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Fun fact: The Russian Kamov KA-50 [1] is one of the very few helicopters equipped with ejection seats.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50
How are private companies entrance into the rocket design market innovative? Changing the market model for rocket design is hardly innovation, SpaceX getting gov't and private contracts for things done previously, I don't think, is true innovation.
Nowadays Muslims and Christians don't 'interbreed' - and they have much more in common than stone age hunters and farmers.
No apologies necessary. Thanks for sharing this with me!
Terrorism can be thought of as a kind of voluntary sector war. I think in general people working in the voluntary sector do so because they get something out of it. Not necessarily anything sinister or material, but something of personal benefit.
Exactly. I may not gain an iota out of it, but I will trade an Elon Musk over a Prince Charles any day. We are gradually moving towards a society where inheritance may not be illegal, but hopefully it will be irrelevant. To me this sounds like the greatest achievement of human race...
I've always had really good customer service with T-mobile. I remember once time almost 5-10 years ago when I needed help getting the right AT commands to connect to GPRS using Linux. The help desk heard me use the appropriate technical terms (AT commands, chat script, GPRS, etc.) and immediately forwarded me to the level 3 help desk folks who actually could handle technical questions, and they helped me even when I told them I was using Linux and could set up my own chat/expect script once I knew the required parameteres for their GPRS network.

Compare and contrast that with my previous experience with AT&T, and there was absolutely no comparison.
Possibly related: Someone used Mathematica to simulate the "sound" of the first 760,000 years of the Big Bang based on WMAP observations. I assume this makes use of a higher-energy portion of the EM spectrum than radio, but it's still very interesting.

Blog entry: https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/customer-stories/mathema...

The actual sound file; http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/5083
There's a reality TV series here somewhere.
it is not only a legal question. More importantly it is a question of ethics. Additionally I do not hear anything regarding whether you attempted to return the documents to the company no doubt named within said docs. My recommendation is to return to owner
> Using Vincent van Gogh as an example, the author declares that the artist’s “creativity came into being when a sufficient number of art experts felt that his paintings had something important to contribute to the domain of art.”

So how does da Vinci fit in? Maybe genius, rather than creative? He seemed to be churning out ideas long before a consensus was taken about his merits of creativity... Or is this just again future bias?
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I posted about the hostnames topic in detail showing the difference between ephemeral and persistent hosts.
See the post here: http://padgeblog.com/2012/10/28/hostnames-in-the-dynamic-inf...
Focus on continuing to learn JS well. Try to make the time you spend carry it's own weight. Don't waste time learning JS frameworks just for the sake of learning JS frameworks. Instead, build something that you or someone else will use. Otherwise, learn JS well well enough so that you understand what the framework does and why it would help you. Then you can answer this question yourself.

Also, there is this post by the author of Sammi.js which the author probably answers this pretty well.

http://www.quirkey.com/blog/2012/09/04/client-side-framework...
"It is genetic" is the secular version of "because the Lord said so".It helps explain anything we have no clue about.
Okay, I found your netbook with your entire life's work of research, literally decades, into a new material which apparently you are about to patent.

So I will just email myself a copy of your work and patent it before you can.

No harm then right, it is just a copy.
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You'd be surprised. We humans are highly emotional creatures. Assuming that the top companies are all offering similar compensation packages one place can just 'feel right' based on things like these and make someone decide to choose the place without even consciously realizing it.
If we're talking about privacy, even fully securing a single device per person would be highly usefull and should not be dependent on what is the status of other devices.
> terrorist organizations do not achieve their stated political goals by attacking civilians;

Most terrorist groups have the concept of "legitimate target". This includes the armed forces, the police forces, government officials, etc. For people like the Mardi Gras bomber it would be people working at banks. They tend not to target "civilians".

> terrorist organizations never use terrorism as a last resort and seldom seize opportunities to become productive nonviolent political parties;

> terrorist organizations reflexively reject compromise proposals offering significant policy concessions by the target government1;

This is just game theory. You have the game "Chicken" - two cars drive towards each other, the last to swerve away wins. Imagine two drivers walk arrive. One gets out of his car. He's alert, awake, aware, keen. Good odds, you think. The other driver falls out of his car. He's steaming drunk, with a bottle of bourbon in one hand and a crack pipe in the other. He takes his prescription glasses off, and stamps on them, and puts on some dirty cracked sunglasses. You realise that this guy is not going to swerve away, this guy is going to win "Chicken".

