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> Bone cement chemically is nothing more than Plexiglas (i.e. polymethyl methacrylate or PMMA).

Wow! I wonder if it's a special formulation - acrylic glass is really bad at chemical resistance (pretty much any organic solvent will damage it) and shatters pretty easily.
I got excited to read this because of the name since earlier today I decided to dig into the general field of signal processing[1] and the first thing they talk about is transducers. With 2 minutes of transducer knowledge under my belt I think I'm fully qualified to say it seems a fitting name for this library.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_processing
The logic of spreading out layoffs over the corse of an entire year escapes me. Particularly when it's the first year of a new CEO. What are they thinking?
doh! embarassed. your right, Ben Laurie.
i recall agl speaking about this recently, thats the association. Appologies to Ben and Adam :-)
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Someone I spoke to after the Sun merger said one of the adjustments Sun engineers had to make was Ellison wandering around desks in Oracle talking about what people were working on, and asking "That looks cool. What could you achieve if I gave another $x million in funding?" if the technology looked interesting to him.

A received anecdote, but the thrust was that Ellison is pretty keenly interested in how it all works, as well as being a ruthless businessman.
I have been to one of the campuses few times (working as a contractor with newly transfered employees) - they said themselves - Microsoft was like communist country:

-extraordinary social

-very low performance targets

-completely guaranteed work

-overspending on servicing employees (renting them cars, providing accommodations, even giving out quick loans to those that needed)

This was hurting the market, finally seems to be over.

I wonder how much of the workforce was employed in Nokia directly though.
I will be very disappointed if a Register subeditor isn't cutting and pasting this for a headline.
Clarifying some things about Guile-Emacs
I've got code working for both Twitter and Jabber bots ... Would anyone be interested in working on this for fun?
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Could anyone tell me what's about? I just see a DNS page.
There are some more explanations that might help you understand. =>

https://gist.github.com/ptaoussanis/e537bd8ffdc943bbbce7

https://gist.github.com/runexec/06b56a9dbd15e43145b9
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So, these are people who take photos on device and then dispose of said device without even backing it up or copying their pictures to some form of long term storage?

Since Twitpic's purpose was to post photos inline at Twitter, what proportion of their photos have they probably lost?

Given that they can't even cope with the idea of copying their pics off this old device, what are the odds that they can cope with the idea of downloading an archive from Twitpic?

I'm all in favor of companies letting you take your data out of any service you've used, on principle, but frankly, this scenario doesn't make a lot of sense.
When I was at IBM research last century, we thought MS research was doing awesome things, but unable to get products out. There appeared to be some fear that MS would start producing stuff from their research. (MS and IBM were competing in the Notes vs Outlook arena)

I hope the New England R&D (NERD) which has been very generous with allowing software groups to use their space to meet continues to do so.

Short sited and a sad day.
(this thread is a dupe)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8336954
Centrally planned economies operate on that assumption, that deduplication of effort will lead to efficiency. However, capitalist economies are more efficient, even though millions of people all have to make their own decisions.
Ok, so the date on this paper is 2014, but wasn't this proposed at least 2 years ago? I recall it being proposed as a countermeasure to the Iranian Google cert incident.
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There are better designs out there, the constantly touted Thorium reactors being one, but just lower grade Uranium burning plants are another common and unused modern design.
I agree with you, I think AirBnB is bad for the rental market as a whole. I'm just saying it's hard to prove. I can make the argument but there hasn't been a study and there is an open question of how much it really impacts a market as large as NYC or SF.
It sells more product than both ebay and amazon combined.
Claiming ignorance or lack of clarity is not a fair statement, at this point in time. In early 2012, the San Francisco Tax Collector’s Office held public hearings, which AirBNB participated in and lobbied... those hearing decided that AirBnb needed to pay the tax, and AirBnb outright refused to comply with the law.

It has now been 2.5 years since that hearing.

And that isn't the only case.. in 2010 there was a NY case, where someone was sued and had to pay $100k+.

Any claim that AirBnb is unaware of their responsibilities under the law is no longer a fair or truthful statement of the situation.

Best case, they KNEW that they've been operating illegally for 2.5 years.

So back to my original question: in your opinion, how long is AirBnb immune from laws for graciously introducing new technology?
At a seed stage, the major cause of rising valuations is the massive competition for good deals. This is caused by the massive proliferation of angel investors. This is caused by simpler financings, including convertible notes.

Where does the entrepreneur get leverage? So many ways:

- small angel investors cant afford to spend a large amount on lawyers, so simple legal terms are enablers

- rolling closes are massive enablers. They mean you don't need a lead. Which means there isn't anyone with leverage. Which means if anyone thinks the price is too high they can drop out without affecting the price from the other investors. In fact, since you'll have cash in the bank from half your investors, you can raise with the financial pressure off, and demand a higher price from other investors.

