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Cool idea-- people inventive enough to go down an entrepreneurial route would probably be interesting/compelling candidates for academic innovation.

I actually think that creating many interesting projects + one's corresponding Github would be a better metric than getting a Google (or even YC) acceptance letter. You want people who are constantly tinkering and thinking of new ideas/projects/approaches and inventing just for the sake of inventing.

If you go too entrepreneurial, you might also be selecting for students who might be more amenable to dropping out from the program and doing a start-up (which then wastes the resources/time that Jeff mentioned he had to give to every PhD candidate).
They're not presenting the entire book, are they? I thought it was just short excerpts matching your search queries - essentially the same thing they do for (also copryighted) websites.
They don't force you to use a Real name/G+ Profile, you can create up to 50 G+ Page pseudonym identities on one Gmail address: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2848323

They even made an easy to follow help video to walk people through it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKBGsu0TxnY

There's actually no problem with the system on this front. The real issue is Google's haphazard communication.
I would love if in the future Google (or any other company) begins selling digital editions of books that can only be acquired in paper. Digital books are the future.
I'm just waiting for MySpace to allow simple video sharing and a subscribe box THAT ACTUALLY FUCKING WORKS, and they'll take over.
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I didn't even notice the ad until reading through the HN comments. My eyes went directly to the red copy since it was centered in the page (and the ad, which apparently is there, is white and to the right).
I was expecting either that or "dbu shell" a nice new interactive shell like fish.
Ah, I see, you're an optimist. :)
I'm not sure but since this ruling took place in higher courts, lower courts now have a precedent set. Similar cases will tend to lean this way, unless exceptional circumstances.
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of good to be done with these techniques and technologies. Like these dudes: http://cusp.nyu.edu/
Wouldn't the better analogy be "pervasive in the way MySpace was X years ago and America Online was, X years before that"? The question is, what's going to replace it? The "instant messaging" market is too fragmented right now (though one could argue the social network space was just as fragmented before FB exploded). SMS has no fundamental single 'owner' to drive change/feature improvements.
I doubt if it would happen at all.

I'm a full time Ph.D. student. You might, of course, know that professors interact with the students very often (except if the professor is super busy always). I interact with mine almost every day. I do work with couple of collaborators in different countries. That is because my advisor knows them in-person before deciding to collaborate. I work with lab colleagues frequently. Remote makes all this extremely challenging.
If you're interested in this, you should read up on Bell's theorem. [1] [2]

The explanation of it I like best is this one (I don't remember where I originally read it):

It involves a two player game, the players completely separated from each other. Each is independently shown X or Y. Each player must then give either answer A and B. They win the game if:

- when both are shown X, they choose different answers

- otherwise, they choose the same answer

They can choose a strategy to follow before, but after they're physically separated, each player's decision can only depend on what they're shown (X or Y). Given this restriction, even allowing the players to have (pseudo-)non-deterministic strategies, they'll win with a chance of 75%.

However, if the players' strategy involves each having half of an entangled pair of photons, they can make measurements of its spin at one of two predetermined angles (P1X = 0, P2X = 67.5, P1Y = 45, P2Y = 22.5), based on if they see X or Y. Their answer is based on whether they get a spin-up or spin-down measurement. With this strategy, they win about 85% (cos^2(tau/16)) of the time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

[2] http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/06/q-how-it-is-that-be...
My books are on many torrents. Very few people who can buy them torrent them. I've lost a few rupees. There are only a few hundred pop-book authors who could plausibly lose measurable income from more widespread torrenting.
I am not surprised that it is competitive (PhD's in general are kind of oversupplied), but the form the competition takes:

"Maybe you didn't publish as an undergraduate.... Maybe you can't even write a very compelling research statement yet."

When I was applying, no undergraduates had published research. And the "research statement" could hardly be described as "compelling"; that was one of the points of the breadth requirements for the graduate program---my eventual research topic was completely unrelated to my interests or knowledge coming out of my undergraduate program.
You jumped to the conclusion that simply due to the fact that somebody read this book that they are not to be trusted with sensitive information. I would be curious to read the book, just because I am interested in the subject, not because I am inherently untrustworthy. Intellectual curiosity should never be stifled like this. Not to mention the fact that "lie detector" test results are not even admissible in court due to their dubious conclusions, so their effectiveness as a scientific instrument is fundamentally flawed. This is essentially thought-crime, which I thought did not exist in the US, but it sure seems like it does now.
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I really don't know. I don't use a lot of Google services.
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Then again the lessor may lower the lease price and absorb a little more of the risk in the hope of increasing sales and gaining market share, ie a loss leader strategy.
Courts are always mindful of public policy while making rulings. So, benefiting public has been a valid reason for a long time. And I think it's a good reason.

