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Quasicrystals are an interesting thing. Basically all common crystals can be represented by translation of a small unit cell in 3D space. OTOH quasicrystals are structured forms of matter which cannot be represented by repetition of such unit cell. These materials show some interesting elastic properties and diffraction patterns. Quasicrystalline coatings have low friction coefficient (similar to Teflon) and can be potentially used in cookware [1].

[1] - http://www.springerlink.com/content/134r413766433207/

This is kind of chicken-and-egg problem. Today most established journals with high impact factors (= prestigious) are non-open-access. Publishing in or being a reviewer of a high impact factor non-open-access journal looks much better in a resume of a scientist than publishing in non-prestigious open-access journal.

For an open-access journal to become prestigious it needs high quality contributions. But at the same time an author of some important discovery will more likely to publish it in some high prestigious non-open-access journal. Of course for tenured faculty members it is not such a big problem because they have a secured position. But for their apprentices not having high impact publications may become a problem in their future career. And while tenured adviser may force a postdoc to publish in an open-access journal most of them will not likely do this because they understand that this puts members of his/her lab in a bad position compared to competing scientists.

I think that well known scientists should make the first move here and to start publishing in open-access journals. Their work has a lot of traction and will not suffer from being published in some not-so-well-known open-access journal. On the other hand this will help open-access journals to start building reputation.

This is nice

Six Apart – company co-founders Ben and Mena Trott were born six days apart

Maybe I used a bad word here. What I meant by 'buggy' is that if you'll look at commit history there are a lot of fixes for problems that could be easily avoided in other languages (like memory leak here [1]).

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface/commit/6eefcf40e68c2a...

With all respect to Linus. This project is about 4800 SLOC of C. I wonder how much shorter and less buggy it would be had he chosen some higher level language.

A process of genes expression is when information from your genes translates to the proteins which are primary regulatory entities in cells. "Affects your genes" implies that somehow your genes are changed permanently. MicroRNAs affect the process of gene expression not the genes itself. What the authors found is that microRNAs from rice can appear in cells of mammals if they eat a lot of rice. But if they stop eating rice the effect of these microRNAs will be lost.

The title of the Discover Magazine article is link bait bullshit. It suggests that what you eat affects your genes. What the authors of the Science paper really found is that plant microRNAs can survive digestion in mammals. These plant microRNAs where subsequently found in mammalian cells affecting expression of genes and cell chemistry.

Hint: press 'Reverse order' in bottom right corner and you'll see some interesting ones.

Please stop posting articles with link bait titles. Even the abstract of the original article has more information [1].

[1] http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nsmb.2...

I think it's because VS UI visual designer generates only C# code and doesn't work with other languages. Anyway you can build UI in C# and the rest in any .Net language you prefer.

Seems like Yaron Minsky (the first author of the paper) has an account here [1]. Not active though.

[1] news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yminsky

But doesn't work with Firefox.

Single page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/business/computer-generate...

The article is from 2002. I think now Haskel might be the best alternative. In 2002 though OCaml tools were probably better and more mature than Haskel ones.

In addition to #4.

I don't know about IMDB's relations with releasing companies but the ratings for many movies behave strangely. When a movie is released the rating is very often around 8 fading to 6 in several weeks when more people vote. It's odd that the first batch of people usually likes the film and the rest don't.

I agree about Linux. People using different OSes (fanboys) might mistakenly think that this site is mostly Linux news (the first impression is the most important one). You obviously don't want loosing this kind of audience. So add categories for other major OSes or remove Linux entirely.

Yes. I think this is better.

PS Unfortunately, now the contrast between table cells is almost lost. Don't know if it was intended.

I am not a design expert either. But red tables on dark background feel uncomfortable for eyes when you are in a dark room. I'd suggest to make them darker (which will also add some contrast to the white text) and to use a more neutral color.

Sorry, off topic. But the red design of the tables is awful.

Not true. According to the git commit history it is being developed pretty actively. The last commit date is July 21st 2011.

From marketing point of view it's not a wise move. Consider how much press announcing 'Firefox X is here' they lose. And each of these announcements can potentially attract new users.

I think Chrome's fast growth can in part be attributed to by the constant stream of news like 'Chrome 1,2,3,... released' which helped Google to build recognition.

Customers don't really care what technologies a company uses. If a customer uses modern web browser the product must work. Period.

WTF??? They don't support two most popular web browsers.

Firefox 5: "Your web browser isn't supported yet. Download Chrome or Safari below."

IE9: "Your web browser isn't supported yet. Download Chrome or Safari below."

I agree about not getting too excited. But to be precise in this case they are talking about nucleobases [1] which are building blocks of DNA. Amino acids [2] are building blocks of proteins.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleobase [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid

Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227045

Yes. Thanks. My fault.

"In most Silicon Valley Startups, coders know SQL, a major scripting language as well as HTML and CSS. However MySpace had positions solely for just HTML/CSS, a trend that harkened back to the 90s when web pages were manually created."

I hope, "SQL" is a typo here.

This reminds me of my first experience when I started to use Linux (SSH, terminal only) and Vim.

This is interesting (from Wikipedia article on Benford's Law):

In the United States, evidence based on Benford's law is legally admissible in criminal cases at the federal, state, and local levels.

Wrong. B has bug X in Beta and supposedly don't have it in final release. It's easy to fix single implementation (Silverlight) in case of new bugs, but it is difficult to fix the standard.