skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mac OS X system preference replica using HTML5 and WebKit (view with dev Chrome)
It took roughly 1-2 hours to put together, and takes advantage of WebKit-specific CSS gradients, transforms, box-shadows, etc. Not a single image is used. The video is, of course, done with the HTML5 video element.<p>Comparison screenshot at http://imgur.com/6Kt6L.png<p>Code is freely available on GitHub (http://github.com/aupajo/webkit-fu).<p>Put it together for a weekend BarCamp (http://barcamp.org/BarCamp-Christchurch-2010).
I dunno about that. When I go to Uncyclopedia (http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page), I have no expectation that it will be useful, only that it will be like Wikipedia.
Using EC2 makes you the exception, not the rule (and by the way, I would prefer to have a server at home). Most people don't use EC2 (let alone a personal server). They use Blogger. Most people don't send mail. They ask Gmail to that for them.

The internet used to be a bunch of interconnected machines doing peer to peer communication. Now, we have a few servers and many many clients. So the future already there. I believe we could reverse the trend and go back to a sane, mostly decentralized, internet, but it will require a collective effort.
incidentally, the iPhone does it that way as well.
Ignorance already means this. Not having information about something is not ignorance, not realizing so is.
It took roughly 1-2 hours to put together, and takes advantage of WebKit-specific CSS gradients, transforms, box-shadows, etc. Not a single image is used. The video is, of course, done with the HTML5 video element.

Comparison screenshot at http://imgur.com/6Kt6L.png

Code is freely available on GitHub (http://github.com/aupajo/webkit-fu).

Put it together for a weekend BarCamp (http://barcamp.org/BarCamp-Christchurch-2010).
Computers in everything you wear? 
Research and learn as much as you can about what you're most interested in...
You seem to have done the impossible, and uncovered a Cpedia article that might actually contain exactly the information a search-engine user was looking for...
Jordan Rudess, the keyboardist for Dream Theater, has an iPhone (loaded up with various synthesizer apps) as one of his (many, often expensive) instruments.

EDIT: Here he is playing the iPhone in the middle of his keyboard solo, live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONGpprZBkrs
>it is hard to imagine the opposition Liberal Party ... opposing it.

My understanding is that they opposed ISP level filtering while in government.

Here are some comments made by Senior Opposition Frontbencher Joe Hockey a few days ago:

“What we have in the government’s Internet filtering proposals is a scheme that is likely to be unworkable in practice. But more perniciously it is a scheme that will create the infrastructure for government censorship on a broader scale,” said Hockey in a wide-ranging speech on freedom to the Grattan Institute last night.

Hockey said that “of course” people wanted to stop unlawful material being viewed on the internet, and that there were appropriate protections that are in place for that. “But I have personal responsibility as a parent,” he added. “If I want to stop my children from viewing other material that I feel is inappropriate then that is my responsibility to do something about it – not that of the government.”

“Protecting liberty is about protecting freedoms against both known and future threats. Some may argue that we can surely trust a democratically-elected government in Australia to never try to introduce more wide-spread censorship. I am not so sure!”

http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/37527-hockey...

Nick Minchin, the former Opposition Communications Minister, was also strongly against the Internet filter. Here's an opinion piece he wrote for the SMH.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/big-brother-filter-plan-i...
Yet nothing that has sustainable power and USB. Wouldn't mind having Bu.mp on there :-)
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This is the Dunning-Kruger effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
The idea isn't new [1], but I like the word he coined. Metaignorance is way more explicit that the "Dunning-Kruger effect". :-)

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
There's an important point hiding in here: the difference between what we want, and what we think we want, and how hard it is in practice to tell the difference.

During the decade I ran my first start-up, I used to think (often) about how nice it would be when I cashed out, and would have time to do all of the things I had been dreaming about: playing my guitar, writing, etc.

When I finally did cash out, and had all the time in the world, I found that the guitar still gathered dust in the corner, and the novel still went unwritten.

It seems the things I thought I wanted to do were different than the things I actually wanted to do, once the obstacles were removed.
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As a engineer, I sympathize with him completely. I would react the same if I had worked on a really really tough problem and made an incremental advance, which I thought was a breakthrough, but everybody dished it because they didn't understand it. Not to say what Cuil is doing a great job. But Machine learning and NLP is a tough thing.
I've thought of a use for Cpedia: generating Mahalo pages.
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They'd have done much better if they'd called the project CrandombitsOfTextFromOurAlreadyBadSearchEngine.info Or OurCEOSuffersFromAbstractionDisorder.biz
It doesn't have the SPOD, but it does occasionally freeze with an app in an unusable state. The SPOD is only not there because they didn't add it, not because an unresponsive system is impossible with the iPhone OS.
You have better nights out than me :)
I admit that in the beginning it is a bit unnerving not to be sure what the apps are doing under the hood. My response to suspicious activity is usually to uninstall the app, though.

