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I like how confident Apple or Nintendo are in their products. Look at Wii- it was launched against more powerful consoles, iPhone was launched when other smartphones were more powerful, had multitasking, copy-paste(!) etc.

The fact that Nintendo was confident it could sell more Wiis because theirs was more fun and Apple confident about iPhone because theirs was more usable. Nintendo revealing a DSi-esque 3DS when Sony is trying to make PSP more iPhone like etc

It is this confidence that developers want to see when they want to invest in developing for that platform. You cannot lead others when you can't even be confident in yourself.
That's more or less the same as what's happening at my local Ruby User Group in Amsterdam, last time it was all about JavaScript, Node and Coffeescript in particular.

Indeed I think it's great to see that people don't stay with one language!
LLVM 2.0? That was released over 3 years ago. Maybe they mean LLVM 2.7?
Could you elaborate on "... given that humans can prove statements that are true in a system that can't be reducible to a computable set of axioms ..."?
Perhaps with an example?
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That's a subset of 2
Personally I would call weaker the laws that don't allow you to produce a video like this.
People that have all this "talent" is nothing more than a drive for something - the talent in x, y, z is a side effect. My drive is for a distributed, vm based operating system and a language to go with it, subsequently I'm versed in mathematics, computer science, etc.
Great article, only really have a basic knowledge of C from uni, but easy to follow along and learn something.
What went wrong at Palm? I just remember that somehow they didn't ship any interesting hardware for years. Then they came up with a cool operating system, but still no acceptable hardware ("oreo effect"). Still, I think they got a good price for WebOS?
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Especially interesting about the Wii case is that I think Nintendo was presumed to be a lost case before the Wii launch. Not sure how much of what they did was inspired by confidence and how much was just desperation.
How does it work? I installed it, but see no difference on HN.

I think it could be useful because as time passes, I end up reading the uninteresting articles, too. Maybe if I would hide them upon first encounter, I could avoid that.
Personally I think environment plays a huge roll in this as well. If you grow up in an environment that constantly enforces that learning/growing/etc. are pointless, most people will eventually stop trying. Your environment also has a lot to do with forming your "id" [1]. I personally believe that if you could go back in time, take this same person and put them in a different environment they would be recognizable only in appearance.

I think most people are capable of being so much more than they are.

[1] pg has an article that talks about "id". Your environment will often influence how much you allow to become part of your "id" and what to do when various parts of your "id" are impugned.
interesting. is that only due to the different licenses used in the two projects?
It's not that there are "data" to support the idea, but there is the fact that consciousness is unobservable. That is weird and different from all other physical phenomena, wouldn't you say?
Much like the monkey throwing darts at the stock market chart who clocks professional money managers on average, this result proves nothing about rats or markets. It provides further experimental proof for the worst kept secret in history: professional money manager systematically destroy value.
I don't think Gizmodo is in a position to dish out legal advice.
Kapil Sibal, the minister holding the tablet has a MA/ LLB from DU & a LLM from Harvard.
Why you shouldn't tout your competing services on others Techcrunch articles 
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Notably missing feature: one that allows them to issue a point release to the SDK without making you redownload 3gb of dev environment each time.
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Did it have something to do with the way they advertised it?
> d) The only thing that should (ideally) be stored on any RFID chip is a unique number

I disagree. This is basically where RFID has its benefits. Transport for London has the Oyster card, which I'm pretty sure is "electronic cash", i.e. your balance is stored on the card. This allows the system to work without the huge point of failure that is a central database and the connections to it. They have millions of people passing though thousands of checkpoints, many of them on moving busses. The infrastructure needed to make sure that every single one of these checkpoints can at any given time instantly run a transaction on the central database vs. having autonomous readers that just needs to upload their log every once in a while is huge.

It's basically the difference between mainframes/dumb terminals and P2P.

The problem is that RFID implementers have been cheap with the security on those chips. It's pretty simple to make a secure setup (famous last words....) tried and true ideas from cryptography (public key infrastructure etc..) but these call for more expensive chips, and when the choice is between expensive crypto that works and cheap security-through-obscurity that works until a grad-student is bored for the summer, you're going to go with the latter, of course.
But that just moves the creativity bit into designing the fitness function, does it not?

