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Many people use the black magic for malevolence. They use black magic to destruction or hurt an additional person by performing arts certain acts even at a outlying place - the effect of this modus operandi can be practiced thousands of miles away. With augment of jealousy, disappointment, greed, self-centeredness, negativity and powerlessness to accept other's happimatrimonialess & growth, people use black magic for evil. Good and bad, paradise and hell, right and wrong are construct made by human beings, and these are compulsory for society to function. If for instance we do not classify stealing or killing as wrong or paap, then it would be converted into part of good enough performance. Morals are connected to aspects of human performance for the smooth implementation of society.
I would think that if there was a general rule of police recording their stops, the lack of recording in a contested situation might be damning in itself.
I personally think Wikipedia has a good page on the qubit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit

The Bloch Sphere is particularly helpful in understanding superpositions in qubits and operations on qubits.

Also, for the perl folks I think these two modules are useful for "hands-on" learning with "qubits" (an approximation of qubits on classical computing):

http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Quantum-Superpositions-1.03/...

http://search.cpan.org/~ajgough/Quantum-Entanglement-0.32/En...

I personally favor the Quantum::Entanglement module.

The documentation on the q_logic function gives you a basic root-not gate, and you can best understand the intermediate state. Here, the entangle(1,0) returns an "entangled", which you can call just a single qubit with a superposition of values, but which returns the value 0 with 100% probability and 1 with 0% probability (hence, the 1,0).

The root_not function given to q_logic as its first argument is the root-not gate. You can see that it takes the input value, and returns a superposition of 0 and 1 ($val and !$val), the superposition giving you a 50% chance of getting either a 0 or a 1.

However, if you apply root_not TWICE, you have a 100% chance of getting a 1 and a 0% chance of getting a 0. In essence, square root of not times square root of not gives you square root of not squared, or just not, and not of 0 is 1.

Again, the Bloch Sphere is invaluable in understanding the probabilities in superpositions of 1 and 0, or qubits.
You're probably in a much better position to evaluate than I am! My guess is that more Octave-based classes would translate into more users and more code written for Octave down the line, but I'm not sure how to encourage more use of Octave in the classroom in the first place.
This is definitely a useful feature (even more powerful when combined with route53); and $44 a year per IP address isn't too shabby either. I'm curious if this is a way to try to stay ahead of Azure's plans to try to corner hosting with their Web Sites feature (eg http://blog.ntotten.com/2012/06/08/three-more-things-about-w... )...
I thought about this comment for a while before I decided to vote up.

On the negative is an unwillingness to learn from the previous generation. They've made a lot of mistakes we shouldn't.

On the positive is a willingness to say "screw the establishment". We are going down a path that leads to a better place.

In the end, I think we need less establishment and more better places. We should recognize where we came from, but not get stuck idolizing it.
Beat me to it. Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy has tended to cover a lot of these cases going both ways.

I am not even sure how many jurisdictions have clear case law on the subject yet.
I don't know why you got voted down because you are correct.

The English common law right of free speech exists to this day and has (largely) not been supplanted. It exists in many countries that use English common law as a base.

Enshrining it in a constitution was new, perhaps, but then the idea of a constitution was new. The UK still doesn't have a constitution.
Well.. there was a show about a reality tv show with people aboard a spaceship set to be the first to venture outside of our star system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuality_%28TV_series%29

Too bad only the pilot was ever aired (to my knowledge).
What makes you think that Apple will win the case next week? The patents they offered are ridiculous and could easily be laughed out of Court by a competent judge (probably not in this case) or invalidated by prior art. Also one more week buys Google time to roll out the firmware patch should the patents hold up.
It's sad that companies are so often judged by their growth potential and not their static value. It's of course the investors that are making these judgments and not the players.
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>The high rates that top lawyers get paid are simply market rates. We pay them too. Cheap lawyers are not a bargain.

I wasn't arguing that Google should've used cheaper lawyers -- I believe the costs across the entire legal industry are ridiculously inflated, for multiple reasons. Like health care, there are a lot of elements in play and it's hard to pin any single thing down and say "this is the magic bullet", even though, also like the medical industry, there are a handful of major, easily identifiable "indecencies" in the legal industry. Note also that one can say the current costs of medicine simply represent "the current market rate" and that these services are worth what people are paying for them (and in medicine, that's more likely to be true than legal services, though the exorbitance there isn't justified either).

