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I'm guessing he means user serviceable parts but even then he's wrong. eBay is a good source of parts if you want to fix your own machine. LCDs, keyboards, case parts, motherboards, etc.
>Think of all the examples of American innovation since the 1970s. How many examples are not in the tech sector?

Um, I can think of thousands, but then again, I'm not some moron PhD. How about all the innovation in the medical field? Better imaging technology like the fMRI has come about since the 1970s. How about the cervical cancer vaccine? How about Viagra? Flonaze?

How about airbags? Anti-Lock brakes? BioDiesel? Cars are safer, more fuel efficient, more reliable, and all around better than they were in the 1970s. It's not up for debate. Innovation is still innovation, even if cars existed in the 1970s. By the same token, the cars coming out of detroit in the 1970s were way better than the Model T. Why? Innovation!

On the energy front, we have new wind turbine designs. We have nuclear batteries. We have off-shore wind. We have more efficient CO2 scrubbers. We have LED lightbulbs and CFLs. We have hybrid drive trains in consumer vehicles. We have shipping barges harnessing wind-power through computer-controlled deployable sails.

On the social innovations, we see that seeking help from a mental health specialist is no longer stigmatized. An entire generation is fighting to stay healthy despite a lifetime diet of high fructose corn syrup. People are attempting to return to the ways of buying locally and minimizing their impact. Women continue to advance towards career and earning equality with men.

Long story short, Academic prattles on long and hard about nothing.
Is this a criminal violation?
found this relevant link:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/22/smashing-magazine...
He was referring to this sentence quoted by the parent: "We don’t build anything here anymore, outside of tech."
Yes, I was criticizing the OP, not FiveThirtyEight, of course.
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i completely agree

however, suppose you are about to design a video site for the common public back in 2005, what technology would you choose? quicktime? realplayer? windows media player?

i dont think flash video is unneeded any soon, even if html5 has a 70% adoption rate, people would still need flash for h.264 fallback
Two factors:

1) The overwhelming majority of information they see is information provided by Peter.

2) They don't really care that much as long as it doesn't screw up their universe.
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> iPhone ... Crippled by AT&T's "broadband" network... Fast forward to the million iPads now sold in Apple's first month ... Relying on the same deadbeat broadband network, the iPad was one of the most over-hyped products ever launched.

He thinks the first million were the 3G model?

Most people I know who bought one WiFi, have bought more, also WiFi, for family members who scoffed, then tried, then wanted their own.

(Granted, in greater NYC area, Time Warner, Comcast ("Xfinity"), and Cablevision ("Optimum") are collaborating to share WiFi hotspots. Your cable subscription gets you unlimited WiFi, and the hotspots are everywhere.)
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The Halo effect sadly is still the current state in which much people treats Apple, I would love to know who are the engineers that design and write the features of the operating system that I use everyday, suggest some new features to them, etc., and I hate keynotes.
More footage here:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

Don't miss the comments at the bottom with some comments from Raskin himself.

Also check http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... (and comments).
I just look at YC companies for great functional simple design
When I got my Masters in maths a few years ago, it was generally acknowledged (and only part in jest) that future income was inversely proportional to ability. People who weren't smart enough to study 'real' maths, took the much easier statistics and financial mathematics courses and went on to get high paying jobs.
Algae-based production is incredibly exciting to me. The hacker in me loves the solution of utilizing the waste by-product of grid power production as a significant input in the process.

It doesn't solve our petroleum needs, but it's a hell of a first step. It's going to be an interesting couple of decades, in terms of fuel technology.
Did anyone doubt that Safari would have full HTML5 support?
You don't even have to kill anybody. Or have any gun or bomb for that matter. Look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Qo-EwVJQM and http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/05/dozens_injured...

Just a guy shouting in a crowd and everybody scared like hell
He's making a huge mistake by applying averages to EVERYONE. He does this routinely:

"Bottom line: every individual in the country became wealthier over time.

I’m not talking about companies, I’m talking about individuals. This is why, for centuries, every American child fully expected to do better than his/her parents. Every parent’s dream of seeing his/her children do well (financially) came true."

The problem is, that was never entirely true (clearly not everyone did better than their parents) and it's become less true over time, especially since the 1980's.

Since then we've had a seismic shift of wealth away from the middle class and to the upper class. The fact is that the average middle class American is doing about the same as their parents, while the average rich American is doing much better.

The why of this is debated. It's some combination of Reaganomics and globalization. But the fact is that simply adding a percent of growth won't help the problem if it all goes to the rich.
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Yikes, fellas. I wasn't trying to accuse anyone of a conspiracy. I just meant that current wave of negative FB stories in the past week seems out of proportion to the degree to which they have changed anything (privacy-related or otherwise) during that time period. The FB-bashing has become fashionable.
Interesting, but if someone else sees your code they wont know what is going on.

