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Well look, no one has seen negative mass objects (as far as we know). All he's saying is that this is one way to fix the F = ma equation to deal with negative mass.

I agree that the burden of proof is on him or anyone who wants to run with the idea, but for now its just being proposed as neat, possible idea.

You're reading a speculative blog entry as if it were a rigorous scientific paper and then claiming that he hasn't done the science.
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How much web video do you watch on your phone?

If you're going to pay $10 for a full-length movie, then the H.264 licensing cost is worth it to not have to recharge your phone on the flight. But if you are watching kitteh videos on Youtube, the freedom from cost is worth the tiny additional power draw. Are you really going to watch cat videos for 5 hours?
The point about leaving stuff out is very important.

When I was co-authoring Pro VB 6 & XML I was always coming across topics that could be books in themselves. Database details, designing COM objects, stuff like that.

I hated the idea that a chapter would leave the reader n limbo over some key aspect, but also didn't want to book to be even larger than it was likely to be, and explaining stuff can get hard.

So there were lots of places where I simply had to point and refer the reader to some other book or resource. There's not much you can do about that other than try to be mindful of when it is the right choice.
Why does the cellphone market need to be so much different?

Because Microsoft is making money selling software and commoditizing hardware, while Google sees both software and hardware as a compliment to their business (and so, gives software away for free (hardware is commoditized enough)). By comparison, Apple is trying to make profit off markup in precisely those areas: hardware + software.

In short, the numbers are very different. While laptops are now split nicely at $1000 (<1000 - mostly PC's, >1000 - mostly Macs), what we're talking about is devices Apple wants to sell for $700 soon costing less than half of that for similar "Android" manufacturers. I forget the marketing-speak explaining this, but that gap is a big problem.

In summary, Google wants a world where both hardware and software are a commodity. For Apple, this is bad, bad, bad, as that's precisely the market they're trying to make their markup.
I think @hristov is referring to the cells eventually not being able to perform their function... as a result of friction (or something else) eventually making each cell less effective.

Or at least, that was my first thought.
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Do you mean that reading in html (data with formatting mixed in) is preferable to reading JSON or XML? AJAX / AJAJ? What I am trying to say is I think eval(JSON) or parsing XML is > scraping HTML.
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A favorite of mine not on this list is They Might Be Giants' "Why Does the Sun Shine?"

Here are the lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Why-Does-the-Sun-Shin...
There's still background radiation.

That the telomere doesn't shorten basically means the DNA doesn't "age"; cells don't become more likely to mutate after X duplications begin to damage the code, like ours do.
This is the first lucid release that I've been able to install under vmware fusion (without using the "easy install option") that actually boots.

I've already upgraded (sudo do-release-upgrade -d) one box from 8.04 LTS to this beta successfully (serverbeach). One VPS from (prgmr.com) has a dependency cycle with libplymouth2 and/or mountall and won't upgrade - but other than that this beta looks ok so far.
While I can't disagree with your idea of aesthetics, I would argue that Apple's entire product line is not about an aesthetic sense as much as a design imperative. In promotional interviews for products (iPad, recent iMacs) you'll find Ives repeatedly mentioning how many unnecessary elements he and his team have _removed_ from products. This seems to be the ideal from which their industrial design team works. Cf. Steve Jobs quote:

“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

That quote was curated by Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/03/20/design-is-how-it...
Yeah, I think there are a few animals like that. So while it's not likely the only "immortal" animal, this jellyfish does definitely seem to have a unique kind of immortality.
I think http://www.netmba.com is a good place to start
good rule of thumb is that you can ignore anyone who espouses any variant of "just-prices". these people don't understand basic economics.
An oldie but a classic - http://content.flashtrackz.com/games/files/internetkilledthe...
A single animal is not a self-contained system.
6 months of intense, hectic, and hard unpaid work? You'd learn more by spending 6 months on your first software or web startup for probably roughly the same cost. If you make no money, you'll still learn a ridiculous amount of stuff in those 6 months.
This is quite epic for quantum mechanics. Prior to this, something 30 micrometers was usually considered unbelievably massive to apply quantum principles to.

Dare I say I smell quantum-mechanic mechanical experiments soon? How about gears that rotate and don't? I also wonder if this could be the basis for a relatively easy way to make a quantum computer.

edit: another article [1] and the data's original article [2] (behind a paywall). By the article's abstract, it sounds like they measure the state of the drum with a quantum bit "coupled" to its state. Don't ask me how that works, though.

[1]: http://worldofweirdthings.com/2010/03/18/rethinking-quantum-...

