skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These theories are now further supported by evidence. The Standard Model isn't based on a couple of experiments. Its supported by thousands of independent observations over a multitude of points in physics. There's still a lot of stuff left unexplained, and currently unpredictable by the Standard Model. Dark matter and dark energy are just a couple of them. How the universe even started is still another. The big questions are still unanswered and may well surprise us all.

Also remember that there is the Standard Model Higgs boson, the one predicted by theory, and what's just being seen in experimental data. The team doing the announcement the other day were very explicit in saying that they've found a Higgs-like particle, but it may not be exactly the one in the Standard Model. i.e. There may be multiple types of Higgs bosons. Its going to take years of more research to really nail down what's just now being glimpsed.

Another good thing to keep in mind is the place of Newtonian physics in the Standard Model. Up until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Newtonian physics were very well understood, and some scientists thought that may well have been all there was to know. Newtonian physics fits nicely inside the Standard Model. Its entirely possible, though who's to say if probable or not, that the current Standard Model will itself fit into an entirely new overarching branch of physics in the decades to come.

The LHC will be operating for 3 more months so that even more data can be collected, then will be shut down for about 2 years for repairs and upgrades. When it comes back on line, it will be much, much more powerful and who knows what might be discovered yet.
No, that probably wouldn't have been, er, sexy enough. This article has a pretty decent shot:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406499,00.asp

Same for me, and most folks with low- to mid-range home theater setups, I'd wager – shoving bare wire into the terminal seems pretty common.
The Higgs mechanism feels indeed like a hack, but the ( at the moment not significant ) clues, that we have an enhanced photon ratio gives some hope, I think. ( Likewise the absence of an signal in the tau-tau channel.)

On the other hand, we have good reason to believe in the graviton, since gravity is a field and if all fields are fundamentally quantum then we need a field-quanta, the graviton.

For dark matter we actually know quite a lot from the cosmic microwave background and from astronomical observations like the bullet cluster. And these point in the direction of a kind of particle. ( Dark energy is of course more of a hack.)
Did you actually read the article? "Give these people lots of money" and "Monitor their 'humanity'" is exactly what is described in the Monopoly game. The result was that the group given more money "act[s] out ­social dominance with a special ferociousness, slapping hands, stamping feet, or 'charging back and forth and dragging huge branches'" (oops, I mean "he balloons in size [...,] smacks his playing piece [...,] picks up Glasses’s piece [...] and moves it for him").
The horror. I can't imagine why 37signals thinks its a good idea to charge for their products and services.
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The Android Nexus Q app is pretty rough still so it leads me to believe that Google launched what they could at I/O. Considering how they designed and built the Q in the USA because of the fast feedback loop it makes sense that they have bigger plans from what Google currently lets on to.
ColdFusion (libraries)for the Java developer
Is it fair to call it quackery or should it be more fairly called a placebo-based remedy system?

Can it be slotted in the same league as naturopathy?

After all naturopathic formulations don't always have the same efficacy in controlled trials. Do they?
That's a poor argument when so many people express this opinion.

If any developers get satisfaction working on the platform it's because they like the platform; again a personal preference rather than a solid reason for believing Apple's development platforms are up to par with, say, Microsoft's .NET platform.
> My current team is doing kanban. We have post-it notes that we move around. I have no idea what they represent.

Since the whole point of Kanban, Scrum and similar systems is to manage your work, I'd say that's the place to start figuring it out. If you don't understand what work's being done, you can't have any input, and can't improve things (one of the other points of Kanban).

Also, Kanban is a pull system, not push, so it works very differently to most methodologies. You can see it in some of the modern web companies like 37Signals, with their "develop the HTML first" mantra, as well as XP and TDD.

Kanban doesn't relate to testing at all as far as I know, but Scrum has their "definition of done", in that everything should be ready to ship when it's done. Normally that includes being code complete, having automated tests, customer signoff, etc.
I don't want to discourage intelligent discussion, but your penned thoughts are about 3x the wordcount of the original article.

Or - tl;dr
All the connections you list (3.5mm, HDMI, and in particular tin can and string) cannot be used for the output of an amplifier: the Q is meant to be directly connected to passive speakers. Then banana plugs are a reasonable choice.

The question IMHO should be: why did they include an (expensive) amplifier in the Q? Most people will want to use it with amplified speakers, and if someone has high-end speakers he probably already has a decent amplifier. It makes even less sense if connected via HDMI to an home-theatre setup.

