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This reminds me of something British enzymologist J.B.S. Haldane once said, "Reality is not only stranger than we suppose, it may be stranger than we can suppose." It's unprovable, but perhaps alien intelligence is already "here", existing at some level imperceptible to human faculties. Given the age of the universe, and humanity's relative youth, it's not impossible that an alien civilization could have developed transportation/communication technology far beyond anything we could possible imagine.
hah ya. Should just title the article "You should donate to this kickstarter game". Looks cool, though.
simple smart solution ;-)
> 1. Making the ascent.

Sitting in a globe and wait to get up there

> 2. Surviving the environmental conditions of the ascent.

That's what the suit is for, no ability needed from the rider

> 3. Converting the ascent to a fall.

Pressing a button

> 4. Surviving the environmental conditions of the fall.

Again, the suit

> 5. Surviving subsequent contact with the ground.

This time the parachute

> 6. Getting home from wherever you landed.

The team working with the guy

> 7. (optional) Taking good pictures and video.

Ok, so his prowess is in being able to not faint in the process and being able to hold a camera.

Compare to say, free diving, were the person needs the ability to hold his breath for a period of time, or mountain climbing where they need the physical strength to walk up a mountain several kilometers with 20kg on the back.
In a market with perfect competition there are no profits.

I hope you can see that that claim doesn't fit the observed evidence. Gas stations somehow generate enough profits to stay in business despite the fact that they're competing to sell something that's an indistinguishable commodity.

Now, in the special case where the marginal cost of production is very low and you're selling a commodity it is true that competition destroys profits. Like if there are two people selling txt files of The Prince neither is going to make much money (that's why we have copyright). But we're talking about rare earth minerals here and those have a substantial cost of production with a corresponding upward slowing supply curve and I assure you that the people mining minerals are making a profit without having a monopoly.
Hrm... I wonder if you're missing a fw update, perhaps?

I've got a SP3, and though it can get warm, it's not worryingly so. The fan kicks on when it should and does its thing.
I noticed lately that mid-range hotels (Hamptons and Holiday Inns) generally turn out to be quite competitive price-wise. Those guys live by dynamic pricing, so a new entrant lowers the prices, but not completely disrupts the industry.
All the virtualized GPUs I've tried are buggy. One pain point is that they don't support Direct3D 11 for Kinect 2 development.
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I wasnt objecting to your intelligence theory. Its perfectly ok to assume there may be intelligences in the universe far superior to ours. I was referring to your comment on the "common objections to UFOs".
The maximum altitude for a weather balloon is 173,000 feet, though 60,000 to 120,000 feet is more common.

If you want to go higher, you're going to need to use a rocket instead of a gas-filled balloon.
They do have instant booking https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/187
"Sorry but comparing a dictatorship to Facebook is a little off, by any standards."

Nope, you are confused about the difference between comparing and equating. It is perfectly reasonable to compare an amoeba to an elephant, and to highlight similarities between the two (for example, both use DNA for genetic information), and the confusion is on your part if you think that therefore an amoeba weighs multiple tons.

"Yes, there were several projects that opted for a decentralized version of Facebook and all of them failed to gain any traction. Why?"

What do you think? You made the claim, it's not my job to provide the evidence.

"What are the facts that are already happening related to Facebook that affect the populations?"

Just read this thread for examples? The most obvious example: Some people who value their privacy are excluded from some parts of social life due to network effects/social pressure from facebook, even where the loss of privacy is not an inherent part of the respective activity. That's a loss for these people at the very least, and not unlikely to also be a disadvantage for society as a whole, if such people are effectively removed from the social fabric of society.
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Any idea why Buffett calls Berkshire as his worst purchase ever? I think it will be interesting to read
Why is this the thing we're discussing about Civ 6? What I want to know is whether the writing is as good as the original Alpha Centauri. Even 15 years later I still think about quotes from that game's tech tree -- and I can quote many of them by heart. Here's one for Brian Fung at WaPo:

"I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in all the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment." -- Anonymous, Datalinks
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Yes, but the point actually being made is that the name GNU (GNU's Not Unix) is esoteric && dated. Notwithstanding the org's prior accomplishments of course.
As another physicist who used mathematica what you mean is that you were too lazy to think about what assumptions were made implicitly in the calculations you were performing and liked mathematica because it did them automagically for you.

