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It's up to him to take whichever path he chooses, and he's not morally better or worse for choosing any over another.

Now that MSM has seen what's possible when logic and statistical analysis is applied to journalism, I'd imagine they'll be able to find a team to reproduce or at least mimic what Silver did in 2012.
Good counter-propaganda after all is often not telling lies, just telling the dark truth the other side is trying to hide.

That's very well put.
There's one huge flaw in the exponential math here: duplicates. There's a good chance that a large number of people your friends know are already included in your network – the percentages will vary, but it definitely cuts down the pure exponential growth.
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This explanation is wrong, and is not what the article is talking about at all. This article is about creating a warp bubble using negative energy, which changes the distance between two points. You can think about it sort of like creating a kink in a piece of metal with a piece of dust inside of it, the kink then propagates through the metal by distorting the geometry of the larger object in such a way that the distance traveled by the piece of dust is less than the original distance between the start and end point of the kink. The reason this works has nothing to do with special relativity, it comes from the fact that if you plug negative energy into the equations of general relativity, you get warp bubble solutions which travels between two points faster than light could travel between the two points if there was no warp bubble.

A few years ago I actually read through most of the original paper[1], and worked out a lot of the equations.

Although I don't see it mentioned in the article, and I'm speculating here, the reason the approach described in the article might work out for photons is that negative energy has been discovered at the quantum scale in something called the Casimir effect[2]. The Casimir effect happens when you have two conducting plates which are placed very very very close to each other, then in the space between the plates, something which behaves exactly like negative energy exists[3], and it causes an attractive force to be exerted between the two plates.

A natural thing to try would be to harness this type of negative energy to create a tiny warp bubble, and try somehow to stick a quantum particle like a photon in it.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/grqc/0009013

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect

[3] http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/47922/can-negativ...
Kind of like how congress doesn't need to approve things that are "armed conflicts" as opposed to "wars"? Calling killing civilians "military action" doesn't make it not killing civilians.
We assume it will be plugged into AC when in desktop mode.
I'm getting tired of this thread. In particular, I'll simply ignore personally directed snide remarks. I'll instead focus on the one sentence that actually addresses the topic at hand:

"That sounds like Japanese pilots are trained such that Japanese pilot culture overrides Japanese national culture."

I see an an insidious assumption implicit in that sentence. Do you spot it? Let me help you by changing the context a little bit.

"Qantas has an excellent flight safety record. Sounds like Australian pilots are trained such that Australian pilot culture overrides Australian national culture."

Those readers of this thread who're actually trying to understand the problems with "culturalist" explanations for professional performance should get my reasoning by now. For the others, I'm not going to waste anymore time going around in circles on this thread.
I played it off and commented that I can install a TPLink,
and a blackbox and I can get him free digial satellite
tv and Internet, at a discounted rate for having the me
being able to check it out if anything goes wrong.

Well there's your problem. You should NEVER suggest doing illegal work for a client. EVER. Get yourself out of that situation ASAP.

Also, this is not a malicious computer hacking community. We're a group of passionate makers. I suggest you give http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html a read.
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By many accounts WP8 is nice, but so late to the party that they might as well not have bothered. One bright spot anyway. They apparently can't give away the Surface tablets though, and Windows 8 for the desktop is also off to a very tepid reception.
"By comparison, our press and government practiced transparency -- they may have lied, but not on the scale the others did."

"I keep slipping back into believing the United States government believes in honesty and transparency..."

The U.S. government never believed in honesty and transparency and you're lying to yourself thinking that they did. Our press has constantly manipulated us. Lies and secrets are just getting easier to expose.

I suggest you read the following:

- A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn

- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
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> Farmers are going to drive Maserati's in the future not successful software developers or Wall Street crowd.

Jim Rogers? http://www.jimrogersinvestments.com/2012/05/jim-rogers-farme...

edit: followed your later comments, yup.
Irrelevant to business desktop and mobile computing. But they don't even compete in that segment any more, having sold it to Lenovo, so that's hardly surprising.
>They make more off of Android devices than Google does.

You have anything concrete to back this up with?
I used to complain about iWork all the time, but now that I'm a complete cog in Apple's diabolical machine (MBA, iPad, iPhone), I've realized two things:

1. Office for Mac is terrible relative to Office for Windows, to the extent that I get actively frustrated when I try and use it (which I sorta suspect was a design goal.)

2. Google Docs hasn't particularly improved since I started using it.

Seeing as I've more or less given up trying to do heavy Excel work, I need to basically do pretty markup, pretty data, and pretty presentations for non-technical clients. Being able to display it easily on the iPad would be wonderful.
I think the main reason for the low renevues is that the games in the store are mostly casual mobile/tablet games. They seem like they are designed to be played in short bursts. Not the sort of game that you'd play for 2-4 hours and lose track of time.

