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What do those with other paper formats (hint: A4) do?
I feel exactly the same about Facebook. There should be a protocol for social networks and should be federated with no one controlling everything, similar to email.

If fact, I believe it will go this way at some point in the future, despite how impregnable Facebook seems now. At one point Bebo and MySpace seemed unassailable too.
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I don't think that Twitter's effort to monetize is directly equal to selling out. If the service's quality degrades significantly (too many pushy ads and buy buttons) then, I'd say it sold out. So far, I've found the ads fairly relevant and not too frequent.
Misinterpret draconian: no property laws, or absolute sanctity of property would be Libertarian extremes. They can't work as well as something in between.
You're right, I was slightly off in my example.
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I think you're taking the question as a veiled criticism. It's possible the question is just a question.
Ya, because this is an appropriate place to plug for some +PR... how about you just contact them on their mailing list or something...
Eww you're right, that was sloppy on my part. I'll fix it. Thanks!
got a vote of 9 out of 10, how much did you get?
Big Brother class 0 is the automatic doors don't open till you sanitize (connected over wifi). Or your phone/tablet disconnects from the wifi network 5 minutes after sanitization.

Big Brother class 1 is your smart wifi nametag displays how long its been since you used hand sanitizer for everyone to read.

Big Brother class 2 is it also goes on your permanent record for review time and of course malpractice lawsuit time via wifi.
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Way before 1.0 existed (and using an early version of Polymer called WebUI) we built a first version of our app, e.g. http://woven.co/miamitech, which is a fairly complex client and server side application. (The slowness is due to our poor pgsql data design.) I'm now building a more focused version with the latest SDK and Polymer, the beginnings of which are at http://mycommunity.org. For me it's simple: Google is arguably the greatest champion of the open web and probably does more to advance modern web development than most anyone else. V8 was a game changer, and enabled Node. The same folks behind V8 are building, in essence, a better Node. Modern web development with JavaScript is exciting, and there are so many great libraries and resources out there, but there is also much to be desired such as more structure, a saner language and a strong suite of core libraries that play well together. In my experience, Dart is what they say it is: a more structured approach to modern web app development.
Reminded me of http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-... with previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3844893
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At the same time, no EU country has the courage to do what Switzerland is discussing now (Germany's Merkel has even publicly refused to even discuss the matter). This is one reason why it is also a good thing to NOT have every country join the EU - centralize power and it becomes very interesting as a target for corruption.
Hospital doors are used a lot. Automatic doors tend to break or fail unsafe, have limited fire protection and are expensive to maintain.

My brother-in-law sells doors to hospitals by a wonderful coincidence. Heard so much about the damn things it's depressing.
I never thought of this. I'll look into it, I think it's a pretty good idea!
I made this in CUDA a while back. Fun project - the naive n^2 algorithm is embarrassingly parallel so it's easy to write. Fun to hit the CPU/GPU switch and watch the huge performance boost, even on a dinky laptop GPU.
The demo probably isn't ready yet. I would love to see a video of this thing, it looks awesome.
> And I don't see why we should

There is general negativity towards the idea of making assumptions based on appearances; but if we collectively decide that appearance is meaningless, don't we lose the useful ability to send intentional messages using appearances?

ie in this instance, if we stop associating comic sans with silliness, will we then have to <silly>decorate our sentences with XML tags</silly>?

(See also: people who dress in goth clothing then complain when strangers assume they are into goth culture)
There's a lot of different "big science" investments humanity could make. In space alone, there's space stations, moon missions, Mars missions, cheaper Earth-NEO transport, etc., etc.; then there's particle accelerators, telescopes, and every other big science project under the sun (or beyond it).

Two questions: first, in a zero-sum model, why is human exploration of the moon more worthy than other similar unfunded projects? In an non zero-sum model, why is it worthy enough to justify growing the funding pie for science projects?

How many billions of dollars are there in "a little more effort", in your estimation?
I understand how the cars can be aware of other objects on the road, but are they actually aware of themselves and where they fit into the environment? It seems they'd have to be in order to function, right?

So we've get self-aware machines now. Did anyone even notice?
I do agree with you that science doesn't show causation, but I think your interpretation of science is incorrect:

> Therefore, all scientific analysis is unverifiable.

I disagree. It's verified by experiment. (Here I'm using "verify" to mean that contradictions have not (yet) been found by experimental observation).

> Knowledge of the world is completely unjustified.

