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The incompleteness theorem describes a tradeoff: A system of axioms cannot be both consistent and complete. But that seems irrelevant, since you could make a system that describes all of physics while not being either consistent or complete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
I know Wells Fargo went full-bore with YUI to the point of creating their own derivative (http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2013/11/08/yuiconf-2013-an-amazi...)

I have to say, enterprise companies like WF really have it tough. With thousands of applications and tens-of-thousands of developers by the time they implement anything it's already been rendered obsolete.

At least they didn't go 100% Flex like some other companies
Or more directly, when I am dealing with dollars and I hire an auditor to look over my financial records, they're doing it primarily to make money.
>One could actually reasonably argue that the US is more evil than Russia on the international scale.

That argument only works because Russia is almost too small to matter.
I'm no philosopher nor a physicist either, but I don't see why that would even be a problem. We know by now that time is relative. To a photon, all of our infinite time, if it is infinite, "happens" all at once, so why would it matter if it took an infinite amount of it to get here. If you could stop a photon and ask it, it would reply that we were always here.

Here we are having philosophical debates about it, but I suspect if we just stuck with the math -- regardless of our intuitions -- most of these kinds of arguments would turn out to be a distraction rather than a solution to the problem. That's kind of the point many empiricists like Krauss are trying to make.
The more I hear about Rust, the happier I get. It's an amazing language and a platform and the more adoption it gets, the higher the chances for me also get to one day use it at work and that's what I really want, honestly!
Is Assembly geared mostly toward software projects? Or stated another way, are there any physical product projects on (in?, under?) Assembly? The very first photo on the article shows an exploded view of hardware, but a quick perusal of the site seems to indicate that all the projects are software projects. Or maybe I'm missing something? Is there a separate category for hardware vs. software? Has any Assembly project raised funds from a Kickstarter (or alike) yet? Or is there a built in way to crowdfund in Assembly?
It's not a cost. They spend electricity and get money back. It's basically an indirect currency exchange. They obviously do it because the resulting conversion rate is slightly better than the market rate.
Yes. In fact there is a tradition in art theory of making a distinction between close vision (involving movement of the eye across a surface) and distant vision (in which the whole scene can be taken in at once).

It's actually a fascinating bit of intellectual history, though I am not sure whether it counts as objective scientific knowledge.

It started with the sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand and was developed by Alois Riegl into the notions of "haptic" and "optical" vision. Wolfflin then expanded that distinction into five polarities (linear vs painterly, plane vs recession, closed vs open, multiplicity vs unity, clarity vs complexity). In mathematical terms haptic seeing is concerned purely with manifold surfaces whereas the optical can also represent non-manifold geometry.

Even more significance was later hung on that structure by the philosophers Walter Benjamin and Deleuze and Guattari. In particular the haptic is associated with surface, with smooth spaces of the mechanical, of trajectories and motion, while the optical is associated with volume, with striated spaces of the organic, of hierarchy and stasis. "parametric" vs. "implicit" if you like.

It's a bit of a philosophical rabbit hole!
I don't know enough about Chinese politics to be able to reliably comment on their intentions, but buying dollars like this could help push down the price of the Renminbi compared to the Dollar. That has been part of China's economic policy for a long time. Also, when you think about how China is under international pressure to allow the Renminbi to start naturally moving up in value, these types of currency pressures would certainly make a nice way to keep the Renminbi low without having to responsibility for it.
That is absolutely correct. The US already did this during the Iraq war.
In most cases, Assembly will help cover costs of things like domains and hosting during development, and in cases where someone in the community spent money on a product, that will be tracked and reimbursed when the product starts to earn revenue.

Also to clarify something in the comment below this one, Assembly's fee is 10% of the royalties paid back to contributors. (so, 10% of profit, not 10% of revenue)
And on that point, there are philosophers who do get the physics, and who are making material contributions. However they are significantly marginalized by their predecessors and often must directly compete with those who do not understand that physics for grant money, university resources and students. They are an unheard minority, quite unfortunately.
It goes beyond that, too. He has a track record of making decisions that benefit employees and shoppers while having little or no direct benefit to the company. In some cases he chose to absorb costs he could have easily passed on to one group or the other. He regularly attends weddings, funerals, ad other such events for his employees and their families.
Physics (and science in general) isn't about searching for the Truth. Instead it's about reducing the amount of error in the mental models we use to approximate reality. Like, when a scientist says "the Law of Gravity", they actually mean "our best current guess as to how gravity works, which seems to make accurate predictions in what we consider a statistically significant number of different scenarios, but which is incomplete and perhaps even completely wrong in several other interesting scenarios or edge cases". Only _everything_ in science has a confidence interval, and prefacing every description of some phenomena with the phrase "we're pretty sure this is how this works, but to be perfectly honest, it's only an approximation to some X degrees of accuracy" gets really exhausting, so for stuff we're really, really sure of, like 99.9999% sure, we call it a "Law" (even though it isn't) and move on with our lives.
The thing that I love about Assembly is that they're not afraid to take risks. There is a lot of unknowns about how this style of company might work and therefore a shitload of risk.

