More proof that ycombinator is a bunch of misogynists, of course you need a man to submit the link for her since she would instantly be shadowbanned for being female.
One of the best programmers I've ever known was legally blind. He had progressive Miopia so he could see a few characters at a time on the screen if enlarged enough. I sometimes wonder if that actually forced a level of rigor in his approach to programming that the rest of us did not have to deal with that made him so good. He would envision a program in his mind almost completely before ever started entering the code. I learned a lot working with him.
It reminds me of that movie "Brewsters Millions". In the movie Richard Pryor plays a character that will inherit $300M from his excentric uncle but to do so he must first prove himself by spending $30M in 30days and have nothing to show for it in the end. It was a hillarious movie, but in one part of it he decides to invest in something crazy so he buys a company that wants to capture icebergs from the artic and use tug boat to tow them to the arabian deserts an Africa and other water starved places. Upon hearing that a multi-millionaire is investing in the company, figuring he must know what he is doing, a bunch of other people run out and start bidding up the stock price.
I have often thought that life is self limiting. For example, yeast is a living thing, it consumes sugars and it's waste is ehtanol and eventually they all kill themselves off by drowning in their own waste (which, I guess later over a meal I will be enjoying a glass of yeast pee, but I digress). From a molecular perspective, human DNA is not that different from yeast, and at a macro view our behaviour is not that different either it seems. Perhaps all sentient life is destine to the same fate, perhaps it is a law of nature. I recall reading about an argument that Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne have regarding time travel. Stephen Hawking argues against time travel because we have never met any time travellers from our future. Maybe time travel is theoretically possible, but like yeast, we do not as a species survive long enough to develop the necessary technology. ugh, sorry to bring everyone down, might as well have a glass of yeast pee.
This phenomenon reminds me very much of the method used to create a Bose–Einstein condensate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensat...)
An exciting posibility would be if a solid state device could be developed to generate BEC, which could lead to super high density optical storage since BEC can trap light.
OK, here is your sanity check. What is being demonstrated is the same technology that is used in LTE and 802.11n (MIMO beam forming, wikipedia it you like). Basically by using offset antenna's which is essentially what the slit does, creates an offset so the waves are scrambled out of phase, you can put multiple streams on one frequency. This is nothing new, and sadly, Shannon's Law prevails (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem). [fyi, me: 32+ yrs in telecom & wireless, engineer at very large wireless company. ps. love hackernews :) ]
I have watched this phenomenon for years now as a devote gym rat. I always thought that a virtual gym would be perfect for those people who join the gym but never show up. They could simple go to a web site, join, pay $10/mo have a membership and never feel guilty about not going since there is actually no physical gym to go to.
I wonder how much an iPhone would cost if it was manufactured in a way that actually adhered to all of the "standards and laws" applicable in the US? It would be interesting to see the result of such a study. It would be a way of finding out how committed someone was to the ideals of environmental and fair labor practices: here is a phone that abuses people and the environment for $200 and here is one that respects the worker and the environment $400 (or whatever the number might be). Interesting to know how many people would pick one or the other?
I remember when they said the boards would be out in June, then August, then October, then November now January and "we are manufacturing". I have never seen vaporware hyped so sucessfully!