Maybe they have in mind a screen + Q + passive speakers setup, without any other amplifier/gaming console/dvd player/...?
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Mike didn't mention it but open source versions of ColdFusion do exist.

http://www.getrailo.com/ (a JBoss project)

and

http://www.openbluedragon.org/
Obligatory: real Chinese snake oil is a valid cure.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=snake-oil-s...

The problem then (as now) was charlatans claiming similar properties from substances which lacked the original's active ingredient: high Omega-3 oils.

I see this as the fundamental Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance problem: what is quality, and how does one identify it?
Does this mean NowMov has pivoted and/or is concentrating on this? Or is it a separate company (like Justin.TV & Socialcam)?
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Clojure's memory consumption is extreme, which excludes it from many realms of software development.

It's primarily useful for sovereign applications (e.g. precludes utilities) which do not require high memory density (e.g. precludes databases).

I'm quite fond of Clojure's model, but some tradeoffs had to be made.
Technically, Newtonian physics estimates Einsteinian physics which observes the means of the Standard Model.
If logic isn't consistent, then logic isn't valid.

I'm not assuming specialized definitions of "consistency" and "validity" here, just your normal everyday layman's usage.
That was pure garbage.
I was to cheap for that when I bought my kindle, but try a search on Amazon for "lighted kindle covers" http://amzn.to/Rn9obC
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Steve Wozniak is currently in Chile and gave a talk this morning at the Entel Summit. I've shared five quotes from this, and what they meant to me.
Lumberjack, thanks for the feedback. Our current phase only supports playing in our free lottery pools where users don't spend anything. We buy all the lottery tickets and put users in the lottery pool. If our lottery ticket wins then we will equally distribute the winnings among our users of that given pool.

In the next phase the biggest incentives users will have is to create their own lottery pools and play with their friends and family members by creating private pools. Instead of spending hundreds of dollars on lottery ticket to increase their chances of winning users will be able to share the cost of lottery tickets with their friends/family members. Together they can purchase more tickets, increase their chances of winnings and keep low out of the pocket costs.
I was curious as to what the evidence for deliberate pest introduction was, so I skimmed the pertinent section of the article, and came away with this:

-- the infestation "jumped" from one part of CA to another

-- rumors of an individual bragging about having moved the borer

-- borers initially detected in S. CA (ports/airports would make N. CA more likely)

-- introductions of borers occurred in bunches with multi-year lulls

-- native ranges of borer species all include the same east coast AU state

-- the 2 invasive eucalyptus species are particularly suceptible to these borers

-- pests have appeared in CA first before spreading; 7 are found only in AU and CA

-- nursery trade does not import eucalyptus

-- 14/17 of AU pests introduced in CA since 1980 are eucalyptus-specific

-- only 2/16 eucalyptus pests arrived with their predators

-- no South America / Asia pests have invaded CA, only AU pests

Arguments against this theory:

-- borer is the only pest so far found that is fatal to the eucalyptus

-- pests could survive the 14-15 hour direct flight in a plane's cargo hold
The original wordcount to response word count ratio is not really relevant IMO— for example, people have written thousands of pages dissecting the Tao which is a mere couple dozen pages long.

However, better layout (ie. more paragraphs) would help.
It turned out like I hoped you meant it.
No. Kanban is Kanban. Scrum is Scrum.
I agree with you that the banana plugs were an odd choice, but to be fair, none of the interfaces you listed would be found on a pair of speakers unless they were powered.

The 3.5mm jack would be common sense for a line out, but certainly not for the speaker-out from an amplifier.

The logical connector would be binding post, which allows banana connectors, bare wire, or lugs. As you mentioned, I'm sure these weren't used because of aesthetics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_post
Thanks. Wasn't Tripit acquired by concur or something?
I cant mention that one in particular due to confidentiality but would love to point you others such as Tazo's topal, Rich Jones' gun.io, Sacha Grief's Folyo. you should visit all of them - they are great services!
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"There are 365 million iOS devices."

Can AirPlay from Android devices as well...

http://gizmodo.com/5883721/the-top-7-android-music-apps-for-...
What's the purposed of a troll again ? :)
You're absolutely correct. My original point still stands, though.
In theory. In practice, doing that (with Clojure specifically) would be a bit silly. A lot would need to change with the language to make it suitable for OS development, at which point Clojure would lose a lot of the attributes that make it Clojure.
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This might make more sense as a object model rather than class model. There is a lot of state behind the scenes (bind, trigger, reset), which would be natural for an object. Instead it is dumped into global state.

