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This entry weighs in at a magical 4043 bytes (8086 nibbles, 28,301 bits). It manages to implement most of the hardware in a 1980’s era IBM-PC using a few hundred fewer bits than the total number of transistors used to implement the original 8086 CPU.
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Just a small reminder how far we have come - and what Moore's law (RIP) has done for us. Yes the original PC had few enough transistors one could actually count them. NowadAys ...

An awesome piece of work
Or having to jiggle the toilet handle after flushing, a common problem that many live with.
Do alcohol wipes work againts the bugs you don't want to get? Like noro virus or e coli or etc etc.
Interestingly enough my topic result (search history turned off, but signed in to a Google account) was www.funnyordie.com/topic/sex‎

I've never cared about funnyordie, didn't even realise it still existed. Wonder how they picked that, or if other users results differ.
tldr; whipping up controversy to sell her new book.
I think you can usually infer from context what a person means when they say "hacker," and while people over the age of 60 may have difficulty with it, most people in their 40s and younger have been exposed to the concept through sites like "life hacker." It would be insulting to suggest that the author does not know the difference between Steve Wozniak and Kevin Mitnick.

Even with that distinction, there's a distinction in my mind, and probably many others', between a programmer and a hacker. I consider myself a fairly skilled programmer, but not a hacker. Maybe I was back in high school, but not anymore. I like programming, and I like learning new things about CS theory, but I think "hacker" conveys something more than that. A hacker values speed over correctness, figures out ways to put their programming knowledge to use in their day-to-day life. A hacker believes that a few lines of Perl will save the world.

I, on the other hand, like building systems that work, and the intellectual satisfaction that comes from solving a data modeling problem. Real hackers are obsessed with the potential of 3D printing, the nifty gadgets you can make with an Arduino board, or a Raspberry Pi device. It's all about pushing the envelope. I don't push envelopes. I like to identify a problem, solve it once, and apply that solution wherever it fits. I can see how people might find that a bit dry, but I personally find it satisfying.

They're different value sets, and different skill sets, and I think both are necessary.
I wonder how this ties into Apple's other recent acquisitions - if I remember correctly, they recently purchased a company that was mounting depth sensors on iPads. Fast image processing is central to usable 3d augmented reality interfaces, and Apple might be planning ahead for 2015's iOS innovations.
As a Canadian and a retired buddha smoker, I would say United States has beat Canada at it's most sacred national treasure (hockey, basketball too).

No longer can we thump our chest and scream 'BC BUD BEST BUD'. L.A. MMJ surpasses B.C. easily and it's far more relaxed than Vancouver. Far more ridiculously easier to get MMJ.

Have you tried to get medical marijuana here in Vancouver? Doctors prescribe anti-depressants because it works better than medical marijuana.

Don't buy this Canadian propaganda bullshit or somehow we are above United States, if anything, we suffer from heavy market regulation and interference from the government, federal and provincial and then point fingers at America and say look at those barbarians!

How the hell does incompetent government workers who can't get shit done get paid more than highly intellectual human capital in the tech industry, AND get more benefits AND get more job stability? It must be that all of our hard earned money is going towards the upper echelons of Canadian government, with a fat ass mayor taking crack cocaine off the streets by consuming it all and running around like an idiot for one.
Last night I asked Google how much a driving theory lesson costs. It spoke the answer back to me that it had extracted using NLP from the official website. That is the power of their infrastructure.
I agree. I love OneNote but this is a tragic situation. I would be SO HAPPY if OneNote had a good API. I would dance on rooftops and howl at the moon.
> They watched via video feed as their suspect removed the laptop, this time with a bike helmet obscuring his face.

Aaron Swartz did not attempt to obscure his face. The DOJ just chose a screenshot of when the helmet happened to pass over his face, making it falsely appear as though he was. That's malicious on the part of the DOJ, and that's slanderous and sloppy journalism on the part of Janelle Nanos and Boston magazine.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/swartz-video/
This is absolutely and wholeheartedly true.

I hire technical staff for a fairly large agency, and I can tell you right away that the climate is getting a lot more difficult.

This article touches on the same progression from another angle; http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of...

We now have a completely saturated market with people that started with HTML and CSS, with very little knowledge of actual programming. With the emergence of Atwood's law, and everything javascript.. these 'jQuery experts' have little to no relevance in the long term.

Unless FEDs actually understand programming, and unless they actually apply that knowledge in their work, they are being rapidly commoditized.

This is a real issue for the career future of many FEDs, but very few seem to realize it.
Note that this is an opinion column, not a news report or a newspaper-sponsored analysis done by a reporter.

Also the author does not do justice to the subject, implying much more agreement than actually exists. I didn't want to go into the political mess of this, however, simply point out that I was a bit confused as to what I was reading.
I always thought it was the wrong market. Glass would be awesome for all sorts of specialized applications -- allow construction folks to see through walls or provide telemetry to pilots or machine operators.

