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Quick tip, if you find that you have just enough power to crank the motor but not enough to start it. Shift the transmision to neutral. The power needed is less and it might give you the edge to start right up.
Implicit premise of the author: he's among the deserving.
Same goes for OS X, having to install a multi GB IDE to get gcc is ridiculous.
While, from an outsider's perspective, Islam has had its share of splinters and factionalism in its past, Islam has not yet suffered its great upheaval, denial, disillusionment, search for meaning, angst and ultimately abandonment that Christianity suffered through the age of enlightenment.

Seriously, all the horror that is perpetuated in the name of Islam reminds me of the crusades. And all that nonsense should have rightfully ended in the middle ages.
Foreign navies have visited the Gulf of Mexico many times and the US government hasn't complained.
This would require the carriers to set up such an infrastructure -- and why would they? It would cost them money and they'd lose the revenue of replacement purchases. Also, such a system would be ripe for abuse on multiple fronts. Someone piss you off (or, more insidiously, are they a political opponent)? Impersonate them and get their phone blacklisted. This could also potentially kill the secondhand phone market, if carriers decide they're going to brick "obsolete" phones after a couple years.
I just graduated from another elite institution, and I truly wish this had been a part of my convocation.

If I ever do open a school, we will have a succinct version as part of the school creed/honor code.
If I can add as an aside, both yours and Drew's arguments are interesting reads. Both of you are arguing well.

To add to the data, the dedicated fiber line at our business goes for ~$700 and is 500 up 500 down (in Canada, BC).

that scales slightly better than the connections we get residentially, take from that what you will.

In my opinion, if the reality is that me and my neighbours are all sharing a single 50x10, then having an third party non regulatory agency dictate the use of a utility to me without disclosing any of the factors they use to reach that decision, feels like an unfair situation. I'm also surprised to learn that so little bandwidth is present. I wonder about that.
I agree, you guys are right. Was in a kind of shitty mood when I wrote that and now I'm kicking myself for coming off like the egotistical bitter dick that I know I am. :p. HN deserves less Reddit type smugness.

The whole Ghost thing I should have mentioned is IMO a pretty sweet concept and not at all a bad followthrough. Their marketplace, partnerships, capital etc. make them a much better contender than my team could be.
C++ is arguably a lisp then
I think OP is possibly getting at something else - it's possible that the moment we reach the "I deserve this privilege" moment is also the moment you stop deserving it.

Personally I operate under the notion that I don't deserve any of this, and that I have it by the grace of luck and those that came before me. It is the ultimate hubris for me to self-determine whether or not I deserve all of this, so I'll leave that determination up to others, and chance. Likewise, I'll do my best to ensure others who I believe are upright and good get what they deserve, do not have, and that I can provide.

I view with great skepticism anyone who believes they are entitled to the immense riches and privileges we enjoy.
Why do Russian men die at 64 if life is so great?
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The mission may be postponed to 2014 if the US government shutdown continues.
I use this almost every day, and I love it. It really does "just work", even when you throw it files that can be a hideous mix of PHP, HTML, Javascript, inline CSS and whatever else. I actually wrote a quick script that uses Emacs and web-mode to auto-indent collections of files, and it does a much better job than any of the alternatives I've tried previously (even if it can be a little slow on larger directories).

It's also now included in bbatsov's Prelude[1] by default, which is nice since it eliminated the needs for the little hacks I was using to disable whitespace mode.

All in all, awesome project, and thanks so much for all the work you've put into it!

[1] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude
If my GPS experiences are anything to go by, big stuff (buildings and mountains) and cold (possibly heat too?) make GPS inaccurate enough that it would be pretty much useless. Up high in subzero temperatures on a mountain we would get strange coordinates back due to (I assume) the mountain blocking or reflecting signal somehow. And that was when it worked - sub zero with a big wind chill and the batteries would last about 10 seconds, then back under the jacket it had to go to warm up. This has been on multiple brands of hardware. Things may have improved since this experience as it was 5 years ago.
Of course. That's neither what I nor the GP were talking about (read the next few words after "have to pay" in either of our posts if you're still confused).
Nice. I hope they put all our politicians on it too.

I love science, and I am from India -- but then there are a lot of other economic machinery related things that we need to figure out first. I mean the usual things which are NOT rocket science. By the time ISRO of India matures up, rocketry elsewhere will move away from public institutions to the more competitive and cut-throat marketplace of private players. So I just don't see the point, enlighten me if there is one.

Besides Indian Government should rather (and at least) be focusing on the more serious issues drowning 'our country in our own poop' -- things like corruption, poverty, malnutrition, malaria, dengue, power outages etc. What not!

