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The end of physics has been predicted many times. I remember reading an article in Sci Am about the end of physics a few months before starting my physics undergrad in the late 80s.

The exciting thing is that it has often been followed by huge breakthroughs -- if I remember correctly, the last time it was widely believed that we had it all figured out was at the turn of the 20th century, just before Quantum Physics and General Relativity were discovered.

I'm still patiently waiting for string theory to die and us to start working on something that we can actually do experiments on.
If you've ever read "IBM And The Holocaust" [1], you might say they deserve much more than this.

1. http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corpo...
Dominos Aus: Native app to shimmed website gets thr thumbs down
Love it, looks really nice! Can't believe you stuck with it for 7 years! Great job.
Glenn (I presume?) - may be worth putting your name and an intro / overview in your HN profile, to personalise it somewhat.
Why cannot God have free will and "dictate" (and thereby predict) the future? (The situation becomes different when multiple entities possess free will.)
No, sorry. AGPL still allows a company to provide a hosted commercial service (which I encourage), while also ensuring said company doesn't keep improvements to themselves.
Out-of-body experiences have already been studied quite extensively by the airforce, where such experiences have led to a number of accidents or near accidents. RadioLab did a nice piece on this a while back. Give it a listen: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91527-out-of-body-roger/
> How does preventing the NSA from looking at traffic crossing an internet backbone serve to thwart China, Russia, organized crime, malicious corporations, etc.?

Because it gets the NSA and its budget out of the "make security worse" business and puts them back full in the "make security better" business. Because if they aren't allowed to do it then they won't want anyone else to be able to do it either.
It has a handful of Christian church-specific features, such as personal "Testimony", bible verse sharing, attendance tracking, etc. If one were to take those features away, it would work for any close-knit community.
This reminds me of a nasty attack I learned about recently. I run http://unblock.us.org, a DNS/anti-censorship server. Unblock does tunneling for censored websites.

There are scripts out there that scan the whole internet for servers that accept HTTP and HTTPS requests to proxy. Those scripts are set up to simultaneously HTTP(S) GET tons of doubleclick.net etc. URLs to get the site owner kicked off Google Ads. I can imagine the black hat hackers selling their services for anyone willing to hurt a competitor's income.

Obviously my server detects those attacks and blacklists them right away, but I was shocked at the ease of carrying that kind of attack. One day I really need to blog about all the shocking stuff going on online that I learned about by running a public service.
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I looked at Sandstorm, but it seems it's in "closed alpha" - how do you recommend I use it?
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Is Docker fundamentally allowed for Hipaa compliance ? Note that I don't particularly know the implications of my statement, but a friend once told me that Amazon had to go through a lot of auditing to get certified as PCI compliant (obviously from an infrastructure, and not application standpoint)
I put up a demo several hours after this comment. If you're still interested, you can find this on the http://church.io website.

1. As for service times, the software doesn't really have any calendaring feature at the moment. Besides, that seems like maybe something that would go on the main church website (this is meant more as a private "members only" area).

2. Anyone can post news on the site (or you can restrict to only admins).
Well, I would argue the ideal place to capture international traffic would be... internationally. It's pretty hard to capture traffic between Iran and Pakistan from a room in California.

But you're just avoiding the issue. The fact that there is an international peering point in San Francisco is no excuse for them to be capturing traffic between San Francisco and Houston or New York.
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The internet is a social space. 7 Cups provides communication. Both of those counter your assertion of isolation and it's a value judgement on your part that these forms of interaction are inferior to the ones you promote. The internet doesn't provide a filter to in-person experiences, it's an entirely different set of experiences and forms of interaction that resemble aspects of in-person ones, but are not the same nor are they simulations.
I setup a system to track every google adwords click by ip address then created a spreadsheet of the reverse dns and how many clicks to try and get a refund. It didn't matter how many times one ip address clicks through Google says that sometimes it might take a lot of clicks from one person because they are "deciding" if to buy or not. Anyway I sent several of these spreadsheets to Google and received a refund for a measly $28.00. They say they automatically do refunds but I get about $10 per $10k in refunds back automatically. It is not a very large amount.
are we reading the same thread? OP said "i grew up poor, here are my anecdotes about how poor people are dumb while those are smart get out of poverty", while the responder said "actually, struggling to survive has a broad-range negative cognitive effect, and here are some widely cited and accepted studies from science proving this effect"
Well, but the post you replied to states how humans would fully be part of this deterministic system. So, arguably, s/he made the assumption that science does indeed reflect on reality in a deep way and isn't merely a model.
"ISPs are spending less on their networks as they make more money off them"

Or, Capitalism.
and what exactly is the reason behind this poll?
But what about Pied Piper?
Really awesome work! Looks very polished and thorough.
Regarding this Submit Bill section:

Maybe I'm just overly paranoid - having dealt with medical claim data for years has re-enforced this though - but isn't it walking a fine line with HIPAA to accept individuals' procedure codes? It doesn't even appear to use SSL/TLS, so I doubt this is HIPAA compliant. I know a name isn't sent over, but it can be trivial to identify someone via their IP address, right? Why not at least go that extra step to protect this information?

