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Selfie-stick sellers face fines in South Korea
New ‘lab-on-a-chip’ could revolutionize early diagnosis of cancer[0]

[0] http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-lab-on-a-chip-could-revolution...
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The explanation Kip Thorne offers in his book is that the lander ends up slingshotting around two things, like black holes and neutron stars, that happen to be in the right places to drop the lander into the gravity well and then accelerate it back into a stable orbit close to the planet. Of course, that kind of maneuver twice, on both the descent into Gargantua's gravity well and the return trip, is totally implausible... the idea that there are so many high gravitation objects orbiting Gargantua near the planet's orbit that you can pull it off on no particular schedule... but it might not be physically impossible.

Wouldn't that be yet another reason to avoid that planet like the plague? Even if they set up a colony there, at any time the planet could run into an orbiting black hole or neutron star, or get slingshotted by one of them into an unfavorable orbit or into Gargantua itself.
http://waltherpragerandphilosophy1.blogspot.ro/2012/08/my-li...
London calling: phone biometrics should be handled with care
I lost it when I saw requirements as a cornerstone. There are no requirements - it's all design. The word 'requirement' is an artifact from processes where you have handoffs from one group of people to another rather than integrated discovery and coding. When you look at things as requirements you lose the fact that most things are negotiable and should be negotiated in service of the ultimate design.

Beyond that, it's worth noting that when the same people go from idea to A/B testing to full production the idea of a 'requirement' seems quaint.
Indeed - they have to cover this for instance.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11255493...

However I understand that some feel that drawing attention to the processes and construction of the EU is irrelevant and is a rant - the latter retort being an effective conversation stopper.
Actually chat secure on android makes facebook chat almost plesant (and those "in the know" can enable otr). Such a shame fb doesn't do federation and google pretty much killed xmpp altogether. I was this close to having a chat platform other than sms that I enjoyed and could share with non-technical friends without hassle. I loje IRC - but so far not on mobile. Anyone have a favorite (preferably Free as in freedom) cliebt for Android?
My wife, ordinarily interested in more economic, financial, and fashion-related literature, has been gorging on tesseracts since the movie. She'll adore this. Thank you for the brownie points.
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You should be able to use mplayer with AAlib or libcaca to play any video (or stream from your webcam) as ASCII.
It works just fine in a terminal window.

http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/h/4441

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam#MPlayer
can u elaborate how does it work ?
As weird as this might sound, having children has given me a significant sense of relief for similar reasons to those outlined in your comment, even though I'm far from a natural parent (but I'm working at it!)

Being a bit of a paranoid and morbid guy at the best of times, reproducing seemed inherently and intrinsically important to me in some hard to quantify way, and I feel so much mentally better for having descendants. I can't really explain it well though and have chalked it up to one of those messy, animalistic "instinct" things.
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We have a BIG PUSH to go all Google Hangouts. Which is admittedly a vast improvement on nothing, but ... The technology department has resisted on the basis that every tool talks to IRC, and no tool talks to Hangouts.
Typing in complete, correctly-punctuated sentences on IRC brought my speed from 55wpm to 90wpm.
I haven't seen two-way binding go out the window with scaling.

It's still the number one selling point and greatly reduces development time in both small and large applications.

The only thing I've seen is that in bigger projects, if there are locations where huge amounts of binding might take place (such as drawing, tables, etc...) you don't use two-way-binding in that particular place.

And in any case many of the popular frameworks (Ember, backbone etc... ) also use two-way binding, they just don't support two-way binding on simple js objects.
And for that many of the bigger frameworks (
FYI: Yehuda and Tom talked to us about "stability without stagnation" and other philosophies behind Ember 2.0 in episode 131 of The Changelog: http://thechangelog.com/131
Keynes and many others thought the same thing, almost 100 years ago. Guess what? We work more hours now than they did then.

http://money.howstuffworks.com/five-day-weekend2.htm
You don't need a magnifying glass. As a DJ, I used to regularly use the colour changes in the pressing to judge when changes in the music were due to aid me with determining when to queue up the next track and/or perform any complimentary DJing trick.
I think that because music has become such a common and accessible thing now (via one-click downloads and everyone having a collection of thousands of songs), vinyl is making a comback because of its physical nature. It's solid, large, comes in a nice packaging where you get to hold and admire the artwork, etc.

