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> We perceive causality because it's an easier approximation than calculating probability distribution of each molecule.

That's not true. Causality is the very mode of operation of the world and it is a requirement for anything to exist at all. Without causality there would be no change and no change means no existence.

Probabilistic models only indicate the degree to which the system is not understood by the observer before his/her confirmation of the system state.
"'Because antimicrobial drug use in both humans and animals can contribute to the development of antimicrobial resistance, it is important to use these drugs only when medically necessary,' the FDA said in a release." This is long overdue. The FDA action is consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations in the United States and with agricultural regulations in the European Union. We have discussed the science behind this no-brainer recommendation several times here on Hacker News.[1]

Yes, veterinarians may need to treat animal diseases with antibiotics. Antibiotics are in several cases "natural" substances that evolved through natural selection, mycotoxins emitted by fungi, or bacterial toxins emitted by one clade of bacteria, with the effect of killing bacteria in a world full of bacteria. The bacteria susceptible to antibiotics, in turn, have long been under selection pressure to evolve resistance to antiobiotics, as some strains of bacteria did long ago in the wild. The use of antibiotics in human medicine has revolutionized several forms of medical treatment and added millions of years of healthy life to humankind's prospects, but use of antibiotics must go hand-in-hand with other forms of infection control to minimize selective sweeps of antibiotic resistance as a trait among most harmful strains of bacteria. It's a bad trade-off to use antibiotics without veterinary indications in general animal husbandry, so this regulatory step is a step in the right direction.

Meanwhile, the already established multiple-drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis are very worrisome,[2] and will have to be a focus of much research and urgent public-health campaigns.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6599040

[2] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230344420...

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-06-23/news...

http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2012/Facing-the-Reality-of-Drug-R...

http://www.tbcindia.nic.in/pdfs/RNTCP%20Response%20DR%20TB%2...
I see where you're coming from. That said, I suspect that the presence of the wealthy homeowners is largely voluntary. If you're talented enough to get hired, you're probably going to be able to negotiate your own terms, including working remotely... but if you're ambitious, you probably want to be where the action is.
What a terrible name for a project.
They're exceptions to the rule of experience; or else there wouldn't be much point behind the feminist movement.

I mean, I understand your point... But it really is akin to saying we're in a post-racial America because the American President is Black.
Yeah, I see it the same way. but at least you can put forward a highly theoretic argument there that just doesn't work with all the crypto algorithms we actually use.

Especially since: what are you doing with ssss? Usually splitting a private key to a non-information-theoretically secure block cipher, I guess. So you're back to square one.

I phrased that part poorly.
After trying to use Android Studio with its Gradle integration behind a company firewall that requires all outside network access through the proxy, I just gave up and went back to Eclipse, where everything just works. Diving through different configuration options was just to painful to put up with.
Actually QML apps can be written only using QML + Javascript. Performance or platform dependent parts can be written in C++.

Some Qt based frameworks experience. Ubuntu Touch chose to develop apps using Javascript only where possible. BlackBerry apps support both Javascript and C++. There are people who believe that QML must be used only for UI and all logic must be written in C++. IMHO Javascript is good choice as it is fast enough in many cases.

As for Python that's not what you want to use with QML and pure Qt is not what you want to use for mobile apps.
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Try the simple back bridge progressions in the "convict conditioning" book. Dumb name, but a solid approach to exercising without a fun and a great section on back exercises.
You can read your Gmail over HTTPS, but Tor hidden services generally do not use SSL/TLS (since they _are_ the exit node for that connection).
> In the absence of international agreements, how do you improve the business climate at all, even in ways that are universally beneficial?

If businesses want legislation that improves the business climate, they should lobby the relevant governments for such legislation. If such changes really are "universally beneficial" this should not be a hurdle. As a practical matter, the business world worked just fine prior to say 1995, when the WTO was established.

> it's predicated on the idea that the only pools of people who matter are divided up into individual countries that vote for their own governments in isolation.

It's predicated on that idea because that is the essence of the world we live in. Americans vote for their government, and that government's sole legitimate purpose is to ensure American prosperity. The same is true for the Swedes in Sweden and the Germans in Germany, etc. International cooperation results in governments trading off the prosperity of their people for the prosperity of people who are not party to the same social contract, and in doing so subvert and compromise their democracy.