Now does this really benefit people or not is another question. I think it does. Do you think it does not?
One of the best pieces of wisdom I have received that relates to the IT industry hugely is "no matter who you are talking to and how experienced they are, there is always something that you know that they don't and vice versa".
"At the physical level, the 1's and 0's are always voltage levels."

Let me throw you a curve ball: When we're dealing with DIGITAL logic, we're dealing with DISCRETE (and finite) values of SOMETHING - and it doesn't have to always be voltages.

Just to wet your appetite, take a look at "Current-mode circuits". These are circuits whose logic values are represented by discrete current levels, not voltage levels. And by the way, this has Nothing to do with Ohm's Law.

Another example can be taken from digital communications. We have discrete finite levels for: amplitude, frequency, and phase. And I'm probably missing another component that can also be quantized, but it's been many years since I took that class.

Yes, I remember now: Duty Cycle, as used in Pulse Position Modulation and Pulse Width Modulation. These types of modulation are commonly discretized and used in digital communications. Also very common in analog systems.
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That was a nice turnaround. The earlier decisions by Chin had me thinking he had already decided for the Authors Guild (so tempted to say AG there but that reads 'attorney general' sigh).

Now the next question is whether or not the Authors will come back to the table in being willing to let Google give them money for selling an out of print scan of their book to someone. That should be a no brainer "hey money you would not otherwise get!" but as we've seen there is never enough free money to make it worthwhile.
Not sure if this salacious writeup, image and title are really helping them, but publicity is publicity I guess. At least the site doesn't present itself as a hook-up/prostitution service.
http://www.easynest.com/

Sharing a room is pretty standard for backpackers/hostels, also for overnight train and ship travel.
Actually, this service would be convenient for Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416), where he's sharing the cabin with a friend.
You might want to take another look at Delphi, as the recent versions (XE4 and XE5) have added cross-platform support for OSX and Android (at least). While I still have to develop on Windows, I can easily produce native static OSX binaries and Windows binaries from one source tree and with careful selection of UI components also an Android app.
I think I know exactly which minutes of dialogue I'd like to trim from TPM
In a bind, you can get that $100-200/mo much lower.

Perhaps they can offer a system where partial battery payments will get you reduced usage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_dilemma
I don't really use Cobol, just illustrating a point :)
Very interesting research but it doesn't mention any negatives of ADEP4. What kind of effects could it have on the human body?
...and of course Brown (where the author is) is top-twenty, in fact tied at #20 [according to US News & World Report[1]] with places like Rice. It's pretty elite.

[1] http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
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No, Uncle Bob, No – the Obligatory healthcare.gov Post
> Amazon, Steam, etc. are not in fact capable of taking away the data I bought, no matter what they do with their servers.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, could you elaborate? As of now, if e.g. your Steam account is suspended or the Steam servers shut down, you will no longer be able to play any of the games on that account (offline mode and DRM circumvention notwithstanding).

You may have access to a subset of the data on your disk (the games you previously downloaded), but they're still wrapped in DRM.

As an aside, Steam is also capable of removing games from your account, which they do e.g. in the case of a chargeback.
Actually, it's $14,000. The Leaf, for example, is in the low 30s, which is made by the same company and anyone is free to buy instead.

All you are doing is shifting the risk for the most costly and fragile part of the car to the manufacturer. Everyone leases Leafs because no one wants to shoulder the risk of a bad $12,000 battery, but then if you scratch a door panel, you have to answer for that in two years. Financing $13,000 plus $100 a month for a battery is probably about the same price per month as the average lease.
But that's exactly the way library APIs should work, with all the pain and labor going into the API declaration, and the users of the library experiencing very little.

In type inferenced statically typed languages like ML, Scala, or Haskell, you can get away with not mentioning the types in the bodies of most functions. The type declarations at the library level serve as useful documentation.
The more you know.