Once I get rich I'll buy a proper hifi set and a vinyl player and start a little collection. Just for kicks.
It was more the nack of seating the floppys on the erlier drives 3000 and 4000 starting the drive running before closing the door and a sharp tap in the right place.
One cause of the syndrome is relying on HN as your temperature gauge of technologies. A lot of the reason I keep up with HN is as a heads-up on what half-formed l33t technology will next become my problem.
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Interesting enough I went over my brother in laws this weekend and sure enough he has a brand new record player with fancy balancing and strobe speed selection and a whole bunch of new and old albums. During our meal we listened to a 40 year old Elton John album which didn't sound horrible but wouldn't hold it's weight next to its digital counterpart.

Some people say vinyl sounds "warmer" or better and if you're a professional and you have the right equipment that might be true but for the average consumer that owns the average consumer electronics in their square rooms with no sound absorption you'll hear no difference over 192 (or even 128) mp3.

Cal me boring but I'll stick with my Sonos with it's never ending Google Music playlist over clunky vinyl any day. ;-)
No need for the preface - it's a fair thing to say.

I hemmed and hawed about whether to post this article at all for this exact reason. In the end I decided that if I was going to post it I should be both respectful and truthful.

I probably could've worded it better. I probably could've added some disclaimer that this is true as far as I remember, but my memory is fallible.

[Edit, as I hit post too soon]:
Either way, I tried to be polite about it. This tragedy struck during a crunch time when a lot of us were feeling the need to rally together in order to make the big win. Any married person who chooses to work late on occasion experiences such a phone call.

To be clear, I didn't hear her end of any conversations. There weren't more than two or three of them that I overheard, and I wouldn't have included anything about them if I thought they were terribly personal.

The struggle between work and home life is something I experience myself. It's just another parallel I can't help but think about when trying to make sense of this situation. Not including it felt like I was leaving something important out of the story.
What I liked about the article on the Kiva Robots at OAK4, is that it emphasized is that the part of the work that's being optimized is the grunt work of moving stuff back and worth - the (relatively) more sophisticated work of identifying the item, verifying the quality, and confirm it's the right element for the order, is done by humans. While it might not be very high on the feeding chain, it's at least a little higher than it was before - and that's a good thing.

I'm all for humans being automated out of the low-order activities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge_Haulers_on_the_Volga#medi...
This sounds like such a good idea. One of the main problems I have working 9-5 is scheduling things like doctor and dentist appointments, bank visits, government paperwork, etc. I have to take a vacation or sick day just to get normal things done.
TL;DR some perennial software methodology consultants have come up with a base class for software methodologies.

It seems suspiciously like it has the usual properties of post-facto defined base classes i.e. arbitrary and fragile. But I could be wrong.

BTW if you found equating physics to marking stakeholder-ness out of 6 hard to swallow, you might struggle with "Major-league SEMAT". It reads a bit like an outline for the next Scott Adams book.
In my mind it's in the same spot as PHP: the language can hardly be worse, but so much quality code is written in both, you're beginning to accept them.

Lucky if you can work with a disciplined team...
Most of these points seem well-thought out, but the pagination system using Content-Range headers seems a little bit quirky.

GitHub are using Link headers which seems more in keeping with the typical web approach of pagination:

https://developer.github.com/v3/#pagination

Does anyone have any real world experience with either of these approaches?
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I think the amount one gets paid is equal to the amount of value one creates for others.

After all it's an auction, right? If somebody offers you to pay $8/h you will not work for $7/h. And if your work would create an additional $9 for someone, they would happily offer you $8.

Minimum wage jobs are an exception to this rule. Because the amount paid is higher then it would be in a free market.

We could look at how we can increase the amount paid for minimum wage jobs. But I find it more fascinating to think about how we can make people create more value. So they do not need to compete for minimum wage jobs.
I find interesting that while the issue about the connection between race and IQ has been widely commented here, nowbody questions (an many reapeat) the idea that wealth and IQ are correlated. In fact, surveying the Internet one can quickly find that this idea is widely considered wrong. However, the fact that it is accepted acritically here shows a lot about how the American-dream ideology and this false sense of meritocracy is so deep inside the contemporary tech culture.
Developing in the open (The Guardian)
well you can just post or shout on the app in 160 characters and it reaches to everyone in ur locality having the app.
Plus it has anonymous posting feature called Alter Ego where u can create your avatar and start shouting.
People are using it primarily for getting instant help suggestions, routes, traffic update, blood donation, emergency shout etc...
Its reasons like these that RMS insist on GNU/Linux.
Yes, but that's been the case for a decade or so already (longer for electronic music, unsurprisingly).

