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True; an entirely accurate model would be quite time-consuming. For example, a red giant's photosphere is not spherical.

Niel deGrasse Tyson offered the following feedback:

> If the Sun's Wien's law curve peaked just a few Angstroms over from it's current value would you have illustrated it green? But of course there are no green stars even though the curve peaks there for plenty of them.

> The width of the visible part of the spectrum is so narrow compared with the full-breadth energy distribution of the stars that the fractional difference between one color and the next is quite small. The consequence is that we don't actually see all the colors you show.

- http://www.astro.uvic.ca/~tatum/stellatm.html

- http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9604b/

- http://herschel.cf.ac.uk/results/betelgeuse

- http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/starold_2.html

- http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=wien+displacement+law
It is possible to apply this advice too broadly.
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What stops someone from doing that anyway, with their own hot spot, and just serving a self-signed certificate? Will the browser remember the old certificate, and put up the warning?
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Why settle for a mediocre designer just because they also know how to write code. The same argument can be said for hiring a programmer.

"Only hire programmers that are good at product and design who can deliver a product that not only works well but looks well." This I'm sure would be ridiculed if I said it seriously.

Programming and design are very different fields and while you can find some people that are solid at both, most of the really good ones will have focused on their respective fields. So odds are you'll get a programmer that designs like crap as well as the designer that can't really code. Demanding that they be great at both seems naive.
I hate when this article of Joel's get cited as an argument not to rewrite anything.

> With that thinking we never get Linux (NeoMinix), tmux (NeoScreen), Clang (NeoGCC), WebKit (NeoGecko), Subversion (NeoCVS), or Vim itself (NeoVi/Elvis/Stevie/etc).

-- haberman (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7288033)

Stuff is rewritten all the time. Servo is not replacing all of Firefox, just an experimental project to replace Gecko by a skeleton crew.
I'd offer a counter-point to the planning point. I don't know how the SEALs actually do it, but always planning extensively for anything that might possibly happen isn't necessarily a good idea. Another thing I heard from some military source I don't remember: A pretty good plan executed right now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. When time is a factor, you have to make the best decision you can with the information you have, and then go for it.
I can't help but question whether this will actually realize any improvements. What pages will actually be faster? By how much?
Off the top of my head, from recent memory:

We have Tom Perkins complaining that the desire to have the rich contribute fairly is a 'Progressive Kristallnacht', tech nutjob Tim Draper advocating a scheme to basically wall off Silicon Valley from the poors in the rest of the state, and various SF tech firms monopolizing public resources (like bus stops, for example) without paying anything resembling a fair market rate.

Less directly, we have people like Peter Shih and Greg Gopman spouting antisocial rants about how their lives are inconvenienced by the poor and disadvantaged, and how the world would be a better place without all these poor people (rephrased, obviously).

There are certainly level-headed silicon valley millionaires out there who just want to buy a quiet house somewhere and live a happy family life. As long as they pay their taxes and don't lobby to make the planet worse, I have no problem with those people.

The issue is that you can easily come up with as many bad examples as good ones, when it comes to these 'new money' types.

The money in SV obviously does not go directly to the most deserving; some people just get lucky, other people get their money through deceit and outright theft, and other people have the vast majority of their money siphoned off by outside forces like patent trolls. It would be unusual if all these millionaires WERE good people.
I totally agree with you. The reality is most people have their own notion of being poor. It is all relative and in many cases, their notion of being poor is highly exaggerated. I grew up in third world and I know what being poor is.
Anyone that knows that has no right to complain about it.
that's an American dream story there

the irony of moving from wiretapping ukraine to corporate wiretapping by facebook (and possibly NSA) is palpable though. pretty sure facebook just bought whatsapp to get the giant phonebook directory...
back to using PHP.

python is full of bugs and bloat.
> But isn't the result at least somewhat biased, as the car is mostly sold to people looking for V8 noise and performance, who might knowingly or not ignore car's potential problems to promote the HEMI V8 aspect of it.

It works both ways.
> we have the first evidence (ever) that there is no need for a central authority to conduct oversight and ensure a robust currency.

No one has ever doubted that this was possible. 'Robust' currency has existed without a central monetary authority in the past (for millenia!). The reason the Fed exists is because its believe that it takes an existing 'robust' currency and makes it better.
Whatsapp is probably best seen from a more general point of view. When Hangouts was still non existing or in its infancy I remember in Italy everybody was using Whatsapp already, the app remained in the top general chart of the iTunes App Store for maybe two years if not more. I bet most Europe was like that, but probably in the US the service never managed to get very popular until recently.
Wow, they just paid 105k in salaries in the last year? Now that explains all the gross incompetence. Subcontracting expenses... Not sure what that means..
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> The handling has been abysmal as well. They dropped a 0-day on themselves by releasing the iOS update, and then delayed the fix by several days, apparently so they could release it along with the Facetime integration.

