think he's being cute. For me this quote sums up what PRISM is really about:

"Nobody wants a box in their network...[Companies often] find ways to give tools to minimize disclosures, to protect users, to keep the government off the premises, and to come to some reasonable compromise on the capabilities."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593538-38/how-the-u.s-fo...

Basically: in order to prevent the feds from installing boxes on their networks companies offer to do their own interception, which in my opinion is the far better alternative. "Direct access" isn't accurate.
The comparison is between Apple and Samsung because the article is about Samsung. I don't think it is fair to look at the better performing Nexus 4/7.

Samsung does make the Nexus 10 though, but even on 4.3 it stutters pretty regularly. Of course my iPad 3 stutters a bit too, I assume the extreme resolution plays a big role there.
Do you know any such example of manufacturer reimplementing POSIX userspace from scratch instead of using GNU coreutils or Busybox?

Sometimes vendors do not use POSIX userspace altogether by providing big-proprietary-init blob (LG TVs do), but that's irrelevant to Busybox vs Toybox debate.
On delta I've been paying around 5 dollars for flight long wifi
Now I'm curious about how you're applying this to the current context... Care to explain?
I agree 100% with this post. I did shrooms 1x in Mexico with the most amazing weather, right on the ocean. It changed how I viewed things. It pointed out my social anxieties in that they weren't present. I consider it one of the turning points in my life.
> Who needs non-thinking robots in charge of schools?

Somebody does, apparently. At least that's the feeling I get when I see the proliferation of this kind of idiotic policy showing no sign of slowing down. The non-thinking robots in positions of authority and instruction are more likely to churn out non-thinking robots as a result. That may very well be the goal.
I'd agree direct cash is underused. But, Buffett's call is for "trying out concepts that shatter current structures and systems that have turned much of the world into one vast market". That's both grander and vaguer than the simple (and market-reenforcing) direct cash approach.

Buffett is so vague that people are seeing in it whatever they want to see.
This feedback is really useful; we've struggled to nail the process as it is generally very cumbersome having to sign in & out of Twitter accounts (but it's the most secure way, as opposed to XAuth, which would be a possible alternative).

The key thing here is showing the user they have a new invite/notification, which we will add ASAP.
I went to a school with many friends who experienced with hallucinogens regularly. But they always followed these rules:

1 - don't look at a the mirror

2 - cars are for real

3 - you can't fly
I was replying to the parent's assertion the "author's fix is to then implement a replacement that would allow vendors to completely lock down embedded devices."

This is an entirely a false premise used to attack the author for his license choice; rather unfortunate since it belittles the entire project. It implies that only corporate entities with closed source licenses can improve the code/hardware... which they will dastardly keep close to their hearts, bless 'em. Meanwhile, a vast number of others will take the code and do improvements themselves. Some portion of them (not all, obviously, and this seems to be the grating point for GPL proponents) will willingly contribute code back as has happened to the countless other BSD/ISC/PD projects floating around. And they will be better off for it since contributed code wasn't due to some license prerequisite, but by willing choice.
Censored applications are a moral failure about an order of magnitude worse. And lag bugs are a result of a technological decision in Android made 8 years ago with a cost that goes far beyond a simple fix (replacing the Java runtime with something with deterministic memory management).

It's likely that in time we'll see a native of manually memory-managed runtime in Android, at a huge development cost; I can hardly see Apple providing an open ecosystem, ever.
I try to read this paper from the perspective of his overall work and writing, and I have read through a lot of the EWDs.

In other words you're missing the plain meaning of the sections that I quoted because you try to consider it in the light of http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EW... which was written a decade and a half later? Pardon me, but I won't be emulating your example.

The focus of Dijkstra's research career was how to make correct software. As he himself would claim, there are two halves to this process. The first is to limit ourselves to forms of writing code which are easy to reason about. The second is to actually perform that reasoning.

The part of his proposal that actually had an impact is the part which says that we need to focus on methods of expressing ourselves that are easy to reason about. The part that did not have a direct impact is the part which says that we need to perform that formal reasoning. The fundamental reason why not is that Dijkstra's reasoning assumed the existence of a consistent, unchanging specification. The real world does not work that way - computers exist to do what humans ask. And humans do not always ask for things that make sense.

This is not to say that this is the impact that he wanted to have - it is clearly not - but it is the impact that he did have.

However some of his other ideas have indeed found their way into practice, albeit in a muted way that he would have objected to. For example take unit tests, since you brought them up. He was against tests as part of including QA as an integral part of the programming process - if the programmer performed properly then that should not be needed. (Nice theory, fails in practice.) However today, well-designed unit tests do serve as a limited form of specifying exactly what a given piece of code is supposed to do, and verifying that it in fact does that. (I'm sure that he would say limited and inadequate. But it is better than nothing.)
Next time you're on a flight, scroll down on the wifi rates. I noticed that the top option was something like you mention, $35 or whatever per day. However, a few packages below the "per day" rate was a "duration of the flight" rate that was somewhat cheaper, like half or less.
How do you tell the character to stop on a space when walking? That monster keeps killing me.
This sounds like the author took a low to moderate dose of mushrooms. It's possible to have much more profound experiences (both positive and negative) than what was described in this article.

