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Awesome project.

Browser technology is on a tear recently, and terminals are ripe for innovation. For a newborn project, this is an impressive mashup.

The number of dismissive people in this thread shows how disruptive this idea is!
yes but during deep sleep you still sense the passage of time. when you wake up after general anesthesia, it's like changing channels. very weird.
1 MB works out at 32 bits per pixel for a 512x512 image. The JPEG is probably not rasterized until it's viewed, which would explain why only an amount corresponding to the compressed image is leaked when the tab is hidden.
It is technically a better version of Hotmail. It has no ads, provides better security needed for government usage, restrictions regarding the location of servers and SLAs etc.

In general, all this would probably cost a lot less than the cost of having the services on the premises. As for the comparison with Gmail/Google Apps, I don't know how the comparisons were done there.

[I am a Microsoft employee but I do not represent them. This was mostly from my "common sense"]
As this is a DNS based service, If I were a hacker, couldn't I just skip all the protection CloudFlare offers by hardwiring the website's domain + IP in my hosts file?
Do you think chess players will migrate to Go because they don't like playing a game that they can't win against a computer?

I'm nowhere near good enough to pretend to understand the motivations of a chess master, but this does kind of make sense to me. Somehow, it kills the vibe to know that computers will always win.

Funny, humans still enjoy sports even though a human sprinter will never run as fast as a motorcycle. Maybe it's because we've always been physically less capable than animals, maybe it hurts more to be bested intellectually. Horses have always run faster than us, so we're primed to see the motorcycle as a tool rather than a challenge. In sports, maybe we're better at celebrating human achievement without comparing it to something else.

Like most people, I don't actually think humans really were bested by computers in chess. There is a huge difference, of course - the computers are winning by following a completely different "thought" process than a human. It's an astoundingly impressive accomplishment to build a program that can beat chess masters, but because the way a human plays is so different, I think that I understand what the calculator analogy is getting at. In some ways, the "victory" shows the severe limitations of computers - a human chess grandmaster, capable of holding and evaluating maybe a dozen positions, is capable of playing evenly with a computer that evaluates hundreds of millions of positions a second. And in Go, that dozen or so positions combined with intuition, strategy, and other mental processes we consider almost subjective is so effective that a billions of positions a second computer can't even come close to winning.

If go eventually falls because computers are now capable of evaluating trillions of moves per second, but the approach is still essentially number crunching, well that's an impressive engineering feat, but "human intelligence" won't be any more defeated than it was the first time, with chess.

Now, if a computer can beat a human by evaluating fewer moves, ok, maybe then we've been bested.
No. He's replying from the future.
Indeed - it's amazing how ESR has managed to convince so many people that the ultimate hacker is... Someone who is just like ESR.
Not that odd. It sounds like there is no duplicate-checking going on. It's something that seems like it could be easy to miss.
http://nightly.mozilla.org/
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Agreed. I'm a one-man shop.
I'm not familiar with your models, but I'd be delighted to learn more. Could you post a link?

EDIT: I was going off this quote from an article by well known computational neuroscientist Christof Koch:
"
Consider this sobering lesson: the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans is a tiny creature whose brain has 302 nerve cells. Back in 1986, scientists used electron microscopy to painstakingly map its roughly 6000 chemical synapses and its complete wiring diagram. Yet more than two decades later, there is still no working model of how this minimal nervous system functions.

Now scale that up to a human brain with its 100 billion or so neurons and a couple hundred trillion synapses. Tracing all those synapses one by one is close to impossible, and it is not even clear whether it would be particularly useful, because the brain is astoundingly plastic, and the connection strengths of synapses are in constant flux. Simulating such a gigantic neural network model in the hope of seeing consciousness emerge, with millions of parameters whose values are only vaguely known, will not happen in the foreseeable future."
How does the reporter know this is a leak? High memory consumption is not a "memory leak".

The RFC says the data can be retained in history buffers as part of normal operation and as far as I can tell that's what is happening here.
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I'm going.
When I worked at Sun Microsystems, my manager & most of my colleagues used Windows. The inside joke was that Java performs much better on Windows than Solaris, but we weren't supposed to say that to our customers.
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I would assume that the City(/County) of San Francisco IT Department also gets access to and control of the backend, in a similar manner as if they were hosting it themselves. This would include things like privacy policies, security and account recovery, spam filter, attachment policies/malware scrubbing, recovery/removal of email when an employee is terminated, usage logs, and some way of obtaining an employee's email in the event of a lawsuit or disciplinary action. Optional possibilities include stronger guarantees about the provider's (in)ability to access the emails, and filtering tools to alert about suspicious (corruption, child porn) or non-work-related (hate speech, regular porn) email content.
M2M and the need for speed
"That is unless you are not a materialist, i.e., you believe that the mind is the product of some non-physical plane that somehow interacts with the physical world through the brain..."

