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I think it's possible. Instead of thinking that Ms. Costeira makes the new iPod, let's assume Apple makes the new iPod. It just looks like normal sunglasses, except that it's a full video iPod and by default the back of the lenses are glowing Apple logos. Using it to view 3D TV is not the main use, watching 3D internet on the lenses is the main use. I give it 5 years.
What is MMA?
And 2010 will be the year of Linux on the desktop! Thank you, infamous Chinese pirates. The official, government sponsored Linux distribution already copies the Windows XP interface. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux
I love the article, and the Sherlock Holmes analysis too:

-Ohh, let me see... a professional photo could be manipulated by Photoshop or Gimp...

-mmmmm. It's photoshop what had been used.

He is truly a genius!!
"What is MMA?"

Mixed Martial Arts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_martial_arts
Performance under extreme pressure is by definition what sorts out he great from the average in other disciplines: sports, music, performing etc.

If you haven't experienced sport (or similar) at the highest levels you probably won't get how much a few insane minutes can enhance your mastery. It really is a whole new level, where everyone is competing at their peak and you have to greatly improve your level or fail miserably.

This type of pressure & competitiveness just doesn't happen in most business environments, so the degree of pressure to lift your game isn't there.
As noted in Daeken's post the source can be found on github here:

http://github.com/callen/Alky-Reborn

I am currently keeping that up there for two reasons:

1. Safe-keeping

2. So that I could read over the code from my friend's house on Christmas.

I would like to be able to begin development by New Year's, if anyone would like to discuss/collab on the code I welcome all comers.
I'd say another big game changer is going to be APIs becoming ubiquitous. A lot of sites are already doing this, but in the next few years, expect even more open APIs from even more sites. Screen scraping should become largely a thing of the past. I expect the Internet to take on a Unix philosophy with web apps becoming very well suited at individual tasks instead of kitchen-sink type applications. Information will be passed in XML (plain text or gzipped), apps will be strung together fairly easily if we keep pushing for RESTful APIs, and the winners will be the people that build on other sites in useful and ingenious ways.

You can already see this with Twitter. A social networking site that is basically just the status field from Facebook being utilized for all sorts of other tasks because they have an open API. Expect to see more sites take individual features from other sites (or create completely new features) and build really great services with just that feature.

For this to happen, a ubiquitous login is going to have to really take hold, but I already see that happening with Facebook Connect. It's proprietary, but they've already reached critical mass and it doesn't break the username/password paradigm that people are used to. OpenID, while great in concept, is going to lose because people aren't used to having a URL represent them.
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Readers want books that are plentiful and cheap, publishers want to preserve their profit, and authors want a larger share of revenue.

What this article misses out entirely is the distribution chain.

Publishers aren't distributors. Amazon is a distributor and a retailer rolled into one. Ingram is a distributor. The other wholesalers are distributors.

The distributors take 70% of the gross revenue from a book, leaving 30% to split between authors and publishers. The reason the publishers are defending their margins is that Amazon are trying to increase the already-silly 70% cut that they're taking (by combining the retail and wholesale distribution stages into one entity). Amazon are also trying to bootstrap ebooks by cutting prices, and they don't want to run the whole process out of their own pocket. So the squeeze is on.

The smart publishers would be setting up ebook storefronts and selling direct to the public -- establishing their own distribution arm, in other words. But they're not used to thinking in those terms (if anything, they've been moving in the opposite direction for decades, shedding direct sales forces and outsourcing printing and low-level production work like typesetting).
i'm intrigued by this project. input a windows game, output a macosx executable. i have to admit that i'd love to have such a thing.

but i'm skeptical. what's to keep this from turning into a huge ungainly decades-long slog? given the history of the WINE project, that's what i'd assume is looming on the horizon.
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This question asked several times before;nothing changed my habit of visiting HN daily. As long as i believe the quality of people in here remains as it is in the first day then i am ok.

What bothers me not the points,karma,content or improper comments; Its the number of fresh news that increased a lot.I started to use RSS reader and what i observe that there are so much news in HN(79) then Slashdot(13) even delicious(48)?! The more i spend time in HN the more i miss good links because given more choice to the people, they tend to put aside the quality and take all.

