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> I'd rather focus on explanations that offer disprovable models we can use to fix the issues at hand if they turn out to be correct.

So you are saying that you would fight one issue rather than another based not on arguments and evidence, but on the fact that the first can be fought and the other cannot (which is itself speculative)?

In my opinion this kind of reasoning has serious flaws. You could see already commenters on HN who say something like "Reading all these posts about sexism and women discrimination I don't want my daughter to work in IT". Doesn't that contradict to what we are fighting for - for bringing more women into IT industry? Doesn't it have to start with equal opportunity for children rather than fear (which in some - many - cases is wrongly induced?
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Is it usual for an acquiring company to give an exploding offer with a timescale of days (in the US)? Especially considering a $200M acquisition will have taken (and may continue to take) many months to complete .
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Look up lens design and you will find it is very complex. Actually getting a flat field is pretty complex.
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Even though this is five years old, I hadn’t seen it before. It’s a very cute trick. The followup by Josh Millard is even better: http://www.joshmillard.com/2007/10/04/retro-histo-making-an-...
I think 'Connectrode' is somewhat symbolic here. It represents something he is and does outside of his standard workplace. it sounded like signing the Zynga contract could potentially threaten everything that 'Connectrode' represented to him.
I love how their iOS API documentation is laid out in the same style as Apple's documentation!
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So quantum computing says that instead of one calculation, I perform multiple calculations simultaneously in different universes. Now this guy says that I have to give up the idea of computing as being deterministic and always getting the right answer?

It has to be true, because it makes no sense whatsoever. Web designers of the future will have a great reply to customers. "The site gives wrong answers? Well, you need to realize that asking for correct answers isn't what we do with computers. And besides that, in another universe the answers are correct. Boy, are you really happy over there!"

That was perhaps a too-long-winded snark with a point: it's not that I don't feel that we're headed in the right direction, it's that visionaries always seem to concentrate on the brain-exploding part of what they're saying instead of talking about how it all integrates together. While I think this might sell some website views, it doesn't do much for the practitioner looking for insight.
This is true of so many companies that get acquired. I always think of Infinity Ward. If they hadn't been snapped up by Activision, they might be bigger than them today.
My brain is wired a little differently from average (I really do see things that other people don't see), but overall I don't see kids as having better perception than I do. My son sees things I miss, certainly, but he misses a lot.

Groups, at their best, can see things that individuals don't, but groups are also astonishingly good at creating blindness... The whole "emperor has no clothes phenomenon". Both families and work teams can labor on for years with fundamental misconceptions about what they're up against.
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Darwin is not really related to computer science, but without Georges Booles, computers do not have existed ever.
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or use Google Documents instead of Hybrid PDFs where again you need LibreOffice to edit them.
I just think Turing is a great choice to troll the religious conservatives - replacing a creationist with a homosexual.
Yes, however, the "drug" described (it's more of an idea for a drug at this stage, really) does not aim to disrupt the tumor cell itself. Instead it's based on the observation that many (maybe most?) cancerous cells over-express the protein CD47 on their surfaces as a survival mechanism in order to prevent macrophages and dendrites from taking them out.

If successful - and that's a big if, because I'd be willing to wager this treatment will never see the light of day - if successful, the drug would break the CD47 recognition mechanism by blocking the protein with antibodies, thereby allowing the patient's immune system to attack the malfunctioning cells. In a way this would be more elegant than aiming at re-starting apoptosis pathways or blocking the expression of angiogenesis factors because the specific mechanisms employed by cancer cells to do so seem to vary greatly as you said.
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I have also included my last tutorial here… I mean why not, my its my post, I can (shamelessly) include my tutorial as well.
Indeed, phase symmetry provides conservation of charge. In fact and this is one of the most amazing things in physics, if you demand the system to be invariant under a change of phase everywhere, a symmetry called U(1), you will automatically find electromagnetism! A fundamental force of nature is a consequence of symmetry.