Also, it only gives the right answer for positive numbers, its off by one on negative numbers.
I think this is a terrible idea, even thought I like Redis and use it in my projects. Why is it a bad idea? Because Redis keeps everything in memory and scaling it up will be quite expensive on very large datasets. Even when Redis VM comes out (which will eliminate the all the data in memory requirement), it's a bad idea as Redis isn't really optimized for full-text search...

What's better? Use a tool that's optimized for the job. I would recommend looking at Sphinx, which is quite amazing and can handle indexing billions of words on a single server without using much CPU or memory. Plus Sphinx has tons of features, such as geo-based search, fuzzy search, boolean search, full support for Unicode etc. etc.
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Thanks, that is all I meant. People should just take this current wave of FB stories with a grain of salt.
It's pretty hard to not to make "an asshole comment" when you're trying in one email to convince a company to change their way of doing business.

Anyone who has watched Canonical since Hardy Heron (also an LTS release) knows that the company has deep and systemic problems. I wouldn't be surprised if the tone of Ted's response is also a result of past history with them of the sort that's illustrated by this message.

I might go even further and say that if you're as serious a member of the Linux kernel development community as Ted is, you might be rather concerned about Canonical's practices and how they're likely turning off a lot of would be Linux users.
They do! http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/phoenix/releases/
No, not that (unless I'm misunderstanding you, which of course I might be). Here's what they do, according to the PDF that I linked to:

1. Illuminate with two IR sources, more or less on-axis and at known positions relative to the lens.
2. From the ratio of the resulting pixel intensities, estimate per-pixel distances.
3. Take each pixel from the image whose camera is focused nearest to that pixel's distance.
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Very true. But also remember that in '06 your mother wasn't on FB.
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It works for me now at 10:37 CDT.
A terrorist is a person who uses violence, especially murder and bombing, in order to achieve political aims.

I agree, but by the definition of it as long as we have politics we will have terrorism, so there really is no defeating it.
Why would anyone mail Jobs about this instead of someone on the Safari development team?
The naked mole rat is an interresting animal, but it isn't in anyway new.
'One lesson from the study of artificial intelligence (and from cognitive science more generally) is that an empty head learns nothing: a system that is capable of rapidly absorbing information needs to have some prewired understanding of what to pay attention to and what generalizations to make.'

Is this a premise that AI experts would support?
An internship should provide mutual advantage: the intern should learn skills or a body of knowledge he/she did not have before, the employer should get some work done, and perhaps have a chance to evaluate the intern for future hiring. I'd say it's fine not to pay a part-time intern who is given the chance to learn a lot.

"Please. A few years ago, my old employer, ABC, started paying our interns. That was good for well-connected students who got internships, but bad for those who were turned down. ABC cut the number of interns by more than half. There's no free lunch."

"Well-connected interns", then, replaced interns who could afford to work for no pay. Why do I doubt that the latter were less well connected.

"Minimum-wage law and union rules already killed off apprentice jobs on construction sites. Contractors say: If I must pay high union wages, I'll hire experienced workers. I'd lose money if I hired a kid and helped him learn on the job."

Contractors say, why should I pay union wages when I can pick up a guy at the Home Depot parking lot. Not quite the same thing.
Almost certainly, the best thing any person can do is work to lessen their own cravings for sensationalist news entertainment. Then, let your circle (at this point only containing yourself) grow to include others, beginning with the people closest to you (in one sense or another, as in you might start with friends, family, or maybe even start by telling us about how you lessened your cravings here on HN).

You probably meant something larger scale in your original questions, or maybe something more tactically concrete. Hopefully, starting by getting the scale of the problem under control might help us get the tactics right, and then expand the scale.
Well, nothing necessarily wrong with that.. IT World are welcome to post their articles here, right? (as long as they don't abuse the system in some way)

If they posted 500 articles a day, then that'd be a problem, but a handful of articles every few days is no big deal, I would think?
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Oh, I'd say the authorities would have had a pretty good idea of where he'd be for the next 15 or 16 hours.
Possibly to avoid the confusion of long and short number scales?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
many of the best students are not going into industry but are lured away by academia

So, I stopped reading, but did the OP support this with statistics? Because in my world -- the one in which I myself have gone back and forth a couple of times between academia and industry -- there's plenty of people who try to go into academia, but they don't find work because there aren't enough jobs, and those that exist have low pay, because there's high demand but a rather short supply...