A bit thinking about the number of fresh news i think several problems lately addressed here(other topics) closely linked to this. More news leads to more comments and more comments creates more fuss(noise) Quality of a discussion greatly reduce as more participants, lengthy comments(self reference here) and deep reply branches.Like your favorite TV discussion program where after couple of hours everyone has a word and shouting each.The quality of comments may be,may be, increase if (high karma)&(register date) take precedence. Think about the anchorman of your favorite tv discussion program: does he start with people in the backseats or starts with some wise figure?
Somehow I think we're in basic agreement. How disappointing, it was shaping up into an interesting argument.

Anyways to answer your question about why less effective arts are popular, I think you already gave the important part of the answer. To be effective, the style must involving training at speed with real and continued contact. (Having protective padding is OK, but you need the contact.) If it doesn't involve that, then when you actually get hit in a real fight you are going to be in trouble really fast.

But your random Joe who wants to get in shape and be able to protect himself in the unlikely event of a real fight doesn't want to spar at speed with real and continued contact. And so will gravitate to the most impressive looking martial art that doesn't scare him.
Cross reference to other interesting items:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716219
Also note that http://www.xp.com goes to a recently launched version of Ubuntu with an even better copy of the Windows XP interface.
Are they really dull? I don't know that to be true. I think the general public is no longer well equipped to appreciate their work so they tend to be clogs in the machine just doing their job like everyone else. You have no chance to escape a stereotype of being dull if you have no audience that understands and appreciates you work.
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How about serve up different mime types for different agents? That way its only broken for the broken browser.
It's likely that scientists were always dull, and the newspapers of yore just reported on the significantly out-of-the-ordinary. Viewed discretely, their lives and personalities seemed idiosyncratic and 'interesting'.

Blogs and Twitter and open resources such as arXiv give the world a continuous look at scientists (and their work), which, as is more often than not, seems mundane and incremental, instead of path-breaking and revolutionary.

Also, the levels of noise on the Internet makes it singularly hard to be 'interesting' in your own unique way.
It's probably that they have no way of doing so once the plane is foreign airspace. Lots of Americans are on the outbound flights so they care a great deal for the plane's safety.
There's really little to keep it from turning into that. In fact, I don't see any way it couldn't be decades long, if the plan is real windows compatibility. However, I think that the points I detailed under the potential new Alky design would keep things considerably simpler (though I think it's unlikely anyone would pick up the design).

As I said, I think the absolute key is a focus on maintainability. Everything comes from there.
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As you said, if you're going to take a bunch of guys and gals with no interest in sport fight and put them through ~100 hours of training in how to defend themselves in real world situations, then MMA fighting is probably not ideal.

However, when I hear young adult males talk about how badass they are for training under some 19th-degree black belt ninja sensei, I get annoyed. I'm not afraid of their sensei. I'm afraid of boxers and amateur wrestlers.
I'm really glad you put that up. Not only does it make it easier for people to access it (as you saw, it's difficult to get it from me personally), but it's been interesting to walk over it myself. It's been some years since I've so much as looked at it, so it's been interesting to look over things like NuContext, the COM class infrastructure, etc. I've forgotten most of the deep details of the codebase, so it's been like reading it for the first time. Really very cool.

I'm going to try and grab the Philosopher (compiler infrastructure used for the shader hacking) source off my backup drive in a few days and throw it up on Github.
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There absolutely were 'watch-lists' prior to 9/11 - in fact, I recall when I entered the US in 1995 watching as the passport control guy checked me against the watchlist - what there wasn't, was a 'no-fly list'.
I suspect most of that relates to incompetence. I rarely see unexpected performance issues bite me in the ass. Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but having a long conversation with the back end database is FAIL.

Most Entrepreneurs are way to young to have the depth of experience to really understand what they are doing. But, they are judged on a separate scale. Twitter design is probably evolving to a reasonable design, and Facebook might be fairly elegant at this point, yet they both started as crap. These entrepreneurs had deadlines but they where not trying to send someone to the moon with the computing power of a watch. Business is about the last hack standing and not creating art, but evolution also works.
It is, nevertheless, quite funny.
It's interesting to see the "popular press" (or at least the BBC) reporting on something that every person who believes in evolution should know without thinking. Surely it's obvious that drugs, disinfectants and anti-bacterials will, over time, cause to arise bacteria that are resistant to them? Well, apparently not.