The use case might be to support multiple sets of key bindings, e.g., default, user specific, app specific, view specific. When you don't need one set anymore you just "reset" that set instead of resetting everything.
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Indeed! As I asked in my post:

> Besides, if you've got speakers that are so good you're wiring them up with banana plugged-cables, you probably already have a pretty nice receiver. What purpose was served by adding an amp and making this thing into a mini receiver on its own?

It's an odd decision the more you look at it. The sort of person who's happy to plunk down $300 on a home theater component is already going to have a much more capable device driving a surround sound system. It's not like this is positioned to do that, so it can't replace the home theater receiver.

Just odd.
Ha! I remember reading somewhere that Einstein refused to acknowledge Big bang theory and accelerating universe, because eventual heat death of universe was too depressing or something. I'm sure we'd all like a subspace communication channel, a warp drive, etc. but things are the way they are, we can just observe them, for now.
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Like other commenters said, DO NOT get tmobile prepaid if you want to use it with iDevices.

Instead get StraightTalks unlimited voice/data/text "Bring Your Own Device" plan for $45(Select AT&T compatible and microsim)

http://www.straighttalksim.com/shop.php
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If they plan to conduct business, arrange meetings, they need to be able to communicate everywhere. Cell phones are a must
I'd be interested to know what kind of visa you have to enable you to work over here in the US?
One can only hope that the previous licensees included a clawback-if-invalidated clause in their agreements.
I don't know why you got down-voted to oblivion. I found your sarcasm to be pretty funny, personally.
Yea, the wrong incentives can be worse than no incentives at all.
You are going to live depressed If stupidity depress you; specially if you have internet access.
It is a difficult problem. We have a model that requires some intense discipline (relative to the rest of the "whee, do whatever!" Internet) to work.

That is, you gotta do your homework, and not everyone can get into Harvard. Or even their local community college for that matter.

But I'd say the proof is in the pudding, that is, look at what percentage of pages SE generates that are actually useful and make the Internet better.
The purpose of BitTorrent is peer-to-peer file sharing. Period. While it is all too often used for distributing works illegally, its primary purpose is not that. Consider reading the Wikipedia page[1] for some examples of effective and legitimate uses of the protocol.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Adoption
Like everyone, we have our own version of Agile. Here's what SCRUM, KANBAN, and LEAN mean to me (and thus, my company):

1. Self-organizing team. No one tells you what to do.

2. Fix bugs first. No one likes a backlog full of 132,423 bugs. Fix 'em as you find em.

3. Priority queue is decided by the whole team (with input from management) but is MACRO and has value goals associated with it (e.g. redesign signup - increase conversions 30%). Team figures out what that means, and measures it.

4. Features that don't "move the needle" (or moves it negatively) get yanked. Code has weight and tends to rust. If it doesn't meet the business goals but is showing positive reception (e.g. increased conversions at all) bias towards rework.

5. Only work on one thing at a time. This is super important. Don't have four or five stories "in process". Too much WIP = nothing gets done. If you are blocked on something, pull the andon cord and we can figure out what we need to do to fix it. Go read a book. Go for a walk. Do something other than starting another task.

6. Velocity helps us figure out what "reasonable pace" means. That's it. It's not used for long-range planning, just "are we working at a sustainable pace?"

7. Frequent retrospectives (every two weeks) help us nudge the ship in the right direction. We evaluate our process and see what needs fixin', and make sure that promises made are not abandoned due to externalities (management interference, or other non-technical reasons).

8. Iteration planning is short and is only used to keep the team informed.

9. Use passive information radiators to communicate status and progress instead of meetings etc.
Crushing information if they really don't have the graphics drivers fully work and haven't shipped anything in 6 months :/
He gave some historical background but also brought it around to how homeopathic preparations are presently made, with the examples of actual products using 30x and 1500x dilutions. There are lots of specifics we could be pedantic about, but I agree with the grandparent that for a 15 minute summary of homeopathy it's on target.
The press is the watchdog of things like this.

Unfortunately the press has been gutted and all the old white men with years and years of experience have left being replaced by people like Catherine Rampell (attractive, young, and only 5 years out of Princeton).

This is not a rant against woman (I've seen this pattern with both young men and young woman) and it's not a rant against young people (there are some areas where you want a young person personally I don't feel that economics (while not brain surgery) is one of them).

http://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinerampell

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r...

Here is Catherine on TV:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/300818-6

Most interesting is that she actually founded the economics blog 1 year out of Princeton.

