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Personally, I don't think the TV makers will be smart enough for a while to open their platforms to software developers in a way that is attractive enough for developers to really embrace it. It'll be to the Android Market what the Android Market is to the iOS App Store. Android Market seems to be just about good enough, whereas the App Store is a roaring success. Anything worse than the Android Market is probably going to be a failure.

And: Software? Yes, software. It's playing an increasingly large role in all consumer electronics. When I look at the average TV's kafkaesque OSD menus I have very little faith that they won't fuck up something more complicated. Even if Android develops a big screen offshoot, most TV makers will fuck up the implementation, if the majority of Android phones and tablets is anything to go by. The mindset of the hardware makers still is such that the software is an afterthought. It's increasingly becoming the make or break component.

The current lot of "smart" TVs certainly reflects that attitude - they can't even get web browsing right on a most basic level.

This gives Apple, Boxee, etc. a chance to establish themselves in that market with boxes that are separate from the TV itself. Game consoles are in that category as well, except they're expensive and (still) have a "gamer" stigma associated with them. I understand the Xbox's non-game UI is actually pretty good, so Microsoft could probably release a cheap Xbox without the expensive CPU, GPU and DVD drive, which does everything but play (AAA) games. Extend XBLA to non-game apps. And for god's sake don't call it Xbox, that will transfer the stigma.

Btw, Sony will probably miss this opportunity because their TV division is separate from the PlayStation one. And Nintendo, well, no idea. They don't really seem to get the Internet. But they've surprised us before. (they have the Opera browser on the Wii!)
Spim! Nice to hear it's still being worked on.
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I rarely down-vote, but from the guidelines found here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead
of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to
say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is
2, not 3."

There is no need to imply that someone is on drugs to be making an assertion with which you disagree, and the antagonistic tone tends to create argument and not discussion. Perhaps better would be to ask for the reasoning behind the position held.

"I would've thought that iPhones do belong to the consumer electronics category. Could you explain otherwise?"

Such an open question tends to foster constructive discussion.

Your point needs answering, but I suggest there are better ways to make it.

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Concisely sums up everything good about free-market capitalism.
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RubyMine is amazing for large Rails projects. I can jump between methods in different modules, classes even across gems (a simple command-click on the method, class or module name). You can quickly traverse source trees without the cumbersome grep/find that you'd do in a basic text editor.

Running specific tests is also a snap; just place your cursor in the desired spec and command-shift-r (built in support for spork).

I'm not in any affiliated with JetBrains (swear); just a satisfied customer.
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>Firefox doesn't hide that much of the details. You can still see the gory details of URLs and HTTP requests surfaced quite clearly, and the experience of using the web is that much richer if you know what they are and how to manipulate them. Firefox doesn't actively prevent you from doing so if you want to, which it would if it was trying to present a sealed abstraction.

Contrast with IEs 'friendly' error messages by default. Instead of an easily diagnosed 'page not found', or 'address not found', or 'server error' you get 'something went wrong' and then a list of always incorrect guesses as to what the problem might be and a confusing list of irrelevant things you can try to 'fix' the problem. I bet somebody got a bonus for that feature.
Sees like somebody IS actually trying to establish HAM radio contact: http://piratepad.net/ep/pad/view/ro.k4uJ80-xNWBHj8bQ-Nvlh/la...
How is that evidence in support of the thesis that age correlates with income or wealth once one adjusts for the increased mortality which correlates to poverty?
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I read social scam as well!

There's room for a parody I guess.
I don't think this is an easter egg. Googles translations gives the user the ability to help them translate things better to future use. Thinks it's a bug. :)
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You would if you lived in Croatia, Serbia or pretty much anywhere in former Yugoslavia. He's pretty much considered a national hero over here, and primary schools organize trips to his birthplace, or to technical museums which have permanent exhibitions with working copies of his best inventions. ;)
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"What would it be like if college students felt that they were called to a vocation rather than simply getting their tickets stamped so they can get middle-class jobs, if they are lucky?" You're not going to spawn Zuckberg, Obama, or the next cure for cancer and you'll fall behind China and India, while your kids wonder why they never got a shot at being the world leaders of tomorrow.