(I do agree with your sentiment though; just pointing out the obvious hole)
Why you shouldn't tout your competing services on anothers Techcrunch articles 
http://tinyurl.com/32552mb
It's the LLVM compiler (formerly known as clang) 2.0.
It's hard to give a more circular argument than that.
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I think they changed their approach to the market. I guess they have capable people at the top who think clearly.

When asked about how they felt about their rivals, Iwata responded

"... rather than trying to identify a specific rival and to think about how to fight against it, it is more important for our unique business to always ask ourselves, and try to answer, such questions like "What does it mean to make people interested in something?", "What is worth spending people's time and energy on?", or "What do people find amusement in?" We would be glad if you understand that, as the basis, we are not conscious of any certain rivals."

from here: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/meeting/100629qa/02....

I don't know whether this is scripted or not, but it was certainly a good read.
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@kelkabany

I find this interesting, but two questions.

1. Would you be able to provide a downloadable working copy of the python source?

2. Picloud seems to be limited to 5GB files, most video files that one would transcode are larger than that. Is there a way around this?
Oracle DDL doesn't respect transactions, but at least you can wrap it into an autonomous transaction so it won't commit your main transaction.

Said that, it's a great feature. It allows you to deploy your stored procs transactionally, instead of the locking nightmare that Oracle's model may result into.
Not seeing the problem with IB here. I use it extensively for generic UI elements, with custom views and windows, use it to target the FirstResponder, use it to hook up actions, connect controllers, and to bind objects together - all of things IB (and now Xcode 4) were made to handle.

I am curious as to what you don't like abou it?
‘We can’t find the piece of code that could shift [a dialog on screen] up 5mm.’ They said, ‘There’s 20 million lines of code in the phone – it’s impossible.’

Ouch. That sounds like a code base seriously out of control.
I'd love to see the video, but all I can see is embed code.
Got me on the first and last ones. Cool post!

I think the fact that I got the first one wrong made me err too far into thinking GCC was smarter than I had first assumed. And it is, but only for certain things.
One reason operating costs are so high in Japan is that the white collar jobs are only available in the metro areas like Tokyo. Outside of the metro areas, the cost of living is much lower, probably never as cheap as living in Thailand. If the companies would set up these call centers in the outlying areas, they would get access to unique Japanese talent, without leaving the country.

I think this kind of talent drain is going to cause problems for an island country whose only real resource is people. I wonder if the government has any real long term planning... /me smack head. Oh that's right, Japan has had 5 different prime ministers in the past 5 years.
Nope. The conflict is going to come, and I wanted to head it off by adding a sane, cool-headed voice to it.

Three female organizers, and one male organizer, contacted me privately to thank me for being brave enough to say what I said -- because they, too, have been harrassed and harangued in public about the "diversity" of their speakers.

I am not surprised (though I don't consider myself brave).

If you don't read about conferences, or run one, you might not realize how nasty people are about this one thing -- an accusation you can't defend against. If you are accused of being racist in your speaker selection, what can you say?

"Well I happened to invite a really awesome african woman and an indian dude but they both turned me down"? Because then, of course, you're suggesting that you DO think in terms of race - ergo you are a racist! Then people will list women to you who have nothing to do with your conference, and you are obligated to say "I don't invite speakers who aren't on-topic for my conference" and then you are accused of hating women. Because if you loved women, you'd invite off-topic women speakers to a conference where everybody else would see the women didn't fit, and would assume that they got picked as window dressing.

These are charges you can't defend against, and the people applying it are -- without fail -- privileged caucasian men, who use their power and their smugness to make other people feel small and less righteous than they are. It's some kind of Look, I May Be A Famous White Dude But I'm So Sensitive And Feminist! signalling.

I, for one, am sick of it! It's selfish, divisive, and more importantly, useless, assuming the people trying to kick up a fuss actually care about having more non-white-men in tech and business.

