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http://blogs.perl.org/users/steven_haryanto/2012/07/so-appar...

http://blogs.perl.org/users/michael_g_schwern/2012/07/how-no...
I only heard sound for a few seconds, while I let it run in the background for 5min or so.
There are whole paragraphs from that article that basically says Chinese lie, cheat, and steal to get technology. But without any evidence, E.G:

"The prototype J-20 Chinese stealth fighter unveiled last year, for example, appears to be based on technology recovered from a US F-117 stealth fighter..."

Appears? It also appears to be a self-developed piece of technology? Why the negative bias? (For no reason).

It's worrying that people can't even spot the bias when it's sitting right in front of them.

wu mao are essentially a product of the CCP's propaganda machine. So of course they shoot down any and everything that isn't pro CCP.

> most reputable unbiased international news agencies

I'm curious which agencies these are? From my own reading, I've found every agency is biased, and the only way to get a useful picture is to understand where their bias lies and read multiple sources.
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So...

If it can be proved that it can't be proved that two plus two
is five, then it can be proved as well that two plus two is
five, and math is a lot of bunk.

Then:

p: it can't be proved that 2 + 2 = 5
q: it can be proved that it can't be proved that 2 + 2 = 5

q → ¬p

Thus if it can be proved that it can't be proved that 2 + 2 = 5 then it can be proved that 2 + 2 = 5. (i.e. when q is true, p cannot be true)

Sorry, had to do this for myself because I'm just starting a course in discrete mathematics!
Sorry, totally wrong. I'm in Germany I know at least 20 people who read HN. I know a lot more who have heard of Dustin Curtis and the AA redesign. You don't understand the global impact of HN and a networked society.
you're right, I have sound now, thanks!=)
Really, I think this might take the cake as the worst comment I've ever read on Hacker News.
> What's the alternative?

Politicians' campaign spending is strictly limited by law:

http://www.thenation.com/article/how-get-our-democracy-back
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Yeah I know that and was please to hear it.

My comment was more oriented towards to the people that write blog entries about Go, not the developer team.
Why is potentially the worlds finest discovery of the 21st century being communicated using the worst software to be cobbled together in the 20th? (Aka Flash)
> true fans are not necessarily the earliest at the gate

Without scalpers, "first at the gate" is the only way to get tickets.
I curse the day I chose computer science! If only I was a liberal arts major, my life would be carefree and happy! Woe is me, being able to quit a job on a whim and get a six-figure salary elsewhere a whole week later!

You'd be surprised how adaptable people can be. It wasn't long ago that most of us spent our days finding and growing food. Compared to the skill change in the agriculture to industry transition, learning about computation isn't a big deal.
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First IBM who helped to create Microsoft who then helped to create Apple. Guess Apple helped to create ARM.

IBM helping to create Microsoft is well known so lets not dupe that one.

Microsoft helping to create Apple, well Apple went thru a bad phase and Microsoft chucked them enough life-lines to keep going and without those they would of gone under.

Apple, when they started the Newton project helped put ARM were it is today so we shall see were that goes.

Whoever is out infront always gets there head shot at. IBM took major flack for there monoply of the market, then Microsoft and now Apple. ARM just seem to be playing in that nice phase. But early days and not like Apple couldn't indirectly spawn a new leader be it directlly or indirectly. Usualy the pattern is that they will help another company to remove some heat from there ass and that company will outgrown them.

Still IBM still around, Microsoft still around etc etc etc.

Just a case of everybody loves to hate a winner it seems :(.
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Accutane was available in the markets as early as 1982. It was approved by FDA back then. In the initial years, the drug was a great success as sales were very high. Those were the days when dermatologists prescribed Accutane without any second thoughts.

Accutane, since it is a kind of a retinoid (related to Vitamin A), was known to be carrying teratogenic risks from the beginning. The drug was generally not prescribed to females during their pregnancy. The popularity of Accutane started dipping from the year 1999. As more and more studies were conducted, some permanent and severe side effects of Accutane came to be known. One of the most common side effects was the inflammatory bowel disease, for which hundreds of lawsuits were filed.

