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Tne real threat of a Dr. Strangelovian nuclear apocalypse certainly died with the Soviet Union, which isn't to say that such conditions could never arise again. And of course the risk of a smaller scale nuclear war is still very real.

In each of these cases there seems to be a tendency to think that just because total disaster has not yet occurred, that the risks are nonexistent.
Yes, the talk of desire is clearly personification that's not meant to be taken literally.
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Clever move - every framework has or will have support for Bootstrap and Font Awesome respectively. BTW Good job, I appreciate your effort.
Is it more bullshit than the hyperloop? This is not an attempt to troll ... but between the two fuel cells seem more realistic. Musk is exaggerating.
Didn't those applications all already support full screen "the old way"?
Thanks for reminding me about icomoon!
Hope you don't want to use the built in VPN option. It's completely broken with Cisco IPSEC.
The cost for Apple operating systems is low or free because the cost is built into the premium cost of the hardware along with a license which does not allow you to install OS X on anything but Apple hardware.

It's a win for consumers not being stuck with old software, and a win for Apple having to be much less concerned with their old software.
Also many chronic diseases are autoimmune diseases, like asthma or type 1 diabetes. In such patients the immune system gets weaker when in crisis, leaving them vulnerable to infections.
Yeah, no problem. I can't even update SmartGo Kifu, so...
I agree with you on the other languages, but I have to disagree on Scratch(I have not tried Alice). I found it was more difficult to teach basic programming concepts in Scratch than it was to teach those concepts in Processing, which also provides a very visual programming experience, as well as the instant satisfaction of seeing a solution. I also found that once those that I was teaching were proficient in Processing it was easier to transition to other languages like python, ruby, and java.

I also think that Processing gets learners interested in programming much more than other languages because they see how easy it is to make their ideas come to life. Granted it's the same idea as Scratch, but the transition from Processing to "more difficult" languages is much easier than from say Scratch to Python.

Thanks for the App Inventor recommendation, I'll have a look.
Resistance is a funny thing: there's nothing specifically wrong with going nuts with the antibiotics provided everything gets dead.

The problem is much more with people who only take partial courses or are non-compliant, because if you don't clear the infection then round 2 is full of the slightly more resistant members of the species.
Icomoon is great, I've been using it for a while now. I find it's pretty easy to create my own icons in inkscape and then upload them to icomoon and add them to my custom icon font.
> we will eventually understand the differences, which are biochemical differences at bottom, between human beings and bacteria, between human beings and protists

This is the stuff of the Nobel prizes of yore, and it is the mechanistic basis for how antibiotics kill bacteria and not humans. Penicillins destroy the cell wall as it is remodeled (humans don't have a cell wall); lincosamides block protein synthesis at the ribosome (humans have a different ribosomal structure); amphotericin binds ergosterol and forms ion channels in fungal membranes (humans lack ergosterol).

As we continue to explore biochemistry, we will continue to understand (and perhaps even discover) new antimicrobials, though I suspect most of the future advances will come from large-scale screens of discovered or synthesized compounds without taking much biology into account until secondary stages (to increase potency or reduce toxicity).
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I don't think it can - whilst people can learn the skills I think there's a massive jump between those skills and professional development.

You could probably get a job as a taxi driver, but it's unlikely you'll get a gig driving a formula one car, same for other sports, cooking, etc.

It should follow the typical pyramid structure; the wider the base the taller the point.
My favorite rename is push-pin -> thumb-tack :-)
That's a fair point, and math notation is famously more ambiguous than programming languages. But it seems to me that the concepts denoted by math notation (e.g. numbers, arithmetical operations, functions...) are inevitable and unique, while the concepts denoted by strings in a programming language are much fuzzier and more arbitrary (except for languages that have a denotational semantics, which are few and far between).
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first level of procrastination: programmer writes own to do list software

second level of procrastination: programmer writes own IDE
Thanks, nice list, summarize a good part of the best practices in a short form. Will quote.
> I see Mozilla saying "No", but I don't see them actually proposing anything that solves the other problems WebP is trying to solve. No studies have been presented on lossless, transparency, or animated encoding efficiency for example.

Mozilla supports (and developed) APNG, which has existed for a lot longer than WebP. Google has thus far not implemented APNG (bug here, open since 2008 [1]). You might want to be careful about casually throwing around words like "NIH" when it comes to animated image formats…

The fact is that both browsers are perfectly free to not implement standards that they think are harmful, without having to come up with some better solution right away. Whenever we implement something on the Web, if it gets traction we are stuck with it forever. So we should move carefully.

