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I think it's also an issue that many Asian companies haven't figured out how to add value with software the way a company like Apple does. Apple can ask a big premium on their tablet and phone devices based on the exclusivity and capabilities of iOS. Certainly lots of innovations could still be achieved in (e.g.) the television markets by creating great software for these products. We still don't have really "smart" television sets.

This is the reason why I think the rumoured Apple television set will be a big hit with very nice profits when it finally arrives.

The key is to differentiate with the competition and if you can't differentiate on a hardware level, then you have to do it on a software level.
No, but hit me at the email in my profile and I'll send you the deck. If you're in NYC I'll sit down with you.
This functionality is already provided via AJAX. There's no need for me to put the whole MVC later on the client side to achieve this.

You don't need to pull a whole page down to get new data and you can do the form validation on the client side although you need to redo the validation on the server side anyway to make sure the client JS hasn't been tampered with.
heh, as I was first scanning the HN homepage, I read this as "Google Outrage" and immediately thought it was talking about something like the scroogled campaign.
digitalpbk$ nslookup smtp.google.com
Server:	8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

server can't find smtp.google.com: NXDOMAIN

SMTP servers are down for me. Anyone else?
We know absolutely nothing beyond this universe. We barely even know much about this universe.

You can't meaningfully speculate about the nature of what (if anything) is dimensionally/physically/extra-universally "outside" of our universe.

We don't even know what that means, much less if it exists or what the number/nature of it would be.

Our universe may be a piece of candy floating on a chocolate river in another universe that flows eternally.

It's all just make believe. Make believe can be fun, but let's not pretend that we're doing anything more substantial than what three year olds do when talking about space robots.
Looks like a bug on first select. Should be easy fix.
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What I would like to discuss is what purpose would simulating a universe have for the advanced civilisation?

As the civilisation becomes closer to being capable of creating a perfectly simulated universe, they get less benefit from having one. If we assume the universe we are in is at least similar to 'the first', then the existence of entropy / thermodynamic laws would surely create a significant cost to universe simulation. So I can't see it being done without good reason (eg as a toy), and as the master would have to understand all the factors involved in the universe already to create the simulation, so what would they gain?

Is it right to say that it would be impossible to simulate the universe at full speed? (ie. the computer would need to be powerful enough to simulate itself and more (ie. the rest of the universe)). If so, this would not only make it less useful, but put significant (increasing) limits on the local age of the descendent universes; assuming (fairly, i think) that the master universe does not have an infinite existence with infinite time between shocks. Also, how would it be possible to store all the information for a universe within itself?

Or perhaps we are talking about imperfect simulations, which would make it much more feasible? but then the infinite exponential chain would not be possible as each child would become more crude. Or perhaps only a (diminishing) proportion of space(-time) is simulated.. or maybe the speed of light decreases as simulation levels get deeper?

In writing this I think I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible (in so far as anything is given our imperfect knowledge), at least a complete universe simulation or an endless chain, but I would love for someone to show otherwise.
not only that, seems like pop3 is also facing issues ..
Of course not. Just the fastest way to get them!
Fortunately, Confluence, Autotask, and my memory are all still intact!
Discourse[1] uses Ember for all of its front-end and it seems to work pretty well.

[1]: http://www.discourse.org/
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Z80 family has been in continuous production since '76 mostly in embedded devices since the 80s. Even today someone's probably writing a new photocopier controller or a thermostat or something for a Z80.

The allen bradley/rockwell 500 series PLCs have been in continuous production since the 90s, lets say the 5/01 has been made from '95 (although probably earlier?) till today as far as I know, so that's 18 continuous years of production. They're pretty simple but sometimes that's all you need.

If you allow a compatible family orientation, the first vax rolled off the assembly line in '77 and the last in '05 so thats a good 28 years of continuous production. Of course thats a trap, I would imagine "PC/XT compatible" boards will be made basically eternally for embedded work, etc.
My university google accounts were down earlier. They're back now though.
Minimal Mac just ran a picture yesterday that does indeed say it all: http://minimalmac.com/post/48088436702/yep-pretty-much-sums-...

BTW, I kept looking at the first picture and wondering how many people were employed making all those devices versus those now making the components for the iPhone.
> There clearly is a correct way to develop software.

