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Regarding the JavaScript part: I often use small state machines to unroll deep nesting. You get a better state tracking, less nesting and easier error handling :-) You should give it a try....
I think the military analogy is to support the claim that police have been extensively militarized.

If they really were fighting a military battle, the cops would have suppressed them with direct fire, then maybe taken prisoners from the wounded.
A have a few points to make :)

First, I was arguing that the "copycatting" could be considered "normal science", where we have scientists finding a technique that works and trying to learn as much as they can, for example breeding fruit flies. I quote copycatting before because each entrepreneur has different ideas about 1. the problem 2. the market 3. the technical approach, etc and could perhaps be seen as an experiment. As we learn more about those 3 areas above things progress until the next new big wave of innovation comes through. For example, you could consider the web 1 to web2.0 as a "scientific revolution", there was a radical change in what was expected, the problems being solved, and the techniques to do it.

As for NASA, it's been crippled by bureaucracy and politics; and one could question if they ever had the systems engineering experience that tout as the majority of their Appolo and other groundbreaking systems were contracted out and had simple interfaces. The space shuttle was a giant boondoggle that hampered space research. Nasa will continue to innovate through the JPL and unmanned exploration - where science is done.

As for pure research, google now provides world class machine translation for free and continues to do research in that field at a scale that would be difficult for an academic lab to achieve.

Mobile is a game changer in the 3rd world - it allows poor farmers to understand market prices and integrate with the rest of the world. Social seems like it has/is radically altering society - it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

Lastly, I agree we need pure research and I support it, I personally prefer applied, but I think that we've barely scratched the surface of how computers/internet can improve the world (with our current technical and scientific understanding). And we're opening up whole new avenues of study - complexity science, computational social science, web science, etc.
This article seems to refer to the CDMA version of the Galaxy Nexus, which uses lots more power than the international version due to the power-hungry 4G chipset. So it might be possible that those issues don't apply to the international version of the Galaxy Nexus.
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Are you referring to OS X scrollbars prior to Lion? The bars in iOS and Lion are about as subtle as they can possibly be.

I'm fine with so-called minimalist design, like the visual look of HN. That said, there are some features that are woefully missing on HN. The bizarre too-wide text width makes it unusable on a mobile phone without reflow (which is a feature that makes browsing unusable on most other websites), and barely usable on even larger tablets like the iPad. Comment threads can't be collapsed. The whole user experience of voting and replying is bizarre and unpredictable (some threads can be voted and replied on, some can't, and voting icons just disappear after you click one).
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It's not that surprising. Clearly the "3D" on the bottle is "monochromatic" (not the best term) in the sense that everything is either flat (no change to the original surface), or embossed to a fixed depth. The extra line makes the big "57" look even deeper.
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I am Spanish and my English is good but not perfect. Any way when I find myself talking English close to people who´s English is worst than mine, I change my pronunciation to one much less accurate (almost Spanish pronunciation of English words).
I just don´t feel confortable pronouncing properly (well kind off properly) in that situation, I just hide my ability. (maybe to avoid the mythical Spanish envy?).
"I don't really expect it to run smoothly in non-webkit-based browser."

That's the new 'optimized for IE 5 at 1024x768' it seems. Sad.
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In an interview, Mr. Faida focused on the plight of those smaller Web sites that had suffered collateral damage from ad-blocking programs. […] “I just talked to a tech Web site here in Germany, they have seven employees and 40 percent of their users have ad-blockers,” he said. “There was a tech convention in America, and they couldn’t afford to send more than one journalist because so many of their ads are being blocked.”

So? The very concept of ads is flawed. There are two things consumers want: a) discovery, b) reviews. Both are best served by independent parties, filters, “editors”, gatekeepers who earn the trust of consumers by doing, guess what, good introductions and good reviews. Sometimes, consumers take it upon themselves to spread the word or write good reviews. Other times, consumers should pay for these things. And producers should concentrate on making good products. Advertising is conscious, paid-for, explicit manipulation of other people. Why is it so hard for some people to not whitewash it and see it for what it is?
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As far as the less lethal situation, using impact rounds can result in death. Fluidity of the crowd, improper use of the launcher, pure dumb luck can all play a role in where rounds land.