I can recommend a book called "The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience" for a more comprehensive look at some of the possibilities. Also, see the trip reports on erowid.org.

Psychedelics may be best for people who are naturally inquisitive, like seeing things from novel perspectives and walking in other people's shoes, are comfortable with encountering material from their subconscious, and who enjoy questioning themselves and the world around them.

People who are very set in their ways and who think they've got the world figured out might be in for a rude awakening when their certainty is pulled out from under their feet. Then again, maybe that's just what some of them need.

It's great that the author thoroughly educated himself about the effects of the drugs he was about to try, and planned his day. The world would be much better off if more people did that.

I was also very pleased to see that he tried to use his time constructively while tripping. Way too many people's sole aim in taking drugs to "party" or "get fucked up". That's a complete and utter waste of the potential of these enormously powerful substances, and borders on abuse, IMO.

The main thing I was disappointed with was that he didn't have an experienced and trusted trip guide or a sitter with him. That's very important, especially for inexperienced users. Fortunately, his decision to walk around the city by himself turned out fine. But it might not have. When tripping, you don't always make the wisest choices. An experienced sitter can help keep you safe.

There's a really great book called "The Secret Chief Revealed" about a therapist who guided hundreds of trips for his clients. One of the more interesting techniques that he used during his sessions was to ask his clients to bring a stack of personally significant photographs with them (in particular, photos of family members and loved ones). Looking at these after the peak of the trip could be incredibly helpful. That may be something to think about for your next trip.
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stock.xchng used to be better but you can still find the occasional gem with a usable license [2]

For graphics, Icon Finder is invaluable [3]

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[2] http://www.sxc.hu/

[3] http://www.iconfinder.com/
>This thread is about Samsung after all.

That's legit.

>I'm going by YouTube videos of the s4.

That is not.
From their 10-K: "We owe $375,000 at a fixed interest charge of ten percent (10%) regardless of the time of repayment to four shareholders due March 31, 2014"

That means they issued a 10% bond sale that four dumbshits, already holding common shares, bought into. A 10% bond!

When spain was on the verge of insolvency, they were issuing bonds at 7%
I totally agree with you and would like to point out some of the work being done (and the major govt obstacles faced) by people like Earthship inventor Michael Reynolds in Taos, New Mexico.

In the same way that big business has no interest in being disrupted, it seems that governments have a similar weight and a similar self-preservation interest.

Regardless, this is the good fight worth fighting.

To take your $5 and raise you 5 more, this can be down scaled even further to the level of the individual or family unit. Here in the heart of Los Angeles (Venice/Fairfax), we have created a sort of permaculture oasis with 25+ fruit trees and various semi-professional/DIY systems of self-sustenance. This is work that is A) inherently rewarding B) able to inspire others and C) is a living, breathing example of the world we want to live in, and is significantly easier than most would think, especially if you learn slowly over 5+ years.

I highly recommend the documentary on Michael Reynolds. His work is far ahead of its time and shows that there are existing lifestyle repos ready to be forked and branched and then merged back into a continuously integrated updating best-way-to-live OS. The doc is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVX2wdDH19Y
something that the entirety of the federal and state governments rely upon?

This is not the case at all. The NSA has only existed for 65 years, we can do just fine without it.
I really like how this manages to introduce some object-oriented principles stealthily while mostly focusing on linear logic. Great job!
yes. I re-read them at least once a year and still glean insights from them. Some of it is silly, some is extremely powerful.
It's not just wifi on flights: if these reports are correct, the FAA is considering relaxing restrictions on electronics during take-off and landing:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/stow-it-no-more-f...

If this happens, then SkyMall's market just disintegrated like a wet telephone book -- they're competing with Amazon et al from boarding to arrival at the destination gate. Even without in-flight wifi, travelers who forgot to pack a book or magazine are no longer going to be a captive audience, so that 70% eyeball share will crash.
You have to have your main() in package "main" and all your files in one directory have to be in the same package. So when you want a main() and your logic in a "real" package, your have to seperate them.
In hindsight, it's probably telling that Obama said he was heavily inspired by Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln vastly consolidated federal power during his presidency, and had some dubious issues with the Constitution as well.
You can get really sick from shrooms if you're allergic/take too much or the person you bought them off doesn't know what they're doing and is selling you bunk/poison shrooms. Small amount of LSD will acheive the same thing, plus no sickness :P
Half of Americans approve of NSA program
Stabbing yourself in the eye with a fork can change how you view the world too. Maybe we should recommend that everyone does that?
Solid crypto is also coming to the web with new APIs. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window.cryp... and http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/
HootSuite is great, but it's also quite a hefty tool if all you need to do is let people tweet on behalf of n accounts. Also HootSuite works really well if you have a small team of people managing your social media but breaks down (or becomes expensive) if you need to give access to lots of people (this is where you end up with systems involving sharing lists of passwords!).

The idea behind Echelon (and its pricing model) is to promote sensible account security around the simplest of actions - tweeting. The bigger your team the more you pay but otherwise you can divide up your accounts however you want (different amounts of access for different people, etc).
Can you please elaborate on the point "don't look at the mirror"?

What would the person see?