Now I don't mean to say that there isn't value in learning for it's own sake- there is. You don't need to reshape education to do that though. Every student today has the ability to make these choices- like icegreentea said, they choose not to because they don't think it's valuable.
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Thanks for posting this, I was about to. Also, I have the domain http://mathic.org, if anyone is interested in setting something up.
good suggestion, seems to be a bunch to pick from.. thanks!
If the REST architecture is sufficiently mature, it should be entirely discoverable, and in a much more granular fashion than SOAP, without any tool more complex than curl. That's what HATEOS is all about. The difficulty is that saying that an interface is RESTful doesn't guaranee that: there's no naming difference between a service at level 3 on the Richardson Maturity Model, where this does apply, and one at level 1, where you can't even rely on HTTP verbs behaving predictably.

As to the existence of sufficiently good toolkits, that won't save you in the face of vendor bone-headedness. Talking to .NET from a Java stack is still problematic, where either toolkit on its own is apparently fine on its own territory. There's a particularly fine example in MS Exchange Web Services, where getting Java to talk to it over SOAP is so fiddly they're releasing a Java port of their managed API.
the partition magic guys didn't seem too receptive to the suggestion. bunch of stick-in-the-muds.
> Power constraints are very real right now

Because batteries don't scale according to Moore's law.
I think you'll find py-yajl to be faster than any of the other Python JSON modules: https://github.com/rtyler/py-yajl
I'm going to check fiddler out too, but I've been using Charles proxy for the same thing if you need another way to see SSL.
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I don't want to give a "don't do it" answer, but I would say that it's difficult, so it'd only be worth trying to negotiate a PhD, academic publishing, where you fit into a discipline, etc., if you're really committed to a research career. It also depends on what exactly you'd want to study; a lot depends on finding a supportive advisor who would be willing to supervise the kind of thesis you want to work on. This depends not only on the style of work, but also the specific domain, e.g. you're going to get a totally different set of candidates if you're interested in, say, interactive entertainment (there's a sub-field of game AI, AI-for-narrative, etc.) or perhaps something to do with robotics (also its own subfield), or else something to do with human-computer interactions (something vaguely in HCI, CSCW, etc.).

"Big AI" isn't very much in favor currently, partly for good reasons and partly for bad reasons. There's a strong worry about being too unrigorous or philosophical or vague or even sci-fi. Academic AI probably overcorrects for a fear of being seen like crazy singularity-mongers, and there's also a legacy of having over-promised some big-AI stuff in the '50s and '60s. Most funding is also for more concrete technical projects, though there is a subset of people doing some funded research in the area of artificial creativity and creativity support (Margaret Boden and Gerhard Fischer are two entry points into that literature).

So, most research tends to be much narrower and investigate specific empirical or mathematical questions, like whether a particular reinforcement-learning algorithm converges, or how to improve an object-tracking algorithm, or something of that sort. Even in Cog Sci departments, the theses tend to be more specific, like doing an eye-tracking study that investigates some question about perception. To the extent the "bigger picture" stuff gets done at all, there's a feeling that it's a late-career thing people like Hofstadter can get away with, but it's harder to do as a PhD thesis.

Not sure that actually answered your question, but the short version is: it's hard to get in a position where you can study the kind of stuff discussed in GEB, but if you can think of more specific technical questions on the peripheries of your big-picture interests, it may be more doable.
But is Kindle really good for textbooks where there are a lot of diagrams, pictures etc? It might be good for novels, but I don't agree it would be more suited to textbooks than iPad.

Maybe if the DX price was lowered to normal Kindle price, it would be more appropriate; but at the moment if you are going to shell out 350$ for a Kindle DX, it is wiser to spend 150$ more to get an iPad.
Humans left Africa much earlier
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One thing that the Cartasian maths did in Anathem was to effectively provide a civilization insurance policy by preserving knowledge, and a scientific mindset, through extended dark ages.

In you look around and wonder what would happen if there was a general collapse of civil society you do have to wonder who and where the bodies of knowledge that we have collected over the last few thousand years would be preserved (right back to things like the Homeric epics - which have made it through two long dark ages).
That business model would be PaaSaaS?
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It's not hyperbole when it's repeated over and over, and the entire point of the article is to tell everyone that warning dialogs are bad and universal undo is the answer. Did you even read it?
As a Kinect owner, the one thing that bugs me about it at the moment is the inconsistency of the menu UX between games. Kinect Adventures has the best menu interactions (you hold your hand out, palm towards the TV, to select menu items and hold to confirm, a.k.a. using the force). Kinect Sports's menu UX is not quite as good and Dance Central is so-so. Sonic Freeriders, however, has one of the most appalling menu systems ever to be invented by mankind, to the extent that it takes minutes to navigate the menu. This, coupled with its poor body tracking, makes the game frustrating and unplayable.