That is not at all "clear" to me. I've come across lots of wrong ways, to be sure, but that doesn't point to a singular correct path.
I got a 500 when I try to access our Drive too. It's been an hour now. Using the business google services.
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Yes. And the amazing thing is that it despite its terrible potency, it doesn't even hide the smell of BO. Men soak themselves in it, and then they smell like they just got home from work at the cheap cologne factory and haven't had a chance to take a shower.
Now its working..
SAML logons are failing, too.
A man in the middle could just as easily change the hash header, and MD5 isn't cryptographically secure anyway. It is still a very good checksum.
Well allow me to elaborate - have you ever merged two nib files? With today's variant you merge XML. With yesterday's variant you simply don't do it because it's not possible. So you're merging an obtuse XML file at best. In my mind that's painful versus merging clean .h and .m files where we know what's going on. So he's using colorful language to describe such situations - A "nightmare".
I don't have the references for the first statistic, but I trust that the speakers know what they are talking about with it. And it seems a reasonable statistic. Even if it's off by 20% or something though, the issue still remains. I think you may be right in pointing out that some cars won't need charging that much each day, but remember that the spare capacity in our grid is very small, and 40% of energy (not electricity, just in general) usage goes on transport. We can't just move that 40% to electricity.
This seems a bit counter productive. Perhaps it is just me. But if the FBI wants to follow up, how exactly would that be possible with the format for this site?
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Such a result would show that we're in a simulation built with technology and scientific understanding not entirely different from our own -- that whoever modeled us modeled us after themselves.

But the lack of such a finding wouldn't necessarily disprove a simulation. It's possible we're in a very simplified model of the real universe, and that the simulators --whoever or whatever they are -- inhabit a universe of very different physics and phenomena. Broadly and metaphorically speaking, we're trying to probe for the glass walls at the edge of the fish tank. But what if it's not a fish tank?
"If you have a 1% chance of destroying the world, you're pretty much going to want to avoid taking that chance in almost every case according to a cost/benefit analysis"

No, you aren't. If that 1% chance is balanced by a 99% chance to increase the world's wealth by 2%, the expected gain is .98%, so anyone using pure expected cost/expected benefit analysis would give the go ahead if the cost of this were, say 0.5%.

The problem, I think, is that those statistical calculations do not handle the case where there are outcomes that imply that one cannot repeat the game often enough to filter out statistical variations. In that sense, it is related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system): Yes, you can beat roulette, if (and that is a big IF) you don't go broke in the process.
I gave up using Backbone a year ago. Being a server side dev, the 'to much boilerplate' quickly killed the initial enthusiasm.

But while waiting for Ember to mature, I stumbled on Angular and completely bought it's original & refreshing approach that is, being ahead of what the modern browser should be : embracing html components (aka directives), observables & the beauty of dependency injection. That for me was the initial 'wow factor' beyond the nice feeling you get when binding your first view/model.

If I was to market angular I'd say it really caught the right angle of frontend webdev
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One or a few people defacing or denying a target's digital presence gets everyone's attention. One or a few people picketing outside of the target's physical presence doesn't get any attention.

The ability for one person to have that much power is either scary or empowering depending on your point of view.
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The UK University I work at is experiencing problems with IMAP connections and intermittent problems with Google Drive. I believe other UK Universities are also experiencing similar problems.

Web access to the same services seems OK though.
> quarterly accounting ensures anyone who did the smart thing would be punished for it

It occurs to me--is there some sort of financial instrument a company could buy (or sell) which would incentivize them to take a longer-term view of their own performance?

The one thing that comes to mind is Enron's scheme of selling debt backed by the integral of future projected profits from an energy contract, and then writing that debt-asset down as current-quarter earnings. It did overvalue their stock, but it also locked them into a model where contracts with declining long-term outlooks would force a loss, rather than just a declining gain.

That doesn't seem like a glowing recommendation, I admit--but an overvalue of the stock in this case could actually be the "economically correct" value; it could just be incorporating the company's potential upside for being forced to take a longer-term view, and rewarding the participants for taking on increased downside risk.

The stock price, in an efficient market (that is, one that understands what it's investing in, unlike what happened with Enron) would also be offset with lower demand due to said increased risk--but a company could still come out slightly better off for establishing these instruments. It just comes down to whether other short-term investors actually value a company that "goes long" more than a regular quarter-to-quarter-earnings one.
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Crazy – my IMAP client (Apple Mail) has no problem until it tries to send via SMTP… when it chokes.

Also, no working gmail for all my accounts except my @gmail.com address – at least fail consistently, you Googlers. Blech!
Figure out where the puck is going. Head there.