I've had this debate many times over. Here is some evidence to use, and I'm submitting it in case some of you here have also had this discussion.
If scientists were always dull and newspapers used to report on the more interesting ones, nothing prevents our society to breed them for the "interesting" trait.
I compare this to when I was a student. Because it was hard to go from top 10% to top 1% I didn't get any special award. But some students got awards for 'improvement'. A lot of my colleagues thought the same thing. "WTF, this dumbass goes from failure to average and gets a plaque, while I've been busting my ass all year for an attaboy?"

I'm sure it seems stupid, but when you've been groomed for 12 years to attain achievements any achievement is seen as a positive.

It's probably not correct, but it's how I see NCLB. Being rewarded for being a failure 9/10 of the time.
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Well at least getting the word out will do some good. If companies stop trying to establish a presence in Russia because of actions like this then maybe some change will come about. The biggest problem at the moment is that Russia supplies vast amounts of crucial energy to Europe. With that kind of leverage it's hard to see how political leaders in the EU will have the backbone to encourage Russia to stop acting like a corrupt dictatorship.
Why don't they just anesthesize people at the gates and shove them into comfortable boxes to be carried by cargo planes.

It would certainly be more pleasant for the travellers.
> ... they tend to be clogs in the machine ...

Fascinating typo ... from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage ...

> [sabotage] derives from the Netherlands in the 15th
> century when workers would throw their sabots [clogs]
> into the wooden gears of the textile looms to break
> the cogs, feeling the automated machines would render
> the human workers obsolete.

So being "clogs in the machine" is rather apposite for people who are feeling ground down and unappreciated.
You are bothering people not just in your aisle, but those behind you as well, who can see the light from your phone from the corner of their eyes, but are too far away from you to point it out.

So do the rest of us a favor and put that phone back into your pocket.
How are newspapers and society affecting the breeding of scientists? From personal experience I can tell you that getting press coverage more often than not damages your career.

Scientists are regarded as successful if they get funding for their employer. That means publishing papers. Being "interesting" tends to lead you down paths with significantly more risk, and the pressure is to reduce that risk by being plodding and incremental.
Just to back up your exclamation, an income of $144k per year would easily put him/her in the top 15% of US households.. let alone individuals in the world as a whole.

According to http://www.globalrichlist.com/ - an income of $144k per year on an international basis would put you in the top 0.37% earners in the world.. more people than that alone live in North Korea.
People's personal experiences are interesting, but are potentially ridiculous generalizations.. like saying Jews make better bankers, the British are good tailors, the French are great chefs, or what not. I doubt all Indian designers are useless..
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The pilot obviously thinks the new security measures are stupid.
This relies on security by obscurity in keeping one compromised password from being used to access the other sites. An attacker who knows of the procedure can trivially detect passwords probably using it and substitute the domain identifier.

A modification that doesn't have this problem and keeps passwords retrievable using a single master password, but does require using a helper program, would be to take a cryptographic hash from the concatenation (master_password^site_id) and deterministically generate the desired password from the hash value.

Quick Python example:

"".join([chr(((ord(x)-33)%94)+33) for x in hashlib.sha256("hunter2"+"facebook").digest()[:8]])
I wonder if there is a moral conflict on using GPL software when so many other important freedoms are absent.
http://www.unlambda.com/download/cadr/cadr_orig_verilog.tar....
Not to be picky, but "Showing off, like Zed does, means you are still learning."

There. Fixed for you.
Perhaps software freedom can make people hunger for greater freedoms. I don't see any moral conflict.
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> Any modern Unix Shell

Can I stop a Unix kernel, view + modify the line of source corresponding exactly to where it halted, and resume?
I don't think there's any conspiracy theory here; the article indicates that you can't actually use the product unless you create an account on their site, providing them with personal details with no opt-out.

You're right about companies liking to have contact details - every product seems to come with some kind of registration card - but until now I've never heard of a manufacturer actively withholding the instructions required to use the product unless you are willing to send it in.
Wow, it really is the worst puzzle ever. That is very very lame.
All of them absolutely suck IMHO. You end up with kids who get bored tired and irritated, removing the glasses and squinting at the screen to try and make out what's going on.

