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I feel like I have to drop my own anecdote here to counter yours - I didn't have nearly the same experience growing up.

> "For instance, when I'm out with my Asian friends, we interact like we are kindergarten teachers, always very attentive to others' egos and emotions"

Whereabouts did/do you live? My Asian friends around here act no differently than any other human being I regularly interact with. I really don't get the "heightened emotional sensitivity" part. Similarly, nearly all of my western friends aren't the bromancing invulnerable types. Methinks this is less about race and more about hanging around with the wrong crowd.

As a further anecdote, as a westernized Asian, "sticking with your own kind" is not always advisable. Sadly, to this day when I meet a particularly Asian Asian, my initial reaction is one of wary distrust. I have yet to face anywhere near the same type of racial/cultural hatred from any white, brown, or black person as I have from my fellow yellows, for being "too white".

FWIW, I don't hate my parents - quite the opposite in fact. Then again, they weren't the stereotypical hyper-traditional Asian parent, so that might be something. What I do find sad yet hilarious is the number of Asian parents who spend years convincing their children to eschew any life skills in favor of academic achievement... and then get on their case when they end up with a boring dead-end desk job, no hobbies, and are generally miserable. Well, duh.
Several reasons:

- a lot of Asian families are Christian, so they get Christian names

- racism and discrimination. "li guo" just isn't as cool as "pierre"

- there's no real great way to spell a lot of Asian names, so might as well just adopt a Western name

- many Asian children have an Asian name and a Westerner name. Both are valid aliases for the person.
"Sony is also bringing a slew of outrageous Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claims.... Simply put, Sony claims that it's illegal for users to access their own computers in a way that Sony doesn't like. Moreover, because the CFAA has criminal as well as civil penalties, Sony is actually saying that it's a crime for users to access their own computers in a way that Sony doesn't like."

Aren't Sony convicted computer hackers for their little cd+rootkit adventure? Did any CEO do time for that?
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One problem with software patents is that the vast majority of innovation happens in the minds of individual programmers, and often goes into products without anyone else in the world being aware. They don't and couldn't be expected to know about all of the thousands of software patents that could read on their innovations, and then negotiate licenses. Imagine how little innovation would happen if it did work like this. But this is to some degree how the system is supposed to work.

Instead, the system works as combination of big businesses using questionable patents and threats of expensive litigation as a tactic to protect their turf from competition, thereby stifling innovation. Others play the patent lottery filing for or purchasing software patents in the hopes to later find a big-time infringer to go after, on innovation that most likely happened without knowledge of their patents and would have happened anyway.
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There is no insider figure that is linked to their products in as personal a way as Jobs - except Jonathon Ives.

There is nobody inside with the product and business clout to take over, so it will either be a faceless VP suit that gets promoted, or they will hire an outside.

Who is CEO of Pepsi these days?
Well, not exactly, "jailbreaking" is about user gaining access to a phone, not applications. I don't know the details (I don't own iPhone or Android device, and N900 comes with root access almost out-of-box), but I believe pure jailbreaking shouldn't hurt OS security mechanisms too much. I may be wrong, though.

However, you have a point: classic "dancing bunnies" problem[1] is certainly out there. Promise average user nice things, ask him to do some cryptic actions, and he'll happily follow your instructions without really understanding any consequences.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_bunnies
Are there any resources you could recommend for learning about signal processing?
Ha, I put "easy" as a keyword and it's giving me "sluttish" "loose" "tardily" and "promiscuous".

Almost what I was going for - ha! But neat little tool
I had a similar startup project which failed because for most businesses there is not enough information available for a service like this to make sense, definitely not enough for them to pay for it. This was not in the US though. Best of luck to you!
AFACT there is no clause in the Windows license that MS could invoke that would prevent you from entering a complete industry.

Google's position is literally... screw with us, and if WebM catches on, you can't do video on the internet.
I just can't get enough of the stories from the early days of the PC industry or the internet. It was really special times. The struggle between new and old. The rivalry between the new champions. The battle over who has the brightest people. Huge wealths being built (and torn down) over night.

Man, I love this industry.
Nice read from an insider of the patent wars (Jonathan Shwartz, former Sun CEO): http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis...

He describes why the (software) patents are really needed today. In short: to defend the company against patent lawsuits.
It is not only about APIs, but also about control.

Microsoft can always rely, that IE9 will supports whatever formats they want it to support. They know, that it will play H.264, because they ship H.264 with Vista and 7 and IE9 supports only Vista and 7.

