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Particle arrangements aren't the only property of a universe. Imagine a universe with 1 particle in it. Imagine a second universe with the same particle but +1 volume bigger. Not identical. Now imagine a third universe with the same particle arrangement with +3 volume bigger... And so on for all natural numbers. An infinite number of universes, each distinct, with the same particle arrangement. We can do this same trick for all sorts of universe properties (laws, energies, geometries).

If we define universes as the particle arrangements, then it would then logically follow that infinitely many unique universes implies infinitely many particle arrangements (a ≡ b; a; ∴ b).

(This is common to many Eternal Recurrence theories as well; need some assumption which prevents repeating patterns from 'running out the clock' and not exploring the full range of possibilities.)
My first thought for this was use for TSA or other types of security. Another place might be law enforcement interrogations during investigations.
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I don't know if this reply was read as being sarcasm, but It honestly wasn't. I was wrong about the whole idea, it would never work.
While I agree with your general sentiment (I love living in Cambridge, right between MIT and Harvard), it would be a mistake to get too wrapped up in tech and ignore what has historically and still is arguably Boston's greatest resource: teaching hospitals/medicine.
That is not something to boast about.
I love having an ordinary day, maybe taking a ride on the T and overhearing a conversation about quantum mechanics or cryptology. Cambridge really does have a unique culture.
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My grief with this requirement is CentOS 5 only comes with php 5.1.6 without some hackery of special repos or self-compile... That affects a TON of hosting companies... especially with CentOS 6 still a few days away (which is a different challenge).
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Does that count as "being told this way"?
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User-Agent: modifying based on this is a Bad Thing

Referer, If-Unmodified-Since: these only decide if you respond or don't or error, they don't generally change a successful transfer

Accept-Language: I was under the impression that this was buggy and not well-supported, but it is a good example in theory
> Further, I don't like the sound of a future where people stop talking to other people because a light starts blinking.

I guess most people would become much better `raw' observers if they underwent a little training and got some feedback.

(I remember the study that some scientist did about clothing and the point in the monthly fertility cycle of women. After a while as a side effect the researchers became experts at guessing the point in the menstrual cycle.)
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Clean readable code vs fast hard to read code. When is it OK to cross the line?
The devices themselves have a finite lifetime. As long as the switch outlives the projected time to obsolescence of the device, it's fine. And I know there are switches out there which can do that...

What really irks me (and what I'm surprised to see so few people spell out) is that there's no tactile feedback on capacitive buttons (or microwave-like buttons). Tactile feedback makes every aspect of the UI profoundly better.

(Tactile feedback is possible on capacitive buttons... the first company which brings capacitive touchscreens with tactile feedback to market will make it huge (and the recent huge investment from Apple may have been into that technology). But no one has come out with a decent implementation yet...)
> Come on, how much influence do you think the USA carries in Syria? Short of military intervention what do you expect?

For the USA to promise to provide logs from their worldwide wiretapping to an international war-crimes tribunal. That, combined with records from within the country, would be enough to prove the criminality of, and thus remove the cloak of legitimacy from, abusive leaders. Once the leader was identified as a criminal loyalist troops can defect without bloodshed, instead of fighting the people as their oaths would otherwise require.

A consistent and strong American voice presenting the facts would change everything, even if the enforcement was left to others. At least the legitimacy of the rebels would be clear and they'd be able to get support.
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Indeed! Our dishwasher has membrane buttons on the front to operate it, and everyone in our house has accidentally turned the washer on by accidentally leaning on a button.
In Python 3 a similar thing looks better with the use of "function annotations": http://code.activestate.com/recipes/572161/

There also are a few modules out there that implement design-by-contract's pre-/post-conditions for class instances, for example http://code.activestate.com/recipes/436834/
> America is not obligated to topple every dictator around the world.

Just the ones you installed and supported.

> You sound exactly like the same people who would angrily criticize them for doing so even if they did and accuse them of imperialism.

Depends. Did they topple the dictator to install a more favorable one, or because they were horrified at the abuses, came at the people's request, and left peacefully after?

Intent has a lot to do with it and we're not stupid. We see your (country's) tricks. It'll take a lot of honest work to erase your legacy of political manipulation.
100% agreed, in fact that was in my original comment but I stripped it out because I was drifting off-topic.
"...to give our CSRs a completely effective way to handle inbound password requests in cases where customers no longer had access to their email account."

