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I'd rather take two 24" monitors at 1920x1080 each = 3840x1080 combined. That would give me a similar number of pixels at a significantly lower cost than a single 30" monitor of similar quality.
Ah, there it goes. It took me a while to figure out I had to set all the systems to go to disk.

Edit: I had to kill a unit test to get it to work, testWaveletNotification in org.waveprotocol.box.server.waveserver.WaveServerTest.
Hey, well I guess I you're right about different aspects being enjoyable to different people. However, I guess I feel like some people use technique to avoid and rationalize rather than grow and create.
No.

Now, if one uses a homoiconic language, visual and text programming can potentially become (mostly) equivalent concrete syntaxes for the same abstract syntax.

See Android App Inventor, which uses visual blocks that compile to a subset of (kawa) Scheme.
Which graphics card? Do you even have acceleration working under Linux Mint?
you should think about adding http://publicsuffix.org/ because of those sld-delegations in various zones.
1. Personally, I think that the ability of humankind to destroy itself with nuclear weapons is generally overestimated. Of course, I would prefer these sorts of things be overestimated and not underestimated...

2. Once you light the fuse of that nuke, we actually know quite a bit about what happens next. If you were to release this virus, we know pretty much nothing about what happens next. Could be bad...but probably not as bad as you would expect.

3. You analogy would be more apt if you had said: "Here is naturally occurring uranium ore. Sometimes it can self-sustain short term nuclear reactions, but sometimes is spontaneously detonates and takes out a 100-mile area." See, that's the problem with the flu. Outbreaks will be bad, very bad, from time to time, but that's all thanks to Mother Nature. Part of the reason is simple numbers: 7bil humans x ?bil birds x ?x10^15 virus particles... What makes you think that humans can do worse?
Are you planning on doing this kind of bundle again with other genres of indie music? Because right now it seems like it would be restricted to just 'videogame-style' music in the future, but I would totally love to see something like that for other genres.
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no, the parsimonious explanation is that the person caught lying most lies most. really. it sounds trivially obvious because, well, it's trivially obvious.

sure, politics is complicated and everyone bends the rules. but that would give a "background noise" that was the same for everyone. sometimes anyone can make a mistake. sometimes anyone can get away with it. there's no bias there.

if you catch someone who lies more than the others then the simple, obvious explanation is that they lie more than the others. if you want long words, then it's similar to the difference between systematic and stochastic errors.

in this context it's a little ironic to say this, but surely only a liberal who was so completely disconnected from reality that they have no idea of right and wrong would argue otherwise: some people lie more than others; you can tell who they are because they are caught lying more. to argue that there is no right and wrong in people's statements is "political correctness" taken to crazy extremes.

of course, there are exceptions: if you only check one person then it's unfair. but as far as i can tell (see my other comment) that is not happening here.
Looks fine to me in Opera Mac too, fwiw. (I run niemanlab.org, and I confess I don't do any testing in Opera, so I honestly appreciate any bug reports.)

FYI, our browser breakdown: 31% Chrome, 28% Firefox, 15% desktop Safari, 11% IE, 10% iOS Safari, 3% Android browser, 0.74% Opera, 0.26% Opera Mini, 0.23% RockMelt (!).
See also (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3279225)

I wonder how many ferrets the researchers used? I'm curious to know if all that kind of information is being kept hidden already?
D-Wave's computer is basically a hardware solver for Ising/QUBO models. It is not programable in the traditional sense and you need to find a way to express the problem you want to solve in a way that maps well over the hardware.
There is a certain point here and there's certainly a huge crossover between engineers and photographers (and also knitters, but that's another story).

You need to develop both technical skills and an artistic vision. Engineers by their nature, tend to focus on the first and neglect the latter. There are some great book on the artistic side, but I particularly "Vision and Voice: Refining Your Vision in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom" by David duChemin[1]. This is most definitely not a book about Lightroom but rather about your artistic intent which starts when you first think of the shot and how you carry that "vision" through to Lightroom and express with your post-processing "voice". The discussion are priceless and it works as a book even if you don't use Lightroom. His other books and ebooks are also very good.

[1] http://amazon.co.uk/dp/0321670094
The problem with books is that they are long (hundreds of pages each), sparse and have very important things interleaved with trivia.

Makes me prefer to read some fiction instead. Helps personal development also.

The tech book of future would probably look like a list of narrow theses each unwrapping into a list of smaller things and so on eventually to a long and exhaustive explanations.
Same with science papers - findings first, explanations on demand.
I just checked with Wikipedia: the unification of Germany happened in 1871. Before then there were sometimes even ferocious wars among the states in Germany, including the Thirty Years War.