Apple can also always rely, that Safari will display formats they want it to display. They know, that Safari will play H.264, because Quicktime ships with H.264 and Quicktime is bundled with OSX, or with Safari for Windows.

If Mozilla/Google/Opera outsource this to OS, they lose control. They will not know, what the browser will display (imagine handing off control about HTML/CSS/JS to Microsoft, when IE6 was going down and Firefox up. It would be like Firefox using IE HTML control to display HTML).

Another problem from the control perspective is inconsistent support among platforms. Platform A, it will play formats X and Y. On platform B, formats Y and Z. On C, X a Z. Do you see problem here?
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/l...
I like the domain name. It's short and catchy.
Interesting - I'm about to start working on a mobile site and I noticed there weren't many mobile frameworks that also used the MVC pattern. However, at first glance, I don't like that it requires node.js since I'm mostly on Windows.

This is just me nitpicking here: why did they feel the need to define two global variables (YES/NO) as aliases for true and false, respectively?
Do HTML5 applications play havoc on anybody else's browser? I'm running Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04.
"According to the proposed settlement, those who purchased an XCP CD will be paid $7.50 per purchased recording and given the opportunity to download a free album, or be able to download three additional albums from a limited list of recordings if they give up their cash incentive."

"The settlement requires Sony BMG to reimburse consumers up to $150 to repair damage that resulted directly from their attempts to remove the software installed without their consent. The settlement also requires them to provide clear and prominent disclosure on the packaging of future CDs of any limits on copying or restrictions on the use of playback devices, and bars the company from installing content protection software without obtaining consumers’ authorization.[34] FTC chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras added that, "Installations of secret software that create security risks are intrusive and unlawful. Consumers' computers belong to them, and companies must adequately disclose unexpected limitations on the customer use of their products so consumers can make informed decisions regarding whether to purchase and install that content.""

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sony_rootkit
From the end of the SO answer: "I'm glad this post has been helpful, and I'm hoping I can get off my arse and finish up my book on the subject by the end of the year/early next year."

Are you still working on the book?
Sounds like Flattr embedded (sort of) in my credit card. Kewl.
Somewhat off-topic, but related:

Zed, I wish you were more polite. I bought that the Rails Ghetto thing was an act, but now I'm not so sure. The Mark Pilgrim post was a big turn off.

I wonder how much more of a positive impact you would've made if you had refrained from flaming Mark and just written LPTHW.

You have a lot of valuable insight, and you do great work, that could be distributed a lot more effectively by simply being less offensive.
It has taken over two years to get to the point we're at now in terms of a critical mass of sites linking to the Google CDN via the HTTP references. I'd have a hard time recommending people begin switching to the SSL reference now (sacrificing that cross-site caching benefit that has accumulated) unless they're actually serving encrypted pages and need to solve the mixed content issue.
ok an other foolish article from TC just for the heck of writing about Y!.
ASCII video using a websocket and a pre tag
Some highlights from the bad word regex list I’m working on
actually this is like the bank of america "save the change" initiative they did but instead of going into your savings account and earning 0% interest this is being put to charities. I say good job, and sounds awesome.
Drdaeman, it opens up the possibility of such "hostile" data access. For an application to simply start accessing random data in such a way that it could "access" financial details or actually interact with a payment provider... it would have to explicitly be given root permission. I give very few applications root. Terminal gets it, Rom Manager gets it. That's it.

A random app from the Market? Hell no, it's not getting root and it's not getting access to my data.

The thing is, this vector already exists. Download the Paypal app. Login. Now download drivebyacct2's malicious app on the Market. If you grant it root access through SuperUser, it could theoretically read out your Paypal credentials and do all kinds of stuff.

Personally, I consider it to be very low risk.
Lisp Cabinet - CL/Clojure/Racket all-in-one Windows installer
Looks like a great idea. I think a lot of small local business will like it.

I agree with the others who say the screenshots are a little too small (fonts).

Also, while I think it's great that you are trying to capture emails right on the home page, it might be good if the focus shifted a little bit to the product and a little less to the sign up form. I would maybe recommend putting more weight of the design into the product (what problem does it solve for me) as opposed to "give me your email". More screenshots, etc.. would be good and still keep a nice signup form on the home page.

