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> "The point is that if physical law is deterministic..."

Under current QM, it doesn't appear that things like alpha decay happen predictably or at one time vs another for any reason. And that isn't simply a problem of not knowing the state of the system; hidden variable theories have not met with empirical success.

So, imagine we could have two universes, both with our laws of physics, and identical up to time=0. Current QM allows that at t=1 in one universe radioactive decay occurs which then produces chain of events A, while in the other universe at t=1 there is no decay and thus chain of events B. Why then call these universes and their physical laws deterministic? They seem rather not.
In case you're looking at this and somehow don't know about http://startupvisa.com/ , take a look and offer your support if so inclined. It would allow non-US entrepreneurs with funding from a US investor to get a visa to start a company. StartupVisa would be wayyy more beneficial than the housing thing... get folks to contribute to society, hire local workers, etc. Those local workers then can in turn buy homes, etc.
Stands para feira Hair Beauty 2011
A LPR realizou a montagem de stands para a feira Hair Beauty 2011 no Brasil. A feira de moda e beleza foi um sucesso e movimentou muita gente para ver as novidades.
http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-tender.aspx I found this to be an interesting read. Particularly " In fact, as we discussed in our earlier episodes, courts in a number of states have dismissed challenges to various no-cash policies."
Ask HN: Learning Django post-"Learn Python the Hard Way by Zed Shaw"
I've pretty much completed Zed Shaw's course, "Learning Python the Hard Way." Although at the beginning I was skeptical, I've really begun to grasp the semantics of the language and I feel his way to teaching really works for me.

Now that I have the basics down, I would like to really learn Django. Are there any Django apps with source code available that I can learn from by replicating the code?

I know I can stroll over to GitHub but as a novice, I'm concerned about the code being clean and I'm pretty sure I haven't developed an eye yet for what's clean and what's not.

Any recommendations?
Great post, this goes back to showing empathy when you are asking for something (help with a project, buying a product, blowjobs). Put yourself in their shoes and think "what would it take to make me say yes?"
It's defined in section 1861:

Every person in this state engaged in the business of buying, selling, trading in, or otherwise acquiring or disposing of junk or used or secondhand property, including but not limited to jewelry, silverware, diamonds, precious metals, ferrous materials, catalytic converters, auto hulks, copper, copper wire, copper alloy, bronze, zinc, aluminum other than in the form of cans, stainless steel, nickel alloys, or brass, whether in the form of bars, cable, ingots, rods, tubing, wire, wire scraps, clamps or connectors, railroad track materials, water utility materials, furniture, pictures, objects of art, clothing, mechanic's tools, carpenter's tools, automobile hubcaps, automotive batteries, automotive sound equipment such as radios, CB radios, stereos, speakers, cassettes, compact disc players, and similar automotive audio supplies, used building components, and items defined as cemetery artifacts is a secondhand dealer. Anyone, other than a nonprofit entity, who buys, sells, trades in, or otherwise acquires or disposes of junk or used or secondhand property more frequently than once per month from any other person, other than a nonprofit entity, shall be deemed as being engaged in the business of a secondhand dealer.
Yup, I totally get EROEI. But, it ignores possible efficiency improvements when it makes it's future projections. What do they say in the finance world? Something like "past performance is not an indicator of future returns."

What if in 5-10 years those engineers ride to work in self-driving robo-cars that are all electric, using cheap and powerful graphene-based super capacitors as batteries. They will have time during the commute to daydream about "wild" ways to make the fraking technology itself more efficient. And the all electric robo-cars are charged up from a cheap, efficient liquid fluoride-thorium reactor generator station. Or maybe the they are just daydreaming about an upcoming vacation to outer space while riding in luxury two-stage zepplins[1]. Oh, and the engineer is healthy and performing at peak mental and physical performance nearly continuously because he/she eats a ketogenic diet[2] centered around high-latitude reindeer herding products[3].

There are a lot of ways the world can be better.

[1]http://www.jpaerospace.com/

[2]http://www.ketogenic-diet-resource.com/

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomen_Company
Our understanding of thermodynamics is very thorough. Our understanding allows us to make a plethora of predictions, all of which are falsifiable, and have been throughly tested over the years.

This is what makes our theories about thermodynamics real scientific theories.

Predictions about the future, no matter how simple or based on long running past trends, are only falsifiable in exactly one way: wait until the predicted date passes.

I think a very, very informal use of the term "law" could cover both. But what irks me as a science minded person, is that Kurzweil is attempting to equate the informal meaning of "law", generic description of a phenomenon, with the scientific "law", an actual testable, falsifiable theory with predictive powers.
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Well I'm sure there's nothing but good times for Lybians from now on right? /s Sorry but my framework of reference just doesn't allow me to buy into this as a great thing for freedom and "democracy"
Somewhat sad to see that they killed that guy.