But as a tool to help the mass consumer record random stuff? Not so much.
> colocated Raspberry Pi
tldr; whipping up controversy to sell the article.
Government bureaucrat. I don't care if Google, Microsoft, or whoever else has humans who directly modify search results. I'm free to choose among the competing search engines based on the value they provide me.

Any external notion of correctness imposed industry-wide will destroy that choice.
XSS has nothing to do with PHP at all.
OP isn't alone - I find these parts dissections fascinating as well. Posts like these show you how and why hardware is becoming a comodity. It's going to be a very interesting century.
The difference between building an operating system and building a web scale search engine is that the former is mostly just work and there is a lot of material to learn from in order to inform that work. Sure, it requires talent, skill and perseverance, but there is a shitload of operating systems you can study. It also doesn't require tons of hardware, nuclear-reactor-scale power and enough bandwidth to rapidly copy, and keep updated, a significant portion of the web.

Sure, just making an OS doesn't mean it takes over the world. But guess what: you have the same problem with search engines.
once upon a time there were chipsets that didn't play well with autonegotiated switch ports.
It was Panama hat. Rap Genius did not pay money, they offered a tweet. In a crude and obvious enough way to be a little scheme-y. Which unfortunately for RG was picked up in the media.

"even I was scratching my head to figure out if this was actually a Google violation or not. Rap Genius’s apology post had the company deciding itself that maybe it violated guidelines that links should be “editorially placed." - Danny Sullivan.

At least now we know. This is blackhat.
Yes. RSA should lose customers because RSA didn't do their job properly -- they didn't select algorithms that were in their customers' best interest, despite all the facts being in the open.
Yes, thank god. concurrent.futures is a brillant library, makes writing multithread/multiprocess code so much cleaner and more intuitive
Depends on the person, but I don't think I'd feel weird around them. The difference with the prosthetic and glass isn't the technical capability, rather it's the perceived intent.
To be sure, a big question would be whether they relayed anything to elected leaders.
Good lord, what a heart breaking story! To have a 5 year old realize she is dying of cancer! This paragraph really hit me hard:

"We know she understands because when we were home between her surgeries and the radiation treatments, twelve days of having the family together in the midst of everything, Rebecca got very mad at her sister for not letting her play with a toy. “It’s for kids eight and up,” Carolyn said, reasonably. Rebecca, of course, found this line of reasoning lacking, and came storming into the kitchen. “Carolyn won’t let me play with that toy and I have to play with that toy!” she shouted. We explained that it was in fact for older children, and that she certainly might want to play with it, but that wasn’t the same as having to play with it. “I have to!” she shouted again, her voice rising almost to a scream, breaking with angry, anguished sobs, “I have to play with it now because it’s for kids who are eight years old AND I’M NEVER GONNA BE EIGHT!!!”"
You seem to be using a Cloud-to-Butt extension. The product is actually called o.w.n.c.l.o.u.d.
Personal stylistic opinion here but while the concept of annoations is pythonic, I think the implementation we got is the opposite. It uses magic glyphs that require research to interpret - especially if you come from any other programming language, because when you see things like a : b, or foo -> bar, you expect that to have some syntactic meaning.

The fact that the colon and right arrow in a Python annotation are, for the interpreter, a no-op, is insanely confusing to a newbie or just a generalist. It is compounded by how it would have made much more sense to reserve keywords in their places, so instead of

def foo( a : "fruit", b : Color) -> Pineapple:

you could have used reserved names:

def foo( a expects "fruit", b expects Color) returns Pineapple:

Which is a lot more readable in the way Python is meant to be. Good Python code reads more like prose than software, and the former prevents that from happening at all.
Here is the video of this talk (40 min.), for those who don't like trying to decipher slides: http://pyvideo.org/video/1730/python-33-trust-me-its-better-...
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While I haven't looked at the source, it is indeed a shame that they're not using a mature, battle-proven framework. With frameworks we have today, why would you roll your own, especially for a project like OwnCloud?
Since Google knows a lot about me (for eg) by parsing my emails (I use gmail) and knows about the sites I visit too (Chrome and thru Adsense on 3rd websites), Google is in a much better position to provide me with more relevant results(and ads) than Bing, since I don't use much Microsoft's online services.
No I'm really questioning this. I have both OSX and Ubuntu machines. For command line tools they are equal. Absolutely everything that works on Ubuntu (CLI app) works on OSX too. So what's the Linux advantage when you already paid for OSX?!
Short and very informative, though I wondered why patents are no concern for a competitor of Google (they have various broad and trivial patents on using historical data, user feedback, moderation for better search results).

