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I haven't seen such subtle observations of mind laid out so cleanly and perfectly, ever before. I was going all thru such "unnecessary drifting" disputes/money, for quite some time in recent past, but realised it just now. Feels like enlightened!

I need to change the top idea in my mind for sure. But as pg rightly noted and I quote:
"""Money matters are particularly likely to become the top idea in your mind. The reason is that they have to be. It's hard to get money. It's not the sort of thing that happens by default. It's not going to happen unless you let it become the thing you think about in the shower. And then you'll make little progress on anything else you'd rather be working on. """
I will still need to do something about it, without letting it become the top idea in my mind.

Thanks!
A bit off the topic, is there any good introductory doc on how apache modules work?
I have a hard time believing users in your demographic (16-25) are really going to label themselves as "not doing jackshit".

I remember when I was in high school I would always be on AIM Friday and Saturday night, because naturally I had a curfew and that's what I did - go online. Funny thing is NOBODY was ever online Friday and Saturday night. Everybody was on for hours on end during the weekday of course, but come Fri/Saturday - not a soul. The point is, you know damn well everybody else had a curfew too and everybody else was doing jackshit online too, and everybody else was at most doing jackshit "over at someone else's house", - but nevertheless, it was an unspoken rule (apparently) that you make it look like you are out and about having a great time by not being on AIM.
Social gaming is fundamentally about your relationships with your friends, not about your relationship with a main character or avatar.
Is this article a troll or does it just have troll-like powers over me? Journalists care more about the truth than bloggers? A journalist serves the people? What planet is this person living on? The journalists whose work I have occasion to observe, with a few and dwindling number of honorable exceptions, serve power.

The reason journalism is dying is that most journalists -- by which I mean most people making a living under that job title; who on earth is the author referring to? -- long ago discarded these values. Luckily we have the internet and a significant body of courageous bloggers (among, it must be said, a lot of garbagey ones) who actually do care about them, producing real critique, analysis, and even reporting, that for once does not insult the intelligence.

I must be missing something. Surely it's not possible for anyone to have their head that far up. Or maybe this is just what you get when the echo chamber succumbs to denial.

Edit: after surfing around a bit, I think it may be that the author is simply naive. I'd bet money that journalism "training" consists in good part of repeating such self-flattering bromides about journalists, and it sounds to me like the author is just repeating what she was taught. She probably doesn't deserve my rant, but the "journalists" I'm thinking of certainly do, so I'm leaving it.
According to one of his comments on OP's Youtube link, he also interspersed work on 15 other projects while he was working on this. Would be interesting to know the actual amount of time spent on it.
It may not be a hands-down winner yet, but in the long run it's the way to be headed.

I'm more interested in using LLVM on FreeBSD or Linux than on OS X, but I'm happy to see Apple pushing its development.
Procrastination, it turns out, is an essential skill
Log rotation isn't just about disk space

I disagree, since, otherwise, there's nothing rotary. If one has effectively infinite disk space, nothing ever gets "rotated out," for example.

Certainly, log segmentation provides benefits beyond being a prerequisite to rotation, but, as you point out, it's a common default configuration. An inbuilt feature of syslog-ng is log file naming based on date, obviating any post-processing.
Yep:

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I'm only seeing 3.2.3 here, no matter where/how I look. A quick google suggests that it is indeed available to all, but I'm not finding it.
This. I edit my files in MacVim (cocoa.vim is a lifesaver). The Xcode editor will have to be really freaking good to get me to switch from MacVim.
Note that books appear more than once on that page, because they can be in multiple categories. That being said, it is entirely plausible that he has read them all in his career.
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Whew, glad that one is done.
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I agree. I also don't think one can get very far in that respect without first understanding the computational principles and mechanisms by which the brain can perform ordinary tasks that are extremely difficult for computers (e.g. vision). A purely computational account of how the brain manages to do what it does can allow for useful abstractions that can be applied to other kinds of "implementations" of intelligence. Without looking at the brain, I think it would be incredibly difficult to tease out form first principles the fundamentals of what intelligence really is and how it arises.
KirinDave, you are a jerk. Obviously this only works on iPhones. Take your elitist bullshit elsewhere.
Indian government has really ambitious plans here, I will wait to see that how many of them actually reach to students. The rampant corruption in the bureaucracy in India, make sure that needy students hardly get any advantage of this schemes. Best way to make sure that this laptops reaches the students is to outsource the supply chain to some NGO.
An important note on the 69-foot record in 2005 you linked: they've just got two antennas, no focusing dish at all.

