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The radius of the observable universe is the distance the furthest stars we could theoretically observe today.[0] So these stars were a lot closer earlier and we can see the light even though the stars are further away than the age of the universe (times the speed of light).

[0] Technical details omitted.
The universe has been expanding.

So the distances now are vastly larger than they used to be when the light left its sources.
Well there's something weird going on there, then, because priority dates and filing dates aren't supposed to differ by more than a year or so.

So either it was invented in 1997 and should have been patented then and would expire in 2017, or it was "invented" in 2009 and they trolled for something to give them a much, much earlier priority date so that it would seem more legitimate somehow.

Either way I'm not sure that I buy it.

EDIT:

I mean, hell, dial-up modems did the same thing basically. Connect and sync at a low baud rate, then switch to whatever the modems agreed the channel could support. How old are dial-up modems? 1980s? Acoustically coupled modems are at least as old as the 1970s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#Acoustic_couplers
I went to the yikyak website and viewed their blog and this was the first paragraph from an article written last month.

"When Yik Yak was created it was intended to give everyone an equal voice. No one user would have an advantage over another based on followers or popularity and posts would be judged exclusively by their content."

http://blog.yikyakapp.com/bullying-isnt-cool/
Marketing guy here who's passionate about real conversations. Just want to remind everybody– tools, tricks and tactics should help you remove the tedious "bookkeeping" aspects of your marketing/sales job, but PLEASE, PLEASE engage people as human beings.

Spamming people with stock messages is polluting the communal pool, and everyone suffers for it. When you find someone with purchasing intent, TALK to them. Ask questions. You don't need to punch everyone in the face with your sales pitch.
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I'd wager the word's been used on galactic scales before.
Seriously - downvoted?
Why do they need gene therapy for this? Why not produce the protein somewhere else and inject it into the animals?
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Man I love graph abstractions and database, but the inevitable questions comes - why HBase? Why not use a database that isn't nearly impossible to set up?
Note: the post buries the lede that 2014 ad revenue for Reddit was only $8.3 million, which is shockingly low given they were valued at $500M. I'm curious what their profit margin is.
This comparison benchmark was not designed to answer all of those questions. Perhaps just the following: "Does it scale well?"

The conclusion from these tests is that React currently does not scale well on the server (at least for this type of page) due to high CPU and memory usage while requests per second were low for a very modest page of 100 search results items. This is not surprising since the focus of React has been on the client-side performance, but it is important because many projects are adopting React as an "isomorphic" solution.

Hopefully the community and the authors of React can use this information to make React better. There is always something that can be learned from benchmarks like this.

React does do a good job, but I also think Marko+Marko Widgets will be a much better fit for certain types of applications since it also includes a very strong UI component model and it is lighter. If nothing else, hopefully others can learn something from looking at the code and seeing two different approaches.
Couldn't you say the same thing for Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Reddit?
It always blows my mind to listen to songs from my childhood, which was before I learnt to play music. When I was a kid I was effectively tone deaf– didn't recognize pitches, harmonies, bass, etc. Now I hear the nuances, and it's interesting to look at old things with sharper eyes. Makes sense that it would affect language skills.
The article is chock full of scenarios that fit"correlation does not equal causation"
When programming in high level OO languages, which have ready algorithms and data structures are pretty-much standard, what's your use-case of algorithms?

I've seen entire projects which do not require specific knowledge or application of any algorithm. Even when they do, one can google and find "best algorithm for XYZ", then find a library which has the algorithm implemented and off you go.

I understand the use of algorithms in low level languages and specific domains, but when you need to sort a ruby array you just "array.sort" and a default (IIRC the default in ruby is a version of quick-sort) sorting algorithm is applied, which 9 out of 10 is the faster solution you'll get given the language constrains.

Can you offer an example of specific situation, in any OO-language with reasonable amount of available libraries, where deep knowledge of design and analysis of algorithms is actually required?
You should know that Yik Yak is an amalgamation of whatever the users say around you... If it's filled with hate speech, that would be your surrounding environments fault and not Yik Yak.
Okay, now what conclusions can we draw from this?
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I appreciate the time you spent on the project (and on this thread!). However, I don't see this issue specifically addressed: The following was posted on TrueCrypt's SourceForge page [1]; I don't see how it's not a 'canary' (well, technically it's not because it's a direct message) and how users can trust TrueCrypt. Until this is resolved, every other discussion of TrueCrypt's future seems moot.

WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues.

The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.