As the author wrote, aiming at feature parity with Google is probably a bad idea. DDG seems to do this right: they have some better features and one distinct advantage over Google with their stance on privacy. Perhaps Google will reach a certain creepiness factor with all the collected data they're factoring into search results (e.g. I have this suspicion that content from gmail is used too) and at some point it might work against them even for the average user (or am I just biased?).

One "feature" that Google has failed to do properly is custom "site search", i.e. providing a search interface for arbitrary websites. Perhaps this is another opportunity for a new competitor or even Bing (though their "site search" was shut down in 2011 apparently), there is plenty of demand (and lots of crappy custom solutions).
That reminds me of something I read once on Apple's website one day, that seemed to suggest Apple invented CUPS in 1997. They hired the developer and bought the rights in 2007, so it's fair to say it's theirs, but it was worded as if this was always so.
Precisely my thought. It's a notable lapse in an otherwise well-constructed article.

And to be clear: calling out specifically how the alarmists have misrepresented radiation hazards (I've seen the wave-height map circulated misleadingly numerous times) is absolutely the right call.
I'm equally impressed by the Apple adapter. They make expensive stuff, but they legitimately don't cut corners. It's nice to see there's still one consumer electronics company that still does that.
not without twisted.
that is my top result as well, and I haven't been on funnyordie since it stopped being funny around 2008, possibly earlier.
Which I say in the first sentence of paragraph 3.
Wave that flag a little harder. Show the club how much you belong.

How embarrassing.
Alcohol resistance can be developed in many bacteria genuses (genii?). I don't think I know of any species that can handle high concentrations though, though I would bet endospores would be able to survive.
I've used a Noctua fan in one of my builds, they are fantastic.
Isn't the skin whole ecosystem of bacteria? Killing all of them often and efficiently may destroy power balance between different species of bacteria and by accident allow more harmful bacteria to win the power struggle. Something akin to when you take antibiotics that kills of bacteria in your intestines ending up with messing up your internal bacterial ecosystems entirely and giving you a condition that is recently most successfully treated with fecal transplant.

You probably had to bathe in antibacterial soap to do that but still..
You must've made a typo with your salt. 1500 mg is a reasonable daily intake.

Also, with the bacteria it isn't so much where they are as it is that there is usually a lot of variation within each species, with only some of the varieties being virulent.
Coming soon to a shoebox datacenter near you.
Just a small note about sitesearch, Google are definitely not the market leader there. They don't seem to care much about this feature.
Very interesting study. Somehow in the back of my head, it still whispers "You get what you paid for".
That is correct. In case you're wondering, I signed up for it when I saw this story on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946940. The service is nice and stable, with an Internet connection seemingly as fast as the Pi can handle. However, I had to wait quite a long time (~4 months) for my Pi to come online and due to overwhelming demand they're no longer offering it for free.

Edit: "Shoebox" jokes aside, their setup looks fairly impressive: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3685.
Some people are expected to wash their hands a lot, many times a day. These people need to a oid irritation because that defeats hand washing.

"When is clean too clean" (or something like that) is the CDC document.

I've also heard that wet hands then soap makes for better coverage. I'd think that either way would work the same if peoe took enough time and effort with washing.

I would really like to know - with science - what the best method is. I suspect that at one point someone had to write a set of instructions and so that's what we've been doing ever since.
Oddly: I reverse-showroom often. I'll research purchases online, make them in stores. Possibly old school. There's a greater convenience and generally far better returns policy. And there's now a #surveillancestate argument. I don't know if it was Jacob Applebaum's recent C3SO talk or elsewhere, but the story was of a security-conscious hacker who's taken to walking into an arbitrary storefront for his electronic purchases to avoid having it intercepted and backdoors installed by the spooks.
The article is good as is, but I'd have titled it ~'What the barriers to "viable search engine competition" really look like.'
What does well cleaned really mean? When I worked in a restaurant, sanitization of certain food prep surfaces required that we wipe down the surface, leave the sanitizer in place for 3 minutes, and then dry.

In a daycare, cleaning is spraying and wiping. Keeps stuff clean, but clean doesn't mean sanitized. (Although I donut that is needed)
Were you able to get reliable performance sending CobraNet over USB Ethernet adapters? I once wrote a simple audio recording program for the Linux console for diagnosing CobraNet issues, but haven't tried it over a USB adapter.
What do you mean by "[Apple] don't cut corners"? Serious question.
That's kind of the definition of sour grapes.
I reckon if you'd repeat that experiment a gazillion times, which is what evolution is about, that you would end up with some pretty good truck dodgers.
> The data MS has about you is not even close to the data GOogle has on you.

Also, users have adapted and are trained to work with Google nowdays, they memorize how to find particular results on Google (even though Google puts a lot of effort into breaking features like "link:...").
They don't cut corners on this kind of thing, but their version still probably costs $5 or less to manufacturer.
I agree completely! When I see a ':', I think slice syntax, and when I see a '->', I think.. hashrocket? What is this madness?