The potential upside is huge if this works but either way its interesting to watch.
Nope. You're describing a specific form of libertarianism.
I gave up on Citymapper a while ago. Now I remember why.

Here's how I use Google Maps:

As I am putting on my shoes to go out the door, I look at the event I'm going to in Google Calendar. I click through to the location in Maps, and click directions on the pop-up bubble.

I walk out the door. Five seconds later I'm at the road, and need to know whether to turn left (to the station on the line to Victoria) or right (to the one on the line to London Bridge / Canada Water). I need to know my actual arrival time (barring unexpected problems) for each route, departing NOW.

If I'm doing advance research (when do I need to leave?) I almost always do so using Google Maps on my laptop, not an app on my phone.

If I don't use Google Maps, it's only because I'm using JourneyPlanner.org / PubTran, to deal with those annoying occasions that Google Maps doesn't know about engineering works (e.g., this week: no trains to London Bridge!)
YUI is used heavily in and enterprise application I work with (Alfresco). I wonder how this will impact them.
Sadly no demo.
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Nope. Capital is what you own, not what you are. You can exchange labor for capital, but until you do, you do not have capital.
In an accounting sense. The government received more money back then they put in - even, IIRC, adjusted for inflation. I agree that this is not actually a great metric, but then "bailouts" aren't actually a great example of the costs of dollars vs bitcoin - they mostly had to do with debt, and you could certainly still issue debt in a world run on bitcoin.
They put out a new point release every three months.
I love this idea. I work remote, and am on calls all day, so this will be a great way to let the kids know when I really can't be bothered.
How are premiums calculated for this kind of insurance? Are there software insurance tiers based on code & systems inspections?
Most VC firms also get to value their investments at the value of the last round of funding, so this creates a paper win for them with LPs. The main reason why you'd want to do this is if you are raising another fund...
You understand it is making $90k/day revenue?
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Sure, but the difference is well pointed out by @thedaveoflife. The sandwitch vendor doesn't care about me being not hungry, and they would gladly switch to selling toilet paper to me if it was more profitable to them. Likewise, the miners don't give a damn about blockchain security. They have this black box - put electicity in, get money out. They don't care about what's going on inside. If the black box produced sandwitches, or widgets, or just spun and made sounds that make some millionaire happy, it would make no difference to them, as long as when the electricity flows in, the money comes out.

It's the difference between terminal and instrumental values. It's one of the reason why some people are bewildered by what Tesla or SpaceX is doing - because they're missing the point that for Elon rockets and electric cars are terminal values and the money is just instrumental, while most of the companies we interact with have this the other way around.
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Word on the street(in SF) is that bozo investment firms like K9 are potentially ruining the whole the market by significantly skewing valuations; basically, they don't know what they're doing.

These firms are like that scene in Jurassic Park when Jeff Goldblum's character tries to distract the T.Rex and ends up getting thrown into the outhouse by it. You have potentially valuable companies like AirBnb, Uber, etc. but the whole market is being skewed by completely outrageous valuations for products like Snapchat or Lyft.

I don't think it's intentionally malicious(by K9 and other firms) I think they think they know the value of these companies and that value is really high(in their minds) when it's really not. It's going to get worse and worse until pop. But the real ones will survive.

The problem is it's going to affect investment in potentially viable companies in the future.

Fool me once(2000), shame on you; fool me twice(2015), shame on me.
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Thank you for being out in the open about this.

The VC's have a lot of money to run their PR machine, but no one ever hears the negatives about them. It's important to a functioning market that the information is out there.
"I don't know why you mention paper currencies and gold when most money today is transferred electronically, in a far more efficient way than Bitcoins."

Revenues of Brink's alone, sayeth Google, are roughly $4 billion. My understanding is that a substantive portion of that represents cost of transporting cash and gold, and of course they are only one of several such companies.
How do I stop this with the new version: http://screencast.com/t/OeMISqW05aYj I was hoping there was a setting. I'm using phoenix theme.
If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. Or in this case if you already have XML then XSL looks like the solution.

