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> Because Soylent robs families and loved ones of the ritual and ceremony of eating together.

And frees them up to participate in other rituals together?

Just think how many other activities could be correlated with "families that stay together." It's almost a given, since the alternative would be a family that was divorced or estranged from each other... yet still came together for meals.

I'm no designer, but I like http://land-book.com for screenshots of well-designed pages. http://pttrns.com/ does something similar for mobile apps.

Possibly a lot of traffic structures, since vehicles and transportation may be largely computer-controlled by then, which would re-shape any related infrastructure that has "just made sense" to us in recent history

It's AP style - http://blog.ap.org/2013/06/10/whistle-blower-or-leaker/

Other interesting discussions about language usage on the AP blog - http://blog.ap.org/

That one's fun - I thought it was going to be more complicated and never considered the method you used :)

I use a Greasemonkey script which does exactly that, and quite well - I searched for the title of the script to grab a link to it, but it looks like there may be a few different options to choose from: https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sour...

I am thoroughly confused, and I hope there is some more substantive info behind this. The $10,000 goal is barely a drop in the bucket when it comes to a building with ~20 3-bedroom-sized apartments (even in "East Williamsburg"), and if the $50/day price is anywhere close to the final price, you'd be better off actually living in McKibben and joining one of the better-established co-working spaces.

It's a fun idea, but honestly the co-working trend is pretty crowded in NYC (how many spaces can simultaneously attract quality talent and speakers?), and co-living is already a way of life when moving to NYC, without the dorm-like arrangement of this space.

That works under the assumption that they release everything, when they have explicitly said that they do not.

Specifically - information gained in the Bethesda http://pastebin.com/i5M0LB58 and whitehat http://pastebin.com/MQG0a130 raids has not been released.

I think it's dismissive to jump to that conclusion - they're likely turning a healthy profit by dumping lists of emails, credit card numbers, and zero-day vulnerabilities on the black market.

Reminds me of a reddit "Ask Me Anything" thread from someone making made-for-AdSense sites: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a74ba/not_an_adsense_m... (This was pre Google's content farm algorithm changes, however.)

It's an insightful read regarding the amount of work required and it seems the person was actually producing/aggregating useful content.

I would look through the "CRM" results on SearchYC - http://searchyc.com/crm

Pretty cool - it definitely helps to read things better, although it actually resulted in me removing more characters from my transcription! After seeing them more clearly, I was less confident to make a judgment on which letter they may be.

I'll include my transcription below. I've marked questionable characters with an asterisk, and the circled sections are enclosed in square brackets:

Document 1 - P1

  (MND MK NE* RSE-N-S-*-KNARE) (ACSM)
  *TFRNE NP*NSE NPBSE RCBBNSE NPRSE 1NC
  PRSE NM*SE *PREHLD WLDNCBE(TFXL* TCXL NCBE)
  AL-*RPPIT XLYPPIY NCBE M*KSEWCD RCBR NSE PRSE
  WLDRCBRNSE NT **NE*T*SE-CRSLE-CITRSE WLDNCBE
  ALWCPNCBETSME LRSE RLSE UR GLSNE AS N WLDNCBE
  (NOPFSE NLSRE NCBE) NTE GDDMNSENCURERCBRNE
  (TENE TFRNE NCBRTSENCBE 1NC)

  (FLRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE)
  (CDNSE PRSE ONS*E 74 NCBE)
  (PR+SE PRSE ONREDE 75 NCBE)

  (TF N*CMSP SOLE MRDE LUSE TOTE WLD*WLDNCBE)
  (194 WLD'S NCBE)(TRFXL)

Document 2 - NOTES

  [ ALPNTE GLSE-SE ER+E
  YLSE MTSE-CTSE-WSE-FRTSE
  PNRTRSE ONPRSE WLD NCBE
  N WLD XLRCMSP NEWLD STS MEXL
  *ULMT * TUNSE NCBE ** ]

  [ (M*NSA*STEN MUNARSE)
  KLSE-LRSTE-TR SE-TRSE-M*SE *-MRSE
  (SAE*NSE SE N MRCE) ]

  [ NMNRCBRNSE PTE 2PTE WSR*B****
  36 MLSE 74SPRKS E 29KE NO*OLE 175 R*RSE
  35 SLE CLGSE *UNUT*E *KRSE PSESHLE
  651 MTCSE HTLSE NCUTCTRS NMRE
  99.84.5 *UNEPLSE NCRSE AO*TSE N S*SE N* SE
  N5REONSE PVTSE WLD NCBE (JXOR*) ]

  [ *NMSE NRSE 1N2 NTRCE RCB*NSE NTSRCR*N
  LSPNSE N GSPSE MKSE R BSE N CBE *XL*R

  HM CRE N MRE NCBE     1/2 MUN D DLSE ]

  [ D-W-M14 *PL X*RLX ]

That's why I'm not too confident that there's anything to find here - the case went all the way to the FBI, so they certainly followed all the leads they had and talked to any witnesses and family members. And, not to be morbid, but the victim was 41 in 1999, so his parents are likely deceased by now.

