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The Star Trek future, ie. travel with speed faster than light, will most likely happen through "warp drive", ie. using the space expansion(contraction) - this is how the natural faster than light movement does happen in the current Universe, and it doesn't violate Special Relativity.

Special Relativity holds only for space with static and continuous metric (to preview the complexity of the theory otherwise, try to play with Maxwell equations where integration would happen over non-static volumes/surfaces :) . The space expansion doesn't fit the premises of Special Relativity and thus there is no contradiction. Special Relativity is pretty artificial theory which applies to the true world of our expanding (ie. non static metric) Universe only by approximation - this approximation works only as much as the speed of expansion is slow and either time period under consideration is small or distances are small (but not very small as the space continuity premise of SR seems to get broken as we get to Planck distances)

In this particular case of neutrinos, i think, if they integrate Earth gravity time dilation variations along the neutrinos path, it would be correction on the scale around this billionth of second.
Here's a question based on our current headache: our bank switched processors, and now when we try to do AMEX refunds our gateway (Payflow Pro) returns an error. The old transaction tokens don't work with the new processor.

How do you guys handle this situation?
The growth is impressive, but did Whitman cause it to happen, or did she manage it as it was happening? My opinion is that she managed it as it was happening. That may make her a competent manager, but I think HP needs much more than just a competent manager. HP should be about technology leadership, especially if the commodity PC business is sold off.
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The core problem is that he tried to make & sell a product to people who are not tech-savvy, who are famously slow adopters and who are also famously broke & skinflinty.

To people, in other words, who didn't want what he had.

All the story in the world won't fix that.

That's why Jarrod is learning a better, more effective approach in my 30x500 class :)
> it's about proving something people need and want, and getting them to pay for it.

HP sells more stuff that people want than almost any other company (printers, desktops, etc.). Yet they're failing.

Successful technology companies (Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Dell, Oracle) have business and technology interwoven like yin and yang. Business fuels technology, technology drives the business. You get there by building your business and your technology hand in hand. If you stop building, you'll fail on both. That's what you don't learn in an MBA.
$12-15 per hour is not competitive for testing software.
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Will we ever rid ourselves of corporate-speak? How many bits of information here?

“We are fortunate to have someone of Meg Whitman’s caliber and experience step up to lead HP,” said Lane. “We are at a critical moment and we need renewed leadership to successfully implement our strategy and take advantage of the market opportunities ahead. Meg is a technology visionary with a proven track record of execution. She is a strong communicator who is customer focused with deep leadership capabilities. Furthermore, as a member of HP’s board of directors for the past eight months, Meg has a solid understanding of our products and markets.”
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Short answer is no, long answer is sort of. The way in which data / code is released is a complex issue. However, if your willing to wait a reasonable amount of time AND pay for the costs involved you can get just about everything produced.

Still, in the larger context validating someone's data is basically worthless activity. It's far more important to go out and collect new data, build a new model, run a new simulation, and report those results than it is to try and shortcut the process. The data deluge is making it way to easy for people to validate bad science using the same bad data / model as someone else. Fundamental assumptions in statistics break down when you use the same 10 coin flips to substitute for the 10 million coin flips that cost more than your willing to pay for.

PS: The failure to collect significant quantity's of new data is a hallmark of fringe / bad science. If you really think global warming is a joke or you can be more healthy by eating coco puffs then go collect that data and do your analysis and see if someone can poke holes in your process.
both of your choices are wrong. Microsoft is doing this because there is already malware that patches the NT kernel and boot manager, and Microsoft gets blamed when it happens: see things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alureon, a rootkit which had a bug in it that caused the kernel to crash -- through no fault of its engineering team -- when Microsoft applied a security patch.

you're being kind of a jerk assuming that Microsoft engineers aren't clever enough to nerf Linux like this, given its long history of hacks to both mess with its competitors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code) and make sure its software works properly (see a lengthy paper on Windows PatchGuard here: http://uninformed.org/index.cgi?v=6&a=1&p=23 and basically every post Raymond Chen makes about application compatibility on his blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/)

if Microsoft wanted to kill Linux through technological means, it would be able to do it. the fact of the matter is, it doesn't, or even if it does, it would never be able to convince its hardware and software partners to go along with its scheme.

Windows's support for UEFI secure boot, and its requirement that it ship turned on by default on logo-certified PCs, is a matter of reducing the number of things average people -- people who don't even know what Linux is, much less use it -- complain about Microsoft for, nothing more.

(disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, but I'm not speaking officially on behalf of the company.)
Yeah the whole paragraph is worded poorly. IMO it reads either one of these scenarios:

1) A library that dynamically generated JS for him instead of writing it himself. So probably some scaffolding tool.

2) Server side was returning HTML and not JS

But TBH I didn't really get the paragraphs meaning
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those neutrino's could be from anywhere in the universe. we measured them 3 hours before the light of the supernova because we were looking for them at that time
RIM is betting the farm on QNX, they have a death grip on it. If it goes anywhere it'll be down with the captain of the ship.

The only scenario in which QNX is likely to be sold, from what I can see, is when creditors are disassembling RIM piece by piece. At that point, is there enough of QNX left to save?
After about 20 million requests for their data and models by people who were motivated by god to disprove climate science, they got a little less open.

I don't think they're "secret" i think they assume anyone they haven't heard of who is asking for the info is a troll.
My word. The star wars technical commentaries. What a blast from the past. Thanks for that.
I might indeed tell him to use wordpress, the hosted/managed solution. Good easy website wizard. But I would also and tell him to never ask me to install or modify a theme or a plugin, and strongly advise not to try building cart or any stuff that dosen't fit the "good easy website wizard" description. Otherwise, this is a developpment disaster waiting to happen.
Can I ask what you found out when looking into it? Did you consider doing something in this space and decide against it?

We can take this discussion off HN, too. My email is in my profile.
IPCC AR4 models all listed with lots of information and links (although some now dead): http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/ipcc/model_documentation/ipcc_mode...

For example, the three models developed by NASA: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelE/ar4/

Direct links to each model + code + datasets:

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/modelE/ - with nightly code snapshots here: http://simplex.giss.nasa.gov/snapshots/

http://aom.giss.nasa.gov/ - with direct access to code here: http://aom.giss.nasa.gov/code.html and here: http://aom.giss.nasa.gov/code4x3.html

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/modelii/ - seemingly work on this has now been merged with the ModelE simulation.

Lots of other code and data is available if you take the time to find it ... and then considerably more time to understand it.
No. In this world, it is true that scientists rarely keep the data secret, more often than not, silly conspiracy theorist views notwithstanding.

Business-sponsored science is very often secret, but please don't attempt to paint, as the parent commenter disingenuously attempts to do, that scientists are the root of data secrecy.

There have been now six separate inquiries into the misguided, corporation driven, politically-motivated and frankly dumb charges that climate science data is faulty or is associated with some kind of scientific misconduct. All six separate inquiries indicated it was not:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_co...

Moreover, scientific organizations are overwhelmingly making changes that makes their data even more accessible:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Data+without+the+doubts%3A+the...
I love the answers to this question.

If you need to build a quick site and add functionality rapidly, WordPress and the proper plugins are an excellent solution. Alternatively, if your goal is to build a complex site that's geared toward a single purpose. It's probably not the right tool.

The decision should be based on the application not ego.
From a performance point of view: test and measure! Find the worst bottleneck, and reduce it. Rinse and repeat.

NewRelic is a great tool to help you do this.

Common performance problems to look out for in Rails are:

* Missing database indexes

* Long running code (eg PDF generation, file uploads to a third party) that should be put in a job queue

* Innocent looking ActiveRecord calls that use N+1 queries or fetch way too much from the DB and the result set is further reduced in Ruby
Shoot me an e-mail i'll send 'em over tonight when I'm done with work and back at home.
You don't typically put your life scrapbook on your front porch.
They're going to chart a path like SGI. From industry leader to historical footnote.
Yes, that is what it means. :)
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For definitions of "repeatedly pushed to do so" that mean "asked on occasion by language trolls on the mailing lists who aren't even kernel devs". ;)
Terrible, just terrible ideas.

This is looking only through the perspective of the content creator, ignoring the client. We're only just know trying to add some structure to the content, and we already have Microformats, RDFa and Microdata, all with incompatible formats and semantics. Now we couldn't even rely on the semantics of HTML?

He sees the web as a app distribution mechanism and the browsers as just dumb viewers. I think the web is much more than that: it's an information distribution mechanism, and that's only possible if there is standardization of protocols and formats.
Thank you for the sentiment, but I have no intention of applying.

I was just curious why the list appears to be so devoid of ecommerce companies. I strongly suspect the answer is somewhere along the lines of "same reason Henry Ford didn't manufacture buggy whips".