Some better monitoring device would be useful, but already you can see which services are running, and what has been using the battery. So culprits should be easy to identify and remove, without a task manager.
My understanding is that they opposed ISP level
filtering while in government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Coonan#Internet_Filtering

That government had some crazy ideas in the late 90s, but between 2000 and loss of government in 2007 they encouraged parental supervision through opt-in filtering software, and opposed ISP-level filtering.

Nick Minchin, the former Opposition Communications Minister

Minchin wasn't communications minister in government, but became shadow communications minister in opposition. This doesn't detract from the link you sent.
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I know many a Microsoftie here in Seattle that suffer a pretty torturous commute to the burbs while living in urban areas.
Wait a minute... how do you scan an undeveloped piece of photographic paper? If you read the instructions it says to put the paper on a scanner in a dark room and just scan away. Doesn't the scanner immediately blow out the image?

http://www.pinholephotography.org/Solargraph%20instructions....
I agree that NASA is a huge engine for interest in science, but I don't think that's exclusive to the manned program. Spirit and Opportunity, for instance, are probes to which the public have made an emotional connection.

Certainly the manned space program gets people excited, but pictures of Jupiter and Saturn do too, and the manned program could never have given us those.

I think that the enthusiasm lost by ending the manned program could be more than compensated for by connecting the public with the exciting things that are discovered by the robotic program.
God how I wish this type of stuff would coming up on HN, and not because I feel that HN is going down the tubes or whatever is the most common complaint about this site - the real reason is that I really am somewhat of a gossip junkie, and I end up reading these stories, and then feeling mildly unsatisfied at the end after finishing them, at the time wasted and the knowledge not gained.
Personally, I kind of want an iPad just so all my consumption starts getting off-loaded from my laptop--that way I can reserve it for creative work.
Ah true. Maybe they just want to avoid eating into the limited number of writes flash mem handles?
Read this message board thread. It lays it all out:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=...

This post is the standout:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=1147211&#...
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I friend of mine swears by using XLST for his Java code generator, because its syntax is orthogonal to Java and therefore the code really 'stands out'.

Haven't used it myself in years though.
I'm surprised that he is able to scan the latent image from the exposed photographic paper without developing it. Especially since the scanner will further expose the paper so it would be useless afterwards... Maybe this is just working because the paper gets way overexposed and that will make the latent image actually show without development. Does anybody know what's going on there?
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A vague answer :-)

To me, the remark sounded like a fanboi of the 'acquisition-target' business model which I personally think is naive and unsustainable.
Could someone change the misleading headline ?

Wired came up with the phrase based upon "foster collaboration among telecommunications researchers, University of Maryland faculty members and other academic institutions to improve secure networking and telecommunications and boost information assurance".

That could describe a wide range of things, saying that they're only developing a mailing list and wiki is highly misleading and probably libellous.

Yes. We all know consultants are expensive, but this isn't reddit, and having exaggerated articles that try to push peoples buttons is simply just trolling.
Ok, to answer my own question... It is the long exposure time. See http://www.solargraphy.com/index.php?option=com_content&...
So did Novell have NAds in their hands? ;-)
I was just wondering about the same thing. It's the super-long (over) exposure. See http://www.solargraphy.com/index.php?option=com_content&...
For those of you finding it hard to read the paranthesis-heavy text, the very last part struck a chord:

"If I have to write one more polyglot bash / awk / python script to gather data from log files on a bunch of different machines, demux that into a time-ordered event stream, pipe it through something to munge it into some slightly different format, ship that off via post to some web address and get some JSON back, parse that into some other shit, do some computation over it like aggregation or date math over time stamps with unlike representations, wrap the results up in an HTML table and send that table in a MIME-enabled e-mail to myself I think I am going to explode."
I don't mean to be the grumpy sceptic, but how do we know that's a credible claim? There are no names mentioned, no specifics, no emails presented. On the other hand, if you were to be the skeptical kind, Nitobi, fearing the unthinkable - abandonment of their hard work - could have fibbed a little, they'd have every incentive to do so.

Some confirmation would be nice, just saying.

I have no reason to think they fibbed, I have no reason to believe they would do something like that, I'm just saying there's a claim, would be nice to get specifics. Making an app takes a lot of time and effort, reassurances are nice to have.
Wow, Google has a lot of good examples: http://www.google.com/images?&q=Solargraph
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> It may be somewhat funny now, but someday we'll say this was ahead of its time.