I disagree. Again, it's justified by experiment. If that's not enough for you, too bad, because that's all we have.

> Our immense presumption of consistency in world phenomena when we really have no basis for asserting uniformity of nature.

I disagree. This is only asserted insofar as it's 1) useful, and 2) justified by observation.

I don't think you understand the significance of scientific results. They don't say "at a fundamental, irreducible level, this is how <some system> operates." Rather, they're saying something more along the lines of "as far as we can tell, this is a description of how <some system> operates, but it's entirely possible that we're wrong. However, we don't have any data that shows that we're wrong (yet), and because this description is useful for understanding <some system>, we're going to use it."

We don't need to know how a system works at a fundamental level, if understanding it at a less-detailed level is useful. I do agree with you that we can't determine "actual causality", but we don't need to, if we can instead find a bunch of really good correlations. The problem is that people find lots of crappy correlations, and/or can't tell the difference between good and crappy correlations.
No, there are several $_SERVER variables available to all php applications. The two relevant ones in this case would be HTTP_HOST and SERVER_ADDR, most likely the author of the application was leaking one of those in his application.
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The point seems simple: don't claim to be doing research if you're not actually doing research. If you're just kludging user submitted data and a bunch of user clicks into Excel for your blog posts don't try to claim it has any more validity than "shit we made up".
Two nits, both pedantic:

An attack on SHA1 that makes certificate forgery viable within the next few years doesn't seem very likely, although over the long term it might be. The attack on SHA1 isn't like the attacks on RSA-1024; my sense is that the literature already knows how to break RSA-1024 given enough compute, but does not know how to do that with SHA1. Further, factoring RSA-1024 provides an attacker with a total break of RSA-1024 TLS, but not every attack on SHA1 will necessarily do the same.

Second, there's a subtext that SHA-3 having been standardized somehow puts the writing on the wall (albeit, a far-away wall) for SHA-2. Not so; SHA-2 could remain secure (in its TLS certificate use case) indefinitely.
> Can someone explain the math behind this? Which methods were used?

I can't speak to the linked simulator, but gravitational calculations are relatively simple -- they represent the solution to a numerical differential equation that, in small slices of time, solves:

f = G m1 m2 / r^2

Where:

f = force, Newtons

G = Universal gravitational constant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant

m1 = mass of body 1, kilograms

m2 = mass of body 2, kilograms

r = distance between m1 and m2, meters

Here's my simulator, plus (further down the page) a complete description of the math. My simulator uses HTML5 and JavaScript:

http://arachnoid.com/orbital_dynamics

> I wasn't aware it was possible to run such a simulation on flash because each body results in 6x more calculation.

It's more accurate to say that the total computing time required changes as the square of the number of modeled bodies. That's worse than 6x, by the way, for a sufficient number of bodies. One solution is to use a large central mass and only compute the paths of some satellites with respect to the central mass, not with respect to each other.

The calculations that impress me (and I do a lot of this kind of math) are the cosmological modeling of galactic clusters of hundreds of thousands of stars, all interacting with each other, with no central mass to stabilize things. This requires a supercomputer and many hours of online time.

> Is this like plugging in the masses into a single equation?

No, because for more than two bodies, there's no closed-form solution (this is called the "three-body problem"). Solutions must be arrived at numerically. When NASA wants to compute where to land a spacecraft on Mars, they have to use numerical methods -- very good ones, but numerical methods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem
Could this support playing music from S3 and storing/reading metadata as S3 headers? I currently store about 200GB of music in Amazon Cloudplayer, which has recently gone sideways with their push towards Music Prime. I'm currently ripping all my music out and putting it into S3.
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Within Excel, ranges ignore blank cells in computation, but a reference to a blank cell returns 0. The idea being that if you specify a cell in a computation, you're expecting something to be there, whereas when you have a range, you may have sparse data throughout that range, and therefore, the result shouldn't break.

SQL behaves similarly. See: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!15/37025/5
I think it would be a great idea to do that, as well as somehow showing up how many germs are left on your hands.

Sort of like when you throw white paint around at a rave and everybody has got their hands in the air, glowing white skin and…
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I should point out that openvis3d is relatively old news (2006-2007).
I may be oversensitive to spam (I must admit that my love of ad-blocking software in all sorts of systems borders on mania) but the very idea that I now have to be wary of Sponsored Tweets that require an effort to unsee has already started to spoil the experience.
I guess it's a matter of who holds the power. A contractor doesn't hold much power, so he has to sign the NDA. A VC does have power, so they don't have to sign the NDA.