By "decency and propriety", I guess I mean "someone whose perspective is such that a fair analysis of the real value of the services provided by lawyers can be assessed", i.e., from the perspective of a basic decent person. I understand this perspective can become foggy as one accustoms to the rates commonly charged by legal professionals, or worse, becomes a legal professional themselves, without necessarily losing decency in the general sense -- it is just that this person's "decency gland" (as it pertains to the price of lawyers) has been forced into submission in order to retain and/or provide a significant amount of legal services.

Yes, I think a "proper rate" for legal work would be less than the $250/hr baseline that all of the attorneys in my area charge, just as I think a proper rate for the stitch-up of a cut should be less than the $3,300 an uninsured friend was recently charged (for him, over a month of wages. He spent less than two hours in the ER).
EnableCrashingOnCrashes is one function in my utility library that really, really shouldn't exist.
Not going to happen. There are a large number of hurdles to reach the "all" threshold. These include:

* undercover work will not be recorded at all times

* technological limitations. Two officers on foot. Where is the camera, for example. Also storage might be a bit of a problem.

* possibilities for abuse. for example, officer has concealed camera, visits your house, looks at the footage later to find a bong or something he didn't see the first time around, uses it to get a search warrant.

* what frequencies are recorded? Do we include near-IR for night vision? Do we include FLIR-type coverage? At what point does the video itself implicate the 4th per Kyllo?

I think the best we can hope for to start with is traffic stops. It might be possible eventually to require a cameraman on site when a search warrant is served. but there is a lot of police work where a lot of this may not work so well.
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Exactly. I wouldn't mind the right to tell the UN they don't have a claim over me and I don't accept their laws. But somehow I can't find the ballot paper that gives me this.

Even if you think of the UN as a benign force of good, you still have no way of removing yourself from it.

Each citizen in a country has the possibility and the right to switch to another country, if, for whatever reason, they cannot abide by that countrys laws. This stretches from religious freedom to tax freedom. Yet it's impossible to escape the UN, and, as many people find out the hard way, when the UN passes a rule that ruins your life, you can't vote for the other guy.

My take is that every country should have to hold a periodic (say 10 year) referendum of whether to stay in the UN and continue to fund its programs. Happily, this would easily pass. But it would be nice to think that a citizen can enforce some accountability on the largest government of them all.
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Meh, I think it's a function of company size.

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Except for, you know, everyone who purchases Google Apps and has 24/7 phone support...
Customers expectations have changed as well, when I started my business 14 years ago I would get daily calls from customers. Now it's not unusual to go a whole month without a call.
huh. the biggest problem I have with buying glasses online is the lenses. The PD (I believe is what it's called; the distance between your pupil and the bridge of your nose) is super important for the glasses to work very well at all.

Yeah, you can fuck around with a mirror and a ruler, or once at wallmart the kid at the counter just looked at me real hard and drew spots on the plastic filler lens... as far as I can tell, the actual machine to do that measurement? makes a pretty big difference.

I think the optometrists know this, too; the optometrist is happy to give me my prescription, but they won't give me the PD numbers. "you usually have it measured when you get the frames" they say. (I should look if it changes.)

And that's the thing, the difference between pretty good glasses and perfect glasses is huge for me. Enough that I'm happy to pay five hundred bucks for a product I can get for fifty online.

That said, my local Cosco has those machines, and as far as I can tell, the lenses they grind are just fine, and if not 1/10th the cost, at least 1/5th the cost of the optometrist.

But yeah, until they solve that measurement problem? I don't really see how this is any different from any of the millions of other online frame/lens retailers, save for the vertical integration (which is kinda interesting.)
Were the signs hung with any irony?
Face.com discontinues its API
Here is a link to a June 18 article announcing face.com's acquisition by Facebook.

Below is the mail I received today.

Hi Yousuf Fauzan,

You're getting this email because you've signed up as a Face.com developer and have actively used our API in the last six months.

As you may have read, Face.com has been acquired by Facebook. We're excited to move forward to work with all our friends at Facebook. Part of this process includes closing down other products and services that we are no longer able to support, and this includes the Face.com developers API.

