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> The problem with Android is the burden of designing around hundreds upon thousands of hardware combinations that exist in an open market.

For many people, that's an opportunity, not a problem. The width and breadth of the current cell phone market indicates that variety is something that the market values, and a one-size-fits-all phone is never going to conquer that large a share of the overall market.

Also, consider the many vertical and niche applications that will only be possible on a platform like Android, where you have more control.
And the emulator? Developing cell phone apps without an emulator is... not an easy thing.
Your suggestions are very good.

But, as a design ninja, you really think the design isn't bad? I was with you till that line. I thought the four paragraphs above it were on the money and pretty strongly imply the design is bad.

The idea is good, and the design will be good too after two or three more iterations. But right now, that design is bad.
We shall not rest until every subgroup of the population has perfectly proportional representation in every possible activity!
This reminds me of Socrates:

I went to one of those reputed to be wise... and when I conversed with him... it seemed to me that this man seemed to be wise, both to many other human beings and most of all to himself, but that he was not.

I reasoned with regard to myself: I am wiser than this human being. For probably neither of us knows anything noble and good, but he supposes he knows something when he does not know, while I, just as I do not know, do not even suppose that I do.
You can be a 4 year old chess prodigy without any autistic like traits. There are normal well developed chess prodigies. Also the phenomenon of Go Prodigies in Asia
I know what Ramachandran's league is. What areas of expertise do you have to such a degree that your intuitions upon a cursory glance at one or two of his papers carry more weight then his decades of study and work at the cutting edge of this field?

Appeals to legitimate authority are valid.

(disclaimer: Ramachandran is one of my biggest intellectual heros)
Nope I personally find it distasteful to do so.
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Coherent? Not sure about that. I can't even read this one, its just rambling. The other one was a transcription of a talk, so that explains why it reads funny.

Is the summary really just as simple as its important that you hire people that get things done (firstly) but also in a smart way? Is that it?
For example, I know a lot about epistemology, and I am already familiar with the common phenomenon where psychiatrists and neuroscientists accidentally stray into philosophical areas they know little about and make epistemic blunders.

I emailed you two passages from Ramachandran's essay. Could you confirm that they are representative of his view, and not out of date?
The existence of mirror neurons is a theory. Also, you're confusing Autism with all Autism Spectrum Disorders as a whole; Asperger's Syndrome, for example.

Autism != Asperger's Syndrome
I did not get the message. Maybe the internets have a clog.
I really want to like this game, I really do. But the keyboard controls make it unplayable. They have a habit of sticking in the game, so I walk straight off the ledge or into a robot swarm. Does anyone else get this?
You're making so many blind assumptions about Autism Spectrum Disorders and people you're conversing with here.

" You should recognize that you need the help of a person who doesn't share your mind-blindness to make appropriate judgements about children and how to relate to them. You absolutely cannot figure out how to treat kids on your own if you are on the spectrum."

That is so disgustingly far from an objective statement.
Not that surprising. Two years ago I was a fulltime commercial desktop application developer, and our minimum supported spec was Windows 98.
I wrote:

I'm sorry, I can't talk to you, my mail client says you're a spammer.

Do you think this is an accurate statement about mirror neurons?

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_p2...

Anytime you watch someone else doing something (or even starting to do something), the corresponding mirror neuron might fire in your brain, thereby allowing you to "read" and understand another's intentions, and thus to develop a sophisticated "theory of other minds."

And this from the next page?

Denying [one's own] paralysis is odd enough but why would a patient deny another patient's paralysis? We suggest that this bizarre observation is best understood in terms of damage to Rizzolatti's mirror neurons. It's as if anytime you want to make a judgement about someone else's movements you have to run a VR (virtual reality) simulation of the corresponding movements in your own brain and without mirror neurons you cannot do this.
A hundred is a huge number, in the right context :-)
I am not confusing them so much as avoiding trying to write a textbook on autism when addressing the original issue. I was sloppy. I may not have succeeded at my goal of not writing too much.