[2]: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
Seems like the kind of thing that is okay to repost, at least once in a while. Its not really "breaking news."
I would kindly suggest "The Presidents" by Jonathan Coulton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdUUywIsIGI
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Relevant scripture:

Therefore, if it were possible that you could have just men to be your kings, who would establish the laws of God, and judge this people according to his commandments [...] if this could always be the case then it would be expedient that ye should always have kings to rule over you.
16 Now I say unto you, that because all men are not just it is not expedient that ye should have a king or kings to rule over you.
17 For behold, how much iniquity doth one wicked king cause to be committed, yea, and what great destruction!

http://scriptures.lds.org/mosiah/29
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People come up with much worse ideas on their own. If they didn't, we wouldn't even need a criminal justice system.
Writing a proper SC or Capp app is easiest if you're working against a fleshed out set of APIs. Then the web app is just another data consumer, like an iPhone app. If anything I see this pushing more web sites to release solid JSON or XML based web services, not fewer.
To be fair, "Science experiment to disprove hypothesis disproves hypothesis," is a less exciting title.
Booya, Spokane / Coeur D'Alene is famous for something!

(i grew up there, wooo trips to Canada!)
Seems like many people do their best to get out of jury duty, and the ones that are willing can expect to be cut for being conscientious. The balance is tilted against the existence of an activist jury in any but the cases of the wealthy and famous. Those might manage to jolt some life into an otherwise orderly farce. Not that these jolts are positive, just unusually vigorous. Democracy is participation, Orwell might as well have retorted, some get to participate more than others.
This is awesome, hadn't heard about this before.

So it sends data to your server asynchronously in the background? So you write it in Ruby or something like that, and it compiles to js for you?

This could be huge.
A good friend of mine was blessed by her parents with three middle names and the last names of both parents. Her parents divorced and her mother remarried, adding another last name. In 2008 she married and added her husband's last name.

Her full legal name (in first-middle-middle-middle-last-last-last-last form) no longer fits into any database known to man, nor even on her driver's license, and is a consistent source of amusement.
Practical implementations of the algorithm, or are you thinking that this would require a change in the cloud computing platform (which it shouldn't, which is part of why it's cool)?

If it's the former, that's what the article is about. The blogger is going to be building the algorithm described in the second paper.
Very cool, I'm definitely "staying tuned" on this, as I don't believe it would require any change to the actual computational software. Immediate, effective encryption for cloud computing, regardless of the platform? Sign me up.

The article he's basing the work on is rather simple, though I haven't given it a hard deconstruction. An encryption / decryption algorithm research article that also includes derivation and proofs, in 25 pages? That's downright easy compared to many I've seen.
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Broken could also be correct if it was a "law" currently in effect universally and only the high energy of the event lead to its violation i.e the physicists using high energies managed to circumvent something that usually holds true.
Suppose the one in a billion number is right. But that thing has to have at least several billion cells. So each transformation will ensure that there are several cells that go wrong.

I mean people live a limited time and do not have to have their cells do these complex transformations, yet a large part of us still manage to get cancer before we die.

Also, I do not believe that stuff about mutations being just as likely to be good. If you have a complex organism any change is far more likely to be detrimental than positive. When you hit your watch with hammer, it is very unlikely you will get a better watch. It is much more likely you will get a broken watch.
I do not think the poor are made out to be stupid in the article, moreso it perhaps contains in it the American poverty experience: among Western countries, poverty in the U.S. is quite unique particularly in the form of long-term predation and lack of any social support structures. Poverty in the UK is not necessarily any less entrenched, but it is still a different beast.

> If you can employ a qualified, capable worker for minimum wage (and right now, this is easy), why would you employ someone who is "poor"?

Indeed, I do not think "reasonable wages" necessarily translates to "minimum wage" which - in the U.S. and many other places - is not actually sufficient. But that statement was specifically counterpoint to the recently fashionable (and in some ways very good) microfinancing movement and other forms of entrepreneurship.

To nevertheless answer the question to convince someone espousing a liberal[1] perspective: because it creates more consumers for your products. A minimum wage job does not as a rule require highly skilled employees so that a newcomer can generally become proficient within 6 months, usually less.

[1] In the sense of the actual meaning of the word.
But "unit tests per line" is a good metric. Why? Because programmers (well, at least I) hate writing unit tests. If you have a high unit-tests-per-line ratio, then writing one fewer line of code will let you avoid writing several lines of unit tests.