We are tremendous fans (and members) of the software development community and have always worked hard to offer interesting, innovative and easy-to-use developer tools. In return, tens of thousands of engineers have signed up for developer tokens to build face recognition products we could never have thought of ourselves. Interacting with and learning from the developer community has always been one of the best parts of working at Face. We're hoping to interact with you in the future as part of Facebook's developer network, and we want to thank you for your support and for using our services.

Over the next 30 days we will be shutting off our APIs and winding down all support. New signups for developer tokens are now closed. Some of you out there have built products, even whole businesses, that leverage or rely on our APIs. We want to do what we can to ease the challenges of this transition, so if you're going to need more than 30 days to figure out your next steps, please let us know here, and we'll do what we can to allow you more time to transition.

Many thanks once again for your loyal support and the creativity you've brought to Face.com.

Best wishes,
Gil and the Face.com team
I love how you know the reason for being downvoted...

Memory management is definitely better and we have no idea what extensions you are using.
Why did you want a door desk when you can get an electronically-controlled height-adjustable desk? Much more ergonomic...
Any second life users here? Speak up please.

I've always found Second Life strange in that they claim million(s) of users and yet I've never met one. I've met WoW players, I've met EQ players, Diablo players, CoD players, Halo players, FF11 players, GTA players, etc etc etc. But I've never met a Second Life player. Just bad luck I guess?
The "A class rates" for developers rarely approach the minimum rates for legal services. The highest rate I've received from a consultancy was $200/hr, and they were working in an extremely specialized area with literally the best developers money could buy -- the only fundamental builders of that technology that weren't on board at that company were those who refuse to take a job. I know that Percona lists $300/hr as their rate, and we have the same story here; extremely specialized field, developers that are and have been deeply involved in the development of the technology for most of its lifetime. Generalized high-powered development help typically maxes out in the $100-$150/hr range, at least in my experience, and even that is difficult to get outside of California.

$250+/hr is the common baseline rate in my area for real commercial legal services (that is, more than emailing a template for a contract), not the "A class rate", and I would guess areas with higher cost of living are worse off. I have associates that pay $450-$500+/hr for their legal help. I know of lawyers that charge $750+/hr; that, you may say, is the "A class" rate for lawyership. Note the disparity between development consultancies and legal firms -- we max out near a law firm's minimum rate.

Comparison to other highly-skilled professionals, like developers, is indeed valuable, but only further demonstrates the exorbitance of legal pricing.
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Why I want to quit my job as webdev at the end of first year.
Maybe you would be interested in trying gevent (Python library)?
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Interesting thoughts. However for my business plan I have been looking at a bunch of other things and come to some other conclusions.

The first thing is, you can't build culture from the top-down and if you try hard enough you will look like Kim Jong Il. That there is a corporate culture is automatic though and it arises from the everyday way people interact in a business.

In the first days of a business, the founders tend to be very flexible, willing to take on eachothers' roles as needed to some degree. There aren't turf wars. Just everyone working together to make the company great.

Then you hire more people and a problem develops. People feel a need to quantify and control everything. And so management develops. What management really is there fore is to be a political filter which exists in between the employee and the executives and ensures that nobody takes proper risks.

My approach is going to be somewhat different. First we are going with a relatively flat model inspired by WL Gore, Valve and Github, and where we have to add management and escalation, we make these as non-management-like as possible.

Our key values are likely to be openness, collaboration, collegiality, and entrepreneurship.

We will hire quality employees and get out of their way.

Executives will work side-by-side with employees on projects deemed to be of critical importance. Leadership --- and followership --- will be distributed throughout the organization.

This all sounds great until one comes back to the culture issue. Is it even possible to manage corporate culture as one climbs the logistic sigmoid? Or does maturity bring habits? In other words, is it true you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
There is really no money in $2/mo shared hosting, is there? I don't think it is a very interesting problem, either.

In 2012, the availability of hosting and ease of deploy is no longer a reason not to use Ruby, Python, or whatever.
i've wanted this for years, excellent news
Again?

Here's an useful link for current users, so you don't have to look too deep:
https://www.last.fm/settings/account
(Hint: "Delete account")
The McDonald's analogy is pretty good since you can also go to any other fast food joint or even cook for yourself more cheaply and nutritiously than you eat McDonald's.