People can, and have, died from direct fire with less lethals including the FN-303 Paint Marking launcher, various 12 gauge skip fire and direct fire munitions, 37mm gas munitions, and 40mm direct fire less lethal and gas munitions.

While some rounds are designed for close quarters direct fire, many are not, and having a 40mm CS grenade hit you upside the head can be lethal.
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It seems that neither journalists nor HP understand software platforms. Former is not surprising but latter is painful.

You groom platform for a several years and only then you harvest fruit, but once you do, you have a huge preference over those who didn't invest in one.

It demands patience. Apple understand platforms. MS does. Google sort of. HP do not have the required guts. Mindset costs 0$, is a main asset and they haven't got it.

That's the reason software companies always win and hardware companies always help them to win while being barely profitable themself.

They expected to make a huge push of a new platform to market and make a top sale right away. I can imagine people at e.g. MS laughing.
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It doesn't take 8 hours to drive from Vegas to Reno.

I had my brother's Tahoe stolen out of a hotel parking lot in Vegas. (I bought him a new truck.)
Very cool idea.

On a technical note, you could define three macros

\equity{10}{90}
% where the units are percentages, and
\balance{8}{10}
\RandC{8}{10}
% where the units are in mm

and use this level of abstraction in your source code.
I suggest, the diagrams in a separate column to support the narration,
but with tikz you could even put them inline.

These examples should get you started if you want to "program" your graphics:
http://piratepad.net/GVsgD6x5D3

Speaking of power tools for graphics, check out also http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/piscript/ and the there-associated book http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/
Precisely, here's a more in depth rationale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_Syndrome

Nations have become increasingly conscientious about this problem after a couple of incidents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris#Debris_from_and_as...
"if you try chord progressions at random until you hit something that sounds good... yes, there's a better way."

This is definitely what I meant, and it's what I currently do. My grasp on music theory is shaky at best, and I'm not exactly sure where to start to fill in the gaps in my knowledge (this may be true of any self-taught skill).
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Does Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey need a BS in Computer Science? No, apparently not.

The purpose of science related PhDs has always seemed to be a means to an end that wasn't financially available anywhere else. Academically, there are a lot of pursuits that you simply can not pursue outside of that setting. The science PhD is ultimately the direction you want your career to take, but you know it can't realistically take that path without some luck. And of course, the safety of academia is intoxicating on all levels. Why dive head first into research that requires funding and years of preparation when you can basically do the same thing at school without any repercussions? The PhD is a safety net for abstract thought that has little to do with the real world.

It may seem like a crazy comparison, but the sort of struggles scientists go through with their research is not entirely unlike what an artists goes through. No one really wants to acknowledge your absurd existence, and there's not really anyone to talk to when you do get on the outside. So no, success, be it financially or scientifically does not require higher education. But socially and emotionally, you can't underestimate the importance of things like a PhD.
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Are they scientists? No.
Sorry to nag, but how is outputting to LLVM bitcode not interpreting? You are taking source code and turning it into intermediate form (i.e. LLVM bitcode), no?
Ditto. 31 yo programmer as well, just bought my first Gibson Les Paul after 15 years of playing. I feel great because it's forcing me to learn new things so I don't have the feeling I am letting the LP go to waste.

I would love to see more music-related posts. Math and music are so closely related, I really think it switches on a creative part of the brain that is used in math/programming too.
I've looked through themeforest in the past - the prices are great if I found something that would be an improvement, but I never found anything I liked. A lot of our customers are older and not great with computers, so clarity and simplicity are things that I place a high emphasis on - and something people have commented on as well - they appreciate that it's all right there in front of them in fonts that are easy to read.

Not to say it couldn't be a lot better, but it's something that I feel more like iterating on at the moment, rather than throwing it away and starting from something someone else did that I may have trouble changing.