If someone comes along with a powerful rig, say using some of the techniques astronomers have had for many years to detect far weaker signals, what sort of distance might we be talking? It's not too far-fetched if you include possible corporate / governmental espionage attempts.
It's like saying the assembly language is much more scalable than a higher level languages.

Separating the meaning from the sound is like naming variables with meaningless short combination of letters.
To be fair Linux has always been designed and written with GCC in mind. I don't think portability (between compilers) has ever been a goal.
Holy Crap Xcode 4 Single Window! You had me at hello!
If you think you may be missing out on something, then you read that proof. Reading all of the proofs is usually a waste of time. (Not always a waste, sometimes they are all relevant, but usually.)
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Why not put that API inside the database (i.e. stored procedures and views)?
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So, not quite yet.
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Anyone played with lldb yet? Thoughts?
It gives you an area in your admin panel where you can custom functions, change the colors, text settings and layout. It also gives you the ability to customize the css. You still need to hire a designer if you want to differentiate it from other people, unless you're happy with the default.
If the busy beaver function runs on a computer, it is computable, unless I missed something pretty interesting.
How many of these "running FFMPEG yourself is so much cheaper than XX service! XX is a ripoff" posts are we going to see?

If you pay for a good transcoding service, you're not just paying for being able to run FFMPEG. That's the easy part. The hard part is dealing with thousands of combinations of audio and video codecs, containers, pixel and display aspect ratios, handling improperly encoded files and optimizing to produce the best quality at a given size. There's a reason entire companies are based on being good at these things, and people are willing to pay for it. This is not trivial stuff.

I'm not knocking the PiCloud product at all, as there are certainly some limited use cases where it would fit nicely and get the job done cheaply. But it is in no way an apples-to-apples comparison between a generic FFMPEG setup and a professional encoding service like Zencoder or Encoding.com.
Why no one cares that flipboard doesn't flippin' work?
That is exactly what Penrose demonstrates in his book - within mathematics there are things that cannot be calculated algorithmically. Which is also why the above summary makes the point that this simple argument is devastating (for proponents of Strong AI).

A summary of his position can be found on his Wikipedia page:
"He claims that the present computer is unable to have intelligence because it is an algorithmically deterministic system. He argues against the viewpoint that the rational processes of the mind are completely algorithmic and can thus be duplicated by a sufficiently complex computer. This contrasts with supporters of strong artificial intelligence, who contend that thought can be simulated algorithmically. He bases this on claims that consciousness transcends formal logic because things such as the insolubility of the halting problem and Gödel's incompleteness theorem prevent an algorithmically based system of logic from reproducing such traits of human intelligence as mathematical insight."

I searched for some decent refutations by Minsky, and was disappointed to only find this: http://kuoi.com/~kamikaze/doc/minsky.html
"Thus Roger Penrose's book [1] tries to show, in chapter after chapter, that human thought cannot be based on any known scientific principle."

Disclaimer: I'm not a student of AI, and only realised just now that Penrose and Minsky represent the two opposing schools of thought on AI!
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I think the larger device shown in those photos is an iRobot Apad (aka many other things): http://www.androidpads.com/2010/05/04/the-moonse-e7001-aka-i...

Not sure about the smaller one, although it looks kinda familiar.

The "Minimum Functionalities expected" certainly looks like something a government bureaucrat wrote. "4. Unzip tool for unzipping zip files." in the same list as "10. Cloud computing option."
The backwards compatibility break they did got me thinking, it would be great to see a major PHP release that broke backwards compatibility to get things right as Python have done with version 3. I think anyone not interested in porting their code would already have a PHP more than suitable for their needs.
I remember there was a $100 laptop claimed to be built by India government for students couple years ago. Whatever happened to that project?
It's comments like this that makes me wish that Hackernews had a "follow" button. =)

The problem with the pitch accent is that it varies so much by region that if you included them in the kana (like the universal phonetic alphabet) you would end up with something that was completely unreadable by people from a different prefecture. (Ok, I'm taking that to an extreme, but still. The Japanese have enough problems with various dialects without putting pitches in the written language. I think I would cry.)