However, aside the tactile arguments, one of the properties of vinyl that many enthusiasts love is the "warmth" distortion that the medium adds - even from a digital master.
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That was the vision of OOP, too ("Software ICs") and we all know how well that turned out. Even Unix is not really the big success story here -- one might say that even something like 'awk' is already stretching the paradigm, never mind common fellow travelers like Perl or Emacs. Never mind most graphical interfaces.

I know, this will probably evoke a "No true Unixman" response, maybe even with pointers towards the Plan 9 highlands, but the truth is that a) connecting stuff is hard and b) a good connection is often a prime feature itself.

Especially the latter will result into a plethora of modules of its own, for nearly all possible combinations of component modules. The end result is even more "frameworks". Sure, they're going to be modular frameworks, but I don't really know whether that's going to help the developers who live in the uncanny valley of mostly knowing what's there and how it connects.

A "fat kernel" with lots of "satellite modules" might be a viable approach, too. Just like with most programming languages (i.e. not C or JavaScript), where you've got plenty of useful stuff in your standard library, and some package manager for the rest.

But hey, if the JavaScript ninjas finally figure out how to properly combine software components, that would be better for all of us. I just wouldn't bet on that.
I think that from all the modern ways of storing information, vinyl might be one of the most resilient. Archeologists will dig out and put together pieces of vinyl on the year 5014, like they do with ancient pottery today.

We probably will be known as "the great lovemaking civilization" despite all the atrocities commited, because of all the sleazy pop songs pressed on millions of vinyl records. I bet the ancient greeks would have put much more effort into factual accuracy of their pottery decoration too, if they only knew.
For me it's a lot less about the "warmer" sound. It's about the availability of prep loudness aware mastering and the fact that I actually own the copies. Everything available digitally has a weak dynamic range. Everything available digitally is restricted by an end user license agreement - and can be taken away from me without my consent.

I still spotify, by I vinyl too :)
It is also sold off the shelf in big stores where Joe Averages congregate. Get a desktop distro preinstalled on hardware with all the drivers in place and working, and lets see how well it does over the long term (5+ years).
I haven't checked the numbers in any way, but is it safe to assume that the black hole is not rotating "very fast"? In the news covering the render software and papers that will be/have been published, it was mentioned that they were surprised to see the effect the rotation of the black hole has on the accretion disk -- that it bends and twists space and light, so insted of a flat, Saturn-ring-lik disk, you end up with the thing you see in screen.
Oh, that I did. Very true.
Are they? I worked for a top 5 consultanting enginers and the buck stoped with us in ters of the desugn all the archtects did was make it look purty.
Still programming 27 years after I started. I'm lead of a group of front-end developers using AngularJS to build an online marketplace for hospitals to purchase their supplies.
It's always worth remembering that corporations especially are subject to the ship of theseus paradox. Quite simply, the RadioShack of the mid '90s and later was fundamentally a different entity than the RadioShack of the '70s and '80s. One was an organization of intelligent and technologically ambitious folks that was plugged into the heart of the personal computing revolution. The other was a typical soulless, rudderless corporation with no purpose and no ambition other than the bottom line and no intellect or intelligence other than the basest avaricious instincts; an entity that abused its employees and customers to every extent possible in the pursuit of profit. In between, the folks who were part of the first RadioShack left, either retired or moved on, and were replaced with the folks who established the principles of the 2nd, somewhere along the line the culture and ideals of the first company fell by the wayside, never to be picked up again. Too many failed projects here and there, too little listening to what people "on the ground" were telling the leadership (about bad projects and bad policies). When a company becomes a bad place to work the process typically accelerates very rapidly. The most talented folks often find it easiest to find work elsewhere and take the greatest insult from being forced to work on crappy projects and not having their criticisms borne of extensive expertise heard. Once they leave the company then finds it even more difficult to execute on projects, because they lack key talent, and the work environment is now worse for everyone else because the best people have left (working alongside high-caliber individuals is an important goal for most engineers), which drives more people to leave, and again it's typically the folks who have the easiest time of finding work elsewhere. Quickly the talent evaporates out of the company, and things go downhill from there.

