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I heard once on Oxford SciBar (I think that one - http://www.oxfordscibar.com/september-2011.html) a scientist who said that universe could really come from nothing, if all energy in it summed up to 0.

EDIT

BTW. Oxford SciBar is an awesome event, so if one lives or happens to stay in Oxford for some time, it's worth checking out.
Of course brains produce false models and find wrong patterns. Modeling and pattern-matching is what brains do. So they're going to get it wrong a lot.

The interesting thing isn't how funny it is that the mind screws up sometimes, it's knowing the actual mechanisms of perception, cognition, memory, behavior, etc. Edge cases and failures are only the beginning of understanding, because they hint at how things work.

For example, visual perception is heavily based on detecting edges. So there are a set of optical illusions where you fail to accurately perceive the colors or shades of different areas (like the chessboard illusion), because the relative shading of adjacent areas is more important for producing edges and shapes in your mind.
That's actually not true at all. There are de-dup'ing techniques that do not simply rely on a sha1 of your entire file.
Two things to consider:

1) The volume of space a black hole influences doesn't increase without bound. If our sun collapsed suddenly into a black hole, it would have the same exact pull on the earth (i.e. we wouldn't suddenly be pulled into the black hole)

2) It is hypothesized that black holes do evaporate slowly (see Hawking radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation)
WWDC 2012 sells out in 2 hours. At $1600 a ticket. At 5:30am Pacific time.
A cynic would say that psychology can't come undone since it's never really been "done" in the first place. We know so little about the fundamental nature of human thought that the whole field is basically a joke. Their journal articles are built on a foundation of sand.

I expect that 200 years in the future historians will look back at 2012 psychology as a pseudoscience, little better than phrenology.
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Hi,

Based on a recent discussion on HN here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3879869

I decided to spend a little time today to write WWW::Mechanize::Query, i.e. WWW::Mechanize with CSS selector support (thanks to Mojo::DOM)!

I just finished uploading it so it hasn't been tested much but still so far it seems to get the basics right! :)

Posting it here in case my few fellow hackers may find it useful.

http://search.cpan.org/~superasn/WWW-Mechanize-Query-0.01/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Query.pm

P.S. Suggestions / patches are most welcome.
Honestly, I agree. It's too bad this guy had a bad experience, but if he's got the mettle for it, then to New York my son. And God speed.
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I've always thought these "universe from nothing" statements are more than a bit deceptive if they mean "averaged out, zero energy".

If there is some background with a set of laws that produce fluctuations, it's hard for me to see how that is nothing. But I'm no physicist. :)
Sure, but would it be too much for Apple to announce that time a mere 24 hours in advance?

I realize that's not really Apple's style, but it would at least give everyone a chance to play.
"Writers block readers", not in any modern database[1] ;-)

[1] Incl. SQL Server 2005 an up...
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I can understand the argument regarding the slow uptake of OS X Steam games, but I can't help thinking hardware plays a small role mainly in relation to more 'hardcore' gamers.

One big advantage a Linux Steam box would have over a Mac is the ability to swap out critical components such as video cards and CPUs.

Even if Valve or others go to the effort of supporting OS X with their latest, whiz-bang AAA title, what's the point if you're on Apple hardware that's limited to a particular GPU that can't be replaced? (with the exception of a super-duper Mac Pro, and even then I can't see it being very easy to just go out and buy a new GTX 650-OMGTHEPIXELS-Edition card and expect it to work the way you would with a 'PC').
You can hide any app's dock icon with a preference setting. NSUIElement or something. It's a setting in the app's info.plist or somewhere. This is a standard Mac technique, not an app-specific functionality.
The question is not whether the universe had a beginning but rather how many times.
I think there's evidence of Goggle detecting multiple accounts and suspending all of them when an algo triggers on one of the accounts. I can't vouch for this but I remember reading posts about such things maybe a year ago.

It's not necessarily about loosing data or loosing GDrive alone. There are many scenarios one could think of. Firstly, if your account gets locked out you loose ALL Google services. If you've been using Gmail for years, it's gone. Documents? Gone. Everything Google, gone. It doesn't matter if you are paying for the service or not. It's gone and you have virtually no recourse.

One possible GDrive scenario (of the many one could imagine) is that of someone going on a family trip and uploading photos to GDrive during the trip to make room on their flash card. Somewhere along their Google account is suspended because of, well, who knows? All of their photos are gone.

Business trip. Upload your presentation and other materials to GDrive. Travel light. Account suspended by the time you get to your destination. Screwed.

