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I first learned this in a book by a prominent physicist, so I am inclined to think it is an accurate reading of the physics. Unfortunately I do not remember which so I cannot give you a citation (it was possibly Brian Greene or Frank Wilczek), but maybe there will be a physicist reading this thread who can chime in.

The angular movement thing is this: Imagine you have a frame of reference on the tip of your nose. The X axis points straight away from your face, the Y axis is to your left, Z is up. Now start turning your head to the left. To a tiny observer living on the tip of your nose, the relative speed along the Y axis of a faraway planet has suddenly become very high. The further the planet, the faster the speed (this part is just grade-school geometry).
Which would have been extremely embarrassing for someone at work. Luckily, that didn't happen to me.
Exactly. I could never bring myself to use billions on super luxury stuff anyway and would wind up donating most of that money to a good cause (I wonder if the Gates foundation accepts donations?).
That's assuming everyone's using Ubuntu (or some other Debian-based OS)...

He actually did mention that in the post, though -- packaging Ruby into the installer -- and mentioned how difficult it is. I've never tried it myself, but I imagine it's pretty tough if, for example, you're distributing to Windows as well (although who uses CLI apps in Windows anymore...?)
Very inspiring. I have no interest in start-ups and that sort of thing, but I do admire your intestinal fortitude. You hung in there and did it. And really that's all life is about.
Wow that's cool. I didn't even know that existed!
If its deterministic, but cannot be simplified and modelled by anything smaller than itself (imagine a simulator that modelled every atom - it would have to have more atoms than it was modelling) ... then does it matter? That is, it may be deterministic but fundamentally unpredictable in practice. See Dennets 'freedom evolves' for a long discussion of this.
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In English (not sure about the quality of the translation and if it contains the latest amendments to the law):

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_urhg/englisch_urh...
I could never work the hours some people here are putting. I mean, cmon - 12+ hours a day?

Not that there should be laws stopping people from working that much, but I would hate for Europe to become like the US in that regard - almost no employee protection and long hours(50-60h weeks) becoming a standard.

And that's coming from someone who's libertarian in many aspects :)
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> Lisp: everything is lists.

When was that? 1958?
It is being worked on apparently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6731385
http://nayuki.eigenstate.org/res/brainfuck-interpreter-javas...
First impressions: the background image that took ~20 seconds to load - with white text on a white background that slowly revealed - it felt a little like 56k internet and I nearly left the page. I'd consider setting an alternative background colour behind the image?
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> I still don't see any enterprise requests for CoffeScript, TypeScript or any other language that targets JavaScript.

GWT seems to have been widely used.
Yes, but here's the thing, for example a 1st round putting the valuation at 100M usually involved a purchase of a % of the company by a % of 100M.

Oh yes, if Facebook is willing to pay for it, the price tag today is 3B (and I would definitely go for it because I think it's worth less than that)
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Please re-read the parent, I've replied saying it's not a walled garden when others are choosing not to adopt it.

> Dart maybe open source but it still a proprietary, non-standard solution

You use the word 'proprietary' but I don't think it means what you think it means. It doesn't mean you have complete access to the entire source code implementation and freedom to use all of it or any of it, in anyway you see fit. It doesn't describe a project that's driven by feedback in a public mailing list, that welcomes external feedback and contributions, and it's rarely used to describe a project with a core goal for it to have no-legal-or-technical-barrier, free access, encouraging its wide-spread adoption.

By your definition most Open source projects are proprietary and non-standard, where most programming languages aren't even standardized, the difference with Dart is that it actually has the commercial backing that can justify the effort in actually getting it standardized, which it plans to do now that Dart 1.0 is shipped, just as Lars Bak announced at Google IO.

Again like many OSS projects, the Dart project has taken external contributions, but the brilliant minds that Google have brought in to work on Dart full-time are indeed being paid to do so. It's not uncommon, to accept Q/A verified external contributions but to ensure only employees have free reign and project-wide commit access. Even Dart's internal contributions still have to go through a Q/A code-review process.
Awesome, do you have any demos for the music genre recognition?
Is there a danger to the developer guild of possibly finding itself without a viable option to AWS?
I'm not trolling I'm just ranting. You're not going to change my mind--I've already assumed that you're an uneducated computer nerd with no understanding at all of people or society. I just come here to rant at libertarians. I make a new account every time because if you swear or sound "uncivil" some of the moderators will blackball you.
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Better than what I'm getting.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3100376268
I write all my web apps on Cobol, with formal specifications for every piece of code. This Java/.NET/javascript/Rails/Python thing is just a fad. Everyone will come round back to Cobol, wait and see. Mark my words...
I don't know...I work a lot in big enterprise stuff, and they've come around. One product we have that most banks use only runs in IE9+. That's really the min level now (or in the near future since our new version of the app isn't due until Feb)
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Ha, I know a lot of big enterprise with Adobe Flash/Flex lockin, though that's slowly going away...
My answer would be, "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

