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Agreed. StackExchange doesn't like conjecture, but here is my logical argument in support of your conclusion.

Let's assume that an argument is made asserting that quantum mechanics are not probabilistic and are actually deterministic over the entire area of the universe. The reason we see QM as a probabilistic feature of the universe is because our "determinism reference frame" is incomplete.

For example, within in the room you are sitting in right now there is a determinism reference frame that indicates that when you press a key on your keyboard a letter will appear on your monitor - that reference frame is actually incomplete. Half way across the galaxy a star could explode, the "cosmic ray" from that star could interact with our atmosphere and ultimately flip a bit in your RAM[1] - causing a kernel panic in the worst case scenario. Computers are only deterministic machines if the determinism reference frame does not include the entire universe. This means to assert that something in our reality is truly deterministic we need to have perfect information about the entirety of our reality (I specifically avoid the word "universe" in that statement).

The next piece of information that is important is that physicists believe that our universe may have been formed within a Higg's Field (which is why the hunt for a Higg's boson is such an interesting area of physics). This means that there is plausibly a volume or something (not necessarily a universe itself) within which our universe was formed. Conjecture: is this encompassing "metareality" the reason we have non-determinism in quantum mechanics? Is our universe simply a "room" within another reality? Keep in mind, I am avoiding multiverse, the Higg's Field doesn't necessarily have to be compatible with the multiverse theory and it's hard to make the analogy I am trying to make without it sounding like I am venturing into that territory.

The problem is that we can only observe our own universe, if our universe does exist within another reality (which the existence of the Higg's boson points toward) it means that our universe is ultimately non-deterministic. It would be impossible to determine if that metareality is deterministic because we cannot observe it.

Therefore, there is a good chance that the universe is not deterministic. It is impossible to tell if reality is deterministic.

Edit: and then there is this [2]. Determinism is very likely a human concept that has absolutely no meaning in terms of reality, it's a convenient simplification just like Newtonian physics.

[1]: http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Single_event-upset
[2]: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/jul/20/technology2
> Can't we just institutionalize the hype cycle? Like fashion, minus the seasons? One big show every year where everyone can compare their dicks and then let's shut up about it until next year

Hype cycles are required for people to write books about, provide certifications, create conferences explaining how the respective technology will save the world, get contracts to re-write working systems ....
> Can't we just institutionalize the hype cycle?

Indeed, it's already been done, by Gartner, would you believe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
And if someone (God Forbid!) is so crazy that they want to work 60 hours week when employed at a startup because they want it to succeed? Because they want their share of the equity to grow? Illegal? Forbidden? Costly like hell? Nice…
The idea is to keep it small with lots of packages that work with it. It is easy enough to add any ORM instances (gorp, gorm) as a service so it can be injected into a Martini Handler.

Thanks for the feedback!
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What's so hard about it? Have a public registry of transactions that are deemed illegal or theft. Refuse to accept transactions by bouncing them back. So if you are the receiver of 1 btc from anyone on the blacklist you have to create a transaction that returns the 1 btc to the sender. If the address doesn't do that, then that address is also put on the blacklist. Since all bitcoin transactions are public, it is trivial to verify whether the receiver of the btc complies or not.

It could work almost exactly like Spamhaus which tracks email spammers (which coincidentally also happens to be pseudonymous) and smtp servers relaying spam.

As long as enough people opt in to the blacklists it would make life very hard for thieves. Whoever controls the blacklist would gain a lot of power yes, but since opting in would be voluntary you could always decide to use a different blacklist.
I hope they never give him a license to fly a real helicopter!
No, there are other ways to express the exact same syntax with a context-free grammar, for example making newlines a significant token.
Typically, you would integrate it with ASP.NET the same way you do any other Single-Page App not written in JS or Typescript.

It ships with a dart2js compiler that you can use in VS. However, to really get the ease of development you're looking for you'd probably use VS to build/debug the backend, and additionally, the dart editor (special eclipse version) to debug the front-end. You'd have to enable your backend to support CORS calls for this type of setup. However, Once you are ready to deploy, the app builds to HTML/JS/CSS files that you can just embed normally in your solution.

I think what you're getting at is - is it better than JS or typescript + angular or backbone? It'd probably a matter of taste. The language is different from the "syntactic sugar" on top of JS that typescript is. Dart lets your bridge to standard JS libraries (i.e., Jquery etc), but, it also provides most of the functionality in the standard library. It provide a built-in unit test and logging framework and a nuget style repository of other libraries. Additionally, Dart's Polymer library provides an MVVM framework. You can define controls and combine into single-page webapps.
Our industry's memory is about 5 years, the time it takes to move from graduate to mid-level developer.
Asahi develops robotic beer pourer
I was there just a few months ago. It was a very humbling place. Currently somewhere in China.
Yes.

