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This is more of typical "find some way to make everyone who takes any action into a hypocrite". First of all, just because Chomsky believes something doesn't mean he has to practice it if no one else is. What would it benefit the world for him to be poor?

I have some strong Anarchistic beliefs (i.e. the immorality of one man ruling another, not the smash-things-up kind) but I do literally nothing (outside of talking) for it because it's not practical. I could only ruin my own quality of life and who would see that kind of example and say "wow, count me in!". I'm in a capitalist system so I may as well learn it and use it to the best of my abilities. It's almost certain to be the only system I ever live under no matter what actions I take.

Likewise, very few people listen to Chomsky so he may as well use the system he will live his whole life in to the best of his ability.

And finally, the messenger is different than the message. It is perfectly valid for a smoker to preach about the evils of smoking. He can even call people who smoke stupid. Him smoking doesn't make his message invalid.
> I had no idea that a carrier can block you to do anything you want with your phone.

Depends on the carrier. T-Mobile (aka Deutsch Telcom, quite European) lets you do anything you like; unfortunately it's looking like they won't exist in the US a year from now.
Maybe they got confused since most of the income/valuation figures for Sony are in Yen.
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Believe it or not, we can agree on the leather part!

I actually wear leather flip-flops. They are quite painful to break in, but ultimately curve exactly like my foot and have a wonderful feel.

Part of our opinions are also cultural. I live by the beach in California and wearing flip-flops can actually be stylish.

Thanks for the informative reply.
Simply put, they don't want the DS hackers hacking the 3DS.
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It's an old study, I believe written in the UK. I read it in paper (don't remember if it was a magazine, book, or excerpt).
If you combined this guy with Linus Torvalds and [insert charismatic Twitter-celebrity hacker of choice here], you would have Manfred Macx.
Really useful for discovering important links your twitter timelines, nice and clean UI, pretty fast... Like it :-)
A really nice application to bring some order into my timeline. It's awesome that it identifies the relevant stuff from all the people i follow. Great idea!!!
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Check out Sencha Touch, in particular the "kitchen sink" demo. They have inertial scrolling and a whole bunch of other stuff.
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"I'm amazed at the amount of hatred directed towards this - as if the terminal could in NO WAY be improved?!"

Improve it all you want, I'm totally into that. The problem is that once your "terminal" ceases to be a terminal emulator then you lose so much it's pretty unrecoverable.

Most of the things that you suggest are very much technically possible for a shell (perhaps zsh with some extensions) running in xterm. You'd be left with some sort of unholy combination of a rather modernized `mc` and an otherwise modern shell, but it'd be a very interesting product.

tl;dr: We're not opposed to improving the 'terminal'. I'm opposed to 1) mistaking "improving the terminal" with "improving the shell" and 2) losing the terminal.
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IMHO, Nemerle is the .NET language of the future. Possibly much like Common Lisp is the language of the future. ;)
Seems it will be a good learning experience. If you are really using the required information for patients' benefit that is great and it shouldn't be a problem getting a high response rate.
This is interesting, but I have doubts. He wants to fix the terminal by 'separating the "data" part from the "human" part'; in practice, using separate visualizers for human display. This puts me another degree of separation away from my raw data and forces me to trust the accuracy of the visualizers.
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The completionist in me would have gone back and tried the "No" route also :P
Not a hack really just a gross oversight on Sony's part.
I think you've set up a false dichotomy here. There are probably other ways to support good writing than the clumsy methods existing media companies have tried so far.
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You're experience is totally different to mine here in Europe. I don't know anyone who would even consider buying a cheap windows laptop online. You might be able to sell it to a family member or friend directly but that's it. Used macs, however, are an active market.
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I think I misunderstood who you were talking about in the grandparent post: It seemed like you were railing against the people who wrote the article for testing the exploit and describing it online.
"Based on the feedback we’ve received we are changing this $9 fee to be a minimum spend rather than a fee a originally listed. "

That makes a lot of sense, I have a few apps that I get bills for a few cents here and there, that can't be cost effective after credit card fees.
Depending on performance, this could be made into a very decent GIS viewer. You could even go so far as to do layer menus and draw ordering. Labeling might be really expensive though.
> 'His "rich display" is actually a display of poverty'

Presumably the "view" for `ls` will be configurable, so this is not an important issue. The worrying part for me is that it's another of layer of separation between me and my data.
(Silk co-founder here)

We haven't changed course. As Ixiaus mentions, there are several chicken and egg problems involved around the 'semantic web'.