- cheap legal fees allow smaller rounds (even a cheap priced round is 15-25k; our bill came to 42k). You can raise 100k in a weekend with no extra costs.
Well I finished school longer than a few years ago and cooperative education (co-op for short) has been around since the early 20th century.

http://www.ceiainc.org/history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_education
Half the under-13s in the country have or will have a Minecraft t-shirt, lunchbox and/or action figure. The game revenue is a small part of it. If you have kids you probably know the mindshare this game has. It's bigger than any video game I remember.
From the perspective of a landlord, if I have a good tenant, I'd rather rent for 2 years instead of 1 and will price lower accordingly. Vacancy rate is a key driver on ROI. Note that some commercial leases are as long as 10 years.

If the economy crashes and people stop vacationing, you won't be filling many nights in a hotel.
It really depends what those professionals are used to. I did an Apprenticeship as Software Developer in Switzerland. That is, 1 year of school followed by 3 years alternating between the company and the school. So once you start at the company you already have a viable amount of knowledge in programming, databases, networking, etc and supposed to be able to work on your own.

You don't get constant mentoring at the company, but can ask one of the developers or fellow apprentices when you're stuck with one of the tasks you get assigned. Or for example, any time a developer had a small task that he felt, I couldn't do by myself, or it was too time critical he just asked me to sit beside him and watch, listen and take notes while he did the work.
How it works is different in any company but the outcome should be the same: real world experience on real projects with real clients and their time/budget constraints.

That means, once your finished and a professional yourself, it
isn't a question of interest but a completely normal thing to help out the apprentices. Because that's how you got to the point where you are.
What are the 15bn of 'other assets'? Presumably they're not liquid assets, so you'd need to figure out whether their value on the open market would be anything close to book value.
It was fixed. But if you look ctrl+f "peniscorp" and you'll see a script that was injected on the page
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I guess you're a fan of rewriting type thunks over and over and over again, and don't care about the standard library implementing functionality or reusably. Whatever floats your boat, but in both C++ and Java people got tired of writing type-thunking boilerplate over and over again and eventually got features added to the language to fix the problem.

At this point I'm not sure how Go can do generics well, so if "right or not at all" is really the bar, then Go will probably never get them.
A large part of what's impressive about the language isn't the language, it's that it's tied together so many different data sources from around the globe that it can generate information that would be a nightmare to do manually.
Exactly. Which is why the author either didn't read the book or didn't grasp the themes.

I seem to not be able to spend any time with someone slightly younger than me without having them whip out their phone mid conversation. It is incredibly unsettling to me.
Thanks for all the feedback people. We've released a new version with robust handling of attachment failures, additional DWARF features and performance improvements (up to 35% on targets with lots of shared objects).
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I'm not a good programmer but I've never understood OOP. For me it feels much more logical to work with pure functions with consistent output based on input. At work I'm told to use more OO but it feels really enforced and not intuitive at all. The only time it makes sense for me is in game development where you have many entities of the same type that all have their own states.

I feel I should learn OO properly and maybe try Java or something where you have to code OO. On the other hand I also feel I should go with my gut feeling, forget about OO and just learn FP instead. It feels wrong though to "skip" OOP seeing most serious programmers seem to have a background in it. What do you think?
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Is it really new technology? VRBO has existed for how long? I remember one of the first web sites I made for money was a vacation rental listing website in the 90s, blinking gifs and all.

Your average tax accountant can talk you through all of this stuff without issue. The part that AirBnB differed on was aiming for big cities rather than mountains and beaches, and seeking out empty 2nd bedrooms rather than dedicated vacation rentals.
> because there’s no one in the system who has any idea what to do with the money

Hey look, validation of my outlook on basic income.

Links the go-to source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

For some reason, we seem to have forgotten that the best investment is in people. You want your innovation, all the potential is trapped living on scraps a day in soul crushing poverty or near-poverty, while you move around your trillions with nothing to spend it on - because you are literally running out of things to get you more money, because nobody else has any left to give.
And I think people who wear headphones in public are being somewhat rude. Guess that makes me a luddite.

And yes, some modes of human interaction are surely worth less than others. Tweeting 140 characters can't compare with sitting down with someone having a true heart to heart conversation. The former is replacing the latter.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4034744

That isn't to say some forms of communication are entirely bad or shouldn't be used - the obsession and taking over real life is the problem.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4034744

I don't feel this form of communication-posting here-is even in the same relm as having the same discussion with someone face to face. That's not to say nobody should post on hacker news, just that it should have a healthy balance.

