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>US comics are more intricate and harder to follow, but it's potentionally more rewarding.

I'm not sure that this generalisation holds, I grew up with comics like Laureline and Valerian by Christin/Mezerieres, the work by Jean Giroud aka Moebius, and I'm sure there are many of other european made comics I read back in my youth which are quite advanced story-wise, there's more to european comics than Tintin and The Smurfs :)

On contrast I've often found the formulaic superhero style stories dominating US comics to be rather 'simple', but of course that's a generalisation as well.
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If you oversimplify it's a bit like movie vs tv series. European comics have a full story with closure and not too much references to other episodes story wise. US comics are like tv series, never really ends and the stories are very intricate.
What It Means To Say A Dolphin Committed Suicide
This can help Docker automation by processing the output of `docker inspect`.
How to Build a Raspberry Pi Radio Transmitter
How Our Delusions Keep Us Sane:Psychology of Essential Self-Enhancement Bias
Reading reviews must be soul-destroying. Just really crushing.

Perhaps a few indie authors could collaborate and write a blog article about it?

I imagine the "feedback" emails of large software projects must be similar.
Because it's still not finished?
We thought about it, but the moment you do that, the game is marked as "offers in-app purchases". At initial glance (if you don't take the time to actually look at what purchases are available), you're left thinking that it's "yet another game that'll present a pay wall when I'm about to finish it".
If you're "embedded" you're a guest; not only is it bad manners to bite the hand that feeds you, it's also fundamentally against human nature. Embedded journalists will almost always side with who they're embedded within.

Independent journalism can only be produced by truly independent journalists: journalists who don't depend on the people they're reporting on for their very survival.

Is this possible? Maybe, but we sure haven't seen much of it.

Hoping that traditional embedding will produce true journalism is wishful thinking.

Or maybe the other side should offer to embed western journalists within them; that could prove to be fascinating. As a reader, I would be very interested in what the so-called "bad guys" think, what their motivations are, what goals they're pursuing, how they're fighting, etc.
ctrl-f, "weissman", this. Gold!
It may be informal. I seem to recall people also using ~ for this, as in

"The detector is measuring eV, but this effect is ~ meV |O(meV) so we won't see it."
> When you say 'it's perfectly natural for people to experience X', what you may actually mean is 'many people suffer from mild depression and/or bipolar disorder symptoms without ever being treated', which is absolutely true.

I would argue that what people call "mild depression" IE symptoms that do not warrant a diagnosis.. is actually not depression at all but rather part of the normal human range of emotion and feeling. Many people latch on to the advertising concept of "mild depression" but that doesn't mean it actually exists
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Myself as well, I have been spending time inside an MRI machine lately. Wonderful to read this on the person to whom I am very grateful. A life well lived.
Nice to know, if an oscar-winning pure mathematician working on science-fiction projects found difficult to learn Haskell, I can save myself the trouble.
IKEA could have said "we love the community you've created. Here's a free licence to use the trademark within these rules; please also make the site look less like it is connected to IKEA; please also remove the advertising (but we'll use our charitable status to fund the hosting costs for you); oh, BTW, here are some sneak peeks into futre releases, some inside information from our designers about products you've featured; some stuff for prizes for competitions you can run if you like".
For DOCSIS modems, they are only updatable and configurable via the ISP. When you connect and power on your cable modem, it requests a configuration file from someplace upstream. That config file contains the firmware version that is compatible with both the network and the modem, and if they don't match then it'll either ask upstream for a new firmware image or fail to connect to the network.

Any configuration done by an end user is limited to the LAN portion of the network. WAN should be cut off entirely.
I was the public affairs chief for Regimental Combat Team 6 (USMC), with a "territory" covering half of Al Anbar Province including Fallujah & Ramadi in 2007. I met scores of journalists and had high level visibility into the Marines' handling of journalists in Iraq.

The first thing I want to say is that Manning is describing the Army's approach to journalism coverage. It is quite different from the Marines' approach, which as far as I could tell (and from my vantage point I was in a good position to have a clear understanding) was extremely open. I do not recall any cases of "blacklisting" or otherwise limiting access of journalists to events, leaders or units in our area of operations (AO). I did hear stories about how the Army was handling it and it was, in typical Army fashion, being handled very poorly. I realize this might sound like glib "Semper Fi" jingoism but you'll have to trust me there was a real difference. (BTW the Marine Corps isn't guiltless, I'm sure, but during my time I was pretty proud of our commitment to openness.)

Second, about the tally of reporters. In 2010 the coverage had wound almost completely down because frankly the American people had lost interest. Even in 2007 the number of embed requests we received declined when "peace broke out" during the Anbar "awakening". There's no reason to think that the reason the official count of embeds never rose above 12 (if that's true) because of official limitations. Instead I think it's pretty reasonable to think that is because most embeds would have been quite boring at the time, relatively speaking. It was much easier to sit inside the Green Zone in Baghdad and report from there.