Obviously, this is a completely new era of menu design, and it will probably settle down soon to a standard-ish menu design, but I wish the game publishers would resist the temptation to come up with whacky UI metaphors just because they can.
"The iPad isn't something you pass around. It's not really designed to be a "resource" that many people take advantage of. It's designed to be owned, configured to your taste, invested in and curated."

This sentence sums up my experience with my iPad, and its one of the main reasons I don't like it or use it much.
Reading that article carefully, I think what happened is this:

- UWB failed because it was out-competed

- it was out-competed because it was using a new spectrum, while the competition was using the already existing 2.4GHz channel, so it had to deal with the FCC when the competition simply didn't.

i.e. it sounds like they just had an extra hurdle to jump (and a bureaucratic one at that) that made it hard to win, rather than the FCC actively attempting to prevent it's use.
They won't be able to do any of this, or exploit any of the frankly enormous potential of the device, unless they can pry the Kinect out of the clutches of the Entertainment division. They only care about selling Xboxes.
Right now, the threat of US invasion (or at least attack) is keeping the opposition in check.
impressed by the number of Europeans here
the brits did quiet a few things right, apparently
IMNALinguist, but it's more like "I'm using your Facebook".

- 私 - "I"

- は - topic particle (defines that "I" is a subject, so it can be translated as "am" here)

- あなた - "your" [here it lacks の particle, which should indicate possession]

- Facebook

- を - signifies, that that word is the direct object of the following verb

- 利用 - "to use" (verb stem, conjugated with the following part)

- +しています - "are using" (or "will be using", as there's no grammatical distinction between present and future tenses in Japanese)

It seems that some group made a prank and suggested this as a translation to "I HATE YOU".
Wow - they get the minimalism thing, alright. domain-atrix is actually a pretty good result for domain - and I am not sure how they are doing that.

It's interesting, though strangely the site is a bit half-baked. Why get so far and then peter out at the testing and execution?
The partner in peace line is appropriate.

Egypt is active in working towards regional peace.

Consider how Egypt could instead by run. It could be led by religious group and be something like Iran. Or it could be led by the stereotype arab despot - constantly picking fights with Israel to create a distraction and channel the country's hatred at somebody outside the borders.

Mubarak doesn't set a high bar, but if all the middle east leaders were merely as good as him, the region would be a much better place.
Egypt doesn't have a “communist government”, even in name.
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It reminds me of Hillis' observation that relics like the Dead Sea Scrolls are safe while lost but endangered by being found and put in a museum.

http://longnow.org/essays/millennium-clock/
I can appreciate that the involvement of religion with education has had some negative impact on scientific and social development, but I would have thought that overall historically it has probably had a positive effect.

Note that I say this as an atheist and as someone who doesn't think that there is much place for religion in modern education, apart from learning about religions as part of general cultural awareness.
Self control and focus is just as important as bool learning. Learning how to think is also vital and the iPad can help develop this with tested puzzles simulations and learning labs.

The iPad can be completely locked down so noting but your app or task works. You can also wipe it after each user with minimal fuss. It is the perfect tool for sharing though I agree it should be personal to get everything from it.
The government needs the internet for its own internal communications. Also, the banking system or any electronic commerce can't function. Just imagine the world going back to 1980. A parasite can't risk outright killing its host.
Haha yeah I guess so, hadn't looked at it that way :)
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PDF is ill fitted to be the format for mobile devices due to its format-for-print purpose with no text-overflow. Its time epub and mobi takes over.
Historically, what we call "Science" was called "Natural Philosophy" and much of what we identify with the history of science was not a product of the scientific method. For example Galileo did not measure the velocity of falling bodies to prove that objects of different weights (and he did not say "mass") fall at the same speed.

Even more recently, the entire field of psychology grew directly out of philosophical speculation about mental states. Starting with Kant in the late 18th century and ending with James early in the 20th, the study of the mind became an accepted part of natural philosophy or science (having James on the faculty of Harvard certainly didn't hinder the acceptance of psychology as a science).
Somehow I couldn't find programmers. I'm a designer and I had to learn linux/python/django etc. just so I could build my ideas.
I like "I HATE WATER"
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"If you are not used to using water that is being used to sign for you, I do not sign up for Facebook."
And yet, anecdotally, I know several people who have Xboxes, but none who have the Kinect (including myself).
To be fair Exchange Web Services is a prime example (IMO) of how not to do SOAP. It's the philosophy of SOAP being "message-passing" taken to the extreme.

