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> However, in this case (and in every case that I know of involving Monsanto) they've simply patented something they discovered, not something they invented.

The first major biotech "invention" was Humulin. Basically putting the human gene for insulin in bacteria to produce human insulin. Humulin launched the biotech industry. You should consider how your logic applies to that case. While I find your reasoning appealing, I don't think it is sound or applicable.
Great stuff! If only I could find a way of doing this the other way around... (audio to sheet music)
Both can leave shell history.

For example, on OSX I use MacVim with the mvim script to launch a new window. I use aquamacs with the eponymous command line tool as well
There is one constant in the History showing that a generation of human can achieve goals that were admitted impossible by their predecessor

Apart from that, there is this thing called ethnobiology, a sub-dicscipline of anthropology, that studies the way civilizations understand and represent the living things.

Ethnobiology reveals another constant in History : we tend to compare our brain to the most complex technology we know.

At the Renaissance, philosopher assimilated the brain to a very complex and subtle clockwork, Freud compared it to a steam engine, which pressure should be evacuated to avoid explosion. In the 40's, schoolboy and schoolgirls were told that brain was like a telephone exchange.
Today, computers are the most advanced technology we know, so we tend to compare our brain to it. But like our predecessors, it's very likely that we are wrong.

Let just think forward, and admit that we are totally biased by the fact that computer are now inherent part of our life. Let's admit that there is a chance that our brain may never be modeled by a computer.

PS: for those who read french, a part of the above is largely inspired by a talk of Ted CHIANG, available here : http://www.actusf.com/spip/article-9802.html (sorry I can't find an English version)
Why you're missing the point of marketing
Allergies and asthma are two common reasons steroids are prescribed.
But not related to computability per se, isn't there also an issue of physical cardinality?

What I mean by this is that maybe we can't efficiently simulate a 3D human brain on any 2D computer, because there are vertical connections that are nearly instant in 3D that must map to a very very long route in a 2D "layers" simulation.

My hunch is we will efficiently simulate human brains once
(1) we have finished the Human Connectome Project
(2) we know much more systems biology about what happens inside both neurons and glia
and
(3) we have solved the heat-transfer and interconnect and yield issues in building 3D computer chips
6. Should be ROLLBACK, a life saver. Works in postgres.
It really is, considering the number of people who use Amazon's affiliate service. She's not sneaking in links or using a URL shortener or something. She's taking a part of her review that might entice people to buy the book— the illustrations— and adding an affiliate link to them. Pretty mundane. Personally, it just hasn't crossed that line into "shady behavior used by spammers."
This is basically why I'm partial to open source. Free software with control over who has access to the source is a much better solution.
Climate models can be useful, especially when you use them to predict events that have already happened (e.g you have the data to either show the model is correctly forecasting the past event, or you have the data to show the model has gone awry.) Theoretically, if your model can predict past events correctly, you can then apply it to present and future events and get reasonable results. Theoretically...

PS. Weather forecasting is pretty accurate these days. I'd take bets on 7 day forecasts from the NWS.

Source: Meteorology degree.
As a cyclist, pedestrian, and occasional driver, it's mildly annoying how ignorant the typical driver such as yourself is about such things. Most of the roads on which you encounter cyclists are funded by taxes other than gasoline taxes. In cities, it's typically property taxes. Motorists are the biggest free riders on the roads in nearly all cases.
How to sell apps like Macklemore sells records.
> They're 362 days older than Apple.

This Apple is really NeXT.
I certainly think that your experiment has value - my apologies if it came across any other way.

- If nothing else, it shows that there is a difference, and the day you pick for your newsletter matters.
- It seems that it would be helpful for other people to repeat your experiment (but stretch it to 7 days) to see what the results are for their readers.
- The difference between the open rate and engagement rate is quite interesting.
Yeah, "0.9999... != 1" posts would never happen on HN :)
Perhaps it was just that the correct, holistic metrics were not used to judge the a/b test?
We have the same issues in Canada - startups don't get the same press or exposure. My current company does 100x the traffic of our nearest competitor, yet it's their names that show up in TechCrunch articles because we're not in the Valley.
Why Apple should buy Nintendo
But in that case, they don't sell the bacteria, do they? (that would be foolish)
They sell the insulin it produces. You cannot take the insulin and make more insulin with it, so no-one can take the product they bought and "let nature take its course" and end up with more.

However, if someone were to use the same process they used for gene insertion (which is more likely to be an invention than a gene they simply discovered), they may have grounds to sue.
Thanks! With Python, do you have to manually install each module and keep track of the versions?
Re: 'trying to kill MS..'

