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Well if they do anything related to the web in their line of business they're going to hampered by Google withdrawing the patent rights to use VP8 when they sue.

Does Apple or any other consumer electronics manufacturer in MPEG-LA really want to be left out on the cold on that?

This is just a special case of why Non-Practising Entities (i.e. trolls) are the terrorists of asymmetrical patent warfare.
Good to hear this being said by more people. That word has been stretched and pulled in every direction people can think of, and I'm sure there are other companies out there working to redefine the word as well. It almost seems like the word 'open' is being used like the word 'free' (in the sense that you don't spend your money to use it).
I understand the Google's vision of OS-agnostic computer experience, but anyway, I fail to see how will Sergey solve the inherent problem that the native app programming will usually give the developer more possibilities. I still prefer the model like one being used by Evernote - the client is native, and only data is synced on the cloud.
What a hideously ugly building.
This gets rid of delegation. :( Delegation was what sold me on openid in the first place. Why would delegation ever need or get buy in from email providers, ISPs and social providers? Delegation allows me to own my identity without owning it's management and that is the most wonderful thing about openid. I don't want to be thought of as me@facebook all over the web because I don't control how long facebook will exist or not go rouge or not ban me. It is very important that I be me@mydomain on the web with me2@facebook only currently being delegated the responsibility of authenticating me and providing my details.

Removing delegation removes the major part of open from openid as far as I am concerned.
Hey Ben thanks. I just sent you a mail.
I've just had a flashback to the original JavaOne conference.
Python is not unique in this regard. Consider a functional approach, where you leave the original list intact and construct a changed one.
I'm thinking in terms of programming languages rather than products from particular companies. Recently I've gone back to using C/C++ and might also start using Python. As far as I know there are no software patent issues with those languages.
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I love it, but the font selection is pretty limited so far.
Interesting. The argument is that to build something that "is like facebook but..." is a poor idea and that it would be better to not build a monolithic structure. So in the end the argument is "build something that is like facebook but distributed" :)
> 1) Embed the images in iframes, which are then embedded in the page. The iframes will swallow the referrer, so provided they are hosted somewhere where logs are discarded then it should be fine (I'd want to cross-browser test this before relying on it though).

https will swallow referer automatically.
i'll google my new album.
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The story here, to me, is that CBS picked it up. If it were on cable, they wouldn't have to re-write the title. Then again, if it were on cable, I'm sure the deal wouldn't have been that great.
Not too concerned at this stage. We'll see how well the Prediction API will actually work in the wild for product and content recommendations. Beyond that, I'm not sure whether Google will excel in ease-of-use and support.
And the coolest gadget of Google I/O award goes to... AR Drone [videos + pics]
This could have been an awesome segment on Conan but a full show?

Hmm, I will have to watch and see.

Is the real-life dad getting a cut of this for his IP?
Why not? In Poland we have beautiful girls ;)
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I find using native apps with files in Dropbox works better for me (docs, Freemind mindmaps) than using web-based equivalents.

Of course, things like Google Docs win if you want to eventually share the document, but for personal stuff I'll be sticking to Dropbox.
Does n e 1 know how google works?

It took me a while to understand that "n e 1" is actually "anyone".
But he proved his theorems. Thus it is provable and by your own definition is true regardless of what the theorem actually says.
So be it, but it doesn't imply that Godel's incompleteness theorem applies.

Metaphorically they may somehow be similar given someone's viewpoint, but it doesn't make it so.
The thing is, that Godel's theorem is provable. So by your definition, it is true.

The usual definition of false is not "I can't prove it's true" as that is pretty hard to decide.
Suppose I have a statement S that I can't prove. Is it false, or am I just not clever enough to prove that it is true?

The normal definition of S being false is that the negation of S is true.