We're starting with specific content publishers right now that use a combination of our web-based editor (which looks like a normal editor, but allows structured content creation) and APIs to get information in to Silk. This allows them to create sites where people can play around with the structured data, create visualizations, etc.

Longer-term, we'll open up the editor to the general public. Our goal is to do to structured content what Blogger and Wordpress did to weblogs.
If a customer needs a demo for such a product, he will probably not sign up.
It sounds so strange to say that your "purchases dissapear". It's as if Sony steals them from you.

Not that I'm saying they are stealing it, it just sounds surreal.
Hmm, but do they need a larger critical mass than fourSquare or even groupon?
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Throwaway account so as not to give too much away.

I'm cofounder of a small London-based startup. We've got acquisition interest from a much-larger company (not Google!). They'd be buying us largely for the technology and the engineering talent.

We've embarked on some of the obvious next steps (trying to drum up interest from any other potential buyers). Given the likely price-tag, though, my co-founder and I are both inclined to sell up either way.

I suspect that we'll want an M&A lawyer on our side pretty soon. Does anyone have any recommendations for good London-based lawyers who've got experience in this sort of deal? (small-ish teams, with terms verging on an acqui-hire.)
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I'm sick with this free software ethics bullshit. I would sue them if I were Nintendo.
I am more interested in DSNP, how come this project has not received more fame than the infamous Disapora?
http://www.complang.org/dsnp/
It's probably worth pointing out that EULAs are typically prosecuted in the US as contracts where "clicking agree" is equivalent to "signing" the "contract."
Thurston claims that no previous grammar system supports his three requirements of generalized parsing, grammar-dependent scanning, and context-dependent parsing.

I would argue that Prolog Definite Clause Grammars, which date back to the early 1970s, have all three of these properties. Furthermore, since the context is maintained functionally, by threading additional values through the productions, no "undo actions" are required; Prolog's built-in backtracking is all that's needed.

Of course, the problem with DCGs is performance: they're exponential in the worst case. But I think they deserve mention in a dissertation like this anyway. Also, any backtracking parser risks exponential worst-case performance; it will be interesting to see how Colm avoids this fate (I've only read the first few pages yet).
Those are not issues that will stop the spread of webapps though. One major impediment into the mobile market is the fragmented environments. Using a common environment (ie open web) would allow much more flexibility to develop multiplatform apps. At that point, most people would be willing to give up some of the platform specific features (inertia, etc) to run across platforms.

edit: this is my opinion as a web developer who is thinking of getting into the mobile market, not as a mobile developer.
Gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks.
It's understandable, yes, but only under the condition that the executives are blissfully unaware of the backlash this can cause or that excessive control does nothing to stop "piracy" on the platform. (It sure didn't help Sony.)
They will anyway. This isn't how you stop them.
You're right: content is on our servers so we can build up all the indexes to allow for fast searching and querying.

Not sure why that would be a problem though. We don't intend to lock-in peoples content and we'll provide a REST based read/write API – so you can get the content in and out whenever you want.
Very useful tool. Especially with a large data set you can analyze where people are clicking and the most common paths through a design.
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Between Qt, Swing, and even SWT's attempt to expose native widgets, you'd think that it would be well established that emulating native components (especially behind a generic API) never produces a result on-par with an application written against the real native APIs.

I just quickly tested the Sencha demo on an iPad 1. In terms of just the scrolling, Sencha Touch seems unable to implement glassy-smooth scrolling of a simple text-only list view -- something that was achievable on the original non-3G iPhone. On top of that, their UI looks like a poor clone of Apple's, is slow to respond to interaction events, implements jerky-at-best animations.

In short, it is obviously non-native, to the detriment of the user experience; it performs poorly, provides a lesser user-experience, uses non-default widgets, and will constantly be playing catch-up with the native APIs and UI.
Hey my co-worker just built a similar tool for creating sprites: https://github.com/jakesgordon/sprite-factory

It doesn't use simulated annealing, which is pretty neat, but it does generate really well packed pngs:

sf --layout packed --pngcrush awesome/

Leads to 87x80 at 6,873 bytes vs 103x92 at 7,237 bytes on the awesome image font demo. It will also output either sass or css.
Really? I see the same thing whenever you get a bunch of professionals together and start arguing about their tools.

