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Yes, but that's a separate issue of shareholder governance. At present there isn't a legal power of criminal incompetence in charge of a financial institution to go after Adam Crozier, Fred Goodwin or Victor Blank for setting up businesses no safer for Britain than any number of industrial health and safety violations and personally riding the profits before the inevitable blow-up.

Given the British economy is so reliant on financial services this should perhaps be revised; we regulated factories in the past in spite of protestations of its expense and difficulty because we recognised it was in the best interests of society, and we should now be doing the same to finance. Too big to fail is privatising the profits while socialising the losses; it is too big to be private without enormous and mandated operator's liability insurance, funded by the owners.
>also to note that there is nothing actually wrong with FCPX - I'm using it everyday working on some marketing materials right now. I can see that Pros are missing some features which is fair

Just because it works for your use cases, does not mean there is "nothing actually wrong with [it]". Drawing that kind of conclusion is either ignorant of or disingenuous to the realities of software.
In my experience, I see Khan academy being most valuable in a blended setting when the teacher isn't very good (because Salman explains things so well), but also over a longer period of time. Khan academy encourages retaining old material in at least two important ways: it makes the old material easily accessible, and Salman's teaching method strongly encourages you to have a better understanding of the concepts behind the math (for me, that's been in proving trig identities instead of memorizing and explaining how the process of multiplying matrices is arbitrary, but it's clearly a fundamental aspect of how Salman teaches).
In the same way the Crunchpad is a competitor to the iPad.
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There's a fuller version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT_8-pjuctM&feature=relat...

The next prediction gets a bit more far-fetched, by suggesting bio-engineering chimpanzees as some form of slave labour.
He is a novelist at heart. On the communications, did this sound so far fetched? Long distance phone calling was available at the time.
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Obvious issue with this: You are placing cameras in the bathroom. You are a hack away from providing live feeds of a bathroom users.
I agree. Also this article only makes it worse. It claims that (a) no one was working on Enigma before Turing and (b) Turing worked on it because he 'liked solitude'. WTF? Given that total bollocks in that part of the article I have a hard time reading the rest. Note that Bletchley Park does a very good job of talking about the Polish contribution to the cryptanalytic effort with examples of how the Polish attacks on Enigma were performed and a Polish memorial and they have a special annual Polish day.

Also, if the author wanted to talk about Bayes Theorem and the WWII cryptanalytic effort there's a much nicer example from the Japanese codes: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/07/bayes-bletchley-jn-25-and-modern...
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OMGUbuntu have a (fairly similar) review: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/09/ubuntu-11-10-beta-release...

The offical Ubuntu site has more juicy details: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Beta...
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Obviously someone interested in copying the data at whatever cost will be able to do it, but that's not the use case pertinent to this story. This would not be designed to taunt your enemies, but rather ensure security of data in the hands of individuals who may not understand how to handle it properly.

The Guardian was operating under a grievous misunderstanding about the nature of the encrypted data, but from my vantage point I don't see that they operated out of intentional malice. If you are distributing data to compliant parties and just want to ensure a tidy cleanup to prevent mishandling or theft, something like this definitely could be useful.
Only if the link target is non-HTTPS, I believe. HTTPS-to-HTTPS requests includes referer headers, even across domains.
In truth, I only say "far fetched" in the context of fifty years of hindsight. I don't know what was perceived as relatively far-fetched in 1964.
Unfortunately for our industry, a lot of your post is right, and it doesn't just apply to state machines, but a lot of solid programming practices.
He just didn't factor in some human tendencies that limit the adoption of the remote work model. To get around those another 50 years could not be enough.
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Didn't we have this thread yesterday?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949787
I find that most of the Bayesian 'militants', if you will, aren't actually doing research using Bayesian methods, but are more recent converts writing blog posts about it. Most researchers I know who use Bayesian methods in research aren't even particularly dogmatic about it, and don't go around writing essays about the Evil Frequentists and Oppression of Bayesianism.

In fact, most (at least in my circle) use frequentist methods as well, as well as methods that don't fall comfortably into either camp. In ML it's particularly common for the same researcher to use any/all of kernel density estimation, Bayesian graphical models, SVMs, etc., depending on the problem.
One of the things Clarke got wrong was his contention, expressed in at least a few of his books, that instant global telecommunications would eliminate the need for people to live in close proximity in cities. Despite the proliferation of low-density sprawl around many North American (and some European) cities, density is still a principal driver of innovation and big cities are, if anything, even bigger and denser than they were when Clarke made this prediction.

