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>Many perceivers, for instance, miss the distinction between "Don't be evil." and "Don't do evil.". The former is a mindset, strategy, and intention, while the latter is impossible for a corporation with 50k employees.

No, we perceive the disctinction just fine. Some of us just believe Google does "evil" with mindset, strategy, and intention...
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Cartier-Bresson's "Man Leaping" could not have been captured with a cell phone camera. The shutter lag is just too bad.

Humorously, he didn't even see the man leaping, and wasn't timing for that. He took some shots, and it turned out to be a keeper. Such is exactly the nature of smartphone shots, as an aside -- people take countless shots, and among them some gems appear.

for millions upon millions of historic and sentimental potential pictures

This is where your argument falls apart. A modern smartphone has better image capture than SLRs -- top of the line SLRs --from just ten years ago. Despite your focus on shutter lag (where you can prefocus/expose on a smartphone just like an SLR, and then have a close to instant shutter), the shutter lag on current smartphones is, again, similar to top of the line SLRs of a few years ago.

With a large sensor and lenses, at any given time you'll always yield a better result (presuming you assume that such is always available when the moment arises). However at the core of photography, the technical side is far less important than it is held to be, and if we really need to bring up history, a modern smartphone was better than what the most committed photographer had in their arsenal not that long ago.
Well, Frank Wilczek said something like "Philosophy is too important to be left to the philosophers." [0] The unspoken assumption is that those silly philosophers are off writing a priori worthless post-Marxist historiographic treatises and other humanities BS, so the real men (physicists) are going to have to storm in guns a blazin' and sort things out.

Being neither a philosopher nor physicist by training, I'm probably unqualified to arbitrate that debate. But it is worth noting that when qualitative approaches meet quantitative approaches, the quant guys seem to pretty persistently come out on top (e.g. Google with programmatic advertising vs. the good old boys selling ads by taking the client out to a steakhouse. Which model overwhelmed the other in mere months?)

[0] http://frankwilczek.com/unification.html
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My cat purrs like a drunk after passing out, when I give him belly rubs!
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Also wanted to point out that a Linux version is in testing for those interested - linux@expandrive.com
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Related - Mach's principle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach's_principle

An important implication of relativity is that when you push something, you do not change it's velocity. You change it's acceleration. It's a small but important distinction. Acceleration is more fundamental.
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I am reposting this because I didn't see discussion in the last 5 postings and there may be people who can share their experiences using this test framework. The subtitle comes from their github page.
Good one - well organized and collected.
YC class is very good: http://startuptalks.tv/videos/category/yc-startup-class-2014...

We did a similar stuff for Audio on the go. This is the startup section, if you are an audio guy: http://www.airingpods.com/search?q=startup
Perhaps I'm being too harsh, but I only criticize because they're often given a soapbox (such as in this article) due to the perception that they are specially endowed with the power of "explaining how the world is" to us mere mortals.

Well, that wouldn't be so bad if they stuck to explaining the results of their experiments, but when they stray from that on to philosophical subjects, they're really no more suited to talking about that than any other non-philosophically trained layman.

It might help if they toned down the rhetoric a bit and make it clear that they're speaking about something that they have no training in.

On the other hand, I suppose I should be grateful that they're exposing the general public to ideas they might not have otherwise thought about, even if they do so clumsily and their conclusions are highly suspect.
does anyone care to help retailers save 3%? and, do they know the money still comes out of a credit card company and that they can change their rules whenever they want? no wonder why it isn't a startup but a bunch of mad corporations
Then please spare everyone else in the thread from having to suffer you as well.
Maybe there's not much point in running it more than once an hour. For example, maybe the forecast is only reported once an hour.

Edit: A quote later in the article says "It will allow us to add more precision, more detail, more accuracy". So it's probably increasing the resolution even though the part you quoted sounds like it's not.
I'm curious what this means for Ethereum. Although admittedly I've never really understood what Ethereum was planning to do. But I assumed it was the same idea as sidechains?
I came here to write the same thing (thus upvoted).
Punishment also works on cats. You just have to be very consistent when applying it (this is exactly the same for dogs). If you punish your cat(or dog) you have to do it immediately. If the cat is done scratching its nails, and you squirt water, you are too late.

[Edit] Changed negative reinforcement to punishment, rbehrends was correct when he pointed out that negative reinforcement is something different.
The point is that we don't see eggs break at some times and reassemble themselves at others. Whether time is flowing "forwards" or "backwards" is just a label - if you decided to start calling "tomorrow" "yesterday", it wouldn't change anything except what you say.