> nations could send representatives to negotiate things according to their desires and everyone's voters then have to accept the results before their nation signs up to the finished agreement isn't absurd

The problem with this approach is that it results in "take it or leave it" sorts of agreements. As the framers of the U.S. Constitution realized, it's not just voting that's important, but the whole process by which legislation is proposed, tweaked, and then voted upon. That process must happen subject to democratic pressures. An acceptable approach would be for nations to send representatives to negotiate shared principles, and then introduce implementation of those principles as ordinary legislation, subject to the same changes and tweaking as ordinary legislation.
Erm.. I can't actually tell if this is serious or not..
The only difference is support I believe.
Teen trio builds Stoodle, 2-way whiteboard app for homework
Fedora 18 is already matured?) Or it is based on outdated 17th?
The housing market rate will be lower with new housing than without it.
DM of the Rings (introducing hack 'n slash D&D players to Tolkien)
Every time I try to use Eclipse I give up in a rage of frustration and go back to Intellij. I have always found Eclipse slower and buggier than Intellij. I'm sure a lot of it is the devil you know.
Hahaha. It makes me laugh/cringe to think of the "risks."

Risk #1 - You may hurt yourself

Risk #2 - You may discover the emperor wears no clothes and you don't have to spend your life in servitude to the ruling classes.

Which one does the government _really_ fear?
I get that building and maintaining software which is used by millions of people is hard, but at least have good support for your customers...

Just one month ago there was yet another problem with attachement in yahoo mail...
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I use quite a few web apps and desktop apps in this space, and have experimented with many more. I find Trello one of the most amazing apps I've used, both in it's general design and in the little details. Especially the little details. My expectations of web apps are generally not so high, so when, for example, trello remembers my input when I accidentally close something, it's a surprise.

The most recent discovery I made was that when you hover over a card and press the copy keyboard shortcut, it copies the card. Something I don't use much, but comes in handy every once in a while.

I think studying Trello's functionality would be great inspiration to improve your tool!
They are trivially not identical in terms of syntax: one uses ( and the other [. Surely you mean in terms of what operation they both represent?
I'd hope the CEO instructions might be able to be a little more detailed than "increase sales". Otherwise, the CEO is at risk of seeming to not add any value, direction or vision.
SEMCO, to me, is the best example of this. While they haven't fired all of their managers, they are a very large company doing self-management in a whole bunch of different verticals.

Books by the SEMCO founder, Ricardo Semler:

Maverick - http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Workpl...

The Seven Day Weekend - http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Day-Weekend-Changing-Work-Works-...
Show HN: New unix utility "when"
Don't worry, the language doesn't sit idle. C++ 11 and C++ 14 are significant improvements, almost a new language.
Can we get 200 Applications, 10 Finalists and 6 Winning Startups in 6 Weeks?
The Most Misleading Measure of Response Time: Average
I've always been deeply curious about laziness. What makes a lazy person lazy? Is it predisposition? Is it environment? What are your thoughts?
Also please target Lynx, Mosaic, and Netscape 2 in the future.
Well you're always free to leave. But you don't. And you keep on not voting, and then wonder why your government doesn't represent you. And you know, eventually on that track, you're no longer free to leave either.

But you're indignation shall not brook political engagement! So that's...something.
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I was one of those Treehouse managers and I voted for it. Still very happy that I did. :)
What about Google's marketing do you find to be pretty bad? Come to think of it, what's Google's marketing strategy, apart from "build stuff people use"?
Does anyone have more info on what the Android/iOS support is like? Does it give native style low level binding ala Mono or does it try to be a generic API that is a write once run everywhere kind of thing?
Can I call a Java library (say, google play services) from Qt without having to jump through JNI hoops?
I've so far only tested this on OS X, and have mostly used it with the `-t` mode to have it notify me (via "say") when ssh succeeds on a CloudFormation spawned AWS instance.
Thanks. I've sent them a tweet about it.
Thanks for your feedback - I'll take a look at how we can improve the copy. The idea is that yes, in general you know who is looking after your child - being able to call the with one click is just a convenience. However, in the abnormal case where your child is away from their carer for some reason then the ability to be notified immediately and establish contact with the carer could be the critical difference that stops your child from being another of the thousands of children that go missing every day.

Once you add in the complexity of two working parents and a reasonably large care network - then the conveniences become more valuable as well.
I switched to a yoga ball a few years back and my lower back pain went away completely. While sitting in general might not be ideal for long periods of time, at least with a yoga ball my back is forced to support itself, is constantly moving/adjusting and I get the adult equivalent of a bouncy chair at my desk.

For me personally it's been a great success, but I have yet to see any conclusive "yoga balls are better than chairs" articles that didn't read like new age dribble.
This seems to really help bridge a gap in django's toolbox. Working with async actions with pretty much anything other than celery processes is pretty painful. That said I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of tying the events directly to the models, I think I'd rather be able to define the events separately and call the event-firing methods via on save / on delete model methods if I wanted to the model to fire events. Seems a lot more flexible to break that apart so I can reuse the events or fire those events from somewhere other the models if needed. I bet there is a way to do this already in the project I just haven't had enough time to piece it together yet.
Agree with you - companies ought to recognise increases in market rate/inflation, plus an increase for experience/responsibility. Employees need to recognise that receiving only one of these is a snub.