The government offers anything? You have the vocal terror group yelling "NO SURRENDER!!" while the political wing is secretly discussing how to accept the deal and what they need to do in return. This keeps the supporters supporting you in very polarised situations.

> terrorist organizations generally carry out anonymous attacks, precluding target countries from making policy concessions;

I'm not sure what this means. Some terrorist organisations have press offices and use code words to declare actions. Others are umbrella groups allowing anyone to claim an action under that main name.

> terrorist organizations with identical political platforms routinely attack each other more than their mutually professed enemy;

But the People's Front of Judea are the real splitters.

> terrorist organizations resist disbanding when they consistently fail to achieve their political platforms or when their stated political grievances have been resolved…

People use all sorts of things to define themselves. Some people define themselves as freedom fighter, and it's hard to re-define yourself when circumstances change. (You like Ruby now, but what about in 10 years?)

I guess it's interesting that terrorists fall into the same trap as most other people.

It's interesting to play games about "how many people could I kill if I had 5 people and $10,000" or "how much havoc can I cause with very little money", but that's not the point of terror. You only need to do a few things occasionally to have huge impact. Killing more people doesn't have particularly more impact, but does make people less sympathetic to your cause.

It was reasonably common to hear people say things like "I dislike the means they use, but the IRA have a reasonable cause" (although the much more common line was "terrorist scum") but killing more people would have stopped that pretty quickly.
Because when you watched the movie Swordfish, you said to yourself, "that's how a real hacker does it" instead of "what a load of crap", right?
Farmers were chronically underfed to modern times. They never had enough to eat for thousands of years.
I'm wondering if there's a purpose-built, fast FirefoxOS device that works on T-Mobile that could help Fred make the transition.

Is there's anybody that knows of something faster than the ZTE-based phones?
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14314
The fade-oriented segmentation is ridiculously useless and reader-hostile.
title should be "Twitter pays SVP of engineering $10mil" but I guess it wouldn't be such a click bait then.
That's definitely a bonus. But in that case, what about the "entire line" match, that you would get from match.groups(0)?

And if the captures are named? Is there a performance penalty for always using search instead of match? Can I pass re.* flags to alter the behavior of the engine? can I pre-compile regexes that I use frequently?

Please don't get me wrong; I appreciate the effort that went into this, but there appears to be a lot of flexibility (and performance) lost in the re_find function.

This is cool,

dict(imap(re_finder('(\w+)=(\w+)'), ini.splitlines()))

But this would beat the pants off it in performance (and is, to my eyes, more readable/equally functonal).

dict((line.split('=') for line in ini if '=' in line))
> For what it's worth the Soviet's response to the Shuttle program was a failure.

I always thought Buran was a great success. It performed the first fully autonomous flight. It did at a fraction of what the Shuttle cost. It is just that "shuttles" are just a bad idea to start with. It is like saying Soviet Nuclear Airplanes were a failure compared to American Nuclear Airplanes. Well the idea of nuclear airplanes isn't that great so comparing advances in it doesn't say much. They started it as a response to show that they could do it. Then it was deemed a bad idea. Americans kept launching these oversized, expensive, hard and expensive to maintain machines.

Looking at that particular Wikipedia page, informally it looks like the Soviet also didn't have any fatalities after 1971. Americans had quite a few.

[quote from wikipedia article]

"Soyuz accidents have claimed the lives of four cosmonauts. No deaths have occurred on Soyuz missions since 1971, and none with the current design of the Soyuz. Including the early Soyuz design, the average deaths per launched crew member on Soyuz are currently under two percent. "

Sounds like historically their design is just better.
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I'm curious -- what do you like about Clojure that you don't like about F# and Haskell? Do you find Clojure's syntax easier to learn than F#'s or Haskell's, or is there another feature that particularly draws you to Clojure?
BART PR person says that the average cost per year of a union, non management employee, is closer to $134k per year, including benefits. I'm not sure which side to believe. In any case I appreciate your work but would love to see a closer examination of the $134k figure.
I think movie enthusiasts are able to intuitively determine writing styles and assess quality in modern movies anyways, mostly during the first 20 minutes of a movie. An awful lot of recent movies are relying on formula's, blueprinted in screenwriting books like 'Save the cat'[1].

