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What do you mean by variations of reality only specific to you?

This is from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

There is a rather more dramatic test than the one outlined above for people prepared to put their lives on the line: use a machine which kills them if a random quantum decay happens. If MWI is true, they will still be alive in the world where the decay didn't happen and would feel no interruption in their stream of consciousness. By repeating this process a number of times, their continued consciousness would be arbitrarily unlikely unless MWI was true, when they would be alive in all the worlds where the random decay was on their side. From their viewpoint they would be immune to this death process. Clearly, if MWI does not hold, they would be dead in the one world. Other people would generally just see them die and would not be able to benefit from the result of this experiment.

So it seems that the MWI assumes that all possible realities exist simultaneously? If this is true, then trying to commit suicide would make logical sense. You can do crazy stunts and not die, and if you don't die, you'd become famous.
If that works for you, great, stay with it.

But in general, I don't see anything keeping a person from holding their hands in alignment over a standard keyboard and typing. Any keyboard does involve small finger movement to hit the different keys, so a can't see how changing key layout changes anything.

Each person has a somewhat different pattern of habitual tension that can interfere with even normally easy activities, so there are many adjustments work well for some but not for others. Mice are a different story in that they require arm movements for simple input, an inherently inefficient setup.
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Really? It seems to me that half of those items are the exact opposite of what worked well for Apple, and many of the things from the list that Apple tried didn't work out so well (eg. 63, about embracing Java).

I think Apple's formula for success over the past decade boils down to three key elements:

1. Throwing out all the old hardware and software designs

2. Taking NeXTSTEP mainstream

3. Jonathan Ive

Number 1 in my list was only weakly expressed by the Wired list, number 2 was said in some ways, but there were also some conflicting suggestions, and number 3 was completely unanticipated, despite being by far the most important factor.
Duke, UNC, and NC State are all good, with othe smaller colleges in the area as well - and the NC School of Science and Math (high school for gifted/talented math/science) is worth including, too. I think the IBM campus in RTP is its largest. Several other tech companies in RTP as well. Easy weekend trips to the beach or the mountains (I have done day snowboarding trips to the NC or VA mountains by getting up early enough, and Snowshoe in West Va is not too bad a trip, if you're into snow sports.) It's a good area..
If you want more more buttons I recommend this: http://retail.contourdesign.com/?/products/23

I can't imagine using using a mouse like that.
Of course there are excuses. It's a big hassle to upgrade a computer. There's the time involved, so if you can't spare a block of a few hours to be dedicated to your computer while not being able to use it, then that's a big incentive not to upgrade. Also, there's the worrying that it can cause that if something goes wrong, you're going to either lose all your data or have to load it from a backup if you have one.

For something that offers only some speed improvements and no big new features, I have very little reason to upgrade. I wonder what gity is using that makes it 10.6-only.
Yes, I was very pleasantly surprised after all the nit-picky and sometimes outright wrong reviews I read (there's nothing wrong with the camera!). I'm very pleased with the Droid. Keep in mind however, I've been dealing with the Fuze (Touch Diamond - WinMo) on AT&T for the last year, so I haven't really had any smartphone service at all.....
Yes, definitely. If this was anything like my own experience writing parsers both the wrong way and the right way, the original programmer probably could have saved time by going out and reading a couple of textbook chapters, doing the homework problems, and reading the Bison or ANTLR manuals, and then doing it properly. Implementing a parser without knowing what you're doing is not quick or easy.
hrm. never thought of it that way before. but assuming I seed the prng only once at the beginning of a program run, i could hit every possible shuffle on subsequent deals, couldn't I?
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Coordinate <-> image matching seems to be the job of the coder. I have not looked at the code yet but I am sure it does not do screenshots. What it probably does is this:

-You provide an image.

-You provide x,y coordinates.

-The tool/library calculates a heatmap from the relationship between coordinates

-The tool overlays the heatmap 1:1 to the image

The Google screenshot and clicking demo is just an example of a possible implementation. You can use heatmaps for many many other things so this surely does not limit itself (nor prefer) to website click tracking. ;-)
There is definitely an under-served niche here. From my conversations with other busty women, most bras and swimwear are either un-fashionable or ill-fitting, or un-supportive.

I recently decided I would learn to sew my own swimwear and bras since most of what fits me is horribly ugly and overpriced... I'm in my 20's, fit/5'8"/narrow ribcage/large cups. Forget about factoring support into the equation.

