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Q. What do you get if you integrate a meromorphic function around Europe?

A. Zero, because there are no Poles! Okay, there are Poles, but they're removable.
"Criminal" is a term that only applies if you are caught.
Hire someone to do it..
Ask HN: Leaving a company I recently joined?
Less than a year ago, I was hired as a software programmer at a high-tech company which you've heard of. I find the work very interesting, it pays well, and I very much enjoy it.

I've recently been approached by another high-tech company which you've also heard of about the possibility of working there instead. While the talks are at a very early stage, I might find this position more attractive in a number of ways.

I wonder, however, about the questions of ethics and loyalty in leaving so soon a company that has invested in me, not to mention the effects it could have on my friendships with current coworkers, and the future impact on my career.

Your feedback is appreciated.
The fonts are what interest me too. Not just the licensing, though (that never stopped YouTube with its videos - at least not for a few years!) but with having to convert a myriad of fonts embedded in documents into SVG fonts (otherwise they won't work on the iPad).. that's no mean feat.
If I hadn't known that that was the product, I'm not sure I'd have figured out even that much.
fb chat is slow - I usually log in and then ask my friends to move over to YM or Skype - not a lot of chat logs for me ...
Cut down on the image size. Granted, I'm currently in Malaysia on holiday (which explains the bad Internet speeds), but the image is taking an incredibly long time to load. You might want to open Photoshop and adjust the number of colours in the image, amongst other things.
Let's face it, flipping the script to make net neutrality happen is just sneaky. I know this Congress is fairly vitriolic right now, but this is like the bureaucratic equivalent of Apple vs. Flash, with some judge somewhere ready to pull out a "thoughts on net neutrality" card on these jokers.

If you're gonna do it, FCC, do it the right way.
Apparently Google doesn't want people to waste money on ineffective commercials.

This actually is a good fit with Google's advertising policy elsewhere. The idea being that the more useful ads are to users, the more likely it is that users are willing to pay attention to them.
Because you can re-define the problem by assuming P finishes if and only if it does not encounter a paradox. It's not hard to see it as possible, as we're already assuming P exists and finishes: allowing it more flexibility should only make it more likely to exist.

And now P is a nonsolution to the original problem (the halting problem). The original problem was to come up with a program that always decides whether its input program halts. We already can build programs that identify the programs which halt and say nothing about programs that don't -- this is a trivial extension to any working interpreter for the language in question.
True, if I didn't know it was about CouchDB before watching and didn't know what CouchDB was, I probably would still not know afterwards.
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Doesn't scribed use erlang?
For what finite number of steps can we watch the program and know afterwards that it will never halt in the future?
Nice Tip for Google Tasks on the iPad
For anyone who makes great use of Google Tasks (that's me) and who hasn't found an easy way to access their tasks on their iPad (me again) I have just found a nice work-around to this problem.

Instead of using the regular, full-screen Canvas view (https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas) use the Android optimized version: https://mail.google.com/tasks/android

It may be a little funny that the Google Tasks Android version works best on the iPad. Or it's not funny. I hope you find the tip helpful and useful.
money does strange things to people. couldn't agree with you more though.
I called it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320269
I took a look at it again today and it had been seriously reworked (no more outline layout, revised copy), but the last-revised date hadn't changed. Color me annoyed, but not surprised.
Memristors are completely powered off when not accessed, making heat scale entirely with access speed, not chip size.

Also, memristors are not stacked, they are deposited on a surface a layer at a time. This is a meaningful difference -- stacked chips are much harder to manufacture, and have much worse thermal conductivity than what is essentially a solid chunk of TiO2.
What if we are equivalent to a program? Then a program can be made to detect paradoxes.

It has not been shown that all paradoxes are human-detectable.
if they wanted good PR, they totally screwed it up.
Thanks for the link, I love coming across great poetry.
omg, how it is possible? but now it has been fixed by facebook developers. but really good finding

http://welcome-to-croatia.com/accommodation-in-croatia/map-s...
Interesting sidebar to this: Apple had completely cut Gizmodo out of prerelease iPad access. In fact, the snub came literally as Gizmodo editor Brian Lam was already on a plane to meet with Apple on it:

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-screws-top-gadget-blogs...

While I'm not certain Gizmodo wouldn't have still bought the unit given the way Nick Denton has talked up checkbook journalism the last few years, I do think that the fact that Apple had already cut off all access gave them little incentive not to publish. After all, tech blogging is pretty much an access-reliant venue.

Their great miscalculation there is clearly that they weren't expecting Apple to play legal hardball to the extent that they have.
What you say may be true, but that doesn't mean that the FCC isn't a one stop shop for lobbying groups who wish to censor speech.