> Therefore, if the market actually paid less for a job this year than last, then the employee would receive no adjustment.

This strikes me as a likely reason for structural inflation: companies can pay less for the same job (if they choose), without needing to negotiate a highly awkward pay decrease.
It's psychologically harder for an employee to argue against the status quo.
Yeah, I agree that remote working at a company that hasn't completely embraced it tends to be a bad idea. I'm suggesting more companies completely embrace it. For GOOG that'd be an interesting challenge.

I don't know if the last sentence in your first paragraph was advice for Googlers or portable but I'd advise literally everyone to avoid traffic at every possible opportunity... though as I get older I'm much more 'ambitious' about happiness than title bumps, so YMMV.
As a case in point, my sister and her husband recently finished their post-doc work at NYU and are heading out to SF. Both of them PhDs, both of them work very hard at what they do, both of them in school/fellowships/postdocs since graduating high school (they are 32/33 now) and are having trouble finding jobs. Her husband recently took a job in SF doing research getting paid a mere 60k a year. That's very low anywhere for the effort put into it, insultingly low in SF, IMO. She can probably find work there in SF pretty easy, but probably not making much more.

Lazy they are not.

(seriously thinking of pushing them into joining one of those RoR or similar bootcamps and getting into Programming, they have the drive and intellect to do well, I think)

Edit: Just to be clear, their PhDs are both in the 'Hard Sciences' - biology to be specific - Virology and Genetics respectively.
OpenShift's free tier provides 3 "gears" with 512MB RAM per gear and 1GB disk space. This seems to be much more than Heroku's free tier of 1 "dyno" with 512MB RAM and 10k rows DB space.

(I'm on Heroku for now though I wonder if it's worth switching.)
https://www.heroku.com/pricing
https://www.openshift.com/products/pricing
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Anyone know what version of gcc it'll ship with? Couldn't find that in the tech overview PDF...
I get free stuff all the time from startups just by asking. No need to pay. Yep, just ask.

Here's a list of startups (out of 50) that gave me a free t-shirt/swag just by simply asking:
1) IFTTT: Free socks
2) CloudFlare: free t-shirt and stickers!
3) Trello: free t-shirt
4) Zencoder: free t-shirt
5) ChartBeat: free t-shirt
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU0MDk

Suggests Fedora 19 package set and 3.10 kernel.
Thanks for the feedback/questions aaoun.

Re: gaming the system, you have to sign up/login with an email to vote and comment. Every new tool that is added we review to make sure the tagging is correct/it fits with a startup's scope.

And our use case is focused on helping tech entrepreneurs identify new tools as a task come up. So when you are thinking about migrating to RDBMS database, you can check out what databases other tech entrepreneurs have found useful/endorse as well as find options if you're looking for accounting software that is geared towards entrepreneurs.
Pregnancy scare prank on my father
Lazy people make up "some portion" of the haves as well, which is why attempting to attribute "laziness" as a defining attribute of a socioeconomic group is "bullshit, narrow, entitled".
A service that helps businesses recover from Google Penguin penalty. The number of websites using poor link building and seo practices is unbelievably high. I help them undo the poor practices and recover/prevent from Penguin penalty.
You beat me to it. Wasn't there a judgment against Spotify because they hadn't paid ANY Artists yet?
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At least the installer is a newer version, looks like it's from Fedora 19.
Did you use it during the free trial? I've found it give you just enough control. It's leagues ahead of what I saw from heroku as far as java goes.

They were great when I asked for more resources and the like as well during the trial. I've found a VPS better for my own purposes, but I'm kind of an outlier as far as the kinds of things I develop. Most people don't need that fine grained of control.

Openshift itself is a great model. That doesn't even count HN's love child Docker throwing their lot in with these guys.

I wouldn't mind evaluating their enterprise offering if it becomes relevant. I'm sure the paid product is much better than what was in the free developer preview a long time ago.

At least Red Hat is sticking by it, I haven't seen much in the way of cloud foundry in the while (keep in mind I haven't looked in to it in a while, so feel free to correct me here.)

I've also tried cloudbees and the like. I liked the fact that red hat is good on multiple fronts. It seems like they're nailing it overall.

That being said: heroku is usually the standard. I'm not really too much of a ruby person myself, I'm sure it's amazing for that though.
Is this -the- Ryan Carson of YouTube pre-roll ad fame? Because I still see them EVERY SINGLE TIME.
quesera described what's sneaky about Ghostery - their users think they're protected but aren't and don't know they're sending data to Evidon that the company sells but are:

> So you offer a very useful product, for free, and make money off of the people who fail to configure it so that it performs the only service they would ever purposely download it for.