The existence of mirror neurons is not just a theory. A mirror neuron is (by definition) a neuron that fires both when you do something and someone else has done something. Those are observed. It is a theory that it causes autism, but not a theory that they fire less in autistic children, or that these areas of the brain are almost precisely the same places where autistic spectrum people have thinner brains then controls.
An interview with Ian Dixon, Home Automation blogger & Podcaster
so since many of us are hackers that want to be entrepreneurs we all need to learn how to sell. maybe you could start teaching your kid the art of persuasion and reasoned argument. don't shoot him down, instead help him actually write a convincing argument for the number, guide him to think about the process of creation and the process of getting stake holders, and evangelists to help carry the idea. At some point he will either learn how to sell ice to eskemos or he will think of a better idea to sell.

i do have to admit that i was frustrated with my dad not going through the process with me, as i really just wanted the attention doing something creative and fun, rather than sports, etc.... instead he got me the internet.

i say spend time with your kid and help him learn how to develop a pitch.
Moreover, when you enter the workforce (if you do so in a normal company, not in a Google), you're once again surrounded by ... erm.. well, not incredibly brilliant people, and your arrogance comes back...
Where would I see it? Disqus seems to be on half the blogs I read, but I've never even heard of haloscan. (or was your comment sarcastic?)
This would be a lot cooler if it would run in-place and didn't require installation and putting a file into /etc (would make it easier to try out).
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I wish I had the problem of those women (being asked out too often).
Either that or you discover your choice of university was flawed...
Yes and no. I was trying to make one small point and it kind of blew up into a thesis or something. I didn't mean for that to happen, and didn't work enough into the first things I wrote to support where the thread turned.

That sounds awful out of context (which I probably failed to convey well). I was speaking particularly to xlnt, directly in response to things he said that saliently reminded me of the justifications my autistic father used to feel like he was doing the right thing during the years when he was extremely (and, importantly) unknowingly abusive to me, with the intention of challenging that part of his worldview. I didn't mean 'you' in any more universal sense then that, and I most certainly didn't mean it in the way you are reading it. I should of more carefully limited the scope of what I was saying to him, and made a point of mentioning that many autistic people are naturally great and understanding with kids. I'm not a great writer, so I'm sorry for that. Also, this discussion was going on for a while way down-thread and then this branch started, so you may have read the discussion out of chronological order.

People who talk about raising kids as if they were robots, and their job is to use logic to make sure the robot always gives precisely the right output for it's own good later on need help raising kids. That much is undoubtedly true. You are reading me as meaning something I didn't mean.
The first one is trivially true because of the word 'might'

The second one I think is true and an extremely elegant solution for a bizarre neurological phenomena.

And critiquing Ramachandran's neurology on the basis of an epistemology ignorant of neuroscience seems a lot like critiquing Newton's physics on the basis of an astrology ignorant of astronomy. (this is hard for me to admit, my training is as a philosopher).
I take issues with some parts of the article:

"She presents the following reasons: CS jobs are clean jobs and they don't require much physical force. It's a typical tertiary activity that can even be conducted while staying home!

What's interesting is that the arguments used are well, sexist"

Huh? Can somebody explain what is sexist about those arguments? Because it implies that women might have less physical strength than men on average? Is there a debate about that?

"women, who normally still assume a disproportionate amount of domestic responsibilities."

Is that true? If so, why, and maybe that would be a more suitable starting place for striving for equality?
Look at it on the bright side: since you're forced to ask, at least you get to choose ... :)
That's good. But premature, because frankly, Djang is still way too complicated to use. The API should not have been frozen yet. Rather the django API should have been changed to become more simple. Example - template tags.
Where on the Internet to chat with geeks?
I have a startup that is just me right now. Sometimes when I'm coding I'd enjoy being in a chat room with other developers just to ask questions and shoot the breeze. Where's a good place to do this? IRC, Meebo, somewhere else? I prefer real-time chat over forums for this casual situation.
She said that in the context of "There is nothing masculine/male about CS ..." and since gender was the subject of the dscussion you don't need a huge leap of faith to accept the comment as sexist.

As to the broom work, yes it's suitable t there, although not the subject of the post...
I'm a potential for your site, but your site does not seem like it gives me immediate value. I have simple needs:

1. I want an easy way to add books I liked
2. I want recommendations on new books based on those
3. I want to be able to recommend books to my sister (and only my sister), and I want her to be able to recommend books to me

