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Fortunately, I have my account registered with a spamtrap email address, a username/password that I have never used elsewhere, and a very low limit credit card.

Same here. But I am a bit sad that my paranoia has been confirmed yet again.
If we look at Moore's Law as it was originally stated, i.e., w/r/t transistor density on chips, then yes, it is up against a serious obstacle in the near future. That obstacle is quantum physics. Below a certain nanometer count, you're working at truly atomic scale, and Heisenberg effects start to kick in.

Quantum computing may solve this issue, but realistically, probably not at a pace quick enough to keep Moore's Law operating on track the way it has been historically. More likely, we'll hit a plateau for awhile and eventually shatter it. When that happens, computers will be very different machines from what they are now. The shift from transistor-based computers to quantum computers will be akin to the shift from vacuum tubes to transistors.

In the meantime, we're probably just going to load up and more and more parallel processors.
It is a constant theme to say that Moore's party is over. But there are massive $$ incentives to maintain it and it is likely to continue in some form or another -- either in terms of power consumption, multiple cores, specialized instructions, etc.

I figure that chips will become much more 3D, almost like cubes, instead of flat rectangles, with just enough freespace to allow for cooling of one sort or another.

Graphene and other substrates that allow for faster chips at cooler temperatures is also a good bet for future chip improvements.
Zynga executives were especially concerned with not creating a "Google chef" scenario.

That reference relates to Google's 2004 IPO when one of the company's chefs, who was hired in the firm's early days, walked away with $20 million worth of stock after the shares went public.

This is something to take note of. You might be able to see the reality of a chance to make $X being worth a small fraction of X, but don't expect everyone else to see it after the fact. If you are relying on executives, judges or anyone else to see that you were compensated with a lottery ticket worth $1000 and lucked into $20m rather then that you were just somehow compensated $20m especially if they have an interest in seeing it the latter way, you need to take into account that they might not.
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I don't see how violence would be a better answer.
This story brought up to memory the scam-ville post by arrington from 2 years ago http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...
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This is slightly ridiculous as it misses the basic point: talent. People are not born equal. This is only of interest as a glimpse into how people with high ability organize their time.
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Ask HN: What exactly does the 'developers' of HTML do?
As I see it, it is the browsers who interperate (?) the .html files. So does the HTML-devs "only" create a specification the browser-developer should expect from the .html-files? Or is there more?
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That's a very good point well put. "Simple account" might even be a description of the level of account you have, causing further confusion.
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I'm all for a meritocratic culture, but sorry Mark, this has nothing to do with merit. People who believed in you joined your company early and invested in it. Irrespective of their performance, it's not their fault that their bet was right and now that you're on the verge of success, you have to pay up. Deal with it. If you're concerned about their performance, let them go based on that and not an ultimatum to return stock.
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Well, they could have done a multivariate test if there was enough traffic to make it statistically significant and tested all combos, like GWO allows.
Moore's Law doesn't explicitly say anything about density:

The most popular formulation is of the doubling of the number of transistors on integrated circuits every two years.

(WP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores_law#Other_formulations_a...)

So the density needs to increase only of the size if the size integrated circuit cannot increase.
Doesn't it stop being paranoia if you are correct?
The UK as well, we have "media" students from nth-tier "universities" like London Met strolling through the streets demanding their right to a job. The old attitude, call it Protestant or Anglo-Saxon or just plain English, is dying out, replaced by entitlement culture from the EU.
IANAL either :-)

"Am I protected against unfair dismissal?"

"In most circumstances you must have at least one year's continuous service before you can make a complaint to an employment tribunal."

From:

http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1797
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Try this: shave your eyebrows and then run 5 miles. Ok by now you should have a significant amount of sweat pouring directly into your eyes, does it hurt? are they swollen? can you see well enough to throw a spear at a reindeer?
The outcome here may become a clarification of what vested shares means. If I'm not mistaken, vested shares evolved out of the practice of just giving shares to employees at the start in order to guarantee that they wouldn't just take the shares and run.

