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That's exactly the point of the metaphysical problem. And you could rephrase as: if we could make an exact replica of the universe, would it behave just as ours or would it diverge away? Laplace says it would behave just as ours, but it's not obvious. It's not a question about chaos or the computability of the universe, it's a question about whether true randomness exists in the laws of nature.
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Bind everything to window is the same as "put everything in global".

It simply is not a long term viable strategy, we've been there, we've done that, it does not work. Perhaps that's not what you mean.

Also plain javascript doesn't have observables in most browsers, and any SPA without an observable system can only reach a certain level of complexity.

TBH, what you write is still so far from reality, that plain javascript is enough, that I am a little hesitant to take your comment seriously.
Great article on Centauri Dreams speculating about what a civilisation living on a planet orbiting such a star might experience: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=12671
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Looks like the only code they've published is here: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/nifi/

So it's only the site code for now. We'll have to wait, then. NiFi looks interesting...
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9...
It is time to understand that this kind of noise is result of EU grants given to research eating bugs.

I am not arguing that eating much of meat is necessary - I do not eat much of the meat and maybe there are some benefits in eating bugs.

But I am sure that people in responsible nations who to not bread exponentially do not need to change their habits because of people who do.
A question and answer are not an immutable key value pair. Revisiting old questions can sometimes yield new results as other information has been added to one's schema.

Keep questioning?!
Perhaps the confusion comes from a particular set of facts that would seem to contradict what you are saying. Say company 1 is first to file for the patent. Company 2 has been working on the same product, but files late relative to company 1, so loses out in getting the patent. At the same time company 2 was, in fact, the first to invent.

Wouldn't the earlier work performed by company 2 be prior art, and be used to invalidate company 1's patent? In that event, what is the value of a first-to-file system, if a competing inventor can use their earlier invention as prior art? And if a competing inventor can't use their evidence of earlier invention as prior art, why not? Perhaps it's simplistic, but common sense would seem to dictate that for "first to file" to mean anything, prior art would have to be disregarded.
It might come under fair use, but can this site afford to make that case?

It does seem like an awful lot of one show to be using. They'd probably be better off if they pulled this mix of concepts from multiple sources. There's really no educational reason this site needs to be Seinfeld only. It seems like they're trading off the original content perhaps a little more than is fair.
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To be fair, I live a bit in the future. I build apps for tech people who are running up to date browsers, and that don't face the consuming billions. On top of that, Polymer polyfills webcomponents and two-way databinding of templates.

Perhaps my apps haven't gotten big enough to see this binding in global thing fail, but I'm not sure how it would ever. You properly namespace everything right?
> In that event, what is the value of a first-to-file system, if a competing inventor can use their earlier invention as prior art?

If company 2 had published their work, then it would count as prior art. The benefit of first-to-file is that there's no more expensive discovery to go through inventors' lab notebooks or other things to try to establish the definitive date when someone "invented" something. Instead, this gets reduced to checking a publication date, which should be a matter of public record. That reduces litigation costs. It also encourages people to publish their research. Both of those are good things.
The only software I pay for is my IDE :).
", so my apologies if my comments sound harsh or cynical."

While in fact you don't mean them to _just_ be harsh or cynical, but you also want to personally insult the OP and make him feel bad about posting something.

'Apology declined' I would think.
There are already more Chinese people than 'white' people. They've won! Please join the queue at the nearest surrender booth.
I want to second that. I switched from PGP/MIME to inline PGP a while ago, since multiple of my contacts complained about troubles reading mails.

K-9 on android does not have support for PGP/MIME, probably wont have it for the time to come as it requires fundamental changes in the way the program stores the mails. There doesn't seem to be any open-source mail app on android that can handle PGP/MIME (correct me if I am wrong, I really like to know)

Windows Mail displays the mail's content as an attached text file, which is quite inconvenient.

On the plus side, several web clients I have encountered are now able to handle it. So there is hope.
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> Rails 5.0 is in most likelihood going to target Ruby 2.2. There's a bunch of optimizations coming in Ruby 2.2 that are going to be very nice, but most importantly for Rails, symbols are going to be garbage collected.

I'm looking forward for Rails 5 and Ruby 2.2 and the expected performance improvements.
I'm not sure Planck time has much to do with this. The universe is not thought to be quantized in time, i.e. there is no requirement that the time period between two events is a multiple of the Planck time.
> On the plus side, several web clients I have encountered are now able to handle it. So there is hope.

Handle PGP/MIME or inline PGP? Which web clients? Thanks.
Are you going to submit this to a journal or is it a university project?
Check out Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind for a good book on practicing meditation. It's not religious, but basically a transcript of a Zen Master's talks on zen and the practice of meditation to his group of students. It's what I recommend to people who want to 'get' meditation.