This is shown no where better in the paper than when they try to calculate Integrate[Exp[-pt](Sinh[t])ˆ3, {t, 0,
Infinity}]. In a good cas, such as maxima, you will get no result and a ton of errors. Which is what you should get without specifying what sort of variable p is, is it a matrix, polynomial, group of some sort? That it's implicitly assumed to be a real number that might turn out to be complex under some circumstances isn't a feature, it's a bug.
lol. uh oh.
Is this post a joke? The tip about password hiding is not helpful and already served by the <input type="password"> tag. He calls using an array a "Database"? WTFudge.
> With a unified chess world, Kasparov might have been able to put the screws to IBM for a more "fair" match

I'm not up on the details of FIDE vs PCA. However, Wikipedia [1] claims that Kasparov created PCA. So he was actually responsible for the rift. But you're claiming this rift hurt his leverage?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Chess_Association
Isn't the record for highest sky-dive? isn't height all that matters? is using a different parachute somehow not sky-diving?
Decelerating from ~27,600 km/hr would be the main challenge :)
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How would they unbrick a device? By definition, to "brick" is to render the device inoperable.

A friend of mine, in the course of his work, bricked a BMW [1]. It took an engineer, flown in [2] to fix the issue.

[1] He worked at a company making automobile diagnostic tools for mechanics. He was reflashing the BMW when the power went out. That scrambled the on-board computer system enough to brick the car.

[2] South Florida (Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area) I'm sure the German engineer wasn't all that upset.
I have SP 1. I can zoom in with my hand only in IE and not chrome. Is it still the case?
It's a rational decision for most sellers. There's a bunch of properties listed on AirBnB, HomeAway and VRBO (latter two being owned by the same company). For buyers I'd guess existence of previous transactions and reviews is a quality signal, as opposed to a site where you can get scammed by a dishonest seller.
No it doesn't. The primary reason is the way a CAS solves problems is not the way a human does.

A secondary reason with closed systems in particular is that it may reveal methods it uses which is a competitive advantage to other systems.
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Ok, if you see this other post by him it's obvious it's a joke: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/how-to-write-premium-javasc...
Give him concrete actionable critique as close as possible to the time of his "offenses". He's new to professional coding and probably doesn't know what he's doing wrong. For instance, after you help him with a compilation error that you think he should have figured out on his own, recommend him the resource that you think he should have learned it from. Take the lead in training him and putting together technical documentation around common problems new members of your team might have. It's more productive to recognize this as a flaw in the system your team has created for on-boarding new hires.

Using name-calling like in the title of this post will not help.
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They started development on this phone during 2010. I think it got super delayed and that was one of the main reasons behind its failure.
There's a good stack exchange post about ATA secure erase pitfalls too, how if you just do --secure-erase and not enhanced option then some SSDs will just compress the data and not actually wipe anything.

Found it: http://security.stackexchange.com/a/64480
> I don't see what sets Airbnb apart from other vacation rental websites

I think their innovation was allowing shared housing and generally any quirky property. HomeAway and VRBO focused their efforts on professionally managed second homes and vacation properties.

By now the network effect has kicked in, and any newcomer would have to convince buyers they're relatively reliable and scam-free.
The quoted wikipedia article gives a decent general idea. Basically, he did it in part based on personal slight, and lost a lot of potential gains he could have had if he'd put it towards the insurance purchases he was making with a lot of the rest of his money at the time.
Be fair, the nerve to do the thing at all is significant. Not like a monkey in the Mercury capsule, who after all had no say in the deal, this guy could have 'bailed out' of the project at any time. He didn't. That means something.
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But mainly because eyewitness accounts are treated as "evidence" instead of evidence, no matter their number.
What I'm really curious about, but probably won't find out anytime soon, is what the internal politics on the development of this were like. Did somebody high up decide that Amazon had to have a phone, no matter how bad the market looked like for it, command that it be done, and the whole hierarchy went along with it, even though most of the company was kinda meh about it? Or did a critical mass of lower-level people inside the company really think that this was a good idea?

Most of the tech press and community had a feeling that it was a bad idea that was unlikely to ever go anywhere, and it's hard to believe that the entire company was unaware of this and of the market facts behind it.
> That's only true for closed source systems.

What? This is a software bug. Open source software has bugs just as closed source software has bugs.

The average user of sage is not going to go hunting for a bug in sage's source, whether it's available or not, which is just the same as with Mathematica. Examining an unfamiliar code base will be of no help when you want to know why a certain integral was evaluated incorrectly.

> open source tools which are superior in every way

They are not superior. At best they are equivalent. What you list is a number of disparate tools that may or may not cooperate together well. What Mathematica provides by way of competition is a set of reasonably polished packages, all in one place.