If this is deemed legal it will probably eventually become standard and vested shares will become negotiable. If this happens, what are vested shares anyway? What would be the difference between vested shares and just issuing shares (or options) periodically?
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When I developed a RSA based application I was worried about quantum computers breaking it (which proved false, I should had worried more about marketing). Now it seems that there is a flaw in quantum cryptography itself, which actually is not a cryptography in classical meaning, but rather a way of securely transmitting data.
So what if HTML5 doesn't technically include CSS3 and JavaScript. It's helpful to have a simple term for "the collection of web technologies that allow rich UI applications in browsers released ~2010." HTML5 fits the bill. Look at what the term "AJAX" did for AJAX, even if you weren't using XML.
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I don't get the "its syntax turns forty", as if it was a bad thing.

If those who attempt to devise a more "modern" syntax come up with things such as Visual Basic, then I'm happy with an ancient syntax.
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That github page says: "Nothing to see here yet. Move along." Are you sure you really uploaded it?
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Wouldn't it just be easier and cheaper to print a barcode on each product and let customers use it to verify the authenticity of the product using a web site?
To expand on your point: I remember that pre-IPO articles about Google always mentioned the great working conditions, including the amazing meals in the cafeteria. Recruitment material from Google touted the chef as a major reason for working there. People talked about Google as the de-facto model for treating your employees well "look they even have a good chef". Given how much that chef played a role in Google's name making, he certainly deserved every penny he made.
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Thank you CReber. I do like my current company and the people I work with. I think I'm going to let my boss know I have an offer and that I don't REALLY want to leave, and try to get a little bump in my pay anyway. My heart is telling me to stay.
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Discover lets you (last time I used it was a few months ago).
Presumably "easier and cheaper" implies "easier to fake" too. I guess the NFC solution has enough cost attached to it to make replicating it impractical for counterfitters?
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I'm in academic biology and have several friends that currently work for biotech/pharma or have previously. A couple of notes:

-Academic labs are chronically underfunded and constantly fighting for grants. Most labs don't buy equipment unless they absolutely have to.

-Most academics are Luddites. That excel spreadsheet 8000 pages long works just fine, why would we want to change it?

-The revolving door of staff/students in most labs makes it difficult to institute changes, because as soon as you get something up and running a new batch of people com in to break it or ignore it

Regarding big pharma, they refuse to use any software that wasn't developed and deployed in house on the basis of security issues. They also don't care to purchase anything that can be purchased from India for a tenth of the cost.

Big pharma does not care about their scientists. My friend was not allowed to purchase pens and he was a senior scientist. They had their lights turned off during the day by management to save money.
> I have no sympathy for you whatsoever.

But would you start twitting everything to 'teach them a lesson'? How about puncturing tires on their car?

So it was inconsiderate for them to shout in public, OK, it doesn't make it right for others to be assholes to try to 'teach them a lesson' or to somehow pimp out the incident for publicity.

Also, if one was to apply some kind of absolute morality to this, shouldn't the disintegration of a marriage be a bigger issue to worry about than having to hear public arguments?

> These two idiots.

Are you sure they are idiots? Have you personally tested their level of intelligence.

Remember you are also in public, if public display of emotions, loud noises, yelling, kids bother you _that_ much, you should stay more and more inside, as you have no choice but to be constantly irritated.
Somebody posted a link to a comment on this, which seems to imply that the experiment they did is not really published - it might as well be fiction.

Do you know the invisible dragon story (I think by Carl Sagan)? It is not the same kind of invisible as an electron.

And the bit about science is nonsense. Once you have acquired some knowledge you can use it. For example once you have worked out physics, you can build bridges. You don't need to build 100 bridges for every bridge you want to build to verify that your bridge will stand.

It is true, I don't know the claim here is false. All I am saying is that it is unlikely to be true. That is not science of course. Nobody would publish a paper about a belief.

There are concepts like Occams Razor that are also part of science. We never know anything anyway - we only have degrees of belief.
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So the question becomes; why are they firing you? Is it to prevent you from keeping your part of the agreement or because you're crap? Stupidly, Zynga has proven that it was not the latter.
No, he's correct. RMS uses the recipe analogy often, though he uses it as a free software analogy (i.e. cooks have freedom with recipes, recipes are like programs, why can't users have a similar freedom with programs).
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Maybe a better argument would be the other way round: if that positive effect could be had by shining light on the brain, the skull would be more transparent. Anyway, yes, everything is possible. But I am not betting my money on this...
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You can tell startup that you have some unfinished project at the old job and you want to finish it part time.