Is anybody interested in working on a PEP about this?
and all those who advocate for raising the minimum wage are only asking it to be raised relative to inflation and not much more. its also why the strawman (that's been used twice in these posts already) of 'why dont we raise it to $100 then?' is silly and doesn't help the discussion.
"That said, I don't think 'spy on everyone, except the powerful' is a step up, if anything it's worse."

Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue.

'You can turn it off!' he said.

'Yes,' said O'Brien, 'we can turn it off. We have that privilege.'
I'm pretty sure I can find economists who don't agree.
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Even better, if you had pulled up an internet article over the NSA spying right before calling your senator, the NSA could even corroborate the two sources together to know that you were talking to your senator about the NSA program (even if all they collect is 'just metadata').

I can't even fathom how anyone can claim this can be allowed in a democracy.
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So D-wave is basically a Lehmer sieve?
Can someone who has the page loaded add a mirror or link to a cached version?
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Also to break down your furniture surface. UV is used in medical laboratories at the end of the day to disinfect surfaces. If you are germophobic you can create similar setup in your house right now. Not LED based though.
Here's a thought for you. I wear glasses, I have for every day of my life for more than two decades. If Google offered me almost indistinguishable glasses that work just fine but also have a HUD that shows me things I care about (Google Now is the first step towards that) then how could I say no?
Xbox 360 towel trick, anybody?
Yep, and I'm willing to bet ten bucks that in the next 48 hours at least one of them will write a rebuttal.
Perhaps, rather than theorize about improving the American minimum wage, look to other countries that have higher minimum wage and evaluate their level of poverty (or lack thereof). Look at Australia and Norway, for example.

Granted, the lack of poverty in those countries is not solely caused by a humane minimum wage - but it's a huge factor, and a positive indicator.

I lived in the US for 7 years and could never fathom how the country as a whole could tolerate such a system.
Nice comeback.
> However, it is not a matter of debate that the RSA backdoor of BSAFE was and is not open merely to the NSA. It is an objective fact that anyone can take advantage of a backdoor like this.

This is not accurate. You need to know the private key for the generator, and this is not publicly known.
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Water "activates" the soap.

I'm no biology or chemistry expert so I might not have this completely right, but here's how I understand it.

Soaps are a surfactant, when you add water (dilute? You aren't pouring water on it, come on!) you "activate" the soap and that forms micelles. This is the "lather" reaction. This is good, we want this for cleaning.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/cleansing/products...

>. So when you put soap in water, the ends of the soap molecules that are attracted to it latch on right away and the other ends stick straight up in the air. Any soap molecules trapped underneath will fight their way to the surface and eventually you end up with three layers: a layer of soap molecules, a layer of water and another layer of soap molecules pushing themselves away from the main body of water underneath. These three layers form the wall of a bubble .... The different ends of soap molecules are also what make soap so good at cleaning. As you learned earlier, when you mix soap with water, it lowers the surface tension of the water by separating the water molecules, as the soap molecules push up between them. Meanwhile, the other ends of the soap molecules that are attracted to dirt grab on to it. As multiple soap molecules attach themselves to the same piece of dirt, they eventually break it down into tiny particles, which then can easily be washed away

This is most noticed with bar soap, but I still say you can't form a proper lather with liquid soap without wetting your hands first, and it doesn't cover the entirety of your hands (backs, between the fingers) unless you use a TON and I mean a TON of soap.
Natural? Non-disruptive?
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From the letter:

*> Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share."

I'll have to dig around but I recall reading a few articles about 60%+ windows OS being pirated, this number is much lower in US and other developed markets, but is as high as 93% in some[0].

[0] http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_sof_pir_rat-crime-soft...

edit: site seems to be unavailable. Link @ archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100316174220/http://www.cryptn...
That's a simple fix, though; you just shorten the chain between the flush handle and the flapper by a link or so.
I agree with your point, but the "stop!" girl is a screen grab of Rachel McAdams from the movie Mean Girls.

I think this is the most pedantic thing I've ever said.
They should have never had a video camera on it. Thats all people think it is and you're right, no one wants to maybe be recorded all the time. If it had been a HUD only then it would have had a chance. maybe.
What do you mean by famous general instability of Windows? Windows is perhaps my 3rd choice for OS, but almost all my clients use Windows and among the problems they deal with, instability is not one of them.
I've seen it labelled "washes away bacteria".
I'm sorry but thats the worst linkbait I've seen to Slate in a minute. Common HackerNews, you're bringing me down...
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Or, better: if the NSA collects "blackmail" evidence to keep the elected leaders/officials "in check" to avoid more legislative issues...