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Well they're pretty limited in what they can do. Most things you'd plug a USB cable into are not thing you'd want to plug higher voltages into, so that would require device-side voltage conversion which is wasteful in energy, space and complexity.

I suspect that the 100W figure is actually just a pulsed maximum specification. The thing is that current ratings for wires are actually specified as a max. continuous current for a given temperature rise in the conductor, per unit length. So blowing 3-4x the current through a conductor for a very short time (think of flashing a bulb or moving a servo) is not a big deal. You just get a transient heat rise. Also, most applications simply don't require 20A. Even microwaves and kettles stay below the 15A residential fuses. (Although they do come close. I once had a shitty basement suite with an underrated fuse. If I ran my toaster and my kettle at the same time the breaker would flip!)
I have no idea why you had any difficulty finding a job, but I suspect it was not the PhD. I have a far less prestigious degree than you and I have no difficulty finding work. Someone with your background should be a top pick at any quant desk, among other places.

A hypothesis: I think you walked into industry interviews acting as if you were hot shit and didn't successfully demonstrate to employers that you could be one of them. I.e., "I know the leading artificial intelligence language, I don't need to waste my time with Python."

(Please don't be offended if this is wrong, it's only a guess based on the impression given by one HN comment.)

For others in this situation, I wrote some tips which I've been told are helpful: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/leaving_academia.html
Yeah, higher voltages. Can't remember off-hand if this tops out at 12V or 20V at the higher charge wattages, but they're definitely not using 5V for them.
Reading that thread felt like being on the play ground as a kid and some noisy classmate "who's dad worked at Nintendo" explains how to get a 152th Pokemon. I was pretty amazed that at the end it wasn't a made-up lie or joke but that those trivial steps (5 steps to the left, go there and there) actually led to something.
Well, Vagrant is a utility that wraps popular virtual managers such as virtualbox and vmware under a single user interface (the vagrant command line) and provide configurations to setup a VM along with user-defined boostrap scripts (puppet, chef, ansible, salt, bash script, etc).

Based on the way you describe you situation, I think the barrier is in configuration management. That is, writing a puppet or an ansible script is still very time consuming. A vagrant machine in general is nothing more than a vanilla server after a full install.

For me, I am beginning to investigate the possibility to create a system package (e.g. debian package) for all the apps I need to run. I think FPM will help.
I think the keywords are "developer community". People aren't going to trust each other if there's no sense of community. Are the people around you friends you haven't met or just plain strangers?
A "fan" site ! :-)

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NASA Eyes on the Solar System is tracking ISRO MOM as well: http://eyes.nasa.gov/

NASA Eyes gets spacecraft trajectories from their DSNs.

Here's a screenshot showing NASA MAVEN and ISRO MOM: http://i.imgur.com/7l56d7N.jpg
The reason those cables get hot is the same reason that you got them so (relatively) cheap: metal is a significant fraction of the cost of a cable. The manufacturer who produced the cable knew exactly what their customer was looking for, and provided a low cost cable with thin conductors.
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Intel has a habit of trickling down features of "business chips" to the consumer chips. If I'm not mistaken, they may even be the same chips, Intel just disables those features for lower-end chips. So it's just a matter of time.

I think it's right to be very suspicious of these chips, especially since Intel has been awfully quiet despite all the accusations, and we do know that NSA has been trying to get "encryption hardware vendors" to subvert the encryption for them.
Because Chrome has flash built in and auto-updated. Chromium does not. If you need to use flash, and want to minimise security issues, then Chrome is the browser of choice.
No labels at all just on the demo form. This isn't 1996 where one can make shitty HTML forms for shits and giggles. People expect high quality forms with labels nowadays.

As others have said: dealbreaker. Not going to use it.
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> That way, you could write higher-level programs to automate tedious tasks, without having to write extra code that does the unnecessary work of wrapping around the CLI/GUI.

Of course on OSX the historical way to do that has been for the application to provide an applescript library.
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While I agree the code presented is just, plain and simple, bad, and the first way to the solution is splitting it up, I really don't get why you want comments for every line? Or don't you mean literally every line maybe?

I mean suppose I split the first part of the statement like this:

int r = a[ i ];
++i;

These lines are self-explanatory. It's pretty hard to argue they need a comment? Especially when used in a function that already should have a name/comment explaining what it does?
Don't know. BTW who owns LibraryThing.com ?
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It's worth noting that a very large percentage of these donations are coming from a very small number of parties. Notably over $10,000 each from https://blockchain.info/address/1F8UFEeVJGXUzR9TWfBMkyqbipjM...

and

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Almost all your USB-powered devices have voltage converters with varying inefficiencies.