Is there any good arguments in favor of materialism? It's always struck me as a completely ridiculous position.
If you are saying that anti-piracy measures don't improve profitability, I'd be interested in seeing sources.
I use both and trust me, the back button is good. Your browser has it... even on iOS. Do you have a problem "remembering" where it will take you?
Well put together and utterly depressing.
These guys pitched on the Dragon's Den (BBC's entrepreneur show), season two episode four, way back in 2005, and were turned down by some of Britain's sharpest business guys. Way to hustle getting this so far since then!
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To be fair, the example you used was haggling over a loaf of bread.

You thought I was kidding? I wish I were. I ran into a woman the day before yesterday who was at Publix (www.publix.com) here in Atlanta, asserting that the identical multigrain rye was 30c cheaper at Kroger down the street and she was taking her business elsewhere.

She didn't exactly look indigent, either; I'd take pity upon someone who managed to panhandle $2 but not $2.30. She was in a smart business suit.

It's not the first, second or third time I've seen something this ridiculous lately. I can only conclude it's a trend.
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I didn't realize the reason why 7" is bad before I got an iPad and started to read web pages, pdf documents etc.

For 7" to take over, you need to change standard for page sizes (or operate the eyes of everyone over 40).
Kind of ironic, considering that phrase originally applied to IBM, which Microsoft also beat out to get this contract.
Ah, so I'm assuming "zombie" was just a cute adjective then (as opposed to being an industry term)? Either way, thanks for explaining.
Aldrin's PhD: Line-of-sight guidance techniques for manned orbital rendezvous
Take a pen, circle a face, write "that's Bob" next to it. I believe somebody may have done that before.
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2011 contender - mclaren f1 team
Legislation would allow warrantless searches of disc duplication plants
Yes, I remember that. It was on season two, episode four, back in 2005.
Why was this downvoted? (BTW, how many downvotes make the submission gray?)
I've been kicking around the idea of rewriting some of my apps for Android and the resolution differences has always been a big worry of mine. As another commenter pointed out you did allude to the Android UI being more like a scalable interface you don't always have control over but sometimes we still have to use pixel perfect designs, even on the web. For using the standard UI elements it makes sense to fit in with a scalable design but I've thought at length about games and how that would work across different resolutions without being able to rely on using high and low res graphics. iOS gives me a lot of crutches to just know what systems I have to support and the shear variety of screens and systems gives me a lot of pause for the layout or number of versions I'll have to package up.

Honestly I should be researching this myself, I just got excited when the topic came up in your article and was sad to see that it didn't answer my every question I've been mulling over for some months now. It was my expectations what were unreasonable and not your articles content.
Divya Narendra (bottom), who came up with the idea, got less than 1/1000 what Mark Zuckerberg -- who executed on the idea -- received. Goes to show that ideas are worthless.
Also not really that interesting; I am not saying that J's only demands are control over his brain state, only that J has that demand.

Actually I've spent a lot of time contemplating this sort of thing. One of the things you must be very careful not to do is to give in to the temptation to continuously shift frames every time you arrive at anything resembling an answer to a question. The invitation to "ah, but what if...?" everything may feel all profound & stuff, but it is a path to persistent incomprehension, not understanding, because you can "what if...?" your way to anything, and therefore it has no actual information content.
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You guys are thinking small. If I was microsoft this would be my plan.

I would integrate it into the 360, windows 7, windows mobile, and windows tablets.

Work with steam to add functionality to let you answer your phone on your comp whiel playing call of duty. Answer your home phone while playing forza 4 on your 360. All 4 devices would be able to accept calls, transfer calls inbetween themselves and all using the same phone number at the same time.

Currently we take our im, facebook, email and sms everywhere we go but when it comes to phone numbers we all have 2 or 3 (cell, home, office, fax to list a few).

All calls are now data, no need for a seperate fax line - your voip box checks a bit, oh its a fax, and sends it to the fax machine, or allows you to view it on your comp, phone, tablet or tv.