Having him testify in Den Hague could have provided very interesting insights on how corrupt the so called "democratic" governments really are.
My old Palm IIIx was a much more useful productivity tool than this LG Android phone I'm using now. It was snappy, had a built-in suite of organization apps which worked extremely well, and I could input characters extremely quickly without even looking.

The thing that makes this smartphone superior is something which can disappear at any moment: connectivity. Using Google Navigation was pretty slick until I got to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, where there is no signal for hours. Luckily, Navigation caches map data, but if you switch to another app, it drops all theroute data on the floor.

Input is the worst aspect of smartphones. Keyboards aren't the solution. It's 2011, why do I still have to contorted my body to fit machines? Where is my skull implant, or brain wave sensing headband? This is the reason Siri will be awesome.
Google+ Backpedals On Its Real Names Policy
Man, with this idea I would jump straight on the Sincerely Ship API... Unfortunately, it's for iOS only, but you could imagine it being available for web apps soon.

Coverage: http://gigaom.com/2011/10/06/sincerely-postagram-api-develop...
Incentives that rewarded home ownership got us in this quagmire. I hate lobbyists.
Google Reader cutting internal social features, integrating into Google+
How to use Virtio on FreeBSD 8.2 for better performance.
Wait, what now?

If you release a project as open source having someone come along, repurpose it and use it is what you are hoping for. The entire idea is for people to use that source code that is now public to build new projects. You don't open source a project for the recognition. Why should it have to be sanctioned by Google? Why should it be endorsed by Google?

I can go out and download FreeBSD, strip all of the FreeBSD marks, and brand it bertBSD and I can do whatever the hell I want with it (following the license it is under). I don't need endorsement nor sanction from the FreeBSD foundation!
Thanks Bobby (re: pivot), TechStars has been amazing for us, just thought people should know.
And an m&a investment banker actually edits a file in word for 14 hours a day and on weekends. For the first 3-4 years he doesn't even get to come up with the content in those files.

It's amazing what people will do for "prestige".
Not if you're in a protected class, like being black.
Dropbox is in PR heaven (and rightfully so). At this point all they have to do is execute. Congrats to Drew, Arash, Ivan and the rest of the Dropbox team. Not only is the product awesome and useful, the dudes are very smart and nice as heck!
The only beneficiaries I can think of for this program would be rich capitalists from China and the Middle East who are exporting their gains and sinking them into foreign property already, and who would now get a fast-track for immigration as well.

I guess Congress would like to get campaign contributions from these people (once you have a green card, you can legally make political contributions to U.S. politicians).

Still waiting for Congress to do something - anything - for people who aren't millionaires (or indeed, are U.S. citizens).
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First, faster-than-light travel, now I just heard you can change IQ. "The big word part of the test." Actually, shrinks have been working on ways to change IQ a long time.
Lemony Snicket's Occupy Wall Street Observations
From the article...

"I realize that not everybody works on such elaborate file-shuttling projects. But try Dropbox for its ability to keep your important files everywhere at once. Or try it as an automatic, silent, encrypted backup of your essentials. Or try it so that you can get at your computer’s files from your phone."

When will Dropbox implement client-side encryption? Dropbox is a pleasure to use. Recommending Dropbox as a backup of certain documents is fine. Recommending Dropbox as a backup for important/essential documents where privacy is a concern is not ok.
>Well if that's your premise, then I think we're already done.

Why call one part of my brain me, but not the other part of my brain me? I took jerf's point to be that the part doing the awareness/recording can be different from the part deciding, but that doesn't mean the part deciding isn't me.
Needed a co-founder  how to find one?
I doubt that's true if you're in a protected class, as defined by the appropriate laws.
Don't forget about the massive amount of information stored in society (customs, language, etc). You have to download all of this info through the course of your life.
We're a TechStars NYC class this year (Contently), and the program has been an amazing experience. Harvard has good and bad students; YC turns out great companies and duds alike (though not very often, for sure!). I'm sad that Melanie had a bad experience, but TBH it wasn't for lack of support in the program, or for lack of amazing mentors and networking experiences.

Reality TV is a pretty bogus misrepresentation of actual reality, anyway. I'm glad they didn't film our class!
There were videos of Duke Nukem Forever running before it was released, and until its release it was still considered vaporware.

To me it sounds like an accurate term to use. As for Windows 8, I am happily running the alpha they made available so no, Windows 8 is not vaporware.
okay Senate for sale business as usual..nothing to see here
They don't even have to change anything - a VISA isn't a guarranteed right of entry.