OUYA itself is quite decent. I don't quite get the criticism about the UI. It may not be perfect but it does the job of launching your game, no?
I hate to put a damper on the enthusiasm about this awesome topic, but this article doesn't even contain a hint of any reason to believe that the NASA scientist in question is making progress on any sort of FTL technology.

Alcubierre's work on "warp bubbles" has been known for years, but as even this article points out, there are enormous roadblocks to making it practical. For example, it requires matter with properties that have never been observed in the universe (namely, violations of the positive energy condition). If this NASA scientist thinks that he has a way to produce such matter, that would already be a bigger deal than any scientific finding in (conservatively) the past thirty years. Why hasn't he announced that?

Also, Alcubierre himself is quoted in the article pointing out that no signal from inside the warp bubble can ever reach the front of the bubble to "turn it on" in the first place. (As I recall, Alcubierre's equations describe an "eternal" warp bubble, moving forever with no beginning or end.) Has the NASA team found a way around that? The article doesn't give any hint that they have. (Nor that they haven't, but as a theoretical physicist myself I'd like to think that I'd have heard of a breakthrough like that.)

So what I want to know is, first, why did the NY Times decide this was worth reporting on (while leaving out any evidence that this NASA team is capable of making meaningful progress)? And second, why is NASA devoting multiple salary lines to this particular project? (There might be good answers, but they aren't evident here.)
This article is such a joke. I didn't know it was possible to write strictly in the superlative. Microsoft has had better times, but this language misrepresents the situation and is way over the top.
I think the consensus on why this happens boils down to regression to the mean, selective experimentation (exciting things over boring things like attempting to duplicate results), and selective publishing (e.g. positive results are much more interesting to journals than hypotheses being rejected).

Did I miss any reasons?
Semiaccurate is always entertaining, but it's well, semi accurate. If you believe what they say, every company is screwed.
Hm, I've seen the opposite. I think others have as well.

http://vagrant.1086180.n5.nabble.com/Shared-folders-slow-usi...
I tried to think of an application for that combo and all I could come up with is this:

You sit down at a virtual PC, and control it by waving your hands over a virtual Leap Motion. Which is very meta, but perhaps not very interesting.
Well it was part of a longer sentence including Surface and WART (windows on RT) which you chose to omit.
It's amazing how much Google has upended not only the market for, but our expectations of "Office" suite products. When I first clicked the "share" button in Pages, I was actually expecting an "invite a collaborator" option and was disappointed until I stopped to remember what a massive infrastructural achievement Google's real-time document collaboration system is.

I'm sure such functionality will eventually come to iWork, and it's undoubtedly very impressive already, but it's a reminder of just how wide Google's lead is at present.
That's really not fair, to be honest. The ony way for small languages to break through is to get a lot of exposure so that people start using them.
Worth noting that you can also get these at bigger chains (e.g. Costco, Best Buy, etc.) - like the other comment under/above me said, they're labeled as "Microsoft Signature" or something along those lines.
it's just a platform to rent private garages
West Virginia may be a poor state, but if you'll look at the map they present, you'll notice it's actually a relatively high mobility area.
Show me a war in which no civilians died. It's easy to use weasel words like "indiscriminate," its hard to be responsible for people's lives.

"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." Robert E. Lee
My bad, I've only used the service command on Ubuntu post-upstart and thought they were more deeply related.
WAR is a nice stat as far as a general manager is concerned (or for fantasy), but it shouldn't decide who is the MVP. Last year Cabrera had the best hitting season anyone has had in decades. He finished 4th in WAR because of various weightings given to defense, baserunning, position played, and the bizarre and nebulous "replacement player." WAR is also sadly calculated differently by everyone, making it harder to judge as a useful metric. A single + SB is calculated as being worth more than a double. Why?

I have no problem with using WAR as something to include in the discussion, but it should not be the complete deciding factor.

Interesting side note, apparently Oakland's (famous for using sabermetrics) model for WAR had Cabrera on top - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1570961-mike-trout-vs-mig...
Wow, I expected better from people on HN. I suppose you are also one of those smug people with a 20 megapixel point and shoot who thinks it takes better pictures than my 12MP DSLR. Well I have news for you buddy. It doesn't and your 1080p pentile S4 looks no better playing movies than the Nexus 4, when held at a comfortable distance. In our house we have both a N4 and S4, and I'll take the N4 any time.

