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No. It's not about thinking multidisciplinary. Often times multidisciplinary translates to, "half-assed everything". What I am saying is you have to be able to physically do the basics in everything. And modestly well. There is nothing, nothing that tempers the brain like experiential knowledge. For chemistry, the basic skills include: reading an NMR, looking at a mechanism and say, that makes no sense, running a silica gel column, shooting something down a mass spec... For biology, that's designing an analytical PCR from scratch, cloning (knowing the difference between a K12 and B strain, for example), doing western blots. And you better be able to tell me the chemical, protein structural, and enzyme mechanism differences between arginine and lysine without looking it up - I remember knowing biophysicists who couldn't do that - I remember PhDs who get their training in ostensibly multidisciplinary labs who couldn't do a single thing on that list. Hell, one of them is a Professor at UW Seattle; when he went off to do his postdoc he was scared out of his pants because he went into a yeast lab without knowing how to clone anything because the tech did all of it for him in grad school.

Another real problem is we don't teach students anything anymore on the premise that there's too much to know, and as long as you can look it up, it will be fine. Or if you are working interdisciplinarily, your colleague will be able to tell you (of course they're relying on you too so there's a bootstrapping problem). This is terrible. Sometimes you need to call someone on their bullshit, say during a lecture, or even more importantly during a meeting where actionable decisions are being made and critical insight can avoid wasting time and effort. If you don't have a significant depth of knowledge, which multidisciplinarity typically doesn't encourage - because it's hard - you are just a body making warmth in that room. You need to have instant recall of as much related information as possible at all times when doing science.
This isn't rebellion (honestly that term is used WAY too much). It's just Zuck doing a little song and dance.
Viable artificial blood made with protein from sea worms
Apple and Microsoft and joining to sue Google with FRAND patents, that they bought from other companies, and people will like Google less because of it?

Is that how the patent system is supposed to work, or are Apple and Microsoft abusing it to the extreme?
Are you missing out by passing on Go?
Wouldn't that kind of Facebook spamming get you banned?
Google's services seem to have disconnected language settings or something on their side is just broken. I live in Sweden, have everything set to Swedish but I've also lived in Germany and I have a second Google account (Google Apps work account) which is set to English.

Every time I open a page it's like Google randomly picks one (or more) languages out of Swedish, English, German (it /really/ likes German though - also always places me in the middle of Germany when I go to Google Maps) and displays them to me. The worst case I've seen was when they launched the new Google Maps preview and that page header was in Swedish, the body in English and just the button in the middle in German.
Why was the title changed from "Show HN: The App Every College Dorm Needs (appsto.re)" to the one in the picture?
That is their M.O., unfortunately. The Dingoo A320 is the most egrarious situation that highlights this lately: it was neat little hardware, that the community ported Linux to (as Dingux).

The main company then took Dingux and started selling new hardware running on it, with their modifications, and refused to provide the source. I can't stand it, it makes me so angry, it goes so far against the hacker ethos... sigh.
These things need: Bluetooth Low Energy profiles, and Infinergy 800mhz energy-harvesting antennae. Then they'll be worth 5 bucks.
Good point - I agree that it would be cleaner that way. Do you know if the sending of mutable state over channels was a specific design decision in Go? I'd be interested to know if there was a difference in philosophy between it and Erlang here.
These patents are just "adverts, but on the internet" right? Exactly the sort of stuff that shouldn't have been granted a Patent in the first place.

I hope google has the guts to use the "invalid patent" argument in court and rule this sort of nonsense invalid in future.
They don't have to, Chinese law generally does not respect copyright.
You could make the examples more understandable by using non-minified variable names. I'm not sure what 'itoa' ing something does, or what an 'o' is.
Yeah me too. I switched to Netvibes last week and it's just as good for me.
Tried that already. No change.
> I am for communities, but the only point of communities is to make the individuals that compose them happy. If a community is thriving by some metric but the individuals that compose them are unhappy, the community is pointless of even counter-productive.

I think there has been a very pernicious, detrimental focus in recent history on ensuring "happiness." Life is not about being happy. Communities do not exist to make people happy.

A thriving community is one that provides needed support to its members, "needed" and "support" being variables defined by those members.

> The evidence seems to be that the bigger the government, the wider the gap between the rich and the poor. This might sound counter-intuitive, but that's the date we have.

Define "bigger". Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, all have governments that are significantly more activist in the daily lives of their citizens, and the wealth gap does not exist in those countries like it does the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gini_Coefficient_World_CIA...