It should also be noted that a switched mode voltage converter can have well over 90% efficiency, even with large changes in voltage.

You should also remember that those microwaves and kettles are getting up to 15A @ 120VRMS continuously, which works out to 1800W. You can verify the actual power output of a kettle by timing how long it takes to boil a liter of water, and calculate power from this time and the specific heat capacity of water.
Ask HN: What's the best and/or worst thing about Craigslist?
An entire blog post focused on a daily recurring SO question. Too bad those people won't know to search for "sequence point".
It hasn't. You're not modifying a single variable twice within a single sequence point in that example.
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Right. I'd like to help people jumpstart this time consuming process. I'm interested to see your approach as well.
Why are there so many tunnels under London?
Object-oriented programming.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Google News have comments the way Hacker News does?
Most news article's comment sections are barren. When the occasional comment does appear at the end of a story, my desire to reply is generally not strong enough to register for yet another account.

But Google already has a huge user base perpetually signed in. And with Google News grouping similar stories together, it seems that would be the best place to host comments about a story in general.

So why doesn't Google News host comments?
Define "human"? (also see "Robots and Empire")

Also, define "harm" - and eplain how humans exploiting humans would not fall under that definition, and who could build such a robot and without it instantly turning on its masters.
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I store my SSH keys in a smart card. The benefit over TPM is that it is portable.
Hack'n'Slash[1] from Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight (where they spend 2 weeks prototyping a bunch of game ideas) is a little like that.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpTZNRH9iZw
> What is shocking is how many users report bugs about the app because they think nothing happens when they open it

This I can confirm. Worse: we got some bad reviews (app's not working) in the app store for this.

After we decided to display the dock icon those reports went away. More curiously no one has complained about the dock icon yet.
A single FIPS-certified smart card is under $30. Not much considered the value they provided IMHO;-)
>Facebook had intentionally built-in
sex appeal aspects to it

Do you mean the relationship status part? Interesting point.
Yes. Going on 4, and plan to have more.
> "However, if you write about science in English, for example, you can guarantee that 50 years from now your text will feel dated -- just try to read papers from the beginning of the 20th century. On the other hand, we still can read the great works of antiquity (from 20 centuries ago) in Latin."

Starting as somebody exposed to only modern english, getting off the ground with 17th or 18th century english is going to be much easier than getting off the ground with any latin.

Seriously, I'm not sure what english works you have been reading, but it really doesn't get bad until you get really get back into the mid-17th century or so. Even with 16th century stuff, I would say that most of the difficulty comes from antiquated idioms (and rarely vocabulary). Trouble you had with scientific papers from the early 20th century probably had more to do with your inexperience with the subject matter of the paper, not the language it was written in. Books written in the 19th century are still considered reasonable reading for children today (Twain, Carroll, Dickens, Thoreau, etc.)
Plus PCMCIA and ExpressCard, so most laptops are vulnerable out of the box[1], but there are some ways to mitigate those attacks. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack

[1]...if you plug untrusted devices into your expansion slots or leave your laptop unattended.
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The ability to read words and figures plainly exposed isn't restricted to the government.
I know what you mean but it's early in the morning here and I feel like being a bit pedantic: As far as we can tell neither of the algorithms actually terminates for arbitrary inputs. If we could show that, we'd have proven the Collatz conjecture. Therefore the notion of asymptotic performance doesn't make a lot of sense, since we want to give an upper bound on how long the algorithms takes to terminate. However, if we found such an upper bound, it would be equivalent to solving the problem itself, because the runtime depends on how long a given sequence is, and putting it into a closed form. At that point we'd trivially have an O(1) algorithm.

What we can do, is measure complexity empirically and extrapolate something from there. I haven't done a lot of tests with this code but to me it seemed like it would scale the same as the original one but had a much lower constant.
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Doesn't solve the low/high power signal for rapid charging.
By useless, do you mean they have no effect whatsoever?
Google+ is where they want the conversation, IMO.
I use it wherever I can, but encryption is something that requires the participation of all communicants. The only option for an unwilling or unable participant is to be excluded from the mail completely and contacted in a separate channel (preferably Real Life). This, combined with the fact that encryption requires effort, makes it very, very hard to propagate.

Encryption for mail will remain practically zero until someone implements an extremely simple, integrated user experience. It's one of those things no normal person will acquire unless you ship it with Windows and make it totally transparent.
Technology is much faster at getting people out of poverty than giving them free money or free food. Heck, as someone from outside, the only thing about Indian industries is that "Indians are good at tech". If I were you, I'd try to focus even more on that, not less.
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Ask PG: is there analysis on and effects on karma based on how people vote?
In an older thread, there was a discussion about how removing comment scoring (among other things) in an older thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2465002

I'm curious if there has been any analysis bucketing accounts across threads read, up votes, and down votes.

