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That is one use case, here are some others

Some people don't know or want to learn how to use emacs

yata allows you to share docs with those people, so I take notes sometimes in yata during meetings and it's easy to share these notes with them.

yata changes are always centralized, and you can access them anywhere with web access, you could kind of achieve that on emacs with tramp.

and yes, phones and tablets, though my phone and tablet interface isn't very good right now (I also hope we can run emacs on phones and tablets, but honestly, without a good keyboard, emacs would be really hard to use)

collaborative editing, which is harder with emacs, you would have to share screen sessions, or pop up buffers on someones X windows session

yata allows you to email items into documents, in emacs you can do this by checking email, and shuffling those items to org mode, in the future, I may support txt messages in addition to email.

In the future, I think there I would like to add some features that aren't present, or are hard to do in org mode

google calendar integration, which you can do in org mode I've never done it, but it seems to be driven by manual syncing, and I would like to make that automatic.

that's it for now I think.
For those who don't know, Hyves is the largest social networking site in the Netherlands, although in recent times they're facing fierce competition from Facebook. It's ironic that Facebook is indirectly helping them with HipHop.
Reading a Chinese character means decomposing its sub-parts into sub-meanings. It's not that there are 9 or 10 strokes in the character for dragon that make it complex to read, it's that the outer 4 strokes might signify "beast", the inner strokes "fire", and the cross strokes "immortal".

(Note: I don't actually know how to read this character this is just an illustration)
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You are trading the rights of innovators for that of content holders. SoundCloud is my favorite audio startup - one that is helping independent artists. But under this legislation, companies like them would suffer.
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Every generation thinks that they are somehow unique. That they face problems that could mean the end of humanity. That they reached some kind of singularity and at this stage evolution stops unless they somehow do something about it.

I think the current age is no different than any previous age. Sure we have a different set of problems to cope with, but in the end we will advance and get over them. There's really nothing extraordinary. There will be humans in 100 years time and they will more developed than us.

Some people will retreat into virtual realities and be entertainment junkies. Some won't and will make the world go forward. Just like some people took drugs in the 60s and got high all day, and some people didn't.
Typically the same article originally written in Japanese is read in about 60% of the time than the translated version is read by a native speaker.

It's probably not so much when the original is not Japanese written by a native-level speaker, because the semantic density is usually lower.

Measuring word count would give you a completely different idea. It must also be noted that you don't usually read every single word in Asian languages since often whole sentences are short enough to recognise their whole shape. This happens in all languages but in ideograph based ones sentences take a lot less space in readable form (although they may take about as much if not more pen strokes).
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1) ~Maybe~. In absolutes, I agree. I don't think it matters much though.

2) Sticking with Windows comparisons: Moving from 98 to XP was different in quite some ways, to Vista and beyond was another change in lots of things.

We agree that choice is good. We disagree about whether there's too much choice right now. I see only two technical choices, KDE or Gnome, with the Gnome-Shell/Unity variants for the latter. No idea if this fork will prevail and be part of the list in the future.

The average user, the "grandma" that often comes up during these discussions, doesn't care. My gut feeling says that she'll end up with Ubuntu or Kubuntu installed (Maybe Mint. Maybe Fedora) and use what is available.

And quite frankly, what _is_ available is ready for every casual/average home user, in my opinion.
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But it would make you practically immune to stupid RIAA/etc. lawsuits :)
They are also competing with Facebook. Ironic that they are now dependent on their competitor's technology.
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IndexTank is built on Lucene too. I'm not sure if it is the real time branch or not, though.
Note that:
- Microsoft Office is often as part of huge corporate application monstrosities.

-Open Office has some limited support for VBA.
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https://github.com/Perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment
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I don't think that list reversal is a good interview question. At least not as a positive discriminator. Though it might help you weed out people: I'd probably not want to hire people who can't figure out how to reverse a list. If they'll stumble upon such a simple problem, they might also stumble over the more complicated problems we have to solve to deliver business objectives.

I wrote `can't figure out' deliberately. Not knowing how to reverse a linked list, but being able to come up with an algorithm after a few minutes thought is perfectly adequate.
And this would be why TripAdvisor has been working on a rich, meaningful and useful social integration. We have been a launch partner on most of Facebook's successive new initiatives.