These trends/fads seem to me to roughly follow cycles where a new "generation" of devs enters working/professional life, seemingly unaware of many solved problems and instead solving them all over again rather than actually pushing the state of the art forward.
App DevelopersApplication developers, from startups to established businesses, can submit their requests to use Watson’s services on IBM’s website beginning this week, said Lori Bosio, a spokeswoman for the company.

There are no upfront cost for access and partners who use the service in their apps will be charged on a metered usage model, Gold said. He declined to comment on expected sales from the service.
Like you implied, when you're trying to get a business deal, you're communicating for the audience. It's really all just sales. A lot of really successful salespeople probably don't have good spelling and grammar, but they're great communicators.

Dunno if you've read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, but Kiyosaki says in it, "I'm not a best-writing author, I'm a best-selling author."

That said, I probably have the same problem sometimes, haha.
Unfortunately you have a marked lack of understanding as well as a lack of common humanity. Some things are more important than others. Gates's "crimes" -- which were only defined as crimes after the event -- were trivia compared to those of many US corporations including Enron (1), Pfizer (2) and Monsanto (3).

Anyone with a sense of proportion uses their bile to fight things that actually matter. No rational person today thinks that includes what Gates did in the 1990s.

(1) Fraud and conspiracy on a massive scale, plus money laundering, insider trading and other crimes.
(2) Using Nigerian children as guinea pigs. Dozens died.
(3) Illegally dumping thousands of tons of highly toxic waste in landfills.
Dart is quite awesome on technical grounds. One thing though. I'm not entirely sure how it combats fragmentation. For example, I also find TypeScript awesome. ECMA6 fixes most of the blind spots of JS and it's quite palatable. Heck, even Java 8 is getting in the same general sweet spot. In another neck of the woods we have iOS. So now there are 4-5 solid platforms (language + libs) with sizable corporate support to develop Web / mobile apps. Oh, and there is also pNaCl (technically awesome as well), which raises fragmentation by an order of magnitude. I find the situation bewildering. Coding in all these languages and platforms is pretty much the same, with minor syntactic variations.
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Application developers, from startups to established businesses, can submit their requests to use Watson’s services on IBM’s website beginning this week, said Lori Bosio, a spokeswoman for the company.

There are no upfront cost for access and partners who use the service in their apps will be charged on a metered usage model, Gold said. He declined to comment on expected sales from the service.
I wonder if this means Dart will be available in Opera, since it's based on Chromium now.
I'm willing to be we'll still be talking about Java's impeding death in 10 years here on HN. With all the different languages supported on the JVM, and new ones to be invented....it's not going anywhere.
But let me also just say that you do not have to believe this at all in order to believe my original point; I just brought it up as an extreme crazy case.

So if you don't believe the extreme crazy case, think of the standard example: you get into a space ship or something and zip around really fast. And you are thinking about things closer to you. The math says the same thing: as your light cone changes, the set of spacetime intervals, that have time distance 0 from you, changes as well. So from your relative position the "now" at these faraway points goes back and forth. This is basic, basic relativity.
Not that someone was obeying those rules anyway. But better to make it official.
Ask HN: is GitHub susceptible to robots?
am fairly new to GitHub, and i noticed some accounts [for example https://github.com/threejs-cn] are following like 22k users and it/he/she joined on October 8, 2013 - i noticed because i now have 4 followers [of which two are spams -- i think]
There are solutions like Safemonk - https://www.safemonk.com which layer Encryption on top of Dropbox and are exactly for these types of Enterprise customers.
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Start at http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/getting_started.s..., which is pretty easy to find from a search for "watson ibm request".
> This is the second coming of IE, nothing else.

Completely Baseless, opinionated, inaccurate, hyperbolic, HN comment, check.
Why do you store your money with an external organisation that you don't control?

Because they offer better security than I can build in to my own home (at least not without significant effort) and they offer guarantees should my money go missing under many (but not all) circumstances (for example, the savings guarantee if a UK bank goes bust).

