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Poll Everywhere needs CoffeeScripter to pave the future of JS/HTML5 floppy apps
Floppy disks are the future of HTML 5 app distribution: http://tech.pollev.com/articles/html5-app-on-a-floppy/

Just kidding!

But we are looking for CoffeeScripters who are interested in working on large scale front-end Backbone.js apps that are viewed by millions of people. Everything from our live visualizations to mobile app are built as one-page JS apps that talk to our API and streaming servers.

If you know how to span a JS app across multiple floppy disks, understand how to design user interfaces, and know how to architect a large-scale front-end JS app then this is definitely for you.

Details and application at https://pollev.recruiterbox.com/jobs/14693

Good luck!
> How many have even been on the First Thursday events in any neighborhood?

Few, at best. And it's not just Amazon or Microsoft. I was at a mobile developer meetup in Pioneer Square that coincidentally happened to land on the first Thursday of this month. Nary a word was shared with any other attendee about the richness in the arts happening right outside of our event. Made me rather sad, to be honest.
> If you only got your world-view from western-TV, you'd think America is paradise with perfect people, aside from blacks & mexicans.

That's not the view of the US I get from Spanish news: there's a /lot/ of coverage of gun crime, obesity, etc. This is "balanced" by the amount of US TV shows that are imported, of course.
Meh, meaningless claptrap.

The students worked hard to get there, which is just day one of entrance.

Do they deserve to be graduates, no, they get that reward when they graduate after more hard work.

Are they rich peoples children, well yes all Americans are compared to many Somalians or people who lived 500 years ago. No one today deserves anything in that meaningless sense.
Yes, of course it is. Nothing in Clojure is faster than Java, not even functional programming.
You're a massive douche.
Wow - another great example of a young craftsman doing amazing work. That workshop looks like a great creative space. I have plans to extend the pinstriping site concept to wall dogs and sign writers next. Seems like the disciplines have a lot of overlap. I think I've even used a few of the brushes and paint brands in that video :)
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Can someone explain how ISRO is gonna compete tomorrow, and do the same space exploration at a competitive cost, when the rest of the world would have moved to space industry being managed by private players and even start-ups?

ISRO is already a well-known player in commercial space launches and other "space services". Check out Antrix, ISRO's commercial wing:

http://www.antrix.gov.in/
Good point. Drone can easily locate the land area with QR tag.
It is spam if you allow X to sign Y up for automated mails without confirmation. In Germany we even have laws against that.
This is right. My wording was incorrect, excuse me. I should have said more correctly "This is why the hashing functions used nowadays include a randomization with a seed determined at interpreter startup." Jruby for example now uses perls hashing algorithm. They used to rely on murmur2, just as cruby did.
I'm tried of bandwagon sites that have no other purpose than to act as resume stuffers.
Could have just been an oversight, there's quite a lot of them in Futurama when you look closely. They often change history to match their own story at the time, like Leela's mother originally had normal arms rather than tentacles in the earlier episodes.
Then Google just has to remove the "Up to 1GB upload & download - no data caps" part of their advertising [1]. And just put a cap on the upload they find acceptable.

[1] https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/plans/
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1) We perceive time as such because the future determines the past but not vice-versa (H(t|t-1)>0 and H(t-1|t)=0 in terms of entropy) -- thus our brain can at a given moment contain relatively complete information about past moments, but necessarily limited information about future moments. I think relativity gives a pretty good picture of the nature of time; it is a partial order. Quantum mechanics treats time very differently though, so there is almost certainly more to say. I think this is a good question to be asking.

2) There's something inside a block hole?

It's funny that you should use those two examples in your last question. The first one is true or false depending on the logic you use, and the second is physically false.

The first statement -- that (p or not p) is always true -- is true in Boolean logic but not always true in Constructive logic; in fact this is what separates these two forms of logic. My very rough understanding is that boolean logic best describes situations in which propositions like p are taken to mean "p is true", whereas in constructive logic p is taken to mean "p is provable".

The second statement -- that the ratio of a circle's circumference and diameter is equal to pi -- is false under general relativity. In fact, if you were to measure the circumference and diameter of a big circle around the sun, their ratio would be a little off due to the sun's gravity (I forget in which direction).

You ask whether the laws of logic are true in every possible universe. It depends entirely on what you mean by every possible universe. To really consider one possible universe, though (say the one where everything is made of cheese), we have to be able to reason about it. So if the laws of logic are not true in it (maybe the cheese is also not cheese), we can't really consider it to begin with. So yes, the laws of logic are true in every possible universe, though for a rather boring reason.
I love it, I'm in!
Torrenting still preferred over streaming for free
I had personally been using thought process the author describes, before I read this article.

