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Sorry about the formatting.

* 40h workweek

* 5 weeks of holiday a year

* free/cheap health insurance

* free/cheap education up to university level for our daughter.
I think it's because of type erasure.
That's a conversion to the decimal amount, not a conversion to today's equivalent.
2 wheels => 100000 animals/wheel
1000 days => 100 animals/wheel*day
I've used the crystal for about ten years. Stopped soap three years ago. My smell improved after stopping soap.
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If you want some "real time" update, this selection of twitter feeds is not bad:
https://twitter.com/jonrussell/lists/thai-protests-2013
It's not an either/or question.

People died from starvation in the past. That doesn't mean that unlimited and unexamined calories are always good.

Similarly, treating serious bacterial infections with antibiotics is a good things. Sterile surgery is a good thing. Microbes don't know if that they are supposed to be symbiotic. Sometimes they can be both. They harmful in certain amounts or circumstances and helpful in others.

BTW, the idea that killing all microbes is bad is not really a controversial one. It's just the specifics that need to be worked out. For example, we know that sterilization an antibiotics raise the risk of harmful fungal infections (thrush, ringworm, etc). Wrestlers or other especially at risk of ringworm (for example) avoid anti-bacterial soap.
Certainly. That would be a different study though. The hypothesis that this study investigated is:

> If wheel running is indeed caused by captive housing, wild mice are not expected to use a running wheel in nature. This however, to our knowledge, has never been tested. Here, we show that when running wheels are placed in nature, they are frequently used by wild mice, also when no extrinsic reward is provided. Bout lengths of running wheel behaviour in the wild match those for captive mice. This finding falsifies one criterion for stereotypic behaviour, and suggests that running wheel activity is an elective behaviour.
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What about chlorinated water? Would these bacteria survive swimming in a pool?
Isn't the real risk running different versions simultaneously (both of Ruby and the libraries) in production and having them sharing state via a serialisation format.
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How are we going to get to tomorrow if everybody only learns about stuff that is applicable today? (Queue rant about how a CS degree shouldn't be a vocational training course for programmers etc.)
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Apart from your attempts at trolling out of the conversation (East Germany, really?), this is ludicrous, sorry:

>David Miranda, come with us for a minute.

A 9-hour-long "minute", that was.

>Would you like a lawyer? No.

Afaik, he was not given any chance to contact a lawyer -- the anti-terrorism legislation used does not require it. Which is a disgrace in itself, but hey, it's our UK gov -- illiberal at the best of times.

>OK. We need your laptop.

Yeah, private property of a foreign citizen they had no right
to, seized while in-passage through an airport safe-area, and (iirc) not even handed back.

And this tops it:

>regardless of the stupidity or the flaws - it is still the law.

Law enforcement is always executed with a degree of discretionality. Strictly speaking, the average citizen breaks the law every day multiple times for the silliest reasons, but he doesn't get prosecuted. When stupid laws are enforced, it's the duty of a citizen to question why and to react if the answer is unsatisfying. In this case, you probably find the answer satisfying and I don't.

A stupid, illiberal law was enacted in a stupid, illiberal way by a stupid, illiberal government for stupid, illiberal purposes (and it didn't even work, considering they still don't know what Snowden got).
On a related note, it was Sun Ra's 100th birthday recently.

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Yes, it can improve your rankings, both directly and indirectly.

Directly: It adds rich content to your posts (video's, audio, images). It adds keywords in the image alt attribute and image description. Good images will increase your ranking on Google Images.

Indirectly: If the images contribute to the topic/post (not merely decorative), then you get more user satisfaction, which will increase repeat visits, word-of-mouth and links.

Do the all-things-equal test: Two pages on the same topic (let's say 'Bonobo Monkey'), but one has a picture of the topic. Which one would you find more useful? Two pages of equal quality, yet one has a picture of the author with rich markup next to it, which one would you find more credible?

As with all things, don't overdo it, or use it to manipulate: Adding images when they don't make sense for the topic, copying all your images from elsewhere, spamming the alt attribute with keywords, put a page full with unrelated images etc. Basically do not treat it as an SEO technique, treat it as enhancing your content with media to increase overall quality and user satisfaction.
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But it has all those smiling people in the pictures! What could possibly go wrong...
What countries are you from originally?

