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Question #1: Why didn't Google decide to instead contribute to Less or Sass, instead of coming up with something new?

Question #2: Why did Google come out with their own solution that has matured in the vacuum instead of involving the community earlier on? This approach at best fails and at worst fragments the market further.

Observation #1: When there are two very established solutions in the market, Sass and Less, you need to point out why these two come up short and why you are coming out with something new. Simply stating "we have a Google version of the tools you already use with the same feature set" isn't a very compelling sales pitch.
I work in the adult industry as a software developer. This article is very, very accurate. And that statistic you have problems with is also true. In 2000 most people were downloading base64-encoded porn from newsgroups or JPGs from modem-based BBSes that hosted multiple adult CDs. Danni's Hard Drive was one of the first adult sites on the web. It got so popular that it created a payment processor called DHD Media, which mostly handles adult membership payments. But like an aging porn star, they're pretty useless now.
And save them where? You can keep a PDF in your email and try to read it, but that's a big stretch. On the Kindle it automatically gets put into Docs (which nets you stuff like remembering your position and not having to wade through thousands of emails to see your document again).
If you want to compare that Java-ish syntax to some of the super-slick stuff you can do in NodeJS check out http://www.jaxcore.com/jxss/ which is a JavaScript/CSS hybrid stylesheet format I came up with recently.
Presumably they have figured out that acting in the interests of your constituents and getting re-elected are not mutually inclusive. Voting to please your party instead of your citizens gets you full party support, and as far as beating the other guy, it has been shown that campaign funding has an unsettlingly strong correlation to campaign victories.

Making matters worse, voters tend to want conflicting things. For example, in general they want more government programs and also lower taxes.

Making matters even more difficult, what voters say they want and what they actually want can be different stories. Schwarzenegger got elected on the premise that he was going to do certain things. He tried to do those things. He was shut down by everyone- including directly by the voters.
Yes, like any modern high-level language it would use some concepts "borrowed" from LISP. Credit where credit due...

On the other hand I don't want to go completely bananas with the 'structureless' LISP. In my opinion at least it would aid comprehension to be mirror modern high-level languages. But you'll be able to choose Ruby or Python syntax-mode at will (or maybe even LISP-mode :-).
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It's not about humans looking at it. It's about collapsing the wave function. The only to "look" at a particle is to make it interact with something (trigger some chain reaction that ultimately sends a signal to one of your senses, e.g. a photo multiplier). The moment it interacts with that thing, the wave function collapses.

This part is not mysterious.

The mysterious part is, what in the world could be the thing that acts as a wave function and then collapse to a single point when it interacts with something else? What underlying reality does this hint at?
I agree. There's no way I'm giving over my credit card details and being pre-billed when I have no idea if there is even anyone registered to be poached.

Take a lead from dating sites - tease and squeeze.
Will this widen the gap between relativity and quantum mechanics? or will it actually help in finally resolving the disconnect between these two greatest and well tested theories? Particles defying general relativity is well known, but defying special relativity? I can see it going both ways.
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On my Macbook, no Flash installed, the video plays nicely (via HTML5 I suppose), until I hit pause. The the play button stops working.
presses and holds

selects 'open in iBooks'

Seems to work here!
Well, to be fair to Google, this looks very similar to the CssResource mechanism that has been in GWT for a while now, with the addition of mixins. If this is an evolution of the GWT version it's likely to be fairly mature "out of the gate".
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The issue is that they will be releasing the source under the GPL, which requires that you give anyone who receives the code a patent license, but they probably can't give a patent license as they can't sublicense the patent from Creative.
Tap on a PDF and it will ask you if you want to open it in Dropbox, iBooks, or any other PDF reader you have on your device. I keep mine organized in the iBooks categories, myself, but other people use different apps.
Supports only jpg for now it appears.
And with access to the source, why couldn't the carriers/handset makers just hack the OS to disable the app disabling of their particular bloatware? Unless there's a license agreement that might prevent this...
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That bunch openly discriminates people according to origin.

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This is literally a guy who saw a good opportunity ($2000 reseller account) without a clear TOS (i.e. "unlimited accounts) and then exploited it. LiveDrive is pissed off, they terminate, and he's scrambling.

This doesn't end well for ANYONE.

I did the numbers for this exact same thing a few months ago - I was going to set up a white labelled LiveDrive and sell it nationally on Groupon/Groupon clones for "1 year, 80% off full cloud backup storage" etc. Obviously the intention is to get them to keep going after the 1 year since their files are already uploaded. Ultimately, although money was there, it just wasn't a good option. As has been clearly shown here, your entire model is in the hands of LiveDrive, and they are in it to make money, not to make peanuts of you and get hammered with costs.
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Bizarre then that cryptography has a bunch of patents.
Ask HN: Android ARPU?
hey, after finishing a week of beta testing my first game on market (casual game for female audience):

Installs	914
Net payment	$304.70
# paying	24
# payments	37
% paying	2.60%
ARPU (all)	$0.33

i'm not sure if these figures are good enough for a real launch (trying to get a publisher) or need to improve more first

question for android devs:

1/ any benchmarks for arpu?
2/ what other standard metrics should i track?
3/ any idea on CPA?
well they obviously restrict our freedom to use their software without paying, which we should all be entitled to do

/sarcasm
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iBooks doesn't come installed on iOS devices, so that's not what happens when you use the device as it comes. (You just get the ability to Quick View it.)
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If you have any installed that is, none are installed when you buy your device.
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"The wavefunction is a real physical object after all, say researchers."