I gave some numbers above that show, in practice, just how many users are in one of these unexpected configurations:

> Ghostery's game seems to be tricking users into sending their data to Evidon. Going off the company's own numbers, something like 45% of Ghostery users send Evidon data (by comparison, only 2% of Firefox users share data through Telemetry).
You'll see that I have here. While doing so I came across some new bizarre claims by vegan publications I hadn't seen before like "omnivores are also b12 deficient!" and other absolutely unbelievable garbage. It's amazing to me that anybody who claims to be a thinking animal can fall for what are essentially outright lies needed to justify an extreme life-style.
Ask HN: Tor network, can it be used for anything else?
Does anyone know if the Tor network is available for uses other than browsing with their Tor browser? For example, if I wanted to make an anonymous communication app, will I be able to tap into the Tor network? If not, are there other networks like Tor where it is open for others to use for their purposes?
I have really mixed feelings about this. First of all, the "victims" were probably Google peons, not the insufferable royalty. The vast majority of Googlers are people I like (I worked there) and they aren't responsible for the problem. Like I said in another post here, the engineers doing all the work will soon be priced out to make room for product narcissists and those horrible executives that VCs implant to grant a favor to a friend, making twice as much money as engineers while working 11-to-3. It has already happened in New York, except it's bankers and traders. At least traders are respectable (it's pretty meritocratic) and the bankers actually work. Startup executives tend to be the people who failed in New York and in finance, so they seek them some VC coattails to ride on into someone else's company.

In 2008 when Wall Street tanked the economy, people were saying, "I wish all that talent were somewhere useful like Silicon Valley." This seems laughable now. Silicon Valley? Useful? Anyway, "tech" had the good faith of the nation for a long time, we were the "good rich" as opposed to the people on Wall Street-- and, in the next 5 years, fucking blew it thanks to debacles like FWD.us, Sean Parker's wedding, and all the bad behavior that Valleywag so excellently chronicles.

We were the good guys. We still should be. Most of us, by population, are. The fuckers at the top, who don't even code and 90% of whom are MBA/private-equity types, have ruined not just our industry but our reputation. Now, people associate "techie" with spoiled brats, misogynists, and entitled, crypto-right-wing fuckheads (like the character played by the union organizer when impersonating a Google engineer).

Engineers and technologists and real visionaries (not executive bikeshed painters) need to take technology back. Now. No fucking excuses. We are the good guys-- the bad guys are private equity douches with no business in our world-- but if we don't take back our industry, it and our work will be used for bad (as we see in the Bay Area) and we will be the ones to get the blame.
The way you matured with your favorite artists, which is the way I did too, is not the only way. My children, now 13 and 16, first experienced Pink Floyd by finding Dark Side of the Moon in my collection. They liked it and proceeded to listen to the entire catalog digesting the whole thing in about 4 weeks time.

Three years later they still love Pink Floyd and have the same appreciation for music that I have. Now they will have access to Led Zepplin and can experience it the same way they did with Pink Floyd.
I hear that the FDA will also be releasing a recommendation to close the barn door after the cows get out.

You just can't be too careful, you know.
Larry isn't very outspoken at all. Are you referring to Eric? He's just on the board of directors now (chariman) and isn't involved in the day to day.
Has anyone tried using Kotlin for Android development? (it's supposed to be lower runtime footprint than Scala, and it is officially supported by Jetbrains [1])

[1] http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2013/08/working-with-kotlin...
Great idea, now all we have to do is make jobs for them!
Supposed to be based off F19, with full systemd support (just like fedora).
Dinosaur asteroid 'sent life to Mars'
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You must also add the condition that your scalars are real numbers. There are many finite dimensional vector spaces that are nothing like Euclidean space: any finite extension of a finite field, for example. This comes from Galois theory, but is not just abstract nonsense. One application to computing is if your scalars are only 0 or 1 and all operations are done mod 2, then you have a framework for doing error correcting codes, among other things. We call this set of scalars either the finite field of size 2 or the Galois field of size 2, aka GF(2).
Your question is bit of a non-sequitur, but any answer would have to depend on the drug in question.

If we're talking about alcohol, then the rise in consumption is absolutely acceptable because 1.) those who abuse are now treated as addicts instead of imprisoned by default, and 2.) those who don't abuse it are now free from the horrors of capricious and arbitrary criminal persecution.

Same goes for marijuana and tobacco (which is, in my meager experience, the most addictive drug of all).

Now, if we're talking about meth or narcotics, then obviously any rise in consumption has to be taken very seriously, and then addressed by treating addicts medically as they should be, instead of sending them deeper underground by making them criminals.