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In short: can our minds influence physical systems?

description: "A very brief synopsis of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory of Princeton University, whose research into mind-matter interaction forms the foundation of Psyleron Technology.

Watch interviews with key PEAR lab staff, as they explain their experiments, including random event generators, their findings, and finally some of their implications.

This is footage edited from Aaron Michels' The PEAR Proposition - an 8-hour DVD set detailing the PEAR laboratory and its discoveries. You can find it on the Psyleron website."
Sometimes there is just nothing you can do. Not because it's "predestined" or any of that sort of nonsense, but because there's simply nothing that will work. It doesn't matter how smart, strong or motivated you are; you'll never stop an avalanche with a shovel.
Does the government throttle document downloads? It seems like if there was a download limit and a mandatory wait between downloads, the whole cable fiasco could never have happened. I mean, you could still leak a few documents here and there if you wanted to, but nothing like the massive leaks that have been happening.
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Guided tour of Honeycomb UI
As far as I recall, at least part of that was down to hardware acceleration.

They were still awesome machines, though. Fantastic for learning assembler on.
I'll definitely give this one a read soon. I'm currently reading The Mote in God's Eye, which is another book that explores first contact with an alien race. I have a long ways to go, but I'm really enjoying it so far. Give Mote a shot if this sort of subject matter interests you.
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>Their iPad-ification of applications is the full-screen mode that can be toggled.

The problem is that app UIs are going to pick a paradigm and it's going to feel out of place if you use a different one. The dragbar being replaced is a pretty good example of this.

It's a lot of why I'm not particularly looking forward to Lion.
Max, I pretty much disagree with everything you said.

1) If he keeps his high paying job he won't have the motivation to work on his startup. That's more likely to lead to failure than jumping in with both feet.

2) Why does he have >90% chance of failure? Who calculated that statistic?

3) Who cares about 1 million users? He doesn't need that. He needs paying customers. He can do very well with 500 customers or less.

4) Why does he have to make $300,000+ to be considered successful? Clearly he isn't happy and isn't driven by money. What's the exchange rate for taking pleasure in your work?
I didn't need Skype during their outage the other week, but Qik was one of the first alternatives I thought of.
The side-effects shown on a package of Bayer aspirin are pretty scary, too.
it makes even more business sense for them

not necessarily. MSFT doesn't make PCs, unlike AAPL.
Sure, that is what I meant. My guess is that this app is giving us an early vision of what apps will look like in the upcoming full-screen mode. When that mode comes out, not long from now, the App Store will continue to look exactly as it does now.

Why design the window twice inside of a year when designing it once will do?

Of course Apple won't take away OS support for draggable windows. That would be silly. What will happen, though, if the new full-screen mode takes off, is that app developers will redesign their windows to be more suitable for full-screen. And that may well involve smaller or nonexistent title bars.
Have you think about learning how to write your own programming language. It would give you a deep understanding in topics that would make you appreciate other languages.

If you do the exercises till the metacircular evaluator in SICP book it will teach you Lisp and about how to develop a naive lisp-1 interpreter. Its a great exercise.
>(Not that I blame them, overlapping windows made a mess of everything.)

Yet this move is happening exactly as extremely high resolution displays that can easily handle multiple side-by-side windows are becoming commonplace.
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It removes the unusable rubbish from the store.
The last thing Apple (or I as a customer) want is a vast quantity of demo or crippleware on my computer and cluttering up the store.
I'd argue that it's in fact not common enough to warrant a physical button, since there are many apps, especially games, that don't have this specific notion of "back". In my opinion, it's probably more confusing to have a button that sometimes does one thing and other times something else or even nothing.
not every document which doesn't have SECRET stamp on it is intended for public eye...
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I created http://digest.io all by myself and for myself. It has paying clients now and I am close to releasing the iPhone / Android apps.
Lawnchair - A very light client-side JSON document store
Do you also sign any NDA or anything that would protect your client's "IP"?