[1] Discussed here:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7828107

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7812133

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7814725
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IMO breaking chords into moving lines (~counterpoint) is already a better start (and I've seen other guys saying that's how they digested harmony) than learning names, modes and such. It's a constructivist way to teach. Start with a line, then ask the person to harmonize over it. Name don't matter until this is fixed in your head.

Yes there's probably a strong relationship between frequencies ratios. Simple ones (3rd, 5th) are good to anybody, but you love jazz, don't tell me you don't get high on 13th and dissonant bits too. With time I started to enjoy following subtle and non trivial melody lines in harmonies (gospel tunes are full of it, fusion also, jazz obviously).

And that's just harmony. What about rhythm ? and grooves ? How do you write funk or swing on a score ? AFAIK it's not except by a little side comment; even though this tells you more about rhythm than anything else.

People measured relationship between notes, but I've never seen it done to 'beats'. I have a feeling that there's also ratios hidden in sequences of strokes that make or break a groove. Placing an almost unheard dead notes at an odd time before a strong beat will change the feeling so much. Counterpoint, for rhythm.
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On Facebook and Twitter I've never seen a friend or someone I follow make some disgusting comments like I've seen on Yik Yak, specially the top, upvoted stuff. I never used Tumblr (only when visiting a blog) and only visit Reddit sporadically. So no, I can't say the same.
It's not necessarily a bad situation to be in.

Now, before developing your personal projects at work, perhaps you could look for company projects (existing or new) you could work on?

Otherwise, for big corporations, this can be a strategy, to hire all good workers they can, even if they don't have work for them to do, since this prevents the competition to hire them and compete. A typical example of that is Google.
I am wondering if we could predict those events, and then launch a space probe similar to Voyager I and II that would be hooked in the alien star's gravity and orbiting around it while it travels in the Milky Way, which would be a some free speed for the space probe to explore space further.

Now, since stars rarely get that closed, I guess it's a bit pointless but I am still curious about it.
They explicitly say that there is no such synergy on Fiber. So whatever AT&T is selling for $30 is already included in the regular price of Google Fiber.

Other information from the use of Google Fiber Internet (such as URLs of websites visited or content of communications) will not be associated with the Google Account you use for Fiber, except with your consent or to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.

https://fiber.google.com/legal/privacy.html
Behavior which Google also practices?
When I move between the pages its noticeably slow, almost like you're actually loading a new page. I thought React was supposed to be fast?
I should write my job search emails like this.
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Yes, if you are good at singing in various styles. Singing in various styles teach a few things about voice quality and tunes.

1. Every language has its voice quality. So, learning phonemes alone does not help us one to acquire a new accent or language. Voice qualities vary within a language itself: compare the southern accents, midwestern accents, New York accent, British accents. Yes, there are phonemic differences between accents within a language: but there is a change in the voice quality.

2. Academic research about the voice quality in languages have not reached beyond what John Laver had said (check his phonetic description of voice quality). And of coure, IPA has incorporated some symbols like 'breathy voice', etc, which you can see in the extended IPA. To me, voice quality should be the first thing one shud master before getting into phonemes, lexical stress, intonational stress, etc.

Academics are too busy with their instrumental (acoustic) phonetics. Even majority of phoneticians are just into instrumental phonetics. Ian Catford, a great phonetician, advised students of linguistics in general to master how to use their vocal apparatus.

3. Joe Estill, an opera singer turned a voice teacher, did a great research on how to train anyone to sing. Her focus is on how to acquire voice quality. She calls such steps as 'figures'. They are like thin voice, thick voice, breathy voice; then adding other combinations to them: high larynx, low larynx, Aryepiglottic sphincter, etc. Such skills help a singer to sing in various styles. Even if you want to do pitch match properly, you should do it in a thin voice (not with the speaking voice, which is thick voice for Americans, kinda semi-thick(breathy) for Indians in the south Asia, etc.

4. There is another thing singers and instrument players are good at: how to remember tunes. Even though speech is not like a song, you can find possible tunes of a language. In linguistics, it is called "intonational phrase". So, one does not need to master phonemes of a target language in order to imitate the tune units (tunits or intonational phrase) of any language. How many language training materials teach this?

Most, if not all, language training materials subordinate the voice quality and the tunits to phonemes and lexical stress/lexical tone. Whereever they touch about tunits, they spend 4 pages on the intonation of the target language.
While their response is pretty roundabout, my experience with moderating/owning several community sites is that advertisements for competitors really are one of the largest categories of spam, and I wouldn't default to reading an attempt to mute them as a "shady tactic."