If startup fails - I'm sure the old firm will take you back and even with a rise, because you'll have more experience. (I know some cases when people left one firm and then came back with a rise).
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10. Publicity.

Neither party may make any public statement regarding the relationship contemplated by this Agreement without the other party’s prior written consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) Customer is permitted to state publicly that it is a customer of the Service, consistent with the Trademark Guidelines, and (b) Customer consents to Google’s use of Customer’s name in a general customer list, but only if Customer is not the only Customer appearing on the list. For clarification, neither party needs to seek approval from the other if the party is repeating a public statement that is substantially similar to a public statement that has been previously approved.
That's what I was thinking of. But, like I said, I doubt little ear lights are a substitute for giant light panels.

Then again, maybe they are. It's just too suspicious.
Capitalism only works if someone is the toilet. China refuses to be the toilet. Other countries with large populations are also becoming industrialised, as such, will refuse to be used as our toilet.

Sarcastically speaking, this couldn't come at a better time.
...and then it can continue with number of cores per CPU unit.

It all implies chasing a number that indicate current product as better than last year's. That number [what ever it might mean for each generation] will continue to follow Moor's law.
Well, that's an interesting solution Egregore. I'll have to take that into consideration, thanks for the input.
I'll be open sourcing all of Dillinger soon so the port will be in there.
"To prevent tampering, Inside Secure has created several options for higher-powered antennae that will allow the chip placement deep inside objects and still function"

If it's only in the real products, I don't see why people would want to remove it (except maybe once, to try and copy it.)
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It would be confusing to the user to give three separate options for the same country and expect them to know they are the same. What it should do is if you type "deuts", it should return

Germany (Deutschland)

or if you're on a German site and type "germa", it should return

Deutschland (Germany)

The default/preferred language should be the same as the language of the website, and it should tell the user why it's returning a value that's different than what they're typing.
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I guess NFC only removes web site step. Meanwhile small producers on unique goods can use barcode approach. Isn't that sweat idea for new startup?
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I actually thought they'd changed the "marketing" definition so that it does include things like CSS3:

http://www.w3.org/html/logo/

Check out badge 8 - it's CSS3 specifically. Who knows what the icon is, but still.
Yes, that is also why iPhones have no gratuitous text about things like where they were designed on their back.
Why would someone want to work for a company where you have to sue to keep your job, though? That's the sad part. You could fight for your job, but then there would undoubtably be permanent and serious bad vibes in both directions.
I think before you start you should look at the newest version systems like git and Mercurial.

My brother is a 3D modeler/animator and I know that he doesn't use a versioning system, may be you can make a good one for this niche market, but you should talk first with your future users and find their needs.
It's technically impressive, but I cannot see any real world application. A native Java runtime is heavily, heavily optimized for performance. Why would you run Java code through an interpreted/JITed JavaScript environment?

However - I can appreciate the technical challenge :)
> Just because it's possible in a world with ubiquitous technology and social media doesn't make it right.

Exactly. The logic here is pretty much exactly the logic applied by American law enforcement when using warrantless GPS tracking devices on people's cars. "Well you are in public anyway, we could just send a patrol car after you". Yes, taken to its logical conclusion it makes sense. However, I think most people would disagree. It doesn't feel right, and it is probably a matter of degree.

> If this guy instead of tweeting, would have texted or called his friends to give a live report of some couple's marriage breakup, he'd be the same type of gossiping vulture

What technology here has done is multiplied the power of a single individual. Some individuals, as we found out, are irresponsible and can be quite malicious. It so happens then that their malice is also multiplied.
So there's a huge difference between that and investing your time and skill in something based on making educated guesses. Which is why I wouldn't call it luck.

That's an absurd definition of luck. What you have to do is look at the distribution of outcomes in the population. If those outcomes are widely distributed, it depends on luck. The characteristics of the underlying population are irrelevant.
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Evolution does not optimise away. If a mutation serves no purpose it remains unless it is replaced for a reason (or a gene has more than one function—God reuses constants ;-)).

What does 'pinnacle of evolution' mean? Sharks and spiders have been around since before dinosaurs so they must be there, surely?

Do we reach it if we hit a suitably low level of child mortality?