That is one reason why people had high hopes for Europe: today it seems unthinkable to have a war between states of Germany (they don't have their own military either). Perhaps one day it could be as unthinkable to have war between European states.
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Hi,

Hacker News is not a site for or about politics - as per the guidelines - please don't post these sorts of articles here.
If you want to preserve old buildings, buy them and hold on to them. Prices depends on supply and demand: if you reduce the supply of something and hold demand constant or increase it, that thing becomes valuable. The problem with preserving "old" buildings through legal means it that doing so prevents new supply (which usually means "more units for an acre of land") from coming online, thus increasing housing costs altogether. See: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/a-tale-o... and http://www.amazon.com/Gated-City-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B005... for more.

I regret not being able to live in places like Boston and L.A. because poorly conceived preservation laws remove building rights from owners and prevent them from constructing dwellings I and many others might actually be able to afford.
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The investigating team said that they were collecting information but had no evidence that it was an attack.

The media ran with the attack angle.
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The problem with Coase as I see it is it is a case of fitting a model to the facts, so has no predictive power at all, even if it is the correct explanation. Some of the factors are changing, as technology cuts information and transaction costs and makes markets cheaper, for example. So how much does that mean firms will shrink or grow?
The author doesn't provide a solution. Or his solution is so incoherent that it's simply not one. Listen, we are all frustrated. We're all waiting for the deus ex machina language that will be a direct interface to pure thought. But belittling people just because they stomached their frustration and continued to make progress in the field of "wasteful" programming languages is not the way to go.
We have the opportunity to replace the entire House of Representatives every 2 years (and the Senate every 6 years).

2006, 2008, and 2010 were all wave elections. The electorate has been speaking its mind quite forcefully. Elections aren't the problem.
Indeed that is why many in quantum computing cringe at some of their PR. A minor nit: D-waves machine is programmable, it's just not (thought to be) universal.
Couldn't they just zip up all the albums into one file?
Disclaimer: I do not know much about quantum computation, but got interested in it only very recently. I'll give you my understanding, take it with a grain of salt.

AFAIU, Grover's algorithm is not really an algorithm of search of unstructured data, like phone book, but rather a quantum algorithm for inverting a function. The way it is related to search is that you have to have a computable function f such that f(x)=1 if 'x' is one of the million 'boxes' and f(x)=0 otherwise. Your goal is to find that one 'x' (assumption being, of course, is that 'f' is not easily inversible).

How would traditional computer solve the problem - by going through all x's and once f(x)=1, you have your x.

The power of quantum computer is that the state of the quantum computer is the quantum superposition of many classic states. As such quantum computer may perform a computation of 'f' at the superposition of many 'x's at one and get a superposition of function results (that can be measured with a certain degree of uncertainty)

The algorithm essentially goes through superpositions narrowing sets of possible candidate x's pretty fast. Algorithm is inherently probabilistic but the point is that you can converge to x that is your correct x with a high degree of certainty in a (relatively) small amount of steps.

If anyone has more qualified explanation to offer I will be happy to stand corrected.
When Sweden voted whether to join the Euro zone back in 2003, one of the arguments against was this exact scenario. They said something like "there has never been a successful case of a permanent currency union without a fiscal union in history. Even if remaining outside of the Euro will have a small negative effect on the Swedish economy, it's akin to paying insurance against the (in their opinion at the time) substantial risk of a Euro collapse."
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After 30 years of growth, your company is the size of several countries, GDP-wise.

Assuming zero inflation in our monetary supply and thus zero price inflation, this is undoubtedly an unrealistic assumption.
did he fix it after reading this or you need new glasses? I hope he didn't write that in the first place. What a disgrace!
I would guess that it's doable. There is after all a mechanism that switches off cell replication (division) after certain generations.

(edit) Specifically, from NYT article on aging from few days ago - Senescence can also be caused when cells run out of telomeres, the caps at the end of the chromosomes that get shorter at each cell division.
Even moving information between two teams in the same company has its costs.

The largest projects I've worked on (70-odd people) have worked best when everyone was working together in the same office. Matching that kind of efficiency with teams in different offices is impossible, let alone when they work for different companies.

Edit: Which isn't to say that outsourcing is impossible to implement well. But it needs to be things with well understood requirements so that little communication is needed. The more communication that is required, the harder it is to make it work well.
Greenbacks and Yuans, that's what I'd do.
To clarify: you express your problem as an Ising model, load the model into the D-Wave One QC and it will solve it for you. The interesting thing is that solving Ising models is a NP-hard problem.

