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Many such gems with HN discussions to prove 3.5 inches was a universal constant [1] Just search..

[1] This Is The Reason Why The iPhone Will Always Have A 3.5-inch Screen

http://www.redmondpie.com/ever-wondered-why-the-iphone-has-a...
Once you know how to simulate GOL within GOL, you can go as deep as you want.
Mozilla leader on how to save the Internet
Twitter Pollutes The Timeline
Here a rails committer.

Rails is 10 years old and it has definitely changed the web development.
But the unnecessary controversy always seem the same of its first year.

While in the last 10 years, many people talking Rails does not scale and ruby is slow, for many companies rails was and is a great "tool" to delivery great web apps.

Thanks Rails
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How we redesigned Spotify in 24h
US hospital hack 'exploited Heartbleed flaw'
Cyphr, A New Encrypted Messaging App (iOS & Android), is Now in Public Beta
A period of a single cell would take 35328^2 periods and (2048*2048)^2 cells of the most underlying game of life simulation.
I may be mistaken, but I think I read somewhere that's exactly what they do. But don't take my word for it.
Iran's involvement doesn't clear the US of responsibility.
Thanks for sharing this. It did indeed cross our minds that such a award sounds dubious (just by its title!). We've removed its reference. The other awards he has won are genuine and verified by us.
Thanks for the thumbs-up!
With advent of memristor based memory it'll be possible today (at extremely high cost on the order of a medium nation's GDP) have on the orders of petabytes of what will functionally be RAM. Only ~6-7 tick/tock cycles are necessary for that to expand beyond the address space of 64bit addressing (~10^19).
Ask HN: Design for open source project
Open source projects often lack good ui/ux/design.
Are designers interested in contributing to open source and where to find them?
90Mb/s at least? Makes sense that they won't go for the gigabit Ethernet. Any idea how that compares to ARM with the same frequency? I'd say about the same. That's not bad, right?
Wish you guys good luck!
It actually does. Kind of. (But it doesn't have anything to do with why it can be refracted.)

Light has no rest mass. But, light can never be at rest.

Light does however, have momentum. And when it is reflected/refracted, it will transfer some of that momentum to whatever it hit.

Also remember that forces act on pairs of things. Light can be deflected by gravity (which will change it's momentum); therefore it must produce a gravitational field (which will in return change the momentum of whatever deflected it). And of course gravity is proportional to mass.

Light which is moving towards and object will gain momentum, like a falling rock would. Only instead of moving faster (since it's at a fixed speed), it shifts towards higher frequencies. If you look at the equations slightly differently, you get gravitational time dilation.
many people actually do like trip planning though. for them, the 5 hours is fun. I personally hate trip planning, but i'm not the normal user.
Wildly speculating Business Insider is wildly speculating.
I looks like users agreed. Ah, wait, no they didn't.

I think that people are happy to make adjustments to how they hold a device, if they think the real estate is worth it.

I hold my Nexus 4 in such a way that single handed usage is no issue at all, as I use it daily while walking or on the tube. It's never been an issue for me.

Prior to that I had a Note, and again the screen size was never an issue. In fact most of the Note users I spot in London are women, who (on average) have even smaller hands, but seem to get by OK with a 5.5inch screen.
Lavabit was forced to close down in August 2013, after being forced to disclose classified documents.

Sigh!

No it was not. They where forced to hand over the private server keys, which is much more significant than "disclosing some classified documents" and so Mr. Levison decided to shut it down.

It may be just a pet peevee of mine, but can't journalists do some minimal research before writing about a subject?
For people interested in how computers work, I recommend the book/course "From NAND to Tetris - Building a Modern Computer From First Principles"[1]. It starts of with boolean logic and NAND gates, and it steps you through making a computer that can play tetris.

[1] http://www.nand2tetris.org/
Looks very nicely written.
It only seems to work on Chrome.
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How does it compare with spotify?
Potential for large Icelandic volcano eruption
There is this TV show "Ancient Impossible" which showcases all kinds of awesome things that people built thousands of years ago. The achievements of Romans (along with Egyptians) are the most awe inspiring
It wasn't initiated by our western governments, but by the Soviets.

This time it might be initiated by western governments, because the Chinese, Russians and others wont accept TLD seizures at will by the US.
I'm sure yoga is great, but for regular office lower back pain, pretty much any kind of regular physical exercise will do the trick.
Why wouldn't there be? Just sign a regular contract.
A little information about this.