I don't know many that would say, per capita, these governments are "smaller". But they do actively redistribute wealth, a large part through social health care, higher education and retirement systems.
> How would not using their products resolve the issue with the NSA?

One point would be: Google might feel a change in their bottom line and might actually start thinking about banding together with the other tech giants to be able to actively fight the NSA, instead of staying complicit.
I really enjoyed it. It's an odd experience, listening to an album that old and that well known for the first time, because almost inevitably you will have heard some of the songs before without realising where they were from. A couple of times I recognized intros or riffs but couldn't quite place them - probably from movies, advertisements, or just hearing them on the radio.

You also have to try and shed yourself of the intervening 40 years of musical and social development, to try and get a sense of why this album created such a buzz when it was released for the first time (context - I'm about 30 years old, so I wasn't even born until 10 years after this was released, and wasn't socially/musically aware until about 25 years after it came out.)
A libertarian anarchy will simply lead to another hierarchy being set into place. You can't have a society where there is no ruling class. It's unnatural.
> "Pretty much anyone out there is infringing," said Rockstar's CEO, John Veschi.

If "pretty much anyone out there" is breaking a law, that tells us there's something wrong with the law.
Looks cool! The other players are mainly bots, right? Or do I just really suck at this game.
Seriously? Instead of investing into the infrastructure Comcast is investing into political interests to ultimately hold back technological progress.

This should be illegal in so many ways...
Think "Google" as a verb. "iGoogle" means, "I, Google".[1] (Same logic can be applied to the iPhone)

According to iMac's history on Wikipedia[2], "i" stood for "Internet". (Again, same logic can be applied to the iPhone and iPad. No idea about iPod, which came after iMac but before iPhone and iPad)

[1] This is my personal opinion.
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#History
Not just for Africans/Nigerians. As a European/Dutchman I don't get to see it either. Sounds like a US-only party.
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My eyes prefer better contrast. I've read WCAG 2.0 and 7:1 is a minimum contrast, not optimum. The logic is that it's a minimum contrast for a user with 20/80 vision.
> Protesting against these things [..] without sacrificing your entire livelihood

If you invest your time and money into say, an iPhone application, you're heavily supporting the Apple store.
Once you've done that, the fact that you've expressed your disagreement with Apple policies on online forums is more or less irrelevant.

Look at Facebook: there is a rather large number of people complaining about their privacy policies, yet they keep making them worst every year. That's because people complain, but don't quit.
Except that Google Now is not for desktops or a 'start page' (at least not yet), and perhaps more importantly, is not accessible or extensible by developers, or customizable by users.
It used to when they created the iMac, or 'internet mac', back when the WWW was still novel to most people.
"Did you mean sneak peeks?" would be a lot more effective if it went the other way round, finding people who had correctly used "sneak peeks" and asking if they'd meant "sneak peaks".

One of my all time favourite troll accounts was "The EyeBrow Thief". They went around LiveJournal, finding images of people, then photoshopping the eyebrows off and reposting the image. http://web.archive.org/web/20110815234132/http://eyebrow-thi...
Maybe the problem with patents is that they are transferrable property. What if patents were seen more as a license from the government to an inventor for a period of exclusivity? That would prevent the worst of this sort of stockpiling and weaponization.
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Amazon sometimes also refuses to ship to certain countries. I remember when I tried to order something but couldn't find it on amazon.de or amazon.co.uk. I could find it on amazon.com, but they refused to ship. Very annoying.

I'd like to get rid of these stupid borders.
Patriotism has many definitions. Some people are more than happy to serve the US as it currently stands. Why is that so hard to understand for you? Not everyone shares the usual Hacker News anti-government stance.
No bots ;-)
itoa would be familiar to any C programmer (Integer TO Ascii)
> They've tried to buy the same patents, refused to participate in a joint effort to safeguard those patents for all, and then knowingly violated those patents.

That's a very misleading claim. It's not because they decided to buy a big pool of patents that they necessarily knew that 7 of them would apply to their tech. Moreover it's not clear either that they implemented anything after the fact. Those patents seem to be touching fundamental things like advertisement and search.
Replying to your edit:

Yes, in the Motorola-Apple suit, Motorola was the aggressor and the bad guy. But when Google bought them, Apple had already counter-sued them. That's why I defined the aggressor between Google and Apple as one that is not willing to quit.
> The evidence seems to be that the bigger the government, the wider the gap between the rich and the poor. This might sound counter-intuitive, but that's the date we have.