After 10 years of spending hours and hours every spring/summer looking for the perfect fitting bikini, I realized that in that same amount of time, I could learn how to make my own swimwear and be set for the rest of my life. "give a man fish he's fed for a day, teach him to fish he's fed for life"

Going through bra and swimwear patterns, I've learned that the construction ranges from simple to very complicated. Unfortunately, nobody in the industry appears to be doing anything that's particularly interesting or ground-breaking. Very little that appears to be designed by and for a large-busted woman. Patterns are classic, even corsetry-inspired. No new construction methods or materials. Too bad because there is a huge market for supportive and attractive bras - "of the future"?

Lululemon has some great sports bras that are very supportive and cute and the price is reasonable. I wish more companies would follow suit.

What I'd really love is supportive bras with moisture-wicking materials covering the underwire. I have no idea why no companies that I know of, other than Lululemon, have capitalized on this. It's so obvious to me!
I felt the same way with my Fuze, but then I upgraded it to Win Mobile 6.5 using XDA's EnergyROM and I must say, it's a completely different experience. My Fuze actually functions as a decent smartphone now. Apps, interface, experience, etc.
I don't understand how does it make you more productive vs using default shell-based tools. Those in the IDEs and text editors make somewhat sense but I don't see any advantages of separate, GUI applications.
http://www.combimouse.com/
The first time I heard about this bug was today when Apple released the patch. If it was really a significant & wide-spread problem I'd have expected to see it crop up on the usual Apple blogs ahead of a patch. (I may have missed it, I guess.) IMO this issue doesn't speak against Apple's QA at all. But maybe I'm too much of a fanboy. :)
Again, NYT proves a consumate understanding of web content. These interactive graphics would not have been possible in print. The interaction provides great value, much more than a gimmick.
They seem to have taken this advice to the extreme:

Buy a song. Last year, it would have been "Respect" by Aretha Franklin. This year, maybe it's "Ain't too Proud to Beg."
My favorite part about Amsterdam (and most of Europe for that matter) is that no one wears a helmet.
Keep in mind the ubuntu boot sequence you will experience will be slightly slower by doing so.
You should have just tried the WICD package, which replaced Network Manager quite well.
Personally, camera isn't that much of an issue. My guess is that synchronization and configuration problems should be fixed, sooner or later.

Keyboard is definitely an prob, I like the physical keyboard.
That's not a mouse, it's a controller for media production. Key phrase: "pairs with your mouse"
Sorry, up-voted you by accident. The link you posted came after the "if you doubt the conference is true" comment, it is just proof that there was an OOoCon conference, which frankly I find hard to believe myself.

Somehow I thought you were linking to this post: http://openofficemouse.com/blog/?p=25
I hope I don't sound too argumentative but, no, I mean absolutely required. I review my own code (and not just casually, either) a few days later and where I work we all read every commit.
Agreed. In fact, I'd say that doing code reviews would not only catch this problem but also the fact that the test for it is missing.
hmm, it may have been worth milking this for as much publicity as possible
I'd like to thank them for creating a better parody of themselves than anybody else could have.
Intel Mac's were announced in June 2005 ([1]). Apple started shipping them in the beginning of 2006. Anyone who bought a PPC Mac in August 2006 won't get any pity from me.

And, where isn't it important to have a fast dev machine for, you know, actually getting work done and making sure the code works. The speed differences between a PPC mac and a current day Mac are huge. Yes, you can probably get by with a PPC mac if you don't actually execute any code on your machine. But, I would guess that thats very rare, if your job involves coding.

[1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html
My first thought was that they're being DOSed. I would presume a campaign like that gets plenty of unwanted traffic from those who'd rather keep those messages suppressed, even if they're only fragments.
Actually, agricultural labor is exempted from FLSA minimum wage requirements.
Joe Afghan doesn't have strategic goals, he wants to live his life in relative peace. Joe Afghan Warlord really is in much the same position as they have been since the arrival of the firearm; they have warbands based on a fluid and changing mixture of religious, linguistic and ancestral ties.

The Taliban does not exist in the way that the US government exists. There is no continuing organisation with a command infrastructure, the US and its allies are fighting the Pushtun culture.

Your first paragraph above, I conceded before you wrote it
"As both the Soviets and the Americans show this probably isn't possible for demotic states. Imperial commitments aren't popular."

Will the Taliban bankrupt us by forcing us to spend all our money on UAVs? Maybe not, but they can still make making war on them prohibitively expensive.

I have studied military history for less than sixty hours total. I feel confident in saying that the Afghan war is unwinnable as it is, and will continue to be waged, for the same reasons Vietnam was unwinnable. The US will never win a war against guerillas, ever, because the tried-and-true strategies that work are illegal under US law, and far more importantly, repulsive to the US populace. Oh, and because the US's only existential war was with itself. That a country with an ocean to the sides and mostly deserts to the top and bottom has the world's biggest military is ridiculous.

