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> Well, that's really good for you then. I highly doubt you and our friend have much in common.

Correct. You just made my point. For starters better judgement would prevent me from putting myself in a position of compromise as your friend has seemingly done.

> Yes, this strikes to the heart of this case, but frankly it is none of your business. The only thing that matters is that it did.
> And if you keep rejecting evidence that does not support your hypothesis on how things really are out of hand then you'll never be able to change your point of view.

There has been no evidence presented either for or against at this time. Just hearsay, primarily your account of events.

> So the fact that you can not imagine something or that it has not happened to you or is not something you have heard about happening does not preclude such a thing from being real.

I clearly stated in my previous comment that there is likely an element of truth in what you say. Your response by not taking the time understand what has said clearly indicates an emotional response. Your judgement is this particular matter is clearly clouded.

> Only against those particular Indians that have in this case bent the law to suit their purpose, to unjustly pursue one that need their protection and not their persecution.

Your credibility as it may be on HN has no standing in a court of law. You are neither a witness nor a defendant. I would very must like to see this particular case go to court and the full extent of truth be revealed. From your responses it is clear that you prefer this not be the case. "Satyamev Jayate" (Truth prevails) is inscribed on India's national emblem. I have far greater faith in the Indian constitution, than your ranting and raving on this forum.

> But keep in mind that I have not railed against India or against Indians in general.
>Of course it hurts that in a country that you hold dear there is corruption.

Yes you have. Your claims of police brutality, collusion of state institutions, corruptions and other such are railing against India. I requested you to stop this. I have no interest in your or your friends particular standing/stake in the matter.
I spent some time using Windows 8 at the local Costco, and agree with most of Nielsen's points.

In case you need alternative ways to exit an app, try:

Alt + F4. This old-school method still works!

Hit the Windows Key on your keyboard. Treat it like the Home key on an iDevice or Android tablet. This backgrounds the app, but does not terminate it. Then, you can type the name of another app and your menu will filter down rapidly. Hit enter to launch the new app.

All the new gestures make sense on a tablet (except the swipe in from the left, but back out again to show your active apps). But the gestures are terrible when you're on mouse + keyboard. I wish Windows 8 laptops had nice big multitouch trackpads, so that you can do things like 3 & 4-finger swipes, and pinches, like with OS X.
Thanks muchly for that excellent summary!

Yes, I would like copy of the paper. Please send it to doug at alum dot mit dot edu. Thanks!

> And killing the rat afterwards does not undo it.

Yes, sorry; it's been a long long time since I've thought about this sort of stuff in any detail. This is what I should have written:

Train a rat to perform measurements on an observable with two possible outcomes and have it press lever A for outcome A and lever B for outcome B. Put the rat into a sealed box to perform the measurement. A dial on the outside of box will read either A or B once the rat has performed the experiment and recorded the result.

You can now come up with a complex observable on the whole system, i.e., the original observable being measured by the rat, plus the rat, and the box, that will give two different results on different occasions if the rat did not collapse the wave, but will always give you the same result if the rat did collapse the wave.

The problem with this complex observable is that for it to work, you must consider every molecule in the rat, every molecule of air it interacts with, etc., etc., etc. Miss a single molecule and the results are randomized.

Are we ever going to be up to this task? Not any time soon! But it could be child's play for the aforementioned evil alien overlords.

One complication, I can imagine, is that for this to work, you'd need to have a perfect model of the rat's biology and cognition in order for you to come up with the right observable. In the face of not yet being sure how collapse works, this might be very difficult. But then again, I'm sure that evil alien overlords are up the task.

David Albert talks about doing these sorts of experiments on p. 88 of Quantum Mechanics and Experience, and it was this that I was thinking of. Only Albert's examples don't have a trained rat, but rather other, simpler measuring equipment for which we are trying to determine whether or not it causes collapse.

As for Deutsch three experiments, it looks like Experiment 3 has two huge advantages over my trained rat system: (1) Since it's all contained inside a quantum computer, it seems a lot more feasible without the help of aliens. (2) If I understand correctly, the reversal stages means that you end up with a very simple observable, rather than the unfeasibly complex observable that you would need for my trained rat system.

As for Experiment 1 and Experiment 2, I don't understand #1 at the moment. And #2 seems to me so obvious as to go without saying. But it doesn't seem to prove anything that we didn't already know. Of course an uncollapsed wave can compute more than a collapsed wave!
Works on the POS known as chrome mobile. Nexus 7.
House Republicans retract copyright paper in less than 24 hours
Cisco acquires Meraki: how 3 guys from MIT transformed the networking industry
In Japan, you get a level of public acoustic courtesy that is wonderful. Coming back here made me realize how outrageous it is that we tolerate things like people talking on a cellphone on an otherwise silent bus.
I'm one of those people that enjoys a certain level of noise... usually music without lyrics. I can work without it but I find that I can more quickly get into "the zone" when I have a beat.