What if a client had a great idea, shares it with you, you say "NO" and then [conveniently] after a short while, the same idea is seen implemented elsewhere? I'm sure you are not into such things seeing what some people have to say about you, but I'm just curious how you go about protecting your clients' "ideas".
Experts have known that the earth is round since the ancient Greeks. It has only been amateur uneducated "experts" claiming otherwise since then.
Are you serious? GWT is used in a lot of large, commercial projects. And of course by Google itself which also isn't exactly small-scale :)
They both remind me of the Start menu icon in Windows 7.
It seems like a obvious answer, but why not just use "-site:annoyingpage.com" in you search? In fact "-TotallyUnRelated" has helped me narrow down searches effectively too. You are asking for a feature that only a small subset of the users will benefit from and use, it makes more sense for google just to find a way to rank sites better then it does to build a additional filter on top of the current system.
There doesn't appear to be any evidence of that being the case. Rustock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustock_botnet) appears to be responsible for the bulk of the drop in volume, but several others smaller botnets have fallen silent too. There haven't been any reports of it being used for anything other than spam and isolated ddos attacks (http://www.joestewart.org/rustock-ddos.html) in it's 4 year history. It is a bit of a mystery as to what is going on, but my bet would be it'll resume with a new approach or upgrade, rather than a complete re-purposing.
You're right. Others should not be able to hide sites from my search results, but their decision on blacklisting sites can affect the ranking of sites in my search results.
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People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones... his blog looks terrible.
If true I am impressed, I thought the accompanying chipset pushed the baby Atoms up to ~12w total.

Anyway, the Tegra 2 is <2w for complete SoC including the both cores, nvidia gfx, ram and 1Gb storage.

e.g. http://www.netbooknews.com/4891/nvidia-tegra-2-module-fits-o...

TBH, T2 is from 2009, we know Tegra 3 is done and they are already working on Tegra 4 from an interview with the CEO last year
You don't need it, but it makes things a hell of a lot more convenient. When I run Linux, I don't Google "linux media player", I just search the repository and install things much easier. If I googled "linux media player", I'd have to sort through various unrelated sites (reviews, howtos, spam/malware, old versions on different sites, forums, etc). When I search an app store/repository, I just get exactly what I want. It's less of a noticeable benefit if you know exactly what you want (because you can usually look for the app name and find their site), but it's helpful for searching for a category of apps. Additionally, it's nice to have a simpler update system. Updating apps on Windows is a mess, and I know I should really do more about it, because apps that don't include update functionality generally don't get updated.
You might also want to checkout Accellerando by Charlie Stross. It has some really interesting notions of building businesses and future craziness in it as well.
This is exactly what I was going for in the post - that T&M gives the client and the developer a chance to team up in the most flexible way without lots of renegotiation.

In an early stage project that's often budget constrained, and where the entrepreneur often isn't 100% sure what needs to be built, a fixed price agreement would waste a bunch of their money - either by forcing them to finish something that wasn't right for their market or by spending precious time and cash to renegotiate.
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Apple's clearly trying to conserve vertical pixels given that they are moving to wider screens. That's what they did with the new iTunes.

Secondly the navigation can be handled with swipe gestures, which is where Lion is headed.
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[Disclaimer: I run Terralien, and the author of the article works for me.]

Building custom software is nothing like building a cookie-cutter tract house - completely agreed. In that case you're getting the same house as someone else, the builder has done it all before, and there are only a few options that you get to pick with the costs for those options known.

Building custom software is a lot like building a custom house, though - while there's an estimate going in, it tends to change a lot, and the final price varies widely depending on the buyer's choices during the project. Try being the general contractor on your own house construction project and you'll quickly discover costs are very variable regardless of the estimates up front.

There are a lot of stereotypes about how construction projects are "fixed bid" and "everything runs off of well-defined blueprints"; my Dad is an architect working on large healthcare projects, and I can tell you that those stereotypes are largely wrong. The projects do not go according to plan and even things "in the blueprint" change regularly mid-project.
You might want to update your readme file so everyone knows that it compiles down to Mako just at a glance.

Right now its confusing.

But if I'd known about this project a few days ago, you'd have definitely been added to my list of Muses.

Also, does your fork support the full range of Mako control structures? Looking at the nodes.py it seems that its still targeted towards a Django-templates backend.
Worth considering that QWERTY keyboards have been the method-of-choice for text-entry for over 100 years. I'm not saying it will last forever, necessarily, but it's a very efficient technique. Call me old-fashioned, but I don't see it being supplanted by voice-transcription or gestures or whatever for a very long time.
Transferring Angry Birds saved game data to Mac app
You may need therapy if it saddens you to see Microsoft port its OS to non-Intel chips, like they used to do with NT. Who else is going drive change away from the x86 ISA?
Shuffle STILL plays just a few dozen songs over and over.
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Actually, there are four!

$("<tag>") => Make a DOM element and wrap it

This wild overloading of $ is one of the things I find hard to deal with in jQuery.
I wish I could find a link to an article I was reading a while back, which pointed out that most users who actually use search engines beyond typing 'facebook login' every morning work out how to search within a couple of weeks at most. Given that, it seems like a bad idea to optimise for the first week at the expense of every day for the next few years.

Sadly, I have no idea where I found that and don't recall if they had any factual data to back it up :(.
Is the Mac App Store Armageddon for Mac Developers?
It's just you. LinkedIn leads to tons of joint ventures, employee hires, and other critical business events.