Part of what the incompleteness theorem says is that in any system of logic that doesn't contradict itself, there will be statements that are neither provably true nor provably false. Thus you can take these statements to be true OR false as an axiom and it won't lead to contradictions.
> Maybe you're saying that that's too much to ask from the majority of writers

It's not "too much to ask," it's something that requires much training and practice and a good sense of visual aesthetics, and writers shouldn't waste 10x the time to get half as good a result as someone who does it professionally. Of course, you should be aware of how the way in which you do your job affects how others do theirs (i.e. it'sveryhardtotypesetthisline,evenifit'sthewaysomeonesoundedwhentheyspoke), but you shouldn't do [an amateur version of] their job for them.
I might be a start-up owner who's convinced that the world desperately needs another social networking site. Just because I think that's an important thing for me to be working on doesn't mean that it actually is to the rest of the world. Equally, just because some people think that working on this singularity stuff is vitally important, doesn't make it so. So in short, I disagree, I don't think causation has much to do with it.
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VFDT (Very Fast Decission Trees), maybe?

You can also run those distributively without much problems.

Original paper: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/pedrod/papers/kdd00.pdf

You should also look on http://www.cs.washington.edu/dm/vfml/
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"Can M.I.A. call the Google CEO and tell him to ‘index her shit’?
Does n e 1 know how google works? Is there like an old guy who has to go through a file cabinet 2 find results for you every time you search for something?"

So the author knows what SEO stands for, but doesn't know the answer to this? Please. My impression is that this guy is intentionally trying to downplay his knowledge to avoid being labeled a "computer geek" by the hipsters in his audience.
Regular use:
- FaviconizeTab (reduces a tab's width to just its favicon)
- Tab Mix Plus (better tab management and session management)
- Google Reader Watcher
- oldbar (single line design in the URL bar)
- Menu Editor (ability to remove all unnecessary options from my context menu and others)
- Screen Grab (fast saving/copying of screenshots)

Development:
- Firebug
- Page Speed
- YSlow
My math is rusty. Could you explain your use of square and regular brackets in [a, m) and [m, b) ?
Maybe thats why Google develops native client: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/

Still looks pretty alpha.
At best it will not matter that much, but it will not help spreading the news.

How will people search for the album after the next one comes out?
"Mia album previous"

I think this is when cool gets in the way of usability.

(On the other hand, I am talking about the album right now, so if this was a marketing stunt, to get geeks talk about M.I.A, than it worked)
XULRunner with a custom XPCOM component is another option. However for a simple applications WxWidgets is the way to go. Mono is another option.
On the plus side - an artist can be sure that piracy of their badly named album will also be low, since people won't be able to find it in the torrent search engines as well.
Sigur Ros put out an album a few years back titled (). Yes, an empty pair of parentheses. It took me forever to even find a store that carried it because searching web sites couldn't hope to get any result.

I did eventually find a copy, though.

Edit: Hah, zero Google results, period! How's that for un-Googlable?
Well, if something is released, than I'm assuming that it works.
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For reference, since I had to google for it: http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
Sexist title, unconvincing article, but the last two paragraphs are very good and made something click for me:

The authors of the study suggest that the reluctance might be the result of a psychological development that makes us averse to any kind of extreme behavior, either selfish or selfless, even if the rules are set up to reward the extreme.

This may be advantageous in the sense that extreme strategies could be costly if we misunderstood the rules, or if the rules change without warning. The authors even suggest that our brains may intentionally fire some kind of calculation error in extreme situations to prevent hazardous "all-in" commitments.
Dupe, or well, a more sensationalist dupe.

In the original discussion someone pointed out that Foxconn has around 300000 employees. That's quite a lot of people, and statistically, you will have the same problems as you would in a town of that size.
Something like Scrivener, perhaps? http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
What kind of writing do you do?
I think everyone's stabbing at strawmen here; the author's main conclusion was "But when it comes to the main thing—figuring out what you’re going to say and the order in which you’ll say it—it’s still only marginally better than the back of the envelope or the notepad."

His complaint isn't about "structure", or how hard Word is to use for advanced typesetting, or anything like that; it was simply that Word—a tool, supposedly, specialized to "writing"—has no solutions to problems occurring not on the page, but in the creative process.

Neither does a web browser's text editing control, of course—and neither does any other computer program that suggests it targets "writers." The closest I've found is Ommwriter, because it aids in removing distractions and makes little typing noises that basically turn pumping out words into a variable-schedule reward, like a mouse in a skinner box—but it's still not really a tool for writing, so much as it is a tool for transliterating the writing already done in your head onto a page.

