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Depends on what you use the TL;DR for.

For me, the TL;DR summary helps me get the gist of the article and then decide whether I should read the whole thing or not.

If I just go ahead and read, and after 1200 words, the author promotes inhaling magnet dust or sleeping 4 hours each night as a way to improve intelligence, the entire article is a complete waste of time and I will be annoyed.

The summary, as presented here, firmly places the article in my "read when I get home" queue.
I love Instapaper, but reflow (not removal of images etc) is just painful on lots of web sites/pdf pages.
Simply because it is slow. In the GP's example if a was a much bigger array, copying it over to b would be expensive. On a related note, in C++ for many containers (if not all) in the standard library, copying is the norm; in "The C++ Programming Language" Bjarne Stroustrup warns that it may be slow.
He's only saying that a copy of a brain would create a separate entity, and that separate entities won't share experiences. Like how identical twins have different experiences. There were no claims about morality of using brain models for testing.
Well no, of course not! (assuming a brain model does experience pain)

I'm just saying if this theoretical "virtual hell" does really happen, it will be a computer hell, not a human hell.

Although I don't actually think a computer simulating a brain model will have consciousness. However complex that simulation is, it's nothing more than electrons flowing through a circuit, and this flow has no intrinsic meaning; I have no reason to believe consciousness can arise from such a thing.
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This is great. No more cmd+T to read a linked article in a new tab and then returning to HN. You got yourself a user.

Couple suggestions:
-Create a style for visited links. I find this valuable when perusing the list.
-Needs a "More" button at the bottom of the Home and New lists.
-A pane to view/submit comments would be nice. Maybe re-size the article pane by half and add a comments pane when clicking a comment link for an article.

I'm sure you have all sorts of ideas as this is just a prototype, but I really like it so far.
Is there actually only one kind of HIV/AIDS virus?
And then there's the unshielded people-blender mounted on the back....

Looks great for the emergency services market he's aiming at, but for the consumer market he wants to target to help get things moving - scary stuff.
The last time I looked xAuth was not available for everyone. You had to request access to it and they often wouldn't give you the access.

I didn't get xAuth for my apps so I had to go the OAuth way. And I believe only a few popular apps got xAuth.
You're right about all of that.

But it's a different story when they use your own words to describe the concept of it. It was practically my pitch describing their website.

Few people come up with the same ideas using the same words. That's just not likely. Conceptualizing is not easy. There are a lot of different ways to describe Twitter and Quora. People describe things differently. I don't think it was random.
I'm kinda surprised this got YC funding.

I meant it's a good idea, but ultimately it's an affiliate marketing play right?

The main barrier to entry is getting good SEO (and I guess becoming known as a direct source) - there doesn't seem to be huge technical barriers.

Affiliate plays can be highly profitable, but I never thought that they were all that attractive to investors.
Actually, if you read http://pirls.bc.edu/timss2007/PDF/T07_M_IR_Chapter1.pdf , Massachusetts and Minnesota are also benchmarked independently, Massachusetts is #4 globally (page 4 of the pdf, 34 of the document). Also, the level is slowly increasing in the US and slowly decreasing in Singapore. Finally, a lot of countries are missing in these rankings, so these are not true global results.
Just like any other business, they have to work within the framework of the laws of the country they do business in. Alcohol related apps probably violate some of the alcohol laws in the UAE. Messaging apps are also against the law in the UAE. This is why Facetime isn't installed on phones sold in the UAE and Skype (since it is encrypted) is definitely not allowed their as well.

Also, speedtrap apps have just been outlawed in France.
Why is that so hard to believe?
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What's the catch?

> Doctors still aren’t exactly sure

> clinical trials are scheduled to begin in 2012

or just

> 2012

?
OAuth 2 is way less cumbersome than OAuth 1.0a. Switching from username/pass to OAuth 2 would have been far less a PITA than switching to 1.0a where you have to encrypt/sign the requests by hand.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4113934/how-is-oauth-2-di... <- this is a pretty nice summary
It is immensely disheartening. It seems stupidly mean and meanly stupid.

