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Not so fast Skeptical take on FTL neutrinos from Bad Astronomy
Correction, my bad: estimated time dilation variations integral along the neutrinos path is several orders of magnitude smaller than the billionth.
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You should never drive a Hyundai either, they're so poorly constructed and slow compared to a Ferrari.

Wordpress solves a real-world need that a lot of people have, and does it very well. Not everyone needs an elegantly engineered custom application to throw up a few blog posts.
How do you do the "who's here?" in hubbot? of all the things when I'm managing teams, knowing physical locations of people was always the pain.
He at least used to make an annual list and score himself later:
2011: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
2009: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20081216_0055...
2006: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070105_0014...

For 2009 he scores himself 4 right and 11 wrong, which is certainly broken clock territory, but he's usually decent for a pundit.
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While exposing everything will be noisy, I think facebook wants to collect all your activity so that it can learn and automatically share what you might manually share... It's the hard way of ultimately removing friction from manual sharing.
I'm not selling the devices - I'm selling the expertise ;-) How do you know the best time and place to buy, say, a Mattel Aquarius or an A-series Unisys mainframe on an ISA board?
It will definitely change drunken human history. If you're a drinker - this will suck to see your drunken history played out. If you're a Mormon, it's probably okay. Personally, I think Facebook must be stopped for the good of mankind.

http://mankabros.com/blogs/onmedea/2011/09/01/facebook-must-...
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I hear Carol Bartz was available. Guess she'll now have to wait another 12 months or so.

Actually on second thoughts I'm thinking Balmer. At least MS employees would be happy...
If the beam is narrow enough, you'll have a larger number of detections inside the region the beam occupies while the rest of your detector will present normal activity. While you can't be sure if the neutrinos are coming or going, the odds some unknown neutrino beam source appeared in direct opposition to the one you knew about are very slim.

You can also filter by time - you create a source and expect a surge of detections shortly after. In this specific case, they saw the surge before they expected it, indicating the neutrinos traveled faster than they should.
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Pls correct my if I'm wrong.

I see the idea:
1) Write htmls (with some rules, e.g. add '.actionable' class)
2) Library turn them to js codes.

Benefits:
1) Write zero js codes.
2) Make basic and repetitive functionalities eaiser.

But, just wondering, why don't you wrap codes which deal with basic and repetitive functionalities into js functions then reuse them, but write a library to turn htmls codes to js codes?

My question is, html has its job and js has its, too. Is it a good idea to mix them?
In this Google v. Facebook thing people seem to forget that G+ isn't Google's core business but Facebook is Facebook's so the bigger investment in social is going to come from them.
Once you set them in motion, you pretty much expect them to continue in that direction until they hit something, which, in the case of neutrinos, is incredibly unlikely.
It will definitely cause me to delete a lot of things from my first couple years on Facebook, that's for sure.
Yellow lights (and all-red periods) are useful because drivers need a transition time between "go" and "stop" to allow them to react safely. Demanding that all drivers always stop at all yellow lights effectively turns the yellow light into a red light, and drivers are forced to switch instantaneously between "go the speed limit" and "stop."

All-red periods are also useful at intersections where traffic backs up and blocks the intersection for a few seconds, not because drivers entered the intersection when traffic was stopped, but because events down the street or at an adjacent light may cause traffic to stop suddenly with drivers already in the intersection.
>i think, if they integrate Earth gravity time dilation variations along the neutrinos path.

Isnt that effect in the reference frame of the neutrinos and not the measuring instrument(I'm not too sure about this)?....And also wouldnt it mean that the neutrinos take more time instead of less time?
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That's what I was grasping for with caching, and I think I got carried away thinking about preemptive caching and conflated an idea with a common use.

Either way, thanks. And, your article is fucking brilliant. I might ape its style soon in a few "Learn Perl" articles of my own.
No small relevant matter that Netfix runs on Amazon's EC2

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Haha! Yeah, things we all thought wouldn't be seen again... :) Thanks for the comment!
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These workshops look really good. Internet regulation, policy, encryption, privacy, etc. If you're on the fence, check out the speaker list: https://www.rightscon.org/speakers/
Speaking as someone who refuses good money when it involves working on Windows, because no one's offering me enough money for that level of pain...