Edit: Not to mention the money to keep an eye (and hire experienced people) is also not there anymore, not supported by legacy advertising monopoly.
Tell HN: How 2 devs got 1 million monthly actives with no social/viral tools
KeepSafe lets you take control of who sees what on your phone. Privacy is our main feature so we're an inherently non-social service. 12 months ago, we started at 0, today we have more than a million daily active users.

This is how we did it:
* Start with something the user cares about.
Instead of solving a big thing like "Privacy", we decided to start close to a specific user problem: keeping pictures private on the phone. By reducing it, we quickly realized that this was a crowded space with tons of apps that simply hide pictures. Bad, because of competition but a good indicator for what users care about.

* Throw out features
The fewer things your app can do, the more you can focus on making the user flows for the remaining features simple and easy to understand.

* Focus on retention
Growth is nice but we want users to come back. We were slow to build new features but always fast to release bug fixes and improvements to the core experience. In our case it was improving the speed for adding pictures to KeepSafe and the user flows for doing it. If you continuously improve, your userbase will notice and keep using your app.

* Speak a language your users understand
We have a large userbase in the US and other English speaking countries. But we invested in translating the app from the get-go. The smartphone penetration in countries like South Korea is really high and we see lots of users from Europe too. It's easy and it's fast if you use services like MyGengo.

* Ask your users for their opinion
When someone started to be a frequent user we simply asked them to rate us in the Android market. It has helped our ranking.

What is your experience and insights on growing your app?

KeepSafe has a fun and ambitious roadmap. If you want to join a mobile startup and have huge impact, take a look http://www.getkeepsafe.com/about.php#jobs
Nice website design and idea. I will checkout the app on my phone later and provide more feedback. Are you integrating with any calendars?
It's been a business practice, certainly. And it's been part of law and lore since the dawn of history. The code of Hammurabi includes punishment for false witness:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3153879?origin=JSTOR-pdf

In Dante's Inferno, the penultimate (8th) circle of hell is for the fraudulent (the 9th and innermost is for traitors -- another form of fraud, if you like):
http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/rp_dante_hell.html
This is the discourse equivalent of going to a party, pulling your pants down in the living room and taking a shit on the floor.
It's _definitely_ too early to dismiss all but the Standard Model - there's definitely a lot more exciting stuff to come from CERN... hang in there!
Good idea, but how would you determine who is a "patent troll"? Some of them are more obvious, like i2z. But 1-click is also a bullshit patent. Big companies like Amazon like to use patents both defensively and offensively. They're not going to contribute to the legal fund if it could be used against them.

I think the idea is more workable if you start with recruiting small to mid-size companies + VCs. The big companies are more likely to join on a case by case basis, especially with someone else taking point.
One of the criticisms of Firefly was that for a future that was supposed to have a large Chinese population / integration of Chinese culture, you never really saw any Chinese characters (aka whitewashing). That said, I always thought it was an elegant work-around to broadcast TV's limitations on cusswords.
If you were from US, Id recommend you get a zipcar/getaround account or rent a car for those few times you will need to drive down to Palo Alto/Mountain View etc.

However since you are foreigners, I have no idea how the insurance aspect would play out. If you go the rental route, try to see if you can get a credit card in Denmark that would cover car rental insurance overseas, otherwise you would have to pay daily car collision insurance which sometimes costs as much as the car rental itself.
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Our old $100 note wasn't either. It was the colour scheme that was the problem. Nevertheless, if it's still common to use a pen to determine fake notes, your technology is miles behind.
I had assumed that they were 5-way binding posts, but further inspection says no.

For popularity of interfaces, powered speaker outputs are obviously for completely different use-cases than anything else you listed. You aren't going to connect a 3.5mm or TOSLINK output to a passive speaker, and you generally aren't going to connect speaker-level outputs to an RCA input. The only other competing connecter worth considering is plain old bare wire.

It has TOSLINK and HDMI outputs in addition; it's not an either/or choice.

As for the benefit of amplifier integration, I can think of a few:

- Space. The nice receivers you talk about are generally at least 17" wide and 14" deep, so if this is a bedroom or den setup for wireless music streaming you might not have space for one. Smaller ones obviously exist, but I haven't found one smaller than about 11" by 13" with remote volume control.

- Power consumption. Full receivers often have ridiculous idle power consumption, and the only standardized way to turn them off (HDMI-CEC) can still have significant standby power consumption. Also it uses a more efficient class D amp while most full receivers use class AB.

- Volume control. It should be between the DAC and amplifier, but with a two piece streaming + outboard receiver your options are either a separate remote to control it or digital volume control at the streamer, which really is suboptimal. And if you want a tiny amp then there is no remote; you have to get up and physically turn a knob.