I'm no Ubuntu fan boy, but on this point, Shuttleworth is absolutely correct. 1080p buys you nothing, but costs valuable battery life and requires a much more powerful GPU to get the same performance.
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it'd be great to get this group's feedback. i've been here for many, many years, albeit reading rather than contributing too actively.
Awesome one! :)
I think they should rename this blog to its synonym, mostlyinaccurate.com :-)
I'm tracking sites by loading their Apache access logs into the database. I'm not sure what's CQ5 logs structure is, but it should be possible (tho it might require some modifications).

See here: http://piwik.org/log-analytics/how-to/

Edit: It should be noted that you will get lots of bots requests showing up when you load access logs (the regular tracker relies on javascript, which gets rid of most of the bots). I have a small awk script that cleans the access logs prior to importing them, by trying to detect bots. I can upload that if you're interested.
>When their accuracy is touted it is usually based on the prediction the day before the election.

That's not true in Nate's case at least. One of his biggest wins was debunking some of the BS "narratives" that pundits tried to spring during the election long before election day, the one about "Romney's momentum" in the final weeks of the election being the most memorable one.

Linzer also did a postmortem where he looked at, among other things, accuracy and predictive power of the model at different points in the election [1].

>Is that really useful?

An order of magnitude moreso than traditional punditry, not least because it's honest about what it can and can't tell you, namely "if the election were held today, this is the most likely outcome". No more, no less.

>More importantly you can get the same predictive power by just directly using recent polling data.

You do realize that's exactly what these guys do, right? The problem is, which polling data do you use? They provide a scientific answer to that question. Instead of cherry picking, they use it all, and weight it based on past accuracy and other factors.

[1]: http://votamatic.org/evaluating-the-forecasting-model/
Can be it used to find open source client side code/libraries that are used out of the open source licence?
Yea - I was definitely impressed by it and I just got started. It felt as if I was able to get rid of all the boilerplate and just focus on getting the next page that needed to be crawled and the information to extract.
That sounds like it's mostly Lenovo's fault rather than Microsoft's. All the preinstalled software, the excessively out-of-date OS image, and perhaps worst of all -- the preinstalled Norton AV and "internet security" when Windows 8 has AV, antimalware and firewall built-in at no cost.

Not to tout the Surface, but if you had bought that directly from Microsoft, it would've cold booted in about 8 seconds (faster after first run) to <5% CPU usage and minimal to no major updates to download, and no preinstalled crapware to remove.

Probably one of the reasons Microsoft is getting tired of relying on OEMs to sell their OS -- they give customers such a terrible out-of-box experience.
"50% of your capital gains are taxed"

True, but that is an exemption that gets used up. There is a $750,000 lifetime capital gains exemption. Which most people don't hit, but a successful founder could.
Shuttleworth has a 2012 net worth of $500 Million USD plus - yet he wants the common Ubuntu fanboy to fund his latest project?

Um....no.
Google's the main enemy for Apple these days, far more than the folks up in Redmond I'd say.
I diasgree, as an AnCap, I could care less if it's illegal or not. I do care about respecting this community though. There's people in this community who's job is to reverse engineer, some do it to fight the system.

OS evangelist and Bitcoin evangelists. That minority, they might be make, but they also hack. I bet there's a few who have taken this short path of underground work.

I'm not asking to give me the correct program to hack an ATM machine. I feel like there isn't a place where I can ask these type of questions, where it won't look down upon. THis is my chance to to hack the system, and I get thrown this essay on how I'm using the word hack wrong.

If it's against the rules to post this here, mods take it down...
That actually makes sense. As on the OS X side of things Apple are only going to promote their own browser, and on the Windows side of things, they need to convey that it works on a PC (which a lot of people will interpret from seeing IE). Showing Chrome doesn't say to mum and dad PC owners that iWork will work on their machine.
I don't read Chinese on my phone, but I do care about gaming and battery life. In both those cases, an equivalent 720p phone will outperform a 1080p phone. Shuttleworth is making the right trade-off in this case.
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Nah.. Think i will pass.. i prefer establish myself in Rio (already a brazillian citizen by birth .. rsrs) better weather.. same level of funding ..

but it kind of have make me wonder.. for some time..
(pretty good news anyway)
I see a lot of bare IP addresses and whatnot in ZeroMQ examples. Is it easy to integrate with a naming system like Zookeeper?
Are you pretending to not get the implication that it was a throwaway account just for that comment?
I've been seeing this problem in prod for the last 8 months, consistently. I literally have one process that doesn't start 3/4ths of the time. My start up script has to iterate through all the processes god is supposed to start and if they're not all running kill god and try to start again. Not inspiring a lot of confidence in god as a monitoring solution.
Huh, when did you start using Google Docs?
Do you think I'll be able to get one of these phones after the campaign is done? I can't do $630 right now (IndieGogo is debit-immediately, rather than Kickstarter's debit-when-successful).
This conversation is now a day old. Given current levels of attention spans, I am not sure that a response at this time would be useful, but nonetheless, you are right and I do owe you one.

