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You're making several fundamental mistakes. First, for a lot of what you read on your screen you have no choice. Where else are you going to read it? So the equation there is whether reading on a screen is better than not reading the particular material at all. Whereas with e-books the equation is whether reading on a screen (and the other benefits of e-books) is better than reading a physical book. Given some of the less than desirable characteristics of reading text on an LCD those benefits may not be enough.

Second, you probably spend a lot more time reading on a screen than most people do. If your day job involves using a computer all day (which I'll hazard a guess to a reasonable probability of such, given that this is hacker news) then you'll already have internalized and accepted the tradeoffs of doing a lot of reading on an LCD. But to someone who uses a computer say 1/10th or 1/100th as much as you do they have yet to come to that bridge, and when they do they have a choice as to the technologies they use for screen reading, the slight benefits of e-ink may be enough for them, even if it isn't for you.

There are a lot of computer users in the world who have yet to read, say, 1 thousand words of paragraph after paragraph of text in a single sitting on a device. To them the differences between reading text on physical paper, e-ink, or an LCD may be much more significant than for those of us who already spend our days staring at monitors and feel comfortable doing so.
In-N-Out Burger might be a good fast-food equivalent to Apple. I have no idea if they focus test any of their food but they've had the same menu for ages. They do a few things very well, and there's also a mystique about the company.
I'd just been considering trying to give up coffee. I guess that plan is out the window!
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they arent ever set in stone, browsers can quite happily ignore web standards from time to time. Would have made upgrading from gears just happen by magic though.
Conspiracy, or just a boring story?
The page loaded, and I started reading the story, and then the whole screen was covered by a popup that said "Something went wrong loading the page, reload or go to a different page". No way to close it to finish reading. Might have even been flash covering it up.
This is one of those WSJ articles that is wrong in so many ways you don't quite know how to start refuting it.
Some people believe -- myself included -- that the idea of "Semantic Web" is basically an impossible idea to implement on the scale of the Internet:

http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm
Well, at least I now understand why in every thread about marriage there are about 40 comments that read, "never get married, women are evil!"
It is particularly interesting to note that blogger Felix Salmon got credited for bringing attention to this. My guess is that we are going to see more cases of bloggers breaking stories like this since they are often more free of conflicts of interest.

Before, you mostly had to worry about political bias in newspapers, but here we are seeing selectivity being employed when reporting plain old business news.

I don't have many memories of this happening in the recent past, a poignant example would be when CBS refused to air a story on 60 Minutes about how Tobacco executives perjured themselves about their awareness of nicotine’s addictiveness. CBS killed the story because it could have jeopardized their acquisition by Laurence Tisch (who at the time owned Lorillard). Michael Mann's wonderful film, The Insider, centers around that debacle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insider_(film)
In my opinion, this argument have existential consequences: either it's not possible to emulate mind on turing machine or we don't have qualia and consciousness (it's just the illusion, that we have). And i don't like the latter.
We can now do a lot of laborious tasks with scripting :)
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NBC doesn't care about formats. They probably made a great deal with Microsoft to make Silverlight the exclusive choice for their Olympics coverage. NBC makes some money and Microsoft gets their plug in installed on a lot of machines that wouldn't otherwise.
Not with Chrome on OSX. Browser hangs & dies.
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I don't think it's that bloggers are more free of conflicts of interest, but that there are more bloggers so there is a higher percentage whose conflicts of interest are not relevant to a given story.
Boring-- but that's only because the media hasn't sexed it up yet.
I'm sure this is no unfamiliar territory for anyone in dev or ops, especially in a startup. My boss is what I like to regard as the master of all trades and even with his 15+ years of experience has the odd hiccup in the production environment. We are only human and that means we make mistakes. Experience teaches you not to make those mistakes again. So for instance when I made a config change in apache, synced it to all servers and restarted but forgot to add a log directory, apache failed to startup and no requests were being served. I wont make that mistake again lol.
Agreed! The best part about "non-sexy" code is that with a little love and attention, you get to make it sexy. :) Sure, the minute details in the back end aren't the public-facing front end that the users look at and go "wow" but there's the feeling of knowing that it's those little details that tie it all together and make it work smoothly. Improving on that can be very rewarding, indeed.
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And the former isn't a particularly useful conclusion. The results of doing the research have a lot of potential. What potential does not trying have?
Because there are still too many Analytical Philosophers out there (Kuhn is the exception)
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The argument is so flawed I don't even know where to beging.