Are most people averaging out in how they generally vote (both threads and comments) or are there obvious skews? Ie, some accounts are almost all positive, others negative, and does it vary by longevity , activity, etc.
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When you say you couldn't read the article, could you expand on that? Were you physically unable to due to nausea or something like that, or moreso that you refuse to read it as a matter of principle because of the unnecessary animations?
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Pierre Bourdieu called it "cultural capital"
For the record, mandatory decryption is an unsettled issue in the U.S. and conflicting rulings have been issued. It's entirely possible that a judge in a given encryption case will rule that the accused's right not to self-incriminate as defined in the Fifth Amendment precludes mandatory decryption.

Regardless of the state's ability to compel decryption, you should still encrypt everything because it gives you at least partial control. Your options are much, much better if the government can't build their case without your cooperation, even if a judge compels decryption, because your lawyer can try to get the order rescinded before you comply, or at worst, he can at least stall for a while, you can claim you forgot your password and take the risk of an obstruction charge if the risk of said charge is lesser than the risk of charges that would be made after prosecutors gained access to your decrypted content, etc.

If you leave everything plaintext, you have no possibility of option or control; the government gets access to the whole kit and caboodle instantly.
That's really all there is to it, isn't it? I've never understood why some people feel the urge to modify the same variable multiple times in the same statement. It doesn't help readability, it's harder to reason about and worst of all leads you directly into the land of undefined behavior, where everything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
I'm following the context set by my ancestor comments, which is that deodorant is to americans as, according to Socrates, horsehair crests were to classical soldiers.
Nope. On Android, unless you keep a process in the foreground (with an ongoing notification), the system can kill it at any time. So that's perfectly reasonable on Android.
I simply want to do more and more of my computing at the command line and with OS X I often find that every task I want to accomplish is a little more complex than it has to be, and that over time that all adds up.
> Naive question: visually, this looks like all Mints before it. As an Ubuntu and OSX user, I'm not sure I'm liking the 'retro' Linux UI style.

If you don't like the look of MATE, then don't use it. The entire point of MATE is that it is something for people to use if they don't like what self-described UI experts did with GNOME after version 2.

Seriously, I'm not kidding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software)#History

If you want new, experimental, or 'professional', go look for it elsewhere.

(I do not use MATE, GNOME 3, Unity, or KDE.)
100W is done via 5A @ 20V.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#USB_Power_Delivery_specifi...
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that is not the correct answer!

the correct answer was ordered to pay the sum equal to the amount they were last awarded in court.
Disregarding the flamboyant visions of an electrical revolution, just having a flippable physical interface (and hopefully not in three different sizes, two of which always gets mixed up) would be a huge enough leap forward for everyday life.
I'm curious: was your residence in Santa Cruz a misty/mold-conducive environment? What's the climate and household like where you moved to?
Probably Prolog, as IBM's Watson tech seems to use it - but yeah, Prolog skills are a very specialized niche that's used very, very rarely in industry.
Like software developers would be some fairies living in mystical land? It is not working that way from other point of view, and that point of view is where money come from ;)
Computer-based steganography is destined to failure in the same way DRM is destined to failure. If a computer program can interpret the data, someone else can reverse engineer the formats until the solution is found. It might slow something down slightly, but is not likely to be effective alone.

The reason computers and networks are useful to us is because they can instantaneously create perfect copies of long strings of numbers, which programs interpret to have specific meanings. If we have a use case where perfect, rapid proliferation may be problematic, computational digitization should be considered a suspect mechanism for the implementation of that use case.

tl;dr: implement [at least most of] your steganography the old-fashioned way.
Aha, the "signalling theory of deodorant". Some think a college degree 'works' in the same way.
Virtualbox VMs. Never tried the VMware ones.

The performance is acceptable most of the times, other than when I am running one of those PHP frameworks that includes a million files to process each request.
True. TBH any arrangement where Apple pays the attorneys directly is weird. The government should have simply hired the attorney and billed Apple instead of having the attorney bill Apple.
Take a peek into your Rails application
I've read lots of papers explaining the wage gap. The wikipedia article is too long for me to read right now, but thanks for pointing it out. I may update it if applicable.

Also what you don't take into account is that "wage gap" is not an arbitrary measurement. It is picked specifically to make women look like victims. You could also measure "time spent with friends and family instead of working" or "life expectancy" or "probability to die on the job" instead and men would look like the victims.