The only alternative would have been to delay the iOS release, which they didn't do because almost certainly this bug was already being exploited in the wild. All this did was make more people aware of it, and only then for a few days.

As for OS X release, I'm sure they released it as fast as they could. It has nothing to do with releasing along with FaceTime integration, and everything to do with 10.9.2. was already going through the GM process, and it was faster/easier to add this fix into that and continue trying to validate the GM than it was to spin up an entirely new train for a 10.9.1.1 with just this fix and try to validate that.
Funny thing about this argument is that we don't apply it to the rest of the world, and for good reason.

"God look at all the people killed by that airplane attack... let's get rid of skyscrapers and/or airplanes!"

"Man, alcohol sure does fuck over a lot of families, let's prohibit it!"

"That computer-based system led to millions of dollars being lost, we should stop using computers!"

Face it, now the same argument that you would use in support of still using Bitcoin exchanges (presumably run by more competent individuals?) would also work in support of regulated fiat systems (especially those run by more competent individuals!).
Look at the Salary row, this claims they were running an exchange handling hundreds of millions worth of assets with a salary that would be a struggle to hire an accountant, a developer, security consultant, or anyone else you'd need to successfully run an exchange at that size.

If you believe this leak, take what you will from that.

Edit: Just noticed the subcountractor payment, fair enough but it seems like every person who worked there was a subcontractor then.
Please state your point rather than providing just a link. I don't know what you are trying to say.
I wish Mathematica had vi editing mode. As it is now editing the command line is stupid slow for someone who has lived in vim for 20 years now.

This is why I love IPython on the command line. Language is nicer too and editing is a breeze. Of course Python and available libraries are not much of a symbolic computing environment, but for the kinds of problems I deal with its faster to get things done than in Mathematica.
I didn't necessarily, it's just a precaution. I see a lot of vitriol directed at Bitcoin, and this sort of extremist overcompensation is really nothing new anyway. It's just a reminder to stay rational.
Ha! One wonders what Sam's thoughts were...
That's a great story, with a rather tragic ending. Everyone should read it.
Wouldn't battery degradation bite into that?

Not nearly as much as for some other cars, as it's a modular part that can literally be swapped out in 90 seconds.
Which degrades and cost more to fix - a battery or a transmission and other mechanical parts?

People act like current cars have no parts or things that go bad over time. Tesla batteries look like they should be at 85% capacity at 100K miles.
Will you support add ons?
They can't use BofA's own certificate anyway, because the domain doesn't match.
If the quick charging mechanism is going to be "have a robot physically remove the battery and put a new one on" in a few years, then that's not as much of an issue.
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Not really virtual worlds, but will let you fly through the universe and view it at different scales:
http://en.spaceengine.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
Coinbase isn't really an exchange (though it works as such for US dollars). It's mainly a hosted wallet service that provides apps, and merchant and developer tools to make it easier to engage with the bitcoin ecosystem.
Turn off the music and scroll through playing Daft Punk's Recognizer on the Tron soundtrack.
That is way to meta. Can you elaborate on that "quote", what part of Tesla is HEMI V8?
Previous discussion of this information from 13 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7296183
Getting rid of something is not necessarily the same thing as proposing an alternative that may provide new benefits.
I know I'd choose 4 days of protection instead of 4 days of bad press :)
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This is just life and death of a business and it is interesting to watch how these exchanges are being removed from the economy, by essentially a Darwinian survival of the fittest rule, the least secure get hacked and taken off line. We lost bitcoin-central, bitcoinica, mtgox on the way but BTC-E is going strong and so is Bitstamp, kraken are doing a good job and so are btcchina. The market does not need regulation. Gmaxwell has suggested exchanges provide an anonymised form of financial data to confirm their liquidity and I know BTC-E have suggested they will do something like that. Of course people may suffer losses along the way and that sucks but you can buy and store them locally and this sort of thing will never affect you.
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Please. This attitude really needs to stop -- it's insulting to designers, because it implies their design skills aren't enough, and it's insulting to programmers, because it implies programming is so trivial that a designer should just be able to pick it up. Show some respect.