Don't you think we should be making sure standards are sizable improvements over the status quo instead of just accepting every marginal improvement? If WebP is indeed worse than JPEG, then authors have to choose between better quality (JPEG) and alpha channels/transparency (WebP). That's not a very good decision to force them to make.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1171
I put in an application to work at 42floors for an entry level position and received back an email saying that they wouldn't consider me because they aren't relocating new employees to SF.

I didn't ask for relocation nor mention that I would be unable to relocate myself.
Looking forward to it. Love FA.
I know, we'll get it from the atmosphere of Jupiter!
In the 80s we acted faster on freon/CFCs than we have on climate change in the ensuing 30 years, with less danger to human life and less evidence. The only thing that's new about climate change as a scientific theory is the annual increase in the pile of evidence that it's happening and we're the cause of it.
Way to JFDI and get a product not just out the door - but have paying customers!
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Yes, of course. I didn’t say the feature shouldn’t be there, I said that multi-monitor was broken only for fullscreen, so “Mavericks adds multi-monitor support” is a slight overstatement.

But yeah, I see people have strong feelings about this issue, I just personally don’t get it.
At what amperage and voltage and how much did it cost to upgrade the charging station connection to the grid.

And how do you cool the battery during such a fast charge? what % of the energy is lost in heat from the chemical reaction - even Tesla has to obey the laws of thermo dynamics.

Thinking about it from a thermofluids angle You could I suppose have a complex system of heat exchangers built in to the the battery pack and hook the car up to a water connection and flush chilled water (or better some non conductive fluid) through whilst charging but water and high voltage and amps are not the best of friends.

Now where did i put my steam tables :-)
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The other thing wrong with the tech industry is that it spews tons of money at meaningless little whiz-bang shit while major problems like antibiotic resistance, nuclear waste recycling or disposal, smart grids for renewable energy, sustainable food production, the shrinking middle class, etc. go completely unaddressed.

Like where's the big venture funding for stuff like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO_(antiviral)

The reason why Elon Musk gets compared to a goddamn superhero isn't because he's super-human. It's because he's one of a vanishingly small number of major entrepreneurs working on real problems that matter. Most of SV is working on the most inane of first world problems.
+1 to that one. Code Review should be Peer Review - it is not about a Senior reviewing a Junior it is about a developer reviewing the work of another one. The junior's questions may actually be as useful as advices (notably by forcing you to explain your choices).
I would like the FAQ and search moved to the top navigation bar. I did not know that there was a search and FAQ for a while and only found the FAQ through google before finding the bottom navigation. The top navigation makes you think that there is only that navigation.

Also, the document formatting is a little inaccessible. The submit page should have either a link to the document formatting, or just verbatim contain the document formatting page content. This probably won't help people who have been on HN for a while, but it would definitely be useful to me.

The top navigation is also a little confusing at first; I would expect that "comments" would show only my comments. I did not have an expectation of what "threads" would show.

EDIT: Forgot to put that an explanation of some of the more strange behaviors in FAQ would be nice. For instance sometimes there is a reply button to comments and sometimes there isn't.
>>> Cancer.gov, for instance, states that “the oldest medical book known, written in China 4,000 years ago, describes the use of acupuncture to treat medical problems.” In fact, the oldest excavated Chinese medical text is no more than 2,300 years old and makes no mention of acupuncture at all

Wow, that is kinda depressing.
No we don't - this is just where we need to fund government laboratories to research drugs in areas which drug companies do not presently find profitable.
Sure, but my question is about epidemiology. Rather than assuming that most resistance comes from "bad"/noncompliant/non-adherent/choose-your-euphemism patients, it would be interesting to know what the current burden of resistance can actually be attributed to (separating out resistance due to livestock antibiosis, countries where people can just buy antibiotics over the counter, etc).
Thanks! I could have sworn the last time I watched Star Wars, he said his middle name was Theodore.
Also, Apple is going to keep offering older versions of apps in the App Store, for machines that can’t run Mavericks.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/22/previous-versions-coming...
Having read this and the article on autonomous corporations, I suddenly understand that the future of capitalism is extinct humans and very financially well-off computers.
Obviously unnecessary use of antibiotics is unnecessary (a fact I alluded to), but that's not what I was responding to. You're putting words in my mouth there. I said the call for "emergencies only!" antibiotics was overkill. If I took your point differently than you intended, maybe you would like to rephrase.
This is not my thing at all, so this might be a really silly question, but...

