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> "If you're female... well... you get to look like a human female."

This is something that bothered me about previous ME games. FWIW, ME3 (based on the demo) features a look at Krogan gender dynamics.
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Hi, when I submitted this article, CNET's title says it's WINS instead of FILES.

Please check a few of the comments on the site. ( Some of which posted below)

--- CNET take this article down, as it's absolutely, 100% false. THIS PATENT WAS NOT AWARDED. It is a published patent application, which is in no way shape or form the same thing. You're just trolling for pageviews if you leave this up at this point.
Posted by thesimulacra (13 comments )

--- The link provided with "Google last week was awarded a patent it filed for back in 2010 that describes a manner..." is a US Patent Application PUBLICATION. It is not a PATENT yet. The status is "Docketed New Case - Ready for Examination", which said clearly it is not examined yet.

--- This isn't the first time CNET has done this. To the author of this article: you are misleading everyone who doesn't know anything about patents when you write a story like this. GOOGLE HAS NOT BEEN GRANTED ANYTHING by this publication. (Almost) All patent patent applications automatically publish 18 months after they are filed, regardless of what they disclose and claim. I could file an application that claims "a paperclip" and it would publish just like the Google application has here. That says nothing about whether it will be ISSUED to grant any rights to me.

The application (which has now published for the public to inspect) is pending examination, as noted above. It hasn't been examined and therefore has not yet been subjected to rejection by the Patent & Trademark Office.
It's the product of the best parts of Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and more

The best, most inventive, written SF never made it to the movies/TV, or was beaten to an unrecognizable pulp in the process.

No particular snobbery on this, just think you should be aware of it. If "important" is equivalent to popular or well-known, that's another kettle of fish. I'd say no.
i would love to see more number of users actively discussing challenging problems and the online compiler can be presented in a more intelligent way.
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As a doctor I think it is a great idea and I think there are many sources of automation that haven't been implemented in health care yet.

Learning medicine is all about learning diagnostic algorithms
A bit overkill to leave a job opportunity you were interested in because of one interviewer's bad technique?
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hey odddogmedia!
would love to work together somehow. we're created http://www.attictv.com and it would be great if we could somehow use your compilations :D
is there any way to get in touch?
If I wanted to join a network separate from Facebook, why would I want that network to have access to my Facebook?

Possibly because that network offers thing that FB doesn't, even if you don't have a problem with it.

People join new networks to get away from Facebook, not extend it into every sector of their lives.

Are you sure you aren't attributing your own personal opinions to others? Not wanting to login using FB has other possible explanations, like not trusting the new site/app not to spam your friends. It's not necessarily trying to "get away" from Facebook.
I need to register for an account just to see a question in full? You've already lost me.
Also remember that it's usually latency and connections that kills mobile performance. I've also found the actual data transfer to be fairly good compared to your average domestic DSL.
I listened to all of them and it was commercial tripe. Keep that in mind.
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Awesome stuff: http://julialang.org/manual/metaprogramming/
I absolutely cannot listen to house music and work. As soon as I hear any kind of House I start dancing. I find it nearly impossible to listen to any kind of music and try to focus on working, but House is the worst, it invades my brain and body.

I do however, listen to tech-house or funky house tracks whenever I need to take a break from work. For whatever reason, house music makes me incredibly happy and energized.
I hacked together a command line interface using wget, Bash and mpg123: https://github.com/jseb/musicforprogramming.net-cli
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I never register a facebook account and there's no way I will regsiter to facebook just to use an app even if its the killer app.

I trust facebook for snooping in on the data provided by 3rd party apps, they've been doing all the dirty tricks of the book since they started.

why no facebook account for me ? because it was obvious from the beginning where facebook was heading with a business rooted in linking real world identities and online activities.
They are basically building a closed facebooknet to compete with the open web and internet. There's no way I would be part or support a closed and proprietary internet.
Hmm are not those two sentences equivalent? That is, P(finding | random fluctuation) = 0.10
And the moon on a stick :-) Not sure many "technical" programmers would take c as the desert island programing language.

Sound interesting though if it can make hadoop easier to use id take that as win I dont think its going to replace fortran as a HPC language.
Beginner to intermediate just-about-anything isn't "fun" and won't inspire feelings of "passion" or "love".