I've never worked there. I did work at IBM while MS was beating the hell out of OS/2 and Lotus though. During those years, MS did use phrases like "cut off the air supply" and "embrace, extend and extinguish." "Killing the opposition" seems like it's a very deep part of their corporate ethos, at least that's what a lot of their competition thinks and FWIW, their golder years seemed to be when they were more vocally that way. I'm not sure that's the healthiest approach to take. From there, every thing starts to look like defense, are they making a given play because they have something to contribute and a vision of how search, mobile, gaming, etc.. should be that's different than the market? Or are they making the play because they want to shore up their defenses?

I'm not sure I'll ever fully trust them, maybe if they had a complete outsider running the show.
If 90% of the population was riding bicycles, several of my friends would still be alive.

Also, poor kids would do better in school due to lower asthma rates.

Also, our municipalities would be far more solvent.

The real puzzle is why there aren't currently more angry tweets about cars.
I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt; unpredictable is as nonsensical as nonlinear in the context of the debate.
I don't think Apple wants to get into the content biz — and owning a game company would do that. Unlike amazon they're pretty smart about not getting into content. Of course if Disney were to buy Nintendo that would be a brilliant idea...
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She's taking a part of her review that might entice people to buy the book— the illustrations— and adding an affiliate link to them.

Yes. That's called advertising. Something every page of her site denies it has.
It's a cloud based database application development environment.
ln, as well as, cp and mv are all 'command source destination'
Great stuff, thanks Moxie. Any chance you could release WhisperCore/WhisperMonitor (even as a paid app) so non-Apple devices would also have the option of a usable firewall?
I can take care of these conversions for you. My email is kevin.stubbs at therubyhouse.com. I can send you our portfolio afterwards.
Just to inject another viewpoint into this -

I don't care that asm.js is backward compatible with JavaScript. If my program uses an appreciable fraction of the available CPU an it has to act real time in some fashion (anywhere from 60fps for a game to simply acting responsive in a GUI app), execution several times slower by a standard JS VM is no better than no execution. If I want to be cross-platform in the hopefully near future where asm.js is not widely supported, I would pick Chrome and Firefox to support for now and use a NaCl plugin for the former. From this perspective, a "true" bytecode VM would be no worse - and it would hardly be boiling the ocean, since the size of code required to parse a simple bytecode is negligible. (If you want to compile it efficiently, either you bring in all of LLVM or modify your JS engine, which is hardly negligible, but asm.js is the same in that regard. The only difference is parsing.)

But I think it's nice that the "bytecode" is human readable and pretty much writable. It will be better to use a (possibly lightweight) too to compile to asm.js, but it's nice that small kernels can just be written without a compiler.
Solving problems in the realm of ad optimization, for example, are as much making as any of the projects you see on github or any of the arduino projects you see mentioned here and elsewhere. In fact, in many ways those ad problems are harder, usually involving more advanced math or clever data analysis techniques to deal with large amounts of data.

And that is exactly Jeff Hammerbacher's point. It's irrelevant whether or not he's a hypocrite. It sucks. And by the way, his lament isn't simply about those work on ad optimization (something I know about, regrettably), but about all products that rely on ad revenue, because as they say, with those business models users are not the customer but the product.

Most ads are fundamentally manipulative if not dishonest.

The "but ads support a free web" is utter bullshit. There is no free lunch. Advertising simply shifts the cost of the "fee lunch" to the price of the advertised products. In other words we still end up paying. Even worse, it might shift costs regressively, toward lower incomes and the less educated.

BUT IT'S WORSE: We end up paying a lot more.

Not only are you still paying for the costs of the "free website", you are paying for all that advertising overhead, the costs of advertising technology and infrastructure (huge, btw), the agency and creative costs (Don Draper and his colleagues have to pay for the hookers and scotch somehow, not to mention what’s-his-name who basically just lounges in his office barefoot thinking Japanese), and big marketing departments that often outnumber the people who actually write or make things.

You are also paying the opportunity cost of inferior product, because that’s what happens when websites have to design to please advertisers over pleasing us, the users. Dalton Caldwell makes this point comparing Sourceforge to Github: http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal.

Our identities and privacy are bought and sold to the highest bidders. So we foot the bill for those bids AND we pay the cost of lost privacy. A double whammy! It's personalization? Bullshit. Personalization means optimizing something for me, not optimizing for the advertiser. Again, who's the real customer?

IT GETS EVEN WORSE.

Think of the social costs of advertising. The web is infested with misinformation and manipulation. Not just ads, but how relying on a revenue stream entirely dependent on how many ads are seen severely affects the moral choices of those who decide what gets produced and how its presented, the same if not worse than it affects cable “news”. What are the costs of a misinformed and variously manipulated citizenry, of distortions to the free-market?