Things are usually only 'ahead of their time' if you ignore a lot of the implementation and operational details. For example, Vannevar Bush's famous Memex, always cited as the important precursor to hypertext, was flatly unworkable: A desk-sized machine built around microfilm? It makes as much sense to talk about Jules Verne as the father of manned spaceflight because he thought of firing men from cannons.

My point is that being the first to an idea is rarely the important thing. Being first to a good, solid implementation is what counts.
Is it (technically & politically) possible to make the App Icon change based on App State? I thought that was restricted / impossible a while back.
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"Keep it simple..."

I think the idea is to keep it simple for most users, not the techies.

I don't think many non-techies have any clue why the http is there, and they (rightly) don't care.

As for "adding an 's' for the secure site", once again, how many non-techies do you know actually do this? I'm not saying that's a good thing, but most casual computer users don't know about that. Hopefully they know about the lock icon on most browsers, but I actually kinda doubt that too.
I don't know... this explanation just opens up a whole new set of questions for me.

"Although there is a piece of black and white photosensitive paper inside the pinhole camera the result will be in colour."

Huh? I think I'm doomed to spend the rest of the evening on wikipedia reading about photo paper chemistry.
> Blas, for those of you not from the West of Ireland, is the polish a hurley gets from the sliothar when used by a player of unusual skill, a patina on the surface of the wood testifying to the depth of talent of the player that had used the stick.

Now, how about explaining this for those poor benighted souls who speak English?
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Please don't say that "languages are tools". While this is technically right, our thoughts are so dependent on programming languages that they can't be considered "mere" tools. Considering they are make us wrap languages around their implementations, rather than around their users.
Unless you put your iPhone in a place where body heat can't warm it an an electronic thermometer is pretty useless. Most mountaineering watches (Suunto & Co) show the correct temp. only after 20 mins. or so. And that's without taking into account the heat the device itself produces, which may be non-negligible for the iPhone.
What's all this sudden love for the cluster-fsck that is Cuil? It and anything it touches is just horrific, Cpedia included.

Sorry to say it, but it's true. It will be a huge waste of money and engineer manhours that would likely be better spent if they were working on web-based clones of minesweeper, with server clusters dedicated to 2-play minesweeper MADNESS.

This, THIS is how idiotic Cuil is.
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Would be awesome if you had the cash :-)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1259988
I think our society's risk aversion is one of the major reasons holding back progress.
But you can still do this.

Just:

1) [F6] = Goes to the address bar and highlights the URL

2) [CTRL]+[C] = Copies the URL in it's entirety

3) [CTRL]+[V] = Pastes it back in the address bar, now with http://

4) [Home] = Go to the start of the line

5) [>][>][>][>] = Move beyond "http"

6) [s] = Insert the "s"

7) [Return] = Navigate

See! Google have already thought of this and this wonderful feature is available already.

PS: Down-voters are trigger happy, to them: This is a joke!
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I wonder what things we do today will seem totally ridiculous in 50 years' time?
Don't do this Scott. Don't :(
BTW I sent you an email via your portfolio's contact page.

Hope you got it - would like to put some work your way!
I recently moved from using XSLT in MVC web frameworks to StringTemplate and I have to say that I am really enjoying it - XSLT can be nice, but often isn't, and can suffer lots of irritating problems with namespaces etc.

I'm still quite fond of XPath though.
CPAN is afaik the gold standard to make that kind of thing bearable. It isn't really a language thing.

(Since everything seems to go to Moose (a backport of most of the Perl 6 OO model) in the Perl world, there might be an impedance mismatch in a few years with old style libraries and new?)
Exactly. I assumed that meta-ignorance would be about not realizing that not having the information about something is making you ignorant, but instead the author just gives examples of being ignorant. It's kind of ironic actually.
Or make manned missions one-way only? Send out humans, bring back the data they collected?
Yeah. But you've got to be careful; lots of people dismissed Louis de Branges' claim to have proved the Bieberbach conjecture because he also had a long history of self-promotion (and, indeed, of claiming to have proved things when his proofs really had holes). But he really did prove the Bieberbach conjecture.

Then again, he also keeps claiming to have proved the Riemann hypothesis and no one believes him :-).
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Seems very different. Titanium translates code into native widgets. PhoneGap just wraps everything in a webkit, and provides the scripts to power the apps using web ui components.
> In 2008, House was distributed in a total of 66 countries. With an audience of over 81.8 million worldwide...

