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> The analogies are beside the point.

It helps decide weather or not the legal response if any is reasonable.

> whether you think that it ought to be or not.

I was not trying to comment on what I think ought to be.
That's true that it allows faster-than-light communication is some sense, however it is not clear if it is possible to use quantum entanglement for faster than light information transfer: to extract the particle stat one has to perform a measurement which immediately destroys the state it is in.
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Probably true, but they're still shooting themselves in the foot. Apple is still supporting a device from 2010 with software updates.
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Wall street jobs are super stressful. Stressful enough that people not properly suited for it might kill themselves.

Programming jobs are mentally taxing. Mentally taxing enough that people not properly suited for it might become depressed, decide that they're a failure, and/or have a very hard time.

Jobs in science require math skills that are hard / expensive to acquire, which one might never master or become good at.

Jobs in law require very expensive educations, passing an extremely hard bar exam, years of work for low pay and long hours, for a job that only might prove to be good paying after the fact.

Becoming a doctor requires expensive education; Surgery require that plus steady hands. Etc., etc.

Jobs and trades have different pros and cons. I agree that yes, trade skills are physically demanding, but having done them before, they aren't that physically demanding. It isn't the same as being on a prison chain gang, and an average work day is less intensive than a couple of hard hours at a gym.

Obviously, this varies from trade to trade, but the I agree with you that the idea that trade skills should not be considerable because they require physical effort is fairly silly, unless the suggestion is that we should all eschew all forms of work, because every job has some sort of down side.

I don't know of any high pay, low skill, low stress, cushy jobs in the world. If someone knows of one that doesn't have some other downside I haven't listed, feel free to let me know. Email address is in my profile.
Does your phone support LTE? Does it run a modern version of Android? Does it have a modern SoC? Does it sync with my Fitbit? Is it widely available in the US? Can I get after sales support?
This falls into the broader category of stories "Don't build a business that is wholly dependent on another business" of which we hear variations here on Hacker News (such as "Don't build your whole business around the API of another business.") Demand Media was far too reliant on its ability to manipulate its rankings in Google.

We had a similar opportunity. We built Accumulist in 2006. We wanted stories posted to Accumulist to do well at Google, but we succeeded way beyond our expectations. Something about the structure of Accumulist hit the sweet spot of whatever algorithms that Google was using during 2006. Any article posted to Accumulist jumped to the front page of Google. Accumulist had an API so outside bloggers could ping it with their stories, and generally, for any story posted to Accumulist, the page that got ranked in Google was the page on Accumulist, rather than the original page on the blog.

For us, at the time, Accumulist was one of many projects we were working on. It was an unexpected hit. We did think about making it our full time focus. I was in favor of expanding it. However, my partners were against it. At one point we were working with an outside consultant whose advice I greatly respected. He said, "The business plan can not consist soley of 'Accumulist ranks high with Google.'" And that was a good argument.

For businesses like Demand Media and Accumulist, I think ranking highly with a search engine can only be the beginning of a process. If that's all you've got, then quit. There has to be something else you can do, something to add to the process, something real, that gives your business independence from the other business that you are initially depending on. Otherwise I think you are building your business on sand, and its only a matter of time before it washes away.
People get rich in a number of ways (including hard work) but connections in high places are usually made through subtle extortion. That's the only way to get into a good-ole-boy network like the hash the VCs have made of Silicon Valley.

Why do you think it matters so much where one went to school, with earlier education (undergrad over grad, prep school over undergrad) even more important? If you went to prep high school with someone powerful, you met him when he was half-formed and doing all kinds of stupid shit, so you have ample extortion material. You never mention it in an extortionate context; he just knows that if you need a favor from him-- such as an intro to a big-name VC-- he will deliver. If you did grad school with him, not as much; most people have been through most of the stupid shit they're going to pull by that age.

You can tell that I don't have much respect for the private-sector social climbers that rule VC-istan. I know far too much to respect them.
and they could/should have done this 4 years ago, minus the hardware, simply by tightening the licensing model. you want to say you're "android" and use our software? You have conform to these minimums.

most people could predict from a mile away that when there's no restrictions on it, the carriers and manufacturers will generally race to the bottom in terms of quality and support. ESPECIALLY when the google name is tangentially attached to something, why would they bother making a good hardware model or updating it regularly? laypeople - who they are targeting - will blame google before they blame a handset maker or carrier.
>don't understand why anyone would choose top end phones from the brands like Samsung or Apple, if half of the cost of a phone goes to profit their shareholders.