For developers, it's mostly just a place to get offered jobs. But for business-types, it's a vast network of powerful people that are remarkably easy to reach out and touch.
Take a look at the sales figures for the webstore. I don't think the change is coming.
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Combining hd telepresence with such a phone , and a dock connected to a big screen tv could be a really nice feature.might even make hd telepresence more viral.
Please justify that comment, references?
Worth reading, but not as good as the Sparrow.
I'm not sure the claim (title) is entirely accurate since human error definitely plays a part in the problem.

The mentioned WSJ article is here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870367590457606...
It appears that so far the manual remains unchanged, so my use isn't really interrupted.
Hey, creator of Pharen here. I've been procrastinating on another release for a while but still developing it. If anyone wants to check it out there is a better site over at http://scriptor.github.com/pharen.
the old .ie TLD used to be run by UCD (a college here in Dublin) and indeed the ie nameservers, even now, list a variety of nameservers of 3rd parties, including Esat (a company acquired by BT) and netsource (which was acquired by Magnet in 2006) as well as a dec.com domain.

$ dig +short ie ns
ns3.ns.esat.net.
gns1.domainregistry.ie.
uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com.
ns-ie.nic.fr.
uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com.
banba.domainregistry.ie.
gns2.domainregistry.ie.
b.iedr.ie.
ice.netsource.ie.

Up until about 2004, domains here in Ireland were being sold for extortionate amounts of money compared to other TLD's (100 euros a pop from the registry). There was some scandal regarding the body running the registry and the head of the body Michael Fagan was essentially forced to resign circa 2002
Once enough people have switched to Facebook as their main means of digital communication, the spammers will finally give the rest of us a break.
Ask HN: Why does IBRIX suck?
IBRIX seems to suck as a parallel filesystem for big datasets. Constant performance issues with it. Does anybody know of a better solution ?
I did not know Stalin could compile to LLVM bytecode. I thought it could only compile to C. It takes a while to compile code but the compiled code is blazing fast, that too, without type annotations.

Is the LLVM support new ? Then I am pleased that Stalin development has become active again.

Another fast scheme is Mosh-scheme and Ypsilon, the latter compiles to native code directly.
Without giving away any of the plot, the thing I liked about The Sparrow was the huge factor of the unknown. The entire story had this feeling that you just didn't know where it was going -- a sense of uneasiness.

I don't see how you could do that the same way again, at least not in the same universe.

But I've got it on my kindle anyway. Sometimes first books are so good you have to read the second one just to see where the author wants to take the story.
Goldman doesn't have to wait for the IPO to make money. According to a separate journal article they are charging their clients 4% and traditionally Facebook would pay 2%-4% on the deal. That comes out to $90M-$120M.
"Mathematician" is pretty vague, but from what I know about working mathematicians, it probably involves a lot of statistics, so #2 3 and 4 all come down to knowing statistics. I always knew getting a math degree was worth it, now I can point the haters to this article.
I'd definitely make use of this feature. Some ancillary features might include:

a) Google could warn you if it thinks the sites you have blacklisted seemed to have regained credibility.

b) Google could suggest additional sites you may wish to blacklist, based on other user blacklists.

c) Google could allow outside parties to curate blacklists.

d) Google could list the most commonly black-listed sites publicly. For the webmasters that find themselves listed who want to run an actual honest business, this is a good sign they should change their tactics. For the folks that aim to spam and profit... well screw those guys.
The Universe Is Made Of No
So maybe someone can enlighten me on this: Isn't the biggest winner in this deal not Skype, but in fact Apple Facetime?
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Does anyone remember the story yesterday about the phone that is YouTube only?

Facebook has a massive number of users who check it every day. Humans are social creatures, and looking at pictures of friends, etc., is like cocaine.

The net is moving toward non-neutrality. The biggest impact of this on the typical end user won't be pain from (say) the inability to watch Vimeo videos on their phone, it will eventually be the inability to access key infrastructure services (like Facebook) without sitting through interruption ads.

There won't be any need to worry about privacy b/c Facebook will be able to sell advertisers the right to hijack your computer or phone for 30-60 seconds multiple times each day.

If there's only one social network available on your phone, then you can't just use a different one if the commercials get too annoying. The same applies to search engines... imagine: "While we complete your search, see this message from Johnson and Johnson".

Once this transformation (which now even Google is unabashedly in favor of) happens, major "internet utility" companies will have legitimate Trillion dollar valuations.