Bárðarbunga is a large volcano in Iceland and there have been a lot of earthquakes under it in the last days so an eruption is not unlikely. Here is more information: http://www.mbl.is/frettir/knippi/3305/
The problem with scratching out these laws in the sand is that people have different perspectives, and will draw lines in places that you don't want to go.

Free speech is there to protect offensive speech. I personally find it repugnant to trivialize rape or a number of different things, but I don't have the right to prevent you from doing so outside of asking you to leave my home.
With all my other data, I just don't feel right dumping 1.5TB on them for only $5 a month. Maybe they'd take more money from me...
Modern definition of distance is derived from speed of light. So by definition speed of light is CONSTANT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#Timeline_of_definition
Without knowing anything about your product, I'm going to focus on your last line. "Another issue is our product makes things convenient. It saves money which is a hard thing to sell."

I think you and them might be using a different definition of saving money. If your service replaces several others that they are currently paying for then they are saving money. If you are doing something like making things more efficient then perhaps from an accounting standpoint it is "saving money", but if it is just saving a few hours a week then in practice what you are doing is giving their employees a few extra hours to surf the net. You have to quantify real, actual dollar savings or real, actual sales increases.

You also mentioned a competitor. Are the people you pitching to using your competitor? If not, then they probably also think your competitors are too expensive. If you really are better and cheaper then try pitching to people who use your competitor and see what happens.
Images From The Early Days Of Computers
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/dozba/status/501782989257187329
This site was recently posted here on HN: http://beautifulopen.com/
Huh, wow. I never even noticed it was gone until now.
Anyone know how this compares to the FST/DFA stuff in Lucene 4.x?
The author makes a compelling argument, but glosses over one important fact: There is no Python 2.7 support in Jython. If you jump over to the Jython website, the first message you are greeted with is

>Jython 2.7 Beta 2 Released (May 2014)

Even the author's of Jython aren't confident enough to call this anything other than a beta. Why would I bet my development efforts on something in that state?
No. The ISS isn't really that far from earth and there's a lot of exchange going on between earth and the ISS, mostly from all the various spacecraft we send up.
You will need somewhere to deploy the API and likely will want some way to manage users of the API. For deployment, almost any web host that supports your tech stack should do.

See apievangelist.com for resources on everything API related.
I'd suggest to record all of the foods you eat each day. Just a quick list. Also total calories would be interesting, and exercise.

I tracked diet, and my estimates of mental functions for a while and surprisingly found that strawberries increased my mood considerably. Of course I could just be bad at statistics :-(
>"The Chinese embassy in Washington said it wasn’t aware of the attack."

It is utterly amazing to me how we view the Chinese people as such an evil "other".

I'd love to know how they determined that this was Chinese hackers, which doesn't appear in the Trusted Sec report, and from my amateur eyes would seem near impossible to determine with certainty. But if it was the case, why the first thought is that it was an action on behalf of the government instead of a couple Chinese kids messing about. Count the "Chinese hackers" in the article.

If the vulnerability was public at the beginning of April, how were there attacks made in June?

Hard to believe they actually asked the embassy if they knew about the attack. The embassy's reaction was understandable.
> either people prefer both or prefer neither.

exceptions (specifically, exceptions from constructors) are part of what RAII is, so it's only natural that people "prefer both".

As another personal anecdote, in my experience working with a large (175MLoC at last count) mostly-C++ codebase, I can't imagine how painful it would have been if the code didn't use exceptions.
MLG on Advanced Warfare's pro gaming potential
I always wonder when I see these things, are players placing each block individually? Or are they mapped out in some file and fed to the server to render?
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What if they refuse to make revisions?
I guess I find that demolishing the house should take more than a few months or planning committee meetings. I think that an independent judge should have to be involved in anything that deprives someone of their property.

I actually think a major component of the problem is property taxes that are too low. If there were minimum assessments on a lot, or alternatively a minimum assessment on a structure; then the landowners would be properly incentivized to put them to good use; or they would naturally revert to the town after several years of non-payment.
Researchers Easily Slipped Weapons Past TSA’s X-Ray Body Scanners
I Spent 3 Days With Sandi Metz – Here's What I Learned
A super-simple description is:

- we sync emails from IMAP account to an individual's device, decrypting email in the process

- when sending email via SMTP thru the box we encrypt email accordingly

- the box provides SMTP, IMAP, and webmail access

- all email encryption is done via GnuPG, so no lock-in: recipients can use a regular PGP plugins

I hope this gives you a first impression of what's in the box.
I imagine they use programs like MCEdit.

