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I get things done quickly with a combination things:

a) reduce reduce reduce. As much as possible, remove abstraction, remove layers, remove lines of code. A few things are useful to abstract, but for many abstractions, you optimistically trade the underlying complexity for a new layer of different complexity; and then it usually turns out you need to know the underlying layer too, so you actually have twice as much work.

b) I don't worry about getting things perfect (or locked down) the first time. Most things are poorly specified and will need changes, and it's easier to see what you really want, once you have something that's close. Usually, it takes two or three times doing the same thing before you get it right; in that spirit, don't stress over the first time. Also, the least amount of time you've invested in the first draft, the least ego you sacrifice to throw it away and do it right.

c) That said, use your experience to make more right choices than wrong ones, especially for things that are hard to change later. Consider how you will scale things: you don't need to make things scalable, but don't make it a dead end.

d) code re-use (as in calling existing functions) is nice, but don't be afraid of some near duplication: changing a core function "a little bit" to get it to work for your new case is a significant time investment. If you're not confident that the change will stick, copy and alter; you'll be more willing to throw the changes away if you need to after that.
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This is not surprising. Israel is the number-one allied country spying in America [1]

The problem is that with so many Israeli supporters in either of the administration [2] as well as in the FBI and on many campuses, any allegation of spying by whistleblowers is reacted by extreme retaliations. This is why we don't hear about it more often.

This is not a new issue [3] from Pollard [4] to Rosen [5], recently

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-spying-on-us-has-reac...

[2] http://www.thenation.com/blog/spy-story-harman-saban-and-aip...

[3] http://archive.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe122.html

[4] http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2014/0401/Who-is-Jon...

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Franklin,_Rose...

edited: typo
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It's a symbiotic relationship. Her lawyer's statement is crazy, but there is a nugget of fact there. JPL is much larger than Caltech, both in terms of budget and personnel. (http://www.caltech.edu/content/glance). I assume that is what his statement is getting at.
that's (sadly) what I keep envisioning an occulus for.

not for convenience, simply to shut out the rest of the world. full screen mode on steroids.
Degrade gracefully. Or use this as a starting point for functionality: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Lafferty is amazing. He should be more well known, and deserves a more prominent place outside of science fiction, too.
Anyone know a nice Rust audio library to go with this? Should we be wrapping PortAudio or something?
Keep you fucking feminzai thoughts to yourself. Don't ever again post this site. This is your father's property.

Also, never ever ever show up in front me in real life. I will fuck you so hard your all feminist thoughts will become stone age.

Now , go FUCK yourself.
Employees (1)

JPL: 5,000
Caltech: 3,900

Budget

JPL: $1.5 billion
Campus: $580 million
JPL's budget is about three times that of non-JPL CalTech[1], $1.5B vs $580M. The "cornerstone" remark is accurate from a financial point of view.

[1] http://www.caltech.edu/content/glance
I am a big fan of design by contract. (http://retromocha.com/obvious/) I don't trust user input in any form, including the database.

So, while a system like TypeScript that checks types in the code is fantastic, it doesn't check types in the input, which is how a lot of problems happen in the first place.

Seriously, just import one legacy dataset into your system or have to work with some JSON api, and all of a sudden you can't trust that the data is valid, correctly typed, or even sane.

Doing proper validation of types and data integrity at any input point can save you a whole category of sadly common bugs. That includes data coming out of any data source you use, like a database.

Runtime type checking is another tool to make validated data a common, sane thing.
Guys, What's the best local deals app for travelers in US?
Not looking for yelp :)

I'm traveling to NY - Florida - Houston - San Francisco and then back to New Zealand, so looking for an app that helps me discover new places and save $$ while i am travelling.

Most importantly, I want the app to have watchlist functionality where i can save things i want to see/go to .. app notifies me if/when it finds them? Thanks!
Are you fucking autistic beta ?

Go fuck yourself and grow some balls instead of whinning.

You mentally retarded sick fuck. Is this what your mother father have taught you ? Judge by who is wearing what ?

No wonder US is bastardized country.
Orthogonal to this post, why would anyone want AT&T fiber anyway? Who cares if you have 1gbps to the first hop if AT&T et. al refuse to peer at more than 1gbp with L3, Cognet, Hurricane Electric, etc it's worthless.
Just disable the stylesheet and it scrolls perfectly. On Firefox on Linux that is View->Page Style->No Style.
This is mis-information, imho. I'd never trust no-name batteries in the Field. Empirical testing has shown over time they do not hold up. I don't claim to know why, but I just know that cheaper batteries create more landfill waste over time, which means more hassle shopping/disposing of them.They are fine for your bathroom scale, tho.
> How difficult is it to build an ISP?