I prepared this essay in advance - because I knew it would happen. Then it did happen. An internet-famous white man (!) reached out to my very slightly involved male co-organizer (!) and not me (even though he knows me, and he knows it's my conference), and accused us of being "non-diverse." As if we had to answer to him.

Note that he never answered our calls to our network for people from different places and walks of life who were bootstrapping.

These brutal attacks have got to stop, and I figured if I could do it while also reaching out to women bootstrappers, and non-white bootstrappers, to convince them to step forward, so much the better.

At the same time, you don't make attacks stop by shrinking away from them. You also can't do it by pointing out that the attackers are hypocritical assholes just in it for the attention. The only way to do it is to shine a light on just how silly the whole thing is.

So that is what I attempted to do.

I tried to make it too embarrassing for anyone else to attack me publicly.

And now there is a resource that those other conference organizers, who don't feel as if they can speak freely, can link to without fear of direct reprisals.

In short, you could say I'm trying to bury non-existent controversy and then tamp down its grave.
Are you sure that the state of the code base is due to programmers ability? In most cases it is a result of starting out with incomplete or unknown set of requirements. Edit after edit, bug fix after bug fix the codebase becomes a mess.Most of the time there's no incentive to go back and refactor and redesign the code. Lack of funds, lack of personnel, not touching what already works, you name it...
If you don't take for granted the enormous complexity of leading even the most mundane of human lives, then it's easy to see where all that genius is being used.

Throw a monkey into the fray of human society and see how well it does for itself. Let's see it climb the corporate ladder, raise a family, or tell a joke properly.

Not surprisingly, those humans that are recognized for applying their genius in remarkable ways tend to be in serious neglect of one or the other aspect of their everyday lives.
You'll notice that it's always bloatiest languages that have the most powerful IDEs. Look at Java/Eclipse. Now back to Ruby/TextMate. Most of the Haskell/Lisp developers I know just use Vi or Notepad.

The problem is, C is a language where = vs == is actually something you have to think about. It's natural that IDEs arise to address this.

XCode is fixing what is really a problem at the language level. So it's the wrong place to fix the problem. At the same time, trying to fix the problem at the programmer level (by forcing programmers to check = vs ==) is equally the wrong place to fix it.

It's a language issue, and that's the place it really should be addressed. But it will never be addressed there, because it would break backwards compatibility since decades.
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From Wikipedia:

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Thank you for replying.

The article was awesome, and I agree with what you say but try to understand this. I am not disputing the science that the author of the study it is dead on, and this is something really fascinating worth working on. What I am scared of is what happens when 3rd parties come into the mix. When you are in a highly dependent state the words free will often don't exist for you. You might have the freedom of free will but you do not have the liberty to exercise it. Or vice versa. In such a case labels are deadly.

I am afraid that people will use something like this to label people, and those labels more often than not will destroy them. This is an extremely important thing. I am not saying that this research should not happen. In fact, it is critical for our future that such work is done, but it is far more important to make sure that it does not have unintended consequences.

Whenever you need to understand a problem you need to choose different lens. Most people never analyze such things through the most important lens of them all; human emotion. How do you think those kids from the ghetto feel when someone labels them as weak and helpless? When someone automatically assumes that they are doomed? When people implicitly imply in their conversations that they have no future?

I am just asking people to understand that they are humans too. Respect them. They may need our help, but do not judge them or box them into categories. It is true that it makes it easier for us to deal with things, but what about them?
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That is so moving I actually had to stop reading it a couple of times to stop the tears that were forming in my eyes. Thank you for sharing it.
Neither the "About" nor the "Contact" links seem to work, and I'm having a hard time understand exactly what it does. Certainly the site's idea of "similar" doesn't seem to match mine.
Can somebody provide me with the GPL'ed parts of Thesis? Shouldn't be a problem, right?
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Yes, attribution is a funny subject.

Ever seen an article about science that linked to the actual paper that was the reason the article got written in the first place?

Ever seen a blog discussing science put that link in?
Once it's installed, if you reload the page you should see a "hide" link below each article, after the "comments" or "discuss" link.