You'd create parts of the hardware in Minecraft, then use MCEdit to copy and paste those parts.

http://www.mcedit.net/
Uber Opens Its API
I once met a guy who swore blind that he and some friends had found a sunken greek galley while scuba-diving, and swagged an amphora or two of drinkable 2000-year-old wine before reporting the find.
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Ethereum: Ambitious Web 3.0 Solution
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For demolition it shouldn't matter if it is a rental or not. If it would be habitable by an owner; then it shouldn't be demolished. The tenant may be evicted or he could be fined or something; which is fine, but he should still be allowed to attempt to market the house as a single family residence.
Perhaps because the "model" we have in the West of ourselves is more-or-less a dualistic model: mind/body. I guess that people in the West consider yoga involving poses to target the body and practices like meditation to target the mind. That would then cover "everything" as far as we'd see.

There is the notion embedded in Western culture that the seat of consciousness (which many equate with the self) is contained within the Mind somewhere. We have a mostly pop cultural understanding of the mind with a good dash of Freud-speak. I think that experimental psychology and neuroscience are increasingly important as sources of understanding for the mind.

In the West, also, I figure that wisdom is pursued through religion or the arts/literature/cinema/etc. or philosophy.

I think that most in the West see energy as part of the scientific domain of things. I realise that many don't but I'm going to discount this group as pre-scientific and/or not scientifically literate and/or superstitious.

I guess what you mean by Bliss is what the Buddhists mean by Elightenment? I can't think of a direct analog for this state in Western culture. If you could tell me more I'd answer this better.

Short answer. Western culture and science is resistant to the model you are putting forward. That's why. Be happy to debate any of this further.
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Why do the molecules reemitt the light in the same direction as they absorbed it?
The issue, as you correctly state, is power consumption and there we still have quite some room for improvement.

Other than that, we also have same hybrid multi-core devices on our pockets that we have on our desks. Coupled with all the hardware sensors one can imagine.

So besides the power consumption point you rise, there is hardly anything else to improve at hardware level.

Except maybe, for things like better voice recognition experience or holographic displays a la Star Wars.
try http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/ (Programming pearls)

Also if you are into Java/C++, Effective Java/C++ are def worth reading.
What is your preferred OS?
I know it's not Europe, but how about Morocco:
http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-are-the-coolest-startup-c...
How is it that having to code in three different languages, all designed by committee, is "a much better place" than designing the graphical aspects of a website in an integrated environment that uses intuitive vector concepts that can be picked up by anyone?

Maybe you're only considering one aspect of it, namely if it runs everywhere or drains certain batteries faster? I certainly had a lot more fun coding GUI on Flash than I've ever had with the three donkeyman of the apocalypse. It was a much higher level of abstraction than what can be provided by current tools.
The risk is in distillation process. Even small amounts[1] methanol can be devastating.
Other than that unopened high spirits don't change much at all.

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol#Toxicity
And also creationist nonsense.
> Nobody's ever accidentally tried to uppercase a UTF-32 string by passing each code point to C's toupper() function

Note to put aside, since this was all about C++, the toupper() in <locale> is a template type that takes an arbitrary character type and a locale. There are also functions for locale sensitive collation and comparison. So, modulo bad implementation, you should be able to do basic unicode string handling in ISO C++.

The GNU stdlibc++ manual goes in to quite a lot of detail:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/localization...
Can someone tell me what's more difficult to create? This hard drive or the scientific calculator that someone else also created in minecraft?
Several years ago I traveled from Rio De Janeiro to Capetown on a freighter (although not nearly as large as this Triple-E ship!) There are some ships that still offer paid passage and staying on board of one of these enormous ships, manned by just a small crew, is an amazing experience. I got to visit all the areas of the ship, could wander about during the day, hung out on the bridge with the night watch, visited the engine room etc. Being on the bridge when the building sized ship docks at port is incredible to watch.
The books that I think are must-read are "The Pragmatic Programmer" and "Apprenticeship Patterns". I learned a lot from them.

I'm aware you expect some quick tips from HN though. Have a look at my old blog posts that summarize these books. While 3 years old and written in Polish, Google translated it very well. Direct links to the translations: https://bit.ly/1oZiidn and https://bit.ly/1w8ELhY.
Yes. The PDF link in the original article links to the same PDF on this page.
The book definitely has some huge problems, but it helped to 'push me out of the gate' by giving actual, concrete things to say, rather than general approaches. I find that once the conversation gets rolling, I'm okay. It's probably best in conjunction with another book.
I also lived through it, but I would say that RISC won in the end, just not exactly as its proponents thought.

x86 are no longer real CISC, as they moved the internal architecture to RISC, starting with the Pentium 4.