Mathematica also makes it possible to quickly write a one-liner that solves a problem and lets you move along. This experience is simply not there for tools like sage. Sage's plotting (matplotlib, IIRC) is just not comparable.
Ever thought how our big data overlords (Google, Facebook, MS, Twitter, etc) just need to check for correlations between their users' data input and stock exchange movement?

They own the stock "matrix".
The previous thread seems to suggest wireless only.
> He did not feel or hear the supersonic boom as he passed the speed of sound, he said. He performed two slow back flips before a small parachute righted him.

Just out of curiosity, isn't this expected? It is my extremely layman understanding that the boom happens behind the object moving supersonically, and obviously if you're going faster than the speed of sound it won't catch up to you, right?
R is taught specifically because it is a statistical analysis language, which is what a Poli Sci student can expect to be doing a lot of after school.

R isn't really "for CS students", it's for statisticians and analytics professionals.

Just like chemists often write their own chemical modelling programs, it takes a lot of domain-specific knowledge to craft the correct algorithms for things like this.
OpenOffice and LibreOffice aren't magically free of security holes.

https://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html
But you don't need to sell return customers on your service. The only thing Amazon needs to have on its page for these people (when they're logged out, remember) is the search box. Everything else is for the first-time visitors.
... or alternatively entrench the pricing power of the big carriers by freezing-out upstarts.

If you can only activate your SIM with A, B or C they can present a 'price war' face whilst monopolising the market.

Why would A undercut B by anything more than pennies in such a captive market?

We see this in the UK with the Big Three ISPs offering increasingly silly incentives like supermarket shopping vouchers to poach customers from one another, but not actually growing their shared subscriber base or offering better products.
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that Wolfram Alpha when asked for a uniquely 3-colorable graph [1] will hand you a graph that is not uniquely 3-colorable (which is easy to verify by evaluating the presented chromatic polynomial at 3 which should yield 6 for a uniquely 3-colorable graph but actually yields 12 indicating two possible 3-colorings).

If you have a look at the Wolfram MathWorld article »Uniquely k-Colorable Graph« [2] you see the same wrong graph with the following information.

It is implemented in Mathematica as GraphData["UniquelyThreeColorableGraph"] and Uniquely3ColorableGraph in the Mathematica package Combinatorica` , in the latter case replacing the incorrect graph (from Harary 1994, cover and p. 139) present in earlier version.

So this bugfix did not really fix the bug. I reported it using the feedback form and we will see if the third attempt will get it right.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Uniquely3ColorableGraph

[2] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Uniquelyk-ColorableGraph.html
Seems like UCSB is has come out nowhere in the past few years. When I was applying to college in California only about 10 years ago, I didn't even really consider UCSB because of its reputation as a party school and because it was ranked much lower than Irvine and Davis. I'm sure the recent Nobel prize win and this will affect it's reputation significantly.
I remember exchange delays on mtgox reaching into the minutes! This algorithm breaks with mere seconds of delay.
Berkshire fundamentally was not a good business, he invested in a textile firm right around the time the North American textile industry started to face really heightened global competition. If I recall correctly, in '64 Buffett took control and tried to keep the thing going and had the mill invest some of its cash flow into the business, but all those investments ended up worthless as the mill eventually had to shutter. He could have deployed the capital elsewhere and earned positive returns.

Eventually (circa '67)he realized it was a lost cause and stopped investing in the mill, instead he used its cash flow to go out and invest in other companies (insurance, etc) which remain there to this day.
In some sense having one ID instead of two unique IPs is better?
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> when it's my life on the line

The risk to your life hasn't changed, unless you are writing from West Africa. I would be happy to make a bet with anyone on HN that they will not contract Ebola (assuming they are not posting from West Africa), and that the flu will kill far more Americans this year.

Let's be honest; people are acting on fear. It's very compelling to people in the moment, but I think we all know better and know that it's how people make dumb decisions for themselves and do very bad things to others. The person who stays calm when everyone else is panicking is much safer.

Fear is dangerous and contagious -- much more so than Ebola, because fear can spread over HN. Don't follow the herd; set the example for those around you.
You expect office workers who get confused when an icon is moved to understand and use CSS for layout? Probably even Latex is easier for this.

And how can HTML5 do anything that Excel can do?
I worked on this device. Every day we awaited the news that management had come to senses and cancelled the project. It was to my great surprise that it shipped at all.
People: you're misinterpreting the nature of my post. Go back, and look at what the original commenter was saying, and think about the context, please.
It only supports certain carriers and now we learn that carriers can lock it upon activation. I'd rather there be a small independant card that can easily be hot swapped to allow access to different carriers. Oh wait
I think your rough list is... Apple Google Microsoft (in terms of how lucrative developing for a given platform seems).