Another thing I wonder is how many of the wage gap studies take into account that typically income in a marriage is split equally. So a woman's wage in a job might be less than her husbands, but her effective income is the same.

Furthermore, might it be a privilege that women don't need to worry about money as much as men.

Just a few things to think about. Actually I think statistics like the wage gap are interesting. Something is going on, but it is probably not what feminists think. It's worthy of study, but feminism is not open to study or science - the only allowed result is "women are the victims". Typically the wage gap papers stop when they have identified the wage gap. Then they blurt out "see, it's discrimination" and no further investigation is attempted.
That's how Debian's release system has always worked, and most derivatives have stuck pretty close to it. If you want software pretty close to the day of its official release, use a bleeding-edge distro like Gentoo or Arch. If you want software literally the day of its release regardless of what your distribution's maintainers think of it or its compatibility, most distributions have testing channels where new packages are inserted as quickly as they can be built (for Debian, this would be sid).
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What an annoying post. Talks like he knows a lot, when he doesn't know this most basic of basic points of how C works. It's understandable to not know everything, even to have the odd hole in your basics like this. But the know-it-all voice (and for such a basic topic) "I explained operator precedence..." is just going to make you someone nobody wants to work with. This is not undefined behavior, it's one of the first things you learn about C after encountering the pre/postfix operators IF you pay attention to the details, which, with C, you should know to do.
Not having heard of Hacker News is irrelevant to writing better headlines. The "law" is hardly trivia; it's a great way to shed light on lazy writing and introduce people to simple manipulative tricks of journalism.
That's the reason why I gave it up the last time I tried it. IIRC, there's a requirement to run 'vagrant up' with sudo and that does things which I don't like.

Maybe, I'll try something like leaving the files on the guest and mount it on the host using SSHFS. My write performance will take a hit when I am editing files, but, if I can get rid of the sluggishness it will be worth it.
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3. A person's DNA is unique

I'm thinking identical twins. Got anything for #4?
Also concerning is that apps like dropbox and adobe phoning home every time I power on my computer. Little Trojans just sitting there.
> the last time I used Gimp, it was excruciating.

To be fair, it's a LOT better since they added the single window mode. I've been using it since then and I am quite satisfied (although I am not a heavy user). Maybe you should give it a more serious try. Inkscape is also pretty good I think.
So you are tying the key to fingerprints or other biometric, but how do you tie that to an identity e.g. a name?
yeah. that's the part of academia I wanted to get into, when I was looking at that, too. I think that's the most visible reason to go into academia. But unless you make the jump back into business, there's not much money there. Your average research professor may have more stability than your average Engineer, but doesn't get much more in terms of money than an Engineer with a BS or less.
Mars is a walk in the park as far as the environmental situation goes. Venus is absolute hell so failure is unsurprising.
Aha! I recommend you stop trying to ask them to promote it (for now at least) and start asking if your website solves a problem for them.
This is eerie: http://paulwalker.com/
It's neat how many glitches people have found in these particular games. A couple other Pokemon "arbitrary code" hacks (in the Yellow version):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UnB1fomvAw (Pi day celebration)

http://aurellem.org/vba-clojure/html/total-control.html (proof-of-concept for a clojure-to-pokemon-to-assembly compiler)

A "normal" playthrough in which the author shows off various glitches (most without any kind of cheat device): http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Blue/Update%2001/
GKrypt: using general purpose graphics units (GPGPUs) for data encryption
> They can be guessed – Regardless of complexity requirements, users will find and use the simplest pattern allowed, and attackers routinely take advantage.

It's right in the article that they are talking about average user behavior of choosing guessable password, even if you tell them not to.
It's very easy. Brute-forceable factorization problem. I would be interested in seeing if there were more elegant solutions though, I'm sure there's some optimizations, although the numbers multiplied are prime.
This is very cool. How was it built? Is the source available? Clicking the commit SHAs doesn't link to the commit for me.
I had some one steal my laptop, which had all of information on it and also had a wallet with well over $300,000 worth in bitcoins. My laptop was stolen back in April, right when it was beginning to soar. I had written everything down on paper and had it in the laptop case which they took too. I looked for a verification email and it was no where to be found. I am so depressed about this. Right now I am in a struggle losing my home to foreclosure, never did I think I would miss out on an opportunity like this. Its like winning the lottery, but losing your ticket. Sighhhhh......... Now... all Ive got is an empty wallet. 16syUE7aoGTM6BTvn1N9zf6UUCcUcRaHfL
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I love these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALFvB-UWaxg (Chrono Trigger in less than 4 minutes)