Mass increases with the cube of scale, while structural material cross-section area increases only with the square of scale. So insects can have miniscule legs, while elephants have tree trunks, proportionally.
Yes they were. Flight attendants consistently ask people to put away their Kindles and iPads.

Of course they didn't and couldn't check if the devices are completely switched off (or even in flight safe mode), but they very much keep people from using them.
My German wife would actually get pretty mad at me for using my devices during takeoff/landing. rollseyes
JRuby is an impressive piece of kit. Look at TorqueBox for a sequel.
Lots of us.

Many configurations are done via command line tools actually, more so since PowerShell exists.
You're right, although I doubt Ken Thompson & Rob Pike can be called a new generation. Actually, Go seems to be history going the other way ; Go isn't very innovative, it's the main this his detractors point to, it's just Pascal/Oberon/C with almost-new clothes. So Go is "solving" issues that were raised by Python/Ruby et al, mainly regarding performance, programming in the large and ease of deployment.

Most of the "I'm switching for 10 years ago's hype to Go" articles (including this one) are actually saying "whoops, 10 years ago's technology had drawbacks, I just discovered them, let's use 15 years ago's technology with fancy clothes".
Show HN: Checkout my friend's cool startup - BiographID
We have a custom password database application. You request the to view a particular password or set of passwords, and then it goes through an approval chain to grant you access. Afterwards, you can see the password. Depending on the security requirements, these passwords are changing every 90-180 days so when you really need the password it's probably not the one you used last time.
Never read that mark zuckerberg had this reputation. What's the thing that makes him (presumably) uncomfortable to work with ?
The idea that the universe is anything more than physical laws playing out has just as little evidence as religion and the existence of omniscient godly beings. It is pretty much based entirely on wishful thinking by people who want to believe free will exists. They have no hard evidence and are basically making up an invisible pink fire breathing dragon just as much as the theists.
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I meant browser side.

Plus GWT uses Java, a widely supported enterprise language.
JS is one aspect of Dart. Using the same language server side is the other. It really seems like a competitor of JS/NodeJS. They do have the challenge of convincing the JS world that the new system is better enough to warrant learning a new language. If it succeeds, it will be interesting to see if it is the Web side or the server side that drives adoption.
Mac OS X - The state of the file system (2011)
One of the interesting things about this talk is it gave a number of other people, many of them very high profile, successful entrepreneurs, heroes in the industry, to acknowledge publicly, (and possibly even privately), for the first time, that they can relate very personally to the issues raised.

There is a stigma attached to mental health issues that does make it incredibly hard to speak up. People do think that they will be seen as 'weak', 'lazy' or their issues are not important enough to bother anyone else. Anyone in the room that heard that talk recognised that Greg was the opposite - strong, brave and dealing with the issues without losing the essence that makes him, him.
Or "go get" ;)
Indeed... When I saw the updated icon on my home screen I wondered for a minute what this thing was.
It takes courage to speak up. Thank you.
Your assumption is way too simple. Mass increases with the cube of the scale, while cross section area increases with the square of the scale. The cross section will need to increase to cope with the extra mass, and that in turn will increase the mass itself, and this mass is specifically the rotating mass.
am i in an alternate universe, or did you just edit your comment? :)
We both used to frequent #c, but Idon't think we have ever met IRL.
Flying mostly from/to the UK, that's not exactly what I saw. Most of the time people will put the device on their lap with the screen turned off and get back to using it as soon as the flight attendants are in their seats. Pretty much the same thing with "please leave your seatbelts fastened until the engines are off" (with click, click, click all around).
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If you're changing the message of your post, annotate it with an Edit leaving the original message in-tact, especially if it's found to be non-factual.

Here you're invalidating all responses and making them sound non-sensical. Post a new message if you have something new to say.
Xamarin on Android runs on Mono directly on the kernel. It skips Dalvik
A huge percentage of the population does. You are not alone. It is not weakness, laziness or anything else. Appreciate your honesty.

Ironically, one of the reasons that many men don't seek the help and support they need is that they are too busy looking after everything else in their life - their career, their startup, their partner, their children etc that they end up relegating their own problems into last place on their To Do List and if you are anything like me, the last thing on your to Do List never gets done.
Comments can be edited.
Cisco's gloomy revenue forecasy shows NSA effect starting to hit
Movie production financed by self righteousness.
Yep. Damn mobile client. Anyone got a good recommendation for android HN client?
Federal officials gathered the information from the customer records of two men who were under criminal investigation for purportedly teaching people how to pass lie detector tests. The officials then distributed a list of 4,904 people – along with many of their Social Security numbers, addresses and professions – to nearly 30 federal agencies

So, what does this mean? They got a list of 5000 people that bought a book [edit: or in touch with the author]. And put them all on a "blacklist"? ... For "future reference"?
It's cheap, so a lot of students tried it. They loved it, told their friends, told their parents.
Yep, I have started using a normal calories tracking app (one using a food DB) with great success, so I would absolutely love something that made the process less tedious but I have the same doubts: how can this work with any reasonable accuracy?

