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That's begging the question, in the original sense of the term.

While it has long been observed that hypothetical changes in the speed of light would be difficult to measure if certain other quantities changed with it in lockstep (and by "long" I mean 100+ years, going all the way back to the original debates around relativity), it is still meaningful to ask if the speed of light has changed relative to the quantities that it seems to related to.

If that turns out to be the case, it will mean that our definition is wrong, not that the speed of light isn't changing. Our definition is a constant because we believe it to be a constant. If we're wrong, it will need to change.
I have a lot of questions, but most can be answered with one.

Is the code open source?
That's 4.3" of rain an hour. More than most Atlantic hurricanes, but not unknown for a Pacific typhoon.

Put me down as another person unimpressed with it's capacity - for a city the size of Tokyo, I expected it to be much larger. Perhaps it's only for one or two of the special wards? It's certainly a beautiful looking tunnel. But I can't help but wonder if they spent too much money/time on perfecting it.
Spotify's greatest comparative advantage is its UX. No other music streaming service is so beautifully designed and definitively not that robustly engineered.
I really enjoyed reading about this redesign process, we can all learn a lot from it.
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If you trust a provider from Switzerland, be mindful that you also trust the Swiss state: Since 2002 all communication providers are forced to keep a log of all communication flowing over their pipes and hand that out to the authorities on request. Reading the law, I think this isn't just metadata (which would be bad enough) but actual data too. Also, data needs to be kept for up to 30 years.

Now granted, our authorities are way less heavy handed in their approach than the various US agencies, but still, if you don't trust the Swiss government (btw: lately not willing to stand up to US demands), you should not, by any means trust any Swiss company to handle data for you.

If you read german, here's the law: http://www.ejpd.admin.ch/content/dam/data/sicherheit/gesetzg...
What improvements do people want in the next version of ST? I don't mean that sarcastically, I'm genuinely interested.
MS wants so desperately to be recognized as having great software and great experience. First step:

- Stop allowing OEMs to bundle third-party crapware with Windows OS. This will go a long way to building a better view of Windows. Charge license fee from them to make up the difference. They can afford it. How much profit do you really need?

- Don't change the name, make it better. You'll only confuse the people for whom the big, blue E is the Internet. Yes, I have people I know who think the E is the Internet. (How do they dress themselves in the morning?)

- Incorporate a sandbox in IE to help protect the idiots who are too ignornat to not surf the Internet as administrator. (Better yet, also suggest a non-admin account for daily use during first launch.)

- 90%+ of all malware getting on computers is a direct result of people surfing with admin rights. Once this is taken care of, the dropoff rate for infections is amazing.
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10 hours is too much, but otherwise it serves as a nice screen.

NB: They should be investing as much time in you, not just using this as the first step in order to see who has the most time to waste.
They don't -- they are re-emitted in random directions that are statistically related to the original direction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering .
Looks like the dashboard functionality has changed in OS X Yosemite. There is now a dropdown menu for "dashboard" under mission control preferences with the options:
- off
- as space
- as overlay

When I checked my setting it was already set to "off".
On average it's a requirement of the conservation of momentum. But note that sometimes photons come out in a different direction (scattered), including to opposite direction (reflection). In these cases the momentum is absorbed by the medium.
jeremycole is correct, its closest real world analogy is a bubble memory or the short lived fad of using CCDs as a large linear memory (that went nowhere around the mid 80s) or most accurately its compared to an ancient mercury delay line (although Hg delay lines and CCDs are/were not persistent but their mechanical operation is similar)

There was a fad of endless loop tapes in the 80s... Exatron stringy-floppy. That is probably the closest physical analogy. Think "cassette tape interface" with electrically controllable R/W on an answering machine cassette, all conceptually of course this isn't how it actually worked. It had nothing to do with a floppy other than storing about the same amount of data, very java vs javascript like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exatron_Stringy_Floppy
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This will not work as described.
I think his design is a good idea, but still does not work.

I build a better harddrive (with 4 kb storage!) over a year ago, imgur link will follow.

Now to the design problem in this HDD:
see that all the blocks are blue in the platter?
No way to swap each of the bits without magically creating new green blocks.
My hdd solves that problem by having BOTH block types available on the platter. But see for yourself:

http://imgur.com/a/8ESMW
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Sonic black hole
I'm curious what you mean by "complete control"? Does that mean less abstraction? Or do you want to avoid inversion of control? That is, you want to avoid using callback-based libraries?
If their interview process seems more painful than necessary, a well-qualified person (who is in demand) may choose to apply somewhere else.