La Roche was happy with the sales of Accutane, while the damage done by Accutane was piling up. The wave of lawsuits made Roche to be worried as the information and warnings on the drug were insufficient and inadequate. People after suffering severe injuries filed enormous lawsuits and petitions against Roche. FDA in order to support such cases issued repeated warnings to Roche instructing them to include proper warning on the drug label. This further helped healthcare experts and people to be aware about the danger Accutane was carrying.

Even after settlements in many cases and years of research it was noted that Accutane effects were severe and even life threatening. As a result the drug was finally recalled and a complete ban was levied on its sale in 2009.

After seeing such cases, it seems imperative for people to get educated and aware about the composition and after effects of any drug to protect them from facing anything so serious later.

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not all axioms are created equally. some axioms are simple, like that the empty set exists. to think that we should have all these simple axioms, and then out of left field accept the continuum hypothesis as an axiom is a bit weird don't you think? also weird is that we can build up all this mathematical machinery from the ZF axioms, but still can't answer some seemingly innocuous questions.

that's a good distinction you make in the second paragraph. to me though, the viridical paradoxes are more interesting :-)
Scandal, controversy, entertainment, and fundraising? All the elements of a juicy story with positive outcomes all around!
An anecdote does not data make. In general, 'Soviet' or 'communist' design is ugly, why do we need to sugar-coat it? Not just consumer electronics, but cars, architecture, ... For example 1990's East Berlin - come on, that place looked well ghetto (and it was, but it looked the part, too).

Besides, it's not like the lomo is a beauty to look at, either. It gets its cult status from being niche and having a low barrier to entry, not from its good looks.
>because it can be proven that it can't be proven that two plus two equals five

Really? What does that even mean? In what number system it can it be proven? Does it hold for all?

>This is a load of ivory-tower hogwash, precisely why people get turned away from math and philosophy.

If people get "turned away from math and philosophy" then it's the peoples' problem, not math and philosophy's problem.
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I am unwilling to speculate or suggest that Paul and the unknown moderators act on content or people in the name of financial benefit

Hence why I qualified that statement with "if I didn't know better". :)

I guess the cult of Apple is just particularly strong here. Arguing against current Apple cult is sort of like arguing for Microsoft in Linux IRC-channels back in the days. You just cannot expect fair treatment of your opinions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs
Can you supply us the proof that it can't be proven that two plus two equals five? Even a citation would be fine. Thanks!
Russell's Paradox :-)
If they weren't doing anyone a service, they wouldn't make money.
The ak47 is ugly, but very functional, the exact point made above.

Tetris is a concept, not an implementation, it can be made to look good or to look ugly, but that doesn't matter. Yes the Russians invented a bunch of stuff, that's not under discussion - the point was that socialism didn't put much of an emphasis on producing stuff that had an esthetically pleasing effect on people, to put it mildly.

(to add to the examples I gave in another post - the Trabant. Come on, that thing is (compared to its contemporaries in the West) fugly.
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That's Joe Incandela speaking, he taught me graduate quantum physics at UCSB. I feel awesome now :-P
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I'm in a place with single-bar wifi signal and the livestream is really choppy.

Does anyone have something like a buffered stream on a delay so I can be sure I don't miss anything, even if I have to stop to buffer more of the stream?

I have a vanilla, chrome browser, and a fairly recent VLC.
But general global import/export shenanigans is exactly the point.

Everyone does this. It's a big mess of politics. You could highlight any country you like, and you'll find corporations/government doing shady business. Consistently highlighting China, or Russia or any country you are building a different narrative than what ALL the facts present.
Awesome. I'm working on a project right now and was close to writing this myself.
So to compensate for large values of 2, provide a small value of 5?
He cited a source, so I don't think it can take that particular cake.
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This is exactly what I was looking for but couldn't find, so I was resigned into building something like this over a weekend sometime. Looks like I'll be testing this library out in my production setup instead this weekend :D
Because the universe is conspiring against us.
"Google closed his Adsense account"

This guy was tempting fate. Serving ads on content hosted by the same company, allowing them to see every penny in traffic? I'm amazed some account manager with a grudge didn't pull the plug sooner.

So far we've seen the Twitter app shutdowns, Padmapper-Craigslist as chrischen noted, and now this. The established players continue to amass their information into silos, while the demands of the greater internet keep upping the water pressure.
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This is totally untrue.
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Except he is misusing a source to come to an absurd conclusion!
Why is the speaker in such a rush? He seems to be under a constant time-crunch. He keeps saying he's going to go over time and that he'll speed up.