Are people who have avoided prescribed antibiotics in a better position than those who haven't? Then, what is the effect on such people of the antibiotics taken in by eating meat from animals which have been give antibiotics? Have the people who have been avoiding completely wasted their time?
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I've been following Andy's blog since the beginning - amazing to see the progress in just 7 days!
My biggest mistake with my book was putting it on Amazon. As graeme mentioned, they limit your pricing options to basically $9.99. Over that you get 35%. Pretty much all of the successful stories you hear are from people pricing much higher.
It's more efficient and simpler to use that spare energy to pump water uphill:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
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previously they were flying mig-25 & 31 and these planes can go higher, especially mig-25, yet they are older and seems to be more harder(expensive) to maintain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izIClWYKK1o
Right. We could lose the utility of all naturally-occurring antibiotics and still be OK because we synthesize new ones.

However, right now the first part is happening and the second part isn't, so until medical science and technology advance sufficiently far -- if indeed they ever do, and specifically if they ever do before a devastating plague hits -- we're in trouble.
As an interesting aside, the leading use for hydrogen today, with over 50% of all hydrogen used, is in oil refining. That hydrogen (along with almost all the balance) comes from steam-reformed natural gas.

It's also true that more electricity is consumed refining gasoline (without even figuring the oil itself's energy) than in producing hydrogen (per gge). The important distinction is that gasoline is an outstanding motor fuel, able to deliver 3000x the volumetric energy density of hydrogen gas, 6x the volumetric energy density of compressed hydrogen and 3x the volumetric energy density of liquefied hydrogen.

Those numbers get even more stark when you add in tank weights.

Musk's Youtube video demonstrates a battery changeout faster than a gasoline fillup (BTW, ever filled up a tank with H2? It's not as fast as gasoline per gge; not even close).

I share the BS opinion on hydrogen fuel cells. Hydrogen tanks cost too much, weigh too much and better alternatives exist.
I really like the idea of "writing through the product dev process". So often I get stuck and the act of "talking it out" helps - I think writing a blog/journal would be even better.
Can anyone who's already upgraded comment on whether or not Mavericks has really improved battery life (and what hardware you're using)?
I'm 25 too. My father died in January, it was almost the same story. He was not obese, but had heart issues, and the doctors had told him 2012 would be his last year. And he kept that from us.

Even 15 seconds before dying, he told me it was just asthma bothering. (While being in ICU).

The first thing that called my attention was that when I logged into his computer to close his facebook and etc, the computer was clean. He had removed every password, cache, social media app. And he removed them 1 hour before going to the hospital.

What I'm trying to say is, that sometimes people just wants to let go. And maybe, sometimes, we should just be with them, and say how much we love them.
Paying a couple extra bucks for antibiotic free meat helps.
Haha, I had the same thought, basically that evolution is not directed to overcome particular threats, and can certainly fail to do so. I kind of assume that he knows that, and decided to simplify (a poor choice for a lengthy and detailed interview imo).

I'm not sure I understand your point though, beyond "with more knowledge we will get better at this." What is the timeline? Is there any current research that may lead to this breakthrough, whereby we no longer have to borrow evolved tools from other life forms and can actually develop a precise and resistance-immune treatment?
Oil is a net positive on the energy, even with the energy cost to refine it. Generating hydrogen from water is a net negative on the energy, guaranteed, by thermodynamics.

Unless we start stealing it from an extra-planetary source, it is best to think of hydrogen as a battery, not a fuel.
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Exactly. And not even for more severe colds either, like when having fever or a red throat, but rather for freaking runny noses.
Gives me a (very tall) blank page - another example of bleeding edge web design not rendering gracefully on all browsers?

What am I supposed to see?
The problem is in situations where you want to use antibiotics, time is not on your side. There has been some work done on this idea, though I cannot recall the specifics.
See this link about energy density: http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-1/p20.html

Even liquid hydrogen doesn't come close to the volumetric energy density that seems like it'd be a solution for transportation. And the more compressed or cold you get it has a lot of attendant problems in terms of expansion effects of the gas, or the energy required to compress it.

The permeability of hydrogen in containers, especially at high pressure, is also a real concern. Hydrogen escapes through container walls, and has bad (embrittling, usually) effects on them. A brittle 10,000psi H2 tank on board a car is something you really do not want.