Things are great for job candidates now, but I worry what happens if this attitude you describe gets applied if/when things go bad, like they have in the past and might again.
I think one of the biggest misconceptions (after cost being driven by printing) about what the editorial process is in the case of large publishers is that it is dominated by proofreading.

The traditional publisher editorial process does include proofreading (and other QA processes), but it is more about what we would call project and product management. Like a good product manager, a good editor doesn't get involved with a book after it is written, they are a central part of the writing process. They are the people who understand market trends, and are experts in their publishing niche. They don't just make suggestions about phrasing, they deal with high level complex issues like flow and structure.

Can you write good books without them? Of course, you can write good software without product managers as well, but good ones are A) Hard to find and B) very very valuable.
I found I got an ample supply of both for a slipped disc. Tried Yoga, hurt more both short and long term.
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NVisium announces Swift.nV, a training tool to identify and test vulns in Swift
Re: Bliss

I think it is along the same levels of Enlightenment.

"Our egos very often keep us from being our best selves" -Karen Armstrong

I think materialism is the short-term fix to some problems that we all have. Nothing is black or white. We are all consumers, in some form. I think true happiness comes from producing and giving more, especially when there is no monetary compensation or stress tied to the giving or producing. E.g. a real hobby
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I find that window functions are one of the least used aspects of modern SQL, despite them being incredibly useful. I've used them in T-SQL [1] and PL/SQL [2], as well (MySQL does not do window functions). If you're doing lots of SQL work, get very familiar with the OVER clause. It's a lifesaver.

[1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189461.aspx

[2]: http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Oracle/0320__Analytical-Funct...
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Swiss Bank Secrecy Succumbs To U.S. Tax Enforcers

http://www.forbes.com/sites/irswatch/2014/02/03/swiss-bank-s...
As soon as a user has to open a terminal to do something, they've become a system admin.

As soon as a user has to open a Windows management console, they've become a system admin, too. Device Manager? That's sysadmin. You seem to have missed my point about 'preconceived notion of what an operating system looks like'.

Half the stuff you're complaining about is equally stupid in windows. Have to download a tool from some slightly dodgy site to fix your problem? Two shots. Windows config file edited? A shot. Install a .reg file? have another shot. Run something in an cmd window that's been raised to Administrator (not easily discoverable)? have a shot. Have to kill something in Task Manager? Another shot. Ignore the log, "just reboot to clear the error"? Another shot. Random new icon on your desktop from your mystery tool? Another shot. A brand new phone-home tool-specific updater and possible spyware? Two shots. Windows auto-update does an autoreboot overnight and kills open documents? Have another shot. Never suggesting looking in the logs for an insight to the error? Another shot. If the installer is actually a preloader, and it loads an unknown-size payload? Have a shot. Download "mouse drivers" or "network drivers" from your motherboard provider and they're somehow bigger than 100MB? (even bigger than 1MB?) Have a shot. The tool you're looking for is described on a shitty page full of ads for crapware? A shot. The tool you're installing has a drive-by download of some shitty toolbar, with a pre-checked tickbox? Have another shot (hello Adobe Flash!). You need some special media library just to view support resources from your vendor? Take a shot (hello, Silverlight!).

What about the glorious nature of the AMD GPU Catalyst drivers? On a new Windows install using inbuilt drivers, the display is understandable low res, 640x480. You can open the Catalyst drivers to start setting them up, but you can't see the OK/Apply button, and you can't move the top of the window off the screen, because it's taller than 480 pixels. If you don't know how that screen should work, it's just not discoverable. It's been a problem for years.

You're picking and choosing pretty damn hard there, my friend. OSX has largely solved a lot of these problems (mostly by locking things down hard, particularly on the hardware side of things), but Windows sure hasn't.
This is a really smart move from Microsoft.

I have to absolutely disagree with him saying that IE "has negative perceptions that no longer represent the product". It has improoved a lot in these last years for sure, but as a part of the web developing community I can say it's the browser that gives the most problems among the major ones.

They still have some major technical stuff to fix, but it's definitely the best move.
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Sounds like you're talking to the wrong prospects.

There are a number of strategies to explore:
1) You've already stated you have a very niche product. If that's actually the case you solve a huge problem for a very small market. Own the exclusivity: double your price.

2) Find a way to quantify the method for solving this problem without your product. Somewhere in there is substantial value not represented in your product. Respond to it.
Minecraft vanilla 4KB HDD, with read/write heads
Maybe IBM's trademark on "Web Explorer" -- the browser that shipped with OS/2 Warp is available for use or license.
I do not know who your customers are, but for lots of corporations, spending a fortune on hardware (capex) is easier then spending anything on services (opex). It is linked to accounting rules for those 2 different categories of spending (I am not an accountant, I just happen to be dealing with one on a regular basis, as well as with a feew large entreprises).

