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This is pretty old news, but still neat. The post is new, but I read about it at least a year ago.

There was a study that came out years ago that stated that the closer something comes to looking real without being real, the more it is mentally rejected.

I like the eye candy I've seen in beginning of the PS4 gameplay of Watch Dogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PODJJN3fTME

But I really notice the roughness, like when he slows down after running across the street, and the unrealistic smooth circular pans that don't accelerate and decelerate like a normal panning movie camera would.

And, of course I think the Atari 2600 was the best home gaming console ever invented.

"...the genius is not to write a 5 cent idea in a ten dollar sentence. It's to put a ten dollar idea in a 5 cent sentence."

That 200:1 value to cost ratio is good advice.

You're going to make a killing if the customer perceived value to price ratio is 200:1, and if the retail price to cost ratio is also 200:1.

Any idea what the peaks in July last year were due to?

This is why you shouldn't rely on third-party auth. Everyone using their own auth may be more trouble for the user, but SSO through a private third-party that the largest portion of users already use, is just asking for it. Don't get me wrong, SSO is not bad. But, the bigger the subject, the more resources will try to hack it. This can make the subject stronger and more secure over the long-term, potentially, but in the meantime, you have to live with being hacked much more frequently. Why not learn from others' mistakes rather than be their victim, when it comes to security?

And he is not changing his grading system for next year? Next year the students ought to try not even going to class.

The positive reinforcement and acceptance of publicity could be compared to the media making a big deal out of Columbine. Whenever bad behavior is made into a spectacle, it will be copied. I will be completely surprised if we don't see more of these events in the coming years, not just because it is possible, but because JH is being fucking stupid by publicizing this.

Google once required you to put together factual trivia with technical knowledge.

One question in an interview was something like: How many possible IP addresses are there per square meter of the Earth?

15th century actually:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_determinism

Climatic Determinism: "Australia, for example, has a higher level of economic development than Indonesia. The paradox also applies within countries — the northern U.S. states are more developed than the southern U.S. states. Singapore is a notable counter-example: it is located at 1.22° N and is one of the world's most prosperous countries. This prosperity is based on its position as a port. Other exceptions to the paradox tend to have large natural resources. (Although Singapore's strict and no-nonsense government system matches the "strict and authoritarian" system that Montesquieu cited as being necessary for a country in warmer areas to succeed by counteracting the environmental complacency of the tropics with human-induced strictures. Saudi Arabia is a good example.)"

Montesquieu: 18 January 1689 – February 1755

Not being racist or imperialist. In fact, I'm one of those affected, and I don't think it is strongly genetic, but rather mostly behavioral. I see it in my family and culture. Not really laziness, but slowness compared to those from colder climates. There are exceptions, but heat slows people down.

It should be easier to mark a question as duplicate or incorrectly tagged with version of language or framework, but aside from that, I don't agree. Without that site, I'd be lost.

Some of us care too much.

Cyberspace is real in that there is much going on in the world that is not reported on in the news.

For example, if a man or woman had 1,000,000,000 highly detailed pictures of porn in his/her house and that got reported to the news because they were stacked up on the porch, flying around everywhere, it might make the evening news in a "What a perv!" segment. But if that same person has access to even more pictures than that on the web and views them, they aren't called out on it if it is within the range of acceptable online and offline behavior.

By the same token, I'd post what I think on HN and would say it in person to the same people in a bar having a drink, but I'd never post the same things in an editorial in a newspaper or on a blog. However, on HN everything is public and global. It just isn't the same as the rest of the world, even if in the end it is contained in physical space with real physical people communicating with one another. So we have another term for it.

Our world itself is just as unreal, though. The media and government and even our friends and family just show us part of what is going on, and don't act or communicate as they would if they were being true. This is the reason that both philosophers such as Plato and Socrates differentiated between truth and what we learn in the world, and why popular religions such as Christianity teach us that the world is not truth- that there is something beyond it that we must aspire to.

Maybe, but China is just better suited for production work than Mexico if you look at the following factors:

1. Food, water, shelter. Lack of these means infrastructure will be tough to setup and you are making it harder on imported human resources.

2. Culture, infrastructure and security. These go hand-in-hand. If you don't understand and play by the rules of the culture, security is compromised, and without security, infrastructure is at risk. Without infrastructure things are much more costly. A less liberal government (one that enforces conviction of drug lords that make security a nightmare) may result in better security and therefore better infrastructure.

3. Resources. Access to labor, materials, etc.

4. Heat. In hotter climates, humans are rewarded physically by not working as hard by the fact that they don't get overheated. This is engrained in almost all of us, but even more so when evolution and natural selection also have rewarded lazy behavior. I will probably get downvoted multiple times for saying this, and it isn't true everywhere, but I believe that it happens and can become a cultural phenomenon. Ever heard of a siesta? I know it is just a "break", right...