[Update: Wow. So many reactions, some name-calling too. All answers address the usual aspects of 'why science should run in parallel and not in series' and other advantages. These are UNDERSTOOD, for if they're not why even discuss?

Can someone explain how ISRO is gonna compete tomorrow, and do the same space exploration at a competitive cost, when the rest of the world would have moved to space industry being managed by private players and even start-ups? Someone indicated below that ISRO operates on a shoe-string budget. Can we fix that at least? No, kill the messenger instead.]
Here is a practical concern: What if there was some kind of collapse of society or catastrophic scenario where it wasn't possible to run power plants, internet, and/or phone service on a large scale anymore. Choose your favorite doomsday scenario: Comet hits the earth, nuclear holocaust, or even an all-out conventional global war.

How long would it take for the world to come back from that without access to our current electronic tools and online repo of limitless knowledge? Many fundamental things would have to be re-learned.
I'm guessing here, but maybe it's because road transport is a flexible and free market, and railroads are anything but that.
Mars has a better atmosphere and magnetosphere. Setting up a base would be easier (in the long run) on mars and compared to moon because of the amount of upkeep required. That and marks is a lot more interesting (geologically) than moon since we now know that it once had free flowing neutral water. Plus the length and temperature of day/night cycle is more manageable and earth like for mars as compared to moon.
Actually my impression is that many many user space programs use /dev/random, even for short term keys and nonces and stuff, just because they have learned by "more experienced Linux users" that /dev/urandom is not secure.

Just look at all those "OpenSSL hangs on my server" bug reports and forum posts.

And the man pages are better today than they used to be, but they still don't forcefully dispel that myth.

I really would love to see FreeBSDs /dev/urandom behavior on Linux, i.e. "block once at system start". Yes, you need some kind of entropy estimator for that.
I played with fold.it a bit and my sense is that the implication of this article that random gamers are solving the problems isn't really correct; it seemed like most of the highest scoring individuals were either students or professionals in related fields. The game itself is not at all self-explanatory and it is not even always possible to follow what you are supposed to do without a solid background or quite a bit of study outside the game.
Believe it or not, the Moon would be much more difficult to colonize.

With absolutely not atmosphere, you're totally naked to the harsh environment of radiation from space. Mars has a thin but substantial atmosphere, and easily accessible resources.

With current technologies, the only way to colonize the Moon is to do it underground - a non-trivial engineering hurdle to say the least.
>I don't know what it would ever mean to deserve the wealth and privilege that I have now.

Think of it like potential energy. You were born with a great deal of it. Now you get to spend that energy, convert it into work and kinetic energy.

Indeed, make this metaphor literal. Imagine that people are all born with actual potential energy. Some people might choose to imbue small objects (like bullets) with kinetic energy. Others may work to move large objects for peaceful purposes (e.g. buses). Still others move only themselves, to a position of greatest amusement. Of course, an important class of potential energy holders use it to seek out ever more potential energy - these are the sorts of people who, finding a magic lamp with a genie in it, would almost certainly wish for infinite wishes.

If you have extra potential energy, more than you need, then there are three basic uses: speed-up other people who deserve it (serve). Slow-down people who don't (fight injustice). And, of course, move at the speed that makes you happiest, no faster, and no slower. Because happiness is the best gift you could give the world (unless your unhappiness would get us all a cure for cancer, in which case go ahead and be unhappy!).
This is one of the smallest transponders on the market. It still weighs much more than a textbook and requires an even larger power supply.

http://www.garrecht.com/index.php/en/mode-s/vt-01-uav
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You don't deserve to be here, but thanks for the $50,000 tuition check we just cashed . . .

Education, like religion, politics, and almost everything else in America, is first and foremost a business. Never lose sight of that.
Does that matter? The idea of 'deserving' is sort of predicated on their being some sort of higher guiding force sorting us into piles. Being aware of the ways you have benefited from historical circumstance is an important thing.

I think, basically: Don't be worried about whether or not you deserve the things you've been gifted. Maybe worry instead about whether or not you're using those gifts for some good.
IIRC the percentage was diminished when the value of bitcoins increased 6months/1year ago.
What happens when the user downloads a PDF? Where does an app go after it is installed by the user?

These choices have to be answered one way or the other. The author of the article suggests that the company is better left answering these choices on behalf of the user.

