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>Practical flying cars, at least as they are seen in films, requires a method of flying that does not rely on aerodynamics or reaction mass and has an energy store that is far better than petrol.

That's not true. All you'd need is batteries with higher capacity and some clever engineering of ducted fan propellers with variable geometry. You couldn't manage nearly as high speeds as passenger airliners in the lower atmosphere, but you could certainly manage cruise at speeds and efficiencies around those of a car. A modern sailplane cruises at an effective energy consumption of 3 kW (4 HP) at 100kph (calculated as sink rate at max L/D times gross weight). You wouldn't get this efficient without some really smart engineering of the lifting surfaces, but there are plenty of avenues that haven't been explored yet if you've got VTOL capability and don't have to engineer the wings for safe landing speeds.

The key is that the design has to use wings, it's the only practical way to generate lift efficiently.
But can these people built a better Tor network/tunnel than the Tor/EFF people did? Doubtful. Libernet seems based on Linux, itself not secure. My group has solved both this problem, without using security flawed Linux/Unix (I will be happy to send you the scientific papers proving my point. See my HN profile).
Interesting stuff, although it would be nice to see more analysis and less tables/charts. Some regression lines would also be good, and help in interpreting correlations.

I was wondering how your post got 3 million facebook shares, then I realized that you left in the default data-href attribute for the facebook docs. You might want to change that.
It does indeed. And elevation traveled. And pace.
Per the runner's world calculator they'd have to be 215 lbs. running 10 min per mile Which I suppose is possible.
If you imagined it like a server - you have a huge amount of loading power on the server and don't need compression there because its not needed. However, if that server is to distribute information to lower powered entities (laptops, phones and other web-enabled devices) it would need compression to ease loading on those entities.....

Perhaps the "server" is omnipotent but hands out our reality compressed so that we can at least begin to grasp it....?
It's gotten to the point where my friends and I started trading futures contract for the resources. "I will trade you a wood and two future bricks for two ores…"

Note that in order to comply with the rules, every trade must have at least one card exchanged on either side of the transaction.
This is both creepy, and really cool.
I'd rather have ads that might be relevant than ones that are not.

This stuff can be done while keeping peoples privacy intact.
I'll disagree with the Catan-is-less-complicated. For one thing, Monopoly builds on the familiar roll-and-move mechanic. For another, Catan's setup process is hellishly complex. Maybe if you bought the Family Edition (where you can't customize the board), then Catan is simpler, but otherwise?

Catan's manual is short because it's excessively terse. I've never seen anybody successfully learn Catan from the instruction manual.

Also, while Monopoly has some absurd tacked-on rules, Catan has some strange edge-cases that confuse the game - like the trick where you can break an opponent's longest-road if you can plonk a settlement somewhere along it.
Posted a month ago [1]. Following that, a de-obfuscated version was published but I can't be arsed to find it now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7012385
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> I don't understand at all why monopoly is the universal board game that every kid learns. It's a horrible game that drags on for hours.

Well, inasmuch as it does that, it's teaching the correct economic lesson: when you allow for monopolies, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and social mobility (what a game designer would term "avoiding lame-duck scenarios") is nowhere to be found.

I'd say Monopoly is actually great to play with kids... once. Right after they develop naive libertarianism as an ideology. ;)
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Posted more than a month ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7012385

(www at the URL, so it wasn't flagged as duplicate)
Note the article was written in 2008 and clang was first released in 2007. "LLVM 2.2 was released on February 11, 2008, and LLVM r53339
is a snapshot of the source code from July 9, 2008." They later in that paragraph describe the improvements in clang over such a short time.

Also, it seems there are quite a few compiler bugs being found, even today. This looks like a very productive field of study, though the same could likely be said for software correctness in general. http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1061

This particular paper's software (its modern equivalent) is at https://github.com/csmith-project/voltest
If you want to add a little RPG-ish "upgrading" to the game, I recommend the "Cities and Knights" expansion. It adds a lot of complexity to the game but adds some fun "level up" mechanics and a bit more conflict and brutality to the game.
I love these kinds of posts. Interesting way of mining data from a product that isn't yours :). Are there any negatives to this type of approach (other than potentially pissing off the dev)?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6878369

I like to think that I helped a little by pointing out the circular nature of the reasoning they were using to justify the old algorithm.

In any case, kudos to the Reddit staff for finally addressing this issue. It's not easy to reverse a decision that has been maintained for so long.
It's going to be hilarious if it turns out that this never happened. So many people have used the MtG origins of the site to criticize it.