Mathematics is just a representation of reality, not the reality itself.

No single law in all scientific fields can state that the law itself is the physical object, or a part of the Universe. One may assert that General Relativity can explain lots of observations we can make about this universe. However, even if the observations match the way the universe seems moving 100%, it doesn't indicate that the universe itself is GR. GR is just a successful model of reality that can assert some important relationships among macroscopic observations in this universe.

Assume that someone forged a ultimate theory that can integrate every possible physical observation we can make about this universe. Even if that's the case, he can't assert that "this universe IS the theory." It's merely the theory is a successful model of reality, but not that reality is model itself.

No one can dare to claim that a set of mathematical description of observation equals reality. No wavefunction can be a physical object. That's simply idiotic.
That paper got some wide circulation for some reason, but it was an extremely simple criticism (six or seven equations, no derivations involving anything more substantial than distance = rate x time) by a computer scientist that simply misinterpreted the way the GPS synchronization was used (none of the physics was wrong in the paper, FWIW, the problem was that the author's claims about it having any connection to the OPERA experiment were completely unfounded).

IIRC someone from OPERA responded to questions about that paper by saying, basically, that it wasn't even worth debunking because they had real work to do, and publicly disproving every amateur with a theory would suck up all their time.
Beautiful! Perhaps this should be a thread on its own.
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There is the do not track initiative[1] but it's kind of a pretty please solution.

[1] http://dnt.mozilla.org/
damnit, google. no nested selectors?
That might have been an issue if they were measuring anything with the satellite clocks.

But they weren't. By my understanding, they were merely using the satellite signals to synchronize the ground clocks in the ground frame, and after that was done, the satellite's were never heard from again.
Btw, a quick way to write random data to your disk is with "dd":

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/your_disk_dev bs=1m

Use "bs=1M" on linux. It read back the data like his stresstest program does, but it's really about as "close to the kernel" as you can get without writing your own C code (and you probably aren't going to do anything faster or better than dd already does).
afaik Bell's nuked local hidden variables, but not non-local, and also not local in a deterministic universe
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Exactly. Yelp gets a higher ranking, and may have better info, than the local business's website.
I agree, I feel like they did the same thing with Dart which, imo, addressed the same problems that Coffeescript has already addressed.
> We asked them to either resolve the issues, or to close our account and refund us.

Oh, dear. Probably should have stopped before that comma. It sounds like something that was comparably insignificant spiraled out of control.
How about Grey's Law^? It doesn't really matter why it's wrong, it matters that it's wrong.

^ "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
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Fair enough, though I'd suggest that iBooks' position as the Apple book reader will mean that most people who download apps will have it (though I know there's a sizable amount of users who never download anything).
Happend to have any sources for this, tests or something? 150 € for a battery just seems wrong, however 40€ for a lousy one is not too cool either.
Your questions aren't a response to reality. Google has these tools that they use internally. They can either work to release them publicly, or not. I'd prefer they do.
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Well, to be fair, who is "Academia"? Is it the professors? Is it the administrations? Is it the whole system, including universities (and all of their issues down to football team scandals), publishers, college admissions tests, and so on?

The thing is, there is a fairly substantial system set up around academia. It includes people who run conferences, publishers, school administrators, endowments, students, admissions, government grants, private grants, standardized testing, and more. There is a lot of it that is fairly nasty.

Sure, there can be a few professors who object to some parts of it; but that doesn't mean that the system as a whole isn't sick. Has there been any serious institutional pushback against this prosecution?

I think that part of the the problem is that the people who matter the most in academia (the professors and the students) have lost their voice to the "industry" of academia; the administrations, publishers, the grant funding bodies, and other people who have a vested financial interest in the system, but who aren't the main producers or consumers of the value of academia.
Not so fast. I heard God is in favour of SOPA.
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It might not necessarily be inflation.

Those who write extended reviews are likely to have fairly good intuition about which phones are good enough to write about. Nobody is going to spend days writing a review for a phone that someone would only get because it's "free" with a contract.
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They did no such thing. That part of the bill concerned how much tomato paste has to be on the pizza for the tomato paste to be enough to count as a serving of vegetables. The USDA wants 8 tablespoons, and Congress wants 2.
If HN also discouraged upvotes for the same reason, then that'd be a fine way to handle downvotes.
Sounds like a pretty extreme solution to his weight problem. But if it works who am I to question it.