When consumers spend money to buy products, where the money goes (whether it's costs of production or shareholder profit) almost never factors into the purchase decision.
Apple vs Amazon models, both have their pros and cons.
"Under Google’s new algorithm, code-named Panda, companies that produced lots of content got penalized"

Hahaha! Yeah, let me fix that for you: "companies that produced lots of useless, worthless, trash content got penalized".

Good for Google, good for everyone, screw Demand media for ad-filled "content farms" on crappy domains like 3d-blueray-players.com".

Even eHow and Livestrong are borderline spammy, although they do have enough good content to make them popular (and they are).

Should've focused on quality content while they were a $2 billion company instead of whining about it now.
This is a conspiracy theory. As it confronts evidence that might contradict it, it mutates, steadily choosing paths that are less falsifiable. It essentially posits the existence of a "Venture Capital Illuminati" in which organizations that compete with each other and are united solely by a shared general business model have teamed up, among other reasons to oppress (no exaggeration) Michael O. Church, because his ideas are too dangerous to them.
At work, I'm the Lisp guy because I have a character flaw that makes me enjoy pointing out how primitive Java is.
Sounds like wild speculation, without any citations.
Meteoric rise and a amazing story of an israeli commando with anti-terrorism training in assassinations and kidnappings to a genius billionaire entrepreneur on one of the planes on 9/11 that crashed into NY. Why was he on a regular plane as a billionaire? Sad that he had such a short life as someone who could figure things out quicker than most, he lived an amazing almost movie-like life.
We're trying to figure out what's true.

Perhaps the most important function of precision experimental tests (all of them, not just ours), is to provide very tight constraints for new theories. Any successful new theory of physics must ultimately explain more observed phenomena than existing theory. If experiment is more sensitive than existing theories, it can provide a quick checksum for whether a new theory is correct.

Furthermore, if a precision measurement is able to show that existing theory is not quite correct, it can lead the way to better theories.

In the field of precision gravity, Newton's and Einstein's theories have been perhaps frustratingly correct. At present, nobody knows if/how the "Standard Model" and gravity might connect. They're mathematically incompatible.

With respect to any existing literature, most physicists' position might be approximately summarized as, "Trust, but verify."
graph-tool is a Python library for graph handling:

http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/01/graph-tool-python-module-...
I think what the author might have meant regarding your quote above was that the unit Danny was a member of in the IDF was often responsible for diffusing/stopping/ending situations such as "assassinations and kidnappings"
It may not be something to be proud of (I, for one, would be inclined to believe that it is quite likely at least some of what he might have participated in in the IDF would account to terrorism in my eyes), but that doesn't mean it isn't interesting to read about.

EDIT: Though it is worth pointing out that Sayeret Matkal has carried out a number of well known anti-terrorism operations that few people would presumably object much to (taking out hijackers, most famously in the Air France plane at Entebbe).
Except that rule about being able to cross 15km of snow, and do so within 8 minutes of the best skiers in the world. That's just hard work.
I'm not saying working conditions were better in agricultural societies, but employment (meaning percentage of people working) was better.

Ironically vacation days was also much, much better than we have today. In an agricultural society, you'd probably have ~100 vacation days a year (in trade for having to work weekends - but not sundays) for 4-5 weeks twice a year.
For interactive neo4j examples see:

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Although I agree with your premise that clear designs are essential, I'd say that it's important nonetheless to implement them. Having an implementation is a marker of whether the design does/does not work. A whitepaper can theoretically show this, but an application is always (in my experience) more effective.

For example, when Satoshi first published the whitepaper for Bitcoin, there was talk on the crypto mailing list that it wouldn't scale due to its gossip-based protocol. Satoshi's design showed it did, and laid the foundations for future cryptocurrencies (Namecoin, Peercoin).

P.S. I've been following your work with Tribler, excellent stuff!
Ask HN: What are some creative growth hacking strategies that you've heard?
1) At what part of the company cycle was it used?
2) How long did it work for?
Good luck with getting a reply - I'd love to see how HN participants do with this. Unfortunately, when I submitted it a couple of days ago[0] it got no upvotes and no comments.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6853447
Fascinating explanation. Thank you for introducing me to the concept of a "triumphant failure"--I wonder whether there's a wiki somewhere listing other famous examples?

However, I think you may be slightly mythologizing this machine. After all, the 808 wasn't designed with emulating real drum sounds as its primary goal--the Linn LM-1 drum machine, which was released a few months before the 808, literally emulated drums via digital samples of recorded drums. The 808 was designed to give musicians a cheap, flexible means of creating demos via the standard analog synthesis that was popular at the time.