It's not clear if your site does this, and it looks too complicated anyways, so I decided not to sign-up. I'm looking for absolute simplicity that does just what I want, and all other features are hidden away.
Stop the press! 37dingbats had breakfast!
Perhaps there should be an option for this on the submission page: almost "post anonymously", but you'd still have to log in to do it (though your name won't appear on the submission), and if the karma of the article became negative it would still apply to you.
For what its worth, it made me smile. Hope the kid's imagination continues to grow and think of new, wild, sometimes impossible but always interesting ideas :)
Agreed. It really worries me that even this crowd by-and-large doesn't have enough of an attention span to cope with Yegge. Does anyone read books any more?
How do you know how that kid is wired?
I hang out on irc usually. I think only nerds and leechers hang out on irc :) "normal" people are on twitter, msn or some forum. Oh... and if someone says to be a girl, don't trust him :)
So why is it sexist to say "there is nothing masculine about CS"? If you say the opposite, surely it would be sexist, because it would imply that women are not made for CS. But saying "CS is not masculine" seems not sexist to me. Except that the whole question is rather uninteresting ("masculine" or not - who cares?).
This bothers me simply because there may be layers of indirection between the candidate's hand and your eyes. If, for instance, they dictated that part of the application, the person taking the information down may not have taken the same care the applicant would have. There might have been a "grammar correction" pass in their email client that they had set to automatic instead of interactive. That's just two things, but if there are any there are probably more I'm not thinking of.
It doesn't help that 37Signals isn't linking to the actual source, just the domain it was found on.
Choose your rejection wisely? ;-)
Does anyone else find the small paragraphs really hard to read? Did they do the interview using twitter?
http://www.lookery.com

though I don't know how effective it is
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Yes. Scott Aaronson has some good writing on those.
It does. The same way "understand" does for grok.
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Great interview Akita, he sounds like a nice guy, and I hope they can figure out a good solution without him.

I like this quote:

Blaine Cook: Not really; I don’t know why he has a grudge. It’s mildly annoying, but in the end it makes Techcrunch look more like a gossip rag and less like a respectable news outlet, so it’s his loss.

So true.
Many great lessons here. Thanks for sharing.
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From an Indian perspective (the article mentions India is a bit better than the US) I know quite a few women IT workers most of whom enjoy their jobs and are good at them. But I also know many more who quit - usually to stay at home and raise a family.

Looking around my current office I see a lot of men and much fewer women. Of the men, I know quite a few who don't enjoy their work but stick it out cause they are the breadwinners and need to provide for their families. Maybe if they were given the option (socially and biologically?) of staying home with the kids they would do just that.
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"People who talk about raising kids as if they were robots, and their job is to use logic to make sure the robot always gives precisely the right output for it's own good later on need help raising kids."

I do, mostly and personally, agree with that. Though I would say it's generally the right of the parent to raise the child as the parent sees fit, within reason of course.
>People who talk about raising kids as if they were robots, and their job is to use logic to make sure the robot always gives precisely the right output for it's own good later on need help raising kids

This is an argument about thinking versus feeling on the MBTI scale and you can't reduce something along those axises to right and wrong... raising kids is more complicated than that.

This is also ad hominem because xlnt is not talking about raising kids like they are robots; he believes it is best to treat them like people. You are misunderstanding his actual beliefs because you are stuck on an argument of little meaning. http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/ This is the philosophy in question, debate that if you want.
> why should a modern browser allow me to immediately close a window

> Why do browsers even show a page's "reset" buttons

Because it's better this way. The needs of users trump the needs of webapp developers. A browser that won't let me close a window, or refresh a poorly loaded page? No thanks.
Do you think the word "lagom" characterizes Sweden? It has just now occured to me that words that are hardest to translate often seem to characterize the culture of origin as a whole.
Unexpectedly, this trend article is actually intelligent. I love how it dismisses natural language and image search right away. Search Monkey is an interesting idea, but trivial for Google to clone. Faroo, even more interesting, wonder what it'll take to fly. A quick search turned up two open source distributed search engines: Grub http://grub.org/ and YaCy http://yacy.net/ .
irc://irc.freenode.net is pretty full of interesting people,
#startups
##javascript
#defocus

Tons more depending on your interests :)

With the risk of being downmodded for flagrant self promotion,
http://www.mibbit.com/?url=irc%3A%2F%2Firc.freenode.net%2Fst...
the "voice " of Rome is saying : "you have to survive:
I'm here since millenium, you will not".
and you start learning how to live as best as you can, knowing that the perfection is not of this world...
The real PDF:
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Ask HN:Ability to bury links and comments
Apology : I submitted this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=218053 . I did not read the guidelines. Anyways, I did not think about the political side of it before submitting. The guy who wrote that is making claims in the name of "logic and scientific evidence", that is why is submitted it.(and I agree I did wrong)

Does submitting a link mean that I endorse what is said in it. If you think so, then frankly I dont endorse it. I submitted it because it was the first time I saw an article like this. So I wanted to know what you guys thought about this (So you may ask whether I will post all kinds of shit here to just to know what you guys think. Come on, I posted this because they claim to be using "logic and scientific evidence" and I expected comments on that part rather than the political part. Hope you guys remember this essay http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html ). Whatever my intent, I agree that I have done wrong as the post is explicitly potilical. Clearly , somebody could have given me a link to the guidelines page telling these things are banned here. Now look at this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=218145 . Look at the last line(Did I write the article? Did I endorse it?Who drew such conclusions?). Moreover, what he doesn’t realize is that rather than commenting about the author , the article or the one who submitted it(which he is probably trying to do), he his shouting out about himself and how he draws conclusions. This comment was really useful http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=218470 as I was able to google Watson+taboo and read some stuff related to it.