The claim that this is a matter of mere budget pressure rather than budget priorities smacks of a vicious and improbable lie.

States which can still afford (at the minimum) massive prison systems allow this to happen.
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I'm not sure that I'm going to weep when the last library closes.

Let's put aside, just for a moment, the usefulness of libraries for people, who don't otherwise have the means, to get on the internet. Does a library really provide a service that the Internet can't better fulfill? I believe that the internet is a better medium to distribute music, newspapers and magazines, either commercially or as a social service. Why should books be any different?

I truly believe that the death of libraries can be the result of positive things. The internet can make more books more easily available to more people. It can also do so more cheaply. We aren't there yet - but I don't see it being a technical limitation at this point. It's unfortunate that people will lose their jobs, but they aren't the first, nor the last, victims of technological advancement.

Now, you still need to solve the problem of giving people access to the internet. But surely, if we focus on solving this one problem, we can do so in a more cost effective, and potentially better, way. If the main appeal of libraries is that they have free access to the Internet, then I'm not sure that's a strong argument in favor of libraries (as we know them).
His claim is that that any 5 variable function can be expressed with no more than 28 gates, which isn't obvious. While a vast number of truth tables have been written down over the last few decades, it's unlikely that anybody else actually wrote down all of them at once, and found the minimal formulas.
If libraries aren't just glorified book lending centres, he should stop complaining and suggest some ways to make them relevant again.
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Generally speaking, I don't know why anyone could/would look at someone's skills and think anything other than "damn, they are good at that specific thing". If you apply any moral, ethical or role model paradigm to them, you will surely be disappointed. This goes for programmers, athletes, politicians and every other person in the world.

I don't think positive or negative of anyone until they prove otherwise, but I do note that I'm quite pleasantly surprised when someone with great skills turns out to be a genuinely nice person. Though, I am not surprised when they turn out to be assholes.

Bottom line, don't mix someones demeanor or attitude with their skills.
People will buy the PS4. No normal person cares about the hack.
The article uses "sexy/sexier" FIVE TIMES. I'm no mormon but what's that all about?
It would have been better if she posted a mockup of an improvement.
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Go read How to Read a Book. The second level of reading is about skimming, picking up the general point of something, then deciding if it's worth a careful, analytical (and perhaps synoptic) reading. I don't think this article deserves it, so I didn't give it the full time to read everything, and since I've read other stuff in this area before, I think the bullet points really do sum it up.
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I tried to start a discussion on reddit with a very basic version of this idea, which was met with a lot of criticism.

In the end, I'm thinking it would be enough to have espace characters : for embedded graphics, and for some kind of terminal hyperlink. An exemple is file names in grep listings, which I would like to be able to click to get the filename pasted on my next command line.
On paper, designing Flickr should be one of the easiest things to do. You basically have some of the most beautiful pieces of content to work with, so all you have to do is lay it out in a clean and accessible way.
As an iPhone, Android, and WebOS user hands down WebOS has the best navigation implementation of all of them. Activities are in cards. Cards are stacked in the order you use them. You can go from phone to contacts to webpage in the same stack and you can pick any item in that stack, no backbutton needed. It has a dedicated gestures area which is more powerful than 4 buttons and definitely better than one.
I wasn't aware that installs on Ubuntu where restricted to Synaptic. It's not really the idea of an 'app store' that people don't like. It's the removal of freedoms.
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The idea that people who aren't so sure about this as you are have isn't that telepathy is going on. It's that if this sort of mind-state cloning is going on, you might no longer have grounds to expect to wake up as the physically original instance of yourself with 100 % certainty after the cloning procedure.

People are made of atoms, and so far we haven't found any magical quality beyond physically stored memories that gives us reason to think a person at one point in time is the same as a person in another point in time, including ourselves as the person. With the mind-state cloning going on, at some point in time there is going to be one present person with a past person's memories being unsurprised at not having ended up as an upload, and another present person with the same past person's memories being quite surprised at ending up as an upload despite remembering having been a physical person who expects to continue living as a physical person. I'm not quite sure what kind of definition of self would let the past person maintain a justified 100 % expectation that they will end up as the non-uploaded version of themselves in the future.
There probably is some personality characteristic that is similar among great FOSS hackers that makes them volunteer their time. Maybe passion, curiosity, idealism... none of those are incompatible with being a nutjob or asshole.
I might just be lucky, but I've had the opposite experiences in my corner of academia. Most jerks turn out to be at best moderately skilled in a narrow technical area of competence, while most brilliant people are quite pleasant and even humble.