With that being said, I think a more probable reason for its lasting popularity has less to do with the machine's ability to capture the essence of percussion and more to do with circumstance: the 808 was affordable ($1,195 versus $5,000 for the Linn LM-1) to the historically impoverished youth who birthed the global cultural/musical phenomenon we know as hip-hop.

sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop
I agree! I highly doubt they would acquire VineClient, however the whole C&D thing is a bit far fetched. They have no grounds to send a C&D, those are all public endpoints that I'm using. If they wanted their content to be so secure, then perhaps they should have went a more secure way other than using HTTP as protocol of communication. But no, usually people take the easy route and that's why people like me are able to create things like VineClient.
Maybe a universal healthcare system based on taxation that would pay back the R&D costs to the pharma companies could solve that?
The best way is to learn the material yourself and then it becomes easy to separate real and crackpot theories. That said, that can take quite a lot of time, so reputation is indeed probably a good proxy.
He's also implying that whether one should go to college is determined by his parents' finances, not academic skill, quality of the schools they've been admitted to, etc.
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Does your phone support LTE?

I don't know if it does, but I live in Europe so that is not an issue for me.

Does it run a modern version of Android?

4.2.1

Does it have a modern SoC

It has more than enough horsepowers for what I do on a smartphone. It's quad-core, as for details - I never bothered.

Is it widely available in the US? Can I get after sales support?

Again, I don't know much about US, but I would imagine that a big company like Lenovo would be present there in one form or another.
There were a few law cases that made it difficult for employers to test applicants.

* http://www.chicagonow.com/chicagos-real-law-blog/2012/02/do-...

* http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/12/why_employers_d.html

(just a few links from a Google search for "employers can't test IQ")

It's deemed socially acceptable to use college degrees as a proxy for "smart enough for the job" or even "smart enough to be trained for the job."

Alternatively, because primary education is so bad in the US (grades 1 through 12---roughly ages 5 to 18 for those outside the US) that a bachelors degree today is the equivalent of a high school diploma from the 1950s/1960s.
Maybe they're the same particle... sort of like the single electron theory(since all electrons have the same mass/charge): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
My problem with that book is that the authors start it with a lie [1], and changed to different lies when being called out on it [2]. They also made some misrepresentations of how software and open source works.

Just from that, it was difficult for me to take anything else they say at face value. To top it off, I just came across a reference [3] suggesting Boldrin and Levine's analysis of the dye market was inaccurate, and that patents actually played a big role in German dominance in the market.

The one thing I've realized from reading a lot of studies, anyone that makes a broad claim that IP if "all good" or "all bad" is wrong.

1. http://www.terry.uga.edu/~jlturner/StrongSteamApril2009.pdf

2. http://www.terry.uga.edu/~jlturner/WattAgainAug2009.pdf

3. "Recent Research on the Economics of Patents" - Bronwyn H. Hall, Dietmar Harhoff, Pg 13.
Unless you have one of dozens (hundreds?) of potential complications that can happen during childbirth and you don't make it to the hospital in time. They you've got a dead or severely brain damaged baby and a potentially dead mom. Totally worth it.

And the odds of making it to the hospital in time if you need an emergency c-section or start bleeding out are pretty slim.
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> "For a game like Spelunky, which is a platformer where the whole screen moves"

Ok. It's because from here nothing moves. Using Chrome 30 on Linux Mint.
This is much more interesting than the original article. Thanks for posting.
I think OS X uses NetBSD's userland.
>I could have chosen a graph database, but for my level of complexity I just used postgres and a table that has foriegn-key relationships to itself.

Good point. Relational databases have been used for BOM (Bill-Of-Material) modelling (a manufacturing application) for ages. DB records representing a manufactured product or component can have fields that point to other record(s) in the same table, which can be child components of the product. E.g. airplane -> engine, wings. Engine -> engine parts. Wings -> wing parts. Etc. And this can be recursive.

Another such example is when you want to model an employee entity, where a manager (who has employees - or reports) is also an employee.
It wasn't my main issue, until I got it. I was very restricted with my Samsung before, because I would always end up with dead battery during just a one day of intensive usage. As for the size, it's absolutely manageable, maybe a little thicker than most of the 5" phones.
Rightfully so. For instance, a new manufacturer comes in, and has high costs due to inefficiencies and lack of economies of scale, how does that help me in making decisions?

While low prices can make purchase more compelling, the lack of profits never does.
I like my Nexus 4. They barely mention it.
I'm surprised they didn't mention more about the Bluetooth 4.0 (low energy) support. I would take ble support over NFC . good writeup otherwise.
Have you used an apple phone from 2010? Yes, they provide updates, but the updates make the phone incredibly slow and almost unusable. I'm not implying that apple intentionally does planned obsolescence updates, but that is what happens when you run new software on old hardware.
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These are all good points, however, another very important point is driver quality / vendor support. For non-hardcore gamers, it is not uncommon to run Windows default drivers, which often have very poor OpenGL support and/or performance. I would love to see the Steam hardware survey list vendor provided vs driver support for OpenGL.