I'm also not a huge fan of sitting in especially quiet libraries or buildings. In college, the buildings were old enough that you'd start to hear the buzzing of the lights, the tick of an old clock, the hum of an air conditioner, a heating pipe clanging in the distance. When I think of the "quiet car", I just assume all the little things would get annoying (as it seems in this article). I always found that more distracting than creating my own baseline.

That being said, with all the flying I've done the past few years a $300 set of Bose noise canceling headphones has been a bargain investment. My music, my work, and a whole lot less of everything else.
If you have to search for it - you have to know what it is. This reminds me of DOS.

I've used Macs forever - but without animosity I use Windows a lot at work. I needed to paste some raw text from my program into a text file. Um. How? I don't remember the name of that windows app thing that can do that. I do remember it was a 'utility'. But where is that folder? Start menu? - nope. Metro menu? Nope. Search? What for? go through C:Program Files - nope. Crap, how do I paste this copied block of text into a new text file? Oh - I found it! Metro Apps - right click (on nothing) to bring up a menu. Click on the single item in the menu - 'Show all Applications'. And somewhere in that unordered list is that app (textpad) into which I can paste my text...

WTF!?
Why can't you control yourself instead of the outside circumstance?
I wonder how similar this is to Ubiquiti's UniFi enterprise WiFi system. I'm a big fan, UniFi is just excellent as is their point to point/WISP solution airMAX, very inexpensive too. For example, I recently set up an airMAX 280Mbps point to point link over about 1/2 mile using 2x Nanostation M5's for ... $140! Their airFiber system gives you 1.4Gbps over up to 10km for about $2.5K for the pair of radios.

http://ubnt.com
How do you find good hardware companies? They seem to be rare. I imagine they come to you but for someone like me, I am at a loss.
I don't think you have a good idea of what those frameworks do. KO - and this is visible in the example - binds values to DOM elements so you can update the DOM in real-time. How is that auto-solved in ClojureScript. (FYI: our backend is entirely clojure, our front-end is entirely JS using coffeescript, hamlcoffee, backbone and sammy.js).
I'm in suburbia now, and the noise is nearly constant, year-round. I grew up on a farm, have lived in the hearts of major cities, the middle of an isolated mesa -- basically covered the spectrum of sound environments.

Nowhere has the noise gotten to me like in suburbia. Two words: leaf blowers.
I keep late hours in part because, once everyone else goes to bed -- not just housemates but my entire town -- everything becomes still and quiet, and in that stillness I'm finally able to think more deeply, more clearly, about anything.

You've probably already had your fill of argument for the day, but I think that assuming that noisy people don't have a train of thought to interrupt is a little bit uncharitable. (I'm assuming the best interpretation of what you said, which is that they don't have a train of thought while they're being noisy.) I've met enough people who can think and consider things while maintaining a non-stop chatter that now I think it's just another of those quirks of personality: I require solitude to think about things, they do not.
Its very nice, but I think the rapid motion is a little much for reading- they could do the same thing with a slower frame rate and more blurred outside, it might be more comfortable
Indeed, I'd like to voice my support for the Windows 8 change. I do agree that there are some real issues inherent in the UI (simplicity to a fault), but I'm not bothered by them. What's awesome for me is that the Win8 change hardly actually affected me at all!

In my experience, the Win32 side of Windows 8 is still there with all the same power and functionality of Windows 7 (with plenty of improvements!). Right now, WinRT and Win32 are actually quite separated, and that lets me enjoy both without stepping on either sides toes.

Given that Microsoft wanted to introduce a radically new set of features/functionality, I feel like they did the best job that they possibly could have, and I'm having a great time!
The thing about Windows 8 is that it makes me uncomfortable because I'm technologically competent and feel lost all the time. It makes me feel like I don't know anything about computers when it's been my career for 15 years. It's similar to using vim for the first time, where you hit something accidentally and don't know what mode you're in, or how to get back out.
I don't understand this. We use Clojure for our startup - we occasionally drop down to Java for some libraries (EC2 comes to mind). If I were to use clojurescript, I'd want to drop down to JS too. So why is clojurescript being designed without taking that - the thing that allowed clojure be so successful - into account?
Cisco: Buy hardware and associated licenses to use them with a WiFi control "box", then purchase optional support contracts to receive replacements/repairs when/if hardware breaks.

Meraki: Buy hardware and a time-based license per unit, typically for three years. No additional costs.

With the Cisco gear you can buy hardware and essentially use it forever just for the upfront cost. With Meraki you buy the hardware then pay on a regular basis to Meraki to continue using it with their cloud control software.
Yeah you would think these things would be in plastic folders like something used for a $20 baseball card.