I haven't found that to be universally true. Beginner to intermediate programming is really great, if you start it in a sensible way that foregrounds some of why it's interesting up front, with enough tools to let you make something happen fairly soon. The first 30 minutes of playing with Logo when I was in elementary school were amazingly eye-opening, and I couldn't put it down for weeks! It was pretty awesome really, you could give these commands to draw turtle graphics, and then change them to draw others, and then learn new techniques to make fancier things, etc., etc.

Unfortunately I think most people approach programming less in the way Papert was trying to promote, and more in the coding-death-march sort of way where you take a high-school class that lectures about C++ syntax for weeks. The hacker scene has a better angle on it, imo; plenty of first-time attendees at places like SuperHappyDevHouse and Maker Faire see an inspiring side of technology they missed in school.
Or you can look at it as an interconnected pathways, and that the more different stuff you learn the more efficient your brain is.
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In the last years I was trying to leave a minimal path when setting up companies, blogs, social media accounts.

But I think a strong digital profile is still left behind me; You can't be present and hidden in the same time.

If you have time please track me down, who I am, what I do, what I think.

The one who gets the most closer I'll reward with a favour.

Thanks!
Which is easier:

1. Doing cold-calls because you have the discipline to do it.
2. Doing cold calls because you love to do it.

It's obviously (2).

Therefore, when possible, love what you do.

I see myself as very lazy but looking back the past 4 years in university, I've done well because I "work hard". I spend ~20 hours a week programming and learning new skills, not because I have the discipline to do it, but because it is simply what I do. Classmates who rely only on discipline alone don't stand a chance.

IMHO1 sometimes discipline is necessary to achieve your goals, but try not to depend on it too much.

I used to hate making hamburgers at McDonald's. After many months it became second nature. Three years later I asked myself: "Why am I doing this besides for the $15 an hour, which I can easily get programming for other people". When I couldn't come up with an answer, I quit. The worst thing one can do is to have mediocrity becoming second nature without it having helped achieve any of one's goals.

IMHO2 if you must rely on discipline to do something, make it something worthwhile.
Foxconn start compensating workers complains with raising wages .
Mass Effect? I've heard of that. The other universes he mentions, those I know. I think he is overestimating the amount of people playing videogames vs. the amount of people reading and watching television.

Of course, popularity is not a measure of importance, but it is a measure of influence. I don't think Mass Effect is very influential. At least, none of the authors I read have ever mentioned it, AFAIK.
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It is not sound analogy it is very wrong analogy. Our brains are not attics and neither they are computers.
Try betabait.com :-)
There is also http://soundserum.com/ which features a ton of creative commons licensed music (3.5GB of it, based on the torrent they provide).
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Hmmm.... more information here: http://www.kaggle.com/c/asap-aes. There are three awards: 1st: $60,000, 2nd: $30,000, and 3rd: $10,000.

The award level seems low even though "[E]ach team maintains full, exclusive and absolute rights to their intellectual property".
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People get creeped out by more and more things nowdays. I don't want to taunt the "If you don't do anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide" phrase, but the truth is that privacy is an illusion; most privacy one can get comes from that literaly no one cares about this 'private stuff' of the individual - at least not enough to try and learn it.

As the technology gets better, it's becoming increasingly difficult to lie, and to live a fake life. Every thing one does leaves a trace in the physical world, a trace that one can't remove. From air vibrations to people talking to behaviour patterns, the trace is there, and year after year we get better and better at amplifying those signals and extracting information. One can not lie and hope it will remain undiscovered forever. In a healthy society this would be a Good Thing.
Beautiful work. Although, I'd recommend just reading the press release[1]. It is more in depth and better explains the accuracy and reliability they can achieve.

I especially love seeing the bee in operation. Does anyone know by what mechanism the motion is generated?

Edit: My best guess is piezoelectric actuators[2].

[1] http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/pop-u...

[2] http://micro.seas.harvard.edu/papers/Karpelson_ICRA09.pdf
> I'm sure there are tons of developers that can sort arrays like there is no tomorrow, but sometimes I would like to work with people that can create software.

Companies should search for developers that can do both.
This way even user-installed browsers would accept the subordinated cert. It's one of those things I believe should be prosecuted.
Which startups should I apply to?
I'm trying to figure out what startups in the Bay Area I should apply to. I am frontend guy with a background in e-commerce, advertising, and internet marketing.