People have sentimental feelings about McDonald's, prefer the style of fries, etc. - it isn't that McDonald's products are incomparable or irreplaceable and that the only alternative is expensive, difficult "gourmet" food.
It was already light grey when I got here so I neither downvoted or upvoted but my opinion differs from yours. I don't see this post as being about the old establishment but more about how a marketer sold a tech business to the public before it was quite ready for one. There is a lot to be said about ignoring certain old business practises but I'm not sure ignoring very recent(the 90s weren't so long ago!) marketing techniques is one of those areas we should so quickly ignore. The world in relation to the internet is quite different from now but I think this story still holds true in that finding something quirky and original about your business is a great way to sell it to the mainstream.
>It's a desperate attempt to co-opt the Red Hat approach to riches via open source support.

Yes, because Redhat is doing so much better than Oracle with its OSS approach...

And it's not like other major companies support OSS with their products, like say IBM...
The comment deserves a downvote, if for no other reason than because the last thing HN needs is another person whining about how they want to start a company. A thousand graybeard reminiscences filling the front page never would be as harmful to OP's chances as the fact that he thinks the top story on HN is in any way connected with him starting a company.
> This project is completely ridiculous. Those people completely underestimate how extremely difficult it is to even land on Mars. Nearly two-thirds of all Mars missions have failed in some way, and yet these people are convinced they can simply put humans on Mars? Right.

Yes I don't think they have a real understanding. The founder of Mars One did two AMAs (ask me anything) on Reddit a while back [1] where he said "We are not scientists, we are entrepreneurs" [2]. A choice quote from a user:

> You have no one (I repeat NO ONE) on your team who is experienced or competent in anything related to space travel. The one guy on your team who you're showcasing has experience in land based telescopes and a small role in an experiment that was taken up by NASA... Which is pitiful compared to the amount of expertise needed in a lead on a project this ambitious.

If you check out the AMAs you'll see the above comment in action via the founder's answers to questions. Most of his answers are vague or difficult questions are just completely ignored.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ufb42/ama_i_am_fo..., http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uta10/iama_founder_of_...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uta10/_/c4yd59u?contex...
I'm certainly tempted. Though on the other hand, I almost have 50K scrobbles...
I bet you have.

I'm not a second life player myself, but from what I've heard, a whole lot of it is based around sexuality that would be impossible, or at least not very acceptable (outside of the SF bay area, at least) in real life. I mean, if your thing is dragons or something, well hey, they can make that happen.

With a reputation like that, most people aren't going to be as 'out' about being a second life user as about enjoying 'modern warfare' or whatever, I mean, depending on local culture.
Which doesn't mean the Mac is actually made of recyclable material, it just means that Apple does the dirty work for you; they throw out the non-recyclables and may (or may not) recycle the recyclables.

While this may allow Apple's customers to retain a larger amount of "warm and fuzzies", it probably doesn't pass muster for a person who is seriously concerned about environmentalism.
7th June... not July.
And the UK has how many more miles/kms of roads than the US, again?
> Again?

Nope. From the article: "7th June 2012"

This appears to be the same leak we were talking about a month ago. Probably an honest mistake by the poster (since it is the seventh now, again), but this was from June.
Wasn't trying to say that "telecommuting doesn't work". It obviously can - and there are often good reasons for it (hell - I do it myself most of the time).

I was just pointing out that people choosing not to telecommute isn't necessarily caused by management idiocy. There is, indeed, a lot of evidence (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4207309) that the optimum for productivity is a radically co-located team.

Of course there are other issues. Telecommuting is a great option to have and solves some problems. Sometimes the best folk cannot co-locate. Sometimes quality of life issues are more important. Sometimes the on-site work environment can't be made effective due to issues outside the relevant people's control.

However, a lot of geek folk seem to automatically assume that telecommuting == always more productive, and management that prefer co-location == always idiots. This isn't backed up by the facts.
It would be helpful to know if this is a second leak or just reposting of old news.
I loosely glimpsed at the date and fell for the same thing.
FWIW, They already have: https://addons.heroku.com/ssl (I believe their new offerring just uses ELB under the hood)
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4079977