I personally don't see how having the plain-text passwords help in the case where the person owning the account doesn't have access to their email account. Since they don't have access, you can't exactly email them their password.
I clicked that link, because it seemed like it might be interesting. Nice to hear that it's still working for you after implementing something in it.

Also, I may be in need of a nice async cassandra client very soon, any chance of an alpha preview? (e-mail in profile)
Thanks a3camero for reviewing my app.

I do get quite a few requests for examples of contests, creating a video / screencast is high on the agenda. Hopefully I will be able to get one up this week.
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Facebook and Google+ streams end up serving a similar roll to RSS feeds for many people -- particularly the non-tech-savvy (eg. my parents). The brand pages end up being one of the best ways to push content out to readers.

Of course, this is disappointing to me -- especially when there are good technology solutions to this problem already (eg. RSS). I still use Google Reader extensively, but this seems to be rare even among my tech-savvy friends.
They talk about ELF for storing byte code? Would that work on Windows/OSX?

(I guess it would, as much as Mono can load PE .NET files for OSX/Linux, after all these won't be loaded directly (it won't make much sense without the runtime anyway))
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He has not been arrested due to rape charges, to begin with, because said charges have not been brought up. That said, had he been arrested, he couldn't have refused to show up for any hearings.

I suppose this also speaks volumes to you.
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Disclaimer: I am an ex-DH intern and my information is only as good as August 2010, but it is likely to still be accurate.

At the very least, DH does not store passwords as plaintext, but it's only very marginally better than that. Passwords are stored using a custom-rolled symmetric encryption algorithm created by... I never found out if it was a founder or just one of the earlier admins, but that doesn't really change much. For what it's worth, I never ran across the key to this, which is at least somewhat good in terms of security, but it's quite possible that this is true only because I never actually went searching for it, especially given that all of the devs and dev interns have root on most of the systems.
Question for PG/HN:  Where do you think we stand on your list of "ideas"?
About three years ago, Paul penned his essay "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund". Three years along, how do you think this list stands up today? Are any solved (in part or in whole)? Anything new you would add to the list?

I ask, because I remember reading this years ago and getting inspired to work on a few things (that didn't pan out). Given the popularity of (and success of YC), it would be interesting to see what Paul and HN see as the state of the world for this list.
Link to the essay -- http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
To be fair, the men who give good presentations are also booked solid.
With an embedded graph database, you can treat your data as if it were all in memory. If things are not in memory, they will be loaded from disk on demand, and then kept in a cache, just like virtual memory. This enables you to create persistent representations of real data structures, such as linked lists, trees, etc. You can traverse over the data, executing code in a full programming language, with your real domain model objects.

You simply can't work the same way once network latency is involved. This is doubly true when you get automatic generated queries, such as with an Active Record pattern.

Let's say that you want to traverse a linked list and apply a complex logical filter dependent on related data. You have to...

(A) Craft a very precise query -- This can be difficult if the query depends on business rules which you'd need to implement in both your main language and in your query language.

(B) Query for too much and throw away what you don't want -- In the SQL world, this is the 'OMG JOIN EVERYTHING' approach. It can work when datasets are small and infrequent, but does not scale well at all. It also requires you to do extra work upfront of declaring all the information you might possibly ever need in a particular situation.

(C) Query for too little and issue additional queries as you realize you need more info -- This is sort of the default for rich client libraries. Naive ORMs routinely produce N+1 nightmare perf bugs in many web applications.

With an embedded graph database, you just do (A) in your standard programming language, using your real domain models, without duplicating any effort, using algorithms taught to freshman year college students in their first C++ class. And everything just kinda works.
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That headline is a little sensationalist - only their web- and email-accessible clips have to be that resolution.

The guidelines say that "a monitor may send to a customer who requires immediate access a video ... as an email attachment with a resolution no greater than 320 pixels by 240 pixels", and then has a similar restriction when it comes to "video excerpts of CBRA programs in a password-secured database" (which, incidentally, must be removed from that database ten days after the show was broadcast). There's no restriction on the resolution of the products that the monitoring companies sell (s.6); only on how recently the clip's been aired - these companies have to get rid of their clips a month after they're broadcast.

