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If by "friends" you mean people that you can use/be-used to find your way to "financial" success you obviously have a different/distorted take on the term "friendship".

While smartness seems necessary it was almost never enough to succeed in Silicon Valley or in Wall Street or in the sciences. Smart is such a generic term that is almost meaningless.

Is there any chance that Siri will be in the next version of OS X?

To second your warning:

http://www.supermagnete.de/eng/safety.php

Zero content whatsoever.

Ready for oblivion: once I had a (sleeping)dream that I was using the mouse to touch and move things in my room.

K&R is the only book that I have currently three copies. Two editions in English and one in Greek. RIP DR

I've just browsed the pdf and problem 2 is my favorite.

Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective would be more appealing. You can write a comment to highlight the part of the book that you like

While I was a kid I was going almost everyday to my father's bookshelves and I was browsing random books: science fiction novels, books about sports and their rules, encyclopedias, novels, poetry, whatever I could find. I am sure that this experience made me love knowledge more and give me a also an additional bond with my father. Maybe people do not realize that yet, but giving to a kid a GB of ebooks is not the same.

Would you pay the mailman to stop him from opening and reading your letters? I would not

I recommend reading about Shechtman's discovery not just for its beauty but also for the story of his persistence.

At Stanford in the mid-seventies, one could smell the beginning microcomputer revolution, ignited by the early microprocessors introduced by the nearby Intel Corporation. After soldering together my own IMSAI computer from a kit and advancing from binary programming by flipping switches to assembly language, I became an avid visitor of the weekly meetings of the Stanford Hombrew Computer Club, where Bill Gates sold rolls of punched paper tape with 4k and 8k versions of ALTAIR BASIC. Steve Jobs, the later founder of Apple Computer came to my undergraduate classes on electricity and magnetism. In 1976, Art Schawlow and I bought one of the first Apple I Computers, a bare printed circuit board, at the Mountain View Byte Shop. Both Art and I succumbed to the microcomputer fever, spending a forbidding amount of personal money on a growing collection of computers and peripherals, so that our offices started to look like space mission control centers. Art sometimes joked about our role as early adopters: "The pioneers are the ones with the arrows in their backs." Around 1980, Art and I even started a small mail-order software business, selling a little graphics program Autoplot written in BASIC for the Radio Shack TRS80 computer. Sales were brisk until the hardware became obsolete.

And the relevant link:

http://science.thomsonreuters.com/nobel/2011predictions/

Let me remind you that Target's main color is red. 101 principles do not apply to all cases.

A very interesting article but unfortunately you need a nature subscription to read it.

This is just a teaser:

Many labs are renowned for their intense work ethic and long hours. When I set out to profile such a laboratory, I wanted to find out who is drawn to these environments, what it is really like to work there and whether long hours lead to more or better science. I approached eleven laboratories with reputations for being extremely hard-working. Ten principal investigators turned me down, some expressing a fear of being seen as 'slave-drivers'.

Number eleven — Quiñones-Hinojosa — had no such qualms. His work ethic is no secret: a 2007 essay in the New England Journal of Medicine1 and several television and newspaper reports have traced his path from 19-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, labouring in the fields of California, to neurosurgeon at one of the United States' leading research hospitals. He did not get there by working 9 to 5.

And something from the popular press:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14476411

I was about to to link to previous discussions of the same claim/question

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592522

But then I read the article... Very nice!

99$ dollars seems a fair(good) price for a second-rate product. I would not be paying more than 200 $ for any tablet in the market.

This is one of the best HN articles I've read for some time.

It worked fine in Safari Version 5.1 (7534.48.3)

Nice idea! The picture is already almost unusable while you have something like 3300 cars featured. Do you have any thought on how to deal with that problem?

meta: I already miss the days that we were grilling AirBnB or even the bitcoin days.

Rabbit's hole goes even deeper:

http://jalopnik.com/5828101

In fact, I never read LA times(I am not interested in local news) while I visit physorg quite often.

May I ask you, how is this possible?

At all these places I have a computer with me

Obviously I do not belong to the "early-adopting crowd": I do not own a smartphone. Why? Because I find the 80 dollars per month too high price to pay for something(access to the internet) that I have almost everywhere I spent my time: work, home, bookstores. Even though I am seriously tempted everyday to get an iPhone.

This is pathetic and not resourceful. I have more respect for the fanboys/fangirls that will stay nights and days in line to get the new iPad 3.

I completely agree with you. In fact I found the article title from WIRED unsuccessful, but I opted to leave it intact so as to be also easily searchable. It is nice to see that the article receives the attention that it deserves.

I posted the same link two days ago but with the original title "Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War" but it passed completely unnoticed.

Hobbits really are amazing creatures