There is an argument that we are already at the pinnacle of evolution for our environment and we will remain there until something changes and we are tested and our children start dying. That mostly happens in chunks… everything is fine, everything is fine, everything is fine, bang meteor! although it can happen in smaller steps. Whether we are still evolving in the rich, medicalised west is a matter of debate. The third world certainly has many children dying but the cause is often not something that natural selection can fix: politics & war.
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My apologies, but I can't resist playing with national stereotypes:

German vs. Brazilian (Portuguese)

I think the best English approximation of the German version is:
Steady water drills the stone.

First we see that the German at once describes and commands the actions: "drills". There is no time measure here, the point is the damn rock's getting drilled and that's that.

In Brazilian/Portuguese the talk is of eventually. As in, sure it's inevitable but the stone and the water will have a lot of time together, they will change over time.

Next we can observe that while Portuguese/Brazilian provides details, like many holes, the German is light on flowery detail, one hole, many holes, not relevant to the pain point, which is: rock->drilled rock.

Lastly we can see the German implies the stone is hard, hard is the default nature of all things in Germany, especially stones.

The Portuguese/Brazilian on the other hand specifically qualifies the stone as hard, presumably because Brazil is filled with soft stones, gently dancing under the feet of girls in Ipanema.
Does anybody actually think street vendors are actually selling Prada bags? Unless you keep the NFC tags in your purchased items and invite your friends to scan you for authenticity, I think this is just a way for NFC vendors to rip off Prada.
What if the goods with copied barcode got sold before the authentic one?
If I worked for Zynga and I saw co-workers who were under performing heavily rewarded I'd find that pretty de-motivating. It seems to me this has been misreported, if your not performing in your role and you get fired you'd lose the unvested stock anyway so by offering a new position and cutting your stock you are given a second chance.

Without knowing how the performance is being judged and what the communication with the staff is like its impossible to really pass comment, do we really think that employees are given no prior warning and suddenly they are re-housed and their stock cut? Seems a little far fetched to me, especially before an IPO where the press are going to be hot for you anyway.
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It wluld be interesting to find out how they noticed that someone had stole the data. I guess there must be lot of aggacks that don't get caught.
An HTML "developer" needs to know the proper formatting (syntax) and structure that the browser expects from the HTML, but that's not all. HTML alone isn't going to get you very far. A developer should know, at minimum, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
The syntax may be a mixed bag. Some old and new stuff. The problem is that they didn't try harder and instead preferred explicit code too much in my opinion. I still like Go, but its main selling point in my opinion is that programs written in it start fast enough. Maybe a second important feature is that deployment is helped by statically linked programs, where one .exe is all you need.

That sends me back to the Delphi days and I'm not too happy either. Because Delphi provided those kinds of features and we ended up losing it in favor of Java and .NET craziness.

The thing is, Go web apps start faster in the App Engine than web apps made with some of the other languages and also may take up fewer resources. That means that App Engine applications can be scaled up and down because spinning up new processes (with Go apps) is instant.

Here's an example:

$ cat hn.go && 8g hn.go && 8l -o hn hn.8 && time ./hn
package main

import "fmt"

func main(){
fmt.Println("Hello HN!");
}
Hello HN!

real	0m0.002s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

Cheers.
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Can anyone explain what I'm actually supposed to see here? Screenshots of some directory names dont really mean anything unless you already understand what they mean
And yet we see this all the time, even in common libraries. I'd agree that it shouldn't happen, but the cold hard reality is that it does, and with shocking frequency.

And when you're the poor sod who has to figure out why this legacy code you've inherited is so slow, it's common practice to look for bottlenecks such as these and find some way to tame the chaos.
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I would have a more pressing concern. If this ship is outside US waters and jurisdiction, under whose law and authority would they operate?

What's stopping them from just stealing all your startup secrets? Forming rape squads? Ransoming you for your all of your family's worth?

How are disputes settled? Do they just throw people overboard?

Sure there are workable systems which would lead to some predictability in a culture/situation like this, but that doesn't and probably can't guarantee equitability and/or fairness. Sure the US government doesn't provide either equitability or fairness, but they do try their hardest to provide stability. You can count on the stupid shit that is going to go wrong to go wrong, and there is often recourse when someone does you wrong.

I don't see how you could guarantee things won't go tits up in these bizarre libertarian "paradises" a la bioshock (well, okay, minus the splicers).