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If I understand his metaphor and current law correctly: this law changes nothing about income tax. Regardless of this law, Mr. Amazon-Affiliate pays income tax to the State of Illinois on his Amazon affiliate income. I believe the poignant line from the blog post is:

... imposes the collection of taxes from consumers on sales
by online retailers – including but not limited to those
referred by Connecticut-based affiliates like you – even if
those retailers have no physical presence in the state.

I interpret this as saying "if a Connecticut resident refers customer X to company Y, and X buys a product from Y, then company Y must pay tax on that sale." The only necessary tie to Connecticut is the referrer.

Of course, they'd also tax Mr. Amazon-Affiliate's affiliate income as well. That smells like double taxation.

Also, I think your comment suggesting that "If you don't like it, vote in different representatives," is rude. Obviously, Mr. Markham is aware of his Democratic rights and duties. He very well might vote against this sort of legislation, and he doesn't deserve to hear derisive comments when voicing his disapproval.

edit: formatted the quote for easier reading
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That's pretty good, the fastest I can get is 170Mbps/30Mbps for almost $300 plus taxes but capped at 250GB/month, $1 per GB going over 250GB, and torrents throttled.
Like previously stated - theres nothing wrong with the technical write-up. though, it shouldve stated that any VPS running any control panel (like plesk or cpanel) can host 18 static sites (even without any optimization). The problem is that its flamebait. you can even see that on it the comments -- and subsequently on webhostingtalk. Just saying saying

As for the $$ im sure he does fine. Affiliate payouts in the webhosting indutry is huge.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/11/detroit-diyer-cooks-up-st...

The title links to the mobile page of engadget for some unapparent reason.
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I can smell another retarded app Idea on it's way.
Really cool concept. :)

Doesn't every sequence of numbers sound fairly tonal on the Les Paul logo though, since it's restricted to diatonic pitches?
Any Quantum Physicists on here?

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Indeed it does seem to allow that, and this is right at the heart of the quantum measurement problem. The three popular ways out of this are:

1. To ignore it entirely, stating that we don't really care about the implications of quantum mechanics and are just happy that it's useful for calculating things. LA LA LA!

2. To declare that yes, well, maybe it sort-of does, but it doesn't matter because there's no actual information being transmitted. I can't use quantum entanglement to send a message to Alpha Centauri, since I have no control over the sequence of bits which get transmitted; the most I can do is ensure that both they and I wind up with the same string of completely random bits.

3. Go to a no-collapse ("many-worlds") theory of quantum mechanics, in which there isn't any superluminal communication required (why? It's nonobvious and hard to explain but if you're willing to trust me then you can just go along with it for now...)

My personal preference is for (3) but the implications of many-worlds theories are so horrifying that it remains quite controversial.
It's also a great way to begin. For someone new, it's going to be incredibly more difficult to balance ideas, manage projects, and market them than to focus on implementation alone. You offer your strengths and pick up more skills along the way. Then as you become more experienced and well-rounded, you can follow your interests and try handling other responsibilities.
Sorry for the pre-announce, then! I was intrigued by the tweets of others at CappCon, and this is the first I've ever heard of a PEG... it felt like something others on HN would like to know about. I'm very interested in language.js and Obj-J 2.0, and look forward to hearing more about both.
I think this, like many of the implementor vs. idea person pieces lately, focuses on the wrong question. If you want to be an implementer, the big question is how do you implement the best damn software you can. Sometimes the answer to that will be to go work for a big company with a large support system, and sometimes the answer will be to strike off on your own. The best implementers I know have done both, and often have financial rewards from both phases of their lives. There's no one unique answer that will apply to all points in your career; if you believe there is one, you're artificially limiting yourself.

Don't worry about what other people do or how they're rewarded for it. Focus on doing what you do as well as you can do it, and seizing the opportunities where it'll have the most impact, and the rest will come naturally.
I'm not entirely sure what you're really trying to say overall, but you're accusing the article of making several incorrect statements and then in the next breath saying a whole bunch of stuff that completely and utterly contradicts any mainstream interpretation of physics. You might be making a philosophical argument about the definition of "time", in which case I'd say "fine, whatever" (metaphysics is probably the grandest waste of time and effort that humanity has ever dreamed up), but I still don't see what makes anything in the article wrong - what tangible physical predictions does it make that are incorrect, in your opinion?

In physics, time is a dimension in all but the most obscure and fringe formulations - whether you're talking about classical theory, special relativity, quantum mechanics, general relativity, quantum field theory, string theory, M-theory, there's always a timelike dimension that shows up somewhere in the formulation.