Technically speaking, it's a road well-traveled. It's just a big network. Would be a fun startup, actually -- billing systems, network design, IPv6, capacity modeling, peering, value-adds for your customers, all the data you could imagine for what your customers were doing if you're so ethically inclined. There's a cornucopia of stuff to hack on to make a good ISP. These days you're somewhat expected to deliver television and telephony as well, with even more fun projects buried in both (just ask the people hacking on X1 at Comcast).

The hard part is legal, with regulation and government-supported anticompetitive practices making it nigh impossible. Ask Dane Jasper about his fiber rollout in the Bay Area and you'll see what I mean (he lurks here).

> where are the 4G home internet providers?

Sprint bought Clear, the only one I'm aware of.
It would be nice if the README mentioned it was originally based on my https://github.com/quartzjer/js0n :)
You idiot. People like you are disgrace to scientific community. Seriously , your sick thoughts are the problem , no one else.

You son / daughter of a bitch are now going to control who is wearing what ? Really ?

May be that's why you are such small person commenting on this stupid site and won't achieve anything better in life.

Seriously, check your mental health. You retard fuck.
Type checking at runtime allows for runtime data contracts. There are a lot of benefits to that, largely in being able to enforce stronger boundaries in your code.

Strong boundaries allow for potentially better code reuse, fewer bugs, and a more confident style. Once you setup a type or validation boundary, you know that you no longer need to check for type errors and so forth elsewhere in the code, if only for the fact that the code will blow up before it even gets there.

That means you write less code, have fewer bugs, and can spend more time doing important things, like playing Quake 2.
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That was the real "killer app" for a device like this. Augmented reality is one thing, but even having a wearable reader that could both magnify and fix colour and contrast would be a huge help to an awful lot of people. Or one of the killer apps, at least; many's the time in my youth (as an avionics tech) when I would have killed for a HUD that "knew" what I was looking at when I had both hands busy while crammed feet-only-out into a dark space about the size of a small microwave oven deep in the guts of a military aircraft. I imagine that isn't the only kind of job where something like that would come in pretty handy. But that's not kewl or bleeding-edge, just practical and productive.
Yes.

http://blog.llvm.org/2010/01/address-of-label-and-indirect-b...

A venerable interpreter implementation trick.
The regulatory environment, private/public ownership intermingling, geographic terrain, and related infrastructure (roads, buildings, etc) make it quite difficult to assess that.

They all vary from one location to the next, and it makes it quite difficult to penetrate. The larger the city (read: >1M residents) the far more entrenched incumbents are.
Rust's syntax has actually been getting more wordy and less variable-y. At least, that's what happened when the changed around Box and some other syntax-sugar'd variables.

I wouldn't expect Rust to go back to shorthand after leaving it.
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This is has been a great story. Many great space missions have had a major component failure and still provided data that changed our view on things. I find it especially interesting to see if the lander gets 'spit out' when the comet starts outgassing, we might get still more data out of it if it returns to a spot with good solar coverage. Given the lander's mass and the lack of harpoons, if it is in a position to get pushed out I expect there is a very good chance it will.
Did you read the part in the article about CSP?
I wish you comment were downvoted instead of karmakaze's one.

He is expressing an opinion and even if he is wrong, it is still an interesting idea, and shows some effort. A decent short explanation could show the mistake, and make a good comment->answer combo.

Instead you quoted a comment which is out of context ( Feynman's comment is intended for physicists of his level ), contributing nothing.

( Please don't take this as a personal attack ( it isn't), but more a thought what's wrong with HN in light of recent debate )
I don't know about 18F's perspective but most of the places I've heard about upgraded off of XP rather than deal with it not being supported (waivers aren't a given, require work and paid support hits already-tight budgets). Not even installing SP3 would be even harder to justify and that's one of the areas where the increased security panic is actually useful.
What does the headline mean? What does "work" mean? More money for the store? An increased in illness as people use dirty bags? It would have been nice to indicate what this means at the beginning of the article.
Extremely difficult. There is plenty of technical expertise in networking, laying fiber, trenching, construction, equipment etc... around. Even with the local terrain. The problem is with the legal landscape.

Take Google for instance. The biggest hurdles they had to deployment are the protective hurdles put in place by ISP friendly politicians. Some states have regulation in place that new deployments must reach last mile to virtually every resident, which is cost and time prohibitive when there's no profit initially. You have to bite the bullet and do the deployment as necessary, bend to the legal winds and bear the full cost (which, even for Google may be a bit high) with no guarantee of profit until years after deployment.

4G is a bit tricky as well since there are areas where you'll have little choice but to rent existing towers or build your own. In some places, the terrain gets in the way, so towers are fairly limited in what they can do. Then there are the issues with maintenance and safety for crews working on these towers, which cell providers don't seem to care much about http://www.propublica.org/article/cell-tower-fatalities
>How difficult is it to build an ISP?