This is just the start and don't want to write a blog, just my opinion. Looking forward to comments.
Anybody know what Pets.com's revenue multiple was?
If I'm following the line of reasoning correctly, it's that chess players will migrate to a game like Go because it can't be reduced as easily to positional values and min/maxing of said values. While it's true that chess has an absurd amount of possible moves, combinations, and games, computers are showing us that chess strategy and theory are essentially meaningless in the face of brute calculational ability. From a poetic point of view, you could argue that computers are sucking the mysticism and romance out of the game. From a practical point of view, you could argue that computers are steadily making the game pointless for humans. Either way, it's a less exciting game now that it's been reduced.

Kasparov seems to be an optimist, for what it's worth, and in several of his disquisitions on this topic, he argues that a computer program will never "solve" chess the way a program solved checkers a few years ago. There are too many numbers to crunch. Furthermore, there are too many weaknesses in AI's ability to form strategies or think creatively. Unfortunately, this line of reasoning assumes that creativity is necessary for success in chess. It might be in a human-vs-human game, but in absolute terms, evidently it's not.
GHOST IN THE SHELL!
This all sounds a little mysterious to me. Their FAQ promises a lot of weird stuff, like protection against "web software vulnerability", whatever that means. How does CloudFlare achieve "comment spam" protection? They check each and every post request sent to my server? Isn't that going to add a lot of overhead? Can I just say that it's hard for me to believe that CloudFare has enough servers and bandwidth to do that.... I don't understand the extent of what CloudFare is offering exactly. What kind of spam protection is that exactly?
Even more fun in the iOS 4.3 devices you can do multi-touch gestures to get to the other apps, home screen or swipe between running apps. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvxSSGUtTYA
"sketchy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems
Non-materialism isn't as far-fetched as you make it out to be. In fact, no materialist account has managed to give a plausible explanation of how subjectivity and qualia emerge from physical substrates. Not so far, at least.

See David Chalmers, among others.

EDIT: Really? Downvotes?
Sorry, I was just using it to mean the relentless, unenlightened people who just might pop the bubble of team spirit without caring about the consequences. Not an industry term in this context.
Most people I have cold emailed have not replied from inMail. I find people are more likely to respond when you email their work email directly. It feels more personal. You can usually figure it out using the name, than researching the companies email naming scheme. Most places are either Joe.Schmoe@xyz.com or Joe_Schmoe@xyz.com just do a google search for something like "jones@xyz.com" or some other common last name if it is a big company. This will usually help you figure out the email. Then just send the email to the address.. if you get the wrong joe schmoe 8/10 they are used to getting email for the other guy, so they just forward it along.
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It is OK to have in-memory cache for certain resources. It isn't OK when this cache doesn't shrink under memory pressure. This usually leads to swap trashing after the cache becomes bigger than the available physical RAM on the system. Swap trashing makes the system unusable in most cases. See the comment #6 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=81517#c6 .
Have you looked into a Deleuzian materialist philosophy? I like DeLanda's article on the open-ended nature of the world:

http://www.diss.sense.uni-konstanz.de/virtualitaet/delanda.h...
It's not Publix's policy to price-match across the board but often will. They'll also accept competitors coupons. They also accept B1G1 Manufacturer coupons when they themselves are running a B1G1 free sale, getting you both items free.

Joke all you want, she's the smart one here. You crowing about her here has no "social cost." And you say that your POV comes from running a business. So does mine. In my case, I contract myself out. I've grown into a very high hourly rate. I have an assistant to help with things so I can add more billable hours.

But what I've learned from running a business is to guard every damn cent that goes out the door. Not spending dollars to save dimes, but spending one dime to save 2.
I'd actually say the exact opposite. As a python programmer, I find Erlang's syntax simpler and more familiar (e.g. dynamic typing, pseudo-imperative variables instead of let and where clauses). Haskell, however, always feels like it has a far better base of utilities (e.g. Parsec, xmonad) that it makes superior for practical work.
Having a look at Leaflet, I have to say it looks really good. It looks pretty capable of working with other map providers also, so I think it's a real option.
It acts as a proxy for your website, and anyone it doesn't like gets a page of junk from them instead of your site. It's gotten me multiple times that I can only assume is because I'm in Nicaragua. The first few times I thought it was some weird wordpress plugin, it was only when a friend on MSN implemented it that I realized what it was.
This comment is interesting, because when the iPad first was announced, I had a lot of people give me the "oversized iPod" line and I tried to explain that even just significantly increasing screen real estate was enough to open the device to massively increased functionality. Glad to see some analogous, anecdotal support.
Extending Eclipse Color Theme
The Eclipse Color Theme (ECT) plugin is designed to be extended with new editors and themes. This allows plugin developers to provide support for ECT out-of-the-box. In this post, I would like to explain, how you can add new editor mappings to your plugin.
Ah, that was added after my comment. Nevertheless, there is no evidence this is a memory leak.
No, ideas aren't worthless, they're just worthless without execution.