It's the room that is conscious not the person. Of course the person can't speak Chinese. Neither can the neuron in my brain.
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I used to be into cross country running. I only ever managed a half marathon though, not serious distance. I don't think this will help you personally. But getting/staying fit is always a good thing.

At the same time I'm not a finisher either - the interest for me is in finding the solution. The thrill of the chase. Once I've captured my quarry I'm not bothered with it, I'll chase something else.

Unfortunately this means I have problems starting real world tasks where I've already solved them mentally. I also have anxiety about starting before I've completed a mental solution, a sort of perfectionism.
A lot of Android's criticisms come from the fact that people expect it to be an iPhone - they want the screens to scroll like the iPhone, they want to navigate apps using header buttons (instead of the standard back button), they want shaking to undo, they want pressing the trackball to take them home etc. It kinda understandable, as the iPhone is almost everyone's first smartphone, but still pretty silly.

If they get over their iphone-centric view, they'd find Android has many strengths. The standard buttons (home, back, menu) actually improves usability immensely, since you never have to care how a specific app wants to place its navigation elements or options etc. You know the back button will almost always take you back/cancel, you know that if you're ever in doubt, the menu button will save you etc.

I also very much appreciate the fact that the phone doesn't treat me like a dumbass. For example, while the iphone is easier to unlock the first time around (pretty hard to miss the SLIDE HERE TO UNLOCK message), it becomes stupid and annoying after awhile and takes away from the aesthetic appeal. Or the fact that the only allowed customization you can make is to re-arrange your icons, rather than making the phone YOURS and seeing what you actually want to see.
You're right that calling a functor a container is an oversimplification. But when you start explaining something at full generality, it only makes sense to people that already understand the full generality. Once you understand how List and Tree are similar, you can understand how List, Tree, Reader, and IO are similar. But if you don't see any connections between List and Tree, you are never going to see any connection between List and IO. So, you need to simplify, understand the simplification, and then try to attack full generality.

The same goes for monoids. Many people won't see any use for "identity + associative binary operator". But they will understand the similarities between "append to a list" and "add numbers". Once you see something concrete, then you can worry about abstraction. If you don't understand the concrete, though, you aren't going to get there from the abstraction.

(Nobody ever said, "I'll define a functor to be ... Now I'll write a program with this functor!" Instead, they noticed how lists and trees were similar, and invented the functor abstraction afterwards. If you learn and discover things the same way they did, you'll eventually have the same deep understanding they do. That understanding is what allows you to use the abstractions, not the definition you find in a textbook.)

So anyway, if you are teaching people Haskell, it's better to teach them the concrete. Once they understand that, you can amend the definition to be fully abstract. Then they will be comfortable with the abstraction and its applications.
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I've never been able to figure out how this (and most other philosophical arguments against AI) don't apply just as well to individual neurons. Though I suppose if one wants to frame it as an argument that neither computers nor human brains are capable of intelligence, I might be persuaded.

In fact, for sake of argument, I claim that I am, in fact, just an elaborate system of symbolic manipulation with no actual comprehension or conscious experience, a bunch of meaningless neural impulses with no greater understanding of English than the "Chinese Room" understands Chinese; and I invite anyone to attempt to persuade me otherwise.
@idelwords - It's worth noting that this talk was given at the Bay Area Sala Enthusiasts Meetup hence the focus on the tool (scala) and not the product.

@wavesplash - It's true that there are potential scaling issues when you have stateful servers, but the vast majority of our requests are API requests which do not have this issue significantly mitigating the risk.

-harryh
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we don't have qualia and consciousness (it's just the illusion, that we have)

An illusion experienced by whom?

What's the difference between having an illusion of consciousness and having the real thing?
The only problem with their review system is that paid reviews can skew things. Still, I find that just reading a good sample (especially the negative reviews) and seeing if the points brought up in them pertain to me works very well.
I think it was sarcasm...
It goes beyond "not relevant" to just plain "in line with". The Lewinsky scandal was broken by a right-wing blog in 1998.
My criticism wasn't of your comment that Lift was a poor choice because it doesn't scale well. It was of your comments that the technology shouldn't be used because there aren't that many developers to hire that know/are willing to learn scala/lift or that it isn't as mature as some other technologies.