Knowledge and discourse are the lifeblood of both democracy, free markets, progress. The web, from the little scammy websites to the big brand ones that so many blindly trust, has a huge influence on who we vote for, what we buy, and most importantly, what we believe.

Getting back to the OP's point, if we put conscience ahead of profit, we'd not build ad-supported products. Those are deals with the devil, nothing less.
No, it's just vi/vim is pre-installed. Just like notepad. You can't easily install emacs on a server or something.
learning from this now. glad its got all this credibility! (context: college operating systems course)
Maybe the differences persisted because they were built into the model using a mechanism other than the Gulf Stream? Maybe the model was based on some other assumption that implicitly produces the differences?

Models seem very easy to do poorly. They seem basically impossible to do well. The question, "how would temperature differences between North America and Europe change if the Gulf Stream ceased?" is not of a scientific nature.
But WM's marketshare of the overall mobile phone market was never that large, so ya, they lost half, but half of a small share.

I don't see anything else Microsoft could have done with Windows Phone (disclosure: I'm a Microsoft employee but no inside info). I mean, the iPhone was pure disruption. Android then comes a long and destroys the market for OSes because they gave it away! So iPhone disrupts the high end, Android disrupts the low end, and Microsoft is put into an interesting non-trivial position.
Well done; A/B testing is valuable, but under a very specific set of circumstances. The true purpose of AB testing is to say, "Does my conversion go up or down if I make that button green?" If it goes up you keep it. You put in some variables, and A/B testing can tell you which varables will produce the best result. But it's important not to forget that the results of these tests were (intentionally) limited to certain variables.

The reason being a founder is so hard and the reason your intuition as a founder is so valuable is because answers that require finding and solving pains can't (yet) be mathematically found. To us a very tired analogy, A/B testing will tell you people want a faster horse instead of a car.
So was Intel even part of the tendering process for this new generation of consoles? Or could AMD jack up their margins knowing they were the only option?

As a PC gamer, I'm glad both consoles are going with x86 and AMD. I'd assume (please correct me) this will mean more console ports of higher quality for the PC given the shared architecture.

Secondly, I presume these massive contracts will keep AMD's CPU division in business for a while. Its been a long time since AMD had CPUs on par with Intel's performance but at least they'll remain in the desktop market space.
This title is somewhat inappropriate.

Technically it's true, but I think it gives the impression that Bill Gates is not happy with Microsoft's decisions.

Really it's that Gates doesn't think Microsoft has reached the end of its innovations, and that he wants to improve smartphones.
The answer for buttons in multiple layouts is to factor out common parts of a layout. That is, before adding a button to several layout files, find the big chunks of layout shared by multiple variants and create a single layout file for each significant chunk.

Now you have one place to modify.

What's REALLY harmful is code that goes like this:

if (portrait) orientation = VERTICAL

That is guaranteed to be wrong on some device. The road to that inner ring of hell where testing on dozens of devices is a vain quest for "good" code that makes decisions about layout is paved with code like this.

But if you let the Android system choose among layout files, the chances for a pathological decision about layout are greatly reduced.
This garbage is definitely costing them sales. I bought a blu-ray player/receiver thingus and it wouldn't work with my Roku player because they could not negotiate mutually-acceptable encryption most of the time, resulting in solid green fields instead of movies. So instead of being happy and buying blu-ray discs, I just returned it and continue to not buy any of those.
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As always, I'm saddened to find how many people put their passwords out there in the plain...

Searching for wp-config.php yields way too many results
Terribly old - But is being updated constantly, they are adding in the capabilities to explicitly (in hoc or python) add in chemical reaction schemes. Some interesting research is being worked on in that regard at the moment.
I just wish the OP would actually follow his own advice ...
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I just wish you would follow your own advice ...
Deleting commits in git is trivial compared to every other VCS I've used. Deleting the most recent commit is just 'git reset HEAD~1 --hard' and deleting an older commit is just 'git rebase -i commit-to-delete~1' and then remove the line for the appropriate commit. After deleting the commit locally, you then just have to push with -f to Github.
If you had a street that crossed the North Pole you wouldn't want a Mercator Projection. It would look thoroughly deformed.

Many orthogonal, North-aligned projections will look fairly similar same when zoomed into a street at least a couple degrees latitude away from the poles. Ideally, you would always use a 3D projection of that section of the sphere (e.g. Google Earth not Google Maps) or a local two-point equidistant projection since these are always the most accurate. An orthogonal projection only suffices in common usage because there is so little need for maps near the poles.