Either way it matters not if I share my opinion with Ray Bradbury or not. I was pointing out the author missed a lot of the themes in the book and probably didn't even read it - just heard it was a novel about book burning.
If you're going to look at it that way, could you not say that one of the principles of the Age of Enlightenment was that every man (and as Cosmos nicely noted, every woman, albeit more discretely) had a responsibility to explore?

Rose colored glasses of history, but I would hazard to say that the average knowledge + ambition + creativity of a person today is far lower than in the various retrospective golden ages.

... you can't find a genius and then teach him or her. You teach everyone, then genius blooms.
wow great work! i was looking for like 10 minutes to find a flaw but coulndt. good luck, i hope to see more cities or it would be interesting to scale it up and it could suggest me a city by my preferences.
> If this study were truth, why are there just as many male academics as there are female?

My guess is that the study focused mostly on K-8 or K-12 maybe with some college. In contrast, you are talking about what happens in the world of work. There the boys/men can be plenty serious, hard working, aggressive, bright, ambitious, good at planning, etc.

From all I've seen, for high end technical work, especially research, in STEM fields, the men totally and effortlessly blow away nearly all the women.

In my experience, in grades 1-8, the teachers treated me like dirt. Thank goodness for social promotion! But in math, from grade 9 through high school, college, graduate school, work, to the present, I totally effortlessly blow away nearly every female I've come across. It's like the females are from a different planet. In other ways, the females totally, effortlessly blow me away.

Or, from E. Fromm, "Men and women deserve equal respect as persons but are not the same.". From all I can see, this is true.
Curious. I've not heard of this.

Skype/Yammer kept some of their pre-acquisition perks -- food, snacks, services (that you have to pay for) on-site. This? Nope.
why do i have to log in? i cant see from outside what benefites it adds me over http://foundrs.com/
I could never decide if I preferred Home Depot or Lowes. This makes the decision easy for me.
Wow, what a feminazi bitch...
Referring of course to the author's comments in the comment section, not the actual article.
Think about it. The reason they (SIS) automatically assume altercations as racially motivated is because the gangs in federal prison "take care of business" (i.e. punish someone for something wrong) within their own ethnic group.

So, if there _is_ any violence across ethnic groups, it's due to racial motivation.
For those wondering ... the (current) value of those 100M Belarus Rubles is $9492.16 US.
> it would be dozens of hours for a $10 part.

Yes, but then you upload the design to Thingiverse or similar, and it becomes 30 minutes (plus printing time) for the rest of the world.

And 30 mins may in itself be unjustifiable to save $10... but ordering the part online will probably take time too...
Never said I was. That's why I buy the index funds. :)
For the record I'm a die-hard scientist at heart and hold individuals who attempt to tackle the greatest scientific and technological challenges (e.g. fusion) in the absolute highest esteem. I understand that at the moment, the VC funded route is undoubtedly the only logical path. However, that doesn't change the fact that it is extremely sub-optimal in the long run. In a different era, you would have your own lab after a quick run through academia and ample funding to pursue your research. You would not be restricted to working on an ITER style mega project.

I would be willing to accept the end of those times if the alternative (VC funded startups) was superior. Alas, when it comes to large problems, I fear it may be a massive step back.

The oncoming wave of labor automation should spark a new debate about how we want to reorganize our societies to adapt to such drastic changes. I'm hoping that at this point, we can begin to emphasize the importance of research as a fundamental human endeavor.
If we can't view the source (or at least the algorithms and libraries used), its security is only hearsay.
When I read about the immense amount of money that has reportedly gone into research at companies like Microsoft, billions of dollars, and seen very little ever come of it, I can't help but think maybe they would have been better of just making it a venture capital fund. I don't think R&D departments have the incentive entrepreneurs have in actually making research useful. Google X stands out as different, and I think that's because Google seems to be using it for marketing as much as research. We've yet to see any game changers come out of there, unless you think Google Glass was a success. The self-driving automobiles are interesting and will probably lead to something, and the air drones too. It's probably not all a wash.
I guess the Russians enjoy a different kind of freedom that we don't experience in highly regulated countries.
the horror! don't empty the tires on a seven ton vehicle!!
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so it works only with your friends? first i thinked its maybe like tinder/meetup for hanging out but now i feel i was wrong, but if so then we both need to download the app what is too much work compared to writing a post
Actually, you can via view source in browser. The passwords are generated via javascript in the browser.
Thanks i was wondering too. As I clicked the comments link was just thinking I could convert this myself.