You just need minimum wage guy at the airport desk to not like your face and you don't get in - no matter how many VISAs you have in your passport.
You can of course try and correct the problem from the other country after you have been denied entry - if you can get an airline to carry you.
Sounds to me like a complete open sourced code is going to come to a decision when Google acquires Mototola Mobility... Will that be then end or a tweaked version for external developers?
And that's why McCain is a RINO.

/sarcasm
Great. I knew this day would come.

Guess I need to speed up my work on a Google Reader replacement.
I am also talking economics.

The customer would have loved for it to go faster, because then it would have looked like magic.

In 1998, it would have been nice if I had had photo-realistic computer games, but I patiently made do with what I had. Today, people eagerly shell-out money for hardware that can run this year's even-more-photorealistic version of Madden Football.

I think the demand for more power is definitely there.
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That is the source code for the open source stuff that Apple uses in their product, it is not the full OS itself.
OWS anger at corporate bailouts, lack of work, and wealth inequality. Economist's answer? Lower marginal tax for the rich and higher retirement age for workers.

Would you expect anything less?
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I guess it's okay that he's dead, but I'm concerned about the way he was killed. A bunch of soldiers ran into his house, stripped him, dragged him through the streets, and shot him at some point. That is some Trojan War shit.

I'm still not convinced that the Middle East is civilized... which is why I'm an isolationist.

I'm not very reassured by this quote from the transitional government spokesperson: “We were serious about giving him a fair trial. It seems God has some other wish."
Naah. Giving sweet-heart deals to people with a lot of money isn't out-of-the-box thinking - it's older than the hills. Out-of-box thinking would include enforcing consumer protection laws, strong oversight of large businesses, and progressive taxes. That sort of thinking hasn't been so common over the last few decades.
Trouble is that it must be from a US investor.

So it's the same slave labor problem as H1B.
If you don't like anything the investor suggests after you have moved then he withdraws the funding and you get deported.

Can we think of how a good capitalist VC might use that to their advantage?
You know, in this case 'harder to detect' means 'can write reasonably well'. What's the problem with getting reasonably well-written books that happen to have been written by a program? We already get reasonably well-written books that happen to have been written by ghost writers all the time, and nobody claims it's fraudulent that the person named on the cover didn't write the thing.
If you're curious about Ordasity's load balancing strategies, check out Section 4: "Distribution / Coordination Strategy" in the docs: https://github.com/boundary/ordasity

The code is also fairly straightforward to follow if you'd like to take a glance in the repo as well.
Most likely paid PR. Journalists are lazy and they already written articles.
The super tall skyscrapers are indeed an economical disaster in them selves, but they skyrocket the value of the surrounding land. The Saudi Prince who's building the Kingdom Tower owns a considerable amount of land around the building site so he'll make a lot of money off the land he sells. It kind of reminds me of how Google makes money with adverting on their free products.
No Love at Google
What is Christmas,Christmas Festival 2011
For some reason the link points to Part 2 of the article.

Part 1 is: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisHildenbrand/20111015/866...
It looks like quicksand doesn't have text search, and is also about twice the size (14KB).
What are the other types that can be applied to workUnit in the startWork?

It would be ideal to support Thrift protocol transports too
At Twin Cities Maker a few of our members are undergoing a project to turn these into a large color changing glass block wall. It's been a pretty cool project to watch.

http://www.tcmaker.org/wiki/doku.php?id=projects:led_signboa...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eagletusk/6259626384/
"more frequently than once per month from any other person, ... shall be deemed as being engaged in the business of a secondhand dealer."

So more than one Ebay a month and you are a dealer.
In the Spring and Autumn, many sports nuts go through a flurry of second-hand sales and purchases. I’m selling a couple of pairs of mountain bike tires right at this moment, so if I were in LA, I would break the law if I accepted cash for a $25 pair of tires.

Nice!
Buying citizenship / visa is long standing practice. Government subsidising, bailing out industries is long standing practice.

This routine, far from out of the box.
For me this was the best talk I've seen in a long while. It reminded me of how I felt when I first read PG's essays, someone articulating your own suspicions whilst going further and deeper and bringing you to a place of enlightenment and clarity.