Are you actually arguing that all of standard physics is in some way measurably wrong, or are you merely trying to make a philosophical point about the definition of the word "time"?
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I am working as a research engineer in Silicon Valley. One of major problems at work is I have too many masters to serve. Though I am a very self motivated person and avoid other distractions during my work to be very productive, I am having to serve more than one manager. Because of our flat management hierarchy the senior researchers are being a pain in my case. How should I work so that this problem will not affect my work and results. PLEASE ADVICE.
>>PageRank, like almost all machine-learning algorithms, has some knobs which you can tweak to get various results.

PageRank is a machine-learning algorithm?

"You can tweak" means Google can tweak not the user...
I actually played it for a while and it's actually kind of addicting.
What are you trying to imply here?
I get the same feeling - I've lived on the .Net stack for 10 years, and I'm not even slightly annoyed. Chances are, if you make your life on .Net, you have corporate clients. They won't move on to Windows 8 for years - and they certainly aren't moving off of .Net on the server side any time soon.
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The big difference with your Amazon account is that it's password protected. All purchases made in the App Store are easily accesible via the updates tab. No password there. Apple needs to either password protect that, or allow you to delete those(imo).
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I'm sorry, but it just doesn't look good enough. The header especially is ugly. A glance and your application will go in the bin. You should work on your visual skills.
Could you apply subtitles or provide a transcript for deaf readers like me?

It would be very helpful to following the interview.
Same story appeared before on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2642780
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> PageRank is a machine-learning algorithm?

PageRank is the definition of a machine-learning algorithm.
At this point I should probably just stop talking, but I don't see how my comments indicate that I think advertising is the only way for content providers to make money. I said it was a very popular way, and that popularity has affected the way URLs are formed.
In summary:

- Poor modern hardware support. "Linux on the Desktop" is dead in the water without a devoted hardware supplier that writes all drivers and sells computers running Linux. The kernel itself is perfectly modern but we just often don't have proper driver support.

- Some desktop subsystems still suck. Is Audio bulletproof yet? PulseAudio seems too complex, OSSv4 is out of kernel and is not suspend/hibernate aware, Alsa is outdated.

- Desktop software is terrible. No office suite that feels solid, apps written with a mismash of backends, languages, and toolkits, everything feels designed by committee. No stationary canonical APIs to build proprietary software on. No commercial software suites (CAD, Office, Adobe, Steam, etc) or free software equivalents.

- GTK and Qt do not cut it. They are not attractive, they are not modern, interface design doesn't appear to be a priority, most devs don't want to write desktop software in C or C++.

The only way for Linux on the desktop to thrive is under the power of a commercial hardware company that designs systems with Linux in mind, gets the support of commercial 3rd party software companies, and completely eschews Gnome and KDE. That is a massive amount of work/money so I don't expect it to ever happen.

I have used Linux on the desktop since 2002 (and will continue to use it) but I'm not delusional. Funnily enough, I've tried going back to Windows 7 (I am dual booting now) but I inexplicably have more driver problems on Win7 than I do on Linux (Thinkpad).

I'm not a typical computer user, though. I could survive with only Emacs and Chrome.
At least this write-up

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-lighter-stronger-steel-....

based on a press release mentions a journal article (as does one of the write-ups linked in the reply by djcapelis).

A quick search on Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=bainite

didn't immediately turn up the new journal article, but shows that bainite has been the subject of prior literature on heat treatment of steel for a long time. What is unclear so far, based on any of the write-ups linked to from this thread, is what trade-offs in mechanical and thermal characteristics and price the variety of steel mentioned in the current press releases will have in comparison with the hundreds of existing specialized varieties of steel. What industry response there may be depends greatly on what steel characteristics particular users of steel are most interested in.
In a PEG you operate under the expectation that all rules will be tried exhaustively, so if one fails you just move on to the next, and if they all fail you drop back a level of recursion.

Thus you can have rules like:

"if <if-expr>" where if-expr can contain "<statements> else" or "<statements> if" or "then <statements>", where statements is a set of predefined keywords, another set of PEG rules, or a regular expression matcher.

And then you can just expect that they'll all be tried at some point.

The main issue with this, of course, is the one you raised, with endings and creating rules for delimiting new blocks. Although it's possible to define a good set of rules, it's still hard to distinguish between a continuation of a statement and the start of a new one, and in most cases you won't get a useful syntax error message using a naive PEG system like the one in PEG.js, because it'll just drop all the way to the top level and then fail at the first character without telling you how far/deep it got before the syntax broke.