Is there a list of all the startups I can go through, or is there one you'd specifically recommend?
Ask HN: What are the must-haves for a new startup office?
My 2 co-founders & I are setting up a new office space for ourselves which is going to be our non-stop work centre for the next few months.

We are planning on renting a 3 bedroom apartment and using 1 bedroom + common area as our office. The rest will be used to crash in occasionally and sometimes for extended periods of time by one of us.

We want to set up a really productive environment and focus on a fun culture at the same time. All feedback is welcome!
Why don't modern browsers include precompiled js libraries?
For example, Google recommend using their CDN for a range of js libraries
Why doesn't Chrome include these libs as precompiled scripts?
On detecting a request for a script hosted on Google CDN, Chrome could check it's precompiled cache first and use it if available.
For specific js libraries, this would eliminate some aspects of Sam Saffron's "The jQuery Tax".

The release cycles of stable versions of jQuery, jQueryUI, et al, seem to be longer than release cycles of Chrome & Firefox patches, so it kinda seems practical.

The only issue I can think of right now is potential js library bugs & vulnerabilities being 'baked into the browser'. However I'm pretty sure things like this can be solved.
The first thing that comes to mind is it would be treated like any regular browser bug/vulnerability.

Are there any enlightened browser hackers that can explain why this is a bad idea?
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So if I could summarize your post, it's basically "There are too many alternatives/variations/duplications in the software world...harumph"

Really? You ask why we "solve the same problems over and over again?" It's because no problem in software is ever truly solved. Were data-storage algorithms and structures solved twenty years ago by Oracle? Nope. Was search solved ten years ago by Yahoo? Nope.

The field is constantly evolving and no tool is ever perfect to meet the demands of modern needs. Honestly, who could have imagined that even small companies routinely work with hundreds of gigabytes of data? Large companies are dealing with petabytes of data.

That obviously requires a different toolset - whether it be a new language or a new platform or a new paradigm.

Your rant is basically saying "We have Model T automobiles dammnit, why would you ever want to build any other type of transportation?"
It's not always as simple as "simply finding what you love" as written in "Forget Self-Improvement" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605242)
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> where Apple and Microsoft make the decisions for me and never let me double-check them.

yeah because Webkit isn't open source...
This resonates with a recent experience. I'm working on a project where the PO is very keen to add integration to all kinds of third party services. This is in order to speed up development and provide simple but flashy features that he'll be better able to sell.

However, normally have a problem: when he comes to me with links to these services, I have great difficulty to see exactly what they do, because all I can find is marketing jargon. Technical documentation is often buried deep within the guts of the site, and I have a hard time seeing if the service is actually worth integrating.
Just spent the last hour reading through the docs and playing around with it. This is some damn sexy stuff. It's been a long time since I've been this excited by a language.
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C as desert island programming language but making all indexing 1-based: "the first element of any integer-indexed object is found at index 1, not index 0, and the last element is found at index n rather than n-1, when the string has a length of n." Also begin end blocks - maybe there was a pascal ninja hidden in the syntax committee room?
Relevant comment by Brent Simmons:

I toss all my Mac app ideas that require more than the default sandboxing rules — no matter how cool the idea is.

The sandbox has a chilling effect on at least one developer. I’d be surprised if it were just me.

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I agree in principle. The link between the "hard-to-produce factor" and the medium (blog vs. paper) is not in my eyes so strong. There's a lot of overlap and I don't think the generalization is that valuable.
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Impartiality and being un-biased are different things.
This contrasts unfavorably with older media. In the broadcast television show torchwood the main character is a bi-sexual male. In Iain M Banks popular "Culture" series of novels it is common for some species to change gender, for example.

in contrast, the extent to which the Mass Effect franchise pushes the envelope of, say, the social norms of j. average suburban American community is roughly on par with the average pg-13 movie.
I'm a little worried about some of those benchmarks. They appear to have benchmarked R from a few years back against 2011 Matlab, for instance. In addition, they provide no code used for the benchmarks. That being said, this looks really interesting, and I'm gonna bookmark it for when I have time to examine it properly (after the damn phd is finally submitted).
More likely Matlab than Pascal.