So for your product to be competitive, it needs to be very compelling to get over that hurdle, and be much superior to anything else. Being in `magic quadrant` in Gartner or other is also useful (yes I know, it does not mean much, but it looks good for management).

One common way of getting over that hurdle is to find a creative way for your service to move to the capex side of things. One example is selling an appliance which does not do much, and relies entirely on your service, sell it for a very high price, bundle a 3 year support contract that covers the cost of your service, and suddenly it's capex :-)
It's almost vacuum up there, so the water from the engines is diluted and diluted and the microorganism can't get enough of it. Probably they are only not-dying there, like inside a big freezer without air, only waiting frozen. It's not clear than they are viable, and that if we put them in a good environment they will thrive. Perhaps they are only microcorpses.
Tardigrades can endure some of the most extreme conditions, including the vacuum of space and solar radiation, and can go without food or water for more than 10 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

Not the same as plankton, but still quite interesting, I think!
> A curvature of rays of light can only take place when the velocity [Einstein means speed here] of propagation of light varies with position.

Einstein does not mean "speed" when he uses the word "velocity" here or anywhere. He means "a vector quantity consisting of a speed and direction".
I've found the ones on The Mainland to be way cooler, from the badass feel they have to the sheer volume of random stuff you can buy.
These days, Intel is an unusual model in that they own the whole 'stack', from processor design to fabrication, packaging, etc. To replicate that costs 10s of billions of dollars.

To get your own chip produced using a 'pure-play' fab (which, these days, basically means TSMC, and to a lesser extent Samsung and GloFo), however, is much cheaper. If you want a 20nm chip, you design your chip (basically the cost is just engineering effort + CAD tools..a few million $$), send it to TSMC (getting masks made is another few million $$), and they send you back chips.

Reality is slightly more complicated, in that you're using using an integrator to manage the relationship with TSMC, the packaging company, the testing company, etc., but a startup with $10-20 million could probably scrape together a decent 20nm chip.

Once TSMC has built a new fab though, the longer it is 'relevant' the cheaper they can make the wafers, as they have more wafers to amortize the ~$10 billion or whatever it cost to build the fab over.
"If something is better than nothing"

Of course something is better than nothing in the one dimension where it's something rather than nothing. I've never been arguing that this is the best solution or even a desirable solution. I've been stating (repeatedly) that there's a dimension (that doesn't involve being recipient of the contracts or similar) along which it's a positive thing. This was in answer to the strong statement, "How do people see this as a good idea? There are already voluntary methods for this, so there is literally no good justification for forcing a state-controlled version on everyone."

"why not pay robbers not to rob?"

Depends what you mean. A benefit solely for people who would otherwise rob seems obviously impractical - how do you verify that 1) they would rob absent the money, and 2) they refrain from robbing after you've given the money? Something broader like a Basic Income is actually something I favor, though I'm not certain that it will have a tremendous value in reducing robbery (though that's certainly conceivable).

"And people carry much of value besides electronics today. You can use NYC seizure records and ATMs as proxies."

You'll have to expand on this. Note that my argument was not "no one ever carries anything of significant value", but that the typical (black market) value of what's carried by even wealthy individuals has fallen if you exclude electronics.
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Please explain: What would be the benefit of an open source chip?

At the end of the day, the chip is a physical thing that have to be produced by someone. As long as there is no 3D printer, which can build nano structures to makes chips, I can only implement it into a FPGA. The main FPGA providers are either Altera or Xilinx and both a very expansive. So they are good for prototyping or very low volume. But for anything beyond, I need a specific implementation.
Okay, I could go to a foundry like Samsung (or other) and order according to my design. But, even that requires a very high volume in the millions to make it affordable and viable from a business perspective. Especially, if it is intended for the IoT market.
On the other side, I can buy ARM Cortex M0 and Cortex M1 for cheap from NXP and other for less than $1. They are power full and power consumption is very low.

Just to mention, the other day the WRTnode[1] was released for less den $25 or look at an Raspberry PI Compute. Don't get me wrong, Yes, I would like to see those with an open source chip. But would that be really a viable business case, except from the University context?