Trite, yes, but exactly what I've seen many big winners do. I first noticed it with iD Software, where Carmack wrote his awesome games for where the hardware was going to be when he finished it. Google was so pretentious with that name, AFAIK implying it was going to operate on a vast scale of knowing everything to, well, 10^100 things...and now it searches the Internet as you type the query right down to ground-level imagery. Plot the rate of network bandwidth, and the prediction that you'd get multi-T1 data rates wireless in your pocket was hysterically absurd. Ditto image resolution and data storage. I once wondered what kind of user interface could be achieved if one threw an entire supercomputer at a GUI...and now we know.

Plot where the curves are going. See what the numbers predict for 10 years down the road. They will look hysterically absurd - believe them, develop for them. Converge that with following the much-trodden path to its end...then keep going.

Oh, and that old prediction that every home would have a dozen or more TVs? That was ridiculous. That happened too. Took a little longer than expected, but I've got (in essence) 5 on my desk alone.
The problem is that these better ways are mostly based on opinions of others and usually lack any real evidence.
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Go for it! I wish you the best in that endeavor.
A couple of years ago I wandered down the wrong aisle in one of our data centres and came upon a Data General Eclipse still powered up and apparently in use.
Well, if I have a good idea, post it there and get a lot of positive feedback, wouldn't that downright encourage someone to implement the idea now that it's (supposedly) been validated?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not hoping WTF will not succeed. It's just that as someone who's just wasted several years of his life on products that went nowhere, I'm a bit skeptical.

"The Lean Startup" seems like the way to go, but that involves speaking directly to your potential customers, because they're the only ones who know what they really need. Apparently it's really freaking difficult to confirm that you've really got a product-worthy idea on your hands, even if you're talking to potential customers.
Not really, I'd say that particular domain would be somewhat lucrative to own and therefor be quite expensive.
He deserves sympathy for the way this has been handled.

He has been held for something like 7 months without charges under a law that is supposed to allow holding someone while evidence is gathered. The person is not supposed to be held for more than 7 days, 14 at the most. So they've had to keep filing and getting a judge to approve extensions to keep holding him without charging him.

Now, one wonders if they needed 7+ months to gather evidence, if they ever had any evidence to begin with, to justify arresting him.

Who knows, but this is not off to a good start.

The likely answer:

Charges come, they are dropped or dismissed (they were possibly fabricated to begin with), since he is in the country now he is dealt with for Pirate Bay related stuff, credited with time served and is either released or imprisoned for a few more months, and then everyone forgets about it.
Throwing a lot of eyeballs at this identification problem is fine given the circumstances of this tragedy and doesn't rise to the level of something like imposing martial law.

Whether those eyeballs belong to proper investigators or random folks on an internet forum is largely irrelevant right now since the people who did this are still at large and no one has yet claimed responsibility.
Complexity isn't what makes something intelligent or conscious after all.

Why not?
"What I would like to discuss is what purpose would simulating a universe have for the advanced civilisation?"

The Douglas Adams-style answer would be that we're some kid's physics homework. Perhaps, in a sufficiently advanced civilization, building a working computer model of an advanced universe is child's play.

An alternative is that the simulators inhabit a very different universe from our own, and that our simulation is something entirely new. It's not a replica of their universe; it's a completely different creation. They could be studying various scenarios, of which ours is just one.

We need to bear in mind that we're approaching this problem from our own, subjective understanding of our universe. It's not a given that the simulators' universe is anything like ours.
You started this post asking one question, and ended it asking a different (IMO much more interesting) question.

To the first one though, so long as politics and war exist, there would always be reason to attempt to run simulations, regardless of the degree of advancement of a civilization.

By the By, Iain Banks plays around / has a recurring thread of simulations and high powered computers in his culture series, if you enjoy sci fi.
Yep - if the OP is wondering, in iOS it's in Settings -> Notifications -> Do Not Disturb, from where you can schedule when you want this turned on.
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Try to find an open (or less used) channel. If you need to stay on 2.4ghz mode I like to use Channel 4, since most (US based) routers default to 1, 6, or 11. If you can use 5ghz mode you will have even less noise on your signal which will further increase speed.
UK here.

Localbitcoins relies on someone close by selling at near market rate, which seems unlikely (bitlocal.com is not a bitcoin site, btw.)
Apple is an outlier even among US companies; I don't think there's much to be gained by asking "why aren't Asian companies like Apple".

I think in the case of a lot of electronics (e.g. TVs) the market has been commoditized, which is usually permanent. The big profit margins are gone, and they won't be coming back.
i suppose obviousness could be 'tested' for if the end result of the patent can be deduced by only looking at the end result and not reading any of the patent filing.
> I think it's also an issue that many Asian companies haven't figured out how to add value with software the way a company like Apple does.