Therefore I submitted this more to see it discussed than anything else.
with 1) it seems like what you're saying is that given a closed system, you cannot accurately observe and record the whole state of that system within the system itself.

This feels right on the surface, but is it actually true?
A quine contains a complete record of itself. That's an extreme case to be sure, but it does seem to provide at least one counterexample . . . (of a system that contains itself, not necessarily a system that actually observes and records itself)

A recording of a system does not need to contain everything in order for that recording to by played back, as long as the replay system is deterministic -- you just need to record the random inputs. E.g. see the way they do it in video games [http://www.gamedev.net/topic/439336-replay-system/]

I'm not saying that it is possible, just it shouldn't be dismissed out of hand just because it feels like it should be impossible.
Yes you were.
I always hate reading about services like this because I work in the medical industry and something like this would be unbelievably beneficial but will never be implemented because no sane company would ever sign a business associates agreement with the fines that they would get if there was a breach.
Here's an article from analog devices (who make the AD620 used in the article) http://www.analog.com/library/analogdialogue/archives/37-11/...

It has some background as well as an example circuit with a discussion of safety and isolation issues which is a bit more in-depth than the posted article.

For the posted schematic: at least put some current limiting resistors on the electrode leads.
Let me know what it's like over there, I'd like to jump ship please.
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Who comes up with these ideas? I can't even picture a somewhat educated group of people, sitting around a board room table, thinking that this is a remotely good idea.
Indeed, I dont like the CSS syntax either :-)
I have been doing this for years on my gameboy/sega/iphone/ipad/mac. I even turned my airplane mode off to see how long it would take to loose service last time I flew. (I dont fly very often)
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i know, i was just attempting a joke. disregard the green.
No they weren't: the rule was "turn devices to airplane mode AND power them off". I don't know anybody that powered them off.
Macbook: That's shipping. Irrelevant.

Asking your bank for a cheque: Again, irrelevant.

Kobo support: Well that's incredibly poor. Any support request that takes >24-48 hours is shoddy and unacceptable. It may be okay for you to 'be patient' and accept sub-par service but it doesn't mean everyone should.
So... wouldn't any language which allows building statically linked executable be suitable for TFA's issue[0]? Or even just a more reliable version of py2app or py2exe-style bundling?

[0] Ada, OCaml, Haskell, Rust, ATS if you're really perverted?
Some interesting discussions by KEI http://keionline.org/node/1825

Having not been following the TPP terribly thoroughly I did not realise how wide in scope some of its provisions would appear to be.
How many flights take off or land with all passengers and crew members in full compliance with the current rules? Close to none.

Say commercial planes have 60 passengers/crew member in average. 5 don't have any devices (small kids). Of the 55 passengers that have one or more devices, maybe 30 turn off their devices as they are told, 15 put them on airplane mode and 10 don't give a shit or just forget it.

If there are 20 million flights per year there have been some 400 million flights in the 20 years where cell phones have been common. 400 million flights of which 99 percent have flown with some passengers' phones turned on. Has there ever been a single flight accident due to cell phones? Just one?
CaaS. Car as a service. What will the corporations think of next?
Can anyone explain to me how this is a secret treaty?

My understanding is that the only way the treaty actually comes into effect for its main participant (the USA) is a vote in the Senate, which would make it a public treaty.

Or does the domain of 'secret treaty' include all treaties that were at one point secret (such as during the negotiations)? Doesn't this make the majority of significant treaties 'secret treaties'?
More or less the same as sass right?
> but they very much keep people from using them.

I think you mean "suppress their use for literally seconds at a time".
Presumably, you're already familiar with how the text in your text editor
gets converted to a binary representation. The code that gets stored in
the iPad's flash memory is already represented in terms of voltages
(See http://computer.howstuffworks.com/flash-memory1.htm). To run the
app, iOS shall load the code in the flash memory to RAM, where again
it's represented as voltages (See http://www.howstuffworks.com/ram.htm).
The same is the case for the CPU executing the code.

Point of note is that transistors are used in all three cases (flash
memory, RAM and the CPU), but the voltage levels for 1's can be
different in each case. The voltage level is part of the design of the
flash/RAM/CPU. (For example, when designing a CPU, choosing a voltage
level is a tradeoff between performance (higher voltage implies faster
clock speeds) and power consumption (higher voltage drains the battery
more)).