Additionally, how do you make sure the information (ie. payment amount, etc.) is accurate?

Also, doesn't seem to work correctly on Win7 Chrome).
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> and isn't merely a model

This is a leap in logic.
I would draw up some wireframes for my dream data storage platform/privacy firewall, then dream that I could actually build it.

EDIT:
Now that I think about it, I'd rather like to build a filesystem that understands that data can come from URLs, and when (God forbid) you run out of local space, it'll remove data that's still online and replace it with something akin to a net-enabled symlink.
A nuclear-powered civilian ship could make sense today -- ironically, a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) or bigger would be the most economical use -- at sea most of the time, on long trips, and huge.
If it is written in Python, is this really only relevant to Ubuntu ?
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Do we really need to hear about a fictional TV show every time compression is brought up?
Feature request! Instead of a link to photos, there could be ASCII converted images, like with http://picascii.com/
This statistic is completely inflammatory and bullshit anyway.

Why?

It uses netto worth so for example academics with student loans and good social security or the bancrupt industrial tycoon are worse off than the indian farmer with his small farm.

see also:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26613682
This is about Company A removing Company B, C, D, & E from the search results so that Company A gets all the sales and leads from that day. Company A would be happy if it scares them away permanently -- then they don't even have to pay the Hacker to deplete their daily budget anymore.

These particular hackers obviously have a service that Google's Invalid Clicks detection cannot pick up and it's successfully depleting advertisers' budgets -- hence the positive reviews they have.
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if the product by the bootstrapped startup is indeed more innovative (read: better), then it won't (or at least, shouldn't) matter that the VC backed startup tries tactics like this. If both their products are generic/simple, then yes, draining your competitor's ad budget is akin to you having more budget to spend. Advertising is a zero sum game after all.
I think it can be used in other operating systems with little (if any) change, as far as you have all the python libraries requested. But, I've only tested it with Ubuntu.
Yeah, it'd pretty hard to capture traffic between Iran and Pakistan, but not, say, Russia and Venezuela. The US is a huge hub for traffic transiting the globe, and the risks associated with setting up a foreign collections facility don't apply to a domestic facility.

How am I avoiding the issue? I have absolutely no problem with the NSA intercepting foreign traffic - that's their job. The EFF page shows them filtering out domestic traffic in their diagram, and Mark Klein's testimony, on which the EFF is building their Jewel v. NSA case, doesn't actually demonstrate any interception of US traffic.
Depends on your definition of God. If it includes perfect and omniscient, then that being can't make any decisions. They've already been made for him / her. That god is an automaton.
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This might not be a what you (or others) want to hear, but starting with Rust is not a terribly good idea. Rust will be great, but you need to learn system design concepts, not some programming language that might be used to implement system software in the future.

If I were you, I'd start with C (read K&R) and then move on to understanding Unix (write a few tools using libc), then try a kernel driver or maybe some embedded programming. You'll have billions of lines of C source code to learn from, there are plenty of books that teach systems programming using C (in various contexts) and it's really not that scary once you know what not to do (but it will take time).

Example projects to attempt: write a trivial kernel for an embedded device; implement paging in a toy kernel that doesn't have it; write a web server; write a C compiler for MIPS (optionally with optimizations); write a CPU emulator (8086, Z80, MIPS, ARM); write an assembler; write a malloc()/free() replacement; write an ELF loader to execute Linux binaries; write a 'tar' replacement.

The examples might sound daunting, but they don't have to be big, production-quality programs - those take years, these would take several months of part time work (if that). You will learn a lot. Also, there are online courses that teach you all of this (look at Computer Architecture, Operating System and Compiler courses), lots of textbooks (fairly expensive, but worth reading) and toy kernels/projects to use (things like Minix, Nachos, cheap ARM boards, etc).
The crime map seems awfully suspicious to me. It appears to be more of a population density map than anything. All the red areas south of 34th St. just look like common places for people to hang out (and drink alcohol).

I think what people really want is a crime map that plots crimes committed at random, rather than drinking buddies beating each other up.

