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Making it cheaper (and thus allowing more drugs to be tested, or to allow inventors to raise less money and thus keep more equity ownership, thus being better able to develop future drugs) isn't really cynical either, IMO.

I want pharma companies to make huge profits. I just want them to create vastly more surplus value for society in the process, vs. live via regulatory capture. If I could pay Novartis $10k/yr to be totally healthy and do fat lines of coke/mdma/mushrooms every day with no exercise, and have a 200 IQ as a side effect, I'd be quite happy.
It strikes me as accurate. Google apps is better for mail, and Microsoft is the cats ass when it comes to calendaring. If you are the secretary who must schedule 20 execs for a meeting the first Wednesday of every month, then there is nothing better than Outlook/Exchange.

Thank god I no longer live in a world where I am tied to my calendar. As google gets bigger, google calendar will get better, and the worse it will be a place to work. Understanding the need for a great calendaring app requires a company that has lost its soul.
Notice the priority column at the far left. Legal and compliance issues were ranked far below integration.
They're now allowing multiple vNICs, but they look like basically the same implementation that VPC has been using for a while; it definitely predates VXLAN. When it comes to networking, EC2 does nothing the industry-standard way.
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I'm sorry but this is a way of speaking that doesn't necessarily imply he believes in an evolution capable of cognition. It's a short hand for saying "humans evolved in situations so unlike the situation they have today, that the traits they evolved are no longer best-suited for survival in today's world"
The report says this:

Limitation of Liability:

"Google does not limit their liability in regards to its confidentiality obligations and includes Customer Data in definition of Confidential Information. Google is responsible for any actions of its employees and agents."

"Microsoft caps its liability for "free" services at $5K including any damages related to Institution Data short of Gross Negligence or Willful Misconduct."

Google is far superior.

But http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/user_terms.html

says this: "YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT GOOGLE AND PARTNERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ..."

Am I looking at the wrong TOS?
Why would intelligent life that can expand and conquer their part of the universe use clunky ancient inefficient technology like radio waves.

We humans have had radio for about 100 years and already we're moving on. Digital satellite radio, wired and fiber internet, cable tv, faxes (just kidding), etc.

Imagine if we could travel from our star to another on a routine basis, would we be using radio for anything?

The Universe could be teaming with life, but with our current planet bound technology and meager 200-300 years of industrial/technological innovation, how would we know?

Articles like this is why psychology is called a SOFT science.
Does Google really make its employees depend on Gmail and Gcal?
That is absolutely wrong. I am a PhD student in Computer Science, and I strongly consider what I do more science than engineering. Machine learning is all about making a hypothesis, implementing it, testing it, and observing the results. There is a pressure toward only publishing positive results (no one want to learn about an algorithm that doesn't work), but it's still very much a science.

The same kind of experiments happen in lots of other CS sub-fields: high performance computing, security, etc.
Why would you ever enable commenting for a youtube video? Whenever people argue about hn turning into reddit, remember there are many hundreds of additional levels deeper into hell before you reach local newspaper comments and youtube comments. Even the worst of /b/ is better.
You have to go "onsite"? Which century are we living in? -_-'
Agreed on it being a terrible article. Way too many 'clever' turns of phrase. Why make a statement when you can juxtapose some pop culture references? Seems much more of an act of self indulgence than the condemning of one...

But as for your list I think you left out the Occam's razor option:

5) Rare earth hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
Yes, create the variable as a function argument.
With all those benchmarks out there already, I wonder if they'll ever start using BitCoin mining as one?
It's also possible that we were one of the first to develop intelligence, within our light-sphere, that is since the minimum time needed from the big bang to develop intelligence (whatever that is). E.g. let's say you need 12 billion years just to get to the point where you might be able have the environment needed to make planets. Then in our 2-billion year light sphere we may be one of the first to develop intelligence. That is, if it's very rare to develop intelligence.
It's really not, though. I'm not a programmer, but I can solve Fizzbuzz and Hello World in Ruby, and I still wouldn't know where to start with a bingo card creator.