It wouldn't be the first time, or even the millionth or billionth, that an organization (company, country, family, estate, etc.) fell from grace in such a fashion, but it's always sad to see it happen.
> here we have to assume that the black hole is not rotating very fast

From the article: "The black hole needs to be spinning very fast"
One of the main aspect that interest me in vinyls is the fact that you could not skip a song. You really listen to a whole album. You could discover new songs that you're not used to listen.

For me it's that that really make the differents with MP3/Playlist in which you are in a full-consumer mode spending half your time skipping songs.
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Yes, I linked to that one in my first paragraph. I'm sure he's telling 100% the truth as he lived it down in the stores. I just wanted people to know that that wasn't all there was to Tandy/RadioShack.
Would you care to share with us how you were able to determine that she had such a gene? Was it some sort of byproduct of a normal scan/test? Or was it some sort of specificly requested test you went somewhere to get tested for? Or?
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> Of course, there is no risk with a full-body MRI scan.

Not quite true. While the scan itself isn't harmful, the strong magnetic fields, RF fields and noise have caused several accidents, some fatal. Compare for example http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=sup_n&sub=mri&pag=d... "The FDA's Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database documented a total of 40 incidents for MRI in 2004. In 2009, the total more than quadrupled, to 193 reported adverse events."

Example of a fatality: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92745

> False positives aren't inherently a problem. If you have accurate understanding of the sensitivity and specificity of a test, then you can take action to maximise the utility of the expected outcome.

False positives can still cause huge psychological strain on the involved person(s).
"Some people say vinyl sounds "warmer" or better and if you're a professional and you have the right equipment that might be true (…)"

Most likely it is the other way round.
A nearby record store made a test a while ago. They invited an audience and compared vinyl with digital on three different pairs of equipment.
In direct blind comparison, the audience rated digital better only on the most sophisticated systems (> 10.000 dollar DAC/record player).

Their result is: if you spend less than 4000 for your player and care for best sound, go with vinyl. I guess that applies to most of us ;o)
They expected a ping every year, if it ever stopped pinging they would write off that planet. It was up to the scientists to keep the ping going, if they considered the planet still a suitable candidate for humanity. The signal they received from the time dilation planet was supposedly "looped around the black hole" and repeated yearly.
> here we have to assume that the black hole is not rotating very fast

I read that, for Interstellar, it's actually very important to include rotation of the black hole: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/11/09/interste...

> which offer great 'Fermi problems'

An aside, but I'm curious. I see this mentioned a lot more often lately, and I know Randall Monroe talks about them a lot in his 'What if?' series, so I'm not sure if it's because of that popularising the term, or if it's just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon on my part. A Google Trends search suggests increased interest, but it could just be coincidental.
I wonder whether the same 'warmness' people associate with vinyl couldn't be reproduced just as easily using equalizer settings or post-processing of a digital source. The 'information' on a vinyl record is for all practical intents and purposes (ie: limits of the human hearing) the same as a digital copy of the same source at typical (CD quality) sampling.

I understand that's not the point of playing vinyl (I frankly don't understand what the point is, but then again, I don't understand the point of collecting a room full of shiny discs in plastic cases either), but the audio quality argument sometimes offered by people who like vinyl sounds like the typical justification bias, a bit what you regularly hear from people who buy gold-plated HDMI cables.
As someone that is overly conscious about my own mortality, and fear of it. I can see it being much more preferable "in the moment" to be oblivious to such things awaiting us. And at times I really don't understand why people aren't afraid/concerned about their inevitable mortality.

However, I wouldn't personally choose such obliviousness. I'd rather know, and perhaps plan for it, and do my best to mitigate it as far as I can.
Regarding the plot towards the end of the article, what does "efficiency" mean? Surely "vanishing" while the other person is still speaking is the fastest way to end a conversation for the least effort.
No, no it isn't. People really need to stop using the word "hyperinflation". It does not "just happen". It is a very specific problem, that happens when specific, deliberate but poorly thought through actions are taken: namely, the free printing of money by a government in order to pay down it's own debts, well in excess of any viable economic activity.

The only place in the western world this ever happened was pre-WW2 Germany, and it will never happen again unless someone specifically sets out to destroy their own economy.

It is not a thing which "just happens", ever.
There is a PPA for Linus's kernel, it's great for this stuff - makes upstreamable bug reports really easy. (Also for discovering "hey, my proprietary wifi now has a free driver!")
You have a good point.
The quality of the sound pressed to vinyl is very high and less compressed currently, because of the target audience.
But I guess, most of 24/192 downloads and SACDs are also mastered well for the same reason.
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