Didn't he practice this before? Can't he just tell us what he wants to tell us, and skip over the rest?
I am in office, and am following a live blog of the webcast.
http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/07/03/higgs-seminar-live-...
[The Guardian one pointed out below is more informative]
Well, it has an order of magnitude more Applestores, anyway.
Not sure about Amazon and NetDNA, but the rest certainly offer it.
If you're going to make an announcement that is going to be held up to the highest rigorous standards, figuring out exactly what to say is going to be a difficult issue. This presentation isn't for you, this is for the physics community.
The guardian has one but it is not very detailed, but I guess they will have the main points not all the details of the presentations.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/jul/04/higgs-bos...
It works. Flash Player is the only browser plugin yet that can do an actual streaming (not progressive download) using either Adobe's own Media Server or other similar Open Source at the back-end. If need be, that is the best form of protection against content theft so far.

It is not that difficult to setup the whole streaming with lots of free and open source solutions available today. It's just a good means to a useful end.

EDITS:

Just as I suspected, it's using a Media Server Streaming Server.
"rtmp://cern.fc.llnwd.net/cern/"

It is also automatically streaming corresponding quality depending on the user's bandwidth.

{ bitrate: '1000', width: '640', file: 'cern1_900' },
{ bitrate: '700', width: '640', file: 'cern1_600' },
{ bitrate: '400', width: '640', file: 'cern1_300' },

So far, I haven't found a decent way to do that in HTML5 without having to encode multiple video-streams for multiple bitrates.
Latest application of the uncertainty principle - you can have 21st century discoveries or 21st century technology, but you can't have both simultaneously.
Actually, I was surprised that the number is that low... but maybe it's because i'm around techies all day and tend to consider the fuzzies as cute, inconsequential thingy that hang around our campus like butterflies do around a pond :)
I am having a lot of fun watching this, although I don't understand a single word of what he is saying :D
Right now, he's presenting general stuff that everyone in the room already knows, including him. It's just a summary of the status of the project up to now.

He could have practiced this 6 months ago.

Aaaand... at this very second he's starting on the new stuff, I think.
Getting a CS degree isn't easy - most of the people who lack the interest or intellect for it wash out before too long. I started going back for a CS degree about a year ago, and quickly found this out when I saw people retaking a 2000 level class and still failing to grasp the mechanics of function calls or basic data types.

Sure, there are some people who finish through sheer bullheadedness and others who stop caring after they graduate, but I still think that if you manage to make it through a 4 year CS program (especially if it is at a place like Stanford), there is a pretty good chance you have potential to become a useful programmer.

I'd argue that one reason we end up with CS graduates who don't end up becoming very useful is that our industry in general isn't that great at mentoring, and there are a lot of things you need to know to be a decent programmer that aren't always taught (or taught very well) in college. Good mentors in the first few years that someone is developing professionally can make a huge impact, and we should figure out a way for this to happen more often.
No one is unhappy about that. Post 4.0 frameworks are not that compelling feature-wise.
The alternative and far more logical explanation, of course, is that you surround yourself with and network with the kind of people who read HN. I do understand the global impact of a forum such as this, and I certainly understand the ramifications of a networked society. I suggest, however, that the network in this case is far smaller than supposed.

The next example is dangerous to pull off as the topic is polarizing: there is another forum called Stormfront which is the site to be a part of if you are a white supremacist (don't Google if you're at work). There are millions of posts and, I'm sure, millions of eyeballs consuming that site. If I were to ask a supporting member of Stormfront how Stormfront affects the world, they'd probably spend hours telling me about the epic discussions and hundreds of people that they know worldwide, and give me a similar answer as you -- you don't understand the global impact of what we're doing nor the network of people that Stormfront has built.

However, you and I, rational people who think that sort of shit is outer space bananas, can quickly trivialize that community because we're detached from it. Does it matter to the (much larger) community of non-white-supremacists if someone has a name in that community? Not really. So it is with Hacker News; those who think the discussions here are outer space bananas don't care about Dustin Curtis, or the flavor of the week in startups. Within a community, it is easy to start thinking that community is all-consuming and, I am here to tell you, it isn't. I think being inside Hacker News distorts views on what it actually does in the world, and what its reach is.