If you think a PSD isn't of much value, you don't have a clue as to what design even is. It's the equivalent of a designer saying that backend architecture isn't of much value to the product, just because they don't understand it.

I know a lot of people on HN come from solely a coding background, and think design is irrelevant at best, or even harmful at worst. But in most instances, that's just pure ignorance.

Print designers can't run printing presses. Hardware designers don't know how to smelt aluminum. Everybody has a job they're good at -- let designers be good at theirs, respect it, and appreciate the fact that designing and programming are entirely different skillsets.
Think of how you looked at C++ code before you learned to program and you'll see the same phenomenon. Very little of your knowledge about imperative programming transfers over to Haskell so it's not surprising that you look at it and see gibberish. It's the same way many people can pick up Latin-derivative languages quickly after learning a few, but find that their knowledge doesn't transfer and struggle to learn Mandarin or Russian.
You are reading it wrong. The original bug report said “I will attach patches for 3.4 and 2.7, I'm not familiar with the backporting procedure to go further but all versions since 2.5 have this bug and while very highly unlikely it's technically remotely exploitable.”

So if one were to insert commas in the appropriate places, it becomes “and, while very highly unlikely, it's technically remotely exploitable.”.

So the original bug report did concede that, while the bug itself is very unlikely, the bug is remotely exploitable.
... and for the majority of things, that's absolutely fine. Function name + type signature + short description is very frequently plenty.

decodeUtf8 :: ByteString -> Text

There are also quite a few things that are thoroughly documented, sometimes not in the Haddock (which, there's some argument, should be kept simple like a reference). Yesod has a book, and I hear Snap's getting one.

There are certainly cases that both don't have thorough documentation and need it, but they're not as many as you imply.
I disabled the Hangouts app on all my mobile devices and use Xabber (Android) instead which works fine talking to google. On the desktop I use pidgin. Both are using XMPP behind the scenes.
" An author can write a book. A musician can compose a song, a [sic] animator can compose a short, a painter can compose a painting."

Sure, an author can write a book. But to expect him to layout it is too much no? No author is expected to go learn InDesign.

A musician can compose a song and play some instrument, of course. But you can't expect him to know all instruments. Of course, she will usually compose for their most familiar instrument but not necessarily, see movie composers for example.

With painters is more complicated, they are painters because of their ability to paint more than the ability to create.

"It’s fashionable to rationalize this helplessness with talk of “complementary skill-sets” and other such bullshit"

Good, then you tell your doctor he's full of BS because he can only prescribe but not make the drugs. That he can only diagnose but he's sending you to a specialist for treatment, because of course he's calling his incompetence "complementary skill-sets"

And I just hope those developers can install and configure their OS, upgrade hardware on their computer, be proficient in kernel development, low level development, desktop development and web development otherwise they're just helpless.
Huh. So at this point it basically is believed to be an actual quantum computer, but it can't consistently beat optimized traditional implementations? Confusing. Does that mean that an ASIC running an efficient traditional solver could beat the D-Wave?
The story says his family relied on food stamps when he was a teenager. Presumably he didn't work at Yahoo previous to that.
is there a line that says "Bonus: 400 mln"
Because iOS (and Mac OS) automatically connects to known WiFi hotspot names, it's possible to create a hotspot named the same as Starbucks's WiFi, even if you're nowhere near a Starbucks, and iOS will happily connect to it if possible (unless other preferred networks around and it picks them over you).

Also, a lot of smaller coffee shops will just set up a wifi router and give it a password and call it done, when many of them have inherent exploits.

On top of all that, there are lots of Asus routers out there running firmware that can be remotely exploited and for which there is no patch[1]. Or Linksys routers[2]. Or D-Link[3].

All an attacker needs to do is change your DNS server settings and they can send you to any server they want instead of the server that you expected. They could redirect all HTTP and HTTPS requests to common services through their servers, MITM your connections to Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Bank of America, your e-mail, your health insurance website, etc.

On its own it's safe, but if you have control of someone's WiFi router (which is apparently trivial) then it's entirely possible for someone to snoop on a huge swath of your supposedly secure internet traffic.

The only real saving grace here is that OS code signing hasn't been compromised, so the system won't install a backdoor'ed 10.9.2 update. At least that part of the chain is secure and people can update.

[1] http://threatpost.com/unpatched-vulnerabilities-disclosed-in-asus-home-routers/101317
[2] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2098520/exploit-released-for-vulnerability-targeted-by-linksys-router-worm.html
[3] http://hexus.net/tech/news/network/61245-easy-exploit-backdoor-found-several-d-link-router-models/
It's funny how you stated that you were so shocked and repulsed by slavery in the 1600s that you started to study it deeply.