Plan a holiday to the US, look things over and then make a budget (emigration is far from cheap), save and then decide to back out or bite the bullet. Don't do anything permanent until your visa is in the bag for you, your spouse and your child. Hollywood and anecdotes are not good inputs to a life determining decision like this, consider it a huge project and devote resources accordingly.

Why is Belgium disappointing you?

The US is definitely not paradise but it may give you chances that are hard to replicate elsewhere. At the same time, I know plenty of people that are successful in the EU. It usually boils down to the people, not the place.
I use console2 (make sure you grab the 64-bit version) + an autohotkey script to provide a "quake-like" console drop down... in which I use...

Powershell is extremely awesome; it's basically a c# console.

and...

Chocolatey and/or OneGet, Boxstarter, and myget.

Notepad++ <i>and</i> Notepad2. I use both, notepad++ for complex replacement tasks, notepad2 as my simple editor.

Puretext which strips formatting from text when pasting.

nimbletext.

See: http://mbrownnyc.wordpress.com/misc/my-toolchain/

Not sure if this is what you mean by "productivity tools," but these things greatly increase my productivity and reduce the time it takes for me to complete tasks.
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Not that ridiculous - there's a lot of important stuff up there, and it's easy for someone careless or malicious to accidentally damage it. Geostationary orbits in particular are very crowded, so it's not going to be easy to get an orbital slot, and if you don't follow fairly fairly exacting stationkeeping, reliability and end-of-life requirements your satellite will drift from its assigned location and disrupt or even damage the other satellites up there.
LIUM Speaker Diarization software[1] seems to work reasonably well.

[1] http://lium3.univ-lemans.fr/diarization/doku.php
In an urban area? I doubt it. Sure, the pizza delivery guy has to deal with car traffic, obstacles, and pedestrians. But the last 100 meters s/he has to enter a PIN to get into my building. Then has to be buzzed in. Finally has to scale 4 floors.

The UAV that can do all of that hasn't been engineered yet and won't be cheaper than a part-time college student.

At this stage UAV propulsion is quite primitive. Their fixed-pitch blades don't compensate with changes in the environment well. While this is not a problem for small hobby/camera drones large, cargo carrying drones will have real problems compensating on a windy day.

The collective-pitch mechanisms in modern helicopters and VTOL are marvels of engineering (read $$$). The reason they are used is to allow large lifting bodies to change thrust without changing rotational velocity.
>I never stipulated the law was defensible.

The problem is that your statement "That is not intimidatory. It is exactly how I would expect a democratic institution to act." could easily be interpreted as you saying exactly that. What happens is that two separate questions - whether the security individuals on the ground should have carried out the law as specified, and whether that law should exist in the first place - get conflated.

How I personally would expect a democratic institution to act is to not have these kinds of laws. Press freedom is a critical part of a properly functioning democracy, and I get sick of the state crying wolf with "it's threatening national security" (without, as far as I'm aware, a single instance of an actual national security issue arising from one of these stories ever being published) every time a journalist breaks a story that's embarrassing to them.
You could for example use ECB, OFB or CTR mode and actually update the file (some options are obviously a bad choice) but I thought of storing the file and the diff together and only apply the diff after decryption so there is no need to mess with the encrypted data in the first place.
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I didn't realize, though it's perhaps obvious in retrospect, that CFD is used for things like that. Other CDF studies "include thermal processing studies on pineapple slices in juice [10], solid particles in water [11], peas in water [12] and asparagus in brine [13]. The use of CFD for microbial destruction calculations during thermal processing (for table olives in brine) has been also reported [14]."

Neat!
Thanks Colin. I don't feel that I should have to beg for a privilege that is afforded even the newest account on HN. It just bugs me every now and then such as in cases like these. I probably lost my upvote capability due to some perceived slight and I'm very much tired of that sort of thing. Of course the arrows still appear giving me the suggestion that I could upvote, in my book if a user interface component is non-functional it should be grayed out or not there at all. At least that would be clear, open and honest.

Normally I still reflexively upvote stories that I find interesting and then I remember that the votes aren't counted before the arrow even disappears. This time it got to me because this is a really interesting article that might have gotten lost in the junk.