(I'm one of those people. I guess this is a lesson in not repeating something just because you saw a bunch of comments discussing it.)
Bringing Debian APT to the iPhone (2008
Yeah I was exaggerating, but people do 5 cards for one if they really need it (just mixed element).
The great thing about Catan is how it's a wedge. It's a gateway drug into the world of modern boardgames (I don't say Eurogames because there's some fantastic Ameritrash). People who play Catan are then amicable to try out other fun great games like Ticket To Ride and Small World.
We haven't done futures yet because there's too much trust there, and we get pretty competitive. Also futures may never pay ... that's interesting.
Observations are one thing, attempts to do any kind of serious study on the results are another. It is not meaningful to do statistics on data that bad.
I'll give my money to Apple for a couple of 60" TVs and a pair of iWatches, iTags are the future.

So there, shut up and take my $5k.
> Rosen's number theory book was pretty good, maybe it's just you?

1. This is an awful thing to say.

2. The grandparent is probably referring to Rosen's Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073383090), not his number-theory book.
If potential customers tell you there's an issue with your approach, that's extremely valuable too.
Ah yes I forgot to mention the sleeping.
I've also been able to get great effects (in terms of 'recovery') by taking modafinil before bed if I only have between 1-3 hours available to sleep, then getting up and having a good productive 18 hour day. Although I dream a lot more, but I consider that a bonus.

Haha 'coke mouth' is overly chatty, will speak at length about anything. Sorry for the lingo
According to one of those shirts, the answer to "HOW IS BABBY FORMED" is "with createElement". o_O
In my experience Adblock Plus, NoScript and RequestPolicy allow much more control than Adblock Plus and Ghostery. Adblock is even easier to use if you install the Element Hider Helper.
Change Party > "hackernews"
and if you like dominion, i recommend quarriors. Its dominion with dice and pvp

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91536/quarriors
Maybe this is something that is visible on a large scale but appears more or less random when zoomed in to a particular couple.
Better title: "Lazy HR assclowns admit they're still using checklists of buzzwords instead of actually reading things"
There is a great irony in the fact that the UX for this site is pretty awful:
* Gigantic social sharing buttons (they're bigger than the headline)
* Glossy nav bar makes options difficult to read
* When scrolling a long article, the left and right areas for nav are completely empty. I end up with two giant purple bars flanking the article.
* On the topic of purple, sooooooo much purple.

Maybe I'm spoiled by the reading UX that medium.com provides.
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> This is 2014 and I don't think there's a place for single-skill design queens any longer.

I know what you're saying. But it reminds me that I would have loved to make a website with Jan Tschichold, Paul Rand, or so many other graphic designers who never even knew the web. (I'm sure they would also be interested in learning the details of the medium, even if they didn't want to code for it.)
Not in London, but gl man! Sounds like a interesting endeavor.
Apple has utter mastery of one of the largest supply chains in existence. That's not nothing.
“Safe were the folk words of truth would upset…”
Would be very interested to see the correlation of rating to director/actor/actress/budget?
The best way I find to deal with the depletion is to go do something physical for a bit. Gardening is good for that, and working from home makes that easy. I have known a few other IT folks who work from home to find this as well. It's anecdotal but it's interesting nonetheless.
At least gcc's generated code has no possibility of working at all, and the system will reboot in a loop the first time it's powered up. So you're only 30 seconds away from finding that bug. (Of course, once you notice that the watchdog is being triggered it's going to be several hours of debugging before you realize that your compiler just optimized out the check.)
This is an interesting point. Can you suggest some reading to find out more about this? eg. what got you thinking along these lines?
Ugggh---So. Glossy.
Doesn't really matter people don't say that because they actually care about the origins it's just a succinct way of communicating their displeasure w/o having to run down the litany of reasons why it is demonstrably untrustworthy.
>>"And that's the stupidest "yo dawg" I've ever seen. If there's anything that's too easy to use, it's online meme generator tools."

This "Yo Dawg" meme is a joke about those infuriating one-button mice that Apple released a few years ago.
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I also like the Uncommons, but I recommend checking their schedule if you'd like to visit - they often host events that end up making the place quite crowded (e.g., MtG tournaments)
Capitalism is just private property and voluntary contracts. It's impossible to untie life from that.

Feudalism is a system, but it was built into capitalism. Feudal lords had land as their property, they made voluntary contracts of their vassals: I'll protect you and give you some land, you'll give some of your production to me. There was also trade, merchants et cetera.

This applies to everything. The Native North Americans had private property and various kinds of contracts -- which probably involved some communal property and other stuff.

When there's some entity exercising coercion (non-voluntary contracts), that entity is the State and there is socialism.
Is trading actually a good thing? I see people play and they seem open to trading for trades sake. Unless your opponents are making pointless trades to confuse, doesn't it just help their position?