I could manage to randomly reorder a series of words, but putting them into a nice graphical layout and programmatically making sure that short words and long words both look okay without anything getting squished or cut off is already beyond what I can do without hours of research. And that's as a geek who's generally interested in programming. My mom, who's far more likely to need bingo cards, panics every time I minimize a window.
Not credible, because if even a few people stay away from futuristic, all consuming super-porn, and can convince their kids to do the same, then those people will come to predominate, and the super-porn becomes irrelevant. There are already people who would consciously eschew any form of entertainment that would prevent reproduction - the Amish would ban it within their communities for sure.

On the other hand, if just one person with control of an adequate supply of nuclear weapons (or other super-weapons, possibly including ones that haven't been imagined yet) decides to wipe out humanity, he stands a good chance of succeeding. This seems much more plausible than mass suicide via entertainment.
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> put a clear, short summary first within said text [emphasis mine]

If I see a big block of text that I don't want to read—or don't have time to read—I'm not even going to read the first sentence.† I'm going to stick it in my ReadItLater queue and forget about it. If you don't want to say "tl;dr" specifically, fine, but do distinguish it from the text following it in some way.

Saying "Executive summary: X" is great: it'll be appreciated by the people who want it, and everyone else will just find it perhaps a bit dry in style, rather than actually insulting or offensive. Plus, the people who—based on your summary of the text to follow—turn out to not care to read any further, will have more time to do other things. (This is also what Email Subject lines are for. We use those for even the shortest of emails, don't we?)

† Note that I have this form of "wall-of-text disgust" because so few people write well enough to make reading the first few paragraphs a valid way to extract a summary of the text. Usually all I can pull from the first three paragraphs or so of an essay about, say, "how we solved the X problem," is a very detailed description of the X problem. It's a lot easier to convince people to write a one-sentence summary after the fact, than it is to teach them proper essay-writing style and convince them to rework everything they write to imbue it.
Man, you really want Facebook to be evil, do you?

Google gives you the email addresses because you provided them with that data, it's yours to begin with. Facebook will give you the email addresses, but only for the users that allowed it to share that data with you.

Will Google give you the email addresses of your Google+ contacts, if they decided not to share their address with you? I doubt it, and rightly so.

“Data Liberation” means that you own your data, not that using some social network gives you the right to be able to communicate with people outside of that service. If you want to contact them outside of Facebook, ask them their email. It's your problem, not Facebook's.

Your argument is like saying that Google should give me my Gmail contacts' phone numbers, so I can contact them without using email.
Remember when the iPod only supported Mac? What happens when Apple decides to change the photostream shared folder on the PC into a generic folder to sync all files into the cloud? If Apple decides to roll that out, Dropbox days will be numbered. BTW, I'm a big fan of Dropbox, I just think the future is pretty clear in terms of how easily they can be marginalized.
Glad to see Cal quitting MSFT. Perhaps they're looking for a donation from Schmidt (alum). Gates hasn't given to Berkeley afaik while he has to Stanford. Yes I acknowledge this is a cynical perspective but perhaps makes sense considering public universities are so strapped for cash while privates keep on getting donations.
Also space is really BIG, and no one can go faster than light.
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You have NO IDEA. In many ways they are the Googler life
Is it just me, or does this bother anyone else, concerning privacy and such?
Is that not possible with Ruby? "thin -R config.ru start", "unicorn", or something along those lines. Point nginx at the port(s), and you're done.
I'm even more sorry that this way of speaking is so utterly prevalent in science reporting.

That, plus the tendency of people from other specialties cough astrophysicists especially cough to wax lyrical and ascribe amazing powers to 'evolution' and the casual observer would be entirely forgiven for thinking that anyone talking about "intelligent design" must be talking about evolution and that those are simply two terms for the same thing.

Before you start flaming me, my issue is not with Science! but it is with how Science! is reported on, which involves both watering down the message (turning everything into a Kipling-esque "Just so story"), and gussying up the message to make it seem more important (gotta get that funding somehow).
I want pharma companies to make huge profits.