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Shunryu-Suzuki/dp/1...

Not specifically related to meditation, but The Tao of Pooh is still the best book I know of that deals with the concepts behind this stuff. I re-read these books whenever I lose my way, which happens more often than I'd like to admit ;)
In what sense? Do you mean expensive to learn?
The AIA now allows third parties to submit prior art before a patent is issued. The fine folks at http://www.pubpat.org/ might be able to help.
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Quotas are exactly what you need. But not hiring quotas.

Feel free to adjust the percentages below, but this is what you should aim for to eventually get to gender diversity (for example):

Tell recruiters you want 50% of the qualified candidates they send to you to be female.

Evaluate resumes in a form stripped of as much identifying information as possible.

Half of all candidates interviewed should be female. If not, try to identify an additional upstream bias, perhaps at the resume evaluation stage (example: Women have less free time for side projects, so make sure that when you evaluate a Github account it is for quality not quantity).

Aim for diversity in your interviewers. Half of the interviewing employees should be female. If that isn't possible, at least one of the interviewing employees must be female (and if you only have one interviewing female employee, she should get a 'creep factor' veto, especially if anyone else in the company (like a founder) has a veto. If that isn't possible (because you have no female employees), fix it and hire a woman already.

That's it. No need for actual hiring quotas after that point, you should be able to hire for merit out of the interviewees. If you end up not being gender diverse (ie. only industry average or below), figure out why (perhaps an existing interviewing employee is setting of their 'creep factor' alarms so they don't accept your offer, or there is a promotion bias and talented women aren't sticking around after you hire them).

In parallel, you can make similar efforts around race, etc.
> “We calculate that there should be more than a trillion stars in the observable universe moving at velocities of more than a tenth the speed of light,” says Loeb.

But wouldn't they be extremely easy to detect experimentally (through red/blue shift a.k.a. doppler)? I'm a bit puzzled why this sounds purely theoretical...
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A. I've seen the book. I have a copy of it, but it's too difficult to understand and huge in sizzle. Personally, I think ADM is better than CLRS. Also, it's not intuitive and "user"-friendly.
B. I asked for course recommendations, though I have this book, It's not possible for me to easily afford such books, they are way too costly and my parents won't let me spend my pocket money on them.
There are several arguments I can see in favor of a fork.

1. Ensure that there will be a systemd-free variant of debian even beyond jessie.

2. Provide a tangible metric of the interest in such a variant.

3. Provide a platform on which alternatives to systemd can be developed and promoted. After all, systemd it must be said, addresses some legitimate concerns, largely concerned with service tracking and a generally far more dynamic computing environment. The recent Future of FreeBSD presentation by Jordan Hubbard is actually one of the more eloquent arguments in this light (noting that FreeBSD is both Not Linux and Doesn't Have Systemd).

The primary argument against forking is that it divides efforts. My counterargument is that forking makes the existing divide between views on a given approach tangible and explicitly visible. Free Software, particularly under the GNU GPL or equivalent copyleft, also explicitly preserves the right to merge projects which have forked, as has in fact been the case in several notable instances -- GCC/EGCS, the long-running TK

For a specific study of the topic, see "A Comprehensive Study of Software Forks: Dates, Reasons and Outcomes" by Gregorio Robles and Jesuus M. Gonzalez-Barahona

http://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/paper_0.pdf

It cites: GCC/EGCS, xpdf/poppler, GNU Emac/Xemacs, the numerous OpenOffice forks, X.org/XFree, NetBSD/OpenBSD, Wireshark/Ethereal, Gerequi/Amarok, MySQL/Miriadb. In total the paper explores some 220 forks, analyzing them by software area (e.g., networking, web apps, development, etc.), year of initiation, and reason. "Technical" accounts for the most at 27%, "differences among technical team" is sixth at 7.3%.

Resolution of forks is of particular interest:

Successful branching: 43.6%

Discontinuation of original: 29.8%

Discontinuation of fork: 13.8%

Discontinuation of both original and fork: 8.7%

Re-merging of fork: 3.2%

Other: 0.9%

As a critic of systemd and proponent of the concepts of Free Software, including the Freedom to Fork, I'm in support of this and similar efforts.
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When is this language expected to go 1.0 ?

I've seen many discussions here about rechanging the api of the libraries since they were expecting features from the language.
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But affirmative action doesn't recognize merit, it rewards luck (at being the minority given the job) and is designed to even out ethnic/sex ratios without regard for productivity.