Interstate 71, 74, and 75 are near Cincinnati.

Here are some other links to save you some searching:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131822

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL...

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL...

Yeah, I think it is more phonetic shorthand than any kind of cypher. Unfortunately, it's a long shot that we'll be able to get any insight into it without knowing more about the victim's personal characteristics or habits.

> Is there a way to just output the letters as a stream of phonyms?

After noticing the frequency of NCBE, I focused on these three lines from the first document:

  (FLRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE)
  (CDNSE PRSE ONS*E 74 NCBE)
  (PR+SE PRSE ONREDE 75 NCBE)

They seem pronounceable in a sort of pig-latin style - "Flur-say pur-say ohn-day 71 nick-bay"

> although its tough to say "oranger than orange with a texture like crumpled sandpaper and snow" succinctly.

As a side-note, do you know of any books/novels that authentically explore with that kind of language and method of internally expressing concepts? I think it's interesting to learn how people interpret the world.

You can change FF's behavior to match Chrome: setting browser.urlbar.autoFill to true in about:config will enable inline autocomplete in the awesomebar, instead of having to arrow down or tab down.

The solution I use is bookmarking sites and aliasing keywords to the bookmark - right click on a bookmark, go to properties, and add a keyword. For example, I have "hn" as the keyword for the Hacker News homepage, so if I type "hn" and hit enter, it expands to the full URL and goes to the page.

"non-unique, non-personally identifiable" - http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html

> Take Hacker News. I remember when it was like reading a programmer's mailing list.

Well, there's http://news.usethesource.com/news :)

Here's Google's page with instructions and further info - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

Most of the article is only worth skimming through, but don't skim so fast that you miss the kernel at the end ;)

> Sometimes, people who don't understand any better confuse the mundane with the divine, mistake hard work for lightning bolts. They couldn't pull off that same stunt, and so they convince themselves that nobody else could, either. Her brain can't possibly work that way, that fast. There's no way she solved that puzzle on her own. The game must be rigged.

> Or Burke has a gift, and she improved it with study. She practiced. She found the little edges and secrets that make large-size success possible; she did every last bit of the math. She earned her way to her place behind the wheel, and then, on that fateful day, in that particular pattern of rectangles and lights, she saw all that she needed to beat it.

http://lastpass.com/ is indispensable for generating, managing, and auto-filling super-secure passwords that you never even have to know, let alone remember.

Pretty cool project! Is there a feed anywhere, or will you post the results afterwards?

> "Hard to imagine this kind of give and take on a National Public Radio page."

What? Why? That seems like a cheap shot. NPR has an ombudsman who addresses issues with programming, and the producers of various public radio programs are easily accessible and responsive. If nothing else, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition frequently air letters that are critical of their coverage and respond to concerns that listeners have raised.

Have you seen https://mozillalabs.com/ubiquity/ and http://vimperator.org/ ?

Or maybe... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29 :)

> but had fun doing it

Well, that's more than a lot of people can say about certain projects!

Want to give us a run-down of how you put it together?

> HN has its own very limited markup syntax

Just what we need, another subset of Markdown :(

Quoting is also my top request. I find it strange that using > as blockquote would have been removed - What markdown interpreter does HN use?

Looks doable to me - http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/hhh?query=astoria&s... The good thing is that most places that could be listed as "Astoria" will be in a nice location, so you can concentrate on checking out the apartments instead of worrying that you'll get stuck in a bad neighborhood. Woodside, Sunnyside, and the other surrounding neighborhoods are nice, also.

Astoria has a lot of small, local real estate offices, so always check with them for some options, too.

That's a tough price to get much closer to Manhattan. Stick with Queens neighborhoods - you'll be equally closer to your work, but in a better quality neighborhood compared to your Brooklyn options at that price. Astoria would be my choice, even if it's just to move closer and see what it's like - the N should get you to work in about an hour.

But, be aware that you may be more comfortable in a different situation than me, so you might enjoy a rougher neighborhood or an older apartment in Brooklyn as a trade-off for living within a certain distance from work.