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Get the best of WIRED in your inboxhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ac5add0154303a78b4726951ac5ad&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fnewsletter&c=16968846250937759723&mkt=en-usWIRED newsletters are an essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation.Nov 1, 2010 1:25 PM
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The Importance of a Good Organizational Structurehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8aefbe01fd4da88e425bb210a5a211&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2Fimportance-good-organizational-structure-3792.html&c=14454915868578262125&mkt=en-usBusinesses require structure to grow and be profitable, otherwise you'd have people pulling in all sorts of different directions. Planning the structure ensures there are enough human resources with ...Oct 21, 2010 10:35 PM
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Kanye West's Online Aesthetic Invasionhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a070bccbf4e569d68f6a53fb29f40&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhyperallergic.com%2Fkanye-west-online%2F&c=11264781105648271957&mkt=en-usYeah, so everyone knows Kanye West has invaded the internet since he got on Twitter, and he has been dropping songs every (GOOD) Friday. But the pop star’s presence online has done some funky things ...Oct 5, 2010 12:19 PM
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Kanye West's Online Aesthetic Invasionhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89e513210c4e71a890e201c858dd3c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhyperallergic.com%2Fkanye-west-online%2F&c=11264781105648271957&mkt=en-usYeah, so everyone knows Kanye West has invaded the internet since he got on Twitter, and he has been dropping songs every (GOOD) Friday. But the pop star’s presence online has done some funky things ...Oct 5, 2010 12:19 PM
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Transcript Requestshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88ea6d9e0642c8a794cc5db5e372c6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bates.edu%2Fregistrar%2Facademic-record%2Ftranscript-requests%2F&c=3108604821078488767&mkt=en-usWe have partnered with Parchment, Inc. to process transcript requests. Please click the link below, select “Ordering your own credentials or academic records” and follow the system prompts. Utilizing ...Aug 26, 2010 1:03 PM
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Ask HN: What is Gravity?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629794While watching a documentary that mentioned gravity (forgive me the particulars escape me at the moment) my 8yo son reached across my lap and tapped the space-bar pausing the video. He then turned toward me and asked, ‘what is gravity?’Now, in our house we require explanations for actions because we are becoming, sadly too late in life, convinced that being on purpose is paramount. Because it is our opinion that if you do not understand, even at the most base level (epistemological questions aside), why you are doing something then you will never have any power over what you do. When any of us does something that results in negative consequences we try to be in the habit of either tracing down the root of our reasoning or admitting that we had none.To this end we have made much of the distinction between description and explanation. Briefly; all explanations include description but not the reverse. When we ask one another for an explanation and instead receive only description it has bAug 24, 2010 2:04 PM
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Shean struggles, but will likely make cuthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a83c35d2848d7a8532ee9677c02c8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.golfdigest.com%2Fstory%2Fshean-struggles-but-will-likel&c=16943326826865215455&mkt=en-usSuch is the case with Kelli Shean a 22-year-old South African amateur who plays her golf out of the University of Arkansas. Shean won a ton of hearts with a one-under-par 70 on Thursday over a ...Jul 9, 2010 6:37 AM
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Low amateur shoots under parhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a83c35d2848d7a8532ee9677c02c8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.golfdigest.com%2Fstory%2Flow-amateur-shoots-under-par&c=14459427812181734065&mkt=en-us"I'm ecstatic to be here," said Shean. "I didn't expect to be here and I'm just really thankful." Shean, a rising senior at the University of Arkansas, shot a one-under 70, despite making bogey on her ...Jul 8, 2010 12:32 PM
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Camer, 78, ready to jump in the saddle at 46kghttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89803d802d4617aa2c2117c3d69be0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fsport%2Fracing%2Fcamer-78-ready-to-jump-in-the-saddle-at-46kg-20100610-y0fk.html&c=7920129916078366750&mkt=en-usYou have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. BILL CAMER, the former jockey with the secret of eternal youth, rode three of the greatest ...Jun 10, 2010 7:00 AM
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Recoupe your Windows PC after a major virus attackhttp://www.borntechie.com/entry/recoupe-your-windows-pc-after-a-major-virus-attack/A computer virus attack on your system can render it crippled in many functional areas, leaving you helpless with glitches galore. It can change your registry entries, change security settings, delete/modify Windows files/Start-up items or run processes in the background. This can affect the performance of your Windows PC, which makes it vulnerable to even more virus attacks and unsuspected problems.Feb 11, 2010 5:18 AM
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Remove Additional Guard (Uninstall Guide)http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a894f0dc60d4646b79cd8c3ddc0892c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bleepingcomputer.com%2Fvirus-removal%2Fremove-additional-guard&c=18413940036570698816&mkt=en-usThis method of creating the files that will be detected by the same program is becoming more and more common with rogues. They do this to substantiate the existence of supposed malware files even on ...Nov 23, 2009 4:00 PM
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Ask HN: Does changing locales to fix productivity doldrums work for you?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757407The article about the creative bliss of moving to an attractive, cheaper foreign environment to bootstrap a startup:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=756570... got me thinking on a somewhat tangential question: Does moving around to change your environment actually help you work? Or is it solving the wrong problem the wrong way?From a personal state-of-mind angle that the author is pushing, I guess I'm not entirely sold on the fact that a change of scenery will let a hundred flowers of creativity bloom - in a sustainable way - to an extent that confers upon a startup a meaningful economic advantage. The cost differences might, but I'm not so sure about the aesthetic/spiritual quality.I've moved around a lot in my 23 years. I emigrated from Russia with my parents when I was 6, and moved around the US several times during childhood. Within the last few years spent in Georgia, I've moved several times within the general area I inhabited, including twice within Atlanta. When I was young,Aug 12, 2009 5:53 AM