Seriously, if you claim that a drawback of Windows is that it doesn't allow multi-user login, then it's hard not to ask "WTF are you talking about? Really, what are you talking about? Are you stuck in some circa-1995 reference frame? That doesn't even make sense!"

So I'm not sure that it was a personal remark. It may have just been honest lack of comprehension.
Caching is probably one of those things that if you have to be told to do it, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
And how many boards of multinational companies are you on?

I read the comment as "an MBA is their only qualification", not "MBAs are inherently incapable of understanding technology".
"We have data that suggest we saw particles moving faster than light and we are showing everybody the data because we must have made a mistake, but we can't find it by ourselves after trying a lot" is pretty much sensational enough for those who can understand the implications of the unlikely possibility they measured something that really happened.

The odds are they made a mistake. But, if they didn't, the universe just got much more interesting.
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To be honest I prefer the way it was before. Clicking the link would send the email. That was the beauty of it. Cluttering the interface with webforms all over the place will just make your service more like dozens of other out there.
Of course, you would have to require good descriptions from the project owners.

But I still love the interface love the simplicity of the interface. Email, never gets old.
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Sometimes I think this whole "G+ is gonna take over Facebook" mentality is just nonsense that the media themselves are trying to spread, not regular folks like us... Yes, people do think G+ has potential, but there's hardly anyone making a commotion about how it will overtake FB. It's just mostly people who want linkbait.
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This is the common wisdom in language pedagogy as well, however I haven't heard any hard evidence either. Would love to.
This article is annoyingly breathless about these new features.

I seem to stubbornly remain in the minority by thinking that, in the long term, Facebook doesn't matter. It's fluff. It's wildly popular, people love it, but it's still fluff. People like fluff.

The timeline is nice. It's... yeah, it's nice. I get it. And people will use it and love it, but it doesn't change a damn thing about the world. It's just nice.

Automatically sharing what you're playing on Spotify with your friends? Sure, that's nice... and companies will go crazy about what this means for virality and engagement and all those fun words. But ultimately, it's fluff.

Does any of that come even CLOSE to justifying "Facebook pulled an Apple"? Comparing the smartphone and tablet future as imagined by Apple, with all that implies in terms of accessibility and availability of computing, to... a digital scrapbook and a music ticker?
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Well the tax issue really does add to the likelihood. So what happens, Hastings retires?
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Not only that but in my experience there are far more options for processors within the US and they are not as conservative in some cases (or so it seems).

In Canada we have a number of processors but there are only two (TWO!) acquiring banks. TD and CIBC if I remember correctly. I believe that relationship has caused a monopoly at the top and extremely conservative processors here in Canada.

I base this on information I've gathered over the last year and a half as a merchant and represents my best knowledge of the industry - if I'm incorrect in any of this I'd love to hear it as it may provide a path for me to loosen some of the chains. It's very, very difficult to progress with an innovative payments model in Canada due to this.
Does anyone have a mirror of this, or screenshots? Facebook is blocked here!
Seems to me that Dwolla.com is the way to go. Payment cards online are going away.
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I hear you. I'm going to leave it as is for the next send and watch what happens. I think it's still sufficiently simple right now, since it only adds one click (which I think could be called a confirmation click) to the intro experience on the talent side. Time will tell, though.
It could be that this is just a separate world though. In my world, I wish to opt in and choose what I share. Perhaps in someone else's world, they wouldn't even consider not sharing something. Following what my family on Facebook do certainly convinces me that at least some people think that way.

For me, on the other hand, Facebook has put a ton of friction into sharing. Although I am a normally candid person, I find myself overconsidering whether or not I really, really should post what I'm about to. In the end, I go with self-censorship.
I followed these steps and it worked (cool, I guess) but then I was instantly faced with some old conversations and relationships that I didn't want on my wall. It appears that Timeline doesn't respect the Block settings already in place...

I've since turned Timeline off again, but I'm afraid it will instantly turn back on next week when this goes public. Does anyone know if this is the case? Or will Timeline be an opt-in only option?
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An old friend of mine is using machine learning techniques to predict levels of drought occurrence ranging from a few dry weeks to a hypothetical dust bowl.

It sounds purely educational and research driven, but his goal is to study drought's influence on the commodities markets, so there's a potentially lucrative end goal.
tldr: it's up to the OEMs whether or not to provide an (ugly and, considering the implication that other OSes are insecure, scary) option to disable secure boot.
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I think Flash gave browsers the 'excuse' to postpone the implementation of a real standard solution, that we're only know seeing the first steps of.