Another interesting thing is that even within the kana there are slight variations in pronunciation. in 三年、三万、三月 all the んs are pronounced differently.

I think we should agree that all language is fubared. Except for Esperonto. And no one uses that (no matter what the wikipedia page says).
Could you run multiple instances of AeroFS on the one device and assign different stores to each? That might be a reasonable workaround, assuming that it's not more work than doing it "properly".
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Precisely at the same ratio of new boards to old boards when the Ship of Theseus stops being the Ship of Theseus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
I wonder if this solves the problem I've had of having a single APC cache across php-cgi children with fastcgi. From what I read handing the process management off to PHP would achieve that, is that what this is doing?
A comment with this link did get some interest though: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378776
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I don't think anyone buys that follow-up: the original story sound very authentic and is told in a frank Adam-Savage-like manner. The follow-up: not so much. Of course, this is my characterization of my perception of the stories and may be influenced by, for instance, a predisposition towards believing the first story.
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Added FastCGI Process Manager (FPM) SAPI. - good news.
I have worked in Nokia as consultant for almost a year and I have always wondered how Nokia became Nokia, given they way they managed software development internally.
Several consultancy companies were working on the same project - a communication nightmare and developers with little or no experience were brought on board.
But, as the book suggests, the main issue was coming from the Nokia managers involved in the project. They were absolutely unable to manage and run a large scale software development project and, above all, they weren't able to take any decision, a complete, terrified paralysis.
Not sure how they ended up being like that, the Peter principle is likely one of the causes.
I hope Nokia gets back on their feet, they surely have a massive technological asset and they can bring innovation to the telco world.
Open Source and Free Software have clearly defined rules ... unrestricted redistribution is not one of those rules.

> It really boils down to the definition of a "derivative work".

That definition is in the GPL. It's not exactly the same definition as that of a "derivate" in the copyright law, but that's a gray area anyway and nothing else besides the GPL gives you the right to create something like Thesis.

Other people besides yourself also want to protect their rights. If it's some author's wish to release code under the GPL, he might have good reasons for doing so, and you'd better respect that choice or use something else.

> As a developer, why would I want to create any Wordpress plugins or themes if someone else is going to lay claim to my work

This is what I call being a hypocrite.
Do you have any specific textbooks I could take a look at?
This thing is not going to market for Rs. 1500. That much just about gets you a barely usable dumbphone around here, no way it's going to get you a tablet -- even if it runs a free OS like Android.

It's quite an ugly beast though ... anything on the resolution of that display? Looks very stretched to me.
Math is a bit easier of a degree than CS.
Outside of my code editor, Chrome is the piece of software I spend the majority of my time using.

I've been running the bleeding edge versions since the first public releases, pretty much, and last saw the sad face in 2.x series, I think.

It's such a great example of how to execute, reminds me of the IE team in the early days when they still cared.

I've converted most of the office to using it, even die-hard Firefox and IE (yes, IE) users. My nagging gets them to try it, the performance keeps them :)

I hope they never give up or lose inertia like IE did.
I'm pretty new to Mac OS X programming (coming from a very hobbyist cmdline/web app python background) so using an IDE has been pretty weird for me. I found the disconnect between IB and XCode the most difficult thing about it, it's like there was another layer of programming you couldn't see immediately (the connections) which made it harder to slip back into a project if you hadn't touched it for a while. Not to mention the fact that every time I picked up this project (it's an after hours thing that I don't get a lot of time to play around on) I would almost have to re-read a tutorial to remember how all the connections, etc. worked in IB. I think the main problem really was the disconnect though, so I'm looking forward to actually having everything there.