I imagine a tool for writing to be able to "interpret" works with a Prolog-like knowledge engine and check for contradictions; to be able to show a timeline of the events portrayed both by chronology and narrative order; to be able to take a directed graph of events (i.e. a flowchart), compile them together using downloadable "styles" (a bit like a synthesized voice, but from a text corpus instead of an audio one) and spit out a very boring but accurate version of what you plan to write, that you can then set about making interesting; and to hold together all your "this is a cool idea" notes and suggest using them (this character could have that trait, this event could be described using that turn of phrase, etc.)

There are so many ways in which computers could be helping us write, but instead we treat them like pieces of paper that we have to transmit full, linearized sentences into using the keyboard before they'll deign to "process" our words. In many roles, we accept that computers can replace people, even performing their previous jobs so much more quickly and systematically that we can move to new heights (e.g. punch cards vs. a REPL). Why not have the computer replace (or more likely, augment) your alpha-readers/publishing editor/reviewers/writing group, except right there watching you type, instead of with a days-long feedback cycle?
M.I.A.'s album is also "untorrentable".
We are spoiled here on HN.

Sometimes this "txt spk" makes my eyes bleed :(
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I'm not asking for anything. I'm saying that I think it is a flaw of the device that without paying $100/year, I can only install applications from the App Store. If you disagree, that's fine, but can you accept that my opinion is not as black-and-white as you make out?

> just say "I want to install what ever I want!" then you're letting an idealogy blind you

What ideology? I fail to see how it is ridiculous to say "I'd like the ability to install application X" when X isn't in the App Store. This doesn't imply that I think Steve Jobs must fall over his feet to make it so, it's just straightforward criticism of a flaw that I perceive in the platform.
hehe read that as "sense of humour"
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A B C D

(as it is not specified that only one must be chosen)

EDIT: the problem is ill defined...
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Try... SendGrid, MailChimp, etc.

I definitely recommend using one of these email service providers (ESPs) until you're sending enough emails to justify the time/cost of setting up your own email service.
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I read some time ago in a book titled 'Swarm Intelligence' that ants use pheromone to optimize their way to the food. Ants which go through the shortest path come back earlier, thus incrementing the amount of pheremone in that path, thus attracting more ants inducing them to follow that path.

I don't know the relationship between pheromone-path-finding with missjudging the distance because of a bodily alteration, though.
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It's somewhat shocking that people write like this nearly everywhere. Tech sites and even many astronomy sites are no exception (e.g., Wired or Astronomy Now).
You will note that you didn't contradict me at all. Let me repeat: the Diaspora founders have independence (the proverbial garage and the financial relief). They also probably seek mastery (they are techno-geeks). Finally, they have a purpose (destroying the busness model of Facebook, as advocated by Eben Moglen).

Now, on to your points:

> Even in the open-source world, people don't brag about their pet projects until they've got at least a preliminary design to show. I like developers that deliver

I actually agree with that. This is of course a major point against Diaspora. That said, I doubt they expected such a buzz. Don't forget my primary point: their incentives increases the odds of success. I didn't talk about the initial odds.

> If you believe in pure idealism, then you must also believe in Santa Claus.

I'm not sure I get your meaning. I just said that their primary motivation was a purely idealistic one. As told in the submitted video, idealism is one of the most efficient incentives. The thing is, he called that "purpose", which cleverly avoids the negative connotation of "idealism".

The negative connotation of "idealism" worries me, because we need idealism. For instance, you surely know that exponential growth, continued exploitation of the south, systematic destruction of the soil just can't go one forever. They will stop, one way or another. To put it bluntly, our civilization as we know it won't last.

Now, I see two ways our civilization could change:

(1) We continue to prefer short term maximization over long term planning. We rush to deplete the remaining resources. We continue to over-exploit and destroy our soil. A major biologic crisis ensues (that one has already started, by the way). Humanity starves and go back to a pre-feudal state, or falls prey to an oligarchy and eat Soylent Green.

(2) We think long term. We cooperate. We use the remaining oil to bootstrap renewable energies. We take care of our soil. The biologic crisis is mitigated. Humanity mostly lives in the countryside, and eats organic crops.