Doctors and different drugs/treatments, Contractors and brands of power tools.

Programmers do seem to make the biggest deal about "all the fighting", everyone else seems to just accept that professionals are opinionated and arguing is how progress is made. But I'm on the inside with the programming stuff and on the outside looking in for the rest of these fields so maybe that's not true.
There are neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons that train for 4 years after medical school, 5-7 years of residency, and possibly 1-2 years of post-doctoral research or 1-3 years of fellowship - who will never EVER see a million dollars in a year. Working 80-120 hours a week.

It IS a great time to be a software engineer.
I think GoSquared (http://gosquared.com) have something of this flavour of interaction as well.
This is something that I've wanted for awhile. Even better would be recording session data your collecting and then giving a means to play it back so you can actually "see" the what the user does. Maybe using Selenium or something for the playback. This later feature would be killer for business users who would likely find the current event stream a bit intimidating.

I think your right though. Being able to watch 20ish user sessions for particular flows would really help you understand how to tweak things to improve conversion rates.
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Historically, few successful software startups have been research spinoffs. That's not a recent trend. Even Google wasn't really. In biotech, yes, but there the founders are older.
The title is a little misleading since they aren't hiring engineers off the street for $1 Million. You have to actually start an interesting company that they then acquire for $1 Million (even if they shut it down). It would be hard to justify hiring someone off of the jobs site for that much money.

Some insight into why - acquiring a company is considered a capital expenditure that comes out of a different account/budget than operations (salary). The cash balance at a lot of big companies is treasury so it's a lot easier for them to spend it on capital expenditures than on their employees.
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Doctors and different drugs/treatments, Contractors and brands of power tools.

From what I've seen, smart Doctors and Contractors eventually get to discussing empirical data and costs. Far too often, I've seen programmers just make up crap and state it emphatically.
As a mobile developer, our clients are either in the business of selling products/services to users, or selling users to advertisers. Either way, our clients need people to download and use their application. In turn, we must provide the best possible user experience for those prospective users; If our application provides a worse user experience than the competitor's, users will choose the competitor.

In some cases, you might get away with a worse user experience -- if you want Netflix's content, you have to use Netflix's application, and a competitor can't edge out Netflix without providing replacement content, as well.

However, this is unlikely to be to your benefit if another competitor does offer content of equivalent value to users, and they choose to spend their attention on an application with a superior user experience.
he said similar things at reboot 11 http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/02/transcript-of...
I would recommend detecting if javascipt is enabled on the landing page and putting up an "enable javascript to see how it works on this page" message.

I had javascript off when I got there and didn't realize I was missing something until I read the parent comment.

Also - the service looks useful to someone like me who isn't much of a web designer but has a vanity site and a blog. I should say I am allergic to javascript bloat that slows down load times, so you'd need to keep speed your top priority for me to use it. I used to have adwords on one of my pages but took it off b/c it was the slowest thing on the page.
A company as far along as Groupon can be valued based on earnings.
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Ah, but which land? I'm thinking Mombasa, not Chicago.
I couldn't figure out how to delete my account from the PSN website. I don't own a PS3 anymore but I still have an account, which is a bummer.
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More proof that people who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
The terminal hasn't changed much in 40 years because it very good at what it does, that is, allowing experts to get stuff done. One of the usability lessons of modern computing is that the mouse is a productivity killer. Having transitioned back to vi from TextMate, I have certainly found it to be true.

The author talks about how its a shame to give 2MM pixels to an 80 column terminal, but from what I've seen, developers are perfectly capable opening multiple terminal windows to view things like log files and running quick commands. Try that on a WYSE.

While I don't think I'd ever use this as a replacement for my terminal, I do think the "server" part of the architecture is interesting. What if you built a native OSX app to replace finder. That is something I'd use.
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I agree that there are other methods you can use. I thought it would be a start to bring the level of the discussion up to specifics at all.
"At the end of the day, Unix just has bad usability"

I have to say I highly disagree with this statement but, I also disagree that there is anything wrong with the classic terminal. I find a full screen terminal with nothing but text as a thing of beauty. They remove all but the most essential details and work on a very simple common format (text).