Most media monitoring contracts are based around keywords and/or concepts - your contract could cover, for example, all clips on CBCNN/SunTV/CTVNN that deal with the regulation of biofuels. You'd then get a daily/weekly list of monitoring notes (a small description of what's in each clip), and from that, you could order the clips you're interested in at full resolution. If you want to do anything with these clips - like turn them into promos or send to your clients - you could then go to the rights-holders and see if they'd license them to you.

The clips that the headline refers to are effectively high-end versions of these monitoring notes. They're designed so that the analyst can get the gist of what's been said in the clip/see the visuals, and from that, they can make a decision about if they want to order the full-resolution product. Think of them like video thumbnails for full monitoring products.

The point of all these regulations is to very clearly restrict the business models of media monitoring companies. It gives them license to legally store, transmit, and distribute copyrighted content without dealing with individual broadcasters - but only enough so that customers can identify what they're interested in, and then contact the rights-holders directly for access to that content.
http://www.affectiva.com/q-sensor/ like fitbit, but for emotion. Imagine the ecosystem-explosion given access to a decent API.
|For the USA to promise to provide logs from their worldwide wiretapping to an international war-crimes tribunal.

Comical. You think the USA is wiretapping all phones everywhere? How does this work? How has this massive conspiracy not been exposed?

You missed my point and misunderstood my question. What do you expect the US to do in Syria? We don't hold any leverage there. We're already militarily over-extended. Politically we have no appetite for another war with another Muslim country.

|A consistent and strong American voice presenting the facts would change everything, even if the enforcement was left to others. At least the legitimacy of the rebels would be clear and they'd be able to get support.

Done and done as GHFigs points out:

"In a statement, President Barack Obama strongly condemned "the abhorrent violence" committed by the Syrian government. "I call upon the Syrian authorities to refrain from any further violence against peaceful protestors," said President Obama. "Furthermore, the arbitrary arrests, detention and torture of prisoners that has been reported must end now, and the free flow of information must be permitted so that there can be independent verification of events on the ground." http://www.voanews.com/policy/editorials/Syrians-Call-For-Fr...
Plus they already crawl Twitter. It may not be real time over all of Twitter but I bet the accounts with a great deal of followers get crawled every few hours.
"We said above that pdf.js renders the Tracemonkey paper perfectly … if you’re running a Firefox nightly. On a Windows 7 machine where Firefox can use Direct2D and DirectWrite. If you ignore what appears to be a bug in DirectWrite’s font hinting. The paper is rendered less well on other platforms and in older FIrefoxen, and even worse in other browsers"
it's very straightforward to convert one header format to another of comparable (or greater) information-density, for the same processor.

ELF <-> PE is doable.

any debug format -> PE|ELF is doable (linking + stripping)

com|a.out -> PE|ELF is doable
I don't mean to split hairs, but Scala isn't a lazily evaluated language — it's a strict language that allows optional lazy evaluation, and AFAIK it only really works well if you're programming Scala in a more or less functional style. I'm pretty sure Scala's lazy values still lead to unpredictable behavior if you lazy up something that has side effects.
Cannot even read the entire article because of the Onswipe theme. Who's awful idea was this?
First, both SSH and OpenVPN are much more complicated than spiped, and thus more likely to have security flaws. OpenVPN as you know incorporates OpenSSL and makes use of an even greater fraction of its code than stunnel; Colin's primary goal in building spiped seems to have been avoiding the need for stunnel (or even stud).

Second, if all you're trying to do is hook one discrete component up to another, a full-on VPN isn't just overkill, it's also unnecessarily dangerous, since now you have to configure the network stacks to ensure that only the traffic you intended to allow is going to be able to get through after a minor compromise.
This is a fair point - I should have said a man without career ambitions.
Citation provided. Thank you, it's just that I had no idea what you were talking about.
My opinion:

- Simplified browsing has happened ala tablets, mobiles etc, especially purpose-specific apps.