The little guy signs the NDA. The big guy doesn't.
"cool189" is the best animation!

No, seriously, great product, but please come up with names for those animations. They are all named "cool###".
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Either you missed out on the last couple of months news coverage somehow or you are deliberately being obtuse in order to score 'points'. Not sure which.

Anyway, these days when people are talking about the Eastern Ukraine in terms of an area that you should not be flying planes over they are not quibbling over facts of geography but in relation to the ongoing attempt at secession in the Eastern part of the Ukraine. If you wish to have it specified by google map coordinates, lists of cities, an animated map of the moving frontier then I could probably comply with the demand but it isn't worth the trouble.

Currently 'don't fly your civilian aircraft over Eastern Ukraine' is something that you could take either as person informed about current events or as a cartographer.

By your standards we don't have a 'middle America', there is no 'eastern Cyprus' and so on.

It's contested territory at best right now, quite possibly at some point in the future it won't be called Ukraine at all.
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I'm interested in biofeedback. And it saddens me that ecg sensors aren't out there for people who aren't electrical engineers (or with equivalent non-formal knowledge in this topic). Neurosky reportedly has one in the works (but probably also 50-100$).

The problem with most heartbeat sensors is that they only give you a frequency. They don't tell you when the heartbeats arrive, or, god forbit, anything interesting about the actual signal.
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Semantics3 (www.semantics3.com) has been tracking Amazon for almost 2 years now (we have price histories to boot!). We can, and do still offer price comparison functionality for products sold on Amazon; you can also compare these prices against other domains.
Big Brother class 3 they kill the infected you and spin up a new instance.
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> I wonder if one day we will be able to use a lighter version of formal methods to web development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system#Type_checking
Absolutely! Like you said if you have 5 years of R & D into it, this is a completely different matter.

I know it sounds silly, but I love contracts. They give a clear line of expectations and allow you to make necessary calculations. They are an integral co-planning process.

Fact of life is people snipe. We treat our future self as a stranger and we feel differently about agreement as they develop.

People like asymmetric power in a negotiation and will go about acquiring it with an NDA or by not signing one when it is merited.
"Hindsight bias remains the primary obstacle to accident investigation, especially when expert human performance is involved."

I wonder if it might be possible to blind investigators to whether they are looking at facts preceding an accident or from an audit without a following incident.
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By this calculus, a line-following robot [1] is self-aware, with a more limited "environment".

[1]: http://www.instructables.com/id/Line-following-Robot-with-Ar...
Also its not exactly fair to compare the Flame attack on MD5 and compare it immediately to SHA-1. Unless you are the US or China you likely don't have the resources necessary to pull off that sort of attack.

The Flame attack's math was invented by an internal government cryptographic think tank. And still had to leverage massive computational power, just not in the order of 100's of millions.

The idea a rogue group who have access to (both of) these resources is slightly idiotic. It would be far easier for them to attack RSA directly if you had 10's of millions of dollars of computers. There are a lot of 1024 bit certs you could pick off for easy profit.
In the posters variant of a spreadsheet where a blank value is invalid, how would the common practice of SUM(column A) be handled, where column A has an unknown number of rows (that keeps on being added to)?

Require all formulas that refer to column A be continually changed to reference the true amount of rows? Stop at the first blank row? Stop at the last blank row? It seems more confusing to define rules for that case than to assume "undefined values are zero".
Seems to be same concept but cheaper and with rechargeable battery so even cheaper on the long run. (and more environmentally friendly, arguably)

Also the campaign is flexible funding, I have contacted them and they said they are shipping in November whether it gets funded or not, the product is mostly ready.
Go further: reproducible experiment can tease out details to many decimal places of likelihood. Something can be known so thoroughly that we can make statements like "this is certain to behave as predicted millions or billions of times more often that not", which is pretty close to certain knowledge.
Great service, have used them in the past for postcards and will integrate again in the future. Congrats!
I think you're out of touch. Today's discerning developers don't sign NDA's before discussing projects. The article demonstrates all the reasons why it's not a good idea.

A non-compete or non-solicitation or a work-for-hire agreement once some work is agreed upon is an entirely separate proposition and still pretty standard.
Absolutely. But first gen smartwatches have barely-functioning sleep and step monitors. That's not worth $250.

Another huge problem with the self-quantification trend is there isn't much emphasis on doing stuff with that data. There's a fervor about knowing about yourself, but a large gap in utilizing that data.