With GDrive storage options reaching terabytes there will be many instances of people relying on GDrive for primary storage. That can certainly be the case with Google Docs, where the documents themselves are created online as well.

Clearly this is not an issue for the vast majority of Google account holders. This is due to the fact that account suspensions are more widely reported for users of AdSense and AdWords. In other words, business users. Your average Google user would not (and should not) have this problem. This is good for average consumers yet bad in that there might not be enough of an incentive for Google to be compelled to change their ways and be more reasonable with business users. What they telegraph is that they really couldn't give a rats ass if they kill-off someone's account because it doesn't even move one atom in their revenue stream. Tough problem to solve if you are nobody, as is the case for most of us.
If that describes your development process, you have problems that entities won't correct. I think you maybe misunderstand the audience here: these are guidelines for Google's engineers. Honestly I think demanding (and assuming) that your developers use a toolchain that doesn't suck is a reasonable choice in that environment. It may not be in all shops.
Hubble, the ISS and other low-orbit satellites are affected by the South Atlantic Anamoly, which funnels down charged particles from the Van Allen belts.

(This /was/ a surprise to the folks who designed Hubble, but the spook satellite people apparently knew all about it . . . and didn't tell the Hubble folks, not even over beer or something. Great win for national security, guys </sarcasm>).
OP is an idiot. Clearly he was hired to be a cog in a machine - a repeatable, bottom-level, commodity. In the current litigious climate of America, a customer could turn around and sue over some stupid detail, and end up with legal costs far higher than a call rep is worth. so they fire you. "No, your honor, the call rep was speaking as an individual, against policy and training, and we fired him for it."

> Until compliance departments figure out how to conduct business without micro-managing every aspect about everything, the problem remains.

companies exist to return profits to shareholders, not in the business of fixing the litigious tendencies of Americans (let alone i-bankers!). if a compliance policy is the most efficient way to manage exposure to legal risk, it's a correct move.

edit: i work in pharma
The rough idea-that the universe is cyclical, not necessarily the black holes-is in fact one of the models explored in the paper.
Should we also be worried then about Facebook, which also stores previous passwords?
An investment firm's call center. Investments and banking are some of the most regulatory-ridden businesses there are. Those compliance rules aren't there because the company said so--those compliance rules are there because the company is legally liable for that financial advice. It's the difference between a programmer and a lawyer telling you to sue somebody--the progammer's not on the block for negligence there. This post is sensationalist, and frankly, pointless. Ironic that one of his recent posts was about McDonald's automating everything so they won't need "chefs" any more.
The distribution bit is fairly irrelevant -- yes, you have different packages and filesystem standards, but those are trivial and have mostly been solved. The real problem for Linux games is platform fragmentation: every distribution has a specific set of libraries running with a specific set of kernels, they change very quickly, everyone can compile them with whatever flag they feel like... Anyone distributing binary blobs is going to hurt in support terms, or make customers hurt trying to solve library riddles. Just look at how painful it is to try run an old Loki game on a new distro release.
Google Earth has always been a farm for practicing features in preparation for a move into Maps. Earth was never a respected product.
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choosing steal is the dominant strategy in a prisoners dilemma. it is not foolish it is the correct strategy.
Lots of people implicitly expects them to be working in the long run. Lots of people will read a tutorial on how to get the cool animation X and the tutorial will only include the -webkit-property, and the reader won't even bother that he is excluding a big part of the users, because he uses only a webkit browser, so he won't notice.

There is something inherently wrong with vendor prefixes as they are used currently. But in the same time they are good if some browser wants to implement a new alpha feature or something.. but they should really not be supported for so much time as they are now.
This looks exactly like the Dept of Energy password guidlines when I worked there.

For item #5, you should be aware that they check for dictionary words of 3 or more letters, both forwards and backwards. I'm not sure what dictionaries they were using, but I found that most of the Japanese, Russian and Finnish words/phrases that I frequently pick from were forbidden.
One thing to bear in mind:

People who are really into high end games will often want to build their own machines (or get a friend to do it , or buy an alienware PC).

This means that gamers are very price/performance sensitive when it comes to buying the computers, I know this is a reason that many of my gaming friends will shy away from choosing a Mac when it comes to buying a computer. They would rather buy the PC for the same price as an iMac because with the PC they will usually be able to get a higher end graphics card + upgradeablity for the same price.

if Linux became a viable gaming platform then they will be able to buy the same sort of PCs they always did and will be able to re-invest the $100 or so they would have paid for a Windows License in faster hardware.
You would just share the file to their account, like you do in Docs now.
> But it's to late now. Valve missed their chance. Gaming is moving away from desktop. In fact, while gaming is increasing extremely fast overall, desktop is actually setting decrease on revenue.