Pleasantly surprised one of the first comments answered my question in thus saving me the time to write this comment instead of first relooking up the belarusian amount in the article and then quick conversion.
It's weird. We have this notion in America that corporations are (or are supposed to be) efficient. They're not. Markets are if you grant a series of tenuous assumptions. Markets are the fair efficient competition between unfair and inefficient firms.
you sir, are a stud, not a geek.
I hope it was Twitter via an acquisympathy (new phrase, I think it'll catch on)
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It's not really people using it as their own personal archive, it's that it is an online archive as a whole. I believe some people were trying to archive all the photos contained in TwitPic but were getting blocked.
The conspiracy theory I heard is that MS is playing a long game to go private.

Whenever their stock starts to go up; they pump a lot into R&D which makes them less attractive to investors stabilizing or lowering their stock price while not devaluing the company.

I don't know enough about stock manipulating to evaluate these statements, but I found them interesting when first told to me.
One reason I think Objects and classes get a bad rap is the mutability and lack of intentionality that comes from getters and setters.

When the innards basically are laid bare by setters, you lose a lot of control of state and flow and object lifecycle that really hurts good design.

Looking at objects that need some kind of validation run on them, in many cases the validations aren't run every mutation but rather on some kind of save or persistence event, long after the validity of the object should have been checked.

OO can lead to great design, and there are some great techniques in FP, but average software written with either is probably terrible.
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Do we still get fooled by Megapixels?
Where were some things @ MS research (back then) that stood out as awesome or memorable to you?
Would it be possible to import into the US?
I'm a geek, but my wife hates that term. She grew up with geeks and nerds being horribly unpopular and terrorized in school.

I tried to explain to her that its not about what others think of you. Being a geek is about having an interest in technology stuff.
I thought it was just me that felt like this...
One part of me was thinking who has the time and money to go and buy a tank but another part just kept thinking about how the US supposedly has a huge amount of tanks they are not using...
Passive-aggressiveness is not an effective persuasion technique.
Dodgy deep fryer and feeble folding stools
The problem of helping non-software engineers who code to properly understand computers and modelling problems in software is huge, it would be good to see more articles about it.
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Related story about construction worker in China having half his skull replaced with 3D printed titanium. http://shanghaiist.com/2014/09/16/man_recovers_after_3d-prin...
Capacitive screens are petty much custom for whatever the end applicaton is. Apple pretty much bought out the market for CNC laser ablation machines used in this line of work.
They only axed Silicon Valley research. Microsoft Research is still strong, but in Redmond, Israel and other locations. The Microsoft executive team fully recognizes that research is key to their future success.
I made the switch to FP. I first learnt Basic then Delphi then C then Java then C# then Python then JS and now Scala. Python is my still my favourite and I really like Scala too. Anyway, I could write big stuff in any typed language OO or otherwise. I don't get what the revelation about FP is. If you want bullet proof code, get the model checker out and work in state machines. That is far the biggest revelation I have had in my career. FP doesn't save me much time or much safety . It doesn't solve concurrency. Its usually terser which is nice. That's about it. Python is a massive productivity boost but it doesn't scale. Scala scales but isn't that productive IMHO.
One nitpick: the excessive and pointless use of sic seriously detracted from the readability of the article. Whoever put them in should learn to save that for scholarly articles, or when the significance of the mistake is relevant to the meaning of a quotation.
One of my favorite current genetic engineering programs is to turn rice from a C_3 plant into a C_4 plant.

C_4 plants have a more complicated photosynthesis system allowing them to fix CO_2 more efficiently, and since C_4 seems to have evolved relatively recent they are still rare. Only about 5% of all plants are C_4, but they fixate 30% of carbon fixated by plants!

If we could engineer rice into a C_4 plant, we'd a) get faster growing rice with more yield and b) since rice is grown all over the world, we'd with one stroke get rid of a massive amount of carbon from the atmosphere. No-one has tried to do this before (it's a bit like ripping out a car's engine you know very little about and replacing it by a more sophisticated engine you know very little about), but they're hopeful to have 'prototype' C_4 rice plants by 2016. Edit: It's being funded by the Gates foundation and several governments so it's not a pipe dream.

It's one of the most exciting and 'grand' projects in plant biotech at the moment!
Apology more than accepted.

I agree that it was a slightly clickbait title, but my bigger problem is that I don't feel the article delivered on the promise. The event referenced in the title is an amazing upset, and the article addressed that only very obliquely. I want to read an article about that upset, not about the sociopolitical environment of this tournament, coupled with the tournament's history.

Alternatively, if the sociopolitical environment is worth reading, then have the title let me know that's what I'm getting in for, and organize the article in such a way that it's clearly the focus, rather than a distraction from the main story.
Notably Ruby and Objective C.