This is the unifying principle of physics as we know it: the Standard Model. Except of course for gravity on one hand and the fact that everything has mass on the other hand (which these symmetries forbid). That is why the search for Higgs boson is so important. It provides a way of breaking symmetries so particles can have mass but still interact with various forces. (The reasons why symmetry forbids massive particles are complicated).
I think it is fair to say that this approach only works in some domains. We won't be using it where giving the 'wrong' answer upsets the people with the money. But if you listen to the channel 9 interview put up by 6ren he clearly outlines a number of scenarios that are appropriate.

<not-snarky>It isn't clear what quantum computing has to do with this discussion.</not-snarky>

Edit: Mitigate snarkiness of final comment.
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Electricity isn't expensive, we have a government that tends to make everything extraordinarily expensive.

Obama's trillion dollar stimulus shot could have built a hundred nuclear power plants in America. Or 50 plants, plus transmission to carry the juice. Except the runway from here to there is a minefield filled with lobbyist groups, endless regulatory hurdles, congressional reviews, lawsuits, etc. All of which are government failures tied to tort reform, lobbying reform, and bad regulations and bad processes related to regulation.

The rest of the world thinks America is a joke when it comes to energy. Canada understands energy; China understands energy; Japan understands energy. We can't even build a simple pipeline - until the next week, when Obama goes from claiming he's a protector of the environment, to bragging he has built enough pipeline to circle the world. Canada and China look at this and laugh.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/22/450397/obama-worst-...

I think it can easily be argued that America has the most ineffectual government among major economies. We spend the most, for the least results (which blankets most segments, including education).
A major difference between software and engineering (roads, bridges etc) is in the amount of redundancy.

Bridges and such are usually made massively bigger and stronger than they need to be, just in case. Belt and braces. Of course, it's a lot cheaper to build that redundancy into a bridge than it is in software.
As a former Zynga employee, and someone who personally held patented IP and copyright ownership of code that still generates me personal revenue (as well as through my employment), Zynga was in no way threatening to it. His whole argument about "Connectrode VS Zynga" is really bias. He waited until the last minute to bring this up instead of being up front with Zynga about it from the beginning. I was, and there was no problem.
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Hi,

I've been using git for a while now, and while I honestly think it is the work of a genius and love the flexibility it gives you, as well as the tools others have built on top (e.g. delpoy via git on Amazon or Heroku, git-ftp for websites, ...) it has one big flaw that makes it pure horror for people (especially those working with CVS, etc. before) to learn and use it: Command naming is really bad and in lots of places inconsistent and confusing at best for beginners.

I know there are quite a few cheat sheets out there, but I needed something a bit more structured and with less non-essential information. So I made http://gitcheater.com/

I posting this here because a) I think this might help other people as well, not just me and b) I appreciate your help, pointing out mistakes and important things missing on the site.

Of course the whole things is hosted on github, so feel free to fork, clone and use it as you wish.
> Like the guy said, he lost a job. Nothing more.

Exactly. The headline is wildly misleading - he didn't opt out of the buy-out, his small equity stake was bought. The value of the buy-out is irrelevant, and it's unlikely that the offer he got was off-the-charts above what he could get somewhere else - He said it was a standard offer, so most likely it was what he made before + n%.
I don't think I am reaching at all. According to In The Plex, the reason that Google bought YouTube was because that race had been won by YouTube at that point, and Google had come to that realization. There are also parts in there that quote the founders talking about their lax attitude towards copyright infringement being a good thing, and it also attributes part of Google Video's failure against YouTube to their over-worrying about making sure that copyright was appropriately respected, while YouTube was letting things run wild. The tough-on-copyright-infringement behavior of YT came later. I'm not equating them with MU, I'm saying that you're dead wrong about YouTube's past.
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Not really, it was always largely figurative. The famous Mark II logbook with the moth taped to it had the note "First actual case of bug being found." - so that clearly indicates that A) the term had been in use for a while (a very long while, there is a record of Edison using it) and B) Real insects were typically not involved.
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Meh. I've done the rounds as a statistician, and it would be pretty unusual to meet somebody who knew as much as me about what I do - in fact, even if I meet another statistician, there is almost surely no chance they know everything I know. I am always the expert, at what I do. And then I have to try really hard to get any idea of what everybody else is doing.
Most of these grandiose announcements are composed in a way to secure funding for the research group releasing the paper in question. They are almost always entirely based on idealized animal models that have no hope of ever working in the real world. A very small percentage of these research ideas is viable and does make its way to clinical trials, after which these ideas are almost certainly buried never to be seen again due to a crushing load of patent concerns, hedging of liabilities, conflicts with corporate strategies, and general cultural resistance.