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Ask HN: What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=741895In a similar vein to http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html, I'm curious to hear the people's choice for memory pool/slab allocators. My question is a three-parter:1) Allocation size function: Do you allocate fixed size chunks of N objects at a time? Exponential increase in chunk size (I believe valgrind does this for its memchecker)? If exponential, do you also back off exponentially, or linearly? Something else?2) Used/free record keeping: Bitfield? Linked-list? Other?3) New allocations: realloc or array/linked list of pointers (I bet I know the answer to this one)?Some justification would be nice, if you've got the time.Aug 4, 2009 7:21 PM
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Lieutenant-Commander Max Sheanhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a83c35d2848d7a8532ee9677c02c8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fobituaries%2Fmilitary-obituaries%2Fnaval-obituaries%2F5580622%2FLieutenant-Commander-Max-Shean.html&c=14009419009508073778&mkt=en-usLieutenant-Commander Max Shean, who has died aged 90, was one of the small band of young men who, in the face of extraordinary peril, carried the sea war into enemy harbours; in the process they won a ...Jun 19, 2009 11:28 AM
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The SM Appliance Center lifestyle goes to Nagahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ad4e21d4342d496e6d93b264fccde&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.philstar.com%2Flifestyle%2Fshopping-guide%2F2009%2F05%2F01%2F462566%2Fsm-appliance-center-lifestyle-goes-naga&c=10590332239372473231&mkt=en-usMANILA, Philippines - With its wide selection of popular and quality appliance brands, SM Appliance Center is the ultimate destination for the latest home entertainment center, electronic gadgets, and ...Apr 30, 2009 5:00 PM
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On Buying Silicon Valleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500785Silicon Valley 2If one wishes to replicate the Valley's success and status as a startup hub one needs to mimic the ecosystem and support structures that have grown up around it, the angels, VC funds, (money) legal expertise, financial infrastructure (enabling infrastructure) and entrepreneurial culture (residual). The money and enabling infrastructure will accrete around the residual if it exists, quickly or slowly. Paul Graham has proposed that for US$30m-$100m this could probably be achieved in any US city fulfilling certain criteria, with greater or lesser likelihood of success dependent on the degree to which it fulfils them.The money can realistically come from three types of sources, governments of whatever level, private individuals, or corporate bodies, profit-oriented or not, or some combination of the three, acting in concert. Given the electoral dynamics they labour under it is unlikely that any politician or party in serious danger of being out of power 10 years after the fMar 2, 2009 11:29 PM
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From books, Obama found his voicehttp://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/19/arts/19read.php?page=1Obama has said that he wrote "very bad poetry" in college and his biographer David Mendell suggests that he once "harbored some thoughts of writing fiction as an avocation." For that matter, "Dreams From My Father" evinces an instinctive storytelling talent (which would later serve the author well on the campaign trail) and that odd combination of empathy and detachment gifted novelists possess. In that memoir, Obama seamlessly managed to convey points of view different from his own (a harbinger, perhaps, of his promises to bridge partisan divides and his ability to channel voters' hopes and dreams) while conjuring the many places he lived during his peripatetic childhood. He is at once the solitary outsider who learns to stop pressing his nose to the glass and the coolly omniscient observer providing us with a choral view of his past.Jan 20, 2009 9:04 AM
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Carbon Dioxide Detected on Exoplanet HD 189733bhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijwFBVV95cUxNRlhsTng0VDE2bHdTMEc4LXoxQ0ZmN3NteEtiaE5YQV9USlZNTmxHdUl1QS1wUmhsU1IzVWxPNWZCWkxiYzlyTF9uM3VveU14YUtadDlFUkNlODNHMEVZcUdYRWh1R3RlUmxsZGVjMlF1VVM4eWgyV2lCUUlLZi1mNFpkRmNnNWNEZUN1VnRsRQ?oc=5Carbon Dioxide Detected on Exoplanet HD 189733b Universe TodayDec 9, 2008 8:00 AM
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Ask HN: Do you think primarily in English?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387921Rather, do you think primarily in your native language, or more in terms of abstract imagery?I've noticed that rather than forming images in my head to represent ideas, I will instead often think in English. For example, if I'm working through a logic problem, I will repeat the various elements of the problem in my head in English repeatedly until I solve it.I'm unfortunately unilingual. English is the only human language I have ever learned. I've noticed that when I speak phrases in Spanish, I'm actually speaking English in my head. It's like a lookup table. By that I mean, let's say I want to communicate "How are you?". Rather than attempting to reason through this task in Spanish (by trying to communicate the individual elements "how", 'in what way', "are", 'your state of being', and "you" 'the person I am communicating with'), I try to remember the phrase in Spanish that corresponds to the ordered set of words "How are you?". So it is rote memorization -- I'm not thinking in SpanisDec 6, 2008 6:54 AM
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Trader Joe's Is Not Your Average Business (2002)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=340188One day a few years ago, a guy at a Boston financial firm called up Trader Joe's headquarters and said he'd like to tour a store with a group of visiting Japanese investors. The brass at Trader Joe's was blunt: "You can't come." Not "We'd rather you didn't," or "Please don't." The visit was officially forbidden.This led to a predictable go-round about it being a free country and all, and Trader Joe's finally said okay, okay, you can come, but you don't get a tour. And as the investment company guy tells it, the tension in the air during the visit was thick enough to cut with a machete.Well, you probably can't blame the folk at Trader Joe's. They've got a phenomenal thing going, and don't want to give it all away. Some observers think that sales per square foot at Trader Joe's are hovering at about $1,000 -- twice the level of typical supermarkets. And with between about 70% to 85% of its products being private label (depending on who you ask), Trader Joe's has reached a benchmark otherOct 22, 2008 4:19 PM