Again, great idea and good work!
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It's easy to find holes in this announcement: Beanstalk doesn't have X, or they compare unfavorably to AppEngine and Heroku in certain areas. The bigger news here is that Amazon has staked a flag in the ground and decidedly shown their intention to enter the PaaS arena.

What has AWS done in the past? They've introduced a new product, then over time:

1) Made it easier to manage
2) Made it more automated
3) Added additional bits of functionality

Why would we not expect them to do the same with Beanstalk?
They mentioned it at the end of the Sencha conference, back when it was in beta. Hopefully there will be more to come.

BTW: I am in contact with the Chrome people, and have a start on things there...

And the extension does work as well as the screencast... :) Let me know if you have an experience otherwise, and I'll fix it.
The Subsumption of Education by Economy
In the spirit of collaboration, let's see if we can make a good resource! I personally need this because I will have to make a site for our company's iPhone applications.

I feel there are two fundamentally different types of website -- one to promote a product, the other is about being a community in itself. They have different goals and different visual designs.

There are some designs I really like, such as gist.com ... so I put them up there. Do you know any great examples of effective product website designs? What about social website designs? What do they get right?

Don't say it here, put it in the doc, please! We could all use it.
Try Chromium. I think Firefox 3's JavaScript speed is too slow for intensive applications like this. The FF4 betas are probably much faster, but if you want to see this in a stable browser it should work fine in Chromium.
Word Lens More Than Pays for 2 Years of Bootstrapping
Provide a free version with limited functionality.
Provide a full version demo that expires in 30 days.
Works fine for me on Chrome latest dev channel and Safari 5.0.2 on Mac. That said, I've had issues with Firefox 3.6.x with HTML5 in the past, ranging from outright incompatibility to extremely slow performance. Firefox 4.x supposedly fixes all those issues. YMMV.
I was just looking at the demo. Haven't tried installing it on my own server because I'm traveling at the moment. Can't wait though.
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I agree with your poing, but Mars is earth-like and it could have carried life ...

There is evidence that Mars once carried liquid water on its surface, it's formed out of the same materials (carbon, hydrogen, water) and had all the elements needed for life. Mars lost its liquid water because (contrary to earth) it lost its atmosphere because it also lacks active plate tectonics (also, contrary to earth).

So our solar system has 2 earth-like planets ... with one that became a desert and died, but that was once very much like Earth, with some people still hoping to find microscopic life at the poles.

That's not too shabby. Basically it is considered that if a planet holds liquid water, then it can carry life (liquid water implies other things, like the presence of an atmosphere). Bigger solar systems may contain even more earth-like planets, but I agree: an average of 2 is way too high.

EDIT:

Also, one other thing: if Mars wouldn't have lost its atmosphere, then oxygen would have spread faster than on earth, because the planet is smaller, which means the transition from microscopic life to macro would have been faster.
This isn't even an infographic. It's just a timeline.
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I've got to +1 for YUI3.

I started researching the space for building real Javascript applications fully biased on doing it with x and JQuery. But after a bit of research and prototyping I was sold on the quality and coverage of YUI.

- It has simplified DOM selectors like JQuery

- A solid Base class to extend for everything

- A fully extensible widget class/lifecycle

- Datatable has just hit beta http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/datatable/
Dealing with sophisticated configurations of nested models and collections is definitely something that Backbone should be making easier than it is at the moment. I think it would be a great feature to improve for the next release.

At the moment, the reason we've held off from any of the proposals, is that they all seem to tightly constrain your data structures and/or patterns of use. You can:

* Encode the model type into the JSON data, assuming that arrays map to collections, and nested objects map to models (not always the case).

* Employ some sort of mapping function that walks over the incoming JSON data (already possible with "parse").

And there are still a number of open questions:

* Does saving an inner model save everything in the outer model as well?

* How do nested model updates play with RESTful URLs?

* Can I refresh a portion of a nested model from the server-side?

* Do I have to adopt some sort of JSON-Path notation to be able to refer to specific attributes of nested models?

For these reasons, we've left nested models and collections as something you can choose to implement yourself, as best fits your app. If a good pattern emerges with consensus behind it, I'd love to roll it in to Backbone proper.

For the record, DocumentCloud uses a lot of nested collections on models that are lazy loaded and lazy rendered when the data is first requested. For example: displaying all of the annotations on a document, or a gallery of all the document's page images.
I find undocumented opcodes most interesting. They were literally holes in the 6502 circuitry. People used them on the C64 to get more speed out of their assembly code. Early C64 emulators couldn't cope with those games/demos. Luckily, they are documented in disk magazines, etc, so they've been implemented now.
Depends on what technology.

