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>> ...companies are increasingly concerned with quarterly results at the expense of long term research... And why should it be otherwise? Science has never payed off as a logical financial investment.

The problem is that this article generalizes "science" to the life sciences. Biology and medical experiments take a long time, are very expensive and reproducing results can be very difficult. Of course there's more pressure for scientists to produce results and you'll see fishier papers to justify their big grants.

Research can be incredibly profitable. What about Bell Labs? 3M? The technology from your iPhone wouldn't have been possible without Apple's big R&D department. There are many examples of successful (and profitable) R&D departments. Heck, Exxon's R&D arm comes out with many innovations a year to make pumping oil out of the ground easier. It just isn't as visible (or linkbait-y) as that new gene they found.

>> "[science] has never made economic sense in the present"

Life sciences don't. It takes decades for new drugs to come out sometimes. So yes, there are a limited number of people who do this. But electronics? Tech? Mechanical/Aerospace engineering? SpaceX, Intel and others are constantly improving.

>> "Increasingly, it has become clear that our society does not reflect one designed with its own best interests at heart. Why this is, how it happened, and how we can change it, will be the greatest challenge of our lifetimes."

Bullshit. There's financial incentive to go with the fold and do conventional things, but there's also a lot of financial incentive to innovate. However, innovation is hard when there's a higher barrier of entry. Information is the industry that has seen the most innovation in the last decade because anyone and their mother can make software.

The real problem is making the barrier of entry lower for other industries. To make manufacturing, biomedical research and others easier. And guess what? There's economic incentive to do that, too! People who make software development easier are getting tons of money and 3D printing, which will completely change the way manufacturing is done, will probably create some billionaires in the next decade.

The system is fine! In the last decade, we got portable access to all of human information, the ability to always know where we are, advancements in electronics, cars and all sorts of myriad incredible things. Give us another couple decades and we'll make things that will blow anyone from the present's mind.
i think it's interesting enough for me to read beyond the title
Any data can be faked. Just because of some release dates, you name that evidence? Maybe the classic.pm guy wrote the plugin ealier, had it on a site, this 937 guy got it and put it up for sale. There is no way to prove it, but I do think that classic.pm is the real author, based on his profile. And still because I simply don't see the reason to do it ( copying, that is ).

Also take in account the blog post: he thinks is strange to get a DMCA take down for a GPL-ed code, why would anyone take the effort to write that post, unless, is very close to the truth?
I'm pretty sure click to play on Chrom* only keeps honest sites honest-- it doesn't prevent a site from activating its own plugin.
readFileSync ... not good not good .... nodejs is sexier async ;)
Japanese Programmers Create 4D Hololo, a Holographic Display for you iPhone
"For every $1 one company spends on advertising, another has to spend $2 to steal your attention. Inevitably this means the industry will continue to grow infinitely as companies continue to try to buy your attention"

It sounds more like the industry will grow to the maximum that the economy can sustain, and no further. It may appear to be unlimited now but that probably means that the economy can sustain far more advertising than we are seeing today. Every time a new communications system is developed, the market will shift -- and we have so many systems now that the market is just catching up to all the ways we have to advertise.

I also suspect that there is another game occurring, which is the ads-versus-ad-blockers game, and that will also reach some equilibrium. As advertising becomes more aggressive, defenses against advertising will become stronger.
Or not... Assuming your figure is even remotely correct, it's a pittance -- especially considering the budget to make that ad. And a dozen years ago they'd have gotten a lot more. Plus, it's not exactly easy to trace those $15M now, is it? It's not as if they were placing a cookie or a but on those TV viewers. They're spending it blindfolded.

Admittedly, there's more to ads than just selling. There's also a brand factor and a "you made the right decision to already buy this" factor.

Still, ever noticed those ads at bus stops, next to which virtually every bystander is busy using their smartphone? Methinks the returns in those, like on TV, are getting lower by the day.
This isn't it at all.

They have been handed a giant pile of all keys to all homes in America. They went through the pile and found all but 64,000 keys to be too damaged to be usable. Those 64,000 keys are perfectly good, but they don't know which homes they belong to.

They open up a shop allowing people to come in with their lock to check if their key is one of the 64,000. Do you go to check? Do you drive? Or do you go wearing a mask on your face and take public transit (VPN + tor)?
Tesla and Netflix, as two examples, are high risk, high valuation, low fundamental stocks, with a classic technology bent (tech companies often get the benefit of a high valuation because it's believed by investors that they produce very outsized profit results eventually).

When money is cheap, it pursues high risk investments for outsized returns. Institutional investors in fact push for such, in a race to keep up with the returns their peers are seeing during periods of very large stock market gains. Investment funds pursue ever higher risk investments for higher returns, in a competition for capital. For the most part, all money and all investments compete in a global market place. Very few investors have the will power to sit on the sidelines while others are making fortunes riding bubbles (eg the late 1990s, 2004 > 2007).