Think about the point of view of a founder-developer. You have a list of bugs to fix, a bunch of people to meet with, etc., all while manning a pool of servers to make sure they stay up. Someone says to you, "hey, we're getting a lot of spam from/about this company called Fade." I'd bet a lot of programmers would just write "if 'fade' in message" before getting back to work on other things.
Heck, the original Nexus 7 even includes a "join Google+" step in it's initial device setup. o_o
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Oh I know, I also tried the "Peek" feature: used for home, work and my university (it was over a decade ago I graduated). It didn't move the needle. Very disturbing.

Btw, I'm in Europe, so all of the comments I saw were in English, as in American English, so I'm guessing us Europeans aren't getting the best of the US. This is not data, just an observation.
I'll be demo'ing a new version of Neon Jack at the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) in a week and a half. Currently, the best place for new info is the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NeonJackGame

You can get an old build of the game off my website (http://www.shinyfish.com/neonjack/), but frankly it's a bit crap. I'd wait for the GDC build.
I'm curious about what, if any, gravitational effects this would've had on the earth? Seems like its a relatively small star and it was so far away that I'm guessing any pull would've been negligible.
> Behavior which Google also practices?

If you want to make that case, comparing the actual basis of the MS antitrust case to behavior you can show Google engaging in, feel free.
Wow great work callumprentice!

All this stuff is cool:

http://callumprentice.github.io/
Love this idea. One less thing for me to have to carry in my bag.
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I couldn't agree more. Sending out automated sales pitches is spamming people and that's the main reason I didn't add auto-reply feature in the code. I go through the tweets that get added to the spreadsheet and try to engage the ones who might actually benefit from using our product with my personal twitter account.
The tool is here to help you find the people who might be interested in your product easier (look through 30 tweets instead of 100s). It's not supposed to/should not be doing the actual sales pitch automatically.
Pluto is ridiculously cool. Small body research is at the forefront of getting a handle on the conditions of the early Solar System. Between discoveries made by the Rosetta mission [1], Dawn's visit to Vesta and Ceres [2], and the incredible discovery of rings around Chariklo [3], we are really in a golden age at the moment.

New Horizons has a lot more in store, not in the least because we know that there are at least two other moons in the system: Styx [4] and Kerberos [5] (discovered by my advisor Mark Showalter [6]). There's been a concerted effort to search for rings around Pluto too, not in the least to be able to assess the safe passage of New Horizons through the system.

All I can say is don't blink, you're not gonna wanna miss this!

[1] http://rosetta.esa.int/

[2] http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Chariklo

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx_(moon)

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(moon)

[6] http://www.seti.org/users/mark-showalter
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Not necessarily true, you can often get an older Nexus device quite cheaply and then upgrade the OS. That's how I got my hands on Android 5.0 -- and it really transformed an old and tired phone into something new and marvelous.
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Thanks, that's great to hear :)

We've been working on this for 1.5 years and we had to write completely custom tech to make it happen.

We're happy to answer any questions about our tech
If only the design/architecture would be contracted to experts and the actual implementation be written by the community how expensive would that be?

The experts shouldn't write any line of code, use the community as code monkeys, only accepting pull requests and merge them in the project(basically what Linus does this days). Would that not be feasible?
The Nemesis Hypothesis hasn't been debunked.
The primary motive for writing this was the fact that Hbase gives a fairly cheap(hdfs) backend storage and near linear scalability. Also most of the schema is encoded in row keys in such a way that hbase prefix scans can be leveraged to serve traversals across billions of nodes/edges.
Have you ignored the context?

"an obese person who can run a mile is considered healthier than a skinny person who can't for example
Do you have a link or data to support that idea? Genuinely curious, as that doesn't sound right to me."

to which I replied

"56% of NFL players are obese (97% are overweight), according to BMI guidelines."

What exactly have you said that disagrees with that? I -agree- that ~real~ obesity, as is generally referred to, is based on fat percentage; I never said otherwise. What I said, very explicitly, was that an NFL who is considered obese ACCORDING TO BMI GUIDELINES (which are used very frequently by layman and health official alike when discussing nutrition and exercise) is actually pretty healthy; the original post questioned whether someone could be obese, able to run a mile, and still be healthier than someone who is skinny but not physically fit enough to run a mile. I addressed that with the qualifier of 'according to BMI' included.
Thank you for coming back to this thread to share your experience, much appreciated!