Could you please link to this evidence? Certainly that doesn't seem to be the case in Europe, and in terms of relative equality in the 20th Century United Kingdom, I think it's the reverse, thanks to big government expansions such as the NHS.
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This is not news. Sharper ımage already has a product like that in the market for years.

http://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/CoolWare-Persona...
In November W3techs.com's survey of the top 1 million web servers based on alexa.com traffic numbers found 18.6% to be running on ASP.net.

There may be a few more ASP.net developers out there than you assumed.

http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_languag...
> "Pretty much anyone out there is infringing," said Rockstar's CEO, John Veschi.

And that's the single best reason provided to end software patents once and for all.

When everyone is "infringing" without even knowing it, without reading the patent or without trying to copy someone else's work, you should stop, take a step back, think about things, and realize the entire system is fundamentally broken.

Or if you have no soul, file a lawsuit and hope to make lots of free monies.
Google wanted these patents so that they would not be used aggressively against them. Google has no history of using patents against other companies aggressively. I'm on the side of the company that isn't using software patents to sue other companies, which in this case is Google. This isn't nearly as complicated as you are making it out to be.
I wonder how hard Canonical will get hit eventually if Ubunut Phone ever comes close to being viable.

But most importantly: lol software patents.

The twisted part in me hopes every single startup will get sued for all the amazing one-click patents and whatnot that they infringe upon as soon as they secure their first round of financing at some point. Maybe then something will change but I doubt it.
> And mucking around with home-built PCs running some Linux distro doesn't have the same appeal to me it had 10 years ago.

We're not ten years ago, you don't need to do that anymore. There are enough reputable vendors selling PCs with excellent Linux support.
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3 serious questions:

How do you know the difference between a person who is a threat, and a person who is not a threat, before you look at that person a little to determine they are not a threat?

How much looking is needed to determine "Not a Threat" and put them in the ignore pile?

How long before you should look a little again to make sure they're still not a threat?
But isn't the point being made that this is better not looked at as a good versus bad, it's better looked at as one sort of bad against another sort of bad.

The fact that one of them is slightly better than the other in one regard doesn't change the fact that neither of them are really that worthy of your support.

You're right that Google haven't been patent aggressors up until now but if recent behaviour teaches us anything it's that Google have been very willing to change what they've stood for historically. If you believe that they'd never change that position if they felt it suited them then you have more faith in them than I do.
You're not paying for 5 stickers..
Twitter using Google Web Server?
The question was not how do I buy a smartphone which is invulnerable to patent attacks/lawsuits, but how can I avoid supporting this kind of predatory corporate behaviour (Apple, Google, MS were listed as examples).

I agree open source handsets (as far as they can be) would also be vulnerable to software patent attacks, but we could at least support companies which don't engage in such attacks.
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I don't know why Google doesn't just license these patents, it's pretty critical to their business. They obviously thought so when they were bidding billions of dollars for them.
No chefs use better ingredients because that leads to better tasting food. As music is a communication method of emotions from human to human, a better instrument is one that leverages emotions. Hand made instruments are far better in this regard than robots or computers because the idea of sound of the craftsman, and therefore his soul and emotions, are built in. That is why hand made instruments sounds far more different to each other than modern CNC made pianos. The hand made ones have personality and taste. Important ingredients for good music.

Do you think there is only one (your) reality in the world?
Haha yeah, it received 12,000 clicks in the space of about 1 hour or so which took it down. Node is good, but it couldn't handle that many clicks.
This is quite an incredible feat. I thought after reading Alex Roy's 'The Driver', that this record would stand for a long time. Certainly not be broken by a full two hours.

What is interesting here is that these guys have decided to go public almost immediately. Roy and his team were sworn to secrecy for something like 2 years while the statute of limitations in the states that they committed crimes expired. I wonder how these guys think they will get away with not seeing the inside of a police cell.

For those interested in what this kind of thing takes, I recommend this talk by Alex Roy at Google NY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQpg0tvap4A
Re: pricing table -

Protect unlimited items
10 LoseProof tags

This doesn't really compute. So is it "unlimited" or is it "10"?
As you say, cannot set it up. I guess nothing has changed.
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Timing is the most important thing in Music according to Mozart. Are you trying to say that a harpsichord does not allow variations of timing?
Ex-NSA man Edward Snowden meets German MP
This is a completely ridiculous statement. The lack of something doesn't imply it can't or won't exist, it just doesn't exist yet. The idea of liberty is relatively new and we're still learning.

Up until recently you could have made all sorts of arguments about the rights of women or minorities and how another form of segregation will settle into place -- because it's "natural"
Interesting service - looks a lot like http://www.stuffbak.com/sb/default.aspx.