The bandwith is cheap. There are a lot of solutions that can get you into peoples' homes. It is tough to get utility right of way access, but not impossible. Here is the kicker. If you succeed (after some expense) in setting all of these things up and getting more than a few customers; then the local incumbents will open up their DOCSIS 3 modems or "roll out U-verse upgrades", cut their prices, and destroy your baby ISP in its crib.
Duracell (formerly Mallory) makes batteries for everything, including things like hearing aids (which go through them like crazy due to the necessarily small size). It's not all about the double-A, it's not even all about the alkaline, and not everything can be recharged practically.
I mostly agree with this with some additions/deletions:

0. Windows. Everything else flows from the monopoly, including Office/Excel.

Remove #3, Xbox is not a big money maker for them, IIRC. Remove #5, Live/Bing are a joke, unless I'm misunderstanding what Live is.

Funny, neither one of us mentioned IE, which was dominant for a long time.
Broadcasting over the air is subject to radio spectrum licenses/auctions, which is the hardest part for a new "startup" entrant.

Wireless is also very expensive per GB compared to cable internet, and doesn't provide too many economies of scale when deploying in urban areas, which have the most customers and are the most profitable for wired technologies (good luck competing in these areas...).

ISPs are one of those industries that aren't going to be fixed by startups, you need government willpower and action.
I agree completely. Entanglement is everywhere.

To calculate the correct energy of the electrons in a molecule it's necessary to use entanglement. But these molecular examples may be explained using some weird classical models with local hidden variables, and with electrons that interact with each other to conspire and provide the right result of the measurement. The quantum mechanical explanation is actually more simple, but not "intuitive".

Almost all the discussions about entanglement discuss the strange case of two entangled particles that are far away. The distance between the particles is only a trick to:

* be sure that one of them can't communicate to the other and tell the result of the measurement

* be sure that there is no a local hidden variable theory that explain the result
Not quite the same, given Yukon has a population density (2011) 0.07 /km2 (0.18 /sq mi), which is actually fairly hard to make a profit on.
I hate websites that have a policy of only linking back to other content on their site, but never to external links the like the subject of the damn article. This seems like an excellent thing for a smart browser tab to detect and avoid.
This is really cool. I took a (very) basic class on modern physics with Susskind; awesome guy and great at explaining things. Will have to read through this!
You're not missing anything by not reading it. [0]

The above poster believes that the phrase

> maximize shareholder value

originated as a joke in the writing of Neal Stephenson and is not simply the financial terminology it appears to be.

[0] It was Cryptonomicon, not Snow Crash.
So you are saying pictures of scenes degrading and objectifying women as sexual objects can't make women feel degraded and objectified?
I have seen lots of sites (including some major shopping sites) break with GA blocked; a common coding pattern in these cases seems to be an onclick handler that is something like "shadyTrackingFunction() && submit; return false;".
That's fascinating, because Steve Yegge suggests that density tolerance is a factor of skill. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.htm...
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That does not work because light speed has a limit. It is true that the photon does not experience time. Imagine a photon traveling a distance of 1 light year towards us( we are stationary). In it's reference frame it will do so immediately but in our it takes 1 year. For the photon to travel to us in zero time in both frames, the speed of light would have to be infinite, which we know it isn't.
AT&T sounds like a politician, making promises, denying their comments and backpedaling all the time. Now you can add bluffing too.
Savoire/faire is every/where!

http://www.businessinsider.com/nazi-scientists-space-program...
I don't think it's necessarily because of any particular fit, it's just those odd "big in Japan" [1] phenomena where an artist reaches a higher celebrity status in a foreign country, especially in Japan.

Lafferty is closer in style to authors like Vonnegut, Dick, Burroughs and Murakami than to more classical scifi writers. Lafferty is an oddity. If you think Vonnegut is a bit of an oddball — that digressive, chatty, ironically self-referential style is not for everyone — then Lafferty is something else again. His writing sometimes borders on schizophrenic ramblings, mixing baroque allegory with Vonnegutian tall tales, flamboyant artifice (Wes Anderson comes to mind, but also Borges) and broad vaudeville comedy, with no attention to realism. However, beneath the oddball exterior is a rather thoughtful humanist.

His most well-known novel, Past Master, is masterpiece in which politicians from the future kidnap Thomas More to help fix their utopian society. It sounds like something Alfred Bester (who was also into this sort of colourful, balls-to-the-wall storytelling) could have written, but goes off in an unexpected direction.