[1] http://wrtnode.com/
Yeah, like I said, probably still not actually a good idea. An interesting thought experiment, though.
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It's easy to say "1000x" when they don't mention the reference :)

Actually even reading the article I'm not completely certain where that 1000x comes from, I suppose it's when compared to the naive approach.
-> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202255
They don't. A photon absorbed by an atom/molecule can be re-emitted in any direction. Imagine a thick piece of glass being traversed by a light beam: most of the photons will traverse it undisturbed (and thus maintain their original direction), but a few will be scattered all around (and that's the light you can see if you watch "inside" the glass from one of its sides).
On the other hand, depending on the light frequency and the crystalline structure of the material, photons can be scattered by the whole lattice itself, rather than by the single atoms/molecules. In this case, the direction follows the "rule of the mirror", which is dictated by quantum mechanics.
Very good question. Here's the gist of it, a rough way of thinking about it.

A time varying electromagnetic field is produced by moving charges (except for a minor distinction about steady currents). The direction of motion of the charges determines the polarization of the emitted field. Later on, when the field encounters matter it produces an identical motion of charges i.e; if originally an East-West charge motion produced a North-South field then a N-S field will induce an E-W motion among new charges which in turn re-emit N-S light. The original light and the re-emitted light interfere, the delay is what slows the light down, as noted by others. But you can see why the direction is the same.

Note: I suppose this picture is somehow tied to reciprocity of the Maxwell equations between sources and fields, I need to go look it up again.
I don't know why, but "help for word perhect help" felt very inspired.
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You can develop SPA with Reactjs and still render the page server side.
An ability to switch back and forth to a sort of "graph" view would be tremendously helpful, as most people tend to have a better ability to process visual information rather than a stream of text
Flash? Really? In 2014?

...Or is the OP just missing (1997) or whatever in the title?
9 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6856931
Or the other way around, so we (boring people) can synthesise fully working Minecraft worlds from VHDL ;)
It's been defined as a constant to make calculations/measurements via physics/maths easier/possible, but that doesn't mean defining it as a constant is correct, or necessarily a good idea.

I could define Pi as 3 and it would be CONSTANT. We'd then argue over what shape a circle looked like, but my maths would certainly be easier than yours due to lack of irrationality.
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Do you actually know someone who prefers using IE to any other browser? No right? Even if they build a perfect product, product perceptions in general need a demarketing process to be changed. Since they are so far away from having a perfect product, having a new brand (that doesn't have a perfect but a decent one) that thrives to get as close as possible to perfection is the best move.

EDIT: Your suggestions are key
One should also know that the Swiss government has always been collaborating with the US agencies. We even have our own Echelon [1]. Don't trust anyone, crypt your data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_(interception_system)
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on a serious note: always wondering why people want to test stuff by using just the word "test" :)
How long is a tick/tock cycle? A few years? 3 * 7 = 21. So we'd need to prep for going beyond 64bit some time before 2035? Which chimes with the quote At historic rates of growth, it is possible that greater than 64 bits of address space might be required before 2030 that 'unwind' kindly gives in a sister comment.

Seems like good forward planning but a little premature, no? These features must come at some cost. Surely you could have a re-vamp sometime around 2025?
Why not eastern Europe. Budapest comes to mind. They do have a well educated tech work force. The politics may be inconvenient but its the EU after all.

Cost is low and it is a real adventure :-)

If anybody has a convincing idea, I'll come along (fluent german and english). Hungarian will work after a while.
As a developer:

* Because I can use any editor I like - free, open-source, paid, whatever.

* Because I can build and use tools which are themselves built on top of the standards, and choose which tools I want (SASS, LESS, CoffeeScript, etc).

* Because I can build responsive websites that work on screen sizes from watches to 60" TV screens.

As IT support:

* Because my users don't have to frequently upgrade a bit of software which most of the time offered little benefit, but big security risks.

As a user:

* Because I can use just about any browser I like, and (usually, at least) get at least some experience of the website more than "Sorry, you don't have Flash installed, so bugger off."

* Because the user experience has become a lot more consistent. Weird navigation controls have become outliers rather than standard.

I have no ideological opposition to Flash, more to the way it was used. While Flash was popular, the progress of open standards was slow because it was less urgent.
Maybe they can put some really fragile components in a computer people carry around? Have them be really shiny and look great to help marketing too.
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Ha. The bit about Poland reminds me about what my dad used to do. He would drive a van delivering things to Germany/Netherlands/UK and bring it back full of second hand things to sell in Poland - usually at 4-5x the value, because after the fall of communism people would buy literally anything in any quantity. Good times.
You're either very confused, or you have a much deeper understanding of physics than me. I love that it could be either.
Does the conservation of momentum apply to things with no intrinsic mass?
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The article originally appeared in the German WSJ, so some of the more intricate parts of the story may have been lost in translation. The original article: http://www.wsj.de/nachrichten/SB1000142405270230409900458009...
Its a small shop that makes a great product so it is slow going for the next version. I believe they only have 2 developers. their last blog entry said they are still working on the next version.