Why would the company be better qualified to answer these choices over their users? That makes absolutely no sense to me.
It's not a bad thing that Verizon offers a slew of different Android phones and tablets with different features and price points. Choice is good. Choice is driving competition to create the best hardware to run android. Crappy hardware will fail, and good hardware will thrive.
Umm... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_(device) ?
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Recently updated my utility rack. Now it's full of heel irons, welt irons and a few flat irons. I'm a moonlighter shoemaker, and I don't spend zilch on (not sure how to define these things!) "techno tools." My most recent advanced gadget-related purchases have been:

* A set of 18 shoemaking tools, second hand. Currently cleaning and restoring each one
* Macbook Air (a needed update to my Early 2008 White Macbook)
* Portable HD (I needed a few extra GB)
* Circular slide rule (because I always wanted one and it's a beautiful little and cheap geek gadget)

That's it. I'd never think of spending money on a combo tool: I have a beautiful workshop where I have one of each of these tools (or many of them) in perfect condition. Also, I'm of the opinion that a good tool should do one job perfectly (except emacs, that's it.) This is why I have a dumbphone and and iPod Touch. Actually my dumbphone doubles as flashlight, which is pretty cool because I'd never remember where my flashlight is.
Much like the (re)discovery of Absinthe production, I believe a lot of these crafts will be rediscovered and preserved. The difference these days, rather than centuries past, is the exceptional amount of documentation and preservation of technique in text (and recently video).

There are innumerable resources available today that just wasn't back then so this information will be preserved by and large. We just need to ensure it's carefully curated for young minds to absorb well into the future.

Every time I go to a swap meet or a tag sale, the first thing I look for are books. Even old magazines, trade publications and catalogs can reveal a great deal of ingenuity and fascinating technical knowhow. I don't have the time to scan and digitize these (besides, I don't know what the copyright implications would be), but I try to see what learn from these as much as possible. Many of these were limited print to begin with and were summarily discarded once the next seasons' gadgets/appliances came about so they need preservation.

I can see prime real-estate for a startup doing something similar. It's a massive job to rebuild a library, but I'll gladly pay a subscription fee to get access to all these treasures.
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Well said.
Poverty, age old education structure, old traditions and thinking strategies has to get a major change. Then they launch this rocket and it seems meaningful by then.
> Because back of the napkin math is fun, let's say we're talking SF, a bright kid <2 years out of college that loves reading HN and decided she wanted to try the startup thing.

Call up dad and ask for some cash to float you until your next payday. Your career will thank you when you don't externalize your rash decisions on your colleagues. Or did you move to SF for a dream with absolutely no safety net?

But whatever. If you're really in that position, sure, go ahead and fuck the people who took a chance on you and trusted you to build their business. If you're that scared they're going to turn around and fire you on the spot for taking another job, then be my guest.

But don't expect me to pat you on the back and say you did good when you're really just demonstrating a lack of foresight and a lack of faith in your coworkers / bosses.

I don't do business that way. My last job, I busted my ass to finish the project they gave me, even working on the weekend when I didn't have to, during the two weeks I gave notice. I told the guy who I was handing it off to to call me anytime if he needs any help.

If they'd just let me go, no sweat, I've got backup options. But generally, I don't take jobs anymore where my work isn't essential and I'm fungible. You shouldn't either, then you won't have to face this situation. If you're not damn useful to your organization, then what the hell are you there for then?
I'm one of those people that answers this question, "absolutely not!" Even though it's not in the news or on everyone's Facebook timeline, there are amazing craftsmen still roaming the earth and passing their craft down to beginners. My evidence? I run a website that's dedicated to a traditional art called Pinstriping http://www.pinheadlounge.com/ . Even though the legendary masters may not be directly connected to the site, you can clearly see their influences on the craft. I think it's careless to assume just because someone isn't tweeting their entire life or making huge waves, that they're not training the next apprentice. A lot of this work has always been a little behind the scenes, offline and a definitely has its share of trade secrets. I see many young people on this site doing killer work and this is only one, tiny sampling of the niche.

Take one of the most well regarded users on the site and an aging craftsman (almost 40 years of experience):

http://www.pinheadlounge.com/photos/0/644/12032/lg_DSC02868....

And compare it with a upcoming novice, who's just doing killer work (and is a woman, I might add):

http://www.pinheadlounge.com/photos/2000/2793/170630/lg_1233...

I've also worked with metal smiths, letterheads, prepress/letterpress/typesetting/lead pros, hot rod enthusiasts and all kinds of other "lost arts" that are readily being passed to anyone who wants to learn.

There's still demand and still a market for this stuff even among younger people (I'm fascinated by it and I'm in my 30s) and it's not going to be digital any time soon.
It probably wasn't the intended effect, but this article leaves the impression that the author doesn't mind being demeaned by men---when they dismiss her ideas because she's a woman, she just laughs it off---but very much minds being criticized by women for not complaining about it. I understand the motivation: if you're a woman in tech just trying to do cool stuff, it's got to be a little irritating to always be expected to be some kind of role model and activist. But it seems inconsistent to say "how comfortable I’ve always felt and still feel in the tech community" and then reel off a series of incidents where you experienced sexism, including the attempted rape of a friend at a conference.
>The problem with usability nuts and Apple nuts is that they fall into the "one perfect solution exists" category.