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I would argue that a cheap, environmentally clean and viable energy source would do more for world peace than all the Nobel peace prize winners combined. Dependency on oil must be the single largest threat, except maybe nuclear arms, to international stability. And I make that statement without accepting/rejecting the hypothesis that a lot of wars in the past were motivated by Oil supplies.
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absolutely! and a few insomnian nervous breakdowns every now and then :) but if your intentions are pure and vision clear > those are all a mere drops of discomfort in a sea of awesomeness that is a startup. :)
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> "In Europe it is hard to start a business"

Freelancing is easy, but actually starting a business is difficult, at least here in Italy.

It costs several thousand Euros, and takes lots of time, and is a fairly rigid entity: if you want to, say, give someone some shares, its going to cost you more thousands of Euros to do so.

In the US, you can spend thousands of dollars creating a business, in lawyer fees, but you can also start an LLC on the cheap, if you're not aiming for a high-growth, VC backed, option-disbursing startup. You are 'free to choose'.
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I particularly like the reinforcement that there are at least 17 other questions that need to be answered (whether asked directly or addressed by you proactively) before they even want to see the Executive Summary.
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I wish someone would make an explanation of the current NVIDIA and AMD architectures with the terms used translated to their CPU equivalents, instead of the current half-marketing-speak which uses similar terms for different things between the two vendors.

I'm finding it exceedingly hard to make any guess whether certain algorithms are worth trying to port over or not, because the explanations are almost incomprehensible.

To give an example, the VLIW->SIMD unit transition in this architecture compared to NVIDIA's scalar units.

As far as I understand the VLIW vs SIMD difference, a VLIW instruction is more powerful compared to SIMD because one "long instruction" can contain different operations on different data. Whereas SIMD is the same operation on multiple data.

Traditionally, VLIW was entirely statically scheduled, which put all the burden on the compiler. Because graphics cards recompile all shaders anyway, it's not a bad fit.

So, now AMD changed their units from 16x4 VLIW to groups of 16xSIMD engines. The advantage here is that you no longer have to have groups of 64 similar ALU operations, but can do with groups of 16 similar ALU operations. Conversely, there should be more of such groups, i.e. more control logic compared to the old design. To top that off, there's improvements that allow one to schedule multiple threads over the GPU at once.

Am I on the right track here?

If I am, whats the minimum amount of identical operations that you must do to achieve reasonable throughput? 16 identical operations for 100% efficiency? Put differently, if I have code that requires different operations (due to branches, i.e. effectively conditional operations) on each computation stream that I'm pulling through, what factors are going to limit the effective speed I get out of this?
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A reminder for me to practice pronouncing 'quark' like 'quart' - I think that original plan has been overun in practice and 'quark' is like 'lark', but I like the occasional air of eccentric pretentiousness.
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or "how i tried to look like a nice person to promote myself, and now i am going to tell you about how i promoted myself to promote myself".

because faking it, explaining what a fake you are, boosting other fakers, and explaining and encouraging more fakeness is how you win at the internets. it's awesome.
"it is a boson - the label given to particles that carry the forces of Nature."

That's not correct. All force carriers are bosons, but not all bosons are force carriers. I sent them an email telling them, maybe they'll correct it.
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> Yes, you might make some money out of it from VC but it doesn't change the world.

Sounds like a plan: make a lot of money and then spend it to turn us into a real spacefaring civilization.

That's, apparently, what Elon Musk is trying to do.

Anyone wants to join in?
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The new particle is made up of a 'beauty quark' and a 'beauty anti-quark', which are then bound together

Or in more common terms: It's a bottom/antibottom pair.

I would have loved to see the names "truth" and "beauty" catch on for the third generation quarks, but sadly "top" and "bottom" won.
I still pronounce it like lark, and I don't intend to change.
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Parent's link is worth reading for a laugh.
Hi nancymills, welcome to HN. Please have a look at the guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). One of them mentions not using uppercase to make title stand out - and that makes everyone's life a little bit better ;)
This essay is analogous to a mathematical proof that begins "Assume A and not A" and concludes: "and therefore P≠NP." It's not that I disagree with Miller's conclusion, it's just his premise is a contradiction, and thus capable of proving anything.

First, the contradiction: Fermi's paradox says that intelligent species are common, and that some fraction of intelligent species will engage in interstellar colonization. By some simple reasoning, this implies that the galaxy filled up with intelligent life a billion years ago. But the skies look empty.

Using Fermi's paradox, we could "prove" that the universe is filled with hostile, silent aliens that exterminate any species that discovers radio (as in Saberhagen's "Berserker" novels), or that interstellar colonization is impossible, or that intelligence is a self-defeating adaptation and we're doomed to wipe ourselves out. This makes for fun science fiction, but you can't use it to prove anything.