The Fed's policies are specifically aimed at making money cheap right now (and they've succeeded; see corporations issuing debt at almost zero cost, such as AAPL and MSFT). Whether we're talking the cost of a mortgage, or the POMO shots boosting the stock market, or the indirect asset bubble effect from money chasing risk to compensate for the lack of interest yielded from cash, and on and on it goes.
We could construct hardly any of the infrastructure on which our developed economies are built without science: our energy systems, our food production systems, our communication systems.

Science has enabled us to separate fact from fiction, and hence develop theories that allow us to manipulate our environment in sophisticated ways.

I don't see how you can argue that 'science' as a whole hasn't paid off as a 'logical financial investment'. That claim is so challenging to my worldview, its hard for me to engage with.

For a start, what might we have invested in instead that might have had a higher rate of return?
At the risk of cross-threading the discussion, you need to account for 2nd and 3rd order impacts when trying to figure out where supply and demand will reach equilibrium. In particular, r->0 (asymptotically) is problematic because of somewhat opaque issues with DCF pricing. In particular, R(r) where R is the market discount rate and (r) is the risk free rate. Lets assume the fed is manipulating (r) and that R(r) is directionaly (+). That is fair enough. But R is also impacted by exogenous preferences setting (for risk, weath effects, substitution effects). While these preferences may be stable in theory at "normal r" (~econ 101 assumption), they are empirically not independent of (r) as r-->0 and so are not stable at all in our test case. In fact, as (r)-->0, it becomes more and more rational to take on extreme risk (especially so if (r) is temporarily/ artifically low. After all, you are playing with "free money". Now, lets assume that you have shifted gears in this way. Lets further assume you have a choice of two investment classes: (a) Low risk and (b) High Risk. Its clear you will weight your portfolio towards (b), purely through the change in preferences. This change in <preferences> will change R(r) and show up in your DCFs (ie, when implied by market pricing). In other words, the only way 'DCF' will make sense is when you plug in R'(r)=|=R(r). But now lets consider the subset of (b) in isolation. Given the result above, R'->0, stocks that have non-transparent, distant income will become relatively more attractive. That is to say, the current prices will look too low. So, you will overweight these stocks (bidding up prices). But not only will you in general bid up all assets (due to little r) you will bid up disporportionately equity vs debt and furthermore non-transparent risk equity vs lower-risk equity. As a result, you <should> expect huge price increases for stocks whose investments will pay off in 5-10 years.

Or at least, so the theory goes.
It's very interesting to read some of the pop literature of the time. The Conan and Oz stories both refer to radium very positively as a mystical technology capable of essentially anything, which advanced societies would naturally use where they could.

People today don't look the same way, I think, on the idea of a city set deep underground, where all the lighting is provided by radium set into the walls.
And as the quote states, not just one correlation:

heart disease correlated with total cholesterol

then

total cholesterol correlated with saturated fat consumption
> However, it's important to note that the Fed's regime of low interest rates is temporary and everyone knows this.

The general consensus just a few short months ago was that the Fed would start tapering in September. It did not happen. There are credible observers and market participants who not only believe that tapering is not coming any time soon but that the Fed's asset purchases will actually increase.

I don't necessarily agree, but I do believe that the Fed has positioned itself between a rock and a hard place, so I personally wouldn't make too many assumptions about timing and magnitude of increases or decreases in asset purchases.

> So yes, the market will discount investments that pay off in 1-2 years at a low interest rate. But since the low interest rates aren't expected to last, we shouldn't expect huge price increases for stocks whose investments will pay off in 5-10 years.

You make the mistake of assuming that investors are entirely rational. The empirical evidence clearly demonstrates that this is not the case. You should also consider that many (and perhaps the majority) of the participants in a good number of markets aren't really "investors" as most people define the term.

John Williams, the President of the SF Fed, recently addressed asset price bubbles in a presentation[1]. It is well worth a read, and I would point you to the following:

"For monetary policy, one implication of theories with endogenous asset price bubbles is that the time horizon over which policy affects the economy may be longer than typically thought. In particular, the policy response to cyclical movements in economic activity and inflation may have effects on investor beliefs and the behavior of asset prices that reach well into the future."

[1] http://www.frbsf.org/our-district/press/presidents-speeches/...
I upvote a submitted article if I think the submission says something important (at least thought-provoking, and possibly unknown to most people here) that will help hackers do their business ventures and their personal living better.
I can see the bumper stickers now - "Have you disassembled your firmware today?"