I did. Their argument was that due process was handled in the preceding two trials and due process should be denied because X and Y, but to the point that a relevant case was misapplied (which should result in appeal), they basically say "umm... that was case specific and yada yada yada we're right".

From the argument: "Petitioner’s further contention (Pet. 15-18) that the court of appeals misapplied the Williams standard is not fairly encompassed in the question presented and is, in any event, a case-specific challenge that does not warrant this Court’s review."

In other words, ignore the man behind the curtain.

Edit: to clarify- this is the final statement in the reasoning why due process should not be considered. Read the argument.

Read the section labeled "argument" here: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2013/02/12-715...

That sounds like a defendent of the record companies, not the executive branch trying to ensure law is faithfully executed. It would be one thing if the supreme court were ignoring laws, but arguing for the denial to review a case is hardly taking care that law is faithfully executed. Our executive branch is suggesting the subversion of due process in this case.

Point taken. Edited language to indicate they are only "getting involved"...

"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States."

Hmm. Nothing in there about getting involved in potential supreme court cases.

I use Ruby because it is clear and it is the most practical and effective language I've ever used. I'm glad you like Python. Have fun with it.

For others to compare, here are some examples on the c2 wiki:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PythonVsRubyCodeExamples

and stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1113611/what-does-ruby-ha...

"Ruby is an academic language designed in academia for academic and theoretical problem sets"

You make that FUD up yourself? What about Chef, Puppet, writing Ruby scripts for general purpose apps, JRuby (better than Groovy when you can use both jars and gems!), the fact that RedHat's OpenShift (Cloud Hosting of J2EE, etc.) platform depends on Ruby- the list goes on and on.

Since you brought up OpenBSD- there is an example of an OS where so much time and effort was spent on security, the adoption was lower. It's a fine OS, but if you have to wait for years for the DoD to start promoting it and you don't have the consumer adoption that you have with Windows, OS X, and Linux, then I'm sorry but no.

Same sentiment on wishing to play both, but I don't think they suck. It's all they have resources for. Have you seen the documentary on Fez in Indie Game: The Movie (2012)? It's on Netflix streaming and it is awesome. Everyone that puts their heart and soul into a game like that and get torn down but trudges ahead despite all odds should be rewarded... even if you are funded by the Canadian government: www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884

You missed my point, which was that well-used languages and platforms have vulnerabilities and we still use them. And Java web apps have had security issues too. Do you remember this one? http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-...

"Bill Gates Answers Almost Everything In Reddit AMA": http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/02/11/bill-gates-...

Now imagine if you'd written 10x as much code in Java and hit a Java vulnerability. The U.S. government told its citizens to uninstall Java recently. There have been a few other high profile Java vulnerabilities in the past few years. Does that mean Java is the wrong choice? Most jobs available in development are in Java (check indeed.com).

For years Microsoft was the butt of most security jokes. .Net dev jobs are #2 under Java in indeed.com.

Find me a well-used platform that hasn't had a massive security hole or a community that hasn't tended to write insecure code at some point.

Looks like the upper half of this: http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/images/war_worlds_pal_8_x....

Good for Elon. Every CEO should stand up for his product like that.

Ok, a hypothetical. Valentine's Day coming up and my wife who is very non-technical has (1) mentioned a surface in the last few months and she never mentions things like that, (2) has developed a strong dislike for Apple (the company) and has no desire for an iPad or iPhone, (3) was raised on PC's and Windows and does not adjust to change in that regard. Let's say that she already has a laptop that is relatively new, but she spends a lot of time on the couch and doesn't take the laptop off the dock, and might enjoy having a tablet next to her on the couch.

Now the question. Should I get her one, and if so, which one?

Discrimination based on immigration history sounds extremely unjust. At that point you may as well base it on height.

"Outdated affirmative-action programmes should give way to schemes to help students based on the poverty of the applicant rather than the colour of his skin."

Tell that to Harvard and look at Caltech's Asian student enrollment numbers: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/339778/racial-quotas-...

Race should be left out of the qualifications for getting into university, but be prepared for those universities' Asian student populations to grow significantly, probably whether they are rich or poor. That's fine with me (I dislike racial quotas), but it wasn't mentioned.

Yes, except for vaccines that target virus(es) that are part of a group in which there may be only a 15-59% chance that it will protect outside of the laboratory. Per the Lancet and per the CDC, this is the case with seasonal flu vaccines. And, you have a small percentage actually die or have ongoing health problems because of problems with the vaccine.

References:

"The Lancet medical journal, the study found the seasonal flu jab, available free to seniors, is only 59 per cent effective...": http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/seasonal...

"Influenza vaccine would be estimated to be only 15% effective": http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/vaccination/effectivene...

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm#side-effects