BTW for those of you who haven't watched it, this talk is not Clojure specific.
Too bad it must be at least $500,000. The first that came to mind was to buy a derelict house in Detroit somewhere, and then automatically getting a US visa!
Why limit yourself to US jobs?
Security Flaw Links BitTorrent Users to Skype Accounts
what exactly you are looking for?
I don't see a problem in these being the only beneficiaries, right now, they are already getting EB5 visas if they invest in a business. This approach would be similar, except with the added benefit of solving the issue (or at least help) of the housing market. I think this is a really creative approach.
At least post-MS Gates does deserve some esteem imo. He's putting his billions to work into bettering the world in ways that are registering before our very eyes, after all.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128320

It seems to me that he's made a careful calculation about how he can make the biggest difference in the world, and has set about doing it.
So its ok for other people to link to this story but not me? Really arbitrary moderation here.
I think Phase tracking GPS chipsets are still pricey - outside surveying applicatiosn there isn't much demand.
How does this compare with akka (http://akka.io)?
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I agree with your conclusions, but

> the onus of proof inevitably lies with the guy saying "This is what's going to happen", not the guy saying "Ehh, maybe not".

I'd say that the onus lies on the one making conjunctions instead of disjunctions. Often, negative predictions are disjunctions, but this isn't always the case: Compare "in 2100, North America will be inhabited by humans" with "Ehh, maybe not."
The list.js is completely and easily readable.
focus on getting what u want instead of focusing on being right. This is excellent advice.

If the boss deserves a negative assessment then he deserves to get one. Yes, but not without speaking with him first, giving him a chance to correct himself or working something out with the OP. It is wrong to come at anyone from the left field. Just like an employee does not deserve getting fired w/o fair warning, the boss does not like being written about to HR about without ever communicated with first.

Note: I am comparing firing with a bad review because they are both the strongest action the given party can take against the other.
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Well, if it prevents thieves from selling their stolen goods to legitimate dealers and forces them to go to specialist "fences", then the law could certainly help achieve its objective of making life more difficult for thieves.

The question is whether the law does too much to hassle the innocent to make it worthwhile.
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I linked to part 2 because part 1 doesn't have a link to part 2, and part 2 has a link directly to part 1 at the beginning. I figured it would be easier for people to see both parts this way. Sorry if I caused any confusion.
Could you then work around this law by issuing a note of credit to the customer, and then taking their cash to pay off the note?
The latter is exactly what I thought!
Akka & Ordasity have somewhat different goals and each takes a different approach. Apple/Oranges.
New Public APIs in Ice Cream Sandwich
Simply trade the goods for a debt obligation due immediately.

This isn't to catch b&e artists it's to catch people not paying taxes.
I thought it was unreasonable for him to choose to compare to the second law of thermo, which is lawful in a much stronger way (very precisely stated, understood in a quantitative way at microfoundations...) than the pattern in accelerating returns that he's pointing out. There are dozens or hundreds of comparisons he could have made, he didn't need to pick one which is so central and stable that thinking one has found a way around it has become a classic sign of being a crank. It would be more reasonable to choose to compare to some other pattern that is generally understood to be important in economics --- e.g., returns to specialization or returns to capital investment.
So (and my eyes glazed over that huge list of objects) the threshold is "more than once a month"? That sounds... far too broad.
They do have that, it's "with Google". Android phones that follow Google's platform guidelines can put a "with Google" logo on the device, otherwise they cannot.
How to bring good design to a platform
Great list of bootstrapping advice. You haven't included a section on pricing, though, and I'm curious what quirks, problems and insights you've encountered. It seems as though the domain name business might have some unique challenges for a start-up...
Not a lot of detail here, but lots of folks using it: http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Clojure+Success+Sto...
first.. identify their role, and yours. Be clear about it. It's the first thing they'll ask you after you tell them what the company will be doing. The lines need to be very well defined, especially if you don't know this person, so that the roles don't conflict.

Before you "find" one, do the above. Then repost :)

Cheers
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How to create a futuristic hero.
In theory if high-end prices go up, it should have a cascading effect with lower-end prices going up to fill the vacuum.
$500,000?

The number of people for whom visas are the only barrier to buying a home in the USA and would spend over 500k on one is probably way too small to have any real impact on the housing market.

Why not $5k? There are plenty of houses going for dirt cheap in the parts of the country hit the worst by the recession. It would mean more people taking advantage of the program and selling that cheap housing would have more of an impact on the housing market and overall economy.
It’s called “Journalists read the press, too”.
Go through the Django tutorial which you'll find in the django website, they're really helpful. Then go to showmedo.com's tutorials(they're a bit outdated but I think they really nail the concepts).

If you're not in a hurry though, and are new to web development, I'd really suggest learning Flask. It's a great introduction to web development in Python.
"Finding puts brakes on faster-than-light neutrinos", but 50% of the article is the opinion of other scientists against the results in question...
I'd like to see something like this for Backbone collections, e.g. it would take a query on model attributes and generate a subset of the original collection. Then any views (not just lists) tied to this subset would update automatically.

In fact I think with _.fiter() you could probably do this in a few lines.