I bet we'd have seen the video tag on browsers years ago if Flash wasn't there with a poor (GPU acceleration only last year, FFS!) but working solution.
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It doesn't surprise me that they're able to do this. What does surprise me is how much the composite video looks like something out of Minority Report. It fulfills my fantastical right-brained expectation of what this kind of "mind reading" should look like—blurry, disjointed, imprecise impressions of a scene—and also makes sense to my left brain as I try to imagine the underlying machine learning algorithms.
>as a member of HP’s board of directors for the past eight months, Meg has a solid understanding of our products and markets.

8 months to solid understanding of HP products and markets?
That's one customer less then :) That's ok. I think there are arguments for being in closed beta though. (founder here)
The epitome of process is CMMi/ISO-900x. I think of this in terms of a trade-off graph:

Vertical axis: How many different items you can build

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Horizontal axis: How many identical items you can build.

The limit as process "strength" goes to infinity is that company can only build one thing (but millions of that one thing).

The limit as process "strength" goes to zero is that the company can build anything anyone can dream up, but cannot make a second identical thing.
Yea I've just found out how to enable it and have been looking at it. It certainly is initially exciting, but is it a killer feature? I have my doubts. That said I appreciate everyone (yourself included) that took the time to explain their POV in detail.
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The paper is now up: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897
I think this is an awesome idea, and I think it could be carried beyond Klout too -- number of Twitter followers, number of foursquare friends, friends with known big names, etc.

I could see the best audience being upscale venues (clubs, expensive restaurants, etc.) but with the difficulty that understanding technology like foursquare is sometimes a barrier. But alas, you're removing that barrier.

Good business idea? Yeah, but marketing big will be a challenge. Thankfully you already have the tech down!
The author is completely missing the point. Implicit sharing allows for everything to go into the graph in a structured way. This is the most important aspect of implicit sharing and the new Open Graph.

This doesn't mean that you're going to get inundated with meaningless shares. That would be a horrible user experience. In fact, Facebook put a lot of time and effort into making sure that is exactly what didn't happen. It's the very reason why timeline was built. It's why ticker was built. They did this because they want a place for the increased sharing to go, without degrading user experience.

But here's the really exciting part. Once all this data is in the graph, timeline and ticker will pale in comparison to what developers can do with all of this new, structured data. That is the really important thing here.

Implicit sharing is not so that you can get a notification every time someone listens to a song. It's so that a talented young developer can come along and create a beautiful application that visualizes all of your song listens, how it makes you similar or different from your friends.

Don't worry Farhad. Explicit sharing and taste isn't going away. I will still pay more attention to the link you posted of that song you love than the song that blips by in my ticker. I wouldn't criticize the new graph until its matured and we've seen the next generation of amazing apps that are going to be enabled.
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I'm frustrated with my job but don't feel that I can find anything else that is as flexible given the work climate. I miss 1999 when I was able to walk into my bosses office, say "I want a $15,000 raise," and he said "OK" with no hesitation.

So I decided to start doing independent software development at home so I can free myself in the future. I just picked up a book on Android development after being inspired by some people here on HN. Just hoping an idea or two hit before I'm done with the book.
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Hi hackers,

long time reader, first time "real" submitter.

This is by no means a revolutionary idea, or even execution, but rather something I've always wanted to do, just to see if I could write a good implementation of it.

So without further adieu: http://ca.pitali.st/

Yes, it's just an URL shortener. Please check out the API and if there anything you like about it, please share, so I can take this feedback with me to my future projects.

If there's something you REALLY hate, that's feedback too. Don't be afraid to hurt my feelings; this was put together in less than 4 hours to see if I could beat the 100+ lines of the node js link a few days ago (and I did. this is 97 lines + 6 lines of RewriteEngine).

The reason I submit this is for useability feedback mainly. To get more in contact with "the consumer" (even though I doubt anyone would use this service, but I'd really like it if I could get some consumer feedback).

That's my description, have a good day.

- klapi
Your second point is moot. 280slides proved high quality desktop class applications are possible on the web. Cappuccino helped reinforce that fact by providing several more apps, some of which rival even their desktop counterpart (picsengine, which no longer accepts new subscribers, is just as capable as iPhoto. In fact my father actually like Picsengine better!)