Little that you know that now, in the 2010's there are more slaves than in 1600s. Also, you state that slavery is happening now and the victims are women. I highly doubt that slaves in Pakistan, North Korea, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Congo, Myanmar, Bangladesh, ... are exclusively women.

Look, you did a good thing, but I'm just sayin'. If you do something good, why not do it for all people irregardless of gender?
I guess that at least helps me understand why RPi went with them as a distributor, even though their business seems archaic on this side of the Atlantic.

I don't know what you mean by Digikey being awful from a designer's perspective - I've long considered their parametric search a bona fide design tool. So much so that I actively avoid designing in parts that Digikey doesn't stock.
> I am a monetarily concious consumer who sees the value in a high quality car which maintains its value well, has good purchase incentives.

That makes no sense. How does buying an $89K car instead of a $25K hybrid save you money? These incentives better be of $64K in value, otherwise there is no monetary argument to be made here.

Don't get me wrong, I like the Model S, I think it is a wonderful car with tons of innovative technology inside (and, no, I am not just talking about the battery power). But there is no financial argument you could make that would justify buying one over a Prius or Ford Fusion.

The only reason the Model S appears to have such a good resale value is that there was a huge backlog for a while, and people were paying OVER retail price just to get ahold of one. Kind of like the Nintendo Wii the first christmas it came out, doesn't mean a Wii maintained that value over the medium to longer term.
>>> fair enough but it seems like every person who worked there was a subcontractor then.

Just my experience but when a majority of your workforce is temp contractors, it does not lend itself to consistent quality over time.

Full disclosure: I've been a contractor for 3 years now.
The search is the main thing that struck me as clunky - many important parameters were downright missing, making it so I had to manually click through a bunch of results' datasheets. IIRC, electrolytic caps were missing ESR (seems to be no longer the case, although still no ripple current). The values of an individual category don't "cover" all current results, making it impossible to eliminate values. Plus that horrible needle-in-a-haystack interspersing of greyed out unavailable parameters with the still-active ones. All around it felt like it was only meant to locate something I already have specified, rather than guide as to what is available.
The suggestion is that almost everybody is biased in some way, so that while biases may or may not balance each other out, to focus on one side particularly may be a little unfair.
Sooo we probably shouldn't lump them together, and should instead call them out specifically (as you did in your reply). I'm not even going to touch the "new money" comment...
The CNN article doesn't but it's a detrital zircon. It essentially has to be of terrestrial origin.

In other words, the zircon grain was found in what was at one point a sedimentary rock (now metamorphosed).

It formed in an igneous rock, was eroded, transported, deposited, lithified, buried, heated up, converted to a metamorphic rock, and then exhumed (actually all of this multiple times).

The zircon survived through all of that. (Which is why there's so much interest in making sure that the U/Pb ratio hasn't been altered by all of the rounds of deformation.)

However, extraterrestrial zircons have been found, and date back even farther.

This is the oldest piece of anything found that we know with reasonable certainty had to come from Earth.
That a bug in one implementation does not imply a bug in the protocol.
Sadly, that nice glimpse doesn't really view that nicely. :(

It feels like someone showed me an image of a processor and said "see, you just have to line up the pins with where it goes." What could be simpler? If it doesn't fit the pins, it is the wrong processor.
> Just noticed the subcountractor payment, fair enough but it seems like every person who worked there was a subcontractor then.

Isn't that just a normal tax dodge?
My C functions look more like

thing_t *find_thing(thing_index_t, thing_t *things);

Where my indices are wrapped in a single-element struct so that I get some type safety. You can write bad code in any language.

The Haskell things that I miss most in C are the parametric polymorphism and the structural pattern matching. Even so, I've been able to encode some surprising invariants in my C types (with occasionally a little bit of manual help)...
A self-signed certificate will throw an error in the browser because the certificate chain isn't trusted (even if you have the appropriate key).

In SSL, you have the certificate and the key; the key is private and secret, and the certificate is public. A public certificate which is wrong (e.g. self-signed) does you no good because browsers won't trust it (and many of them have made it frustrating to try to bypass the warning).
This would require you to discard all the blocks since the transactions started happening and re-mine them with those transactions excluded. This would be completely impossible unless you dedicated most of the mining equipment to this for months and asked those miners to part with their earned mining rewards until this rewritten chain caught up with the official one. Hardly likely.
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