On a more positive note, my flagging privileges have been magically restored.

edit: and some smart-ass flagged it. Too bad.
> There's some neat things about Android for sure. But it's hard to believe there's people out there who are frequent users of both and think a superior UX is one of those things.

I've got a Nexus 4, iPhone 4S, iPad and a few others beside and I'd argue for me that Android does have superior UX.

There's no way I could use the 4S as my daily phone, and I've put off getting a new tablet until there's a decent 8" Android one out.

Sure iOS has plenty of polished apps but the integration between them is at Apple's whim - to share a webpage from Safari to GetPocket, I have to rely on bookmarklets FFS.

iOSs keyboard is another deal breaker for me, after using Swype hunt and peck for typing on a touch screen is horrible and then there's trying to make sense as to whether shift is on or not!
As another example, when I am using LTE on Verizon Wireless, I am connecting over IPv6 to sites running IPv6 (ex. Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.). I can go to sites like http://www.test-ipv6.com/ and see that I have full IPv6 connectivity.
For example: Surrounding text, links to the page or image, topic analysis, color analysis, filename, alt attribute, OCR, advanced image recognition, Google Image Labeler (manual labeling).

Reverse image search is probably too expensive to do this for every image found on the web, but Google could surely do this for a subset. Then they could match alt attributes: If two sites use the same image, and one has an alt attribute of "automobile" and the other "car in street" you can ask Bayes how likely it is that these two sites both made fake alt text that does not describe the image.

Basically if Google Images can show you images relevant to your search term, then Google Search can find out if an image is relevant to a topic in much the same way.
Not as weird as

"I think ZP is lying about his national security claims"

"Prove it"

"Here's a thread where it looks to me like he's bluffing"

"Well, your book on Android has poor reviews"

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I'm not passing opinion on whether you are telling the truth about intelligence or not, but I'm honestly puzzled what his book reviews have to do with anything.
2 wheels, 3 years, 200,000 animals is an average of 3.8 per hour.
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I recently did something similar with official javascript APIs:

http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/anigif100/pacman/index.htm...
As others have mentioned, there's nothing new about voice texting. Other platforms such as WeChat have hundreds of millions of users already. The only differentiating thing you have is the ability to send to non app users (which you mention in reply to others). So why isn't your single differentiating feature, mentioned in the OP or your website?
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Biggest issue I have with it is there's no way of saying "No I don't ever want to see this intent again" i.e. control the sharing options so I can see a subset
Great work! Any chance that you could publish a tax-neutral version, which could be used internationally?
> Downvotes are the HN community's way of signaling that this is not the sort of comment we'd like you to make on this story.

"should be the HN community's way" would be more accurate. It's not hard to find interesting comments downvoted because people disagree with them.
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Alibaba is also a huge player in e-commerce, who just filed for a nominal $1 billion market cap IPO, though it's estimated to be in the $200 billion range. [1]

However, Alibaba was founded in 1999, so it was founded around the same time as ebay and amazon, so this might actually further support the author's point.

[1]: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101598851
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Democracy is rule of the people, by the people, for the people. It entails the subordination of political minorities to political majorities by definition, as majorities represent more of the people.

Saying that the people are all well and good until they make the wrong choice, and thus their freedom to choose must have hard limits, is a perfectly reasonable and defensible position (I do not agree). But it isn't democracy. It would be better to call it liberal constitutionalism or something.

Alas, since WW2 (and earlier in some places), it has been verboten to be against democracy, with the result that the word has been emptied of all meaning. A monarchy like the UK, a monarchical presidency like Fifth Republic France, a Stalinist dictatorship like the German Democratic Republic, all officially define(d) themselves as democracies. It's doublethink.

Everything is a restriction on 'individual liberty'. Because most governments - of whatever form - have passed relevant laws, I do not get to drive a car at 150mph down country lanes. That is a restriction on my liberty. I'm not crying over it. (Not least because I can't drive.) When people say such things, they normally mean property rights, of course; but in no functioning society are those inviolable either. I would rather they were violated by 51% of the population than the 0.0001% who happen to be judges - that is, state bureaucrats in fancy dress.
Because there's no value in having a word for a situation that basically no-one is in? Because despite your sophist argument there are huge practical differences between what normal people call "renting" and what normal people call "owning"?
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devise a way for a user to assign a fixed amount to several categories

A slider for each category. When one slider is moved up by 1% of the total the others automatically move down in proportion to their current value to collectively lose 1% of the total.
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Yeah the numbers don't quite add up; I reckon it's something like the original standard was in imperial units that was converted to metric later and at some point someone somewhere (possibly a journalist) decided to round the numbers without making sure they add up.
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This is an excellent point; I guess you can't drop the "connectivity to central server" requirement and still implement global locking.