I don't really have a punchy conclusion to put here. Basically, don't believe everything is black or white in this matter. Like everything it was/is a complicated system with a lot of moving parts, and to clump it all into some homogenous bucket is basically give up on actually understanding.
First -- I don't think it's wise or useful to judge Ph.D.'s by the same standards as industrial developers. Or vice versa. Consider the corresponding criticism of industry: "have you meet some of these jokers in industry? Most of them couldn't pass the qualifiers even after like 5 years doing CS full time. WTH?! It's almost like like haven't learned much new theory or math since graduating from undergrad or something...")

Second -- and this is purely based upon my personal experience (perhaps we have worked with people in radically different departments or research areas) -- what you say is simply not true in most cases.

I've worked with a lot of theory people, and did not encounter any really bad programmers.

Your specific criticisms:

1. version control. Everyone uses it for everything. Even and especially paper writing. If your experience is that theory phds don't use version control, then I would say your department is/was abnormal (or else we've observed people in very different parts of theory, I suppose).

But also, in many cases, using VCS is more religious than practical. Academic projects are often <10kloc single dev projects. It's more of a useful additional backup mechanism than actually necessary.

2. Testing. If the paper contains a full spec and correctness proof for the implementation (e.g. inference rules, automata, algorithm in terms of some mathematical object) then the point of the implementation is really just transliteration. The space for potential bugs is still there, but the bugs are very different from typical bugs (which, imho, are most often due to poor/vague or even completely absent specification). You simply need fewer unit tests when you know that precisely the thing you are implementing is correct, and just want to make sure you copied things down correctly.

3. The code is often well-written. When it is not, two problems are most common:

a. no comments! Okay, but of course there is a 20 page paper explaining the core idea. And also it's a protoype.

b. Bad structure/poor abstractions. Again, most prototypes don't need to be maintainable. If the core idea gets big and important, it probably makes sense to reimplement as part of a new research agenda anyways (e.g. for performance reasons, or because of unforeseen extensions due to scientific advances, etc). Also, in some cases, the correct way to organize a piece of academic software is highly non-obvious. Organizing your code is much easier when it's a completely solved technical problem in search for new social applications (yet another web app) than when it's a completely new technical idea.
Rather easy to take potshots, now that Iraq is falling apart. If this outcome was so obvious why wait until now to write an op-ed?

The pre-war coverage had some problems but I thought the reporting about the war, on the whole, was pretty decent. I read a lot about torture and about the lack of press freedom in Iraq.
That's a cliché and a bad one at that. Progressives don't see value only in "new-ness"...that's just plain stupid.
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By definition, you need more than one entity to agree.
> For something as central to the metabolism of living things as the common dietary sugars, there will be hundreds of molecules besides insulin involved.

See, you sound exactly like an anti-vacser... Insulin is the "Lots of sugar coming, blood, get ready" response. There isn't hundreds of other molecules involved... there is insulin. Do you see type I diabetics injecting anything else into themselves?

Please, take many paragraphs and explain, because your vague bullshit ridden comment, is far from convincing.
Why? It'll be focused on immutable data structures which are unnatural in Javascript.
Apple paints itself in a different light than Microsoft or Samsung, which is one of the reasons that people focus on their flaws more than those of MS or Samsung...
Soon most people will get their news online, not from TV. The audience for TV keeps getting older and the market share for digital news keeps growing.
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So the only way for a position to be correct is for it to have been widely seen as right and important by a large group for a long time? Obviously the number of people interested in gay rights was smaller in the fifties than it is now.

Are you one of those moldbugian jackhats? This kind of simplistic thinking smacks of their pseudo-intellectualizing...
They use this tool extensively at Spotify. I saw a presentation by https://twitter.com/jooon, when I was over there in September last year.

It is a really cool tool. Especially since they use JSON internally for almost all of their data representations.

Jq + Percol[1] is kind of cool.

[1] https://github.com/mooz/percol - was on HN a few days ago.
Title is highly misleading. The battery works by oxidizing Aluminium. So you actually recharge it by replacing Aluminium oxide with elemential Aluminium, which involves melting down the old battery and using electrolysis to seperate Aluminum from Oxygen.

I have not yet seen any estimate about the energy efficiency, but I doubt it is very good. This may be good as a emergency battery.
> his

Her. Why are people still misgendering Chelsea Manning?
Gulf War 1 was characterized chiefly by misdirection, which is as old as warfare. The US conspicuously built up and prepared for an offensive against the Kuwaiti border, and then even faked an amphibious assault, then bypassed everything.
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Going from movie to comic, how did you feel about the difference in ending?