Also, a meritocratic system only requires the "winners" are chosen on the merit of their work. It will never be possible to eliminate all disadvantages which might prevent somebody from achieving some abstract concept of potential.
I hear this very often, but the difference with me is that I don't feel very confident in any language. I have a mediocre experience in 4 or 5, but I don't know any one language in serious depth.

You might argue that this doesn't matter, and it's the overall programming mindset that counts. The problem is that the interviewers tend to want me to write the answers to algorithmic problems in a real programming languages, and because I am out of practice, I spend too much time thinking about how to write the language, rather than the problem itself.

I should also add that in the interviews I've had, it's been quite common that interviewers ask quite advanced-knowledge questions about a specific programming language. E.g. I was recently asked by a very well-respected company to explain what a Future was in Java, and I had no idea.

Those are the reasons I think it would be good to really explore a single language.
Timing attacks are not working in reality because of many things. You know how many times hackers actually used it? I bet 0. Just little bit faster than bruteforce.

But that's how you can make them faster http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/07/timing-attack-666-faster...
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For me the main problem with the "if the demon says TV then I listen to the radio" paradox is that it asks the demon to predict its own computation.

Take as an example COnways game of life. It is perfectly predictable in the future - given current state, I can easily predict the state N steps in the future (I just run the simulation on my side computer). And clearly my side prediction will have no impact on how the game-of-life evolves. I can even insert my prediction into the game-of-life by changing the value of my cell (alive=watch TV, dead=listen to radio). Even if a "perverse" in-game character chooses to do the opposite of my prediction, it doesn't alter the fact that I can perfectly predict future of the game universe.

But if I am asked to make that prediction inside the game of life using a program embedded in the game-of-life, then that is a lot harder. It seems very unlikely that I could encode the state of the universe in a way that allows my prediction program to run in any way more efficiently than just letting the game-of-life play out. I'm pretty sure that the Halting problem could be used to demonstrate this.

So for me it makes a big difference whether you constrain the demon to "in universe" computation or "out of universe" computation.
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I've been thinking since quite a while to replace my current laptop. It's a 2011 VAIO which I modified to run Ubuntu 14.04 . But, it seems to be giving up on me since a few days, and with the thanksgiving discounts going, I might actually get myself one :P

So, what is the best laptop that runs Linux natively, or after modifying. Plus, try to make it a little more affordable($200 - $850).

P.S. Nobody mention the Mac, it's a beauty in itself, and I won't be able to replace OS X by Linux emotionally.
And if you have a PHP app, timing attack is the very last thing to worry about... go prevent XSS first :) Re http://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress.html#details
Although the numbers given seem close to correct on Haswell and Sandy Bridge (about 4 cycles overhead per function call) it's almost impossible to know whether this was by luck or good design. It's always dangerous to presume that the code you write in C has any bearing on the actual assembly executed by the processor.

Lest one think this is an idle warning, when I tried to verify his results on my machine I found that even when I prevented the inlining of the functions, "gcc-4.9 -O3" persistently optimized away the second function call by generating code like this:

f2:
callq 400700 <tree1>
mov %rax,%rdi
jmpq 400700 <tree1>

It called the function as expected the first time, reusing the first argument in %rdi that it was called with. It moved the return value from that first call from %rax to %rdi as expected. But then rather than issuing a second call and creating a new stack frame, the compiler realized that since it was just returning the value without further processing, it could "tail call optimize" by jumping directly into the called function and letting it return directly to the top level.

So unless you carefully verify the generated assembly, you might end up measuring only half the calls you would expect. In this case it might not matter much (jmp and call are about equal in cost) but it's no longer actually measuring call/return overhead as the title says. Using '-O1' gave me the code closer to what one would expect.
You are saying you can do market research but it seems to me after building the product you realized it was not a very hot field to be in. Not to point fingers at you but this should be a good takeaway for you. It may be easier to assume before you build but in some cases it may not work out later on.

Now, to answer your question, if you cannot get to your customer yourself maybe you should have not entered this market to begin with. Even if you hire a "co-founder" or an independent contractor to "sell" for you this may still not work out. For one thing, it seems you have not tested out your idea with customers. So, you may or may not have a product that solves a pain point. Although, you may get lucky to find a partner who is effectively able to communicate back customer feedback to help you in product development.