The way I would describe this is that my "goal" in life to improve my everyday habits, the way I work, the way I manage priorities, how I structure my lifestyle, the broad direction in which I am taking my career, the kind of people I am meeting and attracting in my life (which is a result of my overall lifestyle, priorities etc.) etc.

You constantly tweak these things to take your life in a broad direction that you want to take it towards.

As a few concrete examples, if you are not meeting enough women in your life, or the type you want, the answer is not to go out to a bar. The answer if to change your lifestyle in a fundamental way which makes meeting women of the type you want a natural outcome.

If you are not happy with your health, fitness etc. the answer is not necessarily (in this approach) to join a gym or hire a trainer for 3 months. It is to understand what makes a healthy lifestyle, slowly change your dietary habits, figure out an exercise scheme that makes sense for you, figure out how in your current lifestyle you can get plenty of sleep etc. Basically something that would make being healthy and fit a natural outcome.

A necessary condition for this to work is that because it is such a systemic approach, the system has to be congruent with your overall lifestyle, and you have to be happy with executing the system. This is a big reason, why I feel, most dietary plans, or hobbies don't pan out enough. It is very short term goal drives and not something which is seamlessly integrated in a systemic way in your life.

These are two examples where I have applied it (with a reasonable degree of success). I am using something similar for my overall work life, but whether it has succeeded or not is something I guess I will only know in another 10 years or so :)

I hope that answers your question.
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This reminds me of the Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon (which I highly recommend reading).

I've always loved the idea. If you could somehow finance it with Bitcoin, it would be a perfect homage to Stephenson :)
If you are hashing fixed-size keys, then tabulation hashing is simple and fast with good theoretical properties:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulation_hashing

http://rcoh.me/pyhash.pdf
Hi Kirill, in the article you state "would not build production pieces on it yet"
Can you point out what are the downsides and pitfalls?
We are actually trying to build our MVP completely on Meteor
Not necessarily. ISRO needs NASA's Deep Space Network to communicate with spacecraft only when it gets too far away from Earth. ISRO's Bangalore DSN can handle it during initial days (how many?) of launch.

Moreover, NASA is launching MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) in November. So, it looks like NASA's DSN will indeed be operational despite govt. shutdown. Let's hope for the best.

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/indias-october-28-m...

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Update:

"NASA/JPL authorities have reaffirmed support for the MOM as planned and stated that the current US government partial shutdown will not affect the schedule of MOM," Bangalore-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement."

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/nasa-reaffirms-support-to...
I'm a Tech Recruitment Manager here in the UK and I deal with oversees applicants all the time. I'll address your questions individually.

When I see the jobs that I would apply for (there are many) I just don't know how I am supposed to approach them.

Email the hiring manager directly with a short, personalised email. It needs to be immediately obvious that you're interested in a particular role and that you believe you meet the criteria but because of your nationality, you would require assistance with a visa. End the email with a direct question along the lines of "Is your company open to the idea of assisting me with a visa if I was deemed suitable for the role?"

Has anybody emigrated?

This one is probably best answered by a US citizen who has relocated to the UK.

Is it worthwhile applying to all the job ads?

Absolutely not. Most UK tech roles (more so in London) are inundated with applicants from all corners of the earth. You won't stand out or increase your chances. The same applies to recruitment companies. Most tech recruiters here in the UK are terrible and I would be amazed if any could appropriately assist you when it comes to visa issues.

How do you bring up the part about needing a visa?

It will be immediately obvious based on your nationality. As mentioned above, ask the hiring manager directly if they can assist. Most of the larger companies have an allocation of sponsorship visas however they are limited and therefore quite precious.

Is there a specific set of companies that are more open to this?

It's a bit of a minefield for UK based startups to hire US citizens but not impossible. Larger companies tend to have been through the process a number of times in the past and tend to have an allocation of sponsorship visas.

If none of the above what should I bury myself with learning to become desirable?

Ruby is in massive demand in the UK. Most companies with large ruby teams have no choice but to look abroad for talent as there are infinitely more ruby jobs in the UK than there are ruby developers. iOS, Python and niche technologies tend to be in big demand also.

My email is in my profile. Send me your resume and I'll do my best to give you some more tailored advice.
You might want to check out this talk by Bret Victor, "Inventing on Principle": http://vimeo.com/36579366
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I used Feedly, but with GReader on Android for the mobile front end.

I'd love to have a Windows desktop app for it too - if only FeedDemon hadn't been killed off.
If you don't go and take a peek from across Khyber pass, then someone else will come and screw you for hundreds of years.

When you rely on suppliers too much, then you keep buying and selling to Arab traders, and don't develop naval capabilities. Again a tiny country from other side of the world will send a force on your shores and you will be screwed for 100s of years.

When do you intend to learn a lesson?