Thanks - that makes a lot more sense than some bot working around a spam filter. Seems like an obvious loophole as well.
Is it really useful to strictly guard the word "science" to only apply to natural sciences? Linguistics, history, economics, climatology etc are all able to usefully apply empiricism along with other methods. You can just say natural science when you mean it specifically.
What you mean about polygraphs is not the important thing here. It is the idea that if you have read or written something the government does not like, you end up on a blacklist that bans you from many jobs. This is totalitarian ideology regardless of how democratic the US is otherwise. I find it quite scary, especially given that the authorities also have the means to more or less keep a complete list of what you read, at least if you read it or ordered it through the internet if they so desire.
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That's correct, though I 've managed to read useful amounts of a book (several pages) in response to a search such that it was much the same as if I had the book on a shelf, flipped open to the part I needed, got what I wanted, and closed the book. In other words, it saved me the expense of having to get the whole book.
Every step you take
Wallet hack: can Coin replace your credit cards?
Interesting side effect action there. I wonder if re-submit votes should be damped in some way. One might use the length of time of the submitting account (avoid spammers who create an account and submit the same day, or create several accounts in one day and all submit the same article (although that one is caught by the software))
I could listen to the sound of that video all day.
Instant start-up formula:

1. Look at what other start-ups are doing (for instance, sharing cars).
2. Do the same thing in a different industry (like sharing hotel rooms).

This way, you can present your idea to VCs as "The X of Y," which is about all VCs have time to listen to.

That said, please enjoy my free start-up ideas:

1. Facebook for aligators.
2. The Airbnb of places in line to buy tickets.
3. Like Twitter, but you can only post emoticons.
I would be interested in a "Chapterman's Book Club", where you can grab a torrent of the week's ten recommended chapters from various books and discuss them. There would actually be some novelty in it being legal.
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So what is your view on the law? Those with a utilitarian view would probably say that what 'benefits the public' is really the main aim of the legal system. I take it you disagree?
I didn't say that it was a new phenomenon, that's why I said its been journalism's biggest problem for AT LEAST 100 years.
What about it exactly is challenging? How is doing computer science research (probably what many people here would do; I don't know what your research field is) with a team of remote individuals harder than doing software development with a team of remote individuals?
Vaccines are a bit of a different class as some are exempt from adverse reaction lawsuits and therefore risk is reduced for the companies manufacturing the vaccine.

I think your assessment that my argument is "wrong" is inappropriate. You'll see that my argument is supported by the WHO (Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2011;89:88–89).

>Another reason is commercial. Antibiotics, in particular, have a poor return on investment because they are taken for a short period of time and cure their target disease. In contrast, drugs that treat chronic illness, such as high blood pressure, are taken daily for the rest of a patient’s life. “Companies have figured out that they make a lot more money selling the latter drugs than they do selling antibiotics,” Spellberg says, highlighting the lack of incentive for companies to develop antibiotics.
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This is why you need layers of security. If passing a "lie detector" test gives you unfettered access to information that could potentially sabotage the government (to the point where foreign terrorists or governments would be interested in such information), then the system that secures said information needs to be changed. When you build a web application the cardinal rule is never trust the client, which should be the default assumption here, irrespective of the results of some pop-science "examination."
No, economics isn't a science. It cannot discover truth using repeatable experiments.

Economics is statistics mixed with political philosophy. Usually political philosophy using statistical regressions on historical data to advance their political claim.
Sounds like something the Gates Foundation should get on.
Haven't you ever watched macgyver? All life threatening situations include a second source of gasoline and a garden hose to siphon it with.
For the same reason it's OK for vendors to set their own sales terms. If you don't like it, don't buy Renault, choose from one of the other electric vehicles on the market.
Node.js is Cancer (2011)
What you think is node's strength is its weakness. Having to write event-driven code is terrible. Just as the world is finally waking up and moving to actually caring about concurrency like erlang and haskell have forever, node is a throwback to the error prone and convoluted event loops of C. Go is far better for the very use case you think node excels at.
...because Google was being very arrogant in their stagnation of source tools and community coding infrastructure.

It's easy to say GitHub is killing it now, but back then (2008), GitHub was slow, buggy, and could have been eclipsed by anybody with the drive and focus to run them into the ground. But, GitHub had (has) those wacky overachieving social coder founders. The entirety of Google doesn't have a chance at even recognizing people like that within their ranks, much less (these days) pulling them up out of the muck into leadership positions to create viable competitive products.