Imagine how HTML6 adoption will be blocked because the FCC will want to get its burocratic oomph into a spec that requires webmasters to specify whether a site is G, PG, PG13, NC17, etc.

Just google for Michael Powell quotes and you'll see that the FCC should be feared.
Mythbusters actually tested this out, using their own fingers no less. Was definitely a cool thing to see.
I don't know the answer to your question, but consider this: if you stay out of loyalty, would you be able to happily continue working knowing that you passed up a potentially better opportunity, or would it affect your morale?
The FCC should be renamed the NSP (nipple slip police).
MD/PhDs doing a startup?! You should be on HackerMed.com!
As an ad, it was uninformative and not persuasive. The quality was that of a local access cable commercial.

But I suggest you take the feedback from Google and others and use that to inform the next iteration. It can only get better! ;)
Nah, just save as jpg, not png. That normally leads to ugly artifacts with text but since this text is white on black you don’t get them (unless you pick a really low quality). Gets you a nicer looking earth and probably a even smaller file.
That the subject is remarkably evidence-free reflects on the evolution of computing technology that's cascaded all the way up to the way we program at the highest level. We're so adept at noticing the differences between static typing and dynamic typing, but evaluating them much more objectively inside the entire computing environment context is like comparing two heaps of random trash and trying to decide which pile makes the best art piece.

How is that for an evidence-free assessment? :)
I think you're approaching this the wrong way. Without a contract, the company you work for doesn't care about you the person, only you the worker. You can take what advantages the other company is offering and go to your boss/bosses boss/etc. and go "Listen, I've received X offer, and I'm considering it because of Y, Z, A and B, is there anything you can do to meet these?" If you make it obvious that it's not that you dislike your current job, but that the other one looks nicer, it can play to your advantage for ended up in a better position where you're at, or going to the new place. Just don't tell them the company specifically unless it becomes necessary. And only give details in the parts you care about.
The Times Square bomb was reported by a bystander who was on guard (certainly in part) because the media has effectively kept the terrorist threat fresh in our minds.

He noticed that a car was filling up with smoke. Even if had never heard of terrorism before, he still would have called the police because that's what people do when they notice a fire nearby.

pretending like the problem doesn't exist hardly seems like the answer either.

There are 300,000,000 people in the US. On any given day, tens of thousands of them will notice something that looks like terrorism to them. On almost every day of the year, every single one of those tens of thousands of people will be wrong. Completely and totally wrong. As a result, those people will become extremely anxious and will cause law enforcement to waste time and hassle innocent people needlessly.

We need to face facts: the vast majority of people are completely incapable of distinguishing terrorist activity so what they report as suspicious is often nothing but an artifact of their own prejudice. Terrorism has become an excuse to systematically harass out groups. And in the process, we are all made less safe because the police have to investigate these stupid incidents instead of focusing on real crimes.
Wow compare that to Chicago alone which had 382[1] firearm homicides in 2006.

[1] 467 Homicides [2] * 81.8% involved firearms [3]

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago

[3] http://www.examiner.com/x-2879-Austin-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2...
In general people other than Jason Calacanis understand and accept that these things happen, and are unlikely to take it personally. However if you have a trend of jumping, some employers won't like it.

But if you're particularly concerned, then I'd suggest telling the new company that while you're tempted by the offer, you feel you have more to accomplish more at your current job before you're ready to leave. Then ask them to check in with you again in several months.

Odds are that they will either sweeten their offer, or else schedule a reminder to contact you again in a few months. Once large companies find a prospect they want, the odds of just forgetting about you are fairly low. Smaller companies are more liable to do that simply because they fill the position they wanted you for, and then they don't have any appropriate openings. But big companies usually have a variety of reasonably openings available at any time. (Unless you are very senior indeed, which I doubt you are.)
>What enables anesthetics such as xenon or isoflurane gas to switch off the conscious mind? Hameroff speculates that anesthetics “interrupt a delicate quantum process” within the neurons of the brain.

Pet peeve: We don't know that anything interrupts consciousness at all. We experience a lack of memory, we never experience non-consciousness. Nor do we currently know what to look for in others. We can observe a lack of normal activity, and maybe various brain regions shutting down, but we don't have any way to map that to experience itself.

Also:http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/
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I definitely clocked a lot of hours on Magrathea MUD back in 2003-ish on my 486 over dialup. Ah, memories!
After we kill Zarqawi, what then? Do you think AQ just disappears into a puff of smoke?