I want new drugs to be developed faster and cheaper. This has very little to do with the profit of huge companies.
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I'm more interested in how this is measured. Probably as an indicator to a maturity or usefuleness of particular technology. Also the levels up the yak shaving (degrees?)
The linked video isn't advocating anything so outlandish as intelligent design, so why does the title mention it? Also, the relationship between the golden ratio, and many spirals that occur in nature, don't actually exist (some previous discussions include http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1407586 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2902496).

EDIT: Apparently the title changed.
> "But what would be better? How can we create a better system? And if there's such an obvious better answer, why doesn't someone do it?"

Here's a simple answer: The better system exists, but people overlook it.

As a student, first get a Bachelor's degree.

Second, pick a field and be sure have learned it well at at least the Bachelor's level. Do this learning independently if necessary. A Bachelor's degree is supposed to teach you how to do at least this much learning independently.

Third, from that learning about the field you selected, learn some more, to 'the next level'. Likely do this independently.

Fourth, show up at any one of the better research universities and take the Ph.D. qualifying exams based on what you learned.

Fifth, stick around that university and attend some seminars and courses that are introductions to research given by experts in research. Here your work is largely independent.

Sixth, pick a research problem and get some good results, independently or nearly so. If there is any doubt about the significance of your research, then publish it.

Seventh, submit your research as your Ph.D. dissertation.

Congratulations: You are now out of school; you went all the way; you are educated. Done.
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I'm curious about the larger memory bus width. GPUs are still considered sub-par for real-time audio applications because of the memory bottleneck, despite their numerical computing power.
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Then none of the people in top universities would be there. Talented researchers go to top-tier universities for their PhD because they want to work on research professionally. They do not wish to teach, they are forced to do it because academia is, for the most part, the only place left where someone can be a professional researcher. Although there are still corporate research labs around, the days of Shannon developing Information Theory at Bell Labs are long gone.

Quite frankly, I'm fine with this setup. If you want to have a good undergraduate education provided to you by the professors, go to a school where they have that as a priority. If you want to get involved in pushing the boundaries of knowledge, then go to a place like MIT or Stanford and get involved in an undergraduate research program.
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BIG space doesn't solve the exponentially-reproducing colonist issue though...
This doesn't seem like a very good way to hire a developer to me. Why not actually ask them direct questions to find out if they can code? Why not look at and talk through some code they have written, or even ask them to write some code there and then discuss it?

Why go through all the levels of indirection of a LinkedIn search and then sift through hearsay? Why assume that the one or two people you talk to actually know what they're talking about? You haven't even vetted the candidate, so you're going to put blind faith in the two strangers you find via LinkedIn? What if they are not very good, or have poor judgement, or what if they hate your candidate because he was really good and they weren't (or for any other irrational reason)?

I'm not trying to be rude, and maybe I'm missing something brilliant here ... but I just don't see any "secret sauce" here.
Too much money, don't really need it, will never use the wifi portion, etc. Which is probably true.

The nest on the other hand adjusts to outside temp, it's sensors, etc. She still thinks it's solving a problem we don't have...
Ok, I see your point. But perhaps one can learn Computer Science much more efficiently after already knowing how to program? It doesn't seem likely that you'll be very open to learning data structure design and asymptotic complexity when you're still wrestling with for loop syntax, the difference between assignment and reference, what the hell recursion is, etc. You have to learn to walk before you can learn to run, and while jumping in the deep end may work for some, I'd guess most would find a more programmer-friendly introductory language a quicker path to comprehending basic CS concepts and would subsequently be in a much stronger position to tackle C.
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Certainly a very interesting program - many props to the Living Social team for setting this up. I'm curious about the logistics involved - both the questions about the commitment / expectation piece, and the actual program itself. Would be good to have some contact information on the page, or some FAQs. But, great idea, hope it works out well and others follow!
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I've done it for raw lucene and it's trivial (in my case I added real time data in the formula using an external value source), I am not sure why it would be harder for Solr (I always got away with sorting order until now :).
The major difference is that JSLint as well as "the good parts" focus on a subset that can be verified statically (before running the program) while restrict mode sanitizes operator semantics that must be verified dynamically (when running the program). I like the few changes strict mode did except for one thing that breaks compatibility in an unfortunate way (this is bound to the primitive, not the boxed number). But we should take all this much further.