As for your argument on scalability, while I have dabbled in Lift, I am too ignorant to know how much work it would take to scale Lift versus alternative technologies. I find it hard to believe that choosing Lift is really going to make it that hard to scale. David Pollak and the creators of Lift seem like they are pretty smart people to me. However, I have no evidence to prove you wrong and therefore did not even address that point.
Or perhaps both?
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Why? Because Governments can't ever do anything right?

This is a massive digitization project, with little technical or marketing risk. If the data is made available with a good license, it could spur a great deal of competition and value in the private sector.
Trust me, analytical philosophers are the only thing protecting us from the likes of Hegel and Derrida.

The purpose of philosophy is to protect us from bad philosophy.
If it were me, I'd take advantage of the potential customers and the SEO that seems to be making her a popular destination for a related field.

1) Hire a good web designer.
2) ...
3) Profit.

This would be a prime example of being flexible and observing the market. Of course, to her credit, she seems to have no desire in growing a business, and just wants to do her thing. I can respect that.
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The answer to his argument is

we don't know

The man in the room is the neuron it's the house that is the brain.
Some things work for some, others for others. I can promise you guilt works for me.
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I think you underestimate the differences between people; that has definitely not been the case for me.
philwelch

So you prefér circular argumentation?
IDEA: why not get Adobe's perspective before hitting "Publish"? Two views are better than rants.
it won't "die" for the same reason that it's still used at university - both because it raise some interesting issues and because it played an important part in the historical debate over ai.

also, if you actually read the link you'll see that it's placed in context, with the "systems reply" explained in detail.
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This argument is ridiculous. Flash is native code and does not run in a sandbox. It already interacts with graphics hardware through numerous other APIs and has the ability to kill your system in innumerable other ways. An API for hardware acceleration of video decoding should be the least of your worries.

Furthermore, this argument would apply just as well to WebGL, which gives graphics hardware access directly to Javascript on any website you visit. WebGL is awesome and I believe it can be done safely.

I don't know much about QTKit but I think it's entirely plausible that it isn't flexible enough for use in Flash. Flash needs complete control over drawing because videos are integrated with other Flash content (likely rendered at least partially in software), and can be manipulated by ActionScript to produce effects such as 360 degree video: http://www.immersivemedia.com/work/cbc/hockey/index.html
It seems more like Adobe's development teams slowed down after the Macromedia acquisition.
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It's not just your opinion ;) This argument is about the nature of consciousness more than anything. It fights for a "subjective ontology" of the mental and is not easily dismissed as the earlier commentator would like to believe. The rapidity of upvotes and apparent sympathy to that claim by members of this community is certainly understandable given that the stance is anti-verificationist and presents problems for a purely scientific explanation of consciousness, but imho at our current level of intelligence/intellectual evolution a purely scientific explanation is horribly dehumanizing and insufficient.
Hells yes Write a blog.

I reckon that anyone with a working beta key should download WireShark, and capture all network traffic for the launch and authentication of Starcraft II. That would be a great help.
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I like what you say here. The idea of getting both testers that are familiar with services similar and getting some that are completely new offers a complete perspective of the product and its applications. I will make sure to aim for this in our testing group.
Good point. We should look for offline products that can be easily replaced by online technology. Wikipedia is a very good example. Medpedia is aiming to do the same thing right now with medical information.
More evidence for Google not being evil. I certainly can't imagine any other company of Google's size cheerfully abandoning a technology that has been supplanted by open standards. Google just seems to reflexively prefer open standards, whether it suits their corporate interest or not.
In the mainframe world you're often paying by the processing unit consumed -- if you're not using the cycles you're not paying for them, and if you're using cycles you don't actually need to use you're just burning money.
I think the fact that the argument is equally applicable to the human brain gets at the heart of the general problem of consciousness, of which AI is just a special case. Consciousness is not an observable phenomenon (excepting one's experience of one's own consciousness), so it seems unlikely to me that we can ever understand it in terms of observable phenomena-- i.e. as a function/result of things like neurons or transistors.
Breaking a story that someone else is sitting on is interesting - but it still requires (in the Lewinsky scenario) reporters doing actual investigations. Newsweek had the story. Drudge broke that they were sitting on the story. Drudge also isn't a blogger. He's a news aggregator that very occasionally does original reporting (which usually consists of leaks of book galleys, and stuff about to be published...often leaked to him on purpose by reporters to drum up interest and drive clicks to the story a few hours later, and in many cases political operatives pushing narratives, especially during campaigns)

Felix Salmon also fudges the notion of reporter vs. blogger. He is employed by Reuters, and he blogs for them. How do you draw the distinction between blogger and reporter?

