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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
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The Colposcopic Examinationhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b3a1aa46443ec9bfc3e1e38a66ecf&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.medscape.com%2Fviewarticle%2F579947&c=1355430614376293376&mkt=en-usColposcopy is used to evaluate women with genital tract abnormalities and abnormal cervical cytology. It is an office-based procedure during which the cervix is examined under illumination and ...Oct 5, 2008 5:00 PM
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What's the Weather Like on Extrasolar Planet HD 189733b?https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimAFBVV95cUxNS2FJaXB2UlVadTE2MTgxOXptVlZ4a09lQ1I4VkZaQUR6ZmtINURCNzBJSDRMVVZ4SjBRSFUxZFI5WHV6WDBlT1l6YjNPdHg5RDV6U1VyQldnNEJhSnd1NmtUczhKSnNDRWxmUUI5RVgzWWE4UzYyODIxbDBORnBjMUlEYm1HN1o2NVJGS1ZvX3VlNlZjTG1rYg?oc=5What's the Weather Like on Extrasolar Planet HD 189733b? Universe TodayJul 15, 2008 7:00 AM
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Torrentspy shutdownhttp://www.torrentspy.com/Friends of TorrentSpy,We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the Torrentspy.com search engine to an end and thus we permanently closed down worldwide on March 24, 2008.The legal climate in the USA for copyright, privacy of search requests, and links to torrent files in search results is simply too hostile. We spent the last two years, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, defending the rights of our users and ourselves.Ultimately the Court demanded actions that in our view were inconsistent with our privacy policy, traditional court rules, and International law; therefore, we now feel compelled to provide the ultimate method of privacy protection for our users - permanent shutdown.It was a wild ride,The TorrentSpy Team"Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the lMar 29, 2008 11:35 PM
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For Skybus, High Load Factor Doesn't Mean Successhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8974bd3c44472498d6b18535888b61&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Ffor-skybus-high-load-factor-doesnt-mean-success%2F&c=12739700572773140322&mkt=en-usThe December DOT data is now in, and though I haven't had a lot of time to poke through the data yet, I have found a couple interesting things. For today, let's focus on Columbus-based Skybus. Even ...Mar 18, 2008 3:04 PM
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Copthorne's gone but not forgottenhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a53f0d38b4347b715972af1ee20e8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coventrytelegraph.net%2Flifestyle%2Fnostalgia%2Fcopthornes-gone-but-not-forgotten-3101667&c=12394211851712656123&mkt=en-usPAUL BUTTLE is so fond of his old school that he has created a web-site to preserve the memories. Paul, who now lives in the Lake District, was a pupil at Copthorne School between 1958 and 1963. The ...Feb 19, 2008 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ce8cc0ab40399733a19af0b368e9&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e596e418479499af102e02a8d136&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e3ccec5f4e93a9fe0de00553dc76&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d5247cad4cfeb04bb1e47f93d984&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e05afcd14616a41907412174d7a9&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85c8a506664f38bc8cd194c98d2a5f&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d28d21554ed8849ececfade62954&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ce50bb964b06971fddf7763c59b7&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d5a53463409e8ddf79b3233acc7d&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d0d3b8154c139b66a1c0f95509b3&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d2b109d441dc906685d9b64d59bf&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Sayshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85df1b24b9403c9f555e077f61ce2d&url=https%3a%2f%2fgizmodo.com%2flight-emitting-wallpaper-does-just-what-it-says-292565&c=7705361374458473901&mkt=en-usI can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea ...Aug 23, 2007 4:12 AM