In any case, I should have qualified my original comment with: "for a whole-earth map or a map showing distributions". Mercator is always a bad projection for a map showing distributions because it seriously misrepresents area, undermining the effort to accurate portray distribution.
cp has two interesting switches -s for symbolic links and -l for hard links. Plus it'll also link whole directory structures with -r. This might be a GNU only feature, I'm not sure.
I wrote a blog post about the 32-bit OS/2 one:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-...
It could be that the A/B test results were improperly stopped too early to be meaningful. (Hint: stopping when you hit 95% is not enough.) It could be, as they think, that the group that they were testing is not the group that they needed to target for future growth. It could be that there are familiarity effects that threw off the test. It could be that they were using the wrong metrics for what they needed. It could be that to get at what they want, they'd need to carefully segment their test in ways that they didn't know how to do.

There are a lot of ways to not get the answers you were looking for out of your A/B tests.

Of course it is also possible that they don't realize that their growth would have been better had they paid attention to the A/B test. We have a tendency towards confirmation bias - whatever decision we make, we often will look for ways to convince ourselves that the decision we made is correct.

We're not given enough information to distinguish between these possibilities.
A quote: "Creates the Internet Posting Removal Act. Provides that a web site administrator shall, upon request, remove any posted comments posted by an anonymous poster unless the anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate."

This has all sorts of constitutional-law and privacy ramifications. Anonymous public comment has a long history in political debate, and a law such as the link describes is a likely candidate for legal challenge.

This is not to argue tat anonymous comment isn't controversial -- it is -- but it's not a simple issue by any means.

Most of those who propose measures to limit anonymous comment try to clearly define the scope of their intentions -- for example, it might only apply to misstatements of fact, or potentially libelous remarks. This one simply makes it a requirement that comments be removed on request -- and it doesn't describe the standing of the requester or the basis of the request. I can hear the lawyers now -- "Your honor, this statute is overly broad and ambiguous."
More info: [1][2]

[1] - http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/10/how-dutch-got-t...

[2] - http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/09/how-the-du...
Like others, this is how i learned to do it too. The C programming guide is very good too
If there are horrible limitations, email Dr. Mike Hines or write some code that will fix it. It is open source.
I asked some engineer friends of mine who work for a govt contractor building helicopter control systems how they felt about their work being used to kill innocent people in foreign countries.

To answer the question, they rubbed their fingers together making the "money gesture"...
This 2006 article from American Scientist went into this issue in great detail:

https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2006/4/the-sour...
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| A free software should provide freedom to the user
| to do anything they wish.

There is freedom. It's the same freedom that allows the root user to `dd` over the master boot record on a Linux install. People tell you to shy away from it because you can shoot yourself in the foot, not because it's not possible.

Look into git-filter-branch for wholesale rewriting of commits.
But it's important not to forget that the results of these tests were (intentionally) limited to certain variables.

I recently made the argument that you should cook up a single metric which captures all variables of interest, and use it everywhere. Put all variables of interest into them, and carefully define what tradeoffs you are willing to make.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/metrics_manifesto.htm...

As for the tired analogy, founders intuition gives you the idea of cars. A/B testing can still demonstrate that cars are superior.
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People always hate companies providing capital (monetary or technological) for agriculture. For example, banks that charge interest on farm loans have been vilified through history.

Farmers are sympathetic figures deeply tied into national culture. They use this to their advantage. That's how we have tens of billions of dollars in agricultural subsidies and any company that tries to hold farmers to contracts become the target of populist rage.
Sharing an office with these guys has allowed us to try our their TF servers for the last weeks and it has been amazing. Trying to get 8 people (5 of which who are not technically savvy) to play together has always been a huge pain for TF2. With Minefold it was a click of a button!
If you are using pip you can type "pip freeze" and it will spit out a list of all modules and the version currently installed. Most write this out to a file called "requirements.txt" in their project root. You can then use this list to install modules via "pip install -r requirements.txt"

Same functionality as bundle install, just pythonic.
I think you're mistaken; the projection you get when you naively plot lat/lon as x/y is Plate Carrée (aka equirectangular). This visualization is Google Mercator.

You see a lot of Google Mercator because it's the native projection of Google Maps and pretty much all subsequent slippy map libraries and tilesets. It's a great projection when you want something that works easily with map tiles and is zoomable. But it's not a great choice for a whole-earth visualization.
It sure appears that BK has been asleep at the wheel for a while now, especially after dropping their most recent ad firm. You're not going to get an Oreo/Poland Spring style response out of this.

I don't get what's happening to BK overall. Every McDonalds around me is either being torn down and rebuilt or fully remodeled with new facilities and new tech, while one BK in town has suddenly closed and the other has been decomposing from the inside out for the last 8 years.