So, when will it be done? :D
I vaguely remember an article from around the time RFID passports were a hot issue, in which researchers used multiple capturing devices and were able to square the reading distance. I don't know whether that was specific to the distance they used, the type of RFID, or even an upper limit, but it was an unbelievable improvement.
It's a press release from a patent troll. They don't deal in facts.
The video shows it to be android.
Thank them for clang and clang++. Hope to see it as default FreeBSD 9 compiler. ^_^

Also it is time to realize that LLVM-based tools are much more effective than JVM-based. (at least they can run or ARM) ^_^
I wrote an article about the security of passive RFID tags at school about a year ago: http://kimjoar.net/security-passive-rfid-tags.html. There you might find some interesting stuff regarding your question. RFID is very cool, but there are still a lot of (unsolved) security problems with them, especially the passive tags.
This actually looks exciting.

Anyone have any idea when it will stop being "experimental"?
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A busy beaver is a Turing machine that runs for more steps than any other machine (having the same state machine size) but eventually halts (rather than looping forever). The busy beaver function measures the run times of all busy beavers, the maximum number of steps you can get out of each state machine size. Apparently Radó proved this value eventually grows larger than any computable function.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver#Non-computability_o...
From the article.

"Essentially, Nokia has forgotten how to bring innovative products to market. This is despite a rich R&D base, which has pioneered many of the innovations competitors now feature. Instead, a risk-averse bureaucracy has grown up that stifles innovation – it makes progress slow or non-existent."

An old and familiar story.

"his diagnosis may be familiar, but the proposals quite radical. ... a bloodbath of middle managers – starting with 300 to 500 staff at senior VP, VP or director level. This he calls a GRO program, or Get-Rid-Of."

Yahoo had 300 or so VPs before its fall. How do companies end up with five hundred + VPs? What value do they provide exactly? (Genuine question, not snark. From what I've seen most people at VP level spend all their time in internecine politics)

Does anyone know how many VPs Apple has? or Google? (though I suspect , with no proof or numbers, that the latter would have relatively high numbers, given the "middle agedness" Google seems to demonstrate these days)
9 out of 10 developers think they are superior coders than they actually are. Keep that in mind while considering your options -- that is, are you really as awesome as you say you are? So awesome and so superior to the current team that you can validly say you can do better and prove that? Not just in a single scenario but across the proverbial board?

Even if you say yes to the above I say don't do it because karma is a bitch. But I doubt you will say yes to the above.
Pretty sure he's arguing that it should be an error.
I see your company doc on "How To Earn HN Karma" has worked out well. Now if only you could turn karma into money...

Edit: This is a reference to the picture on their signup page.
Great news. This makes it significantly easier to get PHP running on Nginx.
Thanks for the Wozniak link - I got a chance to read it and it has in fact convinced me that polyphasic sleep would not be a good option for my current lifestyle needs.
WPA2 vulnerable to insider attacks
WPA2 Hole196 Vulnerability

The "Hole 196" vulnerability present in WPA2 can be practically exploited by a malicious insider using existing open source software as the basis. And the footprint of such insider attacks is limited to the air, making them among the stealthiest of insider attacks known requiring no key cracking and no brute force The only way to detect this is by monitoring traffic over the air.

Live demos planned at Blackhat and Defcon.

For more details:

http://www.airtightnetworks.com/WPA2-Hole196

http://blog.airtightnetworks.com/wpa2-finds-itself-in-a-hole-vulnerable-to-insider-attacks/

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Found this demo app linked to from here: http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado/browse_thread/...

Super helpful.
Glad I'm not the only one who cares about this, but don't have more information - only the same question.
I might think that the issue lies within the actual product/market fit. You really have to make life better for the power user, as that pretty much defines how they become power users. If your product doesn't or can't make life AMAZING for some small group of people, then I don't think you can get power users no matter how hard you try.
If you assume that our brains are completely physical objects (no soul), then you should be able to model them with a computer, like all other physical objects, and create a thinking computer.

Just because we have an incomplete understanding now doesn't mean we always will, or that it's impossible to have a complete (or reasonably complete) understanding.

Or there's the idea of a non-physical, impossible to model soul. I don't see much data to support that conclusion though, it seems the equivalent of cosmic ether to me.
Or just because MySQL is really to get started with when using Rails and other frameworks, and that when you're starting a business, you think "if I actually ever run into MySQL scaling issues, that's a good problem to have".
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1538236

Some comments there already.
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Will it optimize?
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