I've had StuffBak for years and really like the idea of tagging my device but in the end, it really boils down to having a finder that is honest enough to return your device.
Just like Apple's ridiculous $1 billion patent lawsuit against Samsung hurt their reputation? Oh wait, it didn't hurt them at all and it's already forgotten. You are giving the tech community way too much credit if you think they really care about this, and the average person won't even notice.
That article is fantastically irresponsible.

The research is clear and unequivocal - suicide has elements of "contagion". Posting the content of suicide notes carries a serious risk of causing the deaths of other people. Writers have a responsibility to not cause harm and the least they should have done is to include suicide helplines prominently at the start of the article.

And it's full of lousy, lazy, unresearched information.

> and was more true to the typical format of a suicide letter,

Well, no. Research on real suicide notes shows people making requests and showing concern for those left behind rather than making any comments about how the person is feeling or why they made this decision.

> Better yet, we can deal with the threat of suicide, which is increasingly pervasive around the world as we move deeper into the 21st century.

Is suicide "increasingly pervasive around the world"? And the article only mentions finding people at risk of suicide. It makes no mention of what we actually do with these people when we find them.

Sorry for the grumpy tone of this reply. It's a topic I'm particularly sensitive about. Your idea is potentially a good one, and I wish you luck. But please please get some expert opinion on it too!
A local HTML page with frames that load some RSS feeds or mobile websites?
I haven't heard of TrackItBack actually, but we know there are a few very similar products (TagBak, GadgetTrak, Tracer Tags). The problem is they're just so clunky - something we think we've solved pretty well.
There is still a difference between checking someone out, and treating them essentially as second-class people. Or, say, torturing people then declaring said torture "classified becuz national security".

Also, how does this not doubly so go for certain agencies and politicians? The transparency mostly goes one way, doesn't it? How deeply does the public need to be able to inspect these agencies before they can be sure they're not a threat? How long before it needs to look again?
We've spent more than 7 months to create one of the biggest database of step-by-step instructions for mountain bike, BMX, skateboard, wakeboard, ski and snowboard. Longboard was released yesterday and we have a hell lot of plans in our roadmap. It's completely free and will be free in the future. Support and feedback are totally appreciated!
Someone could make a little website that builds, from various templates and widgets, a suitable page and allows the user to save it to local disk and set it as their home page.
Performance should improve massively with the use of async..
Intrusive ads need a way of (eventually) dismissing them ... I never actually saw a slice of the article.
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Google's tax evation is a strictly "private" matter between Google and the (whatever, wherever) government.

Full on patent-war in the entirety of mobile-space will hit a lot of collateral, and will affect what is available to customers and what price.

I say people need to be more vocal about shunning patent-trolls like Apple and Microsoft. Without enough people complaining loudly about this, they'll just keep on at it until development can only be done with an army of lawyers at hand.
All I wanna know is how's the camera?
This is one thing where I find AWS shines. I'm on the lowest level of paid support, and I've had nothing but excellent service from good technicians who will try to actually replicate your problem, then contact other teams if they fail or there's follow up. Out of a dozen or so tickets, I've only had one where the response wasn't genuinely useful, and that was for an issue that may have been due to internet weather anyway.

Support is one of things that you can get along without... until you need it. Then you really, really wish you had it.
There's also Tabula. Amusingly, both Achronix and Tabula claims to be the first [FPGA] vendor on Intel's fab.
What command can you use in a pipe chain to fully read the input until EOF before passing it on? I'm not a big fan of piping to the shell but such a command could be useful for network applications in general.
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Custom datastores (custom at the framework level, not necessarily at the application level) have been very useful for me in the past for getting high performance.

For example, I wrote a little in-memory DB for use in a .NET framework to avoid having to deserialize an object graph per request. Instead, it navigated a byte array and plucked out just the data needed.

Another time, I wrote a compact in-memory representation of a trie, using bit-packing and a few other tricks, to get an order of magnitude reduction in memory usage, making it possible to cache a lot more of a data set.

Why go to the database and instantiate a classic object if you can avoid it?
Honest and sympathetic enough. And a low tech note scrawled with a sharpe may have an advantage there.
A painting exists to moment it is drawn and it is persistent more or less for at least a few hundred years.
Music on the other hand is ordered vibration of air molecules (and this is something different than a composition, hence the pipe example). These vibrations are vanishing immediately.
Therefore a painting does not have to be performed like music.

Every form of human art has a soul, a painting, or the actually played music.
Computer made "art" does not have a soul, although it may have the same physical structure than a human made one.
How do goroutines map to native OS threads? How do they get scheduled? It all seems a bit magical to me - which is great when things work as expected...