If you want to read only one thing by Lafferty, I think it should be the short story "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne", one of the finest time-travel paradox stories ever written. It's short, can be read in its entirety on Google Books [2]. (Edit: Actually, Google Books' preview skips two pages, not sure if it's possible to get them.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_in_Japan_(phrase)

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=Y_FoU_KMOmkC&pg=PA171&lpg=P...
>>How difficult is it to build an ISP?

Check this out... http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/04/one-big-reason-we-la...
The site looks interesting, but it's difficult to find the information that is related to the discussion. Does this site have a page that discusses specifically entanglement? EPR paradox? Bell inecuality? I'd like to see a link to the specific relevant page and not a link to the general site.
> Then there are the issues with maintenance and safety for crews working on these towers, which cell providers don't seem to care much about http://www.propublica.org/article/cell-tower-fatalities

Speaking as a former radio engineer, I was surprised ProPublica focused specifically on mobile phone providers there (I watched that Frontline special with interest, given my former line of work; I've been to many towers and have seen many memorials at their bases). Tower climbing even in traditional broadcast has long been known to be one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Most climbers freeclimb a significant majority of the tower and, honestly, I can understand why: safely climbing a tall tower without an elevator takes hours.

Jay Guilford is also a really bad example. To its credit, though, the documentary at least went into why, but oddly pushed blame back on the providers for his mistakes due to pressure. His was a weird citation when the message, which you clearly received and act upon, was cellular providers' negligence and attempts at liability minimization.
It's developed in GWT afaik
It would still be acceptable for a large number of folks who do primarily browsing/downloading, but for Netflix et al (which is quickly becoming the primary means of entertainment for a lot of people), it's not worth it. I'd say 10Gbp peering or it's not worth it.
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I would argue that using the term "entanglement" to refer to the situation where "the entanglement of the system is much more apparent" or "tensor products are not a good approximation anymore" is completely reasonable. In contrast, when you say that "all components of a quantum system [that appears in nature] are always entangled" then this is trivially true in a technical sense, but highly misleading. To produce and stabilize non-trivial amounts of entanglement in a way that it can be harnessed for quantum information processing is certainly an interesting and highly non-trivial task which people are spending lots of effort on.
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finally we can do mounted archery in da city!
The Xbox division makes over $8.5B/year in revenue and is the 4th largest division after Office, Windows, and Server.

I'm sure MSFT has been disappointed with the profits they've seen from Xbox due to the repair charges and higher royalties and sales costs than expected. On the other hand, they earn a ton of revenue from Xbox and have Microsoft products in tens of millions of households.
The real world application is China using QKD to encrypt their military communications.
I have never found a good, simple analogy. The best I've got is still a mathematical explanation, but I think it can make it "click" for some people:

You have two photon detectors that you can rotate; one is in New York and one is in Paris. Two photons are entangled and one is sent to New York for measurement, and one is sent to Paris for measurement. What you find is that while each photon's polarization measurement is random, if you take the "random" values you get for both and compute their correlation over many trials, this value is a function of the difference in angles between the photon detector in New York and the photon detector in Paris.

But here's the kicker: each photon detector can be rotated while the photons are in flight, before they get there. So how is it that the correlation is a function of both photon detector angles then? Especially considering it is light that you're measuring, and nothing can travel faster than light. That's why it's called spooky action at a distance.

(Edit: Let me know if this makes any sense. I'm in a continual search for the simplest explanation of this phenomenon.)
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Watch, not read, these are video recordings of courses. About 20 courses with about 10 lectures each, usually about 2 hours.
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The legal filing has (much) more --

http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

I found one surprising thing in the complaint. If a JPL supervisor was told about an ITAR violation, there would be an immediate investigation with 100% certainty. It would be a matter of hours, not months as is alleged.

There are two workplace rule violations you can go to jail for, ITAR and time card fraud -- these are criminal, not civil, matters. So the complaint is making extremely serious accusations.
I wonder if LA is too far from the Valley? Investors outside SV not getting it was one concern that came to mind.
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Here is the course on quantum entanglement [1] but depending on prior knowledge it may be wise to first go through the courses on classical [2] and quantum [3] mechanics. He tries to keep everything as self-contained as possible but does not go through the very basics things like Lagrangians and Hamiltonians every time.

[1] http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/quantum-entanglement/2...

[2] http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/classical-mechanics/20...

[3] http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/quantum-mechanics/2012...
I understood your BR reference but I'd counter that the dystopian future films are what the public likes even if they aren't what they initially want as the box office receipts show they lap these films up.

The problem with why you're getting so many comments about your BR reference is you made it way too obscure and it even comes off as a little hipster-ish. Also, (the rest of this response is in reference to your replies to said comments) perhaps instead of trying to land the flaming plane, you should have just bailed out instead.