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One way to answer that might be to look inside ourselves. Take me for example. I indulge myself with books, songs, apps, etc. Granted, it's on a completely different financial scal…

Did anybody test the mice for physiological changes, and specifically reduced testosterone levels? In Matt Ridley's "The Red Queen", he mentions research about how low testosterone…

There are ways around that: http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

Sounds very similar to the "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat"[1] film shown at the dawn of cinema. Some of the audience supposedly jumped from their seats in terror as the life-size…

So does this mean that people can increase their happiness by using plugins that hide negative posts from their social media?

Having a virtual desktop manager helps a lot, along with keyboard shortcuts to switch between desktops comfortably. For Linux/Mac virtual desktops are built in and for Windows ther…

An even more charitable interpretation might be: We can gain insight on how to manage fully autonomous rule-based systems (AI) by looking at existing semi-autonomous rule-based sys…

Good point. I suppose that the trade off is that you loose the "marker posts" from other languages that say to the programmer "Magic happens here, go read the docs" but you gain th…

The thing that helped me most when I started learning clojure is to mentally move the parenthesis over to the other side, so (println (max 34 64 15)) becomes println(max(34,64,15))…

So a discussion in 4 parts then: 1. What attributes constitute a condition we call a "Police State"? (a list of which you already provided) 2. Does America (or some part of it) hav…

If he doesn't like the conversation, let's encourage him to stay and provide evidence for his point so that HN doesn't become an echo chamber. I find this model very helpful: http:…

I suspect that you are right about this being innocuous. What I think makes this a "hot" story is not the intentionality, but that it reminds us how divorced campaign promises are …

From the point of view of the sender, I find read receipts psychologically calming, oddly enough. I noticed I used to attach a lot more emotion to some facebook messages and compul…

That's true, it's a problem when you depend on having the repository at a specific location or depend on something that's not in the repo, like wiki or issue tracking, as mentioned…

Good thing about decentralized version control systems is that they're decentralized. I hope github can deal with today's issue without too much trouble, but it's not a major incon…

I don't want to sound apologetic for the actions of NSA as a whole, and those who surely pressured them into those actions, and those that were aware of them but did not object, bu…

I use it (and like it) to monitor a middleware we wrote. The developer, Kyle Kingsbury, has a pretty good talk about it here: http://vimeo.com/45807716

Yeah, look at the JavaScript LOC! Who wrote the rosetta code for those, Brendan Eich?! This hints at another way to optimize for this metric; make the language as expressive as pos…

Using my complete lack of statistical knowledge, I multiplied the wrong output rate % by the total lines of code in the examples from original paper here http://www.spinellis.gr/pu…

Not exactly. "Simulated Instrument Flight Conditions" usually means that your instructor has you put on a view limiting device [1] so that you can only see your instruments and not…

Neither. In US, your plane has to have the 6 basic instruments to be certified as airworthy by FAA. The reasons pilots die in non-visual flight conditions are twofold. As the origi…

Here is the fatal scenario: http://www.aerosafe.net/page6.html As a VFR pilot, you've received basic instrument training. Remember that training, trust your instruments, and you'll…

Try this book: "59 seconds" - http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/59-seconds-think-a-littl... It presents practical advice based on research papers in the field. A good book on bra…