But there can't be that many left to cash, all of them have to be over 30 years old now which is one of the longest coupon lengths.
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As I once heard someone say in Spain - I prefer the noise of life to the silence of death
At least as early as 2011 [1], the 500 shareholder rule [2], when applied in the case of Facebook, meant that Facebook had to start reporting financials to the SEC.

Although they were not necessarily obligated to go public, they were effectively forced to anyway.

It's a small but significant distinction. Essentially, once forced to report like a public company, you might as well become one; even if you had no prior incentive to.

[1] At least as early as January 2011, when Goldman Sachs made $450 million investment in Facebook on behalf of itself and other private investors.
[2] This rule has since been revised under one portion of the JOBS act which raises the bar to 2000 shareholders (or 500 non-accredited investors.)
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I guess there are two things. Their management tools are SaaS, with all the benefits that brings. This was originally considered pretty radical since many customers viewed the cloud as unreliable and insecure.

Also, their equipment apparently turns into a brick if you stop paying your support contract (because you'd no longer have any way to manage it). This is not really a problem for many customers who have a policy of keeping active support contracts on everything, but it goes against what people are used to.
Yeah, the large PC keyboards really exacerbate the problem.
Self sealing comic book bags. $127.50 per 1000.
The OCaml debugger also has time travel (http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml-4.00/manual030.ht...).
Thanks, I might try them as they are not in-ear (which is what I can't stand). Chemical help for sleeping while sitting is still needed though, not that I mind.
Well, I would not go as far as saying it becomes an insult. Especially if you are foreigner, they would understand you are not used to slurping.
>The lack of a start button/desktop is not a usability issue in and of itself

Tell that to non-technical users who have trouble remembering to use the start button when it's staring them in the face, they need that visual cue at the very least.
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Every browser has an option to disable loading of images, javascript, flash or java. At least Firefox and Opera have them for sure, I suspect others do too, because why not?

Actually, Opera can use a (Opera operated) proxy to scale the images down, compress html, css and js. This feature is called "Opera Turbo", I think, and is unique to Opera (browser and company) - at least as a built in from the start.

The second reason is Opera Mini, which can run on "dumbphones" and is a fast, modern browser, which can use "Opera Turbo" too. People there didn't have access to newer hardware, stuck with "dumbphones" were essentially abandoned by everyone else - only Opera was there for them.

Third reason was Opera's good support for cryptography, which is nice to have when you know every byte you send is archived and can (and will be) used against you if you happen to become inconvenient.

So, to summarize: your summary is inaccurate, misleading and not necessary.
IMO Vim is highly overrated, and its only selling point is that it can run in a console.
I find the keyboard sound the hardest to tune out. I think it's the constant change in speed and duration of the typing.
I experienced quite a culture shock when returning to the US after living in Tokyo for a year. I was at some noodle place with a friend and ate the noodles in the way I considered normal. Eventually he told me he was going to leave because I was eating so rudely.

"Welcome back to the land of the Puritans," I thought to myself.
The resizing problem happens because they are using (abusing!) this CSS style:

-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;

This style should never be used in a site viewed on a desktop browser (fellow devs please note!).

I made a userstyle that fixes this problem on all the sites that have it:

http://userstyles.org/styles/54719/ctrl-plus-text-zoom-fix
Ask HN: Best domain registrar?
I've been working on web development and other web-related work for quite a while now, and as I've been freelancing for almost a year and am thinking about relocating to Silicon Valley, as well as hoping to start sharing as much with the HN community as I have (so far silently) gotten out of it, I've realized it's time to begin a web presence. Though I've been doing web development for a while, I've never actually purchased a domain name myself. I already asked this question (http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/35569/on-what-criteria-should-i-evaluate-domain-registrars) which helped a bit, but I'm still looking for more information on this.

What are your personal domain registrar picks, and why? I'm looking to buy 3-5 domain names, if this helps.

Also, if you have any overwhelming recommendations on sleek/customizable blogging platforms for the tech-savvy guy, feel free to include those as well.
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That reminds me of another gripe. You can only launch IE in "Metro" mode when it is your default browser. It took me about 40 minutes to figure that out on Friday.
Whether or not I disagree with it is irrelevant - HN isn't the place for unsubtle attempts to shift the tone of online conversation in one political entity's favor. I would probably object if a guy posted a submission and commented on several other submissions with links to some websites that claimed the Isrealies were all evil and hated Palestinians or whatever. Keep it to /r/politics.

But given the number (and impact) of pro-IDF groups whose explicit goal is to control the online Israel-Palestine debate through propaganda, stuff like this is particularly tiring. Every time conflict breaks out a bunch of kids start spamming unrelated forums with their crap.