This is strictly wrong. Desktop gaming is growing, not shrinking, has done so for the past 4 years, and is projected to do so for the next 4.

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Nvidia...

Desktop gaming wasn't really ever dying, or even significantly contracting. What did happen, and what sparked those news, was that the sales moved from the physical stores to online. In sales charts that tracked existing established sales channels, that looks like a prodigious drop. For gaben, that looks like the the push that put him in the Forbes list.
Closer to a feature branch, in practice.
> This is because node is nonblocking. It doesn't wait for get_username() to return before continuing.

You misunderstand how non-blocking works. In this case, it -most definitely- waits for get_username() to return before continuing. If get_username itself does some asynchronous calls (like db.query), that's its problem, but execution absolutely waits for your own functions to finish.

I'd recommend reading up more on event-driven programming.
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"to 'encourage' businesses to sign up for their paid services."

Wait, Yelp gets money from the businesses they list? Yeah, that's not a conflict of interest.
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He's refering to this (example):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Depression_Inventory#Limi...

The BDI is copyrighted, a fee must be paid for each copy used, and photocopying it is a violation of copyright.
The universe contains more than matter. Did every last photon ever emitted end up in a black hole too? Or is the universe losing energy with every cycle?

This is besides the empirical evidence against a cyclical universe. Cosmological expansion is accelerating, rather than slowing down, as you would expect if gravity were to slow everything down enough to eventually contract.
The problem is that you an use words like "go" and "direction" in a situation where they make sense. In the incipient phase of the Universe the space-time did not exist as we can perceive it with our brains, themselves based on physical and chemical properties of the mature Universe - so would be impossible to "imagine" that there is no "north" because there is no direction available.

Kant deducted that our conscience and brains are born with the sense of space-time and we cannot override this. The only way in which we can access this ideas is only through highend mathematics and AIs that just need to do a job, but not to explain to our limited brains how.
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Only 3 out of 5 have been announced at WWDC:

The original iPhone was announced at a special event on January 9, 2007.

iPhone 3G was announced at WWDC 2008.

iPhone 3GS was announced at WWDC 2009.

iPhone 4 was annouced at WWDC 2010.

iPhone 4S was announced at a special event on October 4, 2011.
> Of course anyone who runs the same program gets the same results, so ordinary replication is pointless

That would be true, if anyone actually distributed their actual code. Pick a journal article at random in any field that describes results from a computational model, and 99% of the paper will describe the results and not the model. The paper will never contain the complete code (which is fair enough, since it would be too long); 1 paper out of 100 will have excerpts of the code, and another 10/100 will have a URL that claims to have the code. If you actually follow that link, you'll find that 2-3 times out of 10 the code won't actually compile or run, and 9 times out of 10, the figures in the paper were generated by tweeking some parameters not defined in the paper whose particular values the author never recorded, and so even the author couldn't reproduce what he actually published, even if he wanted to.

Some people are trying to make institutional change here, see http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~wavelab/Wavelab_850/wavelab.pd...

But really it's a pretty sad state of affairs.
The price tripled since you last checked.
I'll be disappointed if they back out and never show it at 48 fps, because I would be interested in finding out if it really does look like crap at that setting.
in the case of the show there is a third player that loses when you both split so it is not clear that steal is only sensible if you care about winning yourself. :)
What if China is using their well known hacker resources to secretly build a giant list of username password combos like this guy, but on a massive scale.

They could use botnets to log in to hundreds of thousands of bank accounts and transfer money. There wouldn't be an easy way to detect them because they'd look like legitimate transactions, and the only option would be to temporarily shut down online banking transactions.

I wonder how much of a disruption they could cause?
I wonder how the guy lasted so long.

FUCK THEM!

And find a better place.
This is very forward thinking by Valve. It opens up the possibility of Linux-based game appliances which could run as VMs, dual-boot, consoles, etc.
Probably something like the Rorschach tests being copyrighted until recently. The actual test questions and the scoring rubric that, applied to a subject, yield a number or set of numbers.
I am glad someone is doing this. I recently tried to implement an algorithm described in a paper in a well known chemistry journal and discovered that the paper's results were incorrect. It turns out that the author's program (which was not made available with the paper) didn't correspond with what was described in the paper. That is to say, when I used the described algorithm, I got very different results than those in the paper.