Meanwhile, the thousands of highly-educated people who can't get into academia try to go into industry. Except that many industries aren't hiring much. Perhaps because their productivity keeps increasing and they don't really need armies of new Ph.Ds to keep cranking out widgets at the rate the market demands. I have a lot of friends with Ph.Ds, and not all of them are happily employed. [1]

And that's not even getting into the fact that drawing the line between "academia" and "industry" is increasingly difficult. Every professor has a startup on the side, every major university has a staff of lawyers to manage their intellectual property, and half the grants are industrially funded... or are funded by government grants that are aimed directly at industrially-relevant product development, e.g. drugs. Many industries don't want to do cutting-edge pure research anymore, but instead try to outsource that to academia. In the semiconductor field, a lot of the cutting-edge research gets done in academic labs. E.g. I knew some of the folks who did early OLED research, the product of which now sits inside various Android phones. They were academics, but they are innovating, and their innovations are promptly adopted by industry here and abroad. Similarly, a lot of drugs come out of academic labs and are then pushed through development, testing, and production by industry.

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[1] Though most are, in fact, employed. Don't get me wrong. These days almost any job is a happy job compared to the alternative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_image#Wiggle_stereoscopy

from the article:

"Wiggling works for the same reason that a translational pan (or tracking shot) in a movie provides good depth information: the visual cortex is able to infer distance information from motion parallax, the relative speed of the perceived motion of different objects on the screen. Many small animals bob their heads to create motion parallax (wiggling) so they can better estimate distance prior to jumping."
I used the `viewas` parameter a couple of days ago after changing some privacy settings, and this didn't happen.
Further plenty of semi-auto guns (ar-15, mini-14 are very popular for this) are easy to convert to full auto.
Yes, it's a nice little demonstration of what you could perhaps call (not unkindly) naive full text search. It misses quite a few functions which a more mature solution would give which you might want quite badly. Relevance is an obvious example - this doesn't allow you to order results by how commonly words occur, which is almost certainly the users wish.

You could probably extend this to include that kind of thing with some clever hacking, but as it stands this is still a long way from competing with something like Sphinx. Still - it's a nice little demo of using Redis for something and taking advantage of the specific strengths of Redis such as first class set support.
What about the earlier bombing of the WTC?

If you go beyond the CONUS, the string of al-Qaeda successes around the world prior to 9/11 convinced Osama bin Laden and company that the US was a "weak horse" ... and boy were they surprised by our ferocious response to 9/11.

If we'd not made such a vigorous response at all levels, don't you think al-Qaeda's successes would have encouraged even more attempts?
Sometimes I wonder if Jobs writes such short replies because its such a PIA to type on the iPad.
Hopefully users will steer a different course.
I don't buy this. If this guy wanted a ka-boom, he'd succeeded.

And this?

"Despite his name being added to the government's no-fly list on Monday, Mr Shahzad managed to buy a ticket on an Emirates flight to Dubai and made it through JFK's security checks late that evening."

"Mr Shahzad was arrested on Monday 3 May after boarding a flight to Islamabad, Pakistan."
::shudders::

Facebook and all of this "achievements" bullshit spell the ruin of game design, which began its slouch toward infantilism in the big-budget 3-D era ("look, shiny!") and has been forced down our throats over the past few years ("Shove in the Time of Facebook").

Go is a game. Bridge is a game. Chess is a game. Poker is a game (despite the embarrassing flood of idiots into Texas Hold 'em who play only that and have no curiosity about other poker games). Ambition is a game. Settlers of Catan is a game. Tigris and Euphrates is a game. Apples to Apples is a game. Chrono Trigger is a game. Final Fantasy 6 is a game. World of Warcraft is a game.

"[Your roommate at bandcamp] Just Ate a Sandwich" is not a game.

Sloppy non-design. Blatant idiocy. Shitty ideas. Infantilism. Let the real game designers do the work and let's ignore these "social [X]" charlatans, ok?
There was terrorist activity before 9/11. Think OK boming, the first WTC bombing, abortion clinic attacks.
But here we are, sitting on HN voting up the most ridiculous non-useful articles. HN is often full of sensationalist entertainment news - endless appstore policies, iPad raves/rants etc. Why this is dead, why X is a Y killer. Endless rants about privacy.

We're just as bad as the general population as a whole. Our "Terrorism" is "possible affront on privacy" or "Apple might be evil!"
Garbage; the ATF has made sure that easy conversion is not possible.
Before buying it make sure its not stolen or you will loose all your gadgets including your current Apple TV.!
When I read about these sort of hacks to get performant JS code, it reminds me of how things used to be thirty years ago. Sacrifice code readability to get a speed increase because of poor tools...
But why does the motive matter? I don't think it's useful. Especially when reporting in the media.