The lack of predictability and formulas are the exact reason that Tarantino and Koen Brothers movies are valued so highly by critics. Chekhov's gun is a commonly used excuse for poor, predictable screenwriting when not used sparsely. It feels like solving a puzzle that is already laid out in front of your eyes to me. Unfortunately, the ingredients of a blockbuster nowadays consist out of flashy CGI, lens flares and constant-climax soundtracks. I think it's no coincidence recent movies and series with a good plot are based on books.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollyw...
Well, isn't the use case for traits the same as for mixins? (http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_module...)
I'm not reliegious, but even Thomas Aquinas disagreed at least as to math and logic, if not the universe:

"Since the principles of certain sciences, such as logic, geometry and arithmetic are taken only from the formal principles of things, on which the essence of the thing depends, it follows that God could not make things contrary to these principles. For example, that a genus was not predicable of the species, or that lines drawn from the centre to the circumference were not equal, or that a triangle did not have three angles equal to two right angles."
By comparison, I found this map via a quick Google search:

http://world-nuclear.org/uploadedImages/org/info/Naturalback...

0.484µSv/hour ~ 4.2mSv/year, so according to that map a large chunk of Europe gets higher readings anyway. Basically anywhere with significant amounts of granite will naturally have a lot of background radiation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite#Natural_radiation

And that's not to mention things areas near coal power plants whose own radiation levels absolutely dwarf the normal output of nuclear reactors:

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1018/do-coal-pla...

Which is not to say this news isn't concerning! But it's concerning for other reasons (i.e. a predictor of future issues with containment and contamination in the area) rather than an immediate health risk to those attending the Olympics, which is how the headline might be interpreted.
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The marketplace isn't static. If all people move to T-Mobile, other carriers will be forced to become less hostile to their customers.
I would probably say that it's good to have something that keeps you inspiring during your entrepreneurial journey. However 99% of what you need comes from experience and not from books.
My main reason is that I don't write Scala or Haskell professionally. However, I do maintain Python at work. So, while dropping Python and switching to a functional language is not an option, importing a simple library is.

Programming "functionally" in python was one of the best changes I made to my coding practices (it certainly makes dealing with multiprocessing a lot easier!).
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Interesting! Seems like a hyper-framework, a one-fits-all solution for a python backend. I would like to see any benchmarks comparing this to tornado/twisted/nodejs and perhaps an async mongoDB client implementation. Great work anyway!
Maybe they should keep looking for explosives and sharp items instead of listening to people's jokes. The point of security is to ensure that nothing physically harmful enters the secure side with the passengers regardless of whether they have good jokes, bad jokes or no jokes.
Extremely timely post from Shanley about the mythos of the "10x engineer", how it began, and why it is so pernicious:

https://medium.com/about-work/6aedba30ecfe

(Hint: 10x what? what is the thing being measured, and how?)
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This is misleading. His compensation may have been effectively $10M last year, but it's almost certainly based on a stock grant several years in the past. Twitter did not offer him $10M/year, they offered him some probability of $250k/year and a small chance of $10M/year. Now the bet has paid off and he's collecting, but it's incorrect to compare a winning lottery ticket to how many lottery tickets are being offered to current hires.
I really hope you mean Firefox 24, not 4.
I see. I'm going to have to assume that this article is complete misdirection in that case. He probably uses Linux on a 486 from Kazakhstan.
Several states are openly hostile to unions and there are more than a few businesses that would simply close a branch if it were about to unionize. Also, you end up with two sets of bosses, which brings its own issues.
Most examples given are for VP of engineering and other technical management roles. If you are a plain-vanilla engineer (from the article), no $10 million or $1 million for you. Maybe a time slot for playing ping-pong. Please don't try to break your head trying to figure out how to be 10x or 100x or whatever. Totally different skills.
A rule I've found helpful is generally to read nothing except what applies to your current or next step or two.

Otherwise you risk reading stuff you can't act on, and forget by the time you need it.

Instead bookmarking and categorizing using a tool like delicious/diigo gives peace of mind that nothing will be lost and when I need it, it'll be there.
The function of research journals is to disseminate recent findings. In biology and medicine, it takes a while for a piece of published research to become accepted, as such recent findings are usually only of interest to other researchers. When something becomes accepted it enters text books and the like. Between the original papers and text books lie scholarly reviews and online databases.

Some examples: For individual genes, the established canon can usually be found online at places like Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) [0]. Furthermore, a lot of genetic data is now made available through what might be called "aggregators", such as Ensembl [1], which provides both a free web interface to explore genetic variation and also allows downloading of primary data. Similar resources exist for other types of data.

So, to answer your question, there are indeed a number of bioinformaticians who are trying to do exactly what you propose, some sources have become "aggregators of aggregators", for example Bioinformatic Harvester [3].