There’s only like 6bn people on the globe, right? And that’s including feral wolf children and fuel-starved hermits living on sun tea in the Chinese desert. And yet, if aliens did some random sampling of people around Earth, they’d find that more than one in every hundred of us watches House. “The Earthlings’ religion is based on weekly silent observances of medicine-man figure called ‘Dwelling-Place’ in the local tongue. Possessing supernatural powers of observation and an ability to perform healing miracles, this god also suffers from hubris and vanity, and he is susceptible to the temptations of certain potions. Essentially, we are grading Earth’s religious development somewhere between animist and monotheistic. Not yet adequately prepared for Operation Helping Hand. Revisit in 1,000 local solar units.” http://modcult.org/read/2010/4/13/this-is-called-sending-the...
Note to self: after securing a couple of millions in funding do hire a PR person; then stay quiet.
If the first comments on NewsTilt are the kind of quality we've come to expect on HN, we may be able to socially engineer others into leaving really good comments too. Help set a good example.

As a bribe, I promise to write about how well that works.
It's an interesting place to dig though.

When someone pirates something he may otherwise have paid for, it isn't necessarily a net loss in production. Imagine that one person pirates software A, which he would have bought and spends the money on software B, which he would not have bought. Now imagine another person does the reverse.

Same amount of money goes into these two software companies, twice as "much" software comes out. There is a consumption benefit (that goes to the pirates). If the pirates use that software to create more wealth, that is benefit leaking back out into the rest of the economy.

Because of the way size is usually calculated (like volunteer work), we wouldn't count that pirate as having gained anything. That is probably not the right way of looking at things. Even if it is, it is very hard to say that anything "cost the economy X.'
I am Irish too :)

Hurling is a popular native ball sport in Ireland which involves two teams playing against each other with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliothar. Think of it as ice hockey without ice / skates and the sliothar instead of a puck. A wee bit of violence and tribalism are also as big part of the game, as in ice hockey...
Tom ends with a poem implying his users should shut up, which is worth citing in it's entirety:

"A wise old owl sat in an oak \ The more he heard, the less he spoke \ The less he spoke, the more he heard \
Why aren’t we all like that wise old bird."

I imagine the working in the consumer web space - "bottom-feeding" - as he put it, is not his ideal career.
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I looked up cpedia for the first time and though dadaism did occur to me, it's not really fair. After all, it's not actually random.

Every paragraph in the resulting page was somehow related to my keyword. The only problem is that the paragraphs weren't very well connected. ;-) Of course, solving that would be a major AI breakthrough.
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Has anyone studied the relationship between doomsaying and economics? Perhaps there's a book in there somewhere, or at least a TED talk. Certainly for some, making protestations of doom - however implausible - appears to be a viable business model.
Yeah, the thing that keeps me from giving it much kudos is that I suspect it really is just sentences from the search results strung together in random order, with some noun phrases turned into section headers. And that's not really particularly innovative, though it's audacious to do it and call the result an encyclopedia article. If there is any attempt at producing coherent structure out of the sentences as they're strung together, it hasn't shone through...
doesn't the new tos only effect os4 sdk applications ?
Watching TV 'is bad for children'
It seems a futuristic skyscraper behind an old fashion house
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They do, at the very end, touch on the "cause and effect" versus correlation" problem, where it might be that ADD children are more likely to be put in front of the television by parents desperate to keep them occupied.

All these studies are fraught with problems that would go away if they allowed us to experiment freely on children. But since that's unacceptable, we gather data as we can, and try to glean from it as much as possible.

This article provides another data point.
Sorry, I meant http://www.quirksmode.org
During this phase, people who are interested in a potential site are asked to electronically “sign” a commitment to help make the site a success. They are committing publicly to participate actively in the site, by asking questions, answering questions, developing a system of tags, and generally helping the site get off the ground.

I really like this behavioural economics stuff that stackoverflow are in to. They should get Dan Ariely on their podcast.
I have to say, I don't like this site. I run at 1680x1050 and when the actual meat of the site only takes up a fraction of my screen width..

:/
Personally, I don't believe that a proliferation of programming languages is really required. Most languages do the same sort of thing with slightly different syntax and degrees of efficiency. If you're really unhappy and frustrated about the current state of programming languages my advice is to go and develop your own.
Got a comment from a 'silver surfer' in my family that it wasn't obvious how to log in to comment. Need to do something to make it obvious to people who've never used Facebook connect before.
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EV certificates don't solve anything besides the fact that now the cert companies get to charge more for an SSL cert.

Checking for https://<name of company> means I don't have to go hunting for where the EV cert sign is posted these days, the URL bar is still in a uniform location.
Tim Berners-Lee's "one regret" was the addition of the // to web addresses: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/the-webs-inventor-r...

Just think of the paper we'll save!
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