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Apple provides Recovery Disk Assistant, which is more or less the same thing.

I see. They have that stuck into Disk Utility now. One point to Apple.

Disk Utility is a bit kludgy nowadays, though, and it seems they're not doing as good a job as MS publicizing the tool. (Too small a sample size here, but I ran across the MS tool by accident while searching/browsing. With Apple, a human had to tell me.)
Seconded. Netflix link here: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70202578?strkid=834083463_0_0...
That's good. It seems too few consumers get a clean Windows experience, and this fiasco has quickly become the chief example. You'd think MS would want to address that, perhaps by hardening their OEM licensing.
Returns are relative. Using the US example there has been a continious downward trend in post inflation returns over the last 100 years, but investment keeps growing.
There's a word for judging people by what they wear or how they look...
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so, no chromatic aberration. no lens flare either?
Eh, it could be worse. At least the clickbait is mostly "Look at this cool thing" and not "Look at these bad people doing these bad things. Outrage!"
New content is overrated anyway.
Speaking of burning man... I missed the ticket sales because my dumbass didn't check the "register try to buy tickets" option on my burner profile. Anyone have one to spare?
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You accused him (and me, and others who voted up this story) of being either a "brigading Microsoft fan" or a "paid shill".

Sorry, but that's just false as far as I can tell. He cited those things as the reason for his other comment's moderation. Please quote the text from which you draw your conclusions of attribution.
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The mere act of asking for help can help you realize the answer. It's called rubber duck debugging. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Had a similar experience when I was in highschool with an answer on a physics test. She insisted that her math was correct, and pretty much the whole class got the answer incorrect. Despite us telling her why she was wrong, she refused to listen.

I took the problem to a technology teacher I had, who was known for being a extremely intelligent-abrasive-and-fair (was a nuclear engineer before changing career paths and genuinely enjoyed teaching). Explained the situation and gave him the problem to independently solve. He said he didn't want to overstep his bounds with the physics teacher, but the next day our scores had curiously changed to reflect the correct math.

Some people have too much pride to admit fault, especially to those they view as inferior.
I like it, however, it is possible to make a "click all" checkbox for the "other" languages. You now, I mean: "click, click, click, click ..." ;)
Sounds like the ABCT to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory

Sounds to me like printing money and pumping it into finance leads to an unsustainible economy.
I've owned a Cherry MX Red keyboard for a few years, and while I like the keyboard itself, I wish I had browns. The tactile feedback of a keypress is really needed for error-resistant typing.
It is more complex than that. Teaching generally pays way better in Canada compared to the average salary than in the US (especially when pension benefits are included).

I have more experience with Ontario rather than Quebec. I would say in Ontario the teacher colleges are rather selective in who get to go, since the pay is so high, there's a lot of applicants. However math ability generally isn't part of the criteria.

Ontario right now has a massive glut of unemployed graduates from education faculties. I have always wondered why they didn't use math ability in picking new spots for teachers (right now it seems to be done by the whims of the principals).
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I distinctly remember the day at my first job out of college when my boss realized that I didn't know how to effectively use a debugger. He proceeded to sit down with me and demonstrate proper use of breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, etc. I didn't know how much I didn't know. There were many other interactions with coworkers along these lines. I was great at what I'd done, but had no idea how much existed outside my narrow range of experience.

For the next click-baity title, I suggest something along the lines of "Rockstar Developers Collaborate More Than They Question".
No. Firmware has been a part of the "trusting trust" conundrum for several years now.
I learned coding without books or the Internet and none to ask questions. I did have Internet at school though, where I printed tutorials and source code.

Not being able to find answers forced me to think by myself and do trial and error. I believe that made me a batter coder.

I actually feel a bit lazy now when I look up stuff on the Internet without even trying for myself first.
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My guess is we'll come up with a sort of standard API using JSON or such that we will make available the information and ultimately mimic what HTML does now.
Why is the obvious so radical? Probably because YCombinator loves to delete anti-js comments on here? I mean hellbanning is one thing but completely removing the comments is another.
I had not heard of Fortress before. It seems that Oracle's sponsorship of the project ended in 2012. Guy Steele emphasizes the difficulty of implementing Fortress's type system on virtual machines. [1]

[1]: https://blogs.oracle.com/projectfortress/entry/fortress_wrap...
Nope. Here are two ways to see how this works.

First, let's make it clear exactly what variation of the game we are playing.

1. Prize is assigned to a random door with each door being equally likely. Neither you nor Monty know which door.

2. You pick a door. Because the prize was assigned randomly and you don't know where it is, it is irrelevant how you pick your door. Without loss of generality (WLOG) we can assume you always pick door #1.

