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If the universe is infinite in size, does that automatically imply that it is infinite in mass?

That is, I can imagine a mass distribution that decreases as it moves away from the center, such that the total amount of mass is finite. In which case these problems don't apply.

I'm not sure whether that's possible though. If space-time is flat, that means there's a specific mass density in that universe, in which case infinite mass exists. For an infinite universe to have finite mass would mean a density that tends to zero, in which case we should observe a saddle shape in the experiments described. That is, unless space is just -locally- (in 14.6 billion light years) flat.

I don't claim to be right. But, you can use this possibility to ease your existential dread at being one of infinitely many near-identical copies. Of course you still have to deal with many-world quantum physics...
You're not the average consumer.

Apple owes everything to effectively cultivating the notion that they are cool and unique, the product of choice for young rebels and everyone who thinks different.

Cool enables their huge margins, grants instant forgiveness for any slip-ups and allows them to essentially dictate what constitutes the "best product".

That's why they're fighting so hard. Samsung is a threat to their cool.
Do you get the craigslist seller to throw in a year of AppleCare? Because that comes free with the refurb. It's $240 for the Macbook Air.
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From the video: "Our servers store metadata about your messages, but not the messages themselves"

It's difficult for me to invest the time (and effort) required to use a service like this, when that investment could easily just go away when the service is pulled for whatever reason. Or, if their servers are down will I have robust access to my mail client?

One of the nice things about old email is that it is portable. Metadata on 3rd party servers seems to cast this positive aspect about email aside.

Some aspects of these new emerging services are novel, specifically the UI and layout of features. As many have pointed out recently, similar functionality has existed in mail clients for years. However, not every email user is aware that their use of email could be made more productive just by utilizing the tools already in their email environment. I would guess these mail client-services are catering to that market -- the less technically inclined. Consequently, these customers are less likely to know or care about the implications of spreading vital work-related or important data across new and potentially volatile services.

That said, I do support nice-looking and more usable email clients, just not at the cost of dependence on a 3rd party service.
If you comment was not in jest, can you elaborate on why you think so? One can argue that all scientific theories are motivated to a larger or lesser extent by the prevalent world view of their day. But arguing, e.g. the Standard Model in physics is influenced by the politics of its day (~70s) is indeed bizarre.
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According to camelcamelcamel.com, its price spiked recently. It was more like $30-35 for a while (including when I bought my copy).

It is really good, describing several different architectures for computation. Different designs for virtual machines, if you will. It isn't limited to Lisp, either -- Prolog and a couple other language families are covered.
Hardware support/ease of setup mostly. I ran Ubuntu on my iBook PPC circa 2005 or so, and it wasn't a great experience. Has hardware support for the modern mac lines gotten better in recent years?
OK, upvotes are occurring, so what do we do?

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/unityessay2.html

for an inadequate and partial outline for the 12.04/unity gui

Challenge: put your suggestions/contributions on dropbox or githib or wherever and post here and I'll attempt a synthesis.
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Anyone knows whether Appcelerator Titanium Studio works with Mountain Lion (officially it seems it is not supported).
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I'm not a huge fan of brown leather, but Calendar's textures work together to draw my attention to the most relevant parts of the screen in a way that is almost entirely missing in Google Calendar, to pick on a prominent competitor.

The leather is mildly ugly if I focus on it (never), but Google Calendar's harsh asymmetry, nonsensical color scheme (cartoonishly highlighting two buttons - "SEARCH" and "CREATE" - I never use), and inability to hide numerous unused elements bother me every second I have the tab open.

I don't understand the value of these discussions about design that start and end with how skeutomorphic an application is. It's one of dozens of design elements, and it's disappointingly rare to find a well reasoned argument (not "I dunno, Windows 8 just feels cooler now") why skeutomorphism is categorically bad design.
In the case of a cockpit altitude alarm, "pull up from a perilous dive" may not be the appropriate response; "lower your nose and throttle up to build airspeed and get out of a perilous stall" may instead be called for. Additionally, pilots will universally agree that it is worth taking certain actions in order to avoid crashing. Thus, the use of shorthand in that situation is fairly reasonable.