Most of the dismissive/arrogant people I've met at conferences tend to be moderately intelligent junior professors with a chip on their shoulder. Meanwhile, the genuinely brilliant and famous folks are enjoyable to talk to; three of the nicest people I've met at a conference are probably three of the most famous (Robert Moog, Craig Reynolds, and Espen Aarseth).

Some could be the particular social dynamics of this area, e.g. junior professors are still trying to climb a career ladder and feel they need to network at conferences with important people, while already-established people are happy to talk to grad students. (And of course there are exceptions.)
This is almost like saying people good at getting a ball to the right place aren't always straight arrows.

Is it me or is this information already available in 5th grade?
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I've got a Mac Mini, I'm not into AppleTV yet.
On the other hand, the author of the article, Rusty Russell is most definitely not an asshole. Really nice person and super kernel hacker. Good guy to meet if you get a chance.
There was no need to notify the owner of the issue. If your intentions were honest, as I'm sure they were, then just delete the information. You don't need to break into the amazon account to notify anyone since the information wasn't public and you weren't going to do anything malicious with it.
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Telling anyone that "the computer is alway right" is the problem. The Mac attitude saying " relax, the software knows what to do" is really putting the users at risk in this case. They just dont have the dismissive reflex windows users have acquired for such situations.

EDIT : Disclaimer : im mostly a linux user.
any flying car discussion can't be complete without mentioning at least Hiller's, Piasecki's AirGeep and WASP :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgNlumaVPDw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SERvwWALOM (modern attempt to repeat it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBUOCK3FZxg&feature=relat...)

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One of the Hiller's is here in Bay Area in San Carlos museum.
My immediate reaction too.
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How is it a security win in a native app? The app controls the web view and can get at the password. It is the illusion of security with the added confusion of acting different than other services (like e-mail).
The reverse also applies. I have seen the sentiment that great hackers are antisocial, great artists are assholes etc. This is of course not (aways) true either.

If I understand you correctly, you think greater skills to some extend correlates with not beeing nice. This is not my experience. For some personalities skill leads to confidence, for others to arrogance.
I agree with you rationally, but I do see why people would do otherwise. To an extent I did so myself, and I'm abnormally rational.

I think it's because people see things that they consider 'good causes' (be it open source software or doing medical work in refugee camps in Africa) through rose-colored glasses. I guess that sounds like stating the obvious, but it's not until one does these things for long enough that one is really confronted with the realities and gets a more 'fundamental' understanding of these dynamics than just rationally 'knowing' but not internalizing it.
You're missing the entire point of what a library is — it isn't a collection of books or computer terminals, but an educational community center. A good reference liberian can help someone out of work to find a job, they can help a business person do research or help someone navigate a government bureaucracy. For kids libraries are really education centers — and they also double as a meeting place for seniors. Libraries can house local history, be a showcase for local artists and show films. Libraries are meeting places for local organizations that focus on everything from a love of flowers to a chamber of commerce. Just like a museum or a school isn't replaced by technology — a library isn't replaced by technology.
Oh sorry, then I misunderstood you, and my whole argument doesn't make sense any more :)
Agreed. If all the libraries closed, I would be sad, but not because I couldn't borrow books anymore. (Well, I'd probably be sad my kids would never be able to borrow books like I did as a kid, which was great)

It would be sad because they are (or used to be) a hub of knowledge and information, and that is why they are valuable.
I thought this was going to be a rant about the people who write BIOSes :-)
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But did he have a movie made about him? :)
Call them "local community centres" or "senior meeting places" in that case.
Agreed that they were first to fully implement this particular "graphical" tagging with confirmations. However the technology is nevertheless too simplistic to be patented.