Seriously though. How to Win the War in Iraq

Any time your convoys are so much as fired upon bomb the nearest population centre into a smoking crater. This'll even work if you evacuate everyone in said population centre before you destroy it. This way, you don't have to do intelligence work to figure out who did whatever it was that pissed you off. Everybody nearby has an incentive to dissuade, lethally if necessary, the local hotheads.
Collective punishment, it works.
Right but you get better quality in two scenarios:

1) take two pictures of the same size yields a better result with more megapixels

2) taking a larger sized picture on a camera with more megapixels and scaling it down yields a better result than taking a picture at the scaled down dimensions with a lower megapixel camera
In the third one down, on the "new" photo, you can distinctly see the cobblestone path that snakes through the city centre representing where the wall once stood.
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Should programming languages support unit testing natively?
+1 for that. How about inviting her to Startup School next year even?
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It does? All I read was whining.
I looked at one today. My biggest concern is the 5GB transfer limit. Worse than that, it's not a limit! Each additional GB is $50. The sales guy at the Verizon store tried to tell me that the limit was for tethering only, but I don't think he was correct. Does any have a definitive answer?
wow, $50 per GB? That's ridiculous, if true.
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"15 March 2002"

Where is the follow-up on this? Has this result ever been replicated?

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

The guidelines for this site

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

which is, after all, called "Hacker NEWS," define "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" as on-topic, but I sure am curious if it is news to report one result from 2002 that didn't seem to result in any meaningful research follow-up. Is there any current news on this same issue?
I may be way off base, but as an Objective-C programmer for going on 3 years now, I just can't imagine why anyone would ever want to do this to the language. I had a longer rebuttal here, but I started to get mean - so I best just leave it alone. :P
"individually the scenarios may be highly improbable - but as a category, aren't there more ways a mechanical failure point could play out at the macroscopic level, than ways the particle collision event could spontaneously "mis-manifest"?"

There are a lot more ways that a mechanical failure could manifest, yes, but it is simply drowned in the histories in which they don't manifest. Another one of those 10^100^100 sorts of numbers when we're talking at the quantum scale.

Whereas even if everything goes perfectly fine, Higgs production is expected to be a low probability event, and just having it "not happen" is way, way, way, way (and so on) way less "probability work", to coin an ill-defined phrase that has tantalizing mathematical overtones.

I didn't just make up the 10^52-ish number, I actually looked it up and tried to make it plausible. That's an awfully large branching factor for the universe to be reaching out to have an effect (ponder those 52 zeros for a moment; even if you drop half of them we're still well into la-la land) whereas as perverse as "a bird dropped a bit of bread on an exposed component" may seem, it is, frankly, well within normal human experience with probabilities, as is someone making the requisite design errors to permit that.

(I am just making up the 10^100^100 number. The probabilities are well beyond my intuition to guess at besides "effectively impossible by any reasonable definition of the term.")

I mean, I'm enjoying these articles and I enjoyed the linked article, but they are jokes. At least, I know the linked article is a joke and I hope the physicists saying these are actually possibly being caused by the Higgs are joking as they also ought to be able to do this analysis... although you just never know. The human tendency to anthropomorphize everything, to see "the universe will cause an improbable event to manifest" in terms of "humans will see something humanly absurd happen in a macroscopic scale" (noting humanly absurd != improbable) is very, very strong.

(Note that I do not consider the idea that the universe will somehow cancel any production of Higgs as a joke; that's perfectly respectable physics. I just consider it a joke that it would manifest in some macroscopic way weeks before the event.)
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Please do. Last time I checked CE, they had some annoying bugs with no timeframe for fixing. So I had to get a refund.
Disagree. No one expects to get all the desktop features on a mobile device. I've tried the iPhone version and it's definitely as good or better than its competition. That's a good thing for the brand. I think your point applies more directly to Photoshop Elements where a user could reasonably be confused about what feature set they are getting.
Why is everyone trying to squeeze into the online music market? Don't they understand they're always going to be at the mercy of the record labels. I expect the online music bubble to burst sometime within the next few years; it's just becoming too inflated not to.
"97. Have Pixar make 3001, A Space Odyssey, with HAL replaced by a Mac."

Looks like some of that found its way into WALL-E.
I think your comment was intended for this other HN posting comparing photos of the Berlin Wall: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=928356
I know... I have one and use it every day.

I do a lot of video editing, but I'm also a programmer. It turns out to be great for both and for anything else.

My point is that it's a great way to get more buttons if you feel like you need them. You can map the buttons to do whatever you want depending on the application, so it's useful in other contexts as well.