I suspect XSL has fallen out of favor because a lot of people don't have XML anymore, they instead have JSON which is more naturally processed using a JS library (per the OP).

In order to process JSON with XSL you'd have to go through the rigmarole of first converting it to XML and then exporting that as an iFrame which can then be rendered into HTML/CSS/JS via XSL. And nobody has got time for all of that, least of all when we care about creating "mobile first" properties which XLS was just never designed for (and, yes, the underlying HTML/CSS which it outputs CAN be designed for mobile-first, but XSL itself offers no functionality there).

TL;DR: I'd never go XSL in 2014 unless I already had XML. It offers little or nothing if your data source is either straight from the database or JSON (just adds an additional intermediate layer, you'll still ultimately outputting to JS/HTML/CSS). It does remain useful for generating CSV however (as you can set the output encoding type to text, strip XML headers, and so on). Which is not true for JavaScript.
Why not get an internship..? Get paid, get involved in the industry, learn, and create. Plenty of them.

If not, go to some local industry meet ups and I bet you can find one quickly.
Even worse - non-coprime with the entropy source. That's why I had to change the example to 6 children.
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The cost of mining blocks is designed to remain roughly consistent as technology advances. The "economy of scale" comes in when you use one block (which costs about the same regardless) to secure more transactions.

As an aside, "economy of THE OPPOSITE OF SCALING" is probably better termed "diseconomy of scale" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseconomies_of_scale).
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Flex (for better or worse) is still widely used in the financial space.
We started using the full google closure stack a couple of years ago and I am happy about that decision everyday.
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The difference is that tptacek won't claim that he's doing it because he cares about your software; he will say he's doing it to earn money. He will definitely try to do it well to maintain his opinion of a professional, but he won't be pretending he does something altruistic.

I'm not saying doing things for money is inherently bad. I'm just saying, let's call things what they are.
> "Easily solved"

It's already solved. If there are 3 kids, 1-3 go to kid A, 4-6 to kid B, 7-9 to kid C, and 0 means try again. There's no bias present in this solution. Since it only takes a fraction of a second to generate a new digit with a stopwatch (using the hundredths of seconds digit) it's no big deal if you have to try five times.

Your solution introduces unnecessary arithmetic (what's 47 mod 3?) and unnecessary psychological pressure (will the kids start an argument while you're figuring it out? Will the ones who are better at math start taunting the others?) and it introduces bias in a family as large as ours got (7 or 8 kids can't evenly divide 60; 3, 6, or 7 kids can't evenly divide 100.)

A re-roll is simply a superior solution.

[Appeal to authority: my dad had a math degree and was valedictorian of his engineering college. I have bachelors and masters degrees in applied math. My oldest brother competed at the national level in Mathcounts. We all agree this is the best practical solution for this problem. Based on the votes, so does the bulk of the technically-minded Hacker News community.]
Which state is it?
But that doesn't change the fact that sandwich makers are making sandwiches and bitcoin miners are securing the block chain. Sandwich makers aren't dollar miners.
For fear of a down round - but most don't think that far.

Basically let's assume a company raised money on a $10B valuation, and needs money down the line for a variety of reasons. They will have to make sure that the future round is at $10B+ which may or may happen, especially if the company is not flying high at that time. And, if they can't raise at $10B+, they'll have to go for a down round which can look very bad.
Hey (co-founder of Assembly)! We're focusing on software projects at the moment (there's a bunch of unique challenges in just software alone), but we definitely think there's room to expand.

We're working on a clear way for products to get funds into their accounts (like a Kickstarter).
I don't think there's a contradiction. Modern philosophy never claimed to be science, while modern Theoretical Physics (science) in many parts strongly resembles philosophy, as you said, while never acknowledging it. Theoretical Physics is supposed to be a complement to Experimental Physics, explaining or predicting things that could later be confirmed by the Experimental branch.

I think string theory as a theory of everything is an excellent example. From the outside at first it seemed promising, but nowadays looks more like a very complex mathematical chimera which we don't have a particular way of proving nor disproving. But string theorists insist that these aren't merely thought experiments, this is SCIENCE, even if we have to add dimensions and multiple universes we never experimentally detected to try to make it work. Maybe it works in a blackboard, ¿but how do we know it reflects reality?