Do cloud providers offer the same? The guarantees may vary dependent upon service contracts (uptime, backups etc), but the idea that their data-centre was better secured than my company server-room was supposedly a given (at least for most small to medium organisations).

EDIT: added qualification to last sentence
The main difference of the Mathematica language to Lisp was this:

a) the Mathematica language has an extensive user manual, but the specification of the language is missing.

b) Mathematica uses term rewriting. Lisp is based on an evaluation model, with procedural macros added.
Link for the impatient https://www.coursera.org/course/ml Looks great indeed!
Have at it, programmers: IBM makes Watson available via API
bug: when i press the "buy" button for the free plan on my galaxy s2 i'm redirected back to the same page
I never really used DropBox much. That's because I am able to easily have a script that watches a directory and performa rsync - or better yet, uses git - to commit to a remote repo. Problem solved.

And you can also have a hook in MacOS that lets you right-click a file and create a new public link to share for it. Every file in the repo would be private but when you execute this command it would make a symlink on the remote repo in a subdirectory of DocumentRoot of nginx. Done.
You should write a blog post - "why I used python / postgres 5 years ago and stuck with it until today"
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Hmm... There is a basic misuse of terms here. The author uses the term "distributing applications" but he is actually talking about application deployment. Oh well, language evolves and most of the times becomes murkier.

But I do agree. There is a in inherent higher barrier of entry when you force your users to install third-party libraries or even your deliverable from an outside ("fourth-party"?) distribution source. Be it ruby gems, CPAN, Pypy, cabal, whatever.
> Since 1Password 4 it is possible to have multiple vaults - one of which I share with my colleagues via Dropbox. That way, everyone has access to the passwords if they know the master password for the vault AND have access to the shared Dropbox.

My co-founder and I switched to that today, rather than me being the "gatekeeper", feels much better. I'm a dev, he's a marketing guy, and it works perfectly for us. 1Password is the best $35/head (With volume discounts available) you can spend to keep things safe and secure.
Author here. Super flattered to see all the feedback coming in. I built this package to suit my own picky needs.

Martini is meant to be non-intrusive and braindead simple to use. Hope you guys like it!
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If you or anyone else can remember where you heard about this idea that would be great, because it is fascinating.
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I really like rugby union but saying it is similar to football is really not true.

Many of the things that are bemoaned about gridiron football are what most of us have come to love. The play stoppage, the start/stop nature, specialization of players etc. are what make gridiron football the most strategic of ball games. Continuous play games like rugby and soccer are much more tactical less strategic. Neither is better or worse, but I enjoy the strategy of gridiron & enjoy the tactics of rugby (& aussie rules for that matter).

Getting rid of those elements of gridiron football would be a bit like letting football (soccer) players use their hands. Sure it might make for an interesting new game, but it would destroy what we love about the old.

Except the commercials. God the NFL has to get a handle on that.
What alternative way of distribution are you proposing? What do you think is the future?
Holy crap, are we still in 2013? I am not sure anymore!
I would say that the determinism or non-determinism doesn't really matter.

It seems to me that determinism is a feature of the observer too. For example, roll of dice is non-deterministic for a human being, even in perfectly deterministic universe. It's just too complicated to simulate, so it appears random, and we can pretty much declare it to be non-deterministic.

And pseudo-random generators, purely idealized systems, can generate non-determinism from determinism. You can also have systems that do the opposite - that are itself based on non-determinism, but are in the effect deterministic. Classical computers use non-deterministic movement of electrons (or better say, they don't rely on their determinism), but can still produce repeatable (deterministic) results.

So you can move away from determinism or non-determinism on lower level (like the level of elementary particles) by various methods of aggregation. Considering there is still about 20 orders of magnitude between the "size" of elementary particles and Planck length, I would dare say that reality may still switch between determinism and non-determinism several times beyond the what we know.

Also, people may find this lecture by Dan Dennett interesting (which inspired the above argument): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxup7sxIUmg
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I recommend that everyone, not just new fans, read 2 books: Keep Your Eyes Off the Ball by Pat Kirwan & The Essential Smart Football by Chris Brown. Both changed the way I watch the sport for the better.
Dart provides a standard way to do inheritance which means that all libraries and frameworks will be able to inherit from each other.