However, if you could break an egg and then unbreak it, that would be remarkable (and observable), whether you did it tomorrow or yesterday.
And photographed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms...
How do sidechains affect the security of Bitcoin and/or the sidechains themselves? Will Bitcoin open itself to a much wider range of attacks once it accepts sidechains? Will the sidechains be inherently much less secure than Bitcoin's blockchain?
It's what she wants you to believe!
Then there's something else about his environment that isn't right, or he's sick. Have you taken him to the vet lately?
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It's not quite ready for other people to use yet, but the source is available at https://github.com/mnutt/tabbers-anonymous.
Owncloud has a really nice plugin for this. All you need is a simple bookmarklet and you can tag bookmarks and access them anywhere
> A cup of coffee has approx 100 mg and a strong energy drink has about 250 mg

That's a _very_ strong energy drink too, most are in the 140-160mg range in my experience. Less caffeine than a large at a major coffee joint.

Holy crap though, that's crazy. Over what time period did you consume that much caffeine? Do you mean daily or over the full 5th-11th period?
Except, isn't China working hard to keep the valuation of their currency as low as they possibly can?
>And the settings aren't even necessary.

Until they are. Then you go ahead and implement an ad-hoc settings scheme.
If you also make things happen on the click event of the button then I would say that counts.
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My criticism of this view is that the proof is probably there, but the agencies responsible for obtaining it are likely corrupted as well. I'm not well versed in the intricacies of EU banking, besides the IMF/World Bank, but at least in the States, a good example of regulatory capture and corruption is the SEC.

It's not that the proof isn't there, it's that the SEC itself has become corrupted by the people it's supposed to enforce laws against.

On a side note, I am still livid about the Libor scandal. Why the hell is a rate set in London allowed to influence the American dollar so greatly?!
I won't hear it.

My cat loves me and thinks I am a giant cuddly friend.

And dispenser of food.
Are there any clients that support 0 BTC transactions?
Yeah so your cat can go to someone elses house, or get run over by a car, or get attacked by animals.

Great suggestion.
I know this feeling exactly.
I one time consumed 2.5g of caffeine on a very VERY stupid dare.

Me and another kid were trying to bluster each other and each were one-upping the other, though we had a hard limit of 3g.
He had 2g and started crying, shaking, and rolled up in the fetal position. In retrospect we should have taken him to the hospital, but he was fine.

The experience reminds me a lot of the movie Donnie Darko mixed with the futurama episode of Fry drinking 200 cups of coffee; it felt like you could see the animus of someone being projected into the future, and everything was practically at a standstill (like the time I was in a car accident).

We had a few pick up games of various games at this LAN we were at while doing this, and I won every one of them having to do with twitch speed even if the person had 5 yrs experience on me in a game and I had never played it before.

Not something I would repeat voluntarily, but it was an interesting experience.
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I've never really understood why standalone webapps like these aren't more popular.

I haven't used this one in particular
True. I was writing about the case when the URL simply mapped to a file system location. Applications should be able to apply their own interpretation.
I had no idea that Jackson had a youtube presence. I'm going to have to check it out. His Animal Planet show is hilariously awful, though Mr. Galaxy does seem to know how to interact with cats.
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Both fast examples create a dependence between loop iterations. The ADD+SBB case creates a dependence between the carry flag and the value loaded from memory; the INC + XOR creates a dependence on the value of RDX and the value loaded from memory. I don't know what exactly is the mechanism here, but the data dependencies seem to prevent memory loads to be speculated like crazy, presumably the source of the slowdown.

Another data point: replace SUB RCX, 1 / JNZ by LOOP. LOOP is much slower, something like 7 uops, but it still results in a speedup. Here I cannot blame data dependencies. LOOP is microcoded, so perhaps its internal implementation has the same effect.
"it is worth noting that when qualitative approaches meet quantitative approaches, the quant guys seem to pretty persistently come out on top"

One could certainly make the argument that the practice of science and the creation of technology "gets results" (though there are counter-arguments having to do with human agency or free will, with causality, and with our perception of the world and whether what we perceive is real and whether what looks like obvious cause and effect is actually what's going on here).

But whether something "gets results" may have little bearing on whether it is true or an adequate explanation of the world.
Mine have never done that, to be fair. They crap somewhere outside. Occasionally in a vegetable bed, but who knows where the rest of the time?
Ethereum is completely separate from the Bitcoin blockchain/network, it's a new cryptocurrency system with a much more expansive scripting system than what Bitcoin has at the moment.