The move toward 3D is a great shame. I seriously don't think it actually adds anything. I've seen a few movies in 3D, and after the initial "haha cool" moment, you forgot it was in 3D (Apart from being a dimmer, more irritating headache inducing picture).

Conspiracy theory: It's to combat people camcordering movies in cinemas?
> Why don't they just anesthesize people at the gates

Because the regime insists that citizens be reminded that they are cattle.
Maybe it's $12k before tax, $8k after tax?
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I've mentioned before here on HN problems with this source,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=961305

which are that the source itself is notorious for lack of empirical back-up or peer review for anything submitted to it. (The Medical Hypotheses blog is associated with the journal Medical Hypotheses, edited by the same person who posted the blog post I link above, and he runs the journal, and evidently the blog as well, to post ideas of his own that cannot obtain peer-reviewed publication elsewhere.) I have read several of the articles and reviews he cites in this submitted blog post, and most have nothing to do with what he is writing about in the blog article, but are simply there to pad his reference list.

But I must, for completeness of response, mention that the book

N.J. Mackintosh, IQ and human intelligence, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1998)

http://www.amazon.com/IQ-Human-Intelligence-N-Mackintosh/dp/...

in his reference list is the best book on its subject, still amazingly current a decade after it was published (because the author is completely familiar with current research and was looking ahead to research that was still underway as he wrote his book). Even though the book is cited in a blog post that isn't supported by the book, the book itself is well worth reading.
it's not that mysterious. it takes more than 100 points to downvote now. pg keeps increasing the point totals you need to do various things, due to karma inflation.
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When I saw the headline I was afraid they'd switched to one of the ancient directly-arch-derived DCVSes that had the same name (depressing that I considered that plausible), but it looks like the FSF anointed Canonical's most recent project a couple years ago.
I hope you're missing a second verb there.
Just an educated guess but I think now solving problems which will be revolutionary in nature is just beyond the means of one single person simply because they are way too hard for just one Genius to solve it- so we don't have a famous Newton or an Einstein of present age and instead have lot of people working on lot of small chinks of the bigger problem
This is a permanent fact of life, in every country.
Never attribute to malice anything that can be better explained by incompetence.

They probably thought having the instructions online would be easier than printing. Especially if there were any mistakes. Then they likely thought they should protect them so not everyone can view them, only purchasers. Then they likely thought they may as well take contact details in case they need to make people aware of faults/errors/updates etc.
It isn't difficult to create explosives with the same x-ray transparency as body fat.

The detonator squib will be in a pen, a glasses frame, or some other everyday item which has not yet been forbidden.
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This was rather eye opening for me, especially the part in the lower left hand corner about the difference between earth-to-moon travel and moon-to-earth travel. (The full-sized picture can be seen at [http://xkcd.com/681_large/].)

This one also remdinds me of xkcd.com/657/, another one of his comics that probably took forever to make, but provides lots of information in a very easy to understand fasion.
Here's an interesting op-ed from the NYT the other day: "A Fish Oil Story": http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/opinion/16greenberg.html

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Or, y'know, at the Apple store.
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Yeah I'd love to see the shader hacking stuff you've got.

I'm mulling over the Mono vs. blah question, let alone how to take the design from here. I'm going to be mulling over it until at least New Year's.
There is an elephant in the room.

The threat to US/Western Europe/Australasia is coming from muslims. They are by far the biggest terrorist threat to these areas. So we should have a 'no-fly' rule for muslims. A minority of current flyers would suffer inconvenience. As it is, the majority of flyers suffer both inconvenience and the possibility of being murdered.

I hardly fly any more because it is such an awful experience. It is only a matter of time before another plane comes down - in September Abdullah Asieri stuck a bomb up his ass and passed through 2 sets of airport security AND the Saudi security services, which shows us that there is no way to stop someone getting a bomb on board. Dealing with suicide bombers is the most difficult thing to do. They have no fear of any punishment, and they can take their deathly payload anywhere.

People should start reading sites like www.jihadwatch.org or www.thereligionofpeace.com instead of believing the politically correct media. Islam is the oldest form of totalitarianism.

I'm no racist (I don't believe there are races). For 15 years I have lived in the heart of the most muslim area of London. I've seen most non-muslims leave the area, and watched as the muslims have become more and more radical. I'm married to an asian, and I've had two muslim boyfriends in the past.