Historically speaking, targeted leadership strikes have not been terribly effective at stopping terrorist movements. You kill leaders and more arise. You kill those and yet more take their place.
I think it "might" make you a LOT of money if you can find a good enough hook to market to the big retailers, and also find a way to give a desirable kickback of some sort to the recommender to spend time using it.

My thought is a big retailer like Amazon might say, just a "Friends Button"? What makes your service unique enough that for instance Amazon won’t just put in their own "Friends Button"? How will you convince a retailer like Amazon to use your "Friends Button" service? What is the benefit to Amazon to use you for this service vs. doing it in-house?

Still though, I think that if you have a good enough business proposition to offer the retailers, this service could make you a LOT of money.
Well... you kind-of do. Once something like DVD-Decrypter or Handbrake comes out for your format (making ripping a one click affair) then the casuals might start figuring it out... that's why they adapt.
I definitely heard the term "database", so I think I'd know that much.
Oy, JPG is a shit choice for anything with graphics or text (as does this) — perhaps just the earth as JPG would work, or simply compressing the PNG a bit more (reduce the palette).
Certainly not with that attitude! ;)
Important note. The order of events that you presented matters a lot. Going to your present employer before accepting communicates the fact that you don't actually want to leave. By contrast if you say you're leaving then they counter-offer, they are doing it out of desperation but with full knowledge that they need to replace you as fast as possible because you are dissatisfied and are therefore likely to leave eventually anyways.

The rule of thumb is to never, ever take a counter-offer. But negotiating for one up front can sometimes work well.
Sailing into the wind, or faster than the wind
"Warner Brothers had acquired the live-action rights for "Robotech," which is being developed by Tobey Maguire's production company.
Where is the petition I need to sign to not let Tobey McGuire play Rick Hunter
The best part of the article is the description of how after he had successfully dipped his entire wet hand into the lead without being burnt, he had to prove that it was really film boiling that protected his hand. By touching the molten lead with a dry finger. Knowing full well he was going to be badly burnt.

A true scientist.
The problem is obtaining this evidence is really hard. So many considerations are involved during the coding of a non-trivial system. It's hard to isolate all factors involved. I remember code complete presenting some evidence that 100-200 line functions are the best size but how true is that really? What consideration does language have on that? Most people these days would see that functions that size as way too long.
Thanks for sharing Aidan...the spreadsheet is particularly useful now that you've moved all the adjustable variables into one place!
No, "convicted criminal" is a term that only applies if you are caught.
The Silmarillion is one of the most fantastic pieces of fiction I've ever read, in part because it is not written like a novel. It's mythology; terse and far-reaching and all around brilliant--I think some of the reason is because nobody writes this sort of thing anymore. It's like reading the Prose Eddas, and it feels very powerful.
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I didn't even hear CouchDB. I just heard mumbles.
I especially wouldn't feel guilty if i was headhunted rather than went job searching.
Also: what's your skillset for you to be in such high demand? I need to get in on that!
I work with my hands and I love it. Not only do I code, but during the day, I am renovating my house, shoveling horse manure into my garden, and caring for a flock of 9 chickens.

No one around me understands what I'm doing on the internet or what all these keystrokes mean. When they see a chicken coop I built, my beautiful tomatoes or home that looks 100x better than before I started on it, I get to see a look of appreciation for that work on their face.

Programming is abstract and the appreciation of it is only a surface level appreciation because they only see what's on the web page, not all the nuts, bolts, and pipes that make it work.

It sounds vain to want that appreciation, but I do. I spend thousands and thousands of hours building an elaborate web system, lots of them actually, and I barely get a smile. People don't even know what it is. How can they appreciate it?

When I work with my hands, I spend a couple hours painting a room and people are like, "Wow! That looks SOOOO much better!" Or "Did you build those chicken pens yourself? You should do that for a living, people will pay good money for pens like that!"
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Surely the ability to be nasty and get away with it encourages nastiness by removing the negative reinforcement towards being "nice", thus making society nastier?
I suspect that educational institutions favor the entrepreneurial spirit, and I say this because I can attribute my post-college success to (a) having standardized test scores and grades that fall within the tolerated range, and (b) having an analytically-oriented website that I take seriously. In other words, they won't reject me due to scores or grades, and then the website ends up being the hook that gets me in.

I suspect that very few applicants have a clearly articulated entrepreneurial drive by the time they apply to college. They may well have that drive, but until they can articulate it or, better yet, create a product or service to demonstrate it, they may have a hard time making that a key part of their college application. Also, I do think that the start-up spirit will be strong in some people (and this will tend to run in peer groups due to network effect).