I think you can completely remove 'Asian' from that sentence. Few companies ANYWHERE have figured out how to add value with software like Apple does.

I'm still highly sceptical of "smart" TV although I am a big believer in easy UI and attractive content. My own long term view (since about 2002) has been the TV control will move to a handheld touchscreen display (a tablet) removing most or all of the UI from the main display.

I also think there are good reasons why Apple hasn't entered the market. It will be hard, even for them to make money there. Also to deliver what is accepted as a TV requires significant localisation to broadcast and cable standards. Apple may be able to go with HDMI and internet connections only but that isn't something that many other companies would get away with. I don't think that they will make real money if they do come although they could still hurt Samsung which might make it interesting to them.
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There is a massively linked Boston bomber Google Docs spreadsheet making the rounds -- the last time a viral Google doc saw that sort of exposure, the service went down.
This is particularly useful you want to encourage mobile developers to adopt your API, and you want to keep the chattiness of calls down.
My hosting provider had some serious connection issues moments ago, and I'm seeing some major latency and packet loss at L3: http://internethealthreport.com/

Anyone have any insight?
"Building routines means you eventually require less glucose consumption to perform the same tasks. They become automatic habits" - this is genius!
This explains the SMTP problems I was having, I was worried someone had hacked my account or something...
My HP-42S calculator is 23 years old and I keep it at home than bring it anywhere as it can be snatched easily and sell on eBay for 3x the original price!
No, QBasic is also a language variant. QBasic has functions, user-defined types, no line numbers, and a pretty big standard library that plain BASIC did not have.
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"Illegally transferring money" may mean the following, which would not be called "stealing":

* Transferring money between two bank accounts neither of which one owns. For example, I could transfer money from niggler's bank account to Obama's bank account, without personally benefiting from it, "for the lulz," or for trying to see if I actually have access to do that after having hacked into a bank's system.

* Transferring my own money from my bank account to another bank without having permission to do so. Maybe the money has been frozen in some way. In that case, it is my own money, so it isn't stealing.

Not sure what happened here, but the term is broader.
>> I'm from Sweden and I'm very sad to say that I don't consider Sweden to fulfil all the requirements for rule of law and legal security. [Citation Neeeded]

What kind of "citation" would you expect? The Swedish government to tell you they're dirty?
NXDOMAIN wouldn't be server down, that's no DNS record. Still won't work, but different (much bigger) issue.
interesting game - tho its very laggy for me, unplayable =(
"The question is, 'Can you communicate with those other universes if they are running on the same platform?," she said.

If we share any form of resources then its going to be possible either through a timing or storage channel attack - this is simplified but here's an example of two vms communicating via the hypervisor:

http://www.idontplaydarts.com/2012/08/data-exfiltration-thro...
No, there is no problem with the argument. It applies to every special case of software.

For example, you may think that your ideas to develop good software in payment processor are right, but they aren't really right. You have no evidence that such way of developing this particular type of software leads to more reliability and security than every other way. Same goes for every other example you mentioned.

So, if you cannot prove that it's right or better, why do you say that it is? I think this is the point of the article.
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This article pretty much explains it.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/well-that-was-fast-twitter-...

More specifically, it uses the Twitter "Player" card to load an iFrame with a separately hosted Ribbon checkout page. Example here: https://www.ribbon.co/086f0a?twitter=true
They already have.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/mystery-man-on-roof...

Edit: It's another picture though.
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Restore the right to have savings? What are you on?
In a deflationary economy, holding cash (unproductive) enriches you off the back of the productive economy. It also values work yesterday more highly than work today, favours entrenched interests over newcomers etc etc. It's a great recipe for stagnation. Not to mention that, were it to go country-scale, the way BTC were allocated quickly at the beginning would create a new aristocracy that the rest of society (and future generations) could never aspire to joining.

And chargebacks are not immoral. They are a fundamental part of the structure of trust built around ecommerce. Without that facility I would never trust a small vendor like yourself and you would be making $0
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What can we learn from this? You can see a “fair value” of around $20/BTC due to be hit in a few weeks, with perhaps a full mean reversion to $10/BTC.

We now have a testable prediction. Let see if bitcoin actually falls to to 20 and 10 dollars per bitcoin within 4 weeks.
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Well, someone's upvoting, and I'm guessing it isn't the cautious skeptics.
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