[0] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim

[1] www.ensembl.org/index.html

[3] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatic_Harvester
looks great, but now my index finger hurts
Touch-typing on an iPad Mini
How did you do it?! Did you start out with a really high res digital painting, and then cut out the middle, zoom that part in, and repaint over it?
I apologize in advance if I can post this. I know politics posts are usually not posted to HN, but I think many HN users will find this one interesting since it affects every single one of us with this government shutdown.
WebKit is itself open source, so you can't discount that just because it was derived from another open source project.

Aside from LLVM/clang and WebKit (both of which are significant enough to deserve massive accolades all by themselves), you also have stuff like launchd (which didn't catch on outside Apple, but hardly their fault), libdispatch, and mDNS.

But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Yes; it's indeed important to note that the shift to agriculture was a quantity/quality tradeoff. Farming could sustain more people than hunting and gathering, so by pure math, it won over in the end, but the average quality of life decreased for thousands of years, until the industrial revolution.
Yeah, the goal is to have a marketplace where market pressures lead to all competitors being incentivized to behave like T-Mobile does currently. I’m just not sure whether that’s possible.

And I agree, Deutsche Telekom in Germany is awful and incompetent when it comes to customer service. If only their network weren’t so goddamn great … (It feels like a reversal of the situation in the US: Their technology is great and they are very competent at building their infrastructure – but how they treat customers is the exact opposite of that. And when I say technology I mean the network, not the technology they use to interface with customers. Stupid story time: Recently, after changing some notification SMS setting online, I got an e-mail thanking me for my change in contract and telling me that my monthly fee is €50, not the €50 minus €10 online ordering discount I knew I got when I entered into the contract. When calling their support hotline I was told that their system is apparently unable to display individual discounts on any and all communication with the customer except the monthly bill. The support agent also told me that I wasn’t the first person to call him because of that …)
Indeed. But I would'n consider this a "feature" though: the easiest to read syntax I've seen is that of Python, with the "classic" (by classic I mean "C++/Java like") `.` and `(` clearly separating the message receiver, message name, and message parameters, plus indentation based syntax - nothing beats this combo for quickly scanning foreign code, even without syntax highlighting :)
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There are people living with bladders that were made by transplanting the appropriate cells from their bodies onto a bioscaffold. It is still highly experimental, and yeah, the bladder is relatively simple compared to other organs.

Teeth and bone/joint replacements are made to fit, they also aren't living tissue.
I'm really confused when reading articles like this because it sounds like a different company to the one I know which was formed out of "Deutsche Post" during the 90ies and patronizing and shitting on its customers ever since, at least in Germany.

The biggest thing with them this year was their 384kbps Speed Throttle[1], where after your family consumed 75GB of data (download and upload) the speed of your DSL (flatrate) will go down to 384kbps for the rest of the month.

Ok you could say "this is Deutsche Telekom, the parent company, but T-Mobile is very different!" but sorry, that is not the case.

I wanted to buy a Alcatel One Touch Fire with Firefox OS when I was on holidays in Poland this year so I went to a T-Mobile store and well, there was advertising and everything and they even sold them there. But only together with a contract, which I didn't want (because I can't use it in Sweden where I live). They send me to another store so I went there, they told me the same and send me to a third store where they told me that they only sell a couple of them without a contract and only in the main cities.

I mean wtf? They have been doing advertisement all over the place that they sell it for 404 zl without a contract, even in those shops, but they wouldn't sell them to me, or they would but only with a two years contract which ended up costing around 1200 zl. So I gave up.

At home again I checked their website[2] again, and yep, there they still (and to this day) advertise it for 404 zl.

I later found out that if you have a polish ID you can order one for 404 zl from their website which I did with help of my fathers ID.

So they were just fucking with me, again, and yeah, this was not the first time. I had big time problems back then when I still lived in Germany and chose a different DSL provider after being very disappointed with T-Online. Basically they didn't send a technician for two months who would fix the tech so the new provider could provide me with internet so I was without internet for two months. That is kind of a big thing if you're working from home.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/technology/deutsche-teleko...
[2] http://www.t-mobile.pl/pl/indywidualni/telefony/telefon-ze-s...
I've started to watch couple of TED talks and felt similarly. Overrated and boring. Also, some TED talks have a weird and creepy cult-ish vibe. I love learning but I think text is a much better medium than video.
Where a bit can be 0, 1 or both.
Hah, at this point, why not just make a video?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-33620_3-57587175-278/is-this-the-b...
I prefer to say they suck less.
Yep. As someone 6ft tall (183cm +-) it's an odd experience being surrounded by groups of people often taller than you!