I'm probably wrong about the details, but the main point remain: our civilization will eventually change drastically. We could make the transition smooth and painless, or we can let it be sudden and nasty. Our choice.
I'm sorry, but it appears that you didn't read my statement very carefully. Your conclusion about my presuppositions could not be farther from my actual beliefs as documented in that statement.

In the first paragraph I open by pointing out that I don't like the existence of these patents. In the last paragraph I point out that the fact that the particular patent I selected is bad is an indictment of the patent system, and not the particular patent. Both statements run directly counter to any assumption that I think that government protected monopolies on once innovative ideas are good things.

In between I explain why, according to the rules for granting patents, this particular patent is relatively good. Note the critical qualification. I didn't make up those rules, nor do I agree with them. But those rules matter because they are the rules that this will be argued by in the courts.

And finally you aren't the first in this discussion to point out that this innovation was inevitable in the long run. To repeat what I said earlier on this point, the fact that I can point to two independent reinventions between the time this patent was filed and issued serves as strong evidence for that inevitability. However the argument that a given innovation was inevitable over time is irrelevant to any discussion of patents in the courts.
However, '"/ / / Y/" album' does work as well as "/\/\/\Y/\ new album"

seems like "\" of each "\/" is treated as escape character

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=/\/\/\Y/\+new+album

and

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=/+/+/+Y/+album
I don't think this is his intention at all. You can't take HRO remotely seriously.

This is simply the tone/style of his writing, read more of the blog - it's all just a joke/satire.
Yikes. Why would you pay retail for that stuff?

Small Business Server gives you all the backend stuff for more like $1000 per server. BizSpark/EmpowerISV/WhateverTheyCallItNextYear gives you all the dev tools and OS stuff essentially for free.

I can't imagine that anybody has EVER actually paid $7k per processor for a SQL Server license. We've been running it on our servers for years, properly licensed, and never even come close to that figure.
The Newcomb Problem - which answer is obviously right?
Exactly, it's the only option left in order to let apps talk directly across the unwieldily myriad of network configurations (NATs).
Same here, except that I have to write down things that I have promised to do and set the alarm clock when I have promised to be somewhere.

Everything else in life can be juggled freely, but promises have to be kept. Personally I make so many of them that I have to keep track.
Really? That made me LOL!
Express -> VS.NET is an improvement on the order of Notepad -> Eclipse. (Or Eclipse to VS.NET, for that matter).

If you're developing on the MS stack, you simply need VS.NET and ReSharper or you'll be wasting hours of your life every week.
Stranger things have happened. I remember when I heard that there was going to be a reality show featuring Ozzy Osbourne and his family, which seemed totally nuts at the time.
Godel's "proof" states that G is undecidable, and since that is what G states, G must be True, and this G is a True statement that cannot be proven (or disproven). I say that the conclusion that G is True does not follow. Calling G True is no better than calling G False.

Nobody can prove GIT (Godel's Incompleteness Theorem). I tried to disprove it, but I can't do that either. Godel's Incompleteness Theorem itself is a Godel Sentence.

You can add GIT as an axiom in my system, then it would become True. I'm saying that you don't need to do that to have a complete system. You can either have a complete and consistent system, OR you can have GIT.
I've done my best so far to reduce it to it's most minimal required components to just get the job done, and in the last six months it's slimmed down significantly already, not sure much more can get cut out.

My plan is to get some standard libs and utils written next to hide the frustrating complexity required to build this mesh with peers and proxy the chaos-management for apps.
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The fact that there is no agreed upon answer to this deceptively simple problem is one of the oddest things I've learned about probability theory.

Though I must confess, I find it so blindingly obvious that it is better to just take box A that I have to work to understand people who would prefer both boxes.
"Foxconn's Shenzen plant that builds Apple's iPads, iPods, and iPhones has 400,000 employees"

I can not even imagine what a plant like that looks like. Also, how much stuff does Apple sell? Or are these just really slow workers? Even if they could only manufacture one item per employee per day, it would seem like a lot of items to sell.
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this reminds me of Super Discount 2 released by Etienne De Crecy in 2004. He named each track after a p2p client, thereby search-obscuring the titles.

1. Poisoned
2. Fast Track
3. Grokster
4. Morpheus
5. Bit Torrent
6. Audio Galaxy
7. G2
8. Soul Seek
9. Gifted
10. Limewire
11. Overnet