I was frustrated by that specific change in the film, as in the comic it is building and building and building and then absolutely shocking at the end.
Is there an accuracy problem in PacBio's published de-novo assembly human genome:
http://blog.pacificbiosciences.com/2014/02/data-release-54x-...

it was assembled de-novo (IE, without HuRef), and the accuracy stats aren't horrible.
Ask HN: Any obvious disadvantages to password-less, email-only login?
An idea suggested several times here on HN is the idea of password-less logins: You enter your email address and receive an email with a unique link (valid for an hour or so) which, when clicked, will log you in and allow you to stay logged in for e.g. two months.

This would not work for really sensitive stuff (e.g. banking) where you need to log in each time you visit the site, but for normal sites it's really user-friendly.

My question is: Are the any disadvantages to this model? The only one I can think of is the situation where you've deleted your old email address and some time after that have to log in to a website that uses password-less login. But that is probably a rare occurance and could be fixed by contacting support.
So you go directly from 'doesn't warrant a full diagnosis' to 'doesn't exist'? What exactly are you suggesting here? Are you saying it's not a spectrum of symptoms, from mild to severe, and that there is a bucket of people with 'no depression' and a bucket of people with 'real depression'? What is your basis for such a statement?

Otherwise, you're agreeing that there is a spectrum of symptoms, but somehow the symptoms on the milder end of the spectrum 'don't actually exist'?

A diagnosis is different from a prescription. Just because you have a diagnosis of depression doesn't mean you automatically need to take antidepressants; the diagnosis is used as a tool to understand the general set of symptoms you might experience and what the treatment methods are.

Again, depression is not 'abnormal' emotion or 'abnormal' feelings. Neither are the effects of bipolar. They are both 'normal' and entirely natural biological mechanisms, the problem is that those mechanisms are acting to an atypical degree and causing negative side-effects. In many cases the treatment methods are also entirely 'natural', not involving any pharmaceuticals.

Another way to put this: It is normal for someone to become depressed in response to tough circumstances or disappointment. It's normal for someone to get amped up and slightly manic in response to stress or an immediate threat. Those are natural mechanisms.

When the depression or stress response lasts for days or weeks, that is where it starts to enter into territory where a physician might diagnose it as clinical depression, or hypomania, or mania. Again, the problem is not the feelings, it's the duration and magnitude of the feelings - the feelings and physical effects lasting well after the initial triggers are gone.
Well, if artificial sweeteners caused a reduced (or zero) insulin response (which science says they do), and thus lowered the risk of obesity, then a (tenuous, though real) causal link can be made between saving lives, and artificial sweeteners, no?
It seems to hook itself into the Back arrow and doesn't let me go back without right-clicking on Firefox.

That's not nice.
The turbolift will only go to floors you've previously reached on foot. There are stairs that lead to different decks, though they can be tricky to find in some cases. That seems to be the only "gameplay" mechanic here. Probably won't be winning any game-of-the-year awards, but I'm having a blast just the same.
Someone who could focus on everything (blog, landing pages, twitter etc.) except development, which is my thing.
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>Last year, Apple for the first time introduced two new iPhones instead of just one: the high-end iPhone 5S, which sold like gangbusters, and the lower-cost, plastic-covered iPhone 5C, which disappointed.

So disappointing it was the second best selling smartphone in the US! Is it a law that every article about Apple must adhere to a certain number of press-created fictions?
Check out Fork the Cookbook[0], which uses such a thing. The main complaint (about 10 each week) is that people expect to have only one password. It's not really as user friendly as you think

[0]: http://forkthecookbook.com
Sorry, I didn't mean to be that hostile, and I seem to have continued that in my other responses. Apoligises to all.

There is a lot of mis-information around artificial sweeteners, I think it just triggers my "Frustrated with the internet" nerve or something.

I agree, be skeptical, question, don't take things at face value. But, I'd add: be informed, look up where we are at in current day research. Diabetic research is huge, it isn't generally something to be skeptical of, there are people who's lives are saved, preserved, made better because of that research.

But again, sorry for being a dick. :)
I'm sorry, but I have to say this: I like how this entry had 42 comments before this one: http://i.imgur.com/KmCodSM.png
How exploitable is this concept? As a node, I should be privy to sensitive data, if nefariously.

Seems like a couple of those incidents would bring this to a screeching halt.
Even with libxml's xmllint you can do some xpath stuff:
http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Xml_grep
I believe they've taken a few small liberties. As a joke, the Enterprise D had only a single bathroom (to boldly go indeed!), while Pixel Trek has them scattered about.
people expect to have only one password

Fork the Cookbook emails the user a password, but that's not what I'm suggesting. What I'm suggesting is completely password-less: You receive a link like http://example.com/log-in/0039392030202 in your email and just click that to log in and stay logged in for e.g. two months.
I don’t know about the details of the paperwork.