I'm not trying to take away from the important transformation that is occurring, but I think that to put it in a binary divide of bloggers vs. old media/MSM reporters is too broad.
Is there a fast-food equivalent to Apple?

This is going to sound ridiculously clichéd, but could probably make a case for Starbucks. A lot their success came from having and marketing a consistent, stylized aesthetic, they got a lot of flack for being expensive, they unified and created a "standard" of sorts in a market that was fragmented and not seen as interesting (i.e., coffee shops vs. MP3 players and online music stores), their aesthetic choices tend to get adopted by competitors...
Ask HN: Should Gridspy avoid Flash?
As you might know, Gridspy the a power monitoring solution that I am developing. Suffice to say it is totally awesome. Working dashboard here : http://your.gridspy.co.nz/powertech/

Right now, we use the jquery sparkines library : http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/ and some rendered PNGs to show data. The sparklines are JS and render to canvas. All good.

Enter the Google Visualisation library : http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery.html

Now some of these are totally awesome. One in particular grabs my attention: http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/annotatedtimeline.html

However : this annotation requires flash. Do I avoid it for that reason? Should I just query the client to see if they have flash and selectively degrade to an alternative (such as http://danvk.org/dygraphs/)?

So, overall, how evil is Flash in your opinion?
Hot :

Dashboard: http://your.gridspy.co.nz/powertech/

Jquery sparklines: http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/

Google visualisation: http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gall...

Annotated timeline (the flash one): http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gall... <-- Should I use this?

DyGraphs: http://danvk.org/dygraphs
Why I Haven't Fallen In Love With The Nexus One:

no physical keyboard
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I'm a pretty happy Nexus One user. Well I was until I picked up my iPod touch again and played with it. I now have even more respect for Apple. It's the level of polish and responsiveness that blows everything else out of the water.
> Lenders have begun mining Facebook and similar graphs, and turning down credit for people whose graph ("friends") includes people who are deemed risky.

Source(s)?
Why doesnt John have comments enabled in his blog?

"Sometimes a design decision is what you don’t put in, as opposed to what you put in."

http://shawnblanc.net/2007/07/why-daring-fireball-is-comment...

I find his restraint refreshing.
Your post also works if you swap the words iPhone and Android, and make some edits regarding a particular user's priorities. You could also swap one of the phones with 'Nokia N97', and it'd still work.

The joy of differentiation!
This is off-topic, but, why does Gruber ends his posts with open ended questions when there's no way of leaving comments?

Sites like CopyBlogger always suggest that ending a post with a question or two is a way to make sure that people will feel compelled to comment. What's the reason here?

Is he (ab)using sites like HN as his comment system? Or is this a new form of linkbait?
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It seems that a lot of this guy's "this is awesome" points are cloud related — the gCal integration, seamless contact info from Google — and are the main reasons I don't want to move to Android.

Frankly, I think that Google already has too much of my information, and the recent Buzz debacle demonstrates that they can't really be trusted with it.

No thanks. I'd much rather sync with my local address book.
I find it helpful to make lists for myself. Checking things off of a list always feels like progress, which itself is a motivator.

To take a real life example- when I was doing iPhone apps, I noticed that a common pattern for me was to lose interest/motivation when all of the ugly details began to emerge from what initially seemed like a simple weekend project.

My way of dealing with this was to always keep a prioritized list of the absolute minimum features I needed in order to ship it. It's always easy to get a little off-track while investigating ideas, so I tried to focus on what the absolute most important aspects were. You can always work on a 2.0 after you ship 1.0, so try to focus on the most important aspects without getting side-tracked by non-essentials.
They'd need some way of knowing where they are pretty precisely, at least relative to... something.
It was a rhetorical question.
I have to wonder what the logic is behind abandoning what I assume is a primary revenue stream. Does anyone know what their plan is?