I like how Blackberry is considered 'effectively dead'; I've felt the same way since they failed to react to the iPhone.
I have to wonder if Amazon's failure to recognize the obvious here has anything to do with Bezos' "we are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time." That statement has always kind of bothered me. I get what he was trying to say but I have to think they believe they can innovate against markets.
> A secondary reason with closed systems in particular is that it may reveal methods it uses which is a competitive advantage to other systems.

I doubt this is the case. Mathematica at least doesn't really contain any "magic" in the actual algorithms and uses pretty well-known methods that are for the most part documented, if not open-source. Most of their competitive advantage is in the design of the language itself, the interface and in their internal virtual machine. These details aren't really things you would get any insight into with a "show the work" mode.

Your first reason is totally right though. "Show the work" mode requires a lot of extra stuff, because the way a person reasons through solving some thing like an integral isn't much like how a computer solves it. To make it spit out something really comprehensible to a person, you have to have lots of heuristics and it isn't generally very reliable. Even automated theorem provers (which Mathematica has some very basic functionality for) spit out rather hard to follow or extremely long proofs. Those are much more rigorous and less reliant on heuristics than a CAS and still don't produce "pretty" output (AFAIK, I'm not super experienced using automated provers or proof assistants).

Showing steps has been done before, e.g. by Macsyma like OP mentioned and by Wolfram too (Alpha does it). It's just not that great for problems of any substantial complexity.
Hydrogen burns very easily, but it doesn't matter. If you had a hydrogen leak at altitude you have bigger problems: You are about to fall.

The fire and fuel is much lighter than air and would quickly rise away from you, so there is no hazard there.

See the UFL for the numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammability_limit
It's hard to understand you fully because your writing is so unclear, eg 'But I am left behind with mass [...]' Realistically, interpersonal communication skills are just as important as programming skills. If this is how you communicate to your boss, no wonder he is ignoring you - your English is as bad as your young colleague's code. Sorry to be so blunt, but it's true. If you just wrote this in a hurry, then do yourself a favor and rewrite it to be clearer - and I will delete this criticism.

On to your main problem - your boss likes his new employee, from a combination of novelty and because it sounds good to say 'I have an Ivy League guy on my team.' This is very unfair to you but it's a common situation in human psychology. As you are at a Big company, you should have some way to talk to someone in human resources and explain your problem in general terms, to ask what the appropriate strategy is. Definitely get that advice before making a decision.

It seems to me that you have 3 basic options here: ask for a raise, ask for a transfer, or work-to-rule. Asking for a raise, you are basically saying 'hey, I am having to manage this guy in addition to my own job, it's a lot of extra work.' Ask for a transfer gets you out of the situation, and while it's disruptive for you it means the new guy becomes Someone Else's Problem. However that's a rather passive-aggressive strategy, which I don't think is a very good idea. Third option is to say 'of course I'm here to help you understand our in-house libraries and our codebase etc., but handling compiler output errors and so on are the sort of skill you have to build up for yourself.' If he still can't cope, bring him to your manager and say 'he (or we) need/s some more training with this compiler, Big Co should send him/us on a training course to improve his/our skills.'

I don't think you should blame your colleague too much for his lack of a team player mentality. Bear in mind that not only may he lack experience dealing with production code, he is probably also unfamiliar with professional and social 'rules' of the workplace. He has mostly been in college with peers of the same age and school year surrounded by supportive faculty and the ability to work on new projects rather than deal with legacy code. So he probably does not understand how much of your mental resources he is consuming. At worst he thinks you are biter and burnt out because you are not so obviously excited to be working at Big Co and you probably don't think it's cool to eat cold piazza and write code until 4am.
That would be Sage, but (and I say this as somebody who uses Sage wherever possible) it's light years behind Mathematica and always will be. Do you want to be the guy in charge of implementing all of the incredibly complicated functionality in Mathematica? Or even better, writing quality documentation for all of it, which Mathematica has? There is a lot of software out there for which the intersection of the people who possess the technical knowledge to write it correctly, and the people who are willing to do so for free, is empty. (In the cases where it's not, we call those "graduate students" :)
I give a lot of talks, and would move to HTML5 presentations in a second -- but the editing tools just aren't there yet. Sometimes I really just want to draw some shapes and show the relationships between them without having to go to a separate editor for that.

The best tool out there right now is http://slid.es but it doesn't come close to letting you represent things visually.
"Why is its kickstarter tanking?"

Easy answer: "Our plans have been to distribute the game through Steam"

No thanks.

Alternately: "speaking with the fine folks at Humble"

You mean another front for Steam?