Pharmaceutical companies are doing a difficult tight rope walk here. On the one hand, they have a nice status quo, in essence a license to print money. On the other hand, they are subject to a number of threatening forces such as the expiry of patents or the ever-present danger of a rogue competitor making a disruptive discovery. This means there has to be a certain amount of innovation, and that innovation has to cost a lot of money, but ideally the improvements would be minimal. A lot of times, it makes way more sense to kill an idea and keep it under wraps. All big companies have to make these kinds of decisions, it's just good business sense.
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There was a article on HN a few weeks back, the link escapes me. But there was the first ever bug, an actual moth. It was taped to the error log i believe.

Edit: Brazzy explains it better and indeed seems more informed :)
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And unlike Afghanistan or Iraq, Mexico actually matters to the US. They are our #3 trading partner (Canada and China are #1 and #2), even ignoring trade in labor (and trade in drugs).

Messing that up would be foolish.
Great, how about a downloadable PDF?
Thanks for putting the time to do this.
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Respect.

I just purchased Connectrode, as well as his other game Great Land Grab Plus (mainly because I had a very similar idea for a game in the early iPhone SDK days, and wanted to check out his take on it).
I have a backbone todo list running locally and hosting the data on parse. Setting it up took about a minute (good docs yay!).

I don't think you can provide this as a service though as I have my parse credentials in my js file.
You're overthinking it. The solution to this problem, in this instance, is non-technical.

Women already have a rough idea of how different sizes from different brands will fit them. Once they find another woman with a range of things that would also likely fit them well, they can have a reasonable assurance that their other clothes will be similarly sized and cut.

Once they find a few women of similar size, shape and taste, they can draw preferentially from that pool of users.
"...It isn't clear what quantum computing has to do with this discussion..."

My entire point was that the way we describe future tech emphasizes the differences and exotic nature of the concepts instead of how it's all going to eventually work together anyway. Quantum computing was my second example.

Apologies if I didn't make that clear enough.
profit when unfit is not $270 - $150 - $150, its simply -$150.

When the basket is unfit for sale, it goes unsold. Which means the man is out $150 (as it says in the question). The $270, sale price, does not even enter the picture as the basked it unsold.

thus average profit = 1/12 * -150 + 11/12 * 120 = 97.5
This argument seems to only work if you make the arbitrary assumption that philosophy and science are completely separate domains.
I actually have plans to do sth. similar: Use CSS media queries to get a nice printable version (which of course could be used to generate a PDF then). Just haven't found the time to do it yet.
I think thats a problem in general. I've seen companies where the admin team was highly regarded, although all they did was (good) maintenance work. But they were also good in talking about this in a way of "this and that got better _in general_ because, over the last weeks, we worked on improving this and that". The idea of actually naming the people that have to do maintenance also gives them the possibility of talking about it in context of their work.
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The article does a poor job of explaining the fact that the primary way you earn buttons is by uploading and sending dresses, not buy purchasing them.

You upload a dress and set your own price for it in buttons. When someone requests that dress you send it to them and you gain n buttons.
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I've been meaning to port a javascript app of mine (private video bookmarking) to backbone for a while. I would love to test this (hint, hint).
> it would be pretty unusual to meet somebody who knew as much as me about what I do

What do you think the odds are?
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Really? Developers are not exactly the cheapest resource on the planet, and while they don't code every piece of software they package... they still package it, they still give it at least some form of testing (e.g. will it install if it's on this image)... it's not expensive in some cases but it's not free either.
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Ask HN: How do you convince your bosses to use the right tools?
How do you convince your bosses to cough it up for the right toolset (whatever that is on your team)? Whether it's an IDE, refactoring, unit testing framework, build server, or whatever else?