D-Wave's current chip has only 128 qubits and it is somewhat limited. As they scale it up (and they are prepared to do so) you will be able to use their computer to solve larger and larger models that could not be solved with standard silicon in a reasonable amount of time.
Though one should be careful as the D-wave qubits aren't of the kind that produce a universal quantum computer AND I don't think anyone knows whether their current machines are scaling better than classical analogues.
I wrote a post-mortem for a research spike at $work yesterday with a tl;dr at the top, the president loved it. (it's a very small company)
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"""Linux is an exotic car. People trying to push linux on the general population so that they have an "easier time getting parts" are just as annoying as people who drive expensive cars and think that everybody else should too."""

One of the worst analogies I've seen in my life. And I've seen lots.
Where to begin?

(a) There are supposed to be people that "drive expensive cars that think that everybody else should too"?

(b) And (those mythical and "annoying" people) do so because that way the would have an easier time "getting parts"?

And all this BS (that doesn't even make sense, anyone here met a Ferrari driver that believed that everyone should drive one so he can get parts easier? WTF?) is supposed to be an analogy to people promoting Linux on the desktop?

This discussion is not about someone saying everybody should run the "exotic" Linux on their desktop, it's all about people making changes to Linux (Unity, etc), in order to make it less exotic and more fit for the desktop.

Except if you think that Linux will forever be exotic. In which case you are mistaken.

"""Interestingly, if you are unable understand that, I don't really give a shit."""

Interestingly? Hardly. You have a tremendous difficulty in expressing yourself coherently.
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One thing I've noticed in the Valley is engineers with super-expensive DSLRs, taking pictures of the most mundane things, mainly birthday parties and pictures of wine glasses. I guess it's like any other hobby, and I guess the belief that the best technology out there will result in the best output, and that's what makes Silicon Valley what it is.

But there's something decidedly obnoxious to me about engineers pulling out their 5D Mark II's and talking about the particular specs or lenses, and not understanding the artistry behind it. You do not need a $2000 camera to take your 2 year old daughter's birthday party photos. PERIOD.

I have a friend who is a true photographer, who just started a photo business specializing in family photos. She has an entry-level DSLR that is about 7 years old, but her photos are amazing and even though I don't know who her customers are, some of her pics make me jealous of them because I wish those were my pics.

Of course there are technical aspects to taking photos, but it's more in lines with knowing the LIMITATIONS or the boundary conditions of your camera and lens combo, understanding the light conditions you are in, and taking photos that match the conditions. A more expensive camera will get you a bigger sweet spot in order for you to take more pictures in different light conditions, but it's like tennis rackets with a bigger sweet spot, it's allows beginners to pretend they actually know what they're doing. My friend has take amazingly beautiful photos with a disposable film camera that you get from Walgreen's or CVS. You can get amazing photos from point and shoots or even your iPhone, as long as you have a sense for what pictures you can take.

But the more important aspect is developing an eye for what is truly a great photo, and a moment that needs to be captured. Some of the world's greatest photos were taken on cameras whose resolutions were dwarfed by the iPhone, so technology isn't really the deciding factor.
If a retailer has to provide the lowest cost and the highest experience, doesn't that sound like predicting empty windows? And if those rents go down the malls collapse and all the windows will be empty. Plus, with electric self driving cars we are going to see delivery costs plummet. It doesn't look good.
They still do this with anything large they go get from the back of the store (new computers, new laptops, iPad's and the like) but not with stuff that you can grab off the shelves.

The stuff they grab from the back of the store still has to be paid in person with someone that has an iPhone with card scanner... no self-checkout there yet :P
It would seems that all good and bad advice sound blindly obvious and one would easily come up with reasoning that sound goods.

It is obvious that some advice are plain wrong and some advice are good but they all have the mark of authority and confidence. How do we distinguish them?
That's what "collaborator" means in Github parlance. If you don't want people to have this permission, don't make them collaborators. If you want people to be collaborators but work mostly on their own fork and send pull requests, ask them.
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I disagree but think this is all a matter of personal preference. There's a choice to be made here. Usually the original project is updated more often and is more useful to the most people. That's generally speaking, of course. A lot of forks are for niche situations or for experimenting like the author says. I much prefer to know the hierarchy of a project and it's forks rather than just seeing a list of forks and not knowing which is the original. Plus, you can use repo labels on GitHub.

I forked HTML5 Boilerplate and created my own custom boilerplate plus CSS framework from it. While I want people to use it and think its valuable I must admit that my humble little project is not half as good as the original it was forked from. I'd want people to know that my fork is a descendant of the original and be informed before deciding to use mine. That's why I deleted my fork and just created a new repo (though I do make sure I let people know what the basis for it was).