So in practice having end symbols is still useful to make the grammar operate sanely. PEG can also be used to execute a relatively flat pass that mostly produces tokens and simple expressions, while other methods are applied to the resulting tree to get the complete structure. This is an approach which I find a little less mind-bending than trying to cram everything into PEG rules, since you can use varying methods of parsing as the situation dictates.
If you buy a Mac and put Linux on it, wellm, ur doing it wrong. Why pay a premium for OS/hardware integration and not use it? It's a silly as putting Linux on an SGI and yes it runs but you lose all that fancy hardware.
Good point about not switching. I'll go into more detail; I should have mentioned that I also act as a bridge between our IT dept and our admin, marketing, sales dept's. In an ideal world, I (and our employees/stakeholders I guess) see our CMS/scripting/webserver/stack etc as not being more important than what we market to our customers/potential customers. (At the moment, it is for sure)

With this in mind, there's probably two chief concerns; from a publishing perspective - content - and from a technical perspective, databases.

Ideally, I'd like a system where anyone in the company (any location or technically ability) can submit content for reviewing, approving and publishing via branch managers. All internal content right now is on sharepoint, so I guess a cms that can integrate with msft applications like sharepoint, outlook, word etc would perfect. (Umbraco possibly can do this I believe, it's not possible with Joomla - for me, it's not suitable for the average person)

Adding to this, if we could connect our sql erp and ecommerce databases and tie all this up in a database cluster e.g. a tightly integrated information website with ecommerce and customer accounts capabilities.

I understand this might not be possible with an open source cms and might require a tonne of custom development. Nevertheless, I'd be intrigued if anyone can share their previous experiences.
Yep, the polish of the mechanics is there.

Maybe try to put something more significant inside the blocks, like a sci-fi theme (birds and pigs are popular too I hear :)

Fun to play.
@jack12 Fair- enough. Though, it still doesnt negate the end-effect; and, the rising trend of flamebait titles on HN, and in fact has been discussed continuously ~and~ on nearly daily basis.
it didn't extract images for the sites i tried. all wordpress blogs.
EDIT: i just realized why. those blogs are pulling images from flickr.
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This is a very strong accusation based on that quote ...
Well, then they clearly have better support than service. The one apartment I've lived in that wasn't Comcast wired I suffered through a year of miserable latency, packet loss, and unimpressive speeds via Sonic DSL. Personally, I'll trade shit support for a decent connection any day.
http://vps.net does this (I highly recommend them)
It should also be mentioned that the reason why time travel is a problem is not merely that you can send a signal backwards in time, but that the signal may be used to then prevent the sending of the signal.

This is not necessarily a problem - in a quantum mechanical formulation, it's simple enough to resolve (for instance) a grandfather paradox by looking at quantum interference around causal loops (almost 100% analogous to the way interference on a violin string will restrict stable modes to certain frequencies, interference around a causal loop will only allow stable self-sustaining situations to survive, so any grandfather paradox would self-interfere and not be allowed). The main difference is that with closed timelike curves the quantum effects can get a lot stronger than without them, even affecting very large objects.
Haven't done machine code since my Apple ][ days. Assembly, however is still heavily used in embedded systems. Most commonly in boot code and interrupt handlers. Handcrafting inner loops for DSP applications is also still common.

The percentage of assembly in my projects is typically very small, I'm sure it's way less than 1% in my case.

Another area where assembly is still common is around specialized HW features, e.g. putting the processor into low power modes or other situations where specific instructions have to be issued in a specific order.

For speed optimisation more often than not I start out with the output of the C compiler to see where I can optimize.
I actually don't understand that part of it. How do sales tax on CT consumers -- who may or may not be driven to Amazon by a CT affiliate -- compel Amazon to terminate the affiliate programme?

CT-based affiliates may be driving traffic from outside CT, and CT-based purchases -- the thing being taxed -- might have been driven by an affiliate in Iceland.

Terminating _sales_ to Connecticut would amount to a refusal to pay the tax. Instead Amazon has chosen to raze the profits of a minority of CT constituents. They must be hoping that the ousted affiliates will march on New Haven.

(If I were a successful affiliate, though, I'd just make an out-of-state LLC and pass income through.)
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Based solely on that quote, yes. Taking into account other indicators, such as the purported origin of other recently reported 'sophisticated attacks' on high profile targets, it doesn't seem like a stretch. To say China or their government is definitely involved isn't reasonable, but to say they'd be a strong suspect is reasonable.
I took the survey. One key thing you're missing is a way to reach people who are interested in seeing where this is going.