Personally I would have just started cycling to/from work (Although maybe he does already)
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I think weight gain has lots to do with diet and little to do with exercise. I started dieting this year, I've lost 60 pounds so far. If you want to loose weight and stay healthy, stop eating crap. You don't have to resort to crazy desks to be healthy. To lose weight, eat as few carbs as you can (under 20g per day). To maintain it, try not to eat as much bread, grain, sweets, etc. Also, don't sit on your ass all day, get up and walk about the building for a few minutes at least every hour!
My wife keeps asking me to build an iOS app to keep inventory of her nail polish collection.

If you build it then I won't have to.
Ah, yet another CSS extension that adds variables and mixins. At some point, shouldn't some of these projects come together, and say "we ought to standardize this?" I realize that the CSS working group is against adding variables and mixins to the standard, but given that there are now at least three prominent (and incompatible) implementations (Less/Sass/Google Closure), it seems like it's time to fork the standard (like the WHATWG did), standardize something, and then see if you can roll that back up to the W3C (or ignore the W3C if you can't get them to accept it).
if you're combining a diet with a decent exercise regimen, cutting out carbs like that is a road to ruin.

Also you lost 10-15 pounds of muscle. sad but true.
Ugh, this could really be just a huge misunderstanding. I wouldn't be surprised if Livedrive comes back with the explanation that they closed all the accounts, and is refunding backify as per their conversation.
I got a LinkedIn request to interview for a hedge fund manager position in Boston, mid-market crash. (Me: platform dev & user engagement in Seattle). They're like sharks in water seeking any hint of blood.
Collapse means that any future measurements/interactions of the wave function can be assumed to have evolved from the measured state. Most measurements themselves normally only tell you with high probability information about state, but that's fine.

If you have a wave function which can be in two different states X1 and X2, then it's full state is going to be some linear combination of the states X= a X1+b X2. It can, over time, evolve deterministically, with a and b potentially becoming larger and smaller over time.

When a measurement occurs, such as the detection of a photon of a certain frequency which indicates that the particle made a state transition, you then assign all but one of the coefficients to zero (or approximately zero depending on the measurement). If the particle is in a certain compatible potential (one in which the measured state has a specific energy), the coefficients will stay at zero.

To answer your question: " Isn't the measuring instrument itself a wave function?" Yes it is. Unfortunately, if you have two particles, to describe the system with both particles in it, as opposed to just one, you don't just add the particle wave functions together, you have to take the cross (well tensor, but it's similar) product of the two vector spaces of the particles (remember, function spaces are vector spaces). This is true _even if they do not interact with each other_.

Yudkowsky has a pretty good description of this http://lesswrong.com/lw/pp/decoherence/
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Honestly, the bigger culprit in denying the public access to legal materials, by shaking down law schools, law firms and government agencies for excessive licensing fees which get passed on to students, clients and taxpayers, are the two largest legal publishers: the private sector.

Anyone who has been paying attention to _access to court filings_ over the last decade or so would probably agree that in general governments, including the federal one, are continuing to make things easier and more open. In most cases, they are not fighting against the Internet, just trying to keep up with it within their limited budgets.

But those private sector publishers, one of which has been so profitable it has put its founder on the Forbes list, they control an overwhelming amount of the world's case law, and they are still making a stand against free legal information.
The paywall is not coming down.

Anyway, I understand your point, but it really does not apply to this area the way it does to others.
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Dart doesn't add much in the way of syntactic-sugar which is the only problem addressed by CoffeeScript.
Two quantum particles can interact with each other without either's wavefunction collapsing. That's pretty much what makes the double slit experiment work. It seems that generally, interacting with a "macroscopic" object tends to collapse the wave function. You can find an interesting discussion of one way scientists try to explain this phenomenon here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
How exactly are you calculating muscle loss? My lean mass weight percentage has remained the same or has risen while my body fat has fallen. And yes, exercising with a diet like that is a recipe for failure if you don't plan for exercise, you need glycogen stores etc to be able to work-out without hurting yourself.
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Do this stuff in private please, then tell your customers.
BSA membership is smaller than I would've guessed, eg HP, IBM, Oracle, and SAP aren't members. Good for them.

Why are Dell and Intel members? None of their direct competitors are.
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Maybe not "as it comes" but even if you dont have iBooks, the "Open in.." menu will show any app that support the filetype. I can open pdf email attachments in iBooks, GoodReader, Dropbox or TabToolKit.
Microsoft wouldn't know anything about incompatibility.
It doesn't sound like it doesn't rule it out, but also doesn't provide a way of testing it against other interpretations of QM.

I don't thin it would even rule out non-local hidden variable interpretations of QM such as de Broglie–Bohm theory <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohmian_mechanics>, since these accept the wave function as real but posits that there is also an actual configuration of the universe, which evolves in a manner that is guided by the "pilot wave".
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I am a physicist and GPS indeed takes relativistic effects into account. GPS would not just be slightly wrong if it didn't: it would be entirely worthless. See for example [1].

[1] http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....
I think at this point we really don't need more of these CSS supersets but more comprehensive CSS frameworks like Compass and web framework integration with these CSS frameworks, i.e middlewares and asset management tools. I for once would love to see Compass ported to Less.
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