Does that make sense? Would a lot of people agree this isn't a flaw but just a matter of personal preference? I've only been using version control (Git is the only system I've tried) for about 4 months or so, so maybe my view is flawed due to lack of experience or proficiency.

On a side note, I noticed a lot of grammatical errors that really really bugged me. I hate to nitpick but I can't help myself. I hope the author corrects his use of "then" instead of "than" and the incorrect usage of "very" where it should read "vary" especially. Not trying to be a dick, just wanna be helpful.
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this has nothing to do with Hacker News. If you're interested in this, go to Reddit instead.
"Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art."

Imagine all the hate the source of this quotation would receive on here if this didn't come from The Steve.
From your description it sounds like you're talking about self-hosted repo's not Github. For that you have a couple of options, you can use a gatekeeper such as Gitosis and assign permissions. Or, simply have people pull through a read only mechanism (like git daemon) rather than giving them ssh or other writeable access.

Edit: My bad.. n/m
That is not how it works Viscanti, gate-based QCs are still toys and it remains to be proved if they will become useful anytime soon. On the other hand D-Wave's adiabatic chip is very promising but it requires you to fit a "square peg in a round hole" - expressing problems into a format their hardware can handle is tricky.
And cited sources does not automatically make something true.
I'm pretty sure these tablet complaints are revisionist history. Unity has been in development for years, long before the iPad started tablet mania.
That is an issue. But a more significant issue is Django's vulnerability to timing attacks.
The 'database' is not really a database in the sense that it stores a list of things. Instead the database is like a predicate p(x) where x ranges over some finite set (you can assume that this set is just 0..N). So if p(x) really has to search a database to determine whether x is the one you want, then the algorithm doesn't work. It is assumed that executing p(x) is fast. Classically you'd have to call the predicate on each of 0..N to find the x for which p(x) = 1. In a quantum computer you can start with a superposition of all states 0..N (think probability distribution over 0..N), and by cleverly applying a quantum analog to a predicate p in Grover's algorithm you can change this probability distribution so that the x for which p(x) is true gets more and more likely (i.e. more and more probability mass). This probability mass increases fast enough that on average you need O(sqrt(N)) steps to find the x that satisfies p(x).
You are correct, their QC is more of a hardware solver for a very specific problem than a general purpose computer. On scaling, I was a D-Wave a few weeks ago, they seem to be prepared to scale-up the chip aggressively in 2012.
Well, I'll agree that I kinda trailed off toward the end of the post. The point I was trying to make was that you'll have to figure out all the non-tech stuff for yourself as an individual experience.

There's no book for that, no checklist.
Creating systems is an excellent way to standardize simple, repeatable tasks so that you can delegate them. A system, process or procedure can be reduced to a checklist or diagram that shows each step that happens in series and/or in parallel. Using an iterative approach you can improve these over time.

Many aspects of a startup require deep knowledge and expert judgment and intuition about customers, markets, trends and products. These creative, strategic and technical challenges such as customer development cannot be delegated - the founders must execute them.

The premise behind E-myth by Michael Gerber is to 'franchise' your business model by standardizing all possible aspects of it. I think Gerber would agree that you need some initial level of traction with customers before you start. Standardizing too early would be waste unless you have figured out what customers want. My best guess about the time to standardize would be once you have achieved product/market fit, and your business model is ready to scale. At that point, you can invest $1 into your business and know that it will generate a customer lifetime value that's some multiple higher.

Some takeaways:

* Don't spend too much time too early on systems, processes, and policies beyond those which relate directly to customers and sales.
* Standardize any task you have mastered that's time consuming, simple and repeatable, and taking you away from mission critical tasks such as raising capital or gathering customer insights. Invest time in creating a simple checklist someone else can follow for any given process/procedure/task/activity (whatever you want to call them), and free yourself up for other high value activities. I have delegated/outsourced/offshored certain tasks such as data entry overseas with some success.

I would be glad to answer any additional questions you have about this - hodgins dot dan at g mail dot com.
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I'm really tired of these photography rants.

Some people love photography because they like gadgets. Others enjoy coming to understand a technically challenging subject. Others because they can capture a flawless, sharp photo of their mountain climb summit. Others because it allows them to capture warmly-corrupted photos of their friends in an anachronistic way. Others because it lets them capture an overhead shot than really emphasizes their chest. Others...

Just stop judging everyone else. Different strokes for different folks. Nobody is correct about an entirely subjective thing. Stop and ask yourself why you are getting so upset by someone else's enjoyment. It doesn't affect you.
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