Having said that, some DVCSes do support a form of locking - similarly to changes, tags, etc, locks can be created and pushed / pulled. An example would be Veracity's implementation:

http://veracity-scm.com/qa/questions/1105/how-do-file-locks-...

Obviously this is not quite as foolproof as with a centralised version control system, but using strict workflows (i.e. always pushing locks immediately and pulling before you work on binary files) could create a workable compromise. I suppose you could create some plugins for your favourite DVCS to emulate this behaviour, and to enforce the workflow.
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What about JPEGs?
I'm not sure if that could be worked out in a fair manner. Holding patents as a nearly-bankrupt company that's essentially out of business is not necessarily to be forbidden -- it can still be used constructively, e.g. by licensing them free of charge to non-profit organizations in order to relieve some of the uncertainty of potential donors. Just like with extortion, the fact that it can be punished is pretty much the best deterrent we have.

Of course, the real solution would be to stop all this software patent nonsense, but that's so last year.
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As other said, their not talking about the same obfuscation. If you are interested in code obfuscation and a way to prove that a formally correct obfuscator is impossible, you might want to read a paper called “Can a Program Reverse-Engineer Itself?” [1] I worked on as an undergrad.

The idea is that a correct obfuscator should only obfuscate and not change the program's semantics, which means that it can't change constants that may be displayed to the users, like hardcoded integers and strings. If you use these in a Quine [2] structure to be able to retrieve your original code, then the obfuscator can't do anything: it it breaks the Quine it is not a correct obfuscator, if it doesn't then you can trivially get back the original code. And what is interesting here is that it is possible to take any source code and make a Quine which has it as a payload (it will do the same thing as the original source code except that it will also be a Quine), which is something we had done already for another paper [3].

[1] http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/497

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29

[3] http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/099
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I used to work in aerospace, specifically satellite data processing. A couple thoughts:

- Their core team does not have anyone with space experience. Success and knowledge from other sectors (looks like they all come from the security sector) does not translate. Space is a whole different can of worms. There are totally different and more constraining hardware requirements, regulations, cost levels to name a few.

They have some advisory board guys with the right experience, but they will need to be heavily involved to be useful to a team of guys coming from a security background (probably more than just as advisers).

- The costs associated with operating a satellite network are so stratospheric (badum-bum ding) that their claim about "democratizing access to data" is dubious. There is a very good reason satellite data is so damn expensive right now: it is so damn expensive to get in the first place.

They could lower some costs here and there maybe, but it would still be in the wrong order of magnitude. They would need to sell the data to a LOT of customers to be a profitable business, if they want to keep the cost of data low (this is what I assume they mean by "democratizing access). They have provided hints of some potential applications, but have they demonstrated there is sufficient existing demand for this?

Probably not. So they are essentially trying to create a new market while footing astronomical up front costs themselves. That is not an attractive risk proposition.

I hope it works because it could be very cool (space! data!). But, I remain very skeptical.
You sound like me. That said I still try to buy property, just not where I live, so I look at as purely a long term investment that will hopefully be profitable in the distant future.
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For bigger images the quality always gets downgraded to 80 and Huffman tables are optimized. For smaller ones the quality differs so he's using a tool to automatically pick the right quality.

@wouwi: what's the tool used for JPEGs?
And as a visitor you must hand over all you electronic devices (which are locked away and given back to you on exit) before going beyond reception.

Years ago I interviewed at hunting's (a List X arms manufacturer) and the interviews where done in a separate room adjacent to reception you never even went inside the plant.
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That was my reaction too. Unlike other chips which at least sit on some data buses and theoretically have electrical access to the information being processed by the PC, _this_ device is attached to little other than a DC power lead.

To target this particular device as a data tap borders on science fiction. It's theoretically possible to glean bits of data from surges in power consumption, but not very practical.
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