The easiest way to bump your unit-tests-per-line metric is to delete lines of code. That's a positive thing, in my book.
And then...
A moment of Zen..
He/she realizes - the real programming is lack of it...
And buys FPGA board.
Overfishing is the culprit here. With less fish in the seas jellyfish - immortal and regular - can procreate much more easily, and have access to more food. Here's a relevant article: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/273850

I am surprised the tourism lobbies are not fighting the fishing lobbies on that one.
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Easter egg by Google I guess...
Kind'a one the had - trip between Boston and London or so.
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Prior to December 2009, for about 3 years I found life increasingly difficult.

Maybe it was my working full-time, doing my MBA full-time (please don't hate on the MBA), going through nine months of pregnancy with my wife and transitioning to new dad, dealing with health care bills and unexpected expenses associated with new child, no pay raises because I was working for a startup, etc.

So I had to do something about it. I moved back home immediately after graduating in December 2009. Still earning the same salary (in USD) but living in a developing country, so standard of living is much higher and am loving the flexibility of pacing myself, from a work perspective - while working on side projects (both web and non-web)- living a higher quality life and not feeling like I am on the brink of bankruptcy due to healthcare costs is EXTREMELY liberating.

I spend more time with my wife and my son, and life is generally much better.

Not to mention school is finished so I can truly work on the projects I want to work on.
Bubonic plague, perhaps?

..or perhaps not.
No, the opposing viewpoint to "more abstractions" is "better abstractions". ;-)

There are a surprisingly large number of programmers who learn "Oh yay, I can use abstractions to simplify this bit of code" and then turn that into "I think I'll make abstractions out of every bit of code". I was once one of them. In the process, they turn something that could've been a simple program, one that you could fit into your head, into an Enterprise Behemoth that you can't modify without implementing a half dozen interfaces and touching 30 files.

There's a cost to abstraction - it's (usually) extra code, it makes it harder to follow the logic of the program, and it makes your program less flexible in directions other than the intended use. So don't do it unless it actually gains you something in simpler code. Programs can become spaghetti-like through IFactoryFactories just as easily as they can become spaghetti-like through switch statements.

Also on Hacker News at the moment and fairly relevant:

http://coderoom.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/5-stages-of-program...
i've also heard it worded that they would not even /hire/ from each other, not just recruit from each other.
Excellent article. Worth reading for this quote alone:

"I suspect his motivation was not so much to understand the world as it was to find new ideas to explain. The act of discovery was not complete for him until he had taught it to someone else."
Politics can be - should be - more complex than "left" or "right". The article is also not talking about poor Americans.

If one is trying to maximize profits, yes, hiring the cheapest available labour is a good idea. But there are several other pressures than maximizing profits.

"Corporate Social Responsibility" is now part of almost every corporation's "mission statement" or similar documents; of course, profits/shareholder value are still far more important, but in any company there are a few people that actually mean it.

Of course, there are also governments. The weaker governments tend to bend over for the corporations that want to come to their country. But we can also consider, say, the government of India.

Finally, there are the people, corporations and government that donate some form of resources to help the really poor; convincing these groups that something does or does not work also influences the eventual result.
No, but I'd also prefer my five minute cat video to not eat ten percent of my iPhone's battery. To me, the extra freedom is not worth the extra battery, even if it only quadruples my usage while watching video.

Anyway, it's a moot point. H.264 has "won" in the sense that if HTML5 video happens, most of it will probably be available in that format. The battle was, in my opinion, basically decided when YouTube led with H.264 in their HTML5 experiment. What Mozilla does at this point is relevant only to people who might want to both watch HTML5 video and use Firefox (i.e. they may not be able to do both depending on Mozilla's choice, and on whether a dual-content model is feasible and desirable for most web developers -- hint: probably not).

This is not that big of a deal. There are at least two other no-cost browsers on the important operating systems that will support HTML5 video, three on Windows.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/PADD

Yes, a very good name.
ha that is so me: Distinguishing code features: Only writes in dynamically-typed languages with a strong functional component. At first glance her code looks remarkably similar to the newbie’s, except there’s less of it and the variable names make sense.
I always appreciate active customer support/outreach like this. Keep up the awesome work
But unless I missed something, amnesia doesn't have anything to do with the subject. In this case you don't forget what you did 10 minutes ago; you forget what you did 80 years ago (which I suppose most people do anyway).
Ah, I knew I was going to regret saying that - I was in a bit of a hurry :-)

But I do think many of the premium models are horrendously overpriced. For me the MDRs hit the magic intersection of fidelity, exterior noise suppression, and durability. They're the only phones that give me the same sound I was hearing before I put them on - YMMV. I just don't like the first two you mention for reasons of fidelity and build quality respectively, and feel the Grados are more of an luxury product than one for engineers.