I think developers may be driven away from using OpenGL at least partially based on worry about driver support. Using Windows this is a non-issue if you stay within DX10 and Windows 7/8. According to Steam Survey, this accounts for 81.61% of users. This drops down to 56.2% for DX11.

In short, until vendor OpenGL driver support is a given, many developers will stick with Windows and Direct3D.

Another note, this one on cross platform compatibility - the limitations of OpenGL ES2.0 are problematic for anything beyond rudimentary shaders. The primary limitation right now in my mind is a shortage of uniform vectors, and the wide variance in size for different android hardware. For instance, a smooth skinning (matrix pallet) shader for skeleton-based deformation will be limited to 5 or 6 joints per mesh on most android/OpenGL ES devices, whereas most x86/OpenGL systems allow for hundreds of joints. Similar limitations apply to pixel shaders as well - post processing such as blur, bloom, dof, and SSAO are not feasible on current generations of android devices for production use.

Of course android device GPUs are getting much more powerful with each iteration, and eventually will provide a good hardware base for advanced graphics engines.

For now, though, the idea of porting a full OpenGL graphics engine with advanced shaders to OpenGL ES2.0 is pretty much a re-write of the engine. This, combined with limited CPU and memory performance, is the primary reason we don't see AAA titles showing up on Android devices yet.

A lot is coming down the pipe in terms of hardware advances, though - I'm excited to see OpenGL support grow in parallel.
Ironic when the other man on peoples minds this week ended a different apartheid.
Keep in mind the A820 has an MTK SoC which could affect the timely adoption of later firmware vs the Moto G's Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, which is well supported by many ROM authors.
Funny that this completely fails to mention that in addition to being a registrar (eNom), they've spent tons of cash on new TLD's and are operating a registry with around 20 or so TLD"s.
Most of us on here have probably had, at some point in our lives, the fantasy to attain a batman-esque power while behaving heroically against some clearly defined evil.

And most us hopefully have gotten over it. The most difficult problems in this world can't be solved with weapons or MMA.

Still, the title speaks to the child in me who read superhero comics and imagined the good guys are definitely good guys and the bad guys are definitely bad guys, and killing them makes everything better.
It mentions that this was a culture without written language. I wonder if that was important - once you develop writing, it might be easier to pass notes than invent this.
I'd like to do that. Which plan?
It's pretty cool.. read the "Okay, but just how metaprogrammable are we talking?" section in this article: http://devintorr.es/blog/2013/06/11/elixir-its-not-about-syn...
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while the job of your college may be to churn out mediocre Java developers for big corporations, the job of bootcamps is to churn out mediocre Ruby developers for startups. Same thing. Good colleges teach you theory, which is much more important than the vocational aspects.

If you're not learning the engineering basics or methodologies in your CS program, then you need a better college, not a coding bootcamp.
So essentially, it's totally meaningless marketing bullshit? As much as I favor memory optimizations, I think that merely trying to linearize the access patterns is completely futile in the case of graph databases. On that level of brute-force approach to speeding things up, you'll most likely gain more performance by using lower-latency memory modules, or simply by using different data structures to accommodate for your specific cache line sizes and latencies, then by trying to linearize generic graphs.
I love it. My girlfriend just asked me why she got a text from Santa.

This is the first time I wished that I had children.
Because his "billions" were on paper, in the form of Akamai stock (and "billionaire" seems like a stretch; I don't think Akamai was worth enough for him to have been a billionaire, even on paper, at the time he died).

He was the CEO of Akamai, and on a business trip at the time. This was right during the dot-com bust; Akamai was losing customers left and right, and cash was very short. You don't make a good CEO by chartering private jets for your trips while your company is busy laying off employees because business has just dropped.
> an HIV+ patient may have multiple strains of the virus in their body at any one time

It's even crazier - an infected person has enough virus, and it mutates readily enough, that somewhere in their body is a single viral particle with each single point mutation variant. Every variant is in every person.

Another important point is that its latent phase is just so dormant - and for so long (relative to other viruses). We have pretty effective drugs to kill those viruses that are not latent. But there are always survivors. In fact there are a number of therapies that do nothing but try to force the virus to become active, so that the other therapies can (reliably) kill it. And even then, there's some that stay latent ready to stochastically turn on at some point.
Its disheartening how readily they gloss over his immoral decision to participate in the subjugation and opression of the palestinian people.

Ill be interested in the comments within this thread particularly considering the recent death of nelson mandela, a man who saw parallels between apartheid soith africa and neocolonial israel.