First, I should point out that I speak from experience: I have been one of those poor children and have known many of them. I have experienced not having enough to eat and attended poor schools. Fortunately for me, these experiences were relatively short lived. However, because of those experiences, I retain a keen interest in the state of poverty, poor people, and how they live. Now, on to your points.

> Having little to eat and poor schools do not keep a child from learning from others. There is ready access to the internet through libraries in the U.S. with a wealth of information online, and a lot of books on the shelves there also.

Obviously there are exceptions, but most poor schools do not have internet access for the students or computers for them. If they do have a library, it is generally inadequate and most are not encouraged to use it. The greater problem, however, is the issue of hunger; it is very hard to concentrate or develop one's self in a hungry state. Adults can, and do learn, to deal with the state of hunger but children do not. A hungry child is only interested in one thing and when the state of hunger persists, will adapt, however they must, to a life of hunger. That generally means they will make what we would consider poor choices.

> If you take away all genetic factors (tendency towards aggression, lower intellectual capacity, etc.)

Tarring poor people (or any other sort, for that matter) with some sort of genetic failing is a convenient way to explain why they are less successful than you are, but unfortunately sidesteps a whole set of other reasons (historical, social, political, geographic) than generally has a far greater impact on one's life than genes. I was born in Africa and was lucky enough to have parents who eventually ended up in the United States where I availed myself of the opportunities, etc. I am proud of my intellect and have achieved much because of it, but I would never claim that I succeeded merely because of it. I have met many smart people who were simply not as lucky as I have been to make that claim.

> and environmental factors (is the child worried about being shot, peer pressure to join a gang or get into drugs or alcohol, etc.), then in the end it is more about parenting and community, not about poverty.

Here, the combination of factors listed seem to point to an urban American child. Problem is, there are many poor children in other countries who do not face these same pressures and yet, still have the same outcomes.

Parenting helps a lot. Community helps a lot. But if the lack of them were the problem, we'd see far less poverty than we do.

I'm afraid I've gone on for too long and will have lost some readers, but I hope this better explains my earlier posting and why I claimed that you did not speak from a knowledgeable position.
One would expect better from a nation whose president was a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Good idea. Are there some limitations by default? It looks like I can only see the fist 8 results. It's not clear at all whether it is a bug or deliberate limitation.
Money well spent that it was.
Thank you for writing such a quality piece of software! You have a huge fan.
Warning: article written by Jonah Lehrer. It's probably still a good read, but that spoils it for me.
Absolutely! Any snippet of source code can easily be searched... for example, "jquery.min.js": https://search.nerdydata.com/search/#!/searchTerm=jquery.min...
Is that 40k a month per restaurant ?

What makes your restaurant so succesful, isn't that industry plagued with 80% shutdown wiyhin 5 years?
The same exact predictions have been made constantly for at least a decade. Meanwhile, their sales are up 150%, their profit is up 200%, and Windows is no longer a required business for the company to survive.

I'm sure they'll have lots of problems going forward. I'm not aware of many companies that don't - what 40 year old technology companies don't have problems? Given that only a few of those exist today, and even less large-scale 40 year old tech companies exist, I'd say Microsoft is doing just fine.
IF it supports wireless game controllers as well (even when docked), theres no reason this couldnt just replace an 'ouya' style device when you want to use the lounge room as well.
Recently I've been using CasperJS for my scraping needs.
http://casperjs.org/
Guests have access to the top 10 results, but depending on how common the code you search for is, you may get less than 10. We usually see millions of results for more common terms. What was your search out of curiosity? Thanks for the comments, keep 'em coming!
I think the underlying cause is similar to the publication bias they mention in the article.

For almost all A/B tests, A is actually not much different from B. But due to small sample sizes you will see after the first week, at random, a rather strong positive or negative result. And now the publication bias/selection bias kicks in. If you see strong negative results in the first week you will quickly give up and start a new A/B test. If the initial results show positive results you get excited and keep testing but then in most circumstances you get reversal to the mean at high sample sizes. This would most likely also have happened to the experiments you terminated early but you selected them away and in your memories only for the good initial results a reversal to the mean often seem to happen.

Most A/B tests, ran for a long enough time, will show insignificantly differences. Blogs may give a different impression but again explained by publication bias.

I always compare A/B testing to genetic mutations. Almost none have a strong impact on the fitness of an animal but once in a very long while you have a positive one. Luckily they accumulate and you can get some impressive results with A/B testing (aka natural selection)