Consider adding an optional email textbox or even a link to a page people can come back to later. Even if it's just a Twitter account (inferred from the '@' in the name).
I think the best idea so far is that you decided to ask others what they think.
Could Google's personalised results keep information hidden from us?
Hadoop is hardly our only hope -- off the top of my head there is Yahoo S4 for expressing streaming topologies of large-scale data processing. There is Google's Sawzall language for efficiently 'sawing' through and aggregating stats about of large amounts of data. Databases like MongoDB are slowly enabling the FLOSS community to process larger and larger datasets which previously was very difficult for someone other than an engineer with a Google datacenter, GFS, and BigTable at their disposal. And that's just scraping the surface of great, Free and open-source projects available. AWS and Google App Engine are making it affordable for the common man to run computations that we could only dream about just a decade ago. I, for one, am very excited about this and think we're doing just fine.
They could at least have a procedure to make a note in your account that you're not an idiot after you've proved it to them, so you don't have to run through the same checklist every time you call.

Right now, the "non-bozo bit" is basically a thread-local session variable--it's stored in the head of the operator handling your call, so if they ask you to call back and you get them again, you can skip the procedure, but if you get someone else, you have to go through it all again.
I agree. Your comment history is full of the high quality exchange we should strive for.

In short: you nailed it.
I'd like SSL. Especially since Y Combinator uses the same site for various internal things, it would be nice to be able to protect from passive monitoring at cafes (I use a VPN but a lot of people don't).

Splitting news.yc from the YC app, hours, etc. system might also be nice, so people can blackhole hackernews without losing YC functionality.
Why must you assume that is spam? It could very well be from the front pages of LEB.
If folks are going to buy from you regardless, then yes, anything you do that costs money is a waste. But clearly customers aren't going to use Apple regardless of the competition.
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Metallurgists do this. I've held lumps of the steel used in power plants (which doesn't burn when the coal does), and even a pop can sized cylinder of Beryllium. :D
In spite of our understanding of chemistry, metallurgy still has quite a few mysteries in store for us. Some of them go back thousands of years. For instance we still have not been able to come up with a convincing reproduction of Damascus steel, the prized material that middle eastern swords were built of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel. Another supposedly related and "lost" steel is wootz steel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel Perhaps a good term to describe the study of these materials would be forensic metallurgy. My closest brush with metallurgy was in a high-school chemistry text-book, which to be honest bored me to death. But at a different level it instills respect for the ingenuity and persistence of humans. Those methods are by no means simple and the bronze-age and iron-age men figured it out.

Among other things that make recreating these materials hard, is that in cooking them you not only need to get the ingredients right, but also get the sequence correct, sometimes to the minutest detail. Impurities in parts per million or the lack of can have significant effects in determining the properties of the material. Same goes for the process of making it.

We understand properties of individual components well enough but the physics that dictates the properties of alloys is different, difficult, non-smooth and very non-linear. Statistical physics have played a huge role in trying to model these behavior.

Another historical-metallurgical curiosity is the surprisingly corrosion resistant iron pillar in Delhi. It has been out there, in the open, facing the corroding elements of tropical weather for 25 centuries, but with little or no corrosion damage.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_pillar_of_Delhi
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When people invest money in you and you shut down the company with half the money gone, you've failed.

Sometimes it's that simple.
This reminds me of Blizzard's motto of a depth first, accessibility later approach (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10773).

Sure, you can focus on a few features that allows you to cater to your core market. But, what if they outgrow your program? What if they want to go to the next "level"?

A "deep" program like Photoshop allows for that flexibility. A beginner can start off with perhaps the most basic of features but as they become more comfortable with it, at least they still have the flexibility to move on to the next set of (more complex) features.
"Investors may actually be happy with this outcome simply because it could have been a lot worse."

-> kill me right now.

They failed. Come on.
Of course any VPS can host 18 static sites. The main point is even one with as little memory as 64mb can host static sites, whilst the majority opinion over at WHT is that it wasn't possible. I'm sure the OP of the WHT post wasn't intending to put out 'flamebait,' merely ask a simple question which the majority said nei. I don't believe LEA (the admin) had a WHT account, so he made a writeup via his blog. Who knows if he gets affiliates? The providers would have to make it though the promotional codes that are directly emailed to him (he does not post direct affiliate links that I can see), but the offers posted on WHT would get no affiliate income. I do see money being made via the side banner adds however. Some see it as 'flame bait,' others see it as an disproving article. I guess no one can win, ne?
Can we remove the "shames scientists" bit from the headline? This guy is a scientist by definition if he has any experimental validation, and I didn't see a citation for anyone being shamed.
I don't know anything about this, so yes I'm naive. But when I read this, I think about the Wright brothers. They were told something was impossible, and it was right up until they did it. So possible to communicate faster than light?? I have no idea, but I hope somebody keeps trying despite what the current accepted science says.
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