You may be living in the la-la land where relying on US infrastructure for a small fee looks like a great idea, but you would do well to consider what if Obama decides he doesn't like Indian anymore. Americans sent a warship in Bay of Bengal in 1971 in support of Pakistan. If you leech onto their GPS then it is not hard to imagine that you will have to seek their permission before tackling any troublemaker in the region. You may not have a problem with this setup, but many others do.

Now to see what happens to the countries that don't go beyond their coasts, look at the allocations of arctic or antarctic regions. Do you want the smallest share of the pie when moon is being mined?

And then there is China. Have you spoken to someone who can recollect what fear people lived in 1960s. In my opinion both space and nuclear program of India are not a luxury, they are necessary tools to tackle existential threats. And both of these programs have run very cost effectively with good results.

However, if you feel particularly philanthropic, then nobody stops you from being the messiah. Mother Teresa didn't come on HN to change the world. Go do what you pretend to believe in..
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My, but you do run on.
Must be fulfilling to build such things.
Proprietary 3d formats is still a pretty big problem, anything that helps that is good.

COLLADA tried to help that but formats like FBX have won out even though they are proprietary, bloated, binary and not well documented because one company (Autodesk) has no desire to improve interoperability since they own all 3d platforms essentially.

There really should be more standardization in 3d by now, this probably came out of necessity for Pixar. This takes it a bit further with full scene descriptions rather than just individual assets.

I have a feeling WebGL will do the most for pushing standardizing of 3d formats/objects/scenes over time as there is little efforts elsewhere. I actually hope with Unity, as big as they are, would help this front as they are sort of doing for animation with mecanim although still proprietary.
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> This is not slowing down a clock for a while because it runs fast, but slowing it down to make it run too slow, and then skipping a leap second.

Ok, I see the difference. The issue here is not preserving monotonicity but keeping the semantics of the "wall clock".
I thought you could do this since the scope of the transcluded part is a sibling to the isolate scope.

"The advantage of transclusion is that the linking function receives a transclusion function which is pre-bound to the correct scope. In a typical setup the widget creates an isolate scope, but the transclusion is a sibling (rather than a child) of the isolate scope. This makes it possible for the widget to have private state, and the transclusion to be bound to the parent (pre-isolate) scope."

http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive
If there was a hard, fast rule, CC wouldn't have run a study to figure out what on earth "non commercial" actually means - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Defining_Noncommercial
Don't put Tokyo in the same basket as Paris or London. There's way less crime in Tokyo that these 2 cities. It's a different category on its own.
You're aware of Wikimedia's doomsday policy? For some reason I cant find the link, but the gist is if the world finds itself close to a calamitous scenario, operators around the world are to begin printing articles deemed important for basic survival.

Anyone got a link?
I am not feeling lucky for the people behind this...
Blue boxes? To some degree, yes. There's a lot of switches in rural areas that rely on MF signaling (usually the ones that don't offer caller ID or anything), but they don't use 2600 hz supervision like the old carrier systems do. They use bit-robbed signaling. So to be able to send your own MFs into a trunk, you need to be able to fool the switch into thinking the trunk just hung up and went back offhook.

Internationally, it's a different story. E1 carrier and it's derivatives don't support bit-robbed signaling, so you'll still find a lot of C5 trunks. 866-284-3437, for example, takes a very strange route (MCI to New York, and from there, we believe Paetec/Windstream abroad) before sending you to a conference system in Malaysia.

There's even some really strange stuff in rural Russia that actually relies on their own flavor of backwards MF. So if you send a 2600 hz tone and a single MF, it'll spit MF back out at you. In Soviet Russia...

As for red boxing? Yes, sort of. Most payphones these days run off of a microcontroller inside the phone, so there is a way to fool the phone, but it doesn't involve any kind of inband signaling. Some of the older ones are 6502 based if you can believe it. The Nortel/Quortech Millenniums, one of the more common phones, run on Z180s.

Anyway though, if you can find a phone that hasn't been retrofitted with a processor, you can place a call to some in-state long distance areas, and a TOPS switch (in short, DMS-100 family software) will listen for redbox tones to bill for the call.

As for black boxing? The short answer is no; this relied on a quirk in electromechanical stuff where you'd actually be connected to the called party while their phone was ringing. The long answer is, less and less no actually. One of the things I learned recently is if you're calling somewhere on an AT&T trunk that terminates over a 4ESS to a 5ESS before hitting your destination (in short, most large areas), you can pass audio before the calling party answers, and it'll let the call go on forever if nobody answers. So if you can find something that bridges two calls together without making the call answer, yes, you can effectively do the same thing as black boxing.

As for devices, these days it's about being as resourceful as possible. So the greatest things you'll find tend to be using just a regular phone and your wits.
To add to the conversation. There is a way to check if a mailbox exists using SMTP. It works on Gmail and several other servers.