Edit to add - One more thing: in case anyone here doesn't already know, Clarke invented the concept of geostationary communications satellites in a 1945 article he wrote for Wireless World. http://lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/
> the dropout rate for top tier US universities is very low

The dropout rate for non-engineering schools is pretty low. Engineering schools are all over the map. Caltech is a bit silly to compare to larger schools due to the fact Caltech enrolls <1k undergrads.
I have to agree that it seems Assange placed far too much trust in big-name news organizations primarily just based on name recognition.
Looks like most of this release is about tweaking Unity. I was really excited about it at first, but I switched back to classic Gnome after three months. The extra screen space is nice, but it was too easy to lose my bearings.
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I don't think it does. Even if Go sucks and goes down in flame, they'll be able to find someone willing to pick up their programming. And most likely at a premium.
Basically each step in your form is a state in the state machine. When a user submits one step, you move the state machine to the next state. You can add conditionals for when to skip a step, and you can specify validations for each step that need to be run before a state-change (e.g. credit card needs to check out before moving from the credit card step to the confirm step).

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I think you're misunderstanding, there is nothing about using Bayesian analysis that makes you a crank. Using Bayesian analysis where it makes sense is good and sensible and standard practice among just about everybody in the field (although there are some argument about the size an shape of the set where Bayesian analysis makes sense). Cancer treatment would be a perfect example of an area where Bayesian analysis makes sense.

However, for some unknown reason, Bayesian analysis has also become a trendy buzzwords among huge number of crazy internet trolls who seem to think it's a magic formula that can solve all problems, and who have some paranoid delusions that "they" are trying to suppress the knowledge of Bayesian analysis.
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I got used to it after a couple days. My home computer runs Unity while my desktop at work runs classic Gnome (with 10.10 - I'm waiting for 11.10)

My biggest complaint is that Unity took all my super bindings from Emacs. I had to do a lot of remapping for it to work on both machines.
There are broadcast customers with installations of hundreds of FCP seats [1]. I suspect that Apple discovered that they may have contractual obligations to these customers due to the way Final Cut Server was sold.

It's easier to bring back the product in the most limited distribution possible, rather than risk a lawsuit.

[1] For example, Norway's national broadcaster NRK has 200+ FCP seats just for their video library: http://broadcastengineering.com/mag/nrk-keeps-watchful-0709/
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I've got a draft article I was writing for my blog arguing that Arrington should resign because his conflicts of interest make his role as editor of TC untenable.

Among other reasons I was arguing that Arrington has to disclaim his investment in any article about a competing firm, however since his investment in SV Angels he's now invested in a number of firms which are in stealth mode, which means in practical terms that it's impossible for him to meet his obligations.
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Seriously? It's just needlessly split up. There's barely any substance to this post. You know what you're doing, so quit it.
Eric weren't you working on an another YC company? Convore? Or am I mixing people up?
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As I noted, there are plugins that make this very smooth from XBMC/Boxee. The chilling effects of copyright litigation prevent any real polish going into an out-of-the-box product, at least in America. Maybe another group of Swedes with the fortitude of The Pirate Bay's founders will crop up some time and take this on.
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"On average we spend an hour in the bathroom every day"

And only about 3-5 minutes of that is spent in front of a mirror. And even less is spent looking at said mirror. Why would I slow down brushing my teeth to play which-tie-should-I-wear with my mirror? The closet is right around the corner.
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I completely agree and came here to say something similar. I'm honestly perplexed by "startups" that build an app that seem to introduce no new processes or technology (a reminder about a release date? a list of movie trailers? tweet out about a movie?) because these don't strike me as very inventive or even startup-like. It's an app. The same app could be built by a 2-man team working nights and weekends as a side project. It could also be cranked out by Fandango or the other big, established iPhone movie apps. What's stopping them?
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Every time someone says that I'm reminded of Color. Every article said they were going to do 50 new things that were coming after the iPhone app was a big success (they needed data to do the 50 other things) but when the iPhone app tanked so did the genesis of the other ideas.
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I know this was said tongue-in-cheek but as the founder noted below, if you release a half-baked iPhone app you're done. Dead in the water. Nobody cares or will write about your 1.5 version when you finally polish the turd of the 1.0. It's all about the launch, not iteration, on the App Store.
> go get a non-programming job if you've never had one

I would add: go get a non-programming job demanding physical labor where (one way or another) you are building something or tear something down. It can be incredibly satisfying to just do some simple but physically demanding work and see actual results at the end of the day, results you can actually touch. And it will also show you how much worse things could be if you are doing the same kind of repetitive tasks every day for the rest of your life.