If you believe that people often like to start by 'scratching their own itch', then you may well see a phenomenon where young creative people produce things that educational institutions might not like too much. Let's say you chat on AIM all day long, so you create an AIM profile website or, more adventurously, an AIM exploit. For you this may be technically engaging and challenging, requiring plenty of on-the-fly learning. Let's say your tool becomes popular, and the ad revenue from your site nets you some nice income. Great! But will you feel like you can tell colleges about your tool? Maybe not, if, upon reflection, you feel that it's too childish or too unsavory.
YouTube - DAN the MAN
Late to the party but, but just one suggestion: Aerial Boundaries by the late Michael Hedges - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaIN13aDbCc

Pretty much anything by him is superb IMO.
I'm wondering what's the point of the guitar and hoopla? If they are trying to promote CouchDB, I would hope (dear God, I would hope) developers would choose databases based on technical merits and not image. I think image-based advertising would go better for soft drinks and such. Are they trying to go viral by hitting the delicate sweet spot of so-bad-its-good?
Very interesting read. The final part is a bit of a stretch:

I have long argued that degree-granting programs should employ "fire-walking" as a last exam. The chair-person of the program should wait on the far side of a bed of red-hot coals while a degree candidate is forced to walk over the coals. If the candidate's belief in physics is strong enough that the feet are left undamaged, the chairperson
hands the candidate a graduation certificate. The test would
be more revealing than traditional final exams.

I think it should actually reveal the candidate's belief in his/her knowledge of physics, rather than his/her belief in physics.
Flash performance varies widely. Flash on Mac OSX is generally regarded as terrible, while Flash on Windows isn't as bad.
I love StackOverflow, ServerFault etc, so i hope that the investment helps them to grow rapidly. StackOverflow has saved my life on many occasions.

I hope they spend significant time on evolving the Stack Exchange UI away from the parent sites. I can't help feeling 'oh here's another one' every time i come across a SE powered site.
Discard immediately any shard of confidence you have that your employer might possibly be loyal to its employees. Look out for your self and your family. Basically: think with your heart. It sounds like the decision's been made. And damn the folks who think job hoppers suck. This future employer obviously thinks you're good to go. So will the next, if they approach you or are willing to talk. The whole "job hoppers are worthless" movement is only but a fraction of the potential employers. Those who believe it won't talk to you. There are plenty who think that mentality is rubbish. Do what you feel is right.
At last, finally!
Think what's better for you career wise... Are you learning a lot in your current job and doing interesting stuff and do you see tangible mid/long term benefits to changing your job.
The search UI improvements are particularly good now that i'm used to the collapsible sidebar.
But part of the reason they were caught is that they were purportedly targeting airplanes, which are closely watched.

I can't claim to have done any more research than simply reading the Wikipedia article, but it seems like the principle plotter was already under police surveillance, leading to a secret bag search when he came back from Pakistan, which kicked off a huge surveillance operation on the whole group. It was after the police already found a "bomb factory" (but decided to watch the group further) that they observed one of the men -- the same one who was already under police surveillance to begin with -- researching airline timetables. So, if the order of events as described in the article you linked is correct, the plot was busted wide open before the authorities realized they were targeting airplanes.
Actually, browsers often implement features that aren't in a standard, just because they think it's a good idea. Some of those end up being memorialized by the W3C and part of HTML. Many of the features of HTML5 started that way, including, in this case, web fonts (part of CSS3).
I was in your situation immediately before the recession and chose "honor" over reason.
Have regretted it ever since. At the very least, interview with the company that's approached you to see where it goes. No harm in exploring the option to its fullest before you make a decision.
It is in my opinion, far too complicated for a book in fiction genre. I remember I enjoyed the references, and information I got out of it, but to be honest, it felt like a task, and not something I enjoyed the reading it self.

Some people I've talked to about it, actually took notes, to be able to understand the relationships between the characters, stories and events.

This felt like work, or...better yet a study on something, and frankly, a study of a fiction world is a feat of futility.
Guys, we have this already. Just check out the tonido project. http://www.tonido.com
A Duel? UFC doesn't count? How about this, just from a quick search: http://current.com/news/92277104_a-near-fatal-shoot-out-betw....

You're probably right about bear-baiting. But there is plenty of organized dog fights and cock-fights around.
Comment bait?
If you want to make this coming soon page useful, then insert a clear call-to-action that has purpose. In other words, now that you've got us all going to your lovely page, why not make good use of our time and request that we give you our details if we're interested in your startup...but that would involve you telling us more about your startup.

Have a look at these for some inspiration:
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/05/14/design-a-successfu...
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Not sure i agree with the name "All your startup are belong to us" ??