If you're asking when the 0's and 1's became voltage levels, the answer
is that they were created as voltage levels in the first place. At the
physical level, the 1's and 0's are always voltage levels. When you
compiled your code, the code generated by the compiler was represented
as voltage levels in the CPU, then was written to RAM, which again was
in voltage levels, and then written to the SSD of your MacBook Air,
which again is in voltage levels.
> In the answers I do not see any mention of the Second Time Around Problem, which conclusively answers the question with "there is no way to know".

This argument is not interesting, because "there is no way to know" is a correct but useless answer for basically any physical question.

The best thing we know how to do is to look at the evidence that nature gives us, and try to construct a description of nature from them. We will have different confidence levels for different descriptions (e.g. deterministic vs. non-deterministic), based on how well they match the evidence, but we can never know for sure. Therefore the interesting question is how confident are we that nature is deterministic / non-deterministic.

> But the other thing to point out is that this question presumes an old idea about the passage of time, which is that things happen in a sequence A, B, C, D, ... and that if you are at C then D "has not happened yet". But if you look at relativity, this appears to be a naïve viewpoint.

In relativity, the notion you described is replaced by the weaker notion of causality. It says that for each observer things will still happen in a well-defined sequence, even though different observers will not agree on questions such as "did these two events occur simultaneously?". The way these statements can be consistent, is that events for which there is no agreement on ordering can never influence each other (this is a mathematical result).

Due to causality, the question of whether nature is deterministic is well-defined even when relativity is taken into account.
Your lungs have roughly half the surface area of a tennis court. Much internal folding.

http://books.google.com/books?id=pAuiWvNHwZcC&pg=PA120&lpg=P...

Activated carbon filters are another material with a phenomenal surface area.
I personally like it, but it's all relative.
I don't know anything about this, but it could be that the risk was higher the more devices where on.
I knew it could (with Xamarin's thing they did rewriting Android in C# to test performance) but I didn't know that's how it worked for the stuff you build with their tools. That's awesome.
Client-side conditional loading with HTML comments
ResponsiveComments was designed to bring simple conditional loading to the client side. Although not the complete answer to conditional loading in responsive web design, ResponsiveComments provides a solution to simple conditional loading, directly within your markup.
You're caught up in a sophistry rooted in the meaning of words. It doesn't convince anyone. By assuming a different definition of "universe" to the person you're replying to, you're not actually addressing what they're saying.

Assume, for the purpose of human communication, that "universe" means "a collection of all matter and space that can ever be observed or interacted with by an observer within and part of that universe".
Google tracks you to see if you go in a store for which you saw ads
I hope no one buys this. Hit back at Renault where it hurts the most.
Who says they are trying to come up with good ideas? They are trying to make money.
> Write everything in the active voice.

Every verb in the original paragraph was already in the active voice. I'm not sure whether your replacement is better or worse than the original, but the differences have nothing to do with active vs. passive voice.

(You are far from alone in saying "active" where you mean something else. See, e.g., http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/grammar/passives.html and the various Language Log articles linked from there.)
How long does it take? On my last flight the man sitting next to me started receiving SMS many, many meters before landing
I observe the click-click-clickers too and believe they are monumental idiots that not only endanger themselves, but other passengers as well. And all this for no good reason at all.

Watch the video, taken by an amateur in JFK, of an AirFrance A380 touching a smaller plane and spinning it around and imagine you where sitting in the small plane not buckled up:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13054205

The reason why this behavior mystifies me so much is that by jumping out of your seat prematurely you will be leaving the plane exactly 0 seconds earlier as when you remain buckled up until the plane is safely parked at the gate.
Just launched this guy yesterday. It's still pretty minimal, but thought it'd be a good idea to get something up and hear what people think.

So yeah, what do you think of Fiddlewax? :)
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It makes it much easier to reposess the battery (and car if applicable) if the payments stop. Although I would not buy such a car myself, I reckon many potential customers wouldn't care. At the same time, those who care will probably either be anti-drm (a minority) or have a higher risk of missing a payment (not the target audience).
I was expecting a disease cured or on the verge.
Instead I saw a social network for enterprise...
"Federal officials gathered the information from the customer records of two men who were under criminal investigation for purportedly teaching people how to pass lie detector tests."

What? How is that illegal?
Why are there so many Pythons?
Thinking about this scenario: Imagine they succeed with these policies, and implement it. If a given amount of users start using some tool that exchanges only encrypted content, will they be able to apply these policies against these users, this tool and the encrypted content?
Vi Hart: cramming G+ into YouTube has made comments even worse, I'm leaving
Here is some Node.js anti-hype:

http://pages.citebite.com/b2x0j8q1megb