Recently the new iCloud applications show that sexy animations are also possible on the web, if you're willing to put time into polishing it!

Performance on the web hasn't _really_ been an issue in years. The real issue is bad developers set the bar for web applications very low.
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That's exactly what it is. Looks like it will be live for everyone next week. Once you make the change and publish it, however, it's only available to other Dev-enabled FB profiles to see. Everyone else still sees the old profile.
I think it does have value, but a few things that struck me as "must dos":

- make it better for mobile, since that's likely the platform I'll use in a strange city. Maybe this is part of the graphic design piece that you were talking about.

- make it easier to see ALL the breweries/beers near me. I would think that would be the main page instead of one at a time (I hate refreshing the page)

If this project was dropped in my lap, I would do this:

- work on UX above all else (and before data entry). Make it easy and enjoyable to see what breweries are near me and to add breweries and beers.

- focus on a single geographic area for data entry. I'm in Chicago, so I would make this a killer website to visit if you're visiting Chicago. Promote it heavily in Chicago (Facebook ads is super targeted and great for something like this, you can target beer drinkers ages 21 - 40 in Chicago only, and might even be able to narrow it further).

- Let users add content for additional cities if it becomes popular in your homebase. Remember, we already made it really easy to do that in step 1.

- I might even look into signing up bars to be listed on the site as carrying a particular beer/brewery when a user is near their location. In exchange they put up your flyer. Free promotion if the functionality is there.

I think there is definitely value here, but I would devote some serious time to improving UX before data entry. As others have said, there are ways around doing the data entry, but not too many ways around good user design.
In other words taking the "you" out of sharing. "You" isn't you, it's facebook.
I'm afraid you don't understand the point of arbitrage, at all.

As others have said, by definition, an arbitrage is risk free (or, in practice, nearly risk free).

Buying extremely risky Greek Bonds, with borrowed USD, is just making a leveraged investment.

Considering the transaction costs you'll pay, as a small time buyer, and the various worked in charges, you will certainly be losing out, when the risk etc is factored in.

Its a bad way to fund your startup; its up there with buying lottery tickets, or playing roulette to make more money: might work out ok, sometimes, or even all the times you try it - but its a negative expectation thing to do.
That's just a summary of the blog post that this thread is about, and IMO it's inaccurate; to me Sinofsky's post seems to confirm everything Garrett wrote.
The straight lines in the background in the reconstructed video seem unrealistic. If my understanding of human vision is correct, we don't see things like a 2D pixelated display but with varying degrees of focus on items, backgrounds, and people. It's not like I see a straight line on a wall or floor and my brain does Bresenham's.
I always figure my life is archived thoroughly enough by the e-mails I send and receive for me to reconstruct any period in reasonably high resolution.
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I totally agree. We have the opposite problem as well where I live - around schools there are zones that are 40km/h (25mph) at certain times in the day, and you see cops around there all the time, nabbing people going 45km/h at 2:02pm, an hour before any school kids will be in the area... If the periods were more sensible (say, spanning the 30 or 45 minutes when kids are being set down and picked up, not two hours on either side) it would make it a lot better, but as it is, it feels more like revenue raising than anything else.
Silicon Valley just collectively cringed upon hearing this news.
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Everyone will be getting Timeline, but if you'd like to send me a more detailed email, I can file a bug for you.

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Gold is not the same as USD. It is a different asset to USD, and carries different risks.

The Greek Bonds you mention, you also consider 'money'. Well, not all 'money' is the same. That's why you get paid more if you buy Greek bonds than if you buy German Bonds, to the same Euro value: risk premium.

Its not arbitrage if you are just being paid for taking on risk, by definition.
Ah, thanks for the input on scaling. Good call - will worry when it comes.
I retract my views in light of Timeline.
This is the real paper (from the physcs preprint archive). 174 authors!
Netflix’s financial flexibility is quite limited, while Amazon’s is virtually unlimited.

Jeff Bezos didn't get rich by losing money. The licensing cost alone for all the content people want is higher than the current price of Netflix streaming.
Many of those projects are poorly defined and ask too much work for the payment. The OP is asking for projects at a lower cost and lower time commitment, not devalued work.
This seems like the common point in each of these comments. Optimizing my ActiveRecord queries will be my first todo.
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