Ethereum could, with relative ease, be created as a Bitcoin sidechain instead of being totally independent from Bitcoin. However, as far as I'm aware - the Ethereum "coins" called ethers couldn't be transferred, which would suck for people who bought ethers in the ether sale.

Etherum will likely continue being its own thing, but someone may also very likely fork it to be a sidechain.
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That's not negative reinforcement. Negative reinforcement is when behavior is reinforced by removing an aversive stimulus. Yelling at a cat because it's scratching the couch is positive punishment [1].

And punishment works quite differently from reinforcement to begin with; it is typically less effective for far better socialized species such as humans and dogs, too.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning#Consequenc...
I think the difference is with Google 'spyware' you actually DO opt in when you setup ypur phone for th first time. This app is loaded silently and without notification to the user.
I think they're general-interest popular science magazines, with indeed a bit of an abstract slant.
I wonder if the mail tracking data is sold to credit reporting agencies. Oh look he got an old fashioned paper bill from his water utility, and then he replied with a letter (payment) from the mailbox across the street exactly 3 days later. How fascinating and presumably useful as a metric, somehow.

Marketing agencies would likely be interested. Oh look he's exchanging correspondence with a known estate lawyer, someone must have died, how can we profit off that?

I suppose interesting environmental studies could be possible, since at least 90% of my incoming paper mail is garbage.

Big Brother doesn't throw away things very often, all CYA you know. I bet a century from now looking at the social network of old fashioned paper Christmas Cards would be interesting genealogy research. (edited to add: Mothers day cards!)
I think he's saying that the in-game thinking is unconscious (fast, practiced, muscle-memory) but remembered as conscious, and it must be the former because things are happening too fast.
Like patio said, don't compete on price. Later you will find out your product is worth what your competitor is charging and you'll feel bad about it. Most importantly, your competitor might have many employees, but be sure that the team working on that specific product is small. This is exactly the mentality that Steve Wozniak had when Apple first started.
As someone who started brushing their cats' teeth after cavities/tartar/gingivitis caused a lot of pain and resulted in some expensive extractions, change is possible, but you've got to stick to it 100%, no matter how much blood you lose.
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Everyone in your neighborhood would like to thank you for encouraging your cat to crap in their yards and letting them pick it up.

Get a litter box and clean up after your own damn pet.
Well, positive reinforcement is better than negative reinforcement because instead of presenting yourself as an unpredictable angry ape, you're presenting yourself as a source of treats, which is better. Who cares why the cat is getting treats?
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Or so your cat could, you know, explore outside like they're supposed to?

Cats do occasionally get run over, but most learn to avoid dogs and if they're getting second helpings of dinner at someone else's house, so what?
I ran into an AS400 a week ago on a job, box the size of your average PC, second hand (refurbished) cost: $125000...

That's a good markup, and it doesn't seem to do anything that a regular rack mounted intel box couldn't do. It probably has some reserve in terms of IO and reliability but for the spot where it's sitting it is total overkill (ancient ERP system only running on that hardware).
Great idea, I have added some info the the Github README and the wiki page. Thanks!
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At least in my part of the world, coyotes and foxes prey rather successfully on household pets allowed to roam freely outside.
I think there's a very simple and elegant solution for this: fines have to be paid in the form of equity. The government can sell its share on the open market to convert equity to cash, and it's impossible for the shareholders to pass on the cost to anyone else.
There's an episode of Futurama where Fry drinks 100 cups of coffee, and experiences similar hightened sensations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_Big_Boys
I would suggest that those of you that believe that are deluded.

What possible motivation could they have for being "evil", comic book style?
> There is no way of ensuring a rust program does not contain any unsafe code.

Sure there is. There's a compiler lint available which can disallow "unsafe" code, i.e. code which is able to create null pointer errors (and thus segfaults).

Of course, the standard library will always contain a bunch of unsafe stuff - but at least it's shared between every project, and any bugs can be fixed once, and assuming it's correct any non-unsafe code that depends on it is memory-safe.
Have a look at OS/9 and what the 6809 was capable of, it's not nearly as small as it would make you believe. Sure it's an '8 bitter' and the 8086 nominally 16 bits but on a bang-per cycle comparison it comes off pretty good and memory limits could be fixed by using bankswitching (which the 8086 did too but a bit closer to the processor).

When the PC was designed the 68K was already available, my point is that even a 6809 would have been a better choice, given that the 8086 was 8 bits external and memory never went over 256K for the original PC, easily addressed using 16 banks of 16K.