Edit: Note that I'm not claiming the other side is innocent of this behavior, it may just be that I notice the Israeli stuff more/hang out on forums more prone to being exposed to them.
Agreed. Those things are the worst. Hopefully the broom and rake have a renaissance.
I've been using Windows 8 on a laptop (no touch input) for few weeks and it took me 2-3 days to make it "work" like Windows 7. Since I upgrade from Windows 7, several things messed up and none of the Metro apps can be launched. Even the Store app crashes every time. Googled around, tried fixing it and giving up in the end. The only last solution is to 'Refresh' the PC which I'm hesitant to do.

So, none of the Metro apps work at all, and I don't think I'll be using them anyway on a non-touch device. The next thing I do is install some 'Start menu' alternatives like ClassicShell, IObit StartMenu8 or Start8 (Start8 works best for me, not free though). These apps will skip the Start screen (when booting up) and hook the 'Windows' shortcut to open its own menu.

There are few little annoyances like when you open images, it launches in the Metro Photos (or Images?) app which takes up the whole screen. That'll need to be changed by setting the default app for images to 'Windows Photo Viewer' (or any apps you like).
Oh please. These guys had no reason to believe their criticisms would lead to Britruby's cancellation. Many events get criticized for many reasons and the event orgs don't run away and cancel the event. If the sponsors pulled, then blame the sponsors.
Here is why Cisco bought Meraki for $1.2 billion
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>I sympathize with whoever criticized the guy for loud typing.

I actually don't mind typing: to me, it sounds like ideas. It's also regular enough to become part of the background, whereas something like music isn't, because it's too variable.

>my Bose noise cancelling headphones are worth their weight in gold.

I'm going to be that obnoxious guy: Amazon lists Bose QC 15s (the model I have) as 7.4 ounces. The spot-price for gold right now is about $1,700 per ounce. Are they really worth $12,580?
I remember taking the Shinkansen when you could still smoke on the train. Coming back here made me realize how sane it it is that we don't tolerate things like smoking indoors.
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possibly.

perhaps people more readily identify with a site written with the same spelling and grammar mistakes they use, and trust the site more over those "educated" sites where "proper grammar" and "correct spelling" are just lorded over you and rubbed in your face. the crap website might be a kind of kindred spirit, just waiting to befriend the intellectually downtrodden.
I do not have a CS degree, though I do have two Bachelors in other areas. It has not gotten in the way of my freelancing or start-up work--as long as I have work to show and can demonstrate my knowledge, which is relatively broad, I've had a fine time getting contracts and getting job solicitations for start-ups. However, I will say that I had a much harder time when interviewing at places like Google, which seemed mainly interested in whether or not I had a CS degree, unfortunately--whether or not that was actually relevant.
There was an interesting article on "Australia's Strategy"[1] published by Stratfor I came across a couple of months ago that argued that Australia has such a huge dependence on access to sea lanes and shipping that it has made a great effort to stay friendly with the dominant naval superpowers. It would seem to me that an awful lot of their conclusions apply similarly to New Zealand[2], and the risks of pissing off the US will restrict the extent to which they could become a data-haven in the way some commentors here are describing.

An operation the size of this new Mega will almost certainly rile up the US over IP issues, whether there's some element of plausible deniability over its intended use or not.

[1] http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/australias-strategy

[2] Although I welcome anyone more informed to point out significant differences; I'm by no means an expert in/on any of this.
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Can't disagree here. So I just installed classic shell and it makes Win8 sort of ok for desktops. But really, if they just had improved upon win7 instead I'd have been a happy camper. And I'm a Linux user primarily.
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There is? Is that pressure getting stronger or weaker? How will we know when it no longer exists?
I agree with all your points.

However, I disagree with - "The average Indian may not be corrupt". We are corrupt beyond what we choose to acknowledge.

It depends on whether you call only the bribe taker as corrupt or both.

In my opinion you should consider both and that would mean that average Indian is corrupt. There is not an instance when you cannot get a simple task done without corruption.

Thankfully now, birth and death certificates in cities are partially digitized - and there is no 'need' to bribe and get it.

Consider this example, when I went to the corporation office to get the birth certificate of my son, another delighted father of a kid who was there for same reason was insisting that the clerk should take the Rs.100 out of his generosity and happiness of getting it so quickly!

Of course I wouldn't pay, but what do you think is the expectation from the clerk when he serves me next? Who is the corrupt person here?
I just backed this project, and it sounds like an awesome way to quantify all the learning that happens on open platforms like iTunes U, MIT Open Courseware, and others. Might be a way to finally create a new accreditation for online open learning.
I've been using Windows 8 at work for compatibility testing for over a month, and I didn't know that was a button until this article pointed it out. I don't know if I should be embarrassed or agitated.