When it comes to declaring what science tells us we "must" do, the picture is far less clear. One reason to be explicit about the difference between "is" and "must" is that even intelligent readers and writers sometimes hold mistaken beliefs here. Another reason is that, even among those in total agreement about the science and in total agreement about certain predictions, there is still disagreement about whether various tradeoffs are "worth" the cost. At that point, science is simply the wrong tool to tell us what we "must" do.
Should I assume that this article falls under the Betteridge's Law of Headlines?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
Indeed. My one strike against it is that I'd rather have a hardcover or an e-book. A paperback that large will eventually fall apart if I keep carrying it around (and it's heavy).
Really beautiful.

Suggestion: Add city name. I know you don't want to clutter the interface, thus the name minimalist weather, but it makes me nervous to look at a screen and hope it has determined my location accurately. It makes me skeptical about the results too, as I didn't get any notifications on OS X Lion saying "minimalistweather.com wants to use your location". Also it displayed a gorgeous "25 degrees", while OS X's weather widget says "29 degrees"...
An older version of TRIM Enabler did that same thing to be with a Crucial M4. Updating it to the latest version (as of 3 weeks ago) and trying again solved that problem.
I find your explanation about “restrict” being part of the function interface extremely insightful. Just that makes my misguided attempt at humor worth it (for me). The idea was in gioele's comment too but you made me understand it.
Interesting. I've never heard of a VC making this sort of "ecosystem" investment.
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I am not an expert but I would guess Apple doesn't care too much about repeated memory swapping because they are trying to switch to SSDs. I have a SSD in both my personal and work computer and I have no problems with memory management.
If you look at the screenshot of the home screen, you'll notice that this is not an Android device and thus has no Android widgets. So, no, that's not "all this is doing".
There's nothing wrong with using bootstrap to develop a quick prototype of your web app. However, I do agree with motoford in that there is no compelling reason to use your app. As a solo developer myself, why should I switch from a kick-ass, free, awesome project management tool like Asana to use buggr? Asana is built by Dustin Moskowitz (one of the co-founders of Facebook). How is your product better then theirs? Also, I might be more inclined to use it if you offered a free demo or a video tour rather then images. And no offense, but buggr sounds a bit like booger, and you got the lime-green header to go with it! I do like your concept though..just give me a reason to switch! :)
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congrats to these guys, did some work for a competitor: sponsorist.com

their site looks amazing though, this area seems to be maturing quickly, with sponsorhub.com also in the ring.

It's not clear to me who the winner is, but I'm going to list on all 3 sites when it comes time.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming.
You're comparing newsletter delivery to iPhones? I didn't say price is the only parameter. I was responding to the inane comment that people don't care about cost.
There's a live weather widget in the notification center for iPhone. Shame it's only for weather and stocks, and developers can't use it.

We can of course hope it would change in iOS 7... Along with a better inter-app communication system.
They look different, but much of the content is an exact duplicate of the sprout video site.
I only have personal knowledge from black women who don't want to perm their hair anymore. It's a huge statement for them for accepting themselves as they are. They share hair style information, hair care and support each other in cases where employers deem braids, for instance, as unacceptable in the work place.
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No, they've been winning on patents on round rectangles and lack of bezels.
The question is what to do with a product that's already on store shelves that has been found to be unknowingly infringing one of these "unlicensable" patents. Is it fair to ban it (potentially imposing massive losses) or should the court award some "reasonable" amount of damages?
Yes, really. Someone can easily decide what platform to target in one week. What's so surprising about that?
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I would pay for this. Great idea!
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If you need an easy to use and deploy HIDS, I highly recommend OSSEC, https://bitbucket.org/dcid/ossec-hids. Trend-micro funds and supports this software, so if you need support it is available. It will allow you to monitor any log file and actively perform certain actions such as blocking a bad ip address with default as well as custom rules.
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Indeed, the Bible is both a narrative and an extended esoteric religious metaphor. Someone looking for insights, healing, gnosis and awareness of archetypes would do well to seek out more modern literature by Carl Jung, Stanislav Grof and Huston Smith.
Not an apples to apples comparison, but Zend has raised a ton of money.
FYI, here is the best rent v buy calculator I've seen thus far: http://michaelbluejay.com/house/rentvsbuy.html
Love the Yegge posts on interviewing, and I completely agree. There are all kinds of things on the technical side that would be interviewers should brush up on, I'm just preaching having a strategy to run thru when actually answering the question instead of haphazardly diving into code.
Hi, I'm the OP (or at least the author of the blog post.)

