trekky1700

I'm type 1 too, there's potential, but the same problem with degradation exist. If you eat something that slows down or speeds up digestion or alters it in any way, it could give you a lot of highs and lows. It's like how certain foods take longer for the carbs to be absorbed and cause lows first then highs later. Alcohol could be effected even more too.

I'd say, for a hardware hacker, one they build themselves. I'm building one right now, have ordered all the parts for relatively cheap and it will be a lot more powerful than a Parrot Drone and gives me more freedom with what I want it to do.

Is it weird that I find this mesmerizing despite there being a foot of the real stuff outside my door?

You'd have to be pretty stupid to not know this was illegal.

The things people are actually going to track you down for you can be pretty damn sure are easily identifiable as illegal. Sure, you may not be aware your Halloween costume of a priest is illegal (illegal to impersonate clergy) but no one's going to arrest you for it. They could, but arresting officers probably have only a slight degree better understanding than the average person. Now, if you're shooting someone, raping someone, bombing something, those things are obviously illegal and it doesn't take a Harvard student to know this...or maybe it does.

That would be cool for sure!

I think this is the best title on HN today. Especially the "According to Rainbow Gravity" missing the theory bit.

Upon further research, where are you getting this number from?

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2002/pdf/1824.pdf

The difference is negligible: http://i.stack.imgur.com/n6LXj.gif

That requires very difficult circumstances that almost certainly can't occur at the planetary scale.

Doesn't water freeze and become ice at 0°C?

And this is why NASA's Planetary Sciences division should not suffer huge budget cuts.

I give my card to the cashier, they swipe it, I then wait for a receipt to print, wait for the cashier to hand me a pen and the receipt, sign the receipt, hand it back to the cashier with the pen. If they're doing it right, they compare the signature to the one on the card, but in most cases I am then done.

versus

I wait for the onscreen prompt, I tap my card, hear a satisfying beep and am done.

It's pretty obvious the difference.

Of course the president of PayPal would prefer a digital method of payments that he can capitalize on to one that works in physical shops. I use NFC as often as possible because it is so much faster and more convenient, especially for small purchases.

In Canada, NFC is pretty much everywhere and I have never, nor have I heard of anyone making a mistake. I use it as often as possible because of how fast and convenient it is, much better than chips and pins or the really old signature methods.

Anyone else just think this is meant to be a bad ass logo and not something to be psychoanalyzed as some metaphor for the intelligence community?

Between BBC and The Guardian both open sourcing components on the Hacker News homepage, this seems like a good trend. Thank you BBC.

I was looking at building one of these a while back for my computer. It seams pretty easy with an Arduino, a $15 roll of RGB LED strip and some computer software. Though going beyond computers, it gets quite complicated.

Humanity, you terrify me sometimes.

Snowden didn't do this for publicity or to be grand-standed, he did it because he believed it was right. I think he would agree that he is not the issue people should be discussing. Instead, it should be how to fix the problems he brought to light.

I much prefer the Ministry of Silly Walks.

Or one could stop looking to the extreme as an inevitability in either case.

"Only two countries have done this well: Germany and Switzerland. They’ve both maintained strong manufacturing sectors and they share a key thing: Kids go into apprentice programs at age 14 or 15. You spend a few years, depending on the skill, and you can make BMWs. And because you started young and learned from the older people, your products can’t be matched in quality. This is where it all starts."

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/vaclav-smil-wired/

Just one of the problems with kids these days, don't have any 'ppreciation for the skill and craft of building a hobbyist nuclear reactor in their parents basement.

One of the main reasons it continues to thrive is that any person with an idea looking to "make a website" will almost always first find PHP when searching. That's how I started with PHP. I had something I wanted to build, looked up how to make websites, and found PHP.

I was in the same boat, I had spent years creating PHP websites and then was faced with the Rails framework. When you're first getting used to MVC, it seems very counter intuitive. I ended up using Symfony to get used to MVC while sticking with PHP, and now have switched to Rails and wouldn't dream of going back.

When you're first starting with it, especially moving from creating PHP files, it seems very counter intuitive and over complicated. But once you get used to the layout, you understand why it really is far superior for creating websites.

I would like to point out that the article, despite it's leading title, states that there's little evidence to suggest the agent was working for the CIA at the time. He owned a security company and was hired by a South African government agency.

Title really should be: "The Day Mandela Was Arrested, With A Little Help From A Hired Private Security Contractor Who Happened To Have Worked For The CIA In The Past"

I feel a little like its banning in China is inevitable. This is a currency that allows people to circumvent the PRC's ability to monitor and control money, in a country where Facebook and Twitter are blocked because the government can't control them. It seems to me like they're not taking it seriously as a viable currency, and that's why they're responding in this way.

A multisign service like this would be very difficult to make worthwhile. On small transaction, it would be hard to justify doing an investigation for a rate that would be worthwhile to the parties involved. It works well for Visa because Visa's already handling everything. Having these investigation services encourages people to use Visa, due to the peace of mind. It comes with it. With this type of service, you have to seek it out, pay for it separately and pay enough that this party will actually do an investigation. Obviously, it would have to work like insurance, were a majority of people aren't being scammed, but it's a difficult business model to comprehend.

Is this speculation or do you have a source?

It's also a lot harder to create vaccines for, as a virus that kills poultry doesn't work well with existing production methods that almost exclusively involve poultry eggs.