Julia's syntax is intended to be familiar to users of MATLAB®.
Great quote. Two thoughts. One, i hope irving was referring to the medioocre tabloids as opposed to real papers. I've had the opportunity to attend some of the social functions for pulitzer judges in the past and they get some really quality content. Second, that cheesburger metaphor is hilarious in today's context of lolcat memes/speak/etc
Matlab, Octave, Mathematica, and other mathematical programming environments use 1-based indexing, it's a well-established norm for the domain.
"The source code for the various implementations can be found here:" (And then follow the links for each language...)
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I subscribe to this as well, but I still think Doyle has a point. Sherlock wasn't talking about neural biology, but about the structure of the conscious mind. In practice, the advantage of an "efficient brain" might not be very important compared to having focus in one' thinking.

In other words, the problem is not that we have too many pathways in the brain, rather that we spend too many cycles traveling down redundant ones. Let this allegory warn us to accept the scarcity of attention.
These things jump out at me. I didn't actually leave the site in a huff. I noticed the /accounts/ URL structure on your login page, and if I'm not mistaken, you're building the site on django? I had a good poke around, and I really like what you're trying to achieve. I look forward to seeing the site evolve as you iron out the kinks.
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Pretty tied into Python/Numpy ecosystem & 3rd party libs; however, after reading that (somewhat over the top, albeit very persuasive) posting, I'm definitely going to dig a bit deeper.
Really nice first impression, especially like the clean syntax and calling of c -- looks promising, thanks!
I can relate, i've been on both extremes of the news comsumption spectrum at various phases in my life. As a political writer, i try to read the op ed of a national paper every day. After that, i like to skim the wsj fro t page, the nyt biz section on mondays ("media mondays"), nyt science section on tuesdays, and the nyt magazine on sundays. I am from a family of newspaper editors so i look at it somewhat critically, but i save online reading & gossip mags for certain days/moments when i want to zone out and not read critically. The la times is a fantastic paper these days, website still a tad wonky on mobile but no paywall & amazing writers/content on every level. If i read nothing else i read their op ed. Also for entrepenuers i have heard anecdotally that reading a financial paper daily is a must.
Fortran too and in HPC we all code in Fortran a lot. Look at the loop construct:

for i = 1:t

in Fortran:

DO I=1,T

The ability to load both C and Fortran dynamic libraries is also really really nice.
They do link to the code: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/test/perf . It doesn't look like a very reliable microbenchmark - run test x 5 times - but it should provide a useful starting point if you want to run your own.
Yes, and the US is a federal republic, with a very specific electoral system to boot...so many other types of democracy exist before we get to non-democracy lol
In my experience, OpenOffice/LibreOffice screws up non-trivial formatting on import, and Microsoft Office screws up non trivial embeddings from previous versions. I've had both screw up old Word documents.

I prefer LibreOffice when I need to open old files -- the format is often botched, but all the content is always there -- which was not my experience with Microsoft Word.

Also, in my experience LibreOffice will happily open documents Microsoft Office complains about as being corrupt.
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Absolutely. Questions like this are the equivalent of an IQ test. Perhaps interesting, but a terrible indicator of someone's practical abilities.
Thank you collypops! Just to let you know, this site is built in just 2 months with a team of 3 people, and launched just 3 days ago. So, i guess we have a lot of kinks to iron out and figure out the right direction ;)
Ask HN: Is there a market for an API development company?
Web Dev Shops (and Creative Agencies) are everywhere, but I am yet to see a company that focuses on developing APIs for clients. Sure, it is most often part of the development of a mobile app, but what about smallish companies that want to make their data (whatever it is) available more programmatically. For example, a large restaurant chain might want to make its menu more accessible; or a non-profit foundation may want to make its data more accessible. Thoughts?
Nice! I do a fair amount of scientific computing in MATLAB. This looks to have a lot of the powerful array syntax / functions of MATLAB, but with the neat feel of Python, and all kinds of extras.
If an employer wants to snoop they usually install a root cert on your machine. That's cause you, the user, do not have physical control of the machine. What is new with this is that if you have full control of your hardware, someone can man in the middle attack you now. This is serious. It could be used by any ISP or government to snoop on all the traffic on it's network or country.
The right is wrong.
I totally agree. I love seeing how a story varies as reported in the ny post, ny times, and la times for example. It definitely gets me thinking about what tthe issues behind the text are, and forming ideas in response.