More important than anything I'd like us to start talking about sane subsets of JS more, and stop limiting ourselves to what one author considers "good" because quite frankly, _that_ subsets still contains a whole lot of awful stuff.
I expect that's down to latency rather than throughput. Back in the day, I recall some people working with audio preferring ISA sound cards to PCI sound cards, because the latency was worse with PCI; but PCI has orders of magnitude more bandwidth.
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I am a few years ahead of you in terms of a bootstrapped business. A few orders of magnitude more revenue, and I highly recommend keeping the affiliate program in house. If the affiliate looks good, then you can cookie tag the affiliate based on referrer, and get all the link juice. If they are shady, then refer them to your bullshit affiliate program at clickbuy/CJ/etc. This is the best strategy, IMO.
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Yes, they do. But that shouldn't be surprising.
What do you mean APIs cannot keep up? It is perfectly possible to write a GPGPU app that utilizes practically all the resources, eg. Bitcoin miners, which use the OpenCL API, have a typical ALU utilization ratio of ~95%+.
I am surprised 6990 outperforms this card in so many tests!
IANAL, but I think it can be permitted, if they just modify the CSA a little. Spirits, beer, malt, wine, and tobacco are already explicitly permitted; they just need to tweak the rest a bit.

You can bet that if marijuana was moved down to Schedule II (due to the low number of deaths caused by its use), they'd find a way to put it back on if they wanted.
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That is not the JavaScript model at all.
I'm actually looking to have each photo display full size on the iphone. So should I make each photo 640x960 at 326 dpi in photoshop? Or would 72 dpi be fine?

Also, is JPG better or PNG?
Missed the whole protein folding thing, did you?
I haven't hired them yet. I just want to get the photos ready first.
Glad they're changing: the homegrown Calmail system had ~5 consecutive days of downtime this November alone.
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Turning on antialiasing usually kills GPU performance. One GeForce GTX 580 can't really run Battlefield 3 at 1920x1080 with 8xAA at greater than 60fps stable, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say games can't keep up. The games are keeping up quite well with the available hardware.
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I thought the argument was brilliant and scary. A lot of you are getting distracted by the headline. This article isn't really about aliens or the search for ET life. It's about social decay - entertaining ourselves to death AND virtual hedonistic narcissism resulting in extinction.

HOWEVER, the author, in his own narcissist fog, forgets to mention that this is a fate that will befall only the wealthiest, the whitest (admit it) and the wittiest (educated). This is not the future of the species, although leaving the planet will not get any easier in time.

So really, why haven't we heard from the aliens? The answers are simple but boring so we search for more interesting ones, interminably.

a) They are too far away

b) Life is extremely rare
These are all centralized companies - if they go out of business what happens to your money? What if the company decides to print more of this money for itself?
Napster went out of business becasue the government shut it down. Bittorrent is still going strong. Bitcoin is p2p like bittorent. There is no central point of failure.
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They are superconducting magnets kept that way through cryogenic helium. They can lose their magnetism through a process called quenching. If you search on youtube for "MRI quench" there are several videos of people messing around with MRI's before they get decommissioned. Not exactly safe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z33ZcDgavY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BBx8BwLhqg

There is a lot of helium in there and it can explode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R7KsfosV-o
Just by the URL, that's probably the agreement between the end user (the student) and Google, not the Apps customer (the school) and Google.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/education_terms.htm...
"The original run-up in prices could easily be explained as a speculative bubble, and the subsequent decline as the popping of that bubble. But if that were the whole story, then the value of Bitcoins should have continued to decline"

What a stupid statement to make. By definition, a bubble grows, then bursts, then things are back to normal. Similarly, the stock market did not indefinitely continued to decline after the dot com bubble... It is like the author is saying "the price of this stock should decline in the future because it has declined in the past".
I like its simplicity, but it gets hard to manage when you have multiple pages of the same project.

An alternative will be to upload a new screenshot on that page and you'll automatically have just one URL with both screenshots, etc.
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Makes sense, actually. Thanks :)
That's not easier for a variety of reasons, the first one being it only works on OS distros with apt.
Also, to save much future grief, the undergraduate degree should be in maths.