It points to a great reason behind the G+ failure too. If they couldn't make a viable social service for nerds—their core in-office demo—what is the chance they can make a social service for the planet?
This is a fun little narrative that's been constructed here, but I fail to see how it has anything to do with the ruby ecosystem I see from here, which is full of highly maintained, mature libraries at this point.
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>> Lawmakers in Congress are just about to introduce a bill to hand over their own constitutional authority to debate and modify trade law. It’s called Fast Track, or Trade Promotion Authority. It creates special rules that empower the White House to negotiate and sign trade agreements without Congressional oversight. Lawmakers won’t be able to analyze and change their provisions, and have only 90 days for an up or down, Yes or No vote to ratify the entire treaty. That means Internet and copyright provisions, buried in omnibus treaties, will get almost no oversight.

Yes, "shame on [the EFF] for resorting to such blatant misinformation to make their case".

I applaud your trust in the executive branch of the USA, and its incorruptibility when it comes to special interest groups.
Nice first app. Only feedback is how do you keep users coming back? How many random "secrets" from random people that may or may not be true can someone read? But keep going!
Google requires you to identify yourself with a telephone number. Unless you find some anonymous number(s) to use, you cannot hide your identity from it.
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I think Dart has the potential to become a target for other languages [1]. The already-high-level code has a performant VM and it takes advantage of optional typing (unlike any other VMs I am aware of). In order to do so though, they should at least make a spawnString (like isolate's spawnUri) or even better, have the ability to JIT dart code by string but not execute it right away.

1 - https://www.dartlang.org/articles/why-not-bytecode/
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> Then again, given how divided economists are on basic questions, there must be a lot of blarney in the field.

There really isn't that much disagreement. Just alot of pundits masquerading as economists (who may have an undergrad degree) who use 'economics' to justify their absurd political idealism.

If you ask economists who actually make a difference (central bank economists, investment bank strategists), and make decisions that actually affect people, I bet there'd be alot more agreement.
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It completely depends on what area you're going into. Software engineering, systems, and AI students obviously need significant coding experience. HCI and theory (ie math), not as much.
We've been working with the dart2js team to reduce the size and they have been making incremental improvements. AngularDart is smaller this week than last :-)

Both 170KB and 70.5KB are still pretty huge for trivial apps, though.
Other techniques are human-attended. Remote drones are very appealing as we've seen for most of a decade now. Anybody can afford them; its anonymous; it comes from above so is hard to anticipate.

Interested in other attack vectors..what did you mean by that?
> Alternatively, envision torrent network that every person shares only part of a song. Noone, technically shares online entire song, but only lets say 25 seconds of it. This would completely fall under judge's reasoning

Probably not. The judges ruling is an application of fair use law to the particular case; one of the considerations expressly applied is the criteria (specified in the fair use statute) of effect on the commercial market for the work. Sharing parts of works as part of a network of people collaborating to, in combination, share the whole work can quite easily be argued to have a very different effect on the market for the work than what was at issue in this case, making your hypothetical readily distinguishable under the criteria applied.
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For any interested HN'ers:

Though quads are much more trendy in the tech world today, as you can see from that video, plain-old RC helicopters are pretty amazing today. The biggest advance in the hobby IMHO has been the development of very small (~1oz) RC helicopters (e.g. [http://www.bladehelis.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=BLH33...) that include the same fundamental control system (called collective-pitch) that enables these large (~10 lbs) helicopters to be so acrobatic. The size shrink brings huge benefits: Small helis basically don't get damaged in most crashes, they mostly can't hurt you, and they are cheap.

Today's super-stabilized and gps-locked quads are like a modern AAA game: you press "A" over and over and watch them go, and say "Wow!". A micro collective-pitch heli is like an old-school game--you're going to need a lot of restarts, but is great fun and will provide many hours/months of challenge.
> Within that framework, the most natural interpretation of this question might be, "Would it be possible in principle for a conscious being with perfect knowledge of the current state of the universe to predict the outcome that they would observe for any possible experiment?" Quantum mechanics answers this with an definitive "No." Even very simple systems can be prepared in a "superposition" of two possible states, in a sense that represents not just our ignorance of some underlying truth but a true mixture with measurable consequences.

I think maybe you'd want to reference Heisenberg uncertainty here, not superposition? Superposition is weird, but deterministic except for the wave function collapse, but you correctly deal with that later. Its the Heisenberg uncertainty that prevents you from precisely measuring a particle's current state, thereby preventing you from obtaining fully predictive information except in philosophical hypotheticals.
Right, sometimes called "square-cube law" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law). Worth knowing about so you can explain to yourself the differences noted above.