Perhaps we should call them "random unprovoked killings of civilians".
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and yet your comment was created on a machine built upon rational being used to communicate on a network built upon freedom. start? more like recognize and celebrate what has already happened whilst rejecting the birthing pains.
I'd get an RFID blocking wallet, and take photos to prove I was there. And I'd encourage others to do the same. Going to classes where the lecture was worthless (you know the ones: boring, nothing covered not in the book, tested on book-knowledge only, etc) has only hampered my education.

Something like this would encourage every teacher to take attendance and penalize those who don't come; I can only see that as something bad for college. And, as others have pointed out, it doesn't prove someone was there. If anything it could give an easier way to slack, because you can point at the time and say "see, I was there" if they say you weren't. And who will the higher-ups believe? You, the teacher, or the timestamp? I'd be willing to bet the teacher, as you could just give someone your card, making the whole thing pointless.

No, the blocking wallet is too minor. I'd be willing to bet the security on the RFID is minimal at best; I'd attempt to broadcast cards with an RF antenna and a dish, so everyone attends every class.
I agree that asking people to enter a phrase from the advertisement is not going to be a very secure CAPTCHA test because the advertiser is never going to be able to come up with enough different phrases to make a captcha that will be secure against brute force attacks. Also, if they want their dish network ad displayed often (to get more impressions) then again it's basically a static image that is not changing often enough to keep out bots.

An alternative could be this: http://www.confidenttechnologies.com/products/confident_CAPT...

The user is presented with a grid of images. The pictures themselves and their location on the grid change with each session. A website could insert just a few of their own images within the grid, as a way of reinforcing brand recognition without being blatant advertising that forces the user to enter a slogan. For example, if it's a sporting goods website, they could include some images of the items they sell among the stock photos. Because it's a grid of images that changes every time, there would be a huge amount of combinations possible, making it a stronger captcha against brute force attacks from bots.
Terrorism in America is a much lower threat than mundane factors such as traffic safety.

Terrorism, however, justifies the creation of counter-insurgence infrastructure (and supporting industry) which will be useful to the establishment as America de-industrializes. America will, at some point, face internal conflict as it implements the austerity measures necessary to continue to finance military campaigns, service debt (directly or via currency inflation), and continue to adapt to trade imbalances.
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I'd kill for 50 open tickets. ;-p
Well, borrowing is just using future production for current growth, which is more efficient but less reliable. Assuming the future production will be there (and that otherwise someone will take care of it for a small fee), that's obviously more efficient.

It's pretty clear that proper investment is the only way to get growth. It's less clear whose wealth should be invested - that's why we have both borrowing and regulation, and by extension consumption (if you assume ceteris paribus, you damn well better advance entrenchment).

Innovation and efficiency are at odds with one another, and as we get more and more complexity, the only innovations easily reachable are paradigm shifts. What we might need next is a way to simulate and bootstrap scenarios further and further from the local optimum - and that might have to be government investment.
It is not pedantic. It is important and I am kicking myself for not having checked that the link was working.
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I also wonder if he set his signature on his MacBook and iPhone to "sent from my iPad" -- just so it looks like he's using his iPad all the time.
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The Mac Mini in question has no means for hardware video acceleration, so you're right, Silverlight does software rendering but faster. How on earth then is it not Adobe's fault that they can't do the same?
> ... if someone else sees your code
> they won't know what is going on.

The same is true of all idioms in a language. But when you see something you don't understand you work through it, see what's going on, acquire the idiom for yourself, and move on.

I don't see that as a problem. If you're really worried about readability, wrap it in a macro.

Only giving the same answer as floor for positive numbers need not be a problem - you just need to know that it will do what you want in the context you have. So often one uses "floor" because it gives the right answer, and not because it's actually "floor".
Sorry, I guess the above commment wasn't liked much. What I was trying to asy is the above comment sounds a bit short on anything but personal opinion, which I guess is fine... I was in a rush and will write this out next time. Please site your sources when you make such a strong comment about someone's contribution to a successful project because when you don't it sounds like you are just jealous.
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I haven't seen what the EFF is describing. The things that show up in "Related Global Posts" aren't "Connections". They're basically search results from posts that have their privacy set to "Everyone".

The only way to show up as someone who "likes" Xbox is to click a like button somewhere.
Hiking for a week or so while covering ~20-30 kilometers per day is hardly beyond a motivated individual. Especially if you have collaborators on the other end, and can arrange being picked up in some remote location.
Last year, Slate published an in-depth series of articles summarizing the various theories about why we haven't seen more terrorist attacks, e.g. the "Terrorists are Dumb" theory, the "Near Enemy" theory, the "Bush kept us safe" theory, etc.

The series was very interested and well-cited and echoes many of the points that Schneier makes in the OP and may be found here: http://www.slate.com/id/2208971/