You have the SOAP messages which envelopes (sigh) yet another message-level architecture where every request, even at OO level means constructing request-objects with millions of sub-properties, all types fitting an abstract inheritance tree. Which ofcourse is also what you get returned after sending your request. So then you have to start analyzing your response object (again a message-object enveloped in a SOAP-message) and anaylze what class it actually is and the same for all subproperties.

I don't mind SOAP so much, but EWS can really go die in a fire. You can say whatever you want about SOAP in general, but EWS cannot really be used as an example of anything other than itself. I've never seen such a painful and convoluted solution anywhere else.

Even if SOAP had been ditched and the wire-format used had been some sort of RESTFul implementation, it would still be a clusterfuck to use. Blaming SOAP here is IMO a bit misdirected.
The tiredness is great news. Wii fit was a workout at first, but after a week i got good at the controls and realized low energy techniques to do most things and wii fit was just a fancy tracking weight scale that had a pushup game. It poops out kids faster and makes video gamers less sedentary. I wonder after you get good at them if they would ever really tire you out?
Anything can be easy to use if you have a toolkit to hide the complexity. The point is with REST you don't need the toolkit.
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Your bank might not be. They are often just acting as a middle man and lending money to you that they borrowed from the bond market, taking the spread as their admin expenses.
I have often wondered whether modern computers would have been possible with Tesla's envisioned wireless power permeating the air. Large-scale wireless power transmission is the only thing in that article that hasn't yet been integrated into society.
Oh, but you need to use viemu (viemu.com), to have the sweet editing goodness of vim with the other great features of the VS IDE. It's awesome.
I grew up in a socially-planned town. The problem is in the practicalities of the execution of a large project, by people who just consider it a day job, competing against the corrupting influence of local personal interest. The product of the planning wasn't exactly a macbook pro.
If the intellisense is the complaint, nothing beats the Visual Assist plugin. VS10's intellisense is better than what it used to be but still nowhere near VA.

Also, VS10's WPF-based UI is a nightmare, but that's another discussion...
Not true. FuzzyFinder does search recursively.

It can, in fact, search pretty much anywhere in vim (from the docs):

- buffers
- files
- directories
- most recently used files
- files around most recently used files
- most recently used command-lines
- bookmarked files
- bookmarked directories
- tags
- files which are included in current tagfiles
- jump list
- change list
- buffer lines
- quickfix
- help
Interesting.. Translating "I have to use your Facebook" back to Japanese gives:

私は自分のFacebookを使用する必要があります

"I am using your Facebook" is:

私は自分のFacebookを使用しています

The original "I HATE YOU" text is:

私はあなたFacebookを利用しています
That is awesome to hear. He is mostly hidden by other cultures.
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Have you tried viemu? It's not real vim in that it doesn't have the plugins etc. but I haven't missed a single one of them.
The truth. It's the anti-drug.

Oh, I see now. In western propaganda the ethiopian invaders you armed and sent to take over our country are really somehow "Somalis" and your illegal and immoral invasion is somehow our civil war?

Yeah, someone is smoking something!
That's how news works. This story is a story because DDG made it one:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Your job as a startup is to sit around all day coming up with seemingly important news stories that just happen to revolve around your company. Get some press contacts to feed those stories to, and you're sorted for marketing.

Bonus points for attacking the Big Competitor in a public way, thus forcing major news outlets to cover the "story" and ask Big Competitor for a quote about you.
I think 'shat on' is the best one. Shafted is second. People who have experienced or come close to the other things tend to experience the longest and the worse post traumatic stress syndromes from them.
How much bandwidth would be required to let this run for a week? Mine's capped at about 50GB.
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You're right that in theory a REST api could also be a PITA to use. In my experience though I've always been able to get the query I wanted quickly and easily. To be fair it's rare that I'm doing anything that isn't a GET but on the occasions where I have wanted perform an update It hasn't resulted in any of the difficulties you mention.
There's an Italian saying which goes something along the lines of "There's three ways to get money: You can marry it, inherit it or steal it".

I suspect that accounts for a lot of the other half, especially if financial services counts as stealing.
How many textbooks have you seen that actually need more than two or three colors to effectively communicate the point? Unless you're studying art or showing a really complicated map or 3d surface plot, the Kindle's 16-level grayscale should be enough. It would also have the effect of discouraging the gaudy, overly flashy designs textbook publishers use to distract from the lack of content.

In my experience, for subjects like math or most basic science courses, the quality is inversely proportional to the number of colors of ink used.
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