The conclusion is a fun bit of Puritan moralizing (entertainment bad, real life good). And because we want to agree with the conclusion, we're tempted to overlook the sloppy reasoning.

(And I'd love to say something about Miller's use of evolutionary psychology to present plausible hypotheses without supporting evidence, but that's a whole other can of worms.)
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I'm in the US with a visa. When I opened my bank account (Capital One), I told them I didn't have a SSN yet and they opened it anyway.

The clerk told me I would have to give them my SSN when I got it, which I never did (half because I forget and half because the less information I give about myself, the better off I am)- that was about 2 years ago.
> they probably still have radio receivers somewhere though

Do you still have a working analog TV set? A shortwave radio?
From Murray-Gellman's The Quark & The Jaguar:

The Quark and the Jaguar:[45]

“ In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been "kwork". Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark". Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of the gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark", as well as "bark" and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as "kwork". But the book represents the dream of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the "portmanteau" words in "Through the Looking-Glass". From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry "Three quarks for Muster Mark" might be "Three quarts for Mister Mark", in which case the pronunciation "kwork" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature. "

Personally, I think he should have stuck with Kwork if he wanted that pronounciation.
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H. G. Wells' analogy actually.
I presume it includes homeland security grants as well as TSA. The LA Times reports http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-911-hom... that "Attacks, Federal And State Governments Are Doling Out About $75 Billion A Year On Domestic Security".

That presumes that "the U.S." means federal and state spending, and even over 10 years that plus the TSA budget is still only $850 billion, so I don't know how they tally the rest.
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@mitsuhiko Not gonna happen ;) Forbidding shadowing altogether is a huge win, and a huge conceptual simplification.

Poppycock. It doesn't get simpler than

a. newly bound variables are new
b. any variable which wasn't bound in the present scope must be bound in a enclosing scope.

If your language makes it much more complicated than First Order Logic (http://cnx.org/content/m12081/latest/), you're doing it wrong.

Of course, it's kind of socially acceptable to get wrong because a lot of language designers didn't think it through and used the same operator for both binding and reassigning a variable (i.e. '=').
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Plus, if an exponentially-reproducing civilization appeared even in a neighboring galaxy a couple million years ago, we'd probably be able to notice something very strange.

If it appeared in this galaxy, we'd probably never have evolved.
> First nearly every civilization that mastered, say, radio, did it millions of years ago

So then we'd expect to receive signals from civilizations that are a few million light years away. Yet we don't see those signals.

We're too young a civilization to be spotted by other life forms (as you said, they'd have to be within a 100 light years or so). But when we look at space in any direction it looks dead. Just background radiation.
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"[Hebrew] only has 22 letters, after all. [...] Reduce your alphabet (alephbet?) from 26 to 22. Note that of these letters, 5 are only special versions of other letters and replace those in the last position of the word"

That's incorrect. All 22 letters are actually letters, the special versions of letters for the ends of words are not counted towards the full 22.

Also, I think Hebrew words tend to be shorter because they lack vowels. There are ways to add something similar to vowels to words, by adding pronunciation guides to each letter. These are usually not included in most Hebrew writing, but this trusts that the reader already knows how to pronounce the word.

I'm not a linguist, so I'm not sure this vowel thing matters, but that's my guess as to why Hebrew words are shorter.
HubSpot has a lot of this functionality as well. You can send out automated "personalized" emails that are triggered on certain events. Their software is usually used for inbound marketing before the user activated (aarrr), but I'm sure you could use it for after a user is signed up.
> how many can NASA possibly employ?

If we are to develop easy space access, not nearly enough.
We may have a long way to go, but I don't think mind-science is being preferred just yet. I'd be surprised to find out we've ever had or are considering a $9bn project specifically to find out something narrow about the brain. (If you believe some people it will take about a quadrillion dollars to build a fully general AI but...) I also see no reason why it would take another 200 years from now to understand the brain at least as well as we currently understand fundamental physics. Especially since it's not like we're starting from scratch, and especially because science progress doesn't work so linearly.
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Then we presume that all these advanced civilizations are somehow living peacefully together AND that they all agree not to mess with earth. That's extraordinarily unlikely. Evolution isn't good at producing life forms that peacefully co-exist.
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Absolutely hilarious :)
Wow this is the most uninformed FUD I've seen all week - author picks one Rhino browser security vulnerability and extrapolates to "Java Considered Harmful". Might as well say "All Software On The Internet Considered Harmful".
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