The problem with pointing out any real or perceived flaw in Android is that you are immediately branded as "apple nut" or "trapped in a walled garden" or " An enemy of open source" or some other nonsense

>That's fun for them, as they like their uniform devices just fine and get to write whiny blog posts about how all the other phones are Just Wrong.

That is funny - all his other blog posts are about how Android is better than iPhone

> Use what you like. Don't tell me how to use my phone.

This goes both ways. Android bloggers/users are no better in this respect.
Dr. Banting (1920s) should have cracked the TOP10 for his work with insulin. This research actually saved people.
That's a rather cynical view. Education in America is a business, but it's so much more than that. Students who are financially disadvantaged get help, both from the universities and the government. There are plenty of great state schools where you can get education basically for free. Despite the red tape, there is plenty of great research getting done, and plenty of professors who genuinely love to teach and want to help students succeed. For people who can't quite cut it in serious academic pursuits, there are city schools and community colleges that give good, inexpensive education and offer financial aid.

Sometimes it can be useful to look at the world through cynical glasses, but it shouldn't be the only pair of glasses you use. You might completely miss a lot of beauty in the world around you.
"Things happen to people by accident," she used to say. "A lot of nice accidents have happened to me. It just HAPPENED that I always liked lessons and books, and could remember things when I learned them. It just happened that I was born with a father who was beautiful and nice and clever, and could give me everything I liked. Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? I don't know"—looking quite serious—"how I shall ever find out whether I am really a nice child or a horrid one. Perhaps I'm a HIDEOUS child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials."

"Lavinia has no trials," said Ermengarde, stolidly, "and she is horrid enough."

- A Little Princess (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/146/146-h/146-h.htm). It's a kids book from 1901 about fortune of birth. One of the most interesting things I've ever read.
Forget passion. Goals are for losers.

Imagine if Steve Jobs followed this path. Imaging if everyone did. Does financial success while doing something arduous for 40 years make for happiness? This seems counter intuitive.

We would have no innovation if there was no passion. We wouldn't even have electricity...
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Saying "You all deserve to be here" isn't intended as a pat on the back to the privileged in the audience, it's a reassurance to the ones on full financial aid and looking around and feeling out of place among their wealthier classmates, or the minorities who are worried that they're only there at all because of affirmative action.

At least that's how I read it.
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"However, it should be remembered that these estimations are relative, and whilst a 685 per cent sales bump is an appealing figure, Nintendo has yet to release details of exactly how many consoles are being sold."

Regardless the estimate is still encouraging after months of "what should Nintendo do posts?"
"They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty".
I recently read something about HN cynical top-level comments syndrome. Is it just too hard for us to dream anymore? I'm confident we'll work out the details; the future is going to be really cool!
Technically, that's more of an authorization or access control system.
I doubt GPS could be trusted for autopilot, but if the accuracy is reliable for a ~30 foot sphere it could be used as a proximity alarm. ("Cool your jets human, there's another drone nearby")

The GPS on my iPhone is good enough to pinpoint my 2D position to within ~10 feet, so I don't see why not.
According to Neil deGrasse Tyson (I am paraphrasing from some lecture somewhere) - humanity on Earth has always been deep in shit. If we expand our horizons (via Science, not just astronomy) instead of focusing _exclusively_ on welfare, we will do better in the long run. This mission to Mars will help in ways that we can't even imagine now
No one deserves to be anywhere, it's all made up.
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As the husband of a neuroscience researcher who works with a mouse model, I believe you'd be surprised at the applicability of such research towards human analogues.
I'm just saying that this viewpoint is typically a common concern of older generations - and this makes me feel old.
First deliver text books right next to the delivery system inventors until the technology works perfectly.

Then consider making it about 1000x more robust and putting it into remote regions.
Interestingly, 1729 is also a Carmichael Number [0]

And another interesting article about Futurama math, which lead to a new theorem proof (by Keeler): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Benda#The_theor...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael_number
This coverage reminds me Soviet articles from my childhood about hard life of common people in the USA. Funny to see same propaganda being produced for domestic consumption in the USA now.
Cynically simple, logically lazy, yet completely valid point.

Though you can say "it's all made up" for anything in any argument; Don't know if I agree with it completely but I kinda get what you're trying to say in this case.
They'd all be expelled, we'd hold elections and elect a new congress that does the exact same thing.

The problem isn't the people in congress, its the people they represent.