I also took a look at vermont, and the red areas were because of things like "traffic stop" or "e911 hangup".
Do you get feedback from organizations on how much of an increase in donations they receive by going online?

I'm curious what the percentage differences are in total donations.
Are you sure it was this post?
I tried slimv recently and couldn't get it to work with Racket. There's a swank Racket project on github but it was extremely buggy. I also tried mit-scheme and it was buggy as well. It randomly freezes and I don't know why. (latest vim, etc.)

What do you use it for? It seems if you're using common lisp it's perfect, for everything else it works "in principle" but not really.
We completely agree that the biggest challenge is in maintaining the system.

We help customers control access to systems storing ePHI by tying SSH and database access to the same role-based access controls used for administering the web dashboard. We also log and audit all actions taken by these authenticated users once they've established an SSH session or database connection, so identifying or disconfirming a potential breach becomes much easier.
Thanks plenty for releasing this!
Of course, there have been quite a few criticisms of Mr. Giles's analysis of Piketty. It seems to have been substantially worse (my opinion) than Piketty's errors.

See [1],"FT journalist accused of serious errors in Thomas Piketty takedown", [2] "Have Giles and the FT gone too far in the attack on Piketty?" (where the answer is "..On most points, Piketty has answered the points in a reasonable (and to me generally persuasive) way.", and [3] Piketty's response to Giles.

1) http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/may/...

2) http://www.primeeconomics.org/?p=2723

3) http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/Piketty2014Tec...
From my butt, apparently. I was sure that was right, but checking into it now, and it looks like it's more like 60-85% efficient.
I'd argue that sorry state of internet security is almost entirely the result of bad coding practices/protocol design, and the private sector in general neither has the will to fix it nor wants the NSA to assist in fixing it. In fact, as it stands right now, NSA isn't even responsible for fixing public sector network security issues - what little responsibility the government takes for that largely falls on DHS and NIST. According to their web page[1], NSA is responsible for securing classified government networks. Killing off their intelligence component isn't going to make the internet safer for US citizens.

[1] http://www.nsa.gov/about/faqs/index.shtml
As the IRFY creator, I freely admit that site needs some love.

Also, technically, it's a Ruby benchmark. The Rails version is going to be locked to 3.1.3 for as long as possible. The benchmark does not reflect speed improvements in the Rails codebase.

Though, yes, Rails serves less requests per second than many other things: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
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The fact is that the US is one of the prime targets for terrorism, both independent and foreign nation sponsored.

Is that truly an established fact? And if so, why not figure out why (as suggested by another comment) instead of simply retaliating?
Or use PCKeyboardhack and I forget the other plugin but on a Mac, I have a brief caps lock mapped as esc, but holding it is control. it works effortlessley.
I'm sure Kenton, who has commented eksewhere, can send you an invite.

Although targeted at churches, your application is essentially a mini as of isle network, and would thus be a very interesting test case for sandstorm.
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I work on other problems in three body dynamics, but I'm very pleased to see this article show up here on HN!

One thing I could expand on a little is these singularities in Sundman's series. These singularities are nothing more than collisions! It's these collisions and near-collisions that can make the three body problem so hard. Gravity is a 1/r^2 force, so the forces get very strong and change very rapidly when the two objects come close to each other. This is not only hard to handle analytically, but numerically as well!

In this field there is a well known transformation known as the Kustaanheimo-Stiefel transformation (although the full name is not so well known---everyone just refers to it as the KS transformation or KS regularization). What this transformation does is it moves you from a regular Cartesian or polar coordinate system (which has the force diverge when r --> 0) to a coordinate system in which this singularity is moved to infinity. After a KS transformation a computer can integrate even extremely elliptical orbits or collisional orbits. The only downside to this is the algorithmic complexity. In an ordinary Cartesian system, if you were to perform some numerical integration the complexity goes like O(N^2), with N being the number of objects in your system. The complexity of computing an orbit after KS regularization is O(N^3), however. (My understanding of this is that KS regularization works by turning position vectors into quaternions---which then can basically be treated as matrices. Numerically evolving the system then amounts to performing matrix multiplication, which goes as O(N^3). My intuition may be flawed, however!) KS regularization therefore can't help if you have more than ~10 objects. In practice in my research I haven't found it useful even at N=3.