I've got tons of ability to execute, and so do most of the people on this website, but what most of us lack are ideas to act on.

These ideas aren't specific to web-app concepts, either. They could be marketing ideas, or ideas for new datatype implementations, or the next trendy datastore.

I think this is something that a lot of hackers miss. You might be the smartest coder on the planet, but if you don't have something to code, then you're Stradivarius sitting in a box on a shelf.

Ability to execute is something that almost everybody who has ever seriously uttered the phrase "idea guy" lacks.
I've been developing for mobile for nearly ten years and trust me when I say unless you need to support a particular device avoid the legacy platforms, at least until you have a proven mass market app.

J2ME is Micro Edition for a reason, much of the seemingly simple on other platforms you will have to roll yourself and test everywhere.

BB dev is like swimming through treacle or as one of my colleagues put it "death by a thousand paper cuts without the relief of death at the end".

WebOS is a pleasure for web developers, but when you try and make custom UIs or deviate from the framework it can become a pain quickly

Symbian is thankfully a footnote now
I think "carrying-cost" is ok. Perhaps not for newbies, but for seasoned developers it's clear what this is about without translations.
What IS a content strategy?
Main problem appears to be construct validity. If they're building a computationally vast model based on impoverished data (i.e., a pre-selected subset of current morphological/functional knowledge), nobody will be able to determine whether its electrical behavior tells you anything at all about a real brain.

More to the point: If they want to get this thing running within ten years, they'll have to simplify at each step without knowing the potential repercussions of each simplification. I thus find it disingenuous to call their project a "model of the brain." It's an implementation of a very specific reduction of neurobiological state of the art. Sure, that can be useful, but only within strictly confined limits. You won't be able to do drug tests on this thing -- so much is certain.
Google has put quite an effort into documenting how to take care of multiple screen sizes - check http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support...

I am not sure how it helps to game developers but it is pretty concise guide for general app development.

We have gone through the screen size adjustments and minor incompatibilites across versions when porting to Galaxy Tab (I have summarized the experience in the blog: http://touchqode.com/blog/008_developing_for_galaxy_tab.htm ) and then when Honeycomb came out.

But more often than not it is our hackiness or vendor fancy tweaks that cause problems rather than the android itself.
While perl is certainly useful for scripting, I'd reecommend you learning python/ruby (personally I use former) - they are most universal among these 5 language; whereas js/php are good mainly for web related stuff and perl won't give you as much possibilities either.
Apple support forums confirm malware explosion
I haven't researched Honeycomb in detail, but current apps work just fine on Honeycomb as long as you say in your manifest that you support large screens. Bump for example, works just fine on the Xoom without any custom work (obviously we haven't optimize for the tablet form factor yet though).

I don't think I agree with the entire UI framework being revamped. Can you point me to something specific?

The Android framework engineers also try often to introduce features that get back ported to older version. A good example of this is the concept of Fragments that was introduce in Honeycomb but has been back ported all the way to 1.5 (I believe).
Everyone in the comments seems to be quickly attributing consciousness directly to a sufficiently connected deterministic system. This seems to guarantee a deterministic view of life, which I find troubling.

Have any of you thought of the role of the nodes themselves? I find Stewart Kauffman's recent work intriguing [PDF]: http://stuartkauffman.com/index_25_1612352741.pdf
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If I have a great team, we're not going to work for someone else. We're going to start our own company.
Sure, but it's just standard practice to do so, and taking a hobby doesn't really get you any closer to being a hacker. And putting "womenz" and "drinking" as hobbies is just lame.

Also not wanting to give the wrong impression, the folks I'm thinking of are not "know-it-alls", they don't tell you random crap to sound smart, but I can learn a lot from talking to them normally.
Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme. Its value is driven by pure speculation and nothing more. When the music inevitably stops and everyone rushes for the exits, any 'family' left holding the bag is going to be well and truly screwed.
It looks like the first was IE9 - see http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=36142#c53 .
Chrome doesn't fix the related bug for more than a year - http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=36142 .
Safari wins with more than two years - https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23372 .
He should be pretty good at it, if he owns it ;).
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