Or it might end up showing you a new love for a completely different kind of job; a smart and handy craftsman can easily keep up with good IT salaries and can do just as interesting work including all sorts of hacks and interesting problem solving.

I wish I could find it but there was a long article in the NYT I believe about a dude who moved from complicated analysis to repairing vintage motorcycles and he could demonstrate very well how the skills he developed there are easily comparable to PhD degree problem-solving in an office job and he got a lot of satisfaction and freedom out of fixing broken bikes and seeing how happy his customers were when their much beloved bikes would suddenly run again.

So, it doesn't always have to be web startups - there are a lot of interesting and satisfying jobs out there outside of IT, if one is brave enough to explore and push to see just how deep the rabbit hole can go.
On average we spend an hour in the bathroom every day [citation needed]

Honestly, that statistic doesn't even pass the smell test.
I work in my bedroom with a notebook computer.
It took no convincing for me to throw out the desk and chair, because I was so weary of sitting all day.

My solution is simple. I slapped a desk top onto my chest of drawers, with a nonslip mat underneath to keep it from sliding. Pardon me for not running to grab the measuring tape, but it's at about my elbow height (I'm 6'2").

I stand at it most of the day, and when I get tired I just unplug everything and move to my bed for awhile. I can't take my external display to bed, but so far that's never really bothered me.

I think later on I may get crazy with some square steel tubing, and build myself a standing monstrosity.
Here's someone who says it so much better than I can:

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"more than 8,000 people signed a petition that demanded the source code to Final Cut Pro 7 be sold to a third party"

I wonder that anyone would make such a short sighted demand. Apple should properly release the source code of Final Cut Pro 7 to the public under a Free Software license. That would prevent this type of thing from happening again.
> We had to revert from unity-window-decorator to gtk-window-decorator for performance reasons. This means that the "1 px border" for resizing window is back temporarily.

I hope "temporarily" doesn't mean until 12.04
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I hope this means my brand new laptop with a Core i5, 8GB of Ram and an SSD will now have the performance to run the standard bloody desktop. I'm currently using the classic desktop on 11.04 because my laptop starts crawling on Unity after short periods.
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I run Unity on a netbook with 1GB of ram - and since all I run is vim, chrome and a few terminals, I don't see any problems. But, your mileage may vary
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You can have multiple soundtracks in the iTunes mp4 container. Just use the "Apple TV2" profile of Handbrake. The interface to select the right audio track on the Apple TV is a bit difficult to find (see Google for details).
The site appears to be down. Here's a slightly more in-depth article from Singularity Hub from this time last year: http://singularityhub.com/2010/09/01/retro-futurism-arthur-c...
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> ... than make a claim they can't stand behind.

I think they can stand behind this claim. The largest plan they sell comes with 800GB of storage. Your OS installation will probably take 10GB and you're effectively left with 790GB to store your data in.

Unless you're uploading and deleting 790GB each and every day I don't see why they can't afford it. Considering that the most people will buy Linode 512 (20GB of storage including the OS) the numbers we are talking about are rather small.
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GStreamer has worked well for me. VLC and mplayer also are able to handle all formats that are thrown at it.

What media players can't play every single format?
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> I would add: go get a non-programming job demanding physical labor where (one way or another) you are building something or tear something down. It can be incredibly satisfying to just do some simple but physically demanding work and see actual results at the end of the day, results you can actually touch.

I totally agree with you on this. It is one of the reasons that I program. I get to build and fix stuff. I have had the physical jobs like that before. What I do now is work around the house doing things like gardening and other general yard work. It is nice to put some music on and just zone out for a couple of hours while I work with my hands and not my mind.
If they don't, that's probably why they always look so damn happy.
FCP X is more like "Aperture for video". It's a completely different app from the old FCP, which offered an editing paradigm in tune with the conventions of the TV/film post-production industry.

Editing video in FCP X feels a lot like manipulating photos in Aperture: it's great for quick adjustments, but doesn't allow the kind of meticulous control you'd get with Photoshop. Unfortunately Apple doesn't have that kind of control-oriented video product anymore, so those looking to move up from FCP X will have to go with either Avid or Adobe.
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