And all the other processors that matter are also RISC.

The real loosers were the VLIW proponents.
You don't need to make everything scalable right from the start. If your business is profitable you should have enough money to think about scaling later.

To me, the possibility to iterate fast has a much higher priority than thinking about scaling if i have a few or not that many customers.

Thinking about performance problems when you start your first project/startup is like thinking about what to buy IF you win the lottery.
I haven't read that one, but I'll definitely check it out. I'd also recommend Charles Petzold's book called "Code". One of the best technical books I've ever read!

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...
> Supported by evidence. (And no counter-evidence is known.)

That was true for Newtonian mechanics for a long time too.
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"If you're using a bootstrap as your front-end framework, then why the <select> element isn't customized in my <form> just as the standard bootstrap dropdowns !?!"

You're not using a <select> element in your example so I'm not sure how this is a solution? If I went to a doctor complaining of sore fingers, I would not be impressed if his recommended solution was to say "ah, but you have perfectly working toes, just use them instead!"
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Also, the speed of light in a different part of the universe could be different.
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They're trying to seize US based assets of Iran. That doesn't have much to do with evictions in Jerusalem.
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It's an interesting test for sure. I do similar with brain training on the 3DS, and though I've always been mindful of the various factors affecting my performance, I've never gone the effort of mapping them vs. my results.

As noted, as long as you don't start drawing any conclusions before you've played consistently to eliminate practice effects (getting better at the games) as best you can, it's fairly interesting and valuable stuff.
For my argument I just replaced "existing" with "not having gold and ponies" and drew parallel not between "specific rooms being occupied" and our civ existing at specific time but between "specific rooms not being emptied of gold and ponies" and "our civ having decent tech at specific time".

It works. Use your own substitutions.

Phisolophical reasonings often latch onto inexplicit meaning of words. If you replace them with different words that fullfill same role in language but have different meaning argument becomes much less apparently profound or even false.
And herein lies the issue. As engineers we long to solve 'special' problems, and fool ourselves into thinking we need to do something novel and hard when something simple will do.

We fool ourselves into thinking we NEED a faster language, and Hindley-Milner type checking, and everything else under the sun.

It's actually really hard to discover, whether you're fooling yourself or not here.

We're building our startup on Ruby/Rails with a clojure component for the speed sensitive stuff (which is actually a CPU bound number crunching affair). So far we're been very happy with the tradeoff. We tried building stuff in node, but the ecosystem is just so damn immature.

One of the nicest things about the Ruby community, that I haven't seen in any other language, is the cultural emphasis on good documentation. Java libs have very complete docs, that take forever and a day to read when you just want to use one damn feature, node.js projects have very pragmatic, but very incomplete docs, (same with clojure), and really, that's the case with most languages. Ruby on the other hand, seems to have instilled in its community that docs count, and its wonderful.

Rails testing and tooling is just ahead of the pack, and in the specific case of node, dealing with the irritation of async (inscrutable stacktraces, even when 'long' stacktraces are enabled, inconsistent uses of promises across libs, etc.), is a huge drag on productivity. If I needed a small highly concurrent component I'd consider it, but for general business logic Rails just kills it.
Centrifuges in space are not a solved problem. AFAIK there has been exactly 1 experiment in space with artificial g, at very low levels of g. You want to be able to maneuver and orient your ship even while it is spinning, and you want to study the failure conditions (most plans call for two tethered modules held by cable -- you want to experiment with what happens if that cable under tension breaks).

Also, we just don't know what 3 years of Martian gravity does to a human. It would be good to see just how much better 3/8 g is against 0 g.
This would definitely elevate this project to something really noteworthy, I've a friend who works with EEG data who would absolutely love this. Chances are the data would be too noisy to be useful (from experience this is one of the biggest problems with collecting data from the human brain, there's a lot going on) but you never know til you experiment.
The Zhong Fa Electronics Market in Beijing looked like I imagined the DigiKey warehouse to: resistors stall, oscillators stall, FPGA stall, etc.

Photos (note: less crowded because I went on a Sunday morning):

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6vx0hWnq-f-V3Z5M0FR...
"playing" "practical" "results" "tangible"

The relationships between those not-necessarily related words would need considerable detail for the claim to mean anything.

Play doesn't require results, a virtual world in a computer will never be tangible and is likely used by people uninterested in being tangible, practical things usually aren't involved in playing, it goes on and on.
The article is meant for non tech people, why should the journalist go into such details? You may also consider the server's private key a "classified document", by the way.
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Sounds interesting !
Waiting to try 't out