Catan's alright, but it's too random to be really enjoyable. The strategy seems outweighed by getting lucky on rolls or draws.
Sure, http://fundersandfounders.com/will-i-succeed-with-my-startup....

There are several other numbers out there, but it's all in the 75%-90% range. So 10% chance to become a millionaire, thus free to do everything you want and I will learn so much in the meantime? I take it.
Both gold and oil are poor inflation metrics as their prices are fairly volatile, albeit for different reasons. Also, it's not like Bukowski was investing his monthly Franklin in commodities.

This website suggests $656 as a more realistic figure. Enough to survive on while working furiously on your writing.

http://www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm
Must be a product you're really proud of.
That's illegal according to the contracts you have to agree to in order to accept credit cards or paypal. That's why almost nobody is doing that.
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Yes to be clear, at least in the US, most debit cards have this protection. Although it's not quite as simple as a chargeback.
Kenyans are Keynesians, eh? Go figure...
Sadly, twitch gaming is not something that improves with age. Think more strategic gaming (and no, Dota2 doesn't count).
Great article! Like many of you I have worked with great teams and bad teams. In my experience a great UI/UX is a sign of a great team/company with a clear focus. The designers and engineers cannot fight for whose approach is superior, they must respect and understand each other and the user intent. They have to communicate well and sometimes invent new options together when their views or constraints are in conflict. This requires talent, teamwork and a focus on excellence at a level that cannot be faked.
> the health effects of flavorings are still out there

This is very true. I have been very concerned with "vapers" I know buying cheap juices from China - to me this is rolling the dice, almost as bad as smoking!

You will find that reputable juice mixers will generally make statements about their ingredients. My usual favourite (indigo vapours - I have no commercial interest, just a customer) for example explicitly state that they do not use any flavour containing diacetyl, acetyl propionyl or acetoin.

Flavours which may contain aldehyde elements are a concern, but what is much more my concern with e-cigs is the long-term effect of propolene glycol inhalation, and potentially significant formaldehyde levels potentially produced by the heating and/or oxidation of the base liquids. There's a decent amount of research ongoing in these areas.

Despite these issues I am reasonably confident that e-cigarettes are within a safety range I am comfortable with if (and only if) used with high-quality liquids.
Where can one get a list of more top movies than 250?
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No spoilers! Don't ruin it for everyone else. (Applicable to people who know what I mean)
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Keep it up. An order button for a Persian rug from my design would be nice. :)
It is more than just a sort on number of points :)
Our value is to be able to mix textual relevance with business data (in that case the number of points but is can be the number of page views, number of followers, ...).

You can have a look at our blog post which explain our ranking in details: http://blog.algolia.com/search-ranking-algorithm-unveiled/
I read your profile, and looked though the websites that it mentioned, but I'm not really any clearer on the connection to mesh networking. Do you mind giving a summary? I genuinely am interested.

I'm interested in mesh networking and its relation to the physical layer. As a (time deficient) hobby, I've been noodling on a bit of free space optics for a number of years. In my day job, I design physical layer radio infrastructure for data/voice networks.

(I just realised that "noodling" probably doesn't make sense outside Au/NZ. It comes from the practice of picking though mine tailings for opals, meaning: to toil in an ad hoc manner over a long period of time.)
Why not use Data.StackEchange.com to get it in an officially sanctioned way? You can query any of the Stack databases, save your query, etc:

http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/166034/top...
I feel like you're stretching pretty hard here. Taking your second point first, why wouldn't we turn back the clock for bitcoin then to the "start" of the internet? And the author here, while sighting M-Pesa, references other new payment types too like PayPal which feels closer to Bitcoin (independent exchange mechanism that can be pulled out in a hard currency) when stating that Bitcoin is well behind the curve of where it needs to be.
Yeah! What could possibly go wrong with that?
Well Gentlemen the arguments presented either hold water or they don't. Best to stick to the points presented if a rebuttal is what you have in mind.
If your city goes down you'll probably not have much use of that internal network, the majority of services you access will be outside of your city, so you'll only go there and change that broken cable.
No I don't want to read your stupid full screen registration page.
>Because psychology's topic is the mind, and because the mind is not a physical entity, psychology cannot produce empirical, falsifiable evidence ("testable against the empirical world") to supports its claims. Therefore, based on society's accepted definition of science, psychology is not a science.

Psychology is defined as the scientific study of mental functions and behavior--not the mind. Therefore, since scientists publish peer-reviewed scientific papers with empirical, falsifiable, evidence for theories about mental functions and behavior, Psychology is a science.

And as I said before, in Thinking, Fast and Slow Kahneman outlines many of these studies, and the citation section of his book serves as an atlas of counter-examples to your position.