- Photo/Video sharing services .... they went mobile, big time

- CRM ... I think twitter, facebook and internet outrage are changing that pretty rapidly

- Web office apps ... I (still) don't get the sense there's any major urge to move to web office apps, but obviously the 800 pound gorilla in that space is (went?) web

- Online learning ... Kahn Academy

- New payment methods ... Square, NFC et al

- The web os ... kind of became redundant with the explosion of mobile and tablet, but Chrome OS might end up mattering

- Application and data hosting happened in a huge way lol
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Mind if I ask what the specs are for those servers?
Just use bayesian filtering, grouping email into topics rather than ham/spam.
This is already on the front page. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2726068
By "platform owners," you mean Apple, right? I'm not aware of Android requiring any approval.
I think few on HN would take issue with the usage of either word.
Well said. This mentality can also work for dating.
Being a certified autist with the additional bonus of having very bad eyesight, I can't stress enough how important and useful developments like these can be.

I am extremely poor at having face to face conversations. Mostly because any kind of body language completely escapes me. This has caused numerous situations of miss-communication and generally makes any kind of meaningful interaction with a human being unreliable at best.

Having access to an aid like this will certainly help improve matters for me and anyone trying to have a conversation with me.
If the context didn't give it away, the phrase "They tried all kinds of things to get them to fuck off" should have indicated that this isn't really directed at children - so the answer is "this literature".
Make sure you look into what it will cost you to run an LLC incorporated in another state in the state you're actually doing business in. It can be a problem in some cases.

For example, say you live in Texas. You incorporate in Delaware. Texas will charge you $750 for the privilege last I checked - and you will wind up paying (and filing paperwork for) franchise taxes in both states.
Auth emails are like plaintext passwords. Best combo would be your public key stored on their server. Any future requests, they send you the PGP'd email.
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I would totally buy his book if I didn't find the prices of tech books to be completely absurd.

I remember how for 15 years VHS movies cost from $79.95 to $119.95 because they figured their only customers were video rental stores. The problem was they were selling each movie once for $80 instead of selling it 500 times for $20. Since fixing their flawed pricing model, far more movies are sold than before, to the point that rental stores have all but disappeared.

Could a similar thing be happening with books? Perhaps they are pricing for library use, where many users are expected to read one book. Or perhaps they are targeting captive audiences like in colleges where impoverished youth are shaken down.

Usability failure? Market failure? Or smart pricing model?

I'd buy a decently bound paperback as is being offered of this length and interest for $9.95 to $17.95. But I won't pay $35-44, not even close.

The question is, how many others are out there like me that represent lost sales. Maybe I am the only one. In that case, $44 is the right price. Or why not even $99.
It always seems to take companies that originate from the MIT media lab a long time to get from cool demo to something hackers/the general public can play with.

It can't get here fast enough in my opinion.
This + Google recording every hangout video conversation to create a huge training data set... damn
hmmm... Looks exactly the same as a facebook brand page.
If Google is a "software company", then so is Knight. (Morgan Stanley is, admittedly, a little more contentious.)
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Hackers target Apple -- not
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For the benefit of those of us who aren't familiar with both platforms, can you explain what "dynamic real-time updating" features Google+ has and what Facebook does instead?
> The problem with Java is mainly that people think they have to use all the horribly complex, intrusive, badly written, underperforming frameworks that exist in the Java sphere.

That is a problem with Java, but it is not the problem with Java.

The JVM platform, running server-side, is a proven technology that lets you get stuff done. The Java language, however, is underpowered by today's standards. It has essentially no technical advantage over newer JVM-based alternatives, which can do things better by taking advantage of a decade or more of hindsight that Java never had. Meanwhile, it does have clear technical limitations that make it difficult to use some important programming concepts.

For established projects, Java-the-language survives based on inertia, of course. However, I suspect that for newer projects, some of the alternative JVM languages are now mature enough, both technically and in other important areas such as community and tools development, that using them instead of Java itself should be almost automatic for a lot of projects.
I hope the Onswipe theme got killed off in this release.
elaborate... how would this work in the dating context?

Phase 1: I'm not interested in dating.
Phase 2: I've got a dinner date tonight, do you want to meet up afterwards?
Yes, it's the db related to their anonymous surveys apparently. [1]

[1] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/04/hackers-target-apple-...

edit: I don't believe it's third-party however. But the important takeaway here is that this isn't related to Apple's iTunes accounts; rather it's a survey.