But a usual complain is the distribution of the equity. Imagine that three year later one of the developers-founder will write a post from a throwaway account saying that he worked for three years and someone offered only a 5% equity, and he fells scammed. (Probably, in this case a 5% is very low.)

Another point to consider is vesting, because another developer-founder will quit the second week, and he will share a 20% of the company forever.

Do you want more equity because it’s your idea and you are investing money? Are you going to code? Are you going to bring clients/users?

Some ideas from Joel Spolsky: “Joel's Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup”

http://www.brightjourney.com/q/forming-new-software-startup-...

Discussions of this article in HN (with some additional ideas, support and counterpoints):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445447 (436 points, 1158 days ago, 67 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3489719 (328 points, 876 days ago, 93 comments)
A command-line Json parser: ConvertFrom-Json
Bill was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer, in spite of having been a lifelong non-smoker

Sorry to hear of Mr. Edelstein's passing - his developments in MRI will likely improve the quality of life of millions of people as well as save countless lives.

One thing to consider since he developed lung cancer despite not having ever smoked is that your family may be one of the 3%-8% in the U.S. impacted by a genetic disorder called Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_1-antitrypsin_deficiency

It is a common genetic disorder in European-derived people but is often undiagnosed despite the people having it being diagnosed with other diseases like emphysema, COPD, lung cancer, etc that A1AD is a risk factor for.
It looks like it works fine with Chrome's back button. But if I use the back button in Firefox, it always takes me back to the index.
New computer program aims to teach itself everything about any visual concept
Apple made $125 million from their ad network iAd in 2012.
To ellaborate a bit further, I don't know haskell but I can agree that the authors code doesn't look like spreadsheet programming.

My approach is inspired by join calculus which is centered on the concept of waiting on a set of signals/cells to trigger a reaction (I ignore the concurrency capabilities of join calculus which make it a bit more complex). It seems to me that FRP takes the long route to achieve this since its focused on event handling.

Anyhow, this can be easily achieved with a simplified cactus stack where each stack "frame" holds a reference to its parent so that it notifies its parent when its value is set, then when all of the stack frames are ready the procedure associated to it is triggered.

This type of stack has some interesting capabilities including memory friendly infinite recursion and compound-key data structures. I believe that it has potential for artificial intelligence and the development of modern dataflow languages.
Yep, except Fon has an opt-out option, it's opt-in to begin with in a lot of places and it's done with user's knowledge and explicit permission, not behind their backs as Comcast did it.

So, no, what Comcast did is not quite common in Europe.
Here's Fon's figures from 8 years ago -

1 – Spain – 6344 (28 new yesterday) registered users

2 – United States – 6334 (11 new yesterday) registered users

3 – France – 2571 (15 new yesterday) registered users

4 – Germany – 1302 (12 new yesterday) registered users

5 – Italy – 1269 (15 new yesterday) registered users

6 – United Kingdom – 1039 (4 new yesterday) registered users

7 – Netherlands – 760 (2 new yesterday) registered users

8 – Sweden – 721 (1 new yesterday) registered users

9 – Argentina – 636 (3 new yesterday) registered users

10 – Canada – 382 (0 new yesterday) registered users

11 – Switzerland – 331 (1 new yesterday) registered users

12 – Belgium – 296 (0 new yesterday) registered users

13 – Portugal – 237 (0 new yesterday) registered users

14 – Mexico – 208 (0 new yesterday) registered users

15 – Japan – 198 (2 new yesterday) registered users

16 – Chile – 195 (0 new yesterday) registered users

17 – Austria – 177 (1 new yesterday) registered users

18 – Ireland – 170 (0 new yesterday) registered users

19 – Brazil – 169 (0 new yesterday) registered users

20 – Denmark – 135 (1 new yesterday) registered users

21 – Israel – 129 (0 new yesterday) registered users

22 – Norway – 125 (0 new yesterday) registered users

23 – China – 120 (0 new yesterday) registered users

24 – Australia – 109 (1 new yesterday) registered users

25 – Finland – 108 (0 new yesterday) registered users

26 – Poland – 85 (0 new yesterday) registered users

27 – India – 77 (1 new yesterday) registered users

28 – Colombia – 74 (0 new yesterday) registered users

29 – Venezuela – 71 (0 new yesterday) registered users

30 – Estonia – 63 (0 new yesterday) registered users

http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/fonas-top-30-countrie...

and their current map - http://maps.fon.com/
This is a limitation based on how the app was coded; not an inherent limitation of Flash.

I've built plenty of Flash apps that can handle zoom. Sometimes zooming in means that the 'sprites' get bigger. Sometimes it means more data is shown on the screen at once. It depends on the app and how it is implemented.
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