What has worked?
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Not to be confrontational, but I'd wager that you've never developed in an agile context for any longer period of time?
There is just one more difficult biological problem; namely, death.
Because in distributed computing, the communication lag is more noticeable. It is also harder to synchronise distributed nodes. Multiple cores on a single machine will probably share read-only resources e.g. the clock.
Or even better: just send the damn text WITHIN the actual email. You know, just how sane people do this :) .
>It views players as weak-minded cash cows; and it views its developers as expendable, replaceable tools to create the machines that milk those cows.

>Because the company's values are completely opposed to my own values, professionally and creativel

>An evil company is trying to get rich quick, and has no regard for the harm they're doing along the way

Why does he not give any examples of how Zynga is evil? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to defend them. I honestly don't even know and now I'm curious. The only thing I know about Zynga is from their stock revoking mess that occurred around the IPO.
It's a shame we don't use HTML for most office documents. Readers are ubiquitous, they degrade nicely in older/slower machines, they're open, etc.

PDF are supposedly better for printing, but that's only if you need documents to come out exactly the same everywhere; for most, a slight difference in text reflowing doesn't really make a difference, and CSS does the rest for the most part.

There's also the problem with embedding content, but nowadays you can just use data:// URIs and put everything in one file.
You can be religious and still accept homosexuality. It's a shame it even gets brought up. Let us remember Turing for being a great Mathematician.
A proactive security tool to protect computers from malware, perhaps using a combo of Artificial Life, Genetic Programming and Artificial Immune systems, with social networking and swarm computing thrown in for good measure.

cf. our current reactive approach of applying antivirus updates post hoc.
The font in the article is horrible. Had to turn it off
> Doing graphics in Linux is a PITA.

How so? Almost every Linux distro comes with Tcl/Tk (if not installed by default, installable by checking a box in a package manager). Using the Tk canvas widget your basic code above becomes:

$ wish <- start a live Tcl/Tk REPL

canvas .c
pack .c -expand true -fill both
.c create rectangle 100 100 200 100 -fill white
.c create rectangle 200 100 200 200 -fill white
.c create rectangle 100 200 200 200 -fill white
.c create rectangle 100 100 100 200 -fill white
for {set i 100} {$i <= 200} {incr i 10} {
for {set k 200} {$k <= 100} {incr k -10} {
.c create rectangle $i $k $k $i -fill blue
.c create rectangle $k $i $i $k -fill green
}
}

All with the added advantage that you can watch the drawing happen as you type in the code instead of waiting until the end to enter "run". Note, I have assumed your "DRAW" statements draw rectangles because they have four coordinates. The canvas widget supports many more shapes than just basic rectangles, substitute as desired.
I wish Tommy Flowers contribution got more recognition too - maybe they could put him on a fiver?
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I think that this could have been a poll. It seems that some people either don't have the time, or don't take the time to write a comment. That's why the arrows are so tempting. We should remember though that you don't get access to the down vote until your karma is at a certain level. I don't know what that is since I haven't hit it yet.
>>A lot of people's first reaction always seems to be "we're so insignificant!"<<

I feel the emotion of this reaction, but I think the proper response to this is the one that C.S. Lewis gave: size is just a number; significance is attached to things by minds.

If you don't think tall people more important than short ones, or feet more important than eyes, why do you think stars more important than people? Certainly the stars don't think any such thing. They don't think at all. We do.

Here's a quote from his space novel "Perelandra" where this concept comes up:

"Part of him still knew that the size of a thing is its least important characteristic, that the material universe derived from the comparing and mythopoic power within him that very majesty before which he was now asked to abase himself, and that mere numbers could not over-awe us unless we lent them, from our own resources, that awfulness which they thmselves could no more supply than a banker's ledger. But this knowledge remained an abstraction. Mere bigness and loneliness overbore him."
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> And then who can program in this way? Who among us can reason effectively about just how far from the true answer we are.

If floating point math is anything to go by, most programmers won't be able to cope with this. (Then again, most languages do nothing to help programmers keep track of how large the inaccuracies get.)
Don't think of it as a quantum CPU. Think of it as a quantum coprocessor that the CPU uses to accelerate some operations.
I'm not sure you understand the article. The difference between 'beginning' and 'last minute' was approximately 10 hours.
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