1. Books are clearly better than only having lectures - so there's one example of where technology has improved education.

Depends on educational problems:

1. What age group are we focusing on?
* Adults are clearly different from teenagers
* Teenagers are clearly different than children

A one size approach, probably won't work.

2. College Lectures are an outmoded form of teaching. It'd better to have the lecture recorded and perfected, and then allow the student to watch it -- making sure to jot down their questions and then discuss with the professor and fellow students -- it's a better use of everyone's time and makes the content available to everyone. In science and math I expect this to be a huge win at the lower levels where mechanical notation and rules need to be learned.

As we progress up the abstraction layer to where we need exemplars to train our ability to recognize patterns I think that computers will still have a long way to go -- this is where guided direction is important.

3. When I was a child I had difficulties learning to read, I did some special classes primarily involving software that significantly improved my reading ability. I extremely happy I was afforded that opportunity.
oh you're right, guess he did have some inside knowledge afterall.
This paragraph from near the end, is extremely interesting in today's context:

"As McKenna sees it, the rift between Jobs and Sculley ultimately stems from the sudden, dramatic change in the marketplace in the last two years. No longer can a company simply hope to dazzle customers with gee-whiz gadgetry or innovations. Companies must go to the customers first, finding out what their needs are and what kinds of computers can solve their problems. "Apple designed and built computers like a consumer-products company," says McKenna. "But there's been a very rapid change. The (personal computer)market is more like the traditional computer marketplace." "

given how everyone is discussing how Apple is becoming more like a consumer-products market, and less like a computer company, with iPads replacing Macs as the main part of their computer sales.
Nice work.

I just purchased it and will be sticking it under the other developers noses tomorrow (only two other guys and myself). Will feedback on how it fits in.
Those would be different URIs, and thus different URLs, and thus have different caching policies. URIs (and in turn URLs) must be consistent for caching to apply.

Consider:

https://foo/a.txt != http://foo/a.txt

just like the obvious case of

https://foo/b.txt != http://bar/c.txt

All of those are considered unique URIs.
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Oddly enough I received news of this just as I was filling out my travel plans for the year…
For what it's worth, Motorola Atrix does basically the equivalent of the latter.
I am, but it's been slow going. Between a new job and a social life, I have little free time and energy to work on it. At this point, it'd be tough to get it done this year.
I find it remarkable that the one troll that came into the thread trying to start a flame bait got debunked quickly, but in a rather friendly tone. That speaks for the community.
Games As Re-Targetable Experiences
Ask HN: Feedback on our location-based communication platform
Because we are based in Orlando, we miss out on opportunities to consistently collaborate. We've built a location-based communication tool called Gotootie. Essentially, Gotootie allows users to communicate with each other, regardless of social connection, via messages in the same shared space, such as sporting events, concerts or conferences.

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If further interested, we would be happy to show you the vision for our April release, that provides a much richer and personal user experience. Shoot us an email at feedback@gotootie.com and we'll be happy to show a live preview and give you an opportunity to provide us with feedback. Thanks folks and we appreciate your comments and criticisms in whatever form they take.
So, you can't do donut caching in Varnish?
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In "The unbound Prometheus" David Landes writes about the historical causes for the industrial revolution in Europe, specifically analyzing the manufacture of cotton in England.

After noting that many inventors "spent more time enforcing their patent rights than earning them", he writes an apropos footnote about the incentives laid by patents:

"A number of writers have laid stress on the incentive effects of patent legislation. I am inclined to doubt its significance. This kind of protection was not new; the basis of the system was laid by the Statute of Monopolies in 1624. [...] At the same time, there was good reason to doubt the efficacy of patents against determined competitors, as numerous inventors learned to their sorrow, and many an entrepreneur placed his reliance on secrecy, rather than law."

http://books.google.com/books?id=axrD2M9dBE8C&lpg=PP1...
The best response to the Drake opinion, IMO, is Tipler's point that if even one civilization created and sent out a von Neumann machine just a million years ago, they'd be here by now. So the fact that we don't see them all over suggests that they do not exist at all.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_probe#Implications_....

It should be noted that if our civilization survives another few hundred years, we are likely to send out von Neumann machines.
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The x264 developer often cited by H.264 proponents. He wrote, that VP8 is slightly better than H.264 baseline.