I should have been clearer. Most of the core devs have side projects that they're building on Meteor. I'm building a social contact manager, which I'm using for a community group I'm involved with. Nick built an app to keep a database of his wedding guests. David built a app to keep track of the schedule for his favorite TV shows. Matt has built some games.

What we're not doing is trying to turn any of these other projects into businesses. Meteor is the reason we exist, rather than something that we have to continually justify to ourselves as an "engineering investment" as we build our "real" product.

You're exactly right, it is poison to try to build any kind of API without having some motivating use cases in front of you. So one of our rules is, we try not to add any feature to the framework without having seen people implement it several times "by hand" in the app. Then we try to find the common bits between those implementations, polish them until they shine, make it accessible to a new JavaScript developer, and finally package it as an optional Smart Package.

So far, every feature in Meteor has been built to scratch an itch that we had while building actual apps in Meteor. For example, the reactive templating system was originally built to make the meteor.com homepage easier to build. The new auth/accounts package is something we've all wanted for our weekend projects for months. And the forms/live templating overhaul that David is working on comes partly from the difficulty we had with embedding Twitter buttons in the meteor.com homepage app, and partly from the large amount of boilerplate code that I had to write in my social CRM.

Finally, there actually is one fully-scaled commercial app that we'll soon be building on Meteor, and that's the web interface that'll let you manage your deployed Meteor apps and share them with other team members (if you choose to use our "meteor deploy" servers.)
> But I walked my dog briefly in the middle.

Don't take the article too seriously. If you did, you probably missed the point.
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Thank you for you feedback. I'll add that feature along with other ones. Show and correct city and change from C to F.
> Most exchanges and corporations don't even go by a paper certificate,

Except the ones that do. You're right; most don't by default, but if you DO have valid paper certificate, it is a bearer instrument. Who owns it, owns it.
I think the server-side could easily support both, to keep the purists happy and still be easy to use/work through proxies/caches/etc.
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A blogger ridiculing a blogger who ridiculed a startup....

Is this what we've become? This is second hand crap. This is gossip.
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I completely agree with you on ggplot, its amazing. I was also thinking of implementing it in clojure, but don't really have the time right now, due to work and PhD. The book by Wilkinson might be better though, as that's where Hadley got it from.
While watching this battle, I always wonder what sort of covenants exist on Samsung's supply agreements with Apple. I was wondering after reading the article why Samsung doesn't just stop selling them parts, or raise the price of the parts 100% or something like that. Seems like they should be able to 'earn back' all the money they are spending defending themselves and cause Apple double pain. But they don't.

And the other thing I wonder is if any of Apple's behavior is hurting them in the supply chain. If you make components that Apple uses and also make products in another part of the company for resale, do you put language in that Apple can't sue you? Or that you don't have to honor purchase orders if they do? Something?
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I'm a FounderFuel alum and I can say with certainty that the data isn't complete. From the first cohort alone, around $2.5m has been raised so far. They're now about to start their third cohort in August.
Just to clarify, my reference to Skinner was to be behaviorism in general or even more generally, radical empiricism in regards to human activities.
Same problem. Downloading from the dev center works.
I know I do it all of the time. Often I connect it to a twitter bot as well so others can use the information. Using python with tweepy and twill makes it very easy. Once I set up a script I just run it in cron every 15-30 min and forget about it.
Link: http://www.naturallycurly.com/

It's like WebMD, except every article can have an affiliate link. Not to mention all the ads. As long as it gets traffic, there's no reason it shouldn't be crazy profitable.
OT: Hi Steven, and please say hi to Josep for me! ;-)
Another option is that if there is copyright infringement (copied images/code) you can send their hosting company a DMCA notice.
I've used Yahoo! Pipes and Boxcar.io iPhone app similarly to parse RSS feeds to find a fridge-freezer on Freecycle and a good apartment.
> The true innovator in the e-mail space has been GMail, which has brought things like autosave,

Small nit, Outlook 2003 had AutoSave. GMail was publicly introduced in 2004.

> embracing the fact that it is not truly productive to file every single e-mail into a purposeful folder

That's the "Inbox"

> embracing that tagging is better than folders.