3. The host picks a door and opens it. Because the prize was assigned randomly and Monty does not know where it is, it is irrelevant how Monty picks a door. WLOG we can assume he always opens door #2.

4. If Monty revealed the prize when he opened his door, the game ends and you lose.

5. If Monty did not reveal the prize, you are given the opportunity to switch to the remaining door (door #3).

6. Your door is opened. You win if the prize is behind it. Otherwise you lose.

There are three equally likely cases to consider.

1. The prize is behind door #1. This occurs 1/3 of the time. Monty opens #2. You are given the opportunity to switch. In this case switching is bad.

2. The prize is behind door #2. This occurs 1/3 of the time. Monty opens #2. The prize is there and the game ends. Note that in this case, YOU ARE NOT GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO SWITCH.

3. The prize is behind door #3. This occurs 1/3 of the time. Monty opens #2. You are given the opportunity to switch. In this case switching is good.

Note that in the cases where you are given the opportunity to switch (#1 and #3), switching wins in one of them and switching loses in the other. Each of these cases is equally likely (occurring in 1/3 of the games of played), and so in this version of the game switching makes no difference.

Here's another way to look at it. Since neither you nor Monty know where the prize is when you pick doors, we could change the game so that the prize is not placed until AFTER Monty opens a door, and this would not change any probabilities.

So, in this modified but equivalent game, we play like this:

1. You pick a door.

2. Monty picks a door and opens it. There is nothing behind it, because the prize has not yet been placed.

3. You are asked if you want to switch to the other unopened door.

4. The prize is placed randomly.

5. If the prize is placed behind the opened door, the game ends and you lose.

6. Otherwise, your door is opened and you win if the prize is behind it.

It should be clear that you have a 1/3 chance of winning the car in this game no matter how you pick your door or whether or not you switch. At the time the prize is placed, there is a door that is now your door, and you win if and only if the prize gets randomly placed behind that door.
Am I completely off base here or is this mumbling equals laziness thing something unique to the English language?

I'm German and I really wasn't aware of this association at all. I associate mumbling with shyness … and that's about it. And what's more that association to laziness seems positively weird and non-sensical to me.
There's a lot of immigrants in Quebec.
> I could easily make up another theory based on quantum mechanics and relativity [...]. The trivial other theory would not be in the form of math[...]

Can you clarify that at all? I honestly don't know how to reconcile your first sentence with your second one: you clearly mean something different by some of those words than I do, but I can't puzzle out what.

Are you suggesting that you'd make up a theory that said, for example, "The universe looks behaves according to quantum field theory in the following set of circumstances: [long list of conditions], and behaves according to general relativity in the following distinct set of circumstances: [other long list], and consists of a troupe of dancing angels under all other circumstances [including, for example, black holes and the early universe]." Because I'd hesitate to call that (or anything like it) in any sense a scientific "theory". It has zero explanatory power, because it's an archetypical example of "overfitting the data": it's a description of reality, not an explanation, and there is literally zero reason to expect anything that you used to fill in the gaps between the observed data to be true.

If that is the sort of thing you're talking about, then it sounds like your main claim is that there's no meaningful difference between that and (in our imagined case) a unique mathematical framework that gave rise to both quantum and gravitational observations as distinct limiting cases (while also making explicit claims about how the universe must behave in possibly-unobservable situations like black holes and the early universe). I don't really know how I would answer such a claim (if it's what you're trying to suggest), except to suggest an upgrade to a philosophical system that isn't deliberately obtuse. (I know that there is no a priori reason to expect the universe to have a mathematical description. But by this point, given the truly amazing success of those descriptions to date, the burden of proof really does have to rest on anyone who claims that those successes are just some sort of coincidence.)
Because of the low popularity of ALPS keycaps, the cost and MOQ of the caps themselves are significantly higher.

This is the more expensive way to go.
The shape of the lens puts the surface of the lens at the correct angle. You can make a thin lens by splitting it into many discontinuous parts, this is how a Fresnel lens works. See e.g. these two pictures:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Lens3b.sv...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fresnel_lens.svg
I'd dispute the 2015 one. There have been lots of Go related articles on HN, but Go usually gets a mixed reception.
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I'm pretty sure he's referring to the model, not the particular implementation.
Documentation is cheating; you'll never become a rockstar developer that way! Most writers will try to answer the most common questions that a dev will have about their code; this is just as bad, if not worse, than asking them questions yourself. You need to read the source code to truly understand.

I shudder at all the young minds that have been warped by the 'USAGE' statements in man pages; back in my day, we used to have to either guess at which arguments did what, or stare at the devs' custom, mangled argument parsing functions to figure out how to use a program.
Generate a random Oscar thank you speech
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"I hope I’m not narcissistic, or self-centered"

Following sentence:

"I wasn’t always a decent software developer."
And beyond the performance issues, app design on the web is a massive pain.