It's a good companion to a mouse because it uses your other hand. You aren't going to be typing with one hand when using the mouse, so it's great to have a bunch of single buttons available for common tasks.
This is a VERY widespread problem. WPA is really screwed up in 9.10.
I'm not sure Objective-C is going to benefit a whole lot from generics. The id "type" handles things pretty well so I don't see a whole lot of benefit here for the hassle of implementing it.

When they added Generics to Java I thought "this might be a good thing" then I started to use it and watch others use it and I think "wow they really screwed the pooch on this". The error messages are a total failure.
4. Don't listen to outsiders and know-it-alls that make lists.
Time to start hunting for a sugar mama :-)
Awesome! I had an idea yesterday of making a Burrito Quality Heatmap of San Francisco. Maybe I'll actually do it and use your library.
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In this situation, I would recommend "Essentials of Programming Languages" before something like "Engineering a Compiler".
"Enterprises all over the world buy Microsoft for the security."

Like I said elsewhere, "Management by manager". It's when you put decisions in the hands of the least prepared to make them.
My understanding is the sales guy is correct. The place for a definitive answer would be the "My Verizon" section of the website.

When I click "My Services" and "My Plan" I have "Email And Web For Smartphone" which says unlimited when clicked on. Also, under "Overview" -> "Cell Usage" -> "Data" it says "Monthly access: unlimited." I think you're OK.
This is really amazing. How long did it take to code?

I've been kind thinking of making something with Canvas. I didn't know it had this potential. Thanks for sharing!
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"Conficker.b was costing Microsoft over a million dollars a day for weeks in support calls alone"

It was not Conficker that cost Microsoft a million a day - it was the support to their customers that bought software that had uncorrected bugs that should have been detected earlier and that made Conficker possible. Shipping bugs costs a lot of money. Unless they cost more than getting rid of them, they are never corrected.

And if it did cost Microsoft a million a day, it cost a lot more to their customers.

If baffles me they are still customers.
Am I the only one with a smartphone who comes nowhere near 5GB a month? According to the iPhone my usage since 5/5/09 is 3.4GB, and I'd consider myself a frequent data user.

I actually do wish that telecos would introduce metered plans, providing that current prices aren't used to set the lowest rate :)
I think the bet is that the record execs will see the light and will decide to work with the online music companies.

So instantly the risk factor is gone, and you have a viable business model to make millions.
So presumably if the naive interpretation is wrong, then the bias should be predictable. Any ideas how to go about determining which permutations are more likely than they ought to be?
I gather that's a high multiple of what was saved in quality assurance.

Sometimes, software QA is a gamble. You don't spend all the money you need to make 100% perfect software, expecting to pay for the correction of all bugs that are discovered and that cost you money in support calls, lost business and lawsuits. Mind you - most of the support calls are to their OEMs.
I did try the WICD package and it didn't work.
The traditional view is similar to IQ as an empty glass.

Actually, the view of behavioral geneticists, including those with whom I have a weekly discussion of current research,

http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall09/mcguem/psy8935/defau...

is that each individual has a "reaction surface," a range of possible behavioral responses genetically endowed for that individual depending on what environmental influences that individual encounters. NO ONE active in the field of behavorial genetics claims to have proved that many individuals today have maxed out their potential for intelligent behavior. There may be (as yet unknown) interventions that could massively change IQ at the individual level.
unless it was photographed in outer space or hard vacuum, judging by the shadows alone, it is a 3d rendering (not to mention speculars, pinhole etc etc..
I think it really is unlimited.

For my Droid, I have the "email and web for smartphone" plan ($30). I also have a separate wireless broadband card and plan ($60). When I look at my account on Verizon's web site, I see a data cap of "5GB" for my broadband card and a data cap of "unlimited" for my Droid.
Sounds like the best business model would be to scare up some philanthropic organization which would fund you for a period: there must be some educationally oriented NGO around for whom that would be an appropriate spend.
Nice framework. Good job!
Microsoft spends huge on QA. Unusually so. Google "Microsoft QA ratio" for starters. That has nothing to do with security. QA doesn't find security bugs, because security bugs are different from normal bugs: they're only possible under subtle adversarial conditions.
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I've always thought the unit test[s] for any given method in a system should be accessible at runtime as a singleton-method of the method object/closure. It would be a similar idea, in effect, to Lisp docstrings, except with another closure in place of a string.
The people that buy into other platforms for "security" are misinformed, and I say this as an inveterate Mac user who ships software on Debian VMs.

A good acid test for whether someone is talking out their ass about security: they make smart-ass comments about Microsoft. It's getting harder and harder to find reputable security researchers who haven't done work for Microsoft.
Do you think the problems with the camera are with the hardware or the software? On a related note, is there an SDK?
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