The only reason Goldman partners aren't buying is b/c they have safer, higher Yield alternatives.
Streaming a PNG with node.js
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If performance is the critical factor you need to look at GPFS.
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Actually, that entire story is a myth invented in modern times to paint ancient thinkers as "backwards." And I quote:

The myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth is flat appears to date from the 17th century as part of the campaign by Protestants against Catholic teaching. But it gained currency in the 19th century, thanks to inaccurate histories such as John William Draper's History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science (1874) and Andrew Dickson White's History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896).
I'd much prefer a unified view instead of sync. No connection? No problem, show me what I have in my local copy.
Admittedly, there's no redundancy with unified views.
Qik is a live video streaming application. Skype is an internet telephony service. In what way is Qik an alternative to Skype, do you mean? I can see them complement each other, but they solve different problems IMHO.
It's not as sudden as that.

For reference, I admin a mail server for a small charitable organisation, and our mail graph for the last year looks like this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4957647/mailstats/mail.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4957647/mailstats/rejected.png

Where the grey is spam filtered by spamassassin and the red is obviously spam rejected outright due to an invalid recipient or an impossible sender or whatever.

The previous year's trend looked sort of similar - I think 2007 or 2008 was the peak in terms of spam we receive and it's been declining on average since then.
I saw that suggested, tried it a few times, no luck. Wonder what the underlying issue is.
That's already happened to some extent. Xcode and Final Cut both run in multi-window yet effectively fullscreen mode, but act as IDEs for their respective workflows. In fact, this IDE mentality could be the new big divisive topic in the Mac world: Coda vs Textmate and Safari and CSSEdit and Versions and... Really, it's the same war as Vim vs Emacs (somewhat), just with GUIs. Does the application need to be full-screen and kitchen sink, or multi-window and able to integrate with others?

I do agree, this could be a nuclear, apocalyptic scenario. But while photo, video and code workflows can be condensed nicely into one app, traditional mac workflows have been multi-window, multi-app in that most common tasks aren't IDE-oriented, and constructed from many different apps running on the Mac platform.

But, to counter your point about app laziness: most mac developers came to the platform to make really good apps. If it was about just throwing something easy out there, they'd have run to Windows or enterprise apps already.
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Patterns of Bugs
We are in the AOL days of social networking
Ahhh, better http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://reverttosaved.com/201...
Specifically, for every write, it will undergo the Paxos mechanism; the writes aren't serialized through a single master.
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That's just not true. Is it necessary for me to say any more about this?
100% agreed. I'm sick of self-professed design experts slamming Reddit's design. Reddit has one of the best designs of the sites I use regularly. It's one of my favorites to navigate around and read. That's a lot more than can be said about Craig Grannell's eye melting blog.

Designers need to pull their heads out of their collective arses and realize that design is not just coordinated colors and the latest gradient button trends.
A lot of great discussion around this very subject from not terribly long ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880096
Qik does two-way video with sound, which makes it also an internet telephony service.
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I don't believe the iOS model is necessarily the appropriate analog. There were no established iOS applications when the Appstore started. That's not the case with the Mac platform where there are many established products which because of implementation will not be eligible for the MacAppStore due to the implementation restrictions on applications.

In addition, many dual platform [Win/OSX] applications might take a 30% margin hit because of Apple's cut. Such companies face the prospect of either raising their price on all their products and thus loosing any cost advantage; forgoing the appstore altogether and missing a distribution channel; or providing different pricing depending on platform and potentially alienating Mac customers. Companies which have long supported the Mac such as Adobe and Nemetschek AG in particular face these issues.
Yet somehow we don't have editors replacing the word "cocksucker" with, say, "sexual performer".

Non-US readers may not fully appreciate the stigma associated with the word "nigger". It has complex usage rules, incomparable to other racially derogatory words such as "goon" or "chink" (I don't think that anyone really uses "injun" anymore).

I think Mark Bauerlein's comment is sport on, to a student in his class who got offended by the word he said:

"Listen, you’re in college now, and that’s going to put pressure on you. In many courses you’ll have to face some awful facts of history, and to handle them well you can’t let them offend you so much."
They both offer a video chat service.
You hate a notification framework because YOU installed an app that uses it to ping you with stupid crap?
thanks. performance and reliability both
Completely agree, but the "solo regular person takes on the Internet" narrative has often been more effective than the "solo regular person tries to be perceived as multinational corporation" narrative, depending on the audience.
Twitter's app completely breaks two of the three window controls.

Close --> Actually just hides the app.
Expand --> Does literally nothing. Seriously.
Yeah, I quickly hacked it together, I will update the readme soon. It does support the mako control structures. You see them rendered around line 200 in nodes.py.
Ask HN: Heroku autoscale solution
What solution is the most used to autoscale dynos and workers?

Thanks
Not thinking of generating money right now. The main goal is to get the visitor returning on there own without pushing(notification) and ads.
Intrade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrade
I was thinking it was a copy of the Dyson vacuum guy.