One last thing to mention is that even though these orbits can in principle be solved numerically, they can't in practice. Three body systems are chaotic and the machine precision of your computer leads to round off errors that cause your calculation to diverge from the true solution remarkably quickly. There are special-purpose programs that can calculate orbits to arbitrary precision, but they run really, really slowly (as you might imagine), so they're not useful for more general studies of three body systems. Fortunately, back in 1991, Quinlan & Tremaine showed that there exist so-called "shadow orbits" that track the orbit numerically computed by your computer. These shadow orbits are real orbits for some initial conditions that come arbitrarily close to the numerically calculated orbits. This leads some credence to numerical few body studies. Unfortunately, what's still unknown is whether these shadow orbits have the same statistical properties as the general set of orbits. Not enough research has been done on this question because it's still open and the accuracy of my research depends on this property being true! But ultimately, this question is probably linked to the ergodic hypothesis which is central to the foundations of statistical mechanics---so it's an important question for all physicists, not just me!
I took Huffman's class, 'Cybernetics', at UCSC when I was an undergrad, mainly because I thought I'd learn how to make robots.

The first day it didn't take long for the lecture to turn to 7-dimensional spheres, their packing, and its applications to network routing. He was a tough bastard-- lots of multiplication of large numbers on tests, with only a table of logarithms and exponentials. He loved tricky questions on the tests- for example he taught us Karnaugh maps, mentioned the sides wrapped around, then had an example on the final with 1s in all four corners (I hadn't realized maps wrap around the corners, too).

Great teacher; wonderful lecturer, hard grader. I failed the class (I was a biochem major and graduated), the only CS course I took in college.

I really wish I had kept the notes from that class.
I am quite interested. Please post on HN again when you have a demo.
I don't know about you all; but I don't know if I trust a project that check .pyc files into version control.
> If these events can be prevented without the chance of any human using the collected data for any other purpose and the data only being stored for a very short period of time, then I'd have to say I'm on the side of the NSA.

This simply can't/won't happen. Human nature dictates that this data can't be held and dealt with responsibly.
snappy is just dictionary coding with no entropy. The code is formed by literals and backreferences. pretty simple design. It's design for reasonable level of compression, with very fast codec. So you use it for comms between programs, where you want messages to move around quickly with fewer bytes than raw. Wouldn't use it for saving tons of data on disk for a long time.
I wonder how many people here criticizing you for saying you were able to work your way out of being poor loved the "A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept" article and can't see the parallels.

Yes I'm aware that there are feedback loops that make it much easier to say poor than to claw your way out. I have suffered them to a very minor degree. But from a systems perspective being poor is simply spending all the money you get and not saving any of it. It's not that we can't identify the problem; it's that people lack the awareness or education and potentially the will to make the changes necessary to not be poor. Poor is less about your income and more about the decisions that you make every day to spend all of it, at least in my experience. I know people making $40k who save a lot and are very peaceful and people making $150k living paycheck to paycheck and struggling financially and mentally.

I think one of the contributing factors is the low interest rates right now. If you're poor and struggling anything given up today is a BIG deal so you need a LOT more in a year to convince yourself that it's worth it. At 1% interest it's basically never worth it, but at 10% it might be.
> What java probably needed from the start was something like groovy

Jython (then called JPython) came along fairly early, in 1997 and feature complete but never took off for testing or gluing Java code. Jacl, a Java version of Tcl, also came around 1997 but virtually no one used it. Beanshell was built before Groovy, removing static typing but keeping the rest of Java's syntax. Groovy duplicated Beanshell's use case but brought closures and terse collections syntax, but didn't get any significant users until the Grails project spent a year (2006) retrofitting it with a meta-object protocol so it could be used with Grails. A second growth spurt happened in 2009 when Groovy added a DSL syntax to its already klunky grammar so Gradle could use it. Though you could argue Groovy's use in Gradle builds isn't very significant because the build files are typically 20 to 50 lines long, using the DSL syntax only and not making any use of the actual Groovy language features. And Gradle may not use Groovy as a build language for much longer. Calling Groovy an "overhead in the IDE-to-Gradle communication", the recent Gradle 2.0 roadmap [1] says:

"Android Studio demonstrates the enormous potential of a deep integration between the IDE and Gradle. At the moment, the price we pay for this is often mediocre responsiveness: every time the IDE makes a query of Gradle, the configuration phase is run before an answer can be given. The folks at Google are implementing some smart workarounds for this. But what is ultimately needed is a fundamental solution within Gradle that eliminates the overhead in the IDE-to-Gradle communication."

[1] http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/revolutionary_new_gra...
It's a similar story on Android, too. (though Google Play doesn't break out current version vs all versions)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.dominos...

Having used the app prior to the change and after the change, I don't think it's just the switch away from native that is causing the negative reviews. It's that the website is essentially unusable without zooming in/out. I suspect that if they had switched from native to at least a site that had fit a webview nicely, the response may not have been negative at all.
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