I do appreciate the constructive comment though; a lot of 'design' threads seem to be a bit on the sniffy side, which is unhelpful: I know I'm not a professional designer, and don't try and play one on the internet. I'm doing the best I can given the circumstances, and am not unhappy with the results so far, in terms of what our customers are telling us.
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You think? It should definitely mention pricing more prominently, I suppose, because I get people who write to ask about pricing... It'd be harder to make that button much larger, brighter, or more central though.
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Apparently, they are not scientists.
looks brilliant, pitty about the browser support, but thats to eb expected i suppose.
I'd be curious to know how much of this applies to non-native English speakers.
I guess their native language can shape the way they build sentences and influence the way they communicate in different way. Or, maybe, they just attempt to correlate more with native English speakers.
Matt's mother, Deborah, submitted a very poignant comment on Site5's weblog: http://www.site5.com/blog/s5/saying-goodbye-to-a-founder/201...
Reviews done with the intention of earning money are going to be naturally biased.
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I would imagine they are working on, or already have, methods for disabling satellites without blowing them up and nudging them out of a stable orbit.

Must be a way to ruin the solar panels with a laser or similar. I assume non-state actors won't be able to launch satellites that use a nuclear energy source?
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If the satilites are cheap enough (say €100) you just launch more. Let the whack a mole game begin.

Other factors: the space might not be owned by anyone but the satilites might be. Sure the US government in us courts for damages. Get an injunction ruok prevent them doing it again.
I'm planning to get a PhD in a science, so this is a question I've asked myself a lot.

From a theoretical standpoint, a PhD is obviously not a magical "get good at science" button: there are plenty of other ways to gain competence. An example is Rick Stevens at Argonne National Labs, [1], who I'm pretty sure doesn't have a PhD (my friend worked for him once, and his bio doesn't mention it, but I don't know him personally). People like that show that a PhD is obviously not necessary to do first-class work.

On the other hand, if you want to be a principal investigator on a grant of any decent size, almost no one will believe you have that competence without a PhD. Part of this is the ridiculously rigid US scientific job market: all the arbitrary structure of a resume, even less of the rationale. You can't get a postdoc, almost trivially, without a doctorate. Even if someone wanted to give you a job as a postdoc, the university wouldn't like it, and why choose the guy without the PhD when you have other talented people who also have those three letters? And it's really hard to get a faculty position without a postdoc, so there you go.

So if I could go about becoming a principal investigator or having a nice faculty position without getting a PhD, I'd seriously consider it. But practically speaking, that's not a real possibility yet. Hopefully someday it will be.

[1] http://www.anl.gov/Administration/Bios/stevens.html
One thing to note:

There are a lot of differences between PhDs in different fields of research. Especially in biomed research, PhD students often seem to do extremely specialized research. Therefore, what they learn during their PhD may be much less generalizable than e.g. what CS PhD students learn.
I guess it depends on the definition of a PhD whether it is necessary for a certain job or not.

Interesting comments here: http://scientopia.org/blogs/science-professor/2011/03/22/rat...
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How feasible is this actually?
There are size-limits on ads. Actually there have always (read: for the last 10+ years) been limits. Also, ad servers are usually rigorously tested with regards to performance, speed etc.

Not all sites enforce these limits, but major publishers are very aware of users' interests.

The problem is that if you visit an average website, there will probably be 20+ servers involved in serving the page, the javascripts, analytics, ads, etc.

One of those systems occasionally underperforms, which would not be a problem if everything but the main content was simply loaded asynchronously, possibly in the order of importance a website owner attaches to each content type.
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Disclosure: first-year CS Ph.D. student.

I would say, no, a scientist doesn't really need a "Ph.D.", but does need the training that a Ph.D. involves. To me, this question is very different from the question of whether someone who wants to be an industry software engineer needs a bachelor's degree (a popular HN topic). The difference is that in a science Ph.D. program, you are doing science the entire time you are there. Sure, you take a few classes as well, but these are only to reinforce concepts you'll need in your research; the entire reason you're there is to learn to do scientific research by actually doing scientific research. You are doing at school what you'll be doing in your career; you're just getting paid less for it because you're "in training".

I don't see any reason why one couldn't get a similar education by doing scientific research in an industry which does not result in a formal "Ph.D." degree, rather than an academic setting that does result in a Ph.D., it just doesn't seem like it's been tried up until (apparently) now. Personally (all other things being equal) I'd rather do a Ph.D. program in an academic setting because an industry setting would likely be constrained to research areas that are beneficial to the company.
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It's a good start! After trying some js lessons, I found it is suitable for those who never program before.
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No, but it helps. There are some very bright researchers who don't have one (Simon Peyton-Jones being one, for example), but they do help in forming people as scientists. Of course, working after getting your BSc. as a researcher on a specific area for many years is, in most aspects the same as doing a doctorate, so except for the lack of diploma, there probably shouldn't be a big difference.
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> Anti-virus company Qihoo 360's Vice President Shi Xiaohong attributed the leak to companies neglecting to encrypt their users' passwords and account information, Xinhua reported. Legal experts told Caixin that the massive leak also revealed shortcomings in Chinese internet security law and online ID theft protections.

Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit, in fact. Encryption/hashing are your last line of defense. They're what you hope hold strong when they've blasted through everything else. Not having them is not the issue, it's simply indicative of a lack of security knowledge and forethought in everything else; poorly written apps tend to lack things like proper password storage, but that doesn't mean that proper password storage makes your app properly written.

Now, I'm not saying that proper password storage or encrypting user data aren't very important things -- I argue strongly for them all the time -- but locking your front door is just as important as having a strong safe for your valuables. If I can walk right in with SQL injection, arbitrary file reads, command injections, and other fun vectors, then you're largely screwed regardless.
phd is dumb but skeptical china will be informative as a proving ground for this idea,

do people think # of chinese nobel prize winners will increase in years to come? realize nobel prize is a western world creation but this makes like seem no...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_coun...
As far as I know, those "edge of space" low cost weather balloon experiments are a long way from putting something in orbit. The cost to put something in orbit is in the 1000s per pound range right (http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=301)? I remember hearing something about ranchers putting up satellites in the early naughts, but I don't know how feasible that is.

Seems like a better solution would be strengthening the protocols, figuring out mesh networking solutions, rather that chucking cisco routers into space.
With early returns, there are no context shifts. You're just getting rid of contexts as and when they are looked at. So there's no question of keeping a stack of context in mind.

What you say works well when you can physically see the structure in the code. With deep nesting in large functions, you can't - it's easy to get lost in it.

That said, I can understand what people say about multiple returns leading to bugs in refactoring - personally, I always prefer early and multiple returns to nested code, and I've developed the habit of checking the full function for any exit points whenever I refactor it.

To each his own, I guess.
Video of the actual 28c3 presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuwkzNjaPwc

As for those asking about the feasibility, the HAM radio crew have had their own satellites for years: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php

Also check out these hackers who want to go to the moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmgzrDCrP30
Even if the satellites are cheap -- hell, let's even say they're free -- launching things into space is not, by any means.

As for the satellites being owned by someone, how do you assert ownership on something that exists where there are absolutely no laws?
Impress.js is an awesome piece of tech—but I wouldn't use it for a presentation:

There's just a very fine line between over- and underdoing a presentation. It's never good just to dash off a presentation with lousy layout and design but it may not be beneficial to overdo a presentation as well. Too much FX and animations makes you at a certain point needy: "Look what I did to impress you", "Look, another animation!", "How nice, isn't it??", "And here another 3D effect, awesome isn't it? I spent the entire day to make the rotation perfect, just for you because I like you!". After the 5th animation the viewers think you are a needy guy, needing approval, spending to much time on design than content and having nothing to do.

Different with pure web presentations for a large audience, then such tools are nice, but I don't know if they convert better than a gold old landing page.
Let me be clear, anything that involves bulling or physical abuse is clear crime to me.

One thing that theft and prostitution have in common are, they both have near zero barrier to entry. I sometimes argue with friends, that starting a internet company is the only near zero barrier to entry market. But, me and my friends take for granted, computers and internet connections paid by month and the knowledge that comes with it. For folks with no real skills that may land them on a job. Its natural to look for ways, to get some money, without putting in a lot of money.

I say material theft is in the gray area, because of all the white-collar crimes that are happening all the time, and people doing it are getting away with it. There are interesting studies about, how all bank robberies and auto-thefts constitute to a tiny portion of theft when compared to people stealing office supplies.

I don't support bank heists, dacoity on trains or white-collar crime/corruption.

All I'm saying is all crimes happen because, people who are doing it doesn't have enough social equity to be a good member of the society. Old people here in India used to say, English medicines treat symptoms not the disease. Punishing theft is somewhat like that, unless we uplift the communities that involve in crime, we can never stop crimes.