Now, I don’t want to talk anymore about that post(I like this place and don’t like to go against the rules). Then why did I post this?

I am a regular visitor of news.yc and I am afraid that these kind of comments may cause many people to stop commenting, which leads to reduction in the overall quality of comments(All this from people who have read pg’s DH essay). I think there should be way to bury links like what I have submitted(with the reason why it was done) and the crappy comments.
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What?!? I've evaluated Rails and Django and I'd say Django is simpler.

It might not make as many assumptions as RoR does, but IMHO that makes it simpler; you need to be explicit.
A spam article from a 1 karma account created 2 hours ago... yet another case for the downvote button.
irc.freenode.net of course. A few HN users are in #startups
This is a piece of propaganda, don't waste your time. Moreover, FF3 is not yet available for download.
I am a native German speaker.

While trying to translate an article I wrote in English to German, I noticed that many things did translate very poorly unless I significantly differed in style.
This is especially prominent in scientific papers. In English, you would focus on short, easy to understand sentences. In scientific German, it is absolutely necessary to write very difficult, convoluted sentences to avoid ambiguity. This made the text significantly longer -- and harder to read. However, the texts conveyed more detailed information and were overall more precise.

My personal theory is, that the German language enforces logic and grammar more rigidly than English, which makes it sort of more like a programming language. Therefore, the complexity of a sentence is directly tied to the complexity of its content. In english, I feel that it is more easy to simplify things (deliberately!), which makes it easier to understand. On the other hand, German behaves similar to programming languages: The more compact German is written (without losing information), the less readable it will get -- try Kant for example.
Hence, the primary reason for German text being longer than English text is often that it is written in rather simple (long) style. You could write it more concisely, but you would lose ease of reading that way, which is inappropriate for museums, of course. (Or you would lose information, but germans are somewhat disinclined to do that: one THIRD of the worldwide tax laws are German, only because we don't like to lose precision...)

By the way, that is why I prefer to buy English books for learning something, as they are easier to read, while I prefer German books as reference, as they tend to be more precise.

For the matter at hand however, I think that the spoken language is sort of the "operating system" of the mind. It can only think within the boundaries of the language and only the cleverest of minds can really expand their thoughts beyond that limit -- by using the language in new ways. Most major philosopher did that (i.e. Kant, Schopenhauer, Freud etc.).
Example from Kant:
"Handle so, dass die Maxime deines Handelns jederzeit als allgemeingültiges Gesetz gelten könne." (Act in such a way, that the "Maxime" of your actions may be applicable as universal law at all times. Where "Maxime" is a new word meaning sort of the "gist" or "idea" of an action)
This is not normal German: It is something new, more concise and more precise than normal German. It feels a lot like a sentence in a programming language. It would take significantly more words to express the same content in normal language without losing precision.

So by learning English, I learned to express things in a more understandable way. By learning C, I discovered quite many "syntactic" inaccuracies in normal spoken sentences. Matlab thought me to think in vectors. Why should Swedish be different? Or Lisp? Or Whatever?
Yeah.. what's this with "Right now"? I suppose you could get the latest nightly (or go look up which nightly they've considered as the 3.0 final), but this is just shoddy journalism.

Slow news day at webmonkey?
Seconding the freenode suggestions. It's got a very low troll/geek ratio.
what is a book club (how does it work)?
If someone claims to be a girl, and you believe it, then you just helped it pass the turing test.
Fact: You lost a ton of excellent employees that way.
Part-time grad school helps with that.
It's ironic that asking a woman out is not OK, but huge flamewars between men in the F/OSS community are OK.
I don't believe language to be the operating system of the individual mind but it definitely helps a society establish and maintain cultural values.
from the Aspen study link that this is commenting on: "Women experience a perfect storm in their mid- to late thirties: They hit serious career hurdles precisely when family pressures intensify."
so i'm confused as to why the article dismisses this with a simple "No.".
I think the author is wrong to dismiss both image and video search as complicated and expensive. All either of them needs is the right algorithm, which can come as a "stroke of genius" and land someone a lot of cash, real easy.