I've refuted the central point of your argument, and therefore have no logical obligation to address the rest of your points. If you intend to argue, you must necessarily refute my claim by proving the studies I cite in my argument either are not scientific or do not concern mental functions or behavior.

It's a long list so if I were you I would get up early, eat my Wheaties, and instead of trying to prove me wrong, think about how ridiculous you carried yourself in this thread.
That should be ANOTHER WAY to make Firefox suck.
Are you sure of those numbers? Sources I've seen has the area of Canada larger than that of the US, and US close to that of China.

Russia is significantly bigger, as you note.
This affect does not work on me, and, yes, I have two working eyes and neither is "lazy".
> Through cutting edge end-to-end encryption and obscuring where data is located, MaidSafe offers currently unseen levels of security for all types of data. The platform is also autonomous, resistant to viruses and requires no human intervention of any kind.

Is Maidsafe another Freenet?
My presentation focused on creating new tools, but it is important to understand the concepts so that you can contribute to existing tools. Maybe in the future you will contribute to TypeScript.
Melancholia is not 450 minutes long.
I was thinking along the same lines. With millions of users, I suppose it makes sense that you can see "average" number of posts per day change when a relationship changes, but at the individual level how could the algorithm tell if it is a change in relationship or somebody was having a good week and felt like being chatty (of course these options aren't mutually exclusive! :) ).
Exactly what I thought :).

Life imitates art.
Video doesn't autoplay on iOS devices, while GIFs will playback for a few iterations automatically, last I checked.
Do I have to pay VAT over their share of my revenue, with it coming out of my share of the revenue?

As it turns out, no :)

You should set the VAT rate correctly in the Play/Wallet settings, and Google will only charge you commission on the net price. They will remit the collected VAT to you in its entirety.
I agree so much it hurts. In a parallel, more intelligent, universe, that same person said "I think all we can do now is remove the unsupported claims."

Shaking my head.
"Just imagine they are in their underwear" will get a whole new meaning.
NSFW, upper right.
no it can't. Not unless 'privacy intact' means "people with access to the database will never use it for unintended purposes and it is completely secure from being broken into" both of which can't happen.
We might be missing the point here by focusing on romantic relationships.

The fact that people make fewer posts on Facebook as they become closer might mean something, in general, about the kinds of relationships that Facebook sustains.

Facebook is the modern equivalent of a Christmas card...It's a way of maintaining surface-level contact with many people: letting them know that you care...but you don't necessarily care enough to catch up through a more direct and personal medium.

Communicating with your closest friends or your partner mainly through a Christmas card would be silly, in my opinion; we tend to choose less distant methods of communication. So, it's not surprising that people would exchange fewer posts with close friends, as well as romantic partners, as they get to know them.

Those are just my two cents, speaking from experience and observation. I'm sure HN has a range of opinions about this, and I'm interested in hearing other people's perspectives.
It is not Melancholia(2011) but Melancholia 2008, here is IMDB link which says 450 minutes:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1269566/

In the table, I also gave the release year of the movie in order to avoid name conflicts.
IMDB recently released their data in which I took the ranking equation, you may find it useful:
http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
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Identifying bias is not the same as ad hominem. This is a man with a long history of eating Wikipedia's sour grapes and cannot be trusted as an impartial observer. That's all I'm saying.

My main problem with his post is: what is the main thing he is trying to accomplish? Identify editors, yes, but to what end?

He does not state the end. We would assume since he's talking about an encyclopedia that it's to produce better quality articles. But since he names a bunch of bad stuff they supposedly did, it seems he just wants them to stop doing things he objects to.

"Stop doing things I object to" is not something that can be argued. "Write better quality articles" can. So let's assume this is what he meant.

So would identifying editors produce better quality articles? Maybe, but he doesn't make that argument. He argues that they must be identified because otherwise they are "morally bankrupt." An empty phrase that is pure name-calling.

It is, however, an argument.

Are HN commenters morally bankrupt because they don't use their real names? Or any of a thousand internet sites that do the same? Are there any instances of editors using false names and not being morally bankrupt? These are the questions we must investigate to respond to his argument.

As for the rest of it:

> banned editors who continue to serve on various wikipedia boards

Would firing them produce better articles? Maybe, but where's the argument? Otherwise it's just an attempt to smear.

> hiring a convicted felon as COO

Would firing him produce better articles?

> a book full of similar transgressions

OK, so let's see it. He seems giddy with delight over it. But will it argue for reforms in Wikipedia's structure with good reasons, or just be more dirty laundry?

Sanger is supposedly a philosopher, but seems to think casting aspersions is the same as arguing a point.