Sigh. I'm not sure what we can do (as an industry). Bad devices (and bad firmware, and bad software) are so widely deployed it seems almost impossible to fix.
Actually, it turned out to be totally impractical: you can't register the domain c--.org, and you can't usefully Google for "C--". Live and learn.
It's difficult to argue that information which is specifically used to uniquely identify you is "anonymous".
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Why not allow comments from everyone? We all know that closed clubs lead to politics. Many life scientists are extremely allergic to feedback, and they go to great lengths to avoid scrutinizing their own or others' results.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (both and with and without VMs.)

I am a newbie dev who usually uses Heroku to deploy but I also want to know how to go about doing deployments using Chef/Puppet/Fabric and I want to know exactly how to go about doing them.
I use ad-block, and this was only a recent development for me. At first, I didn't really mind ads since I mostly ignored them. I'm pretty sure there is a study somewhere about the long-term impact of web-based ads compared to billboards and TV ads, and I'm pretty sure that study would say that the long-term impact of web-ads would be much lower than TV ads, and basically forgotten in 5 minutes, and if not so soon, probably vaporized within a week.

The problem became too much when advertisers and webmasters decided to use other means to gain my attention. An ad in the corner of the page is no big deal. When the page starts to look like a Nascar event with no meaningful content, this is irritating. Since this apparently wasn't in-your-face enough, they added in pop-ups, scrolling ads, and most confoundedly, ads that talked. I listen to music when I am browsing, and I can't describe how disrespectful this is to me. I sometimes browse with my computer muted, but some of these ads have figured out how to turn my volume on! This is no longer an symbiotic relationship between buyer and seller, but a one-sided fuck you. This is in plain terms, abuse, and it is wrong and these assholes don't deserve a dime from my clicks or my views.

But the problem gets worse because showing me ads is no longer good enough. Now I have a few thousand companies tracking my every move. I dealt with slow-loading sites via iframes and gigs of cookies on my computer. So now, I turn on Disconnect or Ghostery.

I used to earn money from ad revenue on my sites, and I am going to put ads up on my current sites. It would be foolish for me to depend solely on ad revenue, and I certainly don't hold any ill-will toward people using ad-block, so I would have to think of other ways to monetize my content. Book review? Here's a link to Amazon with my affiliate code. It isn't as invasive and it offers my users choice without invading their privacy, their ability to see my content, and doesn't effect my site-speeds.

It is all a tough balance. Sure you want some analytics and you want some revenue, but depending solely on invasive ads and trackers doesn't serve your users. Once you lose sight of the users, you lose sight on usability, content quality, and many other aspects. I want to create a great product first and a revenue machine second.
Some feedback:

- sales on rainy days -> This is insight, not trends or analytics. (that's not to say it's less or more important)

- Simply record your daily sales in Flourcast. -> Why is this any easier than having my cashier put this in an Excel spreadsheet and do a pivot table?

- The best way to forecast for your restaurant. -> As others have pointed out, this needs some work. Forecast what? Sales? Inventory? What problem are you solving and why is your product any better than the competition?
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"Still, ever noticed those ads at bus stops, next to which virtually every bystander is busy using their smartphone? Methinks the returns in those, like on TV, are getting lower by the day."

Maybe, but I think those ads tend towards the "effective if people see the logo many times per day" sort of ads. You are likely to see the ad for a moment before pulling out your phone, or while you exit the bus, etc. So maybe a major fast food chain will put its logo there, just to remind you that they exist and to increase the chance that you eat there for lunch.
Steve Wozniak: I Never Criticized New iPad, Reporters Got It Wrong
Did you notify the FSF? This guy deserves more than just a DMCA.
node.js is sexier when it doesn't serve stacktraces in production. Plus async files reads still happen in an internal threadpool (one thread per core, hardcoded, IIRC) so it's pretty easy to saturate that anyway, you should be caching static assets.
Conversely, caffeine is addictive, but is otherwise harmless (except in insane doses.) So long as you never try to quit, you'll never experience any negative side effects of caffeine addiction.
The stock market would crash if the Fed stopped QE.

Every time there has been even the mere talk of tapering or an end to QE coming - no actual tapering has ever occurred - the stock market tanks.