Python/PHP Code and explanation is here http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/how-to-check-if-an-email-....

It was eye opening to understand the underlying SMTP protocol. There are some pitfalls too as mentioned in the article.
In my dreams, I may "express" fantasies, like flying, or jumping ridiculous heights, or falling from such heights without hurting myself like a super cat/ninja hybrid, or giving enthralling musical performances. I never express repressed desires though. Like, if a girl has rejected me in real life, she usually does the same in the dreams. If in real life I wouldn't dare touch, say, her butt, I'm just as restrained in my dreams.
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Simon Singh also did a video on this topic for Numberphile[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReOQ300AcSU

Numberphile a pretty interesting channel run by Brady Haran about all sorts of mathematics concepts: http://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile

Brady has a number of other, similar channels for physics/linguistics/astronomy/chemistry/etc.; most of them are linked from Numberphile's about page: http://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile/about
I've imagined a sub-car-sized delivery drone. Think one or two-wheeled drone that arrived outside with your bread and milk. Impacts traffic less, you don't need to be driven, makes smaller purchases more economical.

You could have a postbox-like port that it could put items into.
Not really. My story is kind of unrelated to that little anecdote.

I started coding at like, 12. It was mostly fun little "side" projects like game addons and personal websites. I was praised amongst my friends as the "programmer genius" and I built a reputation online.

Eventually I ended up landing myself a web programming job when I turned 16, ended up hating it. Got another internship offer at 17 at a legit web search company. I hated that too.

I eventually decided I hated programming and stopped going to the search company (eventually got laid off for truancy). I spent my senior year of HS and freshman year of college partying a lot getting bad grades with no real direction.

Then I discovered C.
Your initial comment was knee-jerk and symptomatic of the typical response that greets advanced space/rocket programs from a developing country like India - namely that it has other more pressing issues like poverty, hunger, economic development, corruption etc. to tackle before getting to space exploration.

As others have pointed out, these are not pre-requisites for a space program. And given that the $100M expenditure (Flipkart raised $160M in funding from the same country a few days back), there is no chance that it is diverting precious resources from the rest of India.

Which brings me to the latter part of your comment - that ISRO does not know how to "compete" with private space startups.

Tell me, why did you suddenly impose the private-profit constraint on India's sovereign space program? Sure ISRO derives some revenue from its commercial launch program, but that is not its primary purpose.

Investments into a country's space program (or any other strategic initiative for that matter) can rarely ever be recouped via "profits". Are NASA engineers working round the clock to compete with Space-X? Is the primary goal of the Chinese space program's to garner the largest commercial launch market share?

All of this does not mean ISRO is above criticism, nor its Mars program. For instance, why the hurry to make this happen in 2013? Why go alone instead of allying with friendly countries? Why not wait for the larger GSLV rocket to place this into orbit instead of the smaller PSLV? Why such opaque decision making around its objectives?

The latter part of this Science article covers some of these points: http://news.sciencemag.org/asia/2012/08/qualms-about-indias-...
>Understand the SEO benefits
a.k.a. minimal to none to pot. downside, google is not stupid, big textblobs == not that much value, lots and lots of keywords == negative value, low contrast == bad idea

not every bad idea is good SEO ....
This article is outrageous propaganda, I knew that the US government had issues with the Russian government, but it saddens me to see that most posters here have nothing but hatred towards Russia.

Just the fact that the NYT picked life in a gypsy settlement (no water, no electricity, child weddings) to generalize about the life in Russia makes it obvious to me that the journalists had no other intentions but to villify the Russians.

What they did not tell you is that gypsy settlements look the same in France, Germany and other industrialized countries. (Yes - children not going to school, no electricity, no water, weddings of 13 year olds and so on)
>Students who are financially disadvantaged get help, both from the universities and the government.

When "help" is defined as hundreds of thousands of dollars of loans that cannot be discharged, I laugh.

My family was in a below-average income bracket, and as the oldest son, my parents didn't have much money for us to go to school.

When I got into MIT and other elite schools, I was elated. Until I found out that "help" meant debt up to my ears. Eventually I realized it was unlikely to carry positive ROI over a full scholarship at any "lesser" university, which I was fortunate enough to earn.

But let's not act like the elite schools are handing out free money to go there. My test scores, GPA, athletic performance, and extracurriculars made me a very desirable choice for most elite schools. The only problem was that my family's unremarkable history and lack of funds wasn't a good match.
Do you aim to only read things relevant to your life? I thought it was entertaining.
Firstly, a little aggressive for my taste, but you're welcome to your own thoughts. Secondly, no I did not catch it, it had to have been a minor footnote; care to educate me?