If you don't see it, it should be either that you're browsing HN on a different domain than "news.ycombinator.com" (?) or that you're using a version of Chrome < 5...?
Honest question: What is the revenue source for Posterous? If I move all my content to it (or Tumbler, for that matter) what will happen to my content when they go down?
Chrome online doc isn't bad:
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but some things are not totally obvious so I might compile what I've learned in a blog post, yes!
As someone who primarily writes code in Windows and occasionally in Xcode on the Mac, I'm grateful for the fact that I use Vim - which doesn't require using any of the modifier keys to move around and edit.
Every time I'm sitting in the Xcode editor I'm constantly hitting the wrong modifier key or forgetting the key combination for delete-word-backwords or whatever.
Great, more jobs for me! (Wait.)

Seriously, while this is a bit oversold, you've got to feel for Japanese twenty-somethings. I nearly killed myself with overwork as an intermediate engineer, and my salary would just about pay for a US English major their first year out of school. And I had one of the best jobs in Japan.

Japanese twenty-somethings are being promised jobs with similar hours, worse working conditions, more work, no guarantee of lifetime employment (oh ho, there's a biggie), etc etc. Those that can get jobs, anyhow: un- and under- employment are pretty bad here for twenty-somethings. Meanwhile, there is a looming public benefits crisis because the intergenerational transfer is ultimately unsustainable. (True everywhere, but in Japan the demographics are particularly bleak.)

Is it any wonder that opting out of The Offer is so popular right now? Work holidays (i.e. go to Australia for a year, work in hospitality/food service/etc) are quite popular in my social circles: after all, if you're going to make restaurant wages regardless of what you do, might as well get a vacation out of it.

There are something like half a million Japanese single twenty-somethings with no jobs or decent prospects of getting them, and the traditional solution (marry her off to a salaryman) runs into the problem that a) increasingly it is a "him" and b) there are insufficient unmarried salarymen to go around.
I see this as a step in a transition that will likely lead to what you are suggesting, the costs even in the places cited by the article will start to rise and then rural Japan will become a too obvious choice to be ignored.
Something similar is starting to happen in IT for India/east europe/etc... , just don't ask me how much time it will take...
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Well, I think the difference is even less than that.

People who never drove a stick-shift may have no idea how to operate one. Whereas someone switching from an IDE to a text editor would still be able to work - just less productive.
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Wow, that's awesome. Thanks for sharing :)
Partially disagree.
The problem (at least what I've seen) is not view/controller dichotomy - most modern development platforms already have this.

I find the mechanism of connecting UI elements to outlets by dragging around to be gimicky and pointless.

Why can't the runtime auto-bind them by matching names? Doesn't ruby work this way?

There seems to be a bit of pointless work that you have to do to get a new controller and view connected and up-and-running.
Looks like something that could profoundly change the japanese society if the situation continue to get worse.
He's a Platonist, so he believes in the existence of a real world that is neither material nor mental.

His central claim that conscious acts are in some sense noncomputational is prima facie false.

And his concrete solution to problem collects together several other very difficult problems and essentially says, solve one, solve them all. (Great news for his publishers btw.)

For those reasons, it's hard to take seriously because it's outrageously speculative.
Best case to prepare to call oneself a journalist sounds like it would be essential to actually doing it, rather than being preferential in preparing to do it. But yeah.
Interesting article. The main argument for tenure is that it lets a professor focus on what they want to do without worrying about politics or backlash. The main argument against is that once employment is guaranteed regardless of performance, some people don't care as much about performing well.

There's merits to both arguments. I think all things considered, I'd prefer to have anyone instructing me or someone I cared about not having guaranteed employment regardless of performance.
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1. If you piece the code snippets together in the post, it'll work. Nevertheless, I'll be posting a downloadable source file soon.

2. Our cloud.files module does have a 5GB file size limit. However, you are free to store your data elsewhere (probably on EC2 for fast and free data transfer), and access it using PiCloud. For example, you could store the video files on your own CouchDB server running on EC2, and simply query the server in your code (using the python-couchdb module) for the video.