This stuff will take time. Just don't give up. And I'd suggest if you really believe in your idea you should go talk to your customers yourself. If this idea doesn't work out, next time may be build something for yourself or your friends so you don't have as much anxiety when it comes to talking to your users.
I think you could just as well make the opposite argument: a retreat can be an easier way to get started, because it takes you away from your normal, everyday surroundings, and by really making it the main focus, and purpose of this time, it becomes easier to do, rather than to try and squeeze it into your existing schedule.
There's a beautiful meditation retreat in Northern Thailand http://www.wetours.com/meditation-retreat-in-northern-thaila... (relatively meaning: get up early, no meals after lunch, very regimented day... but nobody will give you evil eyes and the people - especially the head monk - are very relaxed, easy going and have a great sense of humor).
Not saying one way is better than the other, just that both are feasible choices :)
> Currently 99% of websites are not SPAs, but I think a lot of sites will switch to SPAs in the future, since they offer a better UX(no full reloads, more interactivity etc) in most cases. I'm sure customers will demand these sort of sites once they start using more SPAs.

I can see highly interactive sites switching, but most sites are not highly interactive and would have no reason to switch to an SPA. For any content (as opposed to interaction) heavy site, like a blog, I can't see any advantage of an SPA. Server rendered pages can be cached and served lightning fast. For an SPA, in addition to the time to transfer the page content and assets (which is required for both server and SPA apps), they have to load a JS framework and then render the page browser side. This will cause slower load times, so I don't see many sites choosing this trade off unless they are highly interactive.
That's a pretty limited view of things. It's possible that that's the case, but there's a lot of places where I've met people who are great at sales:

- Past startups that I've worked at. Unless someone has only worked at massive companies where they were completely isolated from the sales cycle, there's a pretty good chance they've had at least some interactions with sales.

- Barcamp (http://barcamp.org/w/page/402984/FrontPage) there's usually one of these in town on at least a semi-annual basis. It's not just "coders" that come out to these, people involved in all aspects of the business of software show up.

- Past clients. While doing freelance work, most of my clients were people who ran businesses, had a little to no tech background, and had an idea for a tech project that they thought could improve their business.

- Other "coders" in my network who have struck out on their own. Even if none of the above applies to you, there's a pretty good chance that there's only 2 degrees of separation between you and someone who could help.
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I disagree. It's good that children know that the volume and area of a sphere is something with pi (and can search the exact constant in Wikipedia).

I like the idea that the volume of a sphere is half of the volume of the box. I never thought about it. But this is more useful as a rule of thumb and a trick to remind the actual formula:

* It's a volume, so it's something like r^3

* It's round, so it has a pi

* Half of the box is 1/2 (2r)^3 = 4r^3

* Now: X * pi * r^3 ~= 4 r^3

* And pi ~= 3 so, X * 3 = 4, then X=4/3 and V=4/3 pi r^3
Knowing lwf, I suspect this took a day or two out of the whole internship...
I'd like this to be compared to an equal amount of non-stimulated time that is not necessarily meditation.

I feel that the main issue here could be that a lot of people, in western culture at least, are constantly stimulated.
Trillion: 10^12

Number of stars in observable universe: 10^22 to 10^24
The point is not that it's a particular strain. The point is that most people can't just sit back and let their mind go - to maintain focus requires concentration, and concentration is not "free" - it takes energy. It may feel energising - especially after you're done -, the same way exercise does, but people who think that meditation is "just relaxation" usually have no idea what is involved.
1. Landing Page Copy:

This piece of text is your USP "Identifies which of your subscribers are influencers"

I think that all you need is , with a slight modification:

i. "Identify influencers in you email list" and

ii. the 4 bullet points above the How it works video. ie

"Generate relevant content for your audience (more traffic)

Segment your audience so you can send targeted offers (save money)

Create offers that will convert better (more revenue)

Target advertising dollars that reaches your ideal audience (higher ROI)"

Everything else is too much to read - most people are just not going to do that.

2. How it works Video:

This can then come directly under this copy (in place of the infographic you have currently.

3. Background Image:

This is just too random. You want something that's more reflective of your users end state after they've used your product.

4. Call to Action button:

Instead of what you have, induce a little excitement/urgency by changing the text in the button to something like "Get Early Access".

Being "notified" is just boring.

Note: Everything to this point, ie the landing page copy, the video and the CTA button should fit on one page without scrolling.

5. Other Links:

The purpose of this pre-launch landing page is to get people to click on the CTA button and give you their email address, not click around.

a. If you take the suggestion I made in #2, that removes the need for the "How it works" link in the header

b. Similarly, the CTA button in the header is redundant

c. The Pricing link: Given that people haven't had a chance to play around with your product, giving them info on pricing is without context and they can't really judge whether the features make sense or not. Also, there's no comparison info to similar products to judge the value of your offering.

I suggest one of 2 paths:

i. Either remove pricing info for now and see if the landing page with the video itself converts or not or

ii. Try testing pricing with a 3-page landing page strategy like Buffer did: https://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-wee...

Hope that all made sense.