Despite the advances with CSS3, we're still working with a layout engine that was designed for documents rather than applications (mobile and otherwise), so many seemingly trivial tasks (e.g. centering and vertical alignment) involve an unintuitive mess that I after 10+ years of experience, I still need to lookup from time to time. [Edit: I should have been more clear--I'm referring to issues that flexbox doesn't resolve such as aligning/sizing elements relative to each other rather than to their parents.]

On top of that, we're seriously in need of better tooling. It feels like we've spend the past 10 years developing a set of powerful primitives but ignored building tools that truly empower our creativity on the web. Sometimes I really miss how fun and simple it was to use Flash to build things when I was a kid...

...and that's the whole point really, isn't it?
Should I invest $100K in a startup for 3% equity? – pre money valuation is $20M
I'm stuck in a situation. I started consulting for a start up for a fixed dollar amount per month. This startup is owned by 2 partners - one of them is the CEO. Since 2012 when they started it, they both have invested around $350K total. Up until now, they have not asked for funding. They have a monthly revenue of around $20-25K (mostly consulting revenue) with a $30K monthly burn rate. For the 1st time, they went cash flow positive last month. They don't have any full time employees, but have around 10-12 guys working on and off on temp basis - on 1099. Now, they are looking to get funded. There is an investor willing to invest $2M as seed and asking for 10% of equity and a board seat. They are very interested in that offer and considering it. Their cap table looks something like founder shares - 80% and common stock - 20%.

I have been consulting for them for 4 months now. After 2 months, I realized they don't have the cash to pay me for my consulting fees. However, since I believe so strongly on their product / services / business model, I decided to stick. In return, they offered me to do a cash investment around $100K for a 3% equity (undiluted founder shares). With this cash influx, they plan to start paying back my consulting fees arrears.
Also, with the $2M funding, they are offering me to become a full time employee with executive role.

I'm looking at this from a long term perspective. What attracts me is the 3% equity in the company and with my 100K investment, they will start paying my consulting fees monthly.
I'm not able to decide if this a good deal for me? Also, what happens if the $2M funding does not come through? Ultimately, how can I protect my investment? With my investment, should I also ask to become a board observer?
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Simulate galactic potentials and mergers
I was just introduced to the article "The Meme Hustler" about Tim O'Reilly [1], where Evgeny Morozov discusses, among other things, how O'Reilly spins social movements (Free Software) into depoliticized economic arguments (Open Source).

Seems odd that Linux Voice would lead with "Meet Free Software, internet and publishing visionary, Tim O’Reilly" when he was so active in advocating the term "Open Source" instead of "Free Software".

[1] http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler
Mr. Suelo is certainly free to pursue his own happiness in whatever way he wishes to. But his personal decisions do not provide a compelling template for changes to any significant fraction of the population. We can't all -- we can't even 1% of us -- live in caves and eat roadkill. Heck, my wife and I can't do that if we want to have our daughter and not face, say, greater than 10% risk that my wife will die in the process.

And the rest of what he's saying seems to be, "Just treat each other like you would family; do things for no reward and take what you need." That's not a novel approach. It doesn't scale up well. The major experiments with trying to scale it up resulted in the deaths of tens or hundreds of millions of people in the 20th Century.
Hmm, must have missed that. I mean, despite my reference to Apple, I want stuff like this to work no matter makes it. So I'm confident, despite a stated desire to put minimal effort in, I did at least a little due diligence before wandering off to my nearest NFC reader. But when I'm standing in line with people behind me, stuff like this gets one shot. I'd have abandoned Apple Pay just as quickly had it not worked the way the videos claim, or better yet how I hoped it would work.
I had the same exact model, except I bought mine Refurb'd from Apple with Applecare so it was going to run out this March. Rather than risk having a brick I sold it on Craigslist for $850. This is after having the logic board and hard-drive replaced twice by Apple a few years earlier.
There's a link to another article at the bottom of this one that hints at other possible uses.
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2014/05/collaborative-metas...

What's really interesting about this is that the metasurface lenses might be very useful in other high-precision optics: for example, densely packed multicolor DVDs?

Perhaps even optical imaging of very, very small materials without the need for electron microscopy. Who knows?
Easy. https://bitcoin.tax
You touched on the point I wanted to make. The reporter is making a jump between correlation and causation.
Imagine this. Imagine that tomorrow, a string theory physicist made the discovery that the strings vibrations can actually be predicted. If you know their configuration and certain starting parameters, you can predict the spin of an electron, say.