The Ultimate Ears are a very different proposition. They're fantastic in-ear monitors, without a doubt, but custom-fitted pieces like that seemed way outside the scope of the question. Although they make total sense for people on stage, I don't really like putting things into my ear canal. Plus, I have an unscientific hunch that I'm used to the sound of my own pinnae and bypassing them inclines me to do unecessary EQ.

By the way, I use micropore regularly, but it seems to leave adhesive residue on a lot of people's skin. Do you know a better brand than 3m? I hadn't realized OP was looking for something compact he could sleep with...I have no ideas for that. I don't think I've used a pair of earbuds since sometime in the mid-90s.
Why are you filtering any characters out?
>Google is doing an amazing job on both fronts. If the iPhone didn't exist, Android would be the clear leader in this market.

What market? Nor iPhone nor Android are the leaders of any market, either separated or combined. Add the marketshare of iPhone and Android together and you (almost) get RIM's marketshare. Double that and you get Nokia's minus a few percent.

Enthusiasm is generally an alright thing to have, but the enthusiasm of Android fans was always unrealistic and it's becoming off-putting.
I've always found the mobile hardware argument a bit strange. I've never watched any full-length movies on my smartphone, the screen is simply too small to be comfortable. I might watch short Youtube videos once in a while but does it really drain the battery significantly if 3 minutes of video is not hardware accelerated? I find that hard to believe, especially considering that Wifi and 3G already drain tons of battery.

I'd rather watch full-length movies on my laptop, which has a programmable GPU meaning that it's possible for someone to make a hardware accelerated Theora decoder.
Quite simply (IMO):

Youtube + iPhone = win for h.264.

Hardware decoders are an extra bonus, and h.264 is definitely superior quality-wise to theora. Given all that, Firefox without h.264 is likely to lose significant ground to Chrome for that reason alone.
You'll love what Alan Kay has been working on: http://vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf

You'll be especially enamored of their 200-line TCP/IP implementation, introduced on p17 and reproduced with documentation starting on p44. It's implemented as a grammar in their meta-language that parses the ASCII-art diagrams in the RFCs and executes them.
>The future of media consumption (well, at least music consumption) is from streaming services,

What a sad future that would be, an extension of moving your data in the cloud.
Great! I posted that hoping that there would be a solution. I've looked around delauyed job trying to find some scheduling funciton but I didn't look close enough it seems. Thanx!
There's a chapter in Hillis' thesis on it (which this re-posting has just prompted me to finally read):
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14719
More generally, poor people “could easily save more without getting less nutrition by spending less on alcohol, tobacco, and food items such as sugar, spice, and tea,” Banerjee and Duflo conclude. For example, the typical poor household in Udaipur could spend up to 30 percent more on food if it did not spend money on alcohol, tobacco, and festivals.

Consuming alcohol and tobacco not only takes money away from a family’s nutrition, but also sets off a cascade of other problems that poor people more frequently encounter. Alcohol abuse, for instance, reduces work performance while increasing accidents, domestic violence, and illness. Because many indigent people earn their livelihoods through physical labor, falling ill means not earning money.

A small problem with their theory: Every last item they list has medicinal purposes. It's possible (and in my opinion very likely) that alcohol, tobacco, spices and tea are being used by "the poor" to self-medicate. For example, alcohol kills germs and poor people often live in filth. How do we know that their situation wouldn't be worse without it? If you want them to stop drinking, you would need to resolve the underlying reasons motivating them to drink -- which may well be rooted in "poverty" but it isn't necessarily rooted in lack of money per se.

Financial problems grow out of real problems. Resolve the underlying real problems and the financial problems tend to clear up on their own, or at least improve. Articles like this focus too much on money per se and too little on the real problems -- the problems which would still be harming these people and lowering their quality of life even if we lived in a Star Trek universe where money no longer existed.
Ask HN: Are you trying to steal my contacts?
When I tried to login to HN, I was offered to login using OpenID, via some site called ClickPass, and when I tried to login using my Google account's OpenID, there was a warning, all what ClickPass wanted was to access my contacts, rather than just granting a login access.
Here's the prompt:

The site www.clickpass.com is requesting access to your Google Account for the product(s) listed below.
Google Contacts - http://www.google.com/m8/feeds

Any info?
If you've got an iPhone? Probably a fair amount.

But consider that the battery argument holds for every battery-powered device. Laptops, the iPad / iPhone, and even (to get nitpicky) your electrical bill. It likely also will extend to future gaming handhelds, likely to have a hardware decoder (and why not use h.264? high quality and small size) and run on batteries. The market that is effected is (if not now, likely to be soon) in the hundreds of millions of people, with many many hours each.

I'll be incredibly conservative, and say "a billion hours". Might that be worth reducing power use?