Web Components and polymer is a good example of the power and re-use enabled by encapsulation. The http://www.polymer-project.org goal is that you can integrate and re-use Dart web components, Angular JS components, Firefox x-tags, etc within the same web app. Which is unprecedented in the fragmented world of JS.
This is all just nonsense. Apple helped pioneer a second wave of innovation in the web with their efforts on WebKit. And they are still actively working on it as well as being active members of WHATWG et al.

Google is NOT pushing the whole web platform forward. They are pushing THEIR web platform forward. We saw it with SPDY and now seeing it again with Dart. Technologies developed in isolation that only see traction due to the popularity of Chrome.
Because they're continually reviewed as being good quality?

Because the author said that price is no object?

Because the new model is wireless?

Because the new model looks less like a toy and more like something people might wear?

By most accounts, the quality is there, and with the feature set, they don't appear to be that overpriced. Or at least, not so much so when compared to its nearest competition.

I qualified my lack of first-hand experience, so I don't feel remotely guilty about the suggestion. Why does it offend you so much? Why do you feel yourself to be the arbiter of what's worthwhile and not?
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Has been done before https://www.class-central.com/
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Ask HN: What was the name of the Mathematics book pitched at programmers?
There was something on HN about 12 months, maybe 18 months ago. The idea was to crowdsource funding (I believe) for a book designed to self-teach programmers mathematic principles.
Pray, what are "non-partisan countries"? And why do you think China is one?
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Proxies are not the only thing that is necessary to support - login portals is another related usage in the same general area.

Basically the problem is that the encryption possibilities available assume Internet is a dumb pipe between source and destination, but that is simply not the case.
Oh please. Come back in 10 or 20 years time and say it is not a fad. Technology cycles are getting so compressed that everything is a fad now. The whole thing being fuelled by the immature and inexperienced who know nothing about the past and consequently think they have nothing to learn from it.
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Can anyone recommend a good book on the topic? And maybe other recent neural network research topics; I'm esp. also interested in recurrent networks like LSTM.
Thanks for the feedback! I knew from the beginning that I didn't want to create another clone framework. The Golang community needs something that is in line with it's own philosophies.
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There must be a great book about this, it can't be true that we Europeans have to fly to the valley and "live the life" for a few weeks to learn what it all means. By following HN one might even come to assume that these terms are arbitrary, it certainly appears so from outside. (e.g when does a seed round become a Series A? (when the founders really want to hype?))
Newbie question here, I've looked into gorilla/mux before, how does Martini compare to it? Do they serve the same purpose? Does it offer more features? Is it easier to use?

Great-looking website by the way. The first impression is a good impression, it's very polished.
Yup. Making the "dropping in" part easy is partly why Martini can be kept clean on the number of dependencies it pulls in. The only external dependency on Martini is https://github.com/codegangsta/inject which I maintain anyway :)
"It's just the typical desperate attempt to suggest that there must be something wrong that needs to change about prosperous countries where people work considerably less on average, and are happier and healthier."

The real issue is, if their product can be competitive (cheaper, or maybe more expensive and better, and have a captive market), there's no problem with that whatsoever.

And Norway or other countries are welcome to have the tax structure they want, as long as it doesn't impact (too much) the competitiveness of their exported products.

I certainly am in favour of a more healthy and happy work environment and good luck for them for pushing that.
I can only imagine how the markets would have reacted to FB spending 2% thereabouts on a company with no revolutionary IP or revenue.
I am getting significantly more accurate results on www.coursebuffet.com than on www.class-central.com. The latter doesn't seem to have as good keyword search and it often seems to miss even when the word is in the title of the course.

I grant an upvote for doing it better than it has already been done.
> US law is not classified. The exact ways that the executive enforces and upholds the law sometimes is, but the law itself is not.

US law is very tied to court precedents, so a secret court with secret precedents is "secret law".

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-...

> In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly involved in nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks, officials say.

> But since major changes in legislation and greater judicial oversight of intelligence operations were instituted six years ago, it has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court

> “We’ve seen a growing body of law from the court,” a former intelligence official said. “What you have is a common law that develops where the court is issuing orders involving particular types of surveillance, particular types of targets.”

Etc etc.
Yup. I'm using gocode, and a VIM keybinding to restart the server in a tmux pane.
Please. Every professional developer (including Java focused one) knows enough Javascript to do what they need. Especially with frameworks like JQuery, AngularJS, KnockoutJS etc it all really isn't that hard.

And on large projects which are the domain of Java/.Net developers you often have dedicated Front End developers anyway.
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