Would "the definition of science" suddenly not be destroyed... or would it be re-destroyed?
Actually, Google Wallet works almost exactly the same as ApplePay (my spouse has an iPhone 6, I have a Moto X 2014); I've seen and used both.

Just tap the phone on the NFC device and that's it (the PIN pad at the retail may then prompt you to hit credit or debit, if you choose debit, you just enter your wallet pin again). If Google Wallet needs to be unlocked first, it will prompt you for the wallet pin.

In fairness, it used to be far more cumbersome. They fixed most of the user interface problems with the release of Android 5.0.
That is not the problem.

Any predictive unification of quantum field theory and general relativity will be mathematical in nature.

A unification which is not mathematical is guaranteed to never be predictive and to never aid in the construction of a unified theory which is predictive, because the problems to be solved here are indeed entirely mathematical (divergent integrals).

String theory is a unification which is mathematical. Its direct empirical support is indeed currently none. However, as Hawking stated, it remains the only serious viable theory of everything right now. Every other competing theory has been found to have serious intrinsic issues, let alone lack of experimental support.

People take string theory seriously not because it's some vague unification. They take it seriously because it solves extremely difficult mathematical problems. Even if it turns out to be wrong, it is fairly likely that the mathematical insight gained will be invaluable. Indeed, it has even led to at least one awarding of the Fields Medal for advances in pure mathematics, to Edward Witten.
I am a high school senior taking two college math courses, but to discourage this practice (which costs the school money) the school counts my grade as a 4.0 max in my GPA (AP classes are 5.0, regular are 4.0).
I'm an engineer. I could go into a high-risk career trying to cure cancer, or I could flip houses.

By my (admittedly rough and speculative) math, I'd make more money doing the second.

This has nothing to do with finance and everything to do with how capitalism privileges owners. Just because I can do something (e.g. cure cancer) doesn't mean I should do it out of some regard for the "public good", requiring great sacrifice, work, stress, and low pay, on my part. I might think differently if I got paid 1 cent for everyone who used my cancer drug, but that's just not how things work today.
I C what U did there!!!

EDIT: LOLOLOL
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Looking over the executive team of Superfish (Which, creepily, refers people to their linkedin profiles - presumably so they can see who is looking at them.) I see that their Chief Product Officer (Cmpt. Science from Stanford, so obviously knew what was going on) is formerly from Zynga. Mark Pincus is (infamously?) known for his comments about how sometimes, when you are small, you have to do all these terrible things that you are really ashamed of, just so you can get big and never have to think about doing them again. In the case of Pincus, he was referring to a the zwinky toolbar that earns money by redirecting web searches to advertisements - oddly close to what just happened with Superfish/Lenovo.
OP above is correct.
The light will only bend at the interfaces between two mediums (air, glass).
Replace "boy" or "son" with child and the only paragraph in the article which reads differently is this

>Statistically speaking, boys now lag behind girls on every single academic measure; they also get in trouble and drop out of school much more frequently than girls. There are fewer boys in college than girls, and far more lost 20-something boys than 20-something girls.

It certainly seems like schools are failing boys but I'm not sure that this particular failure has anything to do with it.
He needs to update the image quickly with a current one showing his own story.
I am happy with my MBP. I used other laptops previously and they seemed to crap out on me more often than I thought they should. The MBP has been reliable for a few years now. Like others below said, YMMV.
It's not failing boys, it's failing every child. I never had an issue with this, quite frankly classroom clowns were kind of rare at least when it came to actually disrupting the whole class. However

> He hasn’t been allowed outside at school all week

That never happened. We went outside, we played, we were able to expend our childhood energy. They are children, they do need somewhere and somehow to expend their energy.
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I still don't really understand if Google Wallet is available in the UK or what that means. They've apparently launched a way to pay people through Gmail in the UK this month - and it sounds like it's basically Wallet, but I don't think I can actually use it to buy stuff with my phone in person yet.

I've been using a contactless card for a while now and they're accepted in loads of places, but Google just don't seem interested in supporting it in the UK. Even the London oyster system works contactless now - I wouldn't be surprised if Apple Pay works flawlessly with that too.
It doesn't. Light can bend when it encounters a change in the index of refraction, e.g. air to glass or vice-versa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refraction#Explanation Light travels in a straight line after it has entered the glass, and again after it exits. Only the angle and the difference in refractive index matters. That's why you can build a Fresnel lens which is, so to speak, all surface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lens#Description
1.) Lenovo isn't owned by the CCP.

2.) In the way that a company can be compelled to comply with an order from the government, including the requirement that the company may not disclose to anyone the nature of that order or the gag order, and that there is effectively no way to challenge such orders in a court of law.

>Have you actually lived in a country that has no elected representative?

Yes. What difference is that supposed to make?