Just saying that any business which is a leader in some new field comes up with similar inventions daily - not because they are ingenious or full of great ideas, but because nobody before even considered this path. It does not make them patent-worthy.

If moon astronauts would have patented their first step, nobody would have followed (example is bad on purpose :) ).

But anyway, still hoping that it was a defensive step. This whole system is so poisonous that it pushes well-intentioned companies into playing the stupid game to be protected.
I wrote a similar feature for Flickr as a Greasemonkey extension back in 2005.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brevity/10826112/

Granted, as a user script it didn't do anything to help you find all the pictures you were tagged in; that would require a database.
It seems to me that it's the point of open-source software : To allow anyone who can improve the software to do so, regardless of who they are and what they think.
Seriously? So now I can't make a tagging feature for my own site..?! What the hell...related question: I don't live in the U.S, does that mean I'm

A, fine

B, fine as long as my servers are not in the U.S

C, not fine in any circumstance
Interesting. I was thinking about something the other day on my way home from university and it was nothing profound or new.

People often say things and appear to be what they say though only on face appearance and they do themselves believe it to be true. I then considered how someone's true character, beliefs and the like are shown in their actions and in their work - or rather, the things they create ...
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I know that the creators of twitter don't recommend to work on the apps that somehow improve the presentation of the tweets.
They told that this is their goal ( to improve user experience ) and there is a possibility that the features that your app has could be implemented in their web interface and you could loose your clients.

So the question is: is it worth to work on a twitter client and how much would you pay for such a service a month?
I get that it's not meant to be release quality yet, it's just a shame that your blog post was so comprehensive and detailed and fell down on that last point. Certainly spending half an hour installing software only to find out I need to upgrade my OS X wasn't fun :(
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FOAF had tagging for people in photos back in 2000 or thereabouts. I remember demos which even outlined shapes within photos.

Facebook deserves credit for making it possible to do it all within one big system, rather than rely on a patchwork of URLs. But not for a patent on the idea.
A double-blind test with proper controls can prove the efficacy of a treatment without anyone understanding how it works inside the body. There are plenty of medicines that are commonly used and proven to work, but through an unknown or unclear mechanism.
Apparently he also came up with dropbox
There is also a very good app for android, called n-back if I recall correctly. Very handy to kill time during the daily commute!
I think companies will be quite willing to open up. I share the concern on the time compression though. My gut said 20 minutes per company would still be interesting with the right companies/people. But this is an experiment, let's see how it goes.
> I think context -- all of the nuances and subtleties and justifications and reasonings surrounding a statement -- is pretty important, and without that context, you still end up with gaps. They're just, maybe, slightly different gaps than you get from memorization.

And indeed the larger problem is that sometimes summaries take on a life of their own, independent of the context which grounded them.

For example: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hdf4k/code_inde...
Does it matter? As far as I know, we don't know yet what level we need to simulate at to simulate consciousness. If it's at the molecular level and we achieve that, who cares about the atomic level.
Really? I seem to recall that Facebook didn't allow you to refuse being tagged in a photo until recently.

Flickr went out of their way to make their photo tagging privacy-friendly back in 2008-09. Is Facebook now claiming something Flickr pioneered?

I don't know much about what FB was like at the time; I barely used it. I'm not accusing, just asking.
I wouldn't be betting on the company making deals with the horse company right after the combustion engine got invented.

People are already getting paid enough by their youtube channel to work on it full time. All it will take is one or two big success stories, of a new celebrity that gets superstar famous purely from youtube -- and we actually already passed that point a while ago, it's just a matter of them figuring out how to monetize properly -- if new stars no longer feel like they need the exploitative record companies, and start launching new music purely through youtube and similar record-company-free cloud mediums, Sony and EMI will go the same way as palm and nokia.
You're missing the point — that's like calling a your smart phone an mp3 player. Librarians are really educators who provide a resource for the community. So it's a community center with a brain. And sadly the libraries that are getting closed are in the communities that really need them the most.
The webfont example is distracting for me.
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It could! But simulating the human body, not to mention the environment a human being grows up in, is a much harder task than simulating the brain.