Now I'm not sure what to do. I want to correct the paper, but I don't want to openly criticize the work of others.
Haha, this is good feedback to tune Hartli's emotions to. Tuned this morning and now news.yc is optimistic and accepting. Hopefully feels a little more accurate :)
Hi Japhyr,
I actually haven't taken this method through to deployment and scaling, so I can't personally answer the cost question (though hopefully someone else can.)
I know that it's not super difficult to get Django running off an EC2 server, and unless your server is doing anything particularly complicated, you can probably get away with using Micro instances which are free for light use.
Also, costs of scale are one of those "good problems" to have, since if you're getting to the point where you have enough traffic to be expensive, you'll have a much (relatively) easier time raising capital to fund your ongoing operations.
Make -beta- the only CSS prefix.
80 hours/wk or 100 hours/wk are extreme hours that i wouldn't or didn't advocate.
As someone who started at the same time as mchurch, and observed what happened on the google-internal mailing lists, the full story probably shouldn't be shared online without his consent.
My personal favorites are the ones that silently truncate your password. A few have done this to me, and it used to take a while to realize wtf was wrong when I couldn't sign in right after creating an account. Now I just start shortening the password until it works, which 'fixes' a good 99% of just-signed-up login failures.
next move: spoof user-agent to appear as chrome. hello mozilla compatible internet explorer
I'm sure this isn't a new thought, and I will also admit I didn't finish the article so this may have been brought up, but I strongly consider 'teaching someone to program' and 'teaching someone to program using language X' completely different topics with very little common ground that must be taught using entirely different methods.

The first few paragraphs of the article point out problems with some tutorials/manuals for languages getting too deep too fast, but I like that feature now that I know (in some manner) how to program.
Because when it comes to changing passwords, it would take me about 45 minutes to come up with a new password that met the rules and had a reasonable chance of me remembering it. I took to writing them down as I was trying to come up with something, and keeping the paper handy for a few days because I'd frequently forget the passwords by lunchtime and lock myself out of the system.

One thing to remember about these rules is that there are some other ones not publicized. All you know when it refuses to take your password is that it says "password doesn't match" instead of "password doesn't meet the rules." I got some different error message when I tried using Russian obscenities, but I forget that error message.
Hopefully Wayland will fix some of this and make it easier for video card drivers to be written.
It's a difficult balance, because on a particular page, you never know if the user is going to want to:

1) Consume the content without distraction

2) Preview the content, decide they're not interested after all, and look for other things to navigate to

Because of 2), millions of things are jammed into the page, and they do serve a purpose. Plus, usually once you scroll down far enough, only the main page content is left, as the right column ended long ago.
This is hopefully the moment where things have become so absurd (not a criticism of Opera) that it's time for browsers and standards to tackle the problem e.g. look at the proposed -beta flag.

(http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/02/the_vendor_p...)
Calling it: Apple will announce its acquisition of Square. (jk)
I would say its worse in some parts or Europe. In N. Ireland for example pedestrians do not have the right of way at a crosswalk. Drivers will run you over in an attempt to turn onto a side street. In Colorado, pedestrians are treated like a distinct lane of traffic, so you have to yield to them if you want to cross into their lane.
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I suggest the book "Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them" by David H. Freedman, the author of that Atlantic piece. It's a book length treatment, and very damning in many ways.
> I'm doubtful that a Kaiser spokesman would fabricate these problems,

Why?
There are some issues I (as a psychologist) would have with your assumptions.

Firstly, fMRI and neuroscience research is probably the single biggest source of errors and shoddy research in psychology. Its a combination of really small sample sizes, poor statistical tests (brain regions are independent of one another, really?) and huge amounts of data dredging to find significance.
See for a roundup: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/51d4r5tn

Interestingly enough, most of the observable pheonomena you note in neuroscience are linked to traits that people think about (optimism, personality etc) through surveys, so even if their methods were perfect, the results still wouldn't be.

On your survey point, I would agree that the participant pools are quite limited and generalizability is quite low, but your example is ludicrous. No one does surveys of gravity in psychology, surveys are carried out to investigate the manner in which people conceptualise their experience.

For a really great roundup of the problems with typical social science participant pools, see: Heinrich et al: humancond.org/_media/papers/weirdest_people.pdf

Indeed, the entire issue of BBS that that article appears in is well worth a look for a deeper understanding of these problems.

These surveys should then be calibrated against behavioural outcomes, but this does not happen often enough, which is a major issue in my view.

Thats the major problem with surveys, well that and some poor methods accepted too uncritically within the field (factor analysis).

To summate, psychology has many, many problems and I fully support this reproducibility effort (and it will expose a lot of findings as non-replicable). But don't single out surveys for derision, neuroscience deserves as much if not more of your scorn.
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