I'm pretty sure that Outlook has had categories (the color-coded custom named things that can be multiply applied to emails) since 2000ish.
This is an admiral ideal but when you have $50K in student debt, abandoning a potential job because you didn't like the HR screener is not the best idea.
Try fourth root of (9^2 + 19^2/22)
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Everything you say is very valid, and I whole-heartedly agree with you. In fact, the designer of this app truly doesn't understand the philosophy of choosing colors.

Being minimalistic is a bad idea when you don't know what you're doing. For example, there are reasons why a link is in blue and 'call-to-action' buttons are in red (like the 'Compose' button, as in Gmail). The purpose of red is to let the user know its something 'important'. The designer of this app in question chooses to ignore these UX concepts and seems to choose beauty and aesthetics over these fundamentals and over-uses the red color (even his navbar is in full red..duh). And that's truly a bad sign for someone wanting to show themselves/their products as professional, especially when the selling point IS the UX.
The trademark arguably [arguably, not obviously] infringes on Apple's trademark, and one of the peculiarities of trademark law is that if you do not vigorously defend a trademark, it's scope and strength diminish.
I'm not really a fan of MS Outlook, but I am forced to use it at work. It does have support for conversation grouping though.
Just do "arrange by" -> "show as conversations" from the context menu.
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This.

Never underestimate the ability of a "dumb" idea to appeal to a massive market that just happens to not include you personally.
Leap Motion spent presumably a lot of their funding to get free SDKs with free devices in the hands of developers.

You guys might consider running a "mini-VC" with portion of that money to get few startups onto Meteor.
>Apple is not a hardware company.

Yes, they are. They produce and sell hardware. Is that all they do/are? No. But they are indeed a hardware company.
How am I being racist? The idea of a black social network isn't 'bad', it's the fact that they're selling it as a network for a specific hair type. If their premise is code for 'a black woman's network' then they should explicitly say it. I'd invest in that, but not a curly hair network. Projecting some idea that I'm being racist in my analysis is ridiculous. They aren't getting 2 million uniques based on a hair style, there's obviously more to the business than hair.

Still, the business as it's presented is destined to fail unless they have a broader-based pivot in the works.
Even for short distances, a better device is more pleasant to use. Not sweating is worth a lot if you can't shower at your destination.

And what if you want to travel 10 miles? Or 50? Carry more cargo, climb steeper hills? I think you should adopt this moderate position from a competing industry: "your mileage may vary."
Any plans for cross-platform support or is this yet another Apple only affair?
This was familiar to me, so I went digging and found this article on NaturallyCurly.com from 2001.

http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/celebrities/prince...

This "niche social network" has been around for a long time, as a special-interest web site. So it seems that the formula here may be: special interest content + valuable market + social features = profit. Nothing intrinsically bad there.
As the guy that raised the $11M, I agree completely. It is terrifying and a huge risk.

IMO, the biggest downside to raising a lot of money is that you are no longer accountable to anyone. You can run around saying "We're rockstars! We're winners! Catered dinners! Aeron chairs!" for years, even if you make no progress and produce nothing of value. At least if you stick to the "right" cocktail parties.

untog, I'm counting on people like you to call us out if we get slow, fat, stupid, lazy, and arrogant. Ultimately, we will be measured by what we ship, or better, what other people ship on top of Meteor.
Wow, that is a pretty impressive number. I wonder if there is some way to compute economic impact of an accelerator (which is to say the secondary and tertiary impacts from rents, services, employement taxes, etc.)
To be honest I haven't used South in about a year so I don't really know how it has changed. But with South I always seemed to be running into issues of it allowing you to modify existing elements of your schema but not add new elements or modify types in your schema.
If it works like the Twitter integration it won’t be problem. You have to explicitly enter your name and password in the preferences. It won’t bug you, it won’t even be visible until you decide to take part. You have to care about it as much as you now care about the Chinese services Apple integrated.

Though I really do not understand your allergic reaction. Facebook seems like a tremendously useful tool to me since I always know that everyone is there. You don’t have to like it, you don’t have to use it – but you should at least be able to appreciate how valuable such an integration is to a great many people.
I didn't think concept was flexible enough when it originally ran here on HN frontpage.
They are so lame that they don't even know how to copy properly. Check their blog page - http://www.ogle-tm.com/Pages/Blog.aspx . That isn't even a blog. It is a static page. Their comment system is not working like in the real site - http://blog.sproutvideo.com/
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