LukeWalsh

Aside from how beautiful it is I think buried inside is a unique solution for a problem that often occurred while browsing Facebook. Viewing widescreen photos in portrait was difficult without turning the phone (and many people lock portrait orientation). Paper uses the accelerometer to allow you to pan and view the entire image. I literally said "wow" out loud once I realized that I had already looked at two widescreen photos and not even noticed how seamless it was.

> t(45) = 3.44, d = 1.02, p = .01

I know this is probably extremely simple statistics, but what are these terms?

I really don't understand writing a program to solve this problem. Granted I play chess casually but I had a solution before I even finished reading the problem.

I think it's an interesting puzzle, but I don't think that makes it a good interview question.

A variant I really like is gothic chess. It basically adds two pieces to the board. While traditional chess only has a bishop-rook piece (the queen), gothic chess adds a bishop-knight and a rook-knight.

When I was younger I picked up a set at the USCF youth nationals chess tournament, it is a fun break from regular chess because it gets you back to thinking on your feet.

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

> The anger that motivated the writing of the Cookbook blinded me to the illogical notion that violence can be used to prevent violence.

I don't see why he asserts this as if it is indisputable fact. This is one of the most debated topics in all of human history. The leaders of almost every major revolution eventually reached precisely the opposite conclusion.

The book may in fact do harm in the hands of those who are rash and quick to anger. But I don't think that has anything to do with something that is inherently illogical.

> Learn from your talk

This is probably the easiest and most underutilized technique to improve at public speaking.

Why would someone use this over just paying with cash other than to make a social statement? I support bitcoin but this doesn't seem especially convenient.

Dale Carnegie at least popularized it, the book was published when Ken Kesey was a small child. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey

I didn't get this popover, I wonder why?

The best advice I have ever read on the subject is in Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" (1936).

1) Become genuinely interested in other people.

2) Smile.

3) Remember that a person's name is, to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

4) Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

5) Talk in terms of the other person's interest.

6) Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.

So essentially be genuine, and if you try to do anything intentionally just try to put the other person at ease.

Fixed link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-27/why-walmart-will-ne...

I don't think of it as a single organization, or as an industry that is inherently harmful. There are many adult entertainers who enjoy their work. I do however think that it's something to watch carefully in developing countries in the same way that we consider safe working conditions. I think that perhaps the quantity of exploited workers in the sex industry is not higher, but the depth of exploitation possible can be much greater than that in many other industries.

The simplest (and arguably most egregious) example is the sex industry's use of children. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_sexual_exploitation_...

It's hard for me to take seriously an article that uses yearly salary to measure wealth. Beyond the fact that money is an extremely poor indicator of wealth due to cost variance across the country, simplifying someone's liquid assets into a direct relationship with yearly income is absurd.

While this is technically true, I disagree with the undertone. I think the industry is fundamentally different and in its most extreme realizations has been shown to cause severe emotional harm to exploited workers.

It actually is not an absurd statement if you take in to account the entire quote, "…as a means of exchange." 10 million companies using bit pay is good for raising awareness of the general public, and may in fact lead to more widespread adoption. However as a means of exchange the most important characteristic is value. These companies are intentionally not using bitcoin as a measure of value, which is the next major hurdle that the currency needs to overcome.

"To be widely acceptable, a medium of exchange should have stable purchasing power (Value) and therefore it should possess the following characteristics: value common assets, constant utility, low cost of preservation, transportability, divisibility, high market value in relation to volume and weight, recognisability and resistance to counterfeiting.

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

I feel like a lot of these headlines lately are extremely gimmicky given the high volatility of bitcoin prices. These companies are just straight converting BTC back to USD which in the long run does nothing positive for true widespread adoption of bitcoin as a means of exchange.

I've always liked the idea of a more free form excel. Excel is great to dink around with estimations but it's way overkill for the job. Something like this looks perfect for those "back of the envelope" calculations that are more in tune with how we really think.

I understand concerns about focusing on issues that are directly pertinent to the people of a country, however historically we have never seen a culture solve all of its pressing problems and then decide to focus on science and exploration. Instead what we see is cultures committing to solve problems at home, but also investing resources in programs that look forward to new discoveries. I think it's short sighted to postpone space exploration simply because we don't have time for it today, or because we don't see the tangible benefit. The point of space exploration from the beginning has been to search for "truth and understanding," [1] a goal so noble that our astronauts risk their lives in pursuit of it. With greater understanding comes solutions to problems we never even knew we had.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/In_the_ev...

I think that was the purpose of the article, even more so that we would stop categorizing ourselves because in doing so we impose psychological limits.

I think this is very cool. This could really lower the bar for entry level developers who don't want to deal with running a web server. It reminds me of github pages, but even further along.

Publications from the lab: http://www.sfu.ca/physics/thewaltlab/publications.html

I use a browser plugin that strips down the actual site to a minimal version http://www.clea.nr

It's by far the best solution I've found since it stays out of the way, and when I click on a Youtube link the page is much nicer.

   > HTTP/2 to only be used with https:// URIs on the "open" internet. http:// URIs would continue to use HTTP/1 (and of course it would still be possible for older HTTP/1 clients to still interoperate with https:// URIs).

Seems like the most viable option, and leaves open the option of later implementing TLS Relaxed.

Interesting concept. Was surprised by the chat feature, but it actually makes things interesting.

Reminds me of what iMovie did when it shipped native on Mac. When I was younger it gave me an opportunity to play around with video editing software, and really lowered the barrier to entry.

I would love for this to do something similar in 3D printing where kids might not know where to start, but happen to open up the app and play around.

I would also add a follow up, what is your go-to for testing if an idea for a solution matches the problem?

I will be hesitant to purchase without an incredibly transparent security policy.

I think this post is certainly correct in addressing CPU issues, and certain problems with Javascript.

What it fails to recognize however is that the "how" of Node.js isn't the cool part about node. The cool part is the "what" which is bridging the gap between the client and the server. This is the reason that people tolerate writing more javascript, not because everone loves javascript.

You can't dismiss an entire subject matter as nonscientific just because many of the major players aren't advocating scientific methods of exploration.

At its root, science is about testing, observing, forming conclusions, and retesting. It just so happens that in the subject of economics you have an extremely large number of variables because of human behavior.

While concrete conclusions are difficult to come by, we should absolutely continue trying to understand things that we do not currently. Consider a future where the entire human brain could be mapped, and we entirely understood behavior. In this case studying economics and decision making would be much more realistic.

Just because our tools are extremely limited doesn't mean we should stop observing, and that very act is true science.