It seems to me the most feasible path to fuel cell power is to use non-pure-hydrogen fuels.
Is Sketch a suitable replacement for Illustrator? I've been trying to find the right application to replace Illustrator for my very-infrequent needs which can't justify Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription pricing.
I am not sure what is your point now.
Are you aware that most of the math is way older than C?
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With a fleet of SpaceX Falcon Heavies?
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Language evolves. Unless you're writing a technical document it's usually best to go with what is commonly used and understood.
Not QuickTime Player, Keynote or iPhoto (All Apple's own software)
It makes me think that the government will have to take some of the responsibility from the drug companies. If capitalism isn't working (which frequently happens in medical fields), we need another mechanism to make new antibiotics available.
Really curious to hear how this works out. I don't recall ever seeing a paid newsletter signup form; most authors/email list owners use email as a free lead gen tool to sell something else (a book, an online course, etc). It'll be interesting to see if people will pay for the email medium itself.
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"it always feels very clunky and outdated." - can you elaborate? And please don't mention Java, JavaScript, C++ as those are all old and barely evolving. Web - maybe (Ruby is quite good at one specific thing). I would like to hear about something that makes e.g. TPL and Rx "clunky and outdated". I would like to see something that beats Visual Studio + R#.
Libraries like this come up on HN on a regular basis it seems. As I read through the site I kept asking myself "this looks great and all, but can I depend on it in the long term?".

Then I came across the "about" section where it says it was created by the creator of Raphael.js[1].

Say no more.. I'm in!

[1] http://raphaeljs.com/
Go to http://johnkcurriculum.blogspot.com/2009/12/preston-blair-le..., get the Preston Blair book, and start doing these exercises. You will get a lot better, a lot faster.
Will lime's completion still support C/C++?
There's also a few benefits of code review that you missed:

1. Reduces bus factor.

2. Increase readability.

Coding in a company is a communication problem. How you solve a problem may be different than someone else. Outside of simply catching more mistakes, it's possible that you may learn something new or the other person can improve their code.

Ideally there should be a team / company coding style simply to ease communication overhead and reduce bikeshedding.
Doesn't seem like Apple is really concerned with fragmentation, as they deliberately prevent their newer operating systems from installing on older hardware. They understandably would rather sell newer hardware. I'm pretty much stuck on Lion because Mountain Lion and above will not install on my hardware (which incidentally means I cannot develop for iOS7 since XCode5 requires ML+).
ecomm market heading towards more competition. it will be good to watch this space :-)
Ever try to move a large quantity of compressed gas from one place to another in a hurry? It's never as simple as "no charging time."

In my opinion, any alternative-fuel technology that doesn't involve swappable power modules -- whether they're batteries, fuel cells, fusion reactors, or whatever -- is bullshit. Tesla has at least taken some steps in the right direction.
I think they're referring to an article that made the rounds a few days ago (can't remember which) that decried the requirement of Adobe Illustrator for participation (citing as evidence the ratio of icon requests vs pull requests).
I suppose that's true, but it seems like a perverse incentive to me. Drug companies have a financial incentive to wait for people to die rather than taking action that will prevent people from dying.
While most view colloidal silver as quackery, the fact is that using silver in colloidal form along with other medicine administered at the same time, was standard practice 80 years ago.

Perhaps silver in nanoparticle form will make a comeback, as bacteria don't seem to be as able to survive the cell wall disruption that silver can cause.
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You've been voted down but there is actually a school of thought that excess use of antibacterials and generally going "overboard" (whatever that means exactly) with preventing children from being exposed to natural flora can potentially result in weakened immune systems. There's a lot of pseudo-science in these claims but that doesn't mean there's absolutely no truth to them. It would probably be hard to do a study though and it's not clear who would fund such a thing.
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I think you're using the term "desire" in a far too literal manner.

The organism of the bacterium doesn't have desire the way humans do, but the idea of a virus or manifestation of bacteria can have a figurative desire to evolve and grow.
The function of antibiotics in agriculture isn't to prevent infection (or at least, not primarily to prevent infection) but to fatten the animals up for slaughter.
Whoever modified the copyright headers then redistributes the files internally to other programmers and systems. You cannot modify a copyright to your liking and redistribute the work.
That pumped water requires a lot of space up there, so viable spots are fairly limited. It also is fairly difficult to transport compared to hydrogen.
It's not a pet project, I haven't written any real code for it for about 6 months.

My point (which perhaps you missed?) is that you don't get to tell me what I choose to spend my time on.
Not humour, fact. You think billions of dollars a day in transactions are going to be entrusted to a single person writing code? Every single line, algorithm, and bracket is going to be examined by a dozen people over and over.

When a single bug can do a billion dollars in damage or bankrupt you, nothing is left to chance...
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This so much. Thanks.
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You took a paragraph to explain that bacteria have no desire. Thanks for that.
It hasn't been removed yet. The DPR story has just started - the password-crackers could turn in success any day, or Ross could decide that he'd like to cut a decade off his near life sentence. All we can say is that it's currently not on the market, which is exactly what we could say before the SR bust.