I did not realize RethinkDB lacks a query planner/optimizer. That is a huge downside. The docs didn't seem to make much effort to point out this limitation.
It's interesting that they are doing research using images that are going to be obsoleted very soon as the probe gets closer.
definitely- working on breaking it out to be easily pluggable
At some point, Sandstorm will actually disallow embedding off-site resources via Content-Security-Policy since otherwise it is trivial to leak data out of a Sandstorm app, something we'd like to prevent. (Currently, this client-side sandbox is incomplete.)
Could you not just request the .json feed whenever you like without limits? ( by appending .json to the reddit URL )
So, an open-source product which the developers have publicly declared as insecure, and on which a major code-audit has stalled inconclusively, is superior to closed-source _how_, exactly?

Not saying you're wrong, per se, just that it seems like all the choices are wrong, here.
Since it is moving away from a large body of mass, namely, the day star, it's likely that it has been decelerating over the past 70k years, meaning it would have been moving more quickly when it passed by.
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The right way to test this is easy: just park your car between major cities and make a similar post. If it is in a place where there have only been a few yaks for the last month, then a robot vote would be the only explanation.
More specifically when the user clicks on a specific point on the planet and moves the mouse cursor you want that point to still be under the cursor when the mouse button is released. You can extend this construct outside the central sphere into a camera control that works across the screen and feels very intuitive at any zoom level.

Google "sgi trackball" for some interesting code to point the way.
Remember, Russia is our enemy, so their media is automatically as bad as a White Supremacist website.
Your biggest challenge with content marketing?
Content marketing has become extremely popular form of digital marketing, and has proven to be very effective for a lot of companies and startups. I'm hoping to start a discussion on the challenges that people face when creating and implementing a content marketing strategy for their business.

Personally, my biggest struggle is creating, organizing, and keeping track of an effective content marketing strategy. And then tweaking and optimizing that strategy based on the results to maximize its effectiveness on my business. The key to effective content marketing is consistently creating amazing content that solves real problems that people are having and then getting as many quality readers to that content as possible.

This is a lot easier said than done, and it's difficult to create and implement an effective system for great content marketing.
Those are the long tail of comments. If VCs judged all user-content services by the long tail of submissions, most wouldn't raise any money.

(I realize that might be a good thing, but I presume then that you have the same complaint against Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
Dwarf moons for a dwarf planet? This reclassification is getting harder to justify.
A philosophy that reifies any idea to the extent that people's lives don't matter if they fit some category is extremely disturbing.

With Marx/Lenin/Stalin, it was class. With capitalists, it was property rights. With Hitler, it was race.

I'd say it's worth fighting for national defense, but not too many other things...
Well, in addition to the actual basis of the case indeed being "tying" with regards to Internet Explorer, whether you like it or not, being tame compared to Google's voracity for the same behavior, forcing 20 apps to be tied on Android devices.

They do indeed form restrictive licensing agreements with OEMs. Through the MARA, anyone who dares create an Android device that doesn't have Google's blessing is permanently cut off from Google services.

Google's APIs no doubt favor their own services over competitors, where many features of synergistic behavior between services exist which are not represented in their public API.

And Google has absolute intent on continuing these practices. New marketing campaigns and shilled blog articles regularly advertise about the brilliance of their current direction, and they continue to add more and more restrictions on OEMs with every passing year.

(Using "Underlying these disputes were questions over whether Microsoft altered or manipulated its application programming interfaces (APIs) to favor Internet Explorer over third party web browsers, Microsoft's conduct in forming restrictive licensing agreements with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and Microsoft's intent in its course of conduct." from the Wikipedia article as a source for the other parts of the Microsoft case. Note the article clearly defines the IE tying issue as the principal claim.)
Some reasons come to my mind. Continual production. Cheap. Proof of principle for gene therapy. Methodology across in vitro -> animals is identical.

Having the 'drug' produced by its host means it costs pennies to administer the first virus. It means the drug is continually produced over the time period. And frankly, it's easier than having to purify the protein from another source, figure out injection conditions/strengths, etc. Further, if it works, it's a great demonstration of gene therapy in addition to HIV treatment.
According to the paper, not at all, barring some nicely-pointed flare events. It's a very dim star.
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Legitimate point-- at the same time, conventions help you get stuff done. They way I solved that in Sails is by federating the monolithic framework logic into smaller modules that can be disabled or overridden (see http://sailsjs.org/#!/features)

Working on going further down this approach w/ machines- effectively a container layer on top of JavaScript functions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72jI0dQx7pw)
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