Anyway, it hardly matters but the 8086 was a weird choice, the explanation elsewhere that they chose it over the 68K because it was considered 'too powerful' makes pretty good sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9
He's completely normal. Has done this for about a year. Multiple costly vet visits for them to say "What have no fucking clue". I think he just likes leaving me presents to come home to at this point.
Among the most common being meowing. Cats do not mew at other cats, only at humans.
Whimsy on HN will always be downvoted :-)
Nice tutorial of Facebook-pop ios animation library
Prior related invention in 2012 by my co-founder: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91843.0

Limitations of this side-chains:

- Can't use proof-of-stake

- It requires many changes in the Bitcoin reference client

- It's not very clear if you can increase the frequency of blocks in the side-chain
I do understand your concern but we had a cat door for years and the cats were fine, if not happier, going outside at will. The worst that happened was they would occasionally bring in dead/mostly dead animals to show off as trophies from their hunts.
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It astounds me how many people will just make shit up rather than profess their ignorance. I'm not even sure if they are even aware of their lack of knowledge, it is as if they discovered this lump of meat in their skull that emits random verbiage and they assume this must be truth. Like a little tv in their head, power up and go.

So the next time someone says to you they don't know something, watch out, this person is probably a genius!
It's still one of the most memorable experiences of my life. It was very similar to the reaction you get when in physical danger. I skidded half way down an icy ravine while skiing. I'm sure it took all of 10 seconds but It felt like 10 minutes.
Well-configured other servers will just dutifully keep trying to deliver messages. There are plenty of less well configured servers out there.

For instance, I have greylisting configured on my primary SMTP server, but no greylisting on my secondary (because it's run by a friend, not me). Some servers will contact mine, offer a message, get told "try again", and just not bother, even though they could try the secondary and get through straight away. Other servers will give up after failing to deliver for 30 minutes.
You know that cats bury their poop, right? When I lived in London, where it's the norm to let your cat out, I never encountered any cat poo in my garden, and we had around half a dozen local cats.
This is a great, yet simple, explanation of sidechains:
http://gendal.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/a-simple-explanation-...
Yes but they said 13x speedup not 13x more processors/cores. Probably just a non-technical writeup tbh.
I'm not even sure that I would need that. One reason is that I don't watch much TV to begin with, other than Netflix and Amazon. So, admittedly, I'm not their use case.

The other is that TV doesn't do anything. It's for consumption. Sure, a modern television unit does other things but they aren't TV, exactly. They're info services or game apps, but most are more easily consumed elsewhere, such as on a device that almost never leaves my side.

I get that this is, in some way, part of the Internet of Things, which sounds great and all, but do we really need that?
It just said "cannot play video", did not inspect why because it said something about a plugin, and it made me annoyed, so I switched. This page http://www.youtube.com/html5 had only 2/6 checkmarks in FF.
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Although I'm with you on the litter tray, my poor sofa is a testament to the fact having a cat flap is no prevention strategy! I think my cat honestly just preferred scratching the couch to anything else available...
It comes to knowing your tools and craft.

Part of the madness was due to tools that auto generated attributes and browser implementations when repainting/reflow occurred.

If the time, and potential knowledge was there, to better organize the structure vs. the layout thing may have been different. We would probably still be wrestling with browser issues.

I have worked in places where corporate sites had tables were littered with font tags for each cell, littered with a half dozen iframes(!?!)

The use for tables in layout was easy, but the long term debt was never paid.

Granted this is less of a case now; wading through this was not fun.
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Is one satoshi (0.00000001 BTC) close enough?
The articles gives reasons to act quickly and try to solve the problem as soon as possible, but they are not reasons to panic outside the outbreak zone. (Inside the outbreak zone, I'm pessimistic and I think the situation will be even worse than the description in the article.)

Reasons not to panic, directly from the article:

>* In fact, countries with even slightly better health-care, not at the US level, can control this epidemic by circumscribing it: On October 17th, WHO declared Senegal free of Ebola. Later, Nigeria, too, was declared free.
Cats are very capable of looking after themselves.
>He just doesn’t know how to connect your negative reinforcement with his behavior.

I don't know. The one time I got seriously mad at Yoshi (my cat) was when he bit through an ethernet cable. That was the one single time I've actually squirted water at him and threw him out of my appartment.

Since then neither my ethernet cables nor my iPhone USB cables got bitten through any more (he also knows that chewing on iphone cables and headphones is a very good way to get attention).

There's a lot of stuff I let slide with him (maybe too much - I love him to bits), but he really seems to respect the fact that chewing on cables is a total no-go (also: bloody dangerous - some carry current)
Firefox. I could also trivially avoid it if they used real links, such that I could middle click to open in a new tab, but since everything is just a div with an onclick handler, that's nigh impossible.