(Stop. Before you say what you're thinking, I'm not comparing Hacker News to Stormfront beyond that they're both forums with audiences.)

Since you qualified with familiarity with Dustin Curtis:

Before some of his posts began making the front page, I had no idea who Dustin Curtis is. I still don't, really, and my gut says he's just some UI designer slash neuroscientist who got lucky with a Hacker News audience from the AA thing, and is now considered some kind of influential voice on startups and business. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry, but I dug deep in his site looking for a clue about his career or qualifications to be a pundit on modern startups and came up pretty much dry. So I hold his opinions in the same regard as most pundits, that of immediate suspicion. That isn't a reflection on him as a person, either.
i kind of understand your point. the problem i see is that it might make you think you're doing something amazing while not receiving and adapting to customer feedback.

so in the end it's very linkely to build something that people don't care about or don't need.

this would be perfectly fine if you'd use your own money. but your investors invest in you because they want their money back plus profits.

so, you're right. now you're fine. but when the money or money or both are gone you get into trouble if there's no revenue and profit.

good luck!
I wrote something similar, a connect middleware, but not as feature rich as this one.
https://github.com/qzaidi/magickwand/blob/master/examples/cd...
I guess there would be several things I can pick up from here.
Most good science comes of asking "why" - if you took "because that's how it is" as the answer to "why did the apple fall" science wouldn't have got as far as it has. Whenever a theory has some seemingly arbitrary property it's worth asking "why"; sometimes the answer is "we don't know yet", but that doesn't mean it's not worth asking the question.
This guy is excited to get to the conclusion of the talk.
That's not what I'm suggesting at all actually. Again, you're implying this is a zero sum game, in which the world has nothing but 'A' players. Thats not what I've said.

Being a 'hard worker' is completely and totally irrelevant in software development. More input does not equal better output, which in software is the key.
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Sounds like the kind of content that is just very hard to condense into a reasonable amount of time. This seems super dense to me, but you can imagine to a physicist this is a high level overview.
Try the RTMP stream: rtmp://cern.fc.llnwd.net/cern/cern1_900

If that's choppy, save it to disk with rtmpdump: rtmpdump -v -o cern1_900.flv -r rtmp://cern.fc.llnwd.net/cern/cern1_900

edit: alternate bitrates (thanks to Brajeshwar): cern1_900 cern1_600 cern1_300
Fastest? Most feature packed? You can get notebooks with a HD 7970M and 16GB Ram for ~2300$.
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I think they are kind of busy at the CERN and have other things to do than shinny websites.
If you take Reenskaug's original MVC, and replace the human with an external system, what changes in the M-V-C part of the architecture? Nothing. Not a jot. It's identical, or can be. What's important here isn't the original intent of the architecture, it's what we can use it for. My butterknife isn't any less a butterknife because I'm cutting an apple with it, is it?

The problem here is that Reenskaug explicitly abrogated the authority you're appealing to. He recognised that MVC as originally posed was problematic and incomplete, and invited others to refine it via a pattern language, making MVC a metadefinition. At this point in history, you simply can't point at "MVC" and say that the original definition is canonical.

If you're still going to appeal to the original definition, the View still isn't a visual representation. That's the Editor. Everyone seems to forget about that bit. If you exclude the Editor, we're no longer in Reenskaug-MVC, so even if they weren't in the first place, machine representations would be ok. If you include it, your objection to JSON and RSS representations per se falls apart, because they can be perfectly valid technical details of the Editor layer under control of the View.

If this definition suits your application, good for you. But you are no longer talking about MVC.

Yes, I am. I'm just not talking about your definition of MVC, which is needlessly proscriptive.
One way to look at it is that arguing against the 'hivemind' is not tolerated.

Having run several communities myself, I offer the counterpoint:

People arguing against the crowd, even when the crowd is wrong, usually manifests itself as what appears to moderators to be trolling. When action is taken it is far less often about whether or not the content is accurate and far more often (i.e. nearly always) about whether removing one poster will end the disturbance - even when that poster may be factually correct.

When one poster often finds themself arguing against the crowd, again regardless of whether or not they are right, that poster is nearly always going to appear identical to a garden variety troll. So they are usually going to end up banned.

There is really no other way you can do it, at least that I've found, if you value keeping things civil.
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