Smart watches could very well fill that role. A nice first step would be to stop calling them smart watches. Wearables isn't much better.
Zaphar obviously didn't mean a web service. Look at the READMEs for the projects he mentioned to get a sense of the architecture: something that understands the language, be it a library, a daemon, what have you; and a binding of the editor to that thing, like a plugin.

Pitching a new IDE is asking a programmer to throw away years of experience in their editor of choice (mine, for better or worse, is Emacs) for some shiny feature.
I feel bad this never crossed my mind. The formatting adjusts to whatever bounds are set, in this case 8.5 x 11, so theoretically it shouldn't be hard to add the ability to choose a paper size. I'll look into it adding it soon.
Any app/website with a large user base should probably add this feature. The main value here, compared to simply dropping an ecommerce link in a tweet (the current use case), is piggy backing payment and fulfillment on top of the existing twitter user account.
Love this. I managed to get a pretty stable orbit by using the right angle and velocity (by chance). Highlighted in yellow: http://i.imgur.com/OOaTLMP.png
Doors are a congestion area, and seem like exactly the wrong place to be doing something like washing hands.
Specs are largely irrelevant for consumers, and benchmarks shouldn't revolve around nonsense metrics like this.

Why not useful metrics like screen lag, or the time it takes to switch between tasks?
Hm, so as long as I lose things more often than every 4 months (battery lifetime) I will be reminded to recharge the tag. Not sure that works for me.
Ah -- I forgot most of the people in the early Arpanet/Internet in the 70s were grad students or otherwise fairly early-career, so they were Boomers, vs. mid/late career at the time, so Greatest or Silent Generation.
London and Amsterdam are both EU. So if you can legally work in London, you can do so in Amsterdam.
The U.S. seems much like the late Roman Empire in this sense. Whereas the growth and expansion of the Roman Empire was fueled by its wars and conquests, which brought back slaves and material wealth, the American Empire's growth has been fueled by skimming off the top of the middle and upper classes wherever there's been socioeconomic troubles elsewhere.

The U.S. can get away with policy inefficiencies like this because there's so many people who want to get in right now, and it actually works in favor of the Powers That Be, because they can get decent talent that's easy to "keep them in their place" because of said policy inefficiencies.

That having been said, the U.S. doesn't going blowing stuff up in Europe to make this advantages happen. For a lot of people, it is a beacon of opportunity. It's not all blue skies and roses though.
Thank you! I know, you're right, but give a name to each one of the 300 effects isn't so easy, especially for me who I'm not american/english :)
I once wrote a simple web-based multiplayer music player to test out my roll-your-own web framework:

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/staccato

You might consider a jukebox mode where several listeners are synced up and can suggest songs.
Wow, this is great! I really appreciate the instant execution on the interpreter.
Todays discerning developers can afford to lose jobs. But not everybody can afford to lose jobs so what the customer wants the customer usually gets.

If your rep is such that you can say that you won't sign an NDA prior to the discussion of a project then good for you.
Everyone is vulnerable: https://www.google.com, https://www.facebook.com, https://www.svyft.com as per the link provided in the article (https://shaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com)
You actually think they are going to read this and think, "Oh shit! Nick wants to chat!"
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I agree, I'll revise the language. Any suggestions for an alternative to "Get Started"? Thanks for the help!
> But if spreadsheets actually did the "right" thing, they would never have been so widely adopted in the first place.

I don't think spreadsheets are widely adopted because they do the wrong thing, I think they are widely adopted because they provide UI affordances that systems that do the Right Thing didn't at the time that spreadsheets became widely adopted, and, since then, IT departments have imposed lockdown requirements which prevent anything programmable from being accessible to end-users except spreadsheets, because spreadsheets were so widely adopted before that lockdown began and end users simply refuse to give them up.

Its not, IMO, a worse-is-better situation, its simply better-is-better (in terms of UI affordances at the time of wide adoption) combined with non-technical, socially-imposed constraints which have locked the dominance in place by preventing any competition in the end-user accessible programming space.
I think so too, but I did not submit it as such because I am neither the creator nor a contributor to the project, just found it on the net.
There are two main ways to fund projects - individual risk and reward (patents) and socializing costs (prizes). There are pros and cons to both, and they both can and should coexist. We need more of the latter, especially for projects that seek to solve negative externalities, like Richard Branson's excellent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Earth_Challenge

I have written articles about the second type of funding, such as this one: http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=93