Besides, giving up 6% at only a $283k valuation would be insane, no matter how great the YC network is :)
I wonder why there are no internal talent in HP to replace CEO (you know, the second in command which will take control of the ship if CEO is hit by a bus).

Is there a company which is actively working on internal talent pool capable of replacing the acting CEO? (I can think only of Apple, but they are not typical corporation).
Yes. And you should probably internalize most of those externalities via a higher price for petrol (i.e. tax it).
This headline is terribly misleading. No one is "claiming" faster-than-light neutrinos. They simply have time measurements that aren't making sense because they show the neutrinos arriving a couple billionths of a second faster than they should, and they are opening up the findings to the wider scientific community to try and explain the anomaly.

It irks me when people sensationalize things and put the wrong spin on the data. Stop it.
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QnX will survive in one form or another if only because so many defense contractors rely on it. (and RTOS of course).

One can only hope that it would be open sourced under a permissive license in such a situation but I highly doubt that will ever happen.
I'd be hesitant to imply causality like that. Red light cameras could be very well placed at high accident intersections as an attempt to reduce accidents.
(I'm not claiming their effective at it, but that could be one of many reasons they're placed there.)
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It hurts just to think about that.

In a weird way I'm happy that Hewlett and Packard are not around to witness this, to see the work of a lifetime butchered like this is just too painful.
Are you sure the original mission was not to have it as a self-promotional toy?
In chrome I am just getting a blank page with some javascript errors. In IE I only can see the right half of the presentation. Mozilla is supporting FF well though :)
Thanks for the gross generalization! Some of us are highly technical, began in the technology field, and then got an MBA. Some of us have MBAs and can even code!
Once again, you say:

> Since gold's supply is relatively fixed, as the dollar declines due to inflation, the gold price will appreciate.

You are assuming that gold is "safe". It's not. If gold dives right when you need to pay back the card, you will start paying massive rates on the card. Not cool. Not even gold bugs suggest gold is a safe "no brainer" 6 month investment - there is a chance it will fall.

Big call - that gold will appreciate. Some people think that since the P/E of gold is effectively infinite, gold should be worth essentially nothing. Now, I'm fairly bullish on gold at the moment, but it's not guaranteed to appreciate. As credit collapses, cold hard cash becomes valuable, as you need it to buy the distressed assets of former paper-millionaires, or to invest in a much less congested market, or buy old tires to repair the soles of your kids shoes, so you actually go into deflation. And the US can sell off gold reserves if it gets in trouble (though there are conspiracy theorists who say this has already happened), and that would hurt gold prices.

If you get $10,000 from zero-interest credit cards, and put it a 6 month term 2% / year deposit, you debt is $10,000 (really $9,000 after massive inflation), while you get back $10,100 (really $9,090). So you made $100 (really $90, with some crazy inflation sucking up your winnings). A free $100 is arbitrage.

And old (and very similar) scheme was "Check kiting" - you cash a check (possibly for a very large amount), then deposit the money in your savings account (or use it as an emergency loan). Before the first check clears, you cash another check, and use it to cover the first one. If you miss a beat, you go to jail.

Instead of arbitraging the interest rates, you could make a leveraged bet on gold, houses (they always go up, because they 'aint makin' any more land, you know, and the population keeps increasing), shares, options, pork bellies, or cans of sardines. But the danger is, that some wacky market dynamic will wipe out your position, leaving you with a credit card debt you can't repay. Maybe you are a great investor, and know how to pick winners (and cover your downside) but great investors don't often need to borrow a few thousand off a credit card.
I think you are focusing too much on the admittedly very unfleshed out proposal for a solution, and less on what I think matters most, which is the acceptance of what I believe to be a problem with the web.

Perhaps this is my fault for ending on that point, but do you also disagree with all the other paragraphs? I ask this honestly, because if we can just agree on that much, then I totally agree that there are a number of options that are worth discussing to make the web competitive in a way that scales again.
Much of the early git scripts (e.g. git-pull) have been rewritten in C. Performance is one reason. Helping out win32 (where fork+exec is slow) is another.

$ ls -1 git-*.sh | wc -l
25
$ ls -1 git-*.perl | wc -l
9

Compare this to the built-in commands:

$ ls -1 builtin/*.c | wc -l
92

or all the C files:

$ git ls-files '*.c' | wc -l
306
It's important to note that the Board that hired Apothekar is very different from the Board that's firing Apothekar

See Cringley's post for more details.
I said earlier Whitman would be on my short list of bad choices for the job. I spent some time today thinking about who I would pick.