Wall Street parties every time they get confirmation QE is going to continue. Every headline on CNBC et al. tends to track specifically what the Fed is going to do regarding their debt monetization and housing inflation programs. Immediately after it's confirmed the Fed will continue to devalue the dollar and inflate assets with low interest rates and QE, the stock market spikes higher. This has been the pattern for years now.
Appears the entire domain is down (getting 403).

code937: based on the comments here as well as the comments from a year ago (http://codecanyon.net/item/pure-rich-text-editor-lite/discus...) , it is pretty clear that the OP misrepresented the situation. I wish you all the best as you muddle through this situation.
On some versions of Android it is possible to set the system up to check for the existence of a working Internet connection and then disconnect from wifi if there isn't one.
For the record, I'm over 40 and think iOS7, quirks and all, was a wonderful thing to happen to my iPhone5, and I can barely stomach looking at iOS6 things. But then, I'm not a standard iOS person: I only have iPhones because of work/dev reasons, for personal use I shop at Google, and in my ideal world, WP8 lived up to its potential, Surfaces were cheaper, and both had become a huge success.
Huh...I never knew that. I wonder why the APIs were designed this way; there has to be legitimate uses for this, right?
Depends if the backup's on the same filesystem as the source.
I think part of the reason a lot of people don't take Kanye seriously as an artist is that he behaves like a petulant twit. In this day and age of pop musicians being embroiled in controversy after controversy, Kanye gives them all a run for their money. From interrupting someone who was getting an award and voicing his thoughts on who he thinks should have won, to having no sense of reservation and calling himself the "greatest living rockstar", and handling himself the worst possible way when he gets criticized (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9dk66ICVQ), he's in the frontline lowering the bar. The man has absolutely no class, I'd rather he just abandon the scene. Similarly, I don't care if Chris Brown is really talented or not -- he's bloodied up women, his misogynistic behavior should have him set aside so that he no longer has a platform.
There are 2 reasons you want a large sample size: (1) to have enough subjects to expect a reasonably representative random sample (typically ~30+ for social science [1]) and (2) to have sufficient statistical power. There's nothing inherently wrong with n=40 and n=40 from an unbiased sample is better than n=400 from a biased sample.

Physicists are generally looking for very very small effects, hence very high n (higher n = higher power = more sensitive to treatment effects). This doesn't mean lower samples sizes are insufficient for other areas of research.

Anyway, the real issue is over-reliance on convenience sampling.

[1] http://sph.bu.edu/otlt/mph-modules/bs/bs704_probability/BS70...
I might be misunderstanding, but shouldn't gamma correction happen after drawing your scene?
"Because of science - not religion or politics - even people like you and me can have possessions that only a hundred years ago kings would have gone to war to own. Scientific method should not be take lightly.

The walls of the ivory tower of science collapsed when bureaucrats realized that there were jobs to be had and money to be made in the administration and promotion of science. Governments began making big investments just prior to World War II...

Science was going to determine the balance of power in the postwar world. Governments went into the science business big time.

Scientists became administrators of programs that had a mission. Probably the most important scientific development of the twentieth century is that economics replaced curiosity as the driving force behind research...

James Buchanan noted thirty years ago - and he is still correct - that as a rule, there is no vested interest in seeing a fair evaluation of a public scientific issue. Very little experimental verification has been done to support important societal issues in the closing years of this century...

People believe these things...because they have faith."

From Kary Mullis, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (and the genius inventor of PCR) in an excellent essay in his book "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field".
Very cool! Though I wasn't very clear I actually meant I'd like to see this made available via Maven Central as an aar, so that it could more easily be incorporated into Gradle based applications - though having a build.gradle makes it fairly trivial to pull the project and manage that oneself, especially now that Guava is no longer a dependency as well :)

Really awesome to see Facebook producing stuff like this.
Should be OT for HN.

Thanks for the downvotes guys. Fine if you loved Lou Reed, but how would you feel if Hacker News featured every famous person death you didn't care about? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2013

Would you still visit the site?
It's interesting reading about a UK situation, the Australian industry is just starting to take its first stumbling steps towards this: http://www.optus.com.au/network/mobile/homezone

The TV side of this can be found by searching TPG IPTV and FetchTV, but on the whole we don't have enough bandwidth for this to be deployed successfully.

Where you say 2Mbps reserved, is this set up in the router as a separate virtual circuit? In this case, does it make a hypothetical 20MBit connection 18MBit to the end user?
I'm not sure how much I'd pay since most of the web stuff I do is toy anyways. However, I think there's a big market for this - just like I think there's a big market for this for natively developed apps as well.
> too many open files

I thought nodejs magically webscales ? /sarcasm

sidenote :
please ditch this horrible unreadable font in the text body.that's fine for a few headers but ,
Swap it with the serif font you are using in the subtitles.
Yet. Don't these have automatic firmware updates forced down from Comcast?
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It's cool because:
- I've been a web developer for 10+ years and quite often i get 'stuck' on making a website better. I don't need a designer to do a 'full re-design', i just need a few pointers on how to make my website better.

- I need 'fresh eyes' on my website

- I need confirmation that i don't need to start over and waste a bunch of time!
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You missed his point. Science pays itself off in the long term but in the short term it is a pretty bad investment. In the current economy we favour short term gain hence why science is in decline.
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