Philosophy of Science should be useful to check if we are doing science right or are being carried away by beautiful math and thought experiments. Maybe a scientist doesn't need philosophy a priori to do science, as a doctor doesn't need philosophy to cure people, but both epistemology and ethics are useful to contemplate if we are doing it right or something should be improved. At least that's my opinion.
Most of my female friends carry mace. I don't even know if that's legal, but it's a good idea, esp in the east bay.
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Assuming we can stop carbon emissions completely today, we should not reject engineering out of hand. By definition, the emmisions effect the rate of change of carbon concentration, but what we care about from a climate perspective is the concentration itself.
Lightweight code review from SAP? I'm intrigued.
Maybe find an open source project to contribute to that interests you? I'm not active in the open source community myself, so I don't have any great suggestions - but maybe someone on here can suggest some projects with a good community that could use someone w/ your skillset?
Are you sure about this? I agree homeless people don't have credit cards, but I see the poorest people still have (multiple) credit cards. Maybe I'm not looking at the right places in the US?
"After six years of relatively easy money of mostly delegating PHP work to others" what did you mean by this ?
That could definitely be true, but what I found was to seek a 'restful' state of physiology was much more helpful than to seek the loss of consciousness I had previously associated with sleep.

Insomnia and other things are very real, but in this case the problem was with what I felt was a good rest.
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It is interesting that you cannot copy SVG out of your browser. When I visit the page in Chrome, mouse over the graph and "copy," it doesn't copy either the BMP buffer OR the raw SVG (XML).

I was going to try and copy/paste into Outlook, but that's obviously no-go if you cannot copy at all. Interesting limitation of SVG that I wasn't aware existed until now.
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When I worked at SAP it was Perforce and nothing else, wonder if they use git now.
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Well 10 years from now is a long time and I have to support myself and family. So is Javascript the right choice in the meantime?
The bitcoin insurance policy I want from an exchange is where they insure me against loss due to actions taken by the exchange and underwritten by a major underwriter, and not the exchange itself. Only then would I really believe that the exchange meant to protect my bitcoins fully, because they've essentially put themselves on the hook for the damages (by having to bear the cost of the insurance policy, recouped by some kind of holding fee or transaction fee).

The exchange having insurance does relatively little to protect me against loss, even if it's a smart business move on their part to limit their losses to creditors in the event of a theft of inventory. That's only sane business, and it's a little crazy how long it took that to become normal in bitcoin.

It seems (naively) reasonable that the exchange could float something like 10k-20k policies of some mixture of 0.1btc, 0.5btc, and 1btc protection, depending on the level of activity in an account, and require that anyone holding more bitcoin than that in their trading account take out a separate policy for that amount or else acknowledge that they're only protected up to 1btc. (An additional corporate policy against theft of inventory seems reasonable, and likely would lower the rate on these separate policies, since the underwriter would know you could cover some degree of loss already, through that policy.)

Edit:

Thinking about the numbers, it would only be ~$20 million of coverage to cover 50,000 customers (40,000 at 0.5btc and 10,000 at 1btc). This seems reasonable.
I remember teaching a JS class with YUI like 9 years ago. At the time it was well featured, and had documentation that blew the competition out of the water.

Good documentation was critical, I couldn't in good conscience teach a class where my students would be out of luck for more help after they left.
We use [1] at the office. It seems they are only 97% bio-degradable. Does that mean I shouldn't be composting them? And 50 cents is not bad per cup (cheaper than brand name Keurig). Making the coffee yourself (buying grinds or beans), it will still cost you $.25 - $.35 per cup. Pretty small difference IMO.

Now taste is another matter, but I'm not much of connoisseur, so I don't really pay too much attention. I mostly drink for the warmth and the caffeine =)
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This website is using SVG graphics, very nicely. Is there a tool (GUI) that does that? Is it an export from a program like Illustrator, or is there something easier --and cheaper-- to do this?
Ignorant people aren't fungible, they're people. The more idiot proof you make things, the more idiots you save - it isn't binary.

>How many other conveniences do we drop?

We evaluate them on a case by case basis, because we're thoughtful people.
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if this beam does carry information about the image then we would have FTL communication possible.

See Michael Nielsen's answer elsewhere in the comments for why this is not the case.

Another question is why L3-L3' red beam - the image info carrying beam - is fed into NL2 crystal thus providing a chance to physically affect formation of NL2-D5-L6 yellow beam, ie. to exchange information.

The interference requires us to not know which path the photon took way back at BS1, in that diagram. The probability of pair formation in the nonlinear crystals is quite low, so with very high likelihood, only one of the crystals will be responsible for producing a pair of photons (including the yellow signal photon.)

Suppose you did not route the imaging photon through NL2. Then observing an output photon at D3 would tell you that the pair production happened at NL2 (since there is no way for the imaging photon to get there.) This will destroy the interference pattern of the "yellow" photons. That is why the beam is sent through NL2.