Someone with experience at a product company, that had to oversee design, manufacturing, and logistics. (Ebay is clearly not this.) Also, someone with experience at a services company with a track record of success. (Despite service--and SaaS--experience, Ebay "survived" rather than "succeeded", and in my judgement is not this either.) Someone who doesn't look to acquisitions as a primary way to expand the company's strategy. (Skype is evidence Ebay isn't this.) Someone who can communicate effectively with both the public and internal stakeholder. (A failed gubernatorial bid suggests few people were buying what Whitman was selling.)

In every relevant category, Whitman doesn't make the cut.
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I also assumed that the storage/bandwidth/computational costs of particle accelerator data sets would make open access practically useless
I'm pretty impressed. It looks cool, but actually seeing it with your own data is neat - it's like taking a trip back in time. So many things I've forgotten about!
That means that the last two digits of the number 1.00005129 are uncertain.

For example, they measured 1.00005129c, but maybe their uncertainty is +-0.0000001c. The last digits are unreliable, but are the measurements they got

EDIT: below, its claimed that those digits ARE the uncertainty. That quite possibly is it; my answer is from what i remember from uncertainty in my 1st year Physics course.
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This is the third time a link to this article has been posted. My original link was posted two weeks ago. Based on (the lack of) upvotes, rationality does not seem to be a topic of interest to Hacker News readers.
Works fine in Chrome (dev channel) here. I was a bit surprise to have load times (spinning wheel & all) between each and every page though.
Actually they are.
> but that's going to take months - months I could be working on some other project.

Then get someone else to do it. Is there anyway you could automate the brewery discovery and addition process such that you could distribute the actual thought process work through something like Mechanical Turk?

It's just the first that occurs to me reading through your post. If you could offload that task to machines/other people you could focus on more value-add features, moving the project forward.
No errors for me in Chrome 14 on Win7. It is broken in IE 9.
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"Now imagine a world where the browser ran something
lower level. Where Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Opera,
and Apple’s jobs in providing a browser more resembled
Intel’s job of providing a chipset: they simply
provided hooks for basic technologies like sound,
camera, movies, geolocation, etc. And on top of that,
we the developers wrote HTML, CSS, JavaScript"

here lies the problem, coffeescript was cited in the article, you yourself wrote or at least worked with obj-j, there is haml and sass, writing alternatives to javascript / html / css is not a problem, people are doing it all the time. If browsers cant provide access to higher level API's in a complete and consistent manner, how do we expect them to provide low level ones?

There are 2 main problems with the web right now that I can see being brought up repeatedly

1. Devices / Lower level API's, new android devices have access to the camera but all things considering that is very weak, why do we not have standard solutions for clipboard access, device apis, filesystem apis, storage etc

Phonegap are doing great work for this on mobile, Mozilla have also talked about this in their mobile browser, if phonegap can do this cross platform then how in the hell can browser manufacturers not? why doesnt firefox already ship with this support on the desktop?

2. is performance, is javascript going to ever be fast enough that we can build rich applications and games, right now the smallest page animation triggers ridiculous stuttering, is it javascripts problem or the doms? is it fixable with current solutions? blazing fast hardware accelerated webgl or canvas doesnt matter if the host language cant lookup a variable without random second long pauses.

nacl is often brought up as the solution here, but I have a hard time seeing how providing a sandbox to execute native code is gonna help me build a nice mobile app that uses web technologies (forms, links, standard tools for accessibility) and can still do a decent page transition without stuttering

This article doesnt seem to draw any conclusions about how to solve these, and the "everyone can be the owner of the web" seems almost like its apologizing for Joe Hewitts confusingly completely off base conclusions.

I dont have any answers either, but happy that the conversation is being started.
Yes, it is -the- basic assumptions for special relativity. And no, it doesn't just change our understanding of photons, it changes everything, since it's all connected. All theories I've looked at so far have (at least in higher versions) incorporate relativitity.

(Another basic assumption, this time for general relativity, is the equality of inertial and gravitational mass, which is not a self-evident thing. However, so far no difference has been found. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C3%B6tv%C3%B6s_experiment)
I just used Keynote's export feature. I'll upload to slideshare.