In a way this kinda makes me think of Windows Power Shell, which is trying to replace the classic shell with a more object oriented shell, it has a lot of good ideas but in ways it brings more complexity to the issue than most Unix users are looking for. Seems like this project could probably take some ideas from Power Shell though.

I certainly have nothing against this guys work but it is not really a classic unix shell replacement and should probably not strive to be such a thing.
From an informal survey amongst my friends, most of us really don't care. We give dozens of companies this information, and there's kind of an understanding that there's a decent chance of hacking/disgruntled employee rage/what have you at any company. Shit happens.
I've bought $1 screwdrivers and $10 screwdrivers, and I can saw with some assurance that 1) there wasn't a 10x difference in utility and 2) my annoyance at #1 made it a far worse experiencs
Almost. From the article:

"JRockit is now free (gratis) for development and internal production use on general purpose computers.

Commercial features continue to require a commercial license. This includes most features currently in JRockit Mission Control, JRockit Real Time and JRockit Virtual Edition. Previously, it was only possible to get a commercial license for these features as part of Oracle products (such as WebLogic Server), they can now be purchased standalone for use with any Java application."
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Text is a simple format, but text with intrinsic formatting is most definitely not a simple format.
Actually I wish I had raised less. But I wasn't trying to make Viaweb into one of the top technology companies.
That's why I spelled it 'own*'.
Most of you are dicks. The guy makes sense, don't cheap out on the things that matter. Don't waste 30 minutes looking for nail trimmers every 2 weeks to save an extra $3.85.

Take what he says with a grain of salt and apply to your life what you think is right.

Hacker News comments are created by a bunch of self-righteous, over-generalizing trolls.

Live and let live and don't be a cheapskate :]
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I do agree, that article is slightly nutty. It has the usual air of a very smart guy getting outside his area of expertise -- one simple observation plus one leap to a rather world-shattering conclusion minus a few key pieces of knowledge which anyone in the actual field should know about.

It's not quite the same thing as having a tenuous grasp on reality. It's more like listening to Einstein (or Chomsky) on politics -- very good in one field, rather over-confident in another.
Thanks! That's exactly where I want to take it! It'll be hard to do right, but definitely the vision.
I'm not asking you to induce change in me. But if you're going to take the time to give criticism, why be ineffective about it? Calling your ineffectiveness "honesty" is stupid, self-righteous, incompetent, useless, and pointless. If you're not making changes with your words, shut up.
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I find the whole affair disgusting. The internet is not the right medium for every aspect of your life.
On the other hand, imagine being able to 'jump' into the output with a cursor, hit enter and open any file, or hit delete, or F2 to rename etc. From a UI point of view, it could be great (notwithstanding my other comments).
That's called a 'paceline', and is part of what makes cycling more interesting than something like running, IMO, because tactics matter a lot, and can vary a great deal with the terrain.
And how will Sony be punished for this? They won't.

People will keep using them.

Nobody but us cares.
Slightly OT

Is there an open source platform similar to DotCloud/Heroku? We really need something just like this for our private/internal use.

Or alternatively, does anyone license such a thing? I'm sure I could find the $ for the right product.
You can try looking at the books by Bruce C. Berndt. Sample pages can be found at google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=liTRR8UnTq4C&lpg=PP1...

This is probably way over my head...
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Exactly this. All previously stored data is compromised. Obviously, people can't change their birthdates, but the password reset function unquestionably has to rely only on newly-supplied, uncompromised data.
I'm not sure I'm sold completely on the need. It's a very cool idea, to be sure, but I'm confused at the role it fills.

My knowledge of disaster zones is limited, but for military deployments - the other major customer - it's pretty in depth.

Here's the thing, there are two classes of structure, basically: Temporary and Permanent.

For a temporary structure - even longer term - a modern, modular tenting system (such as TEMS: http://www.mandbmag.com/tents/index.html) has this beat hands down in pretty much every way. Lighter, faster setup, faster tear down, adaptability, etc.

For a permanent structure, seriously? It would be much easier to build a traditional wooden structure once you've decided that you need one. You could even put the locals to work (which they would need) doing so. I find it very difficult to believe that anyone would want one of these dingy, musty things over a proper wood or concrete framed construction.

So where exactly does this fit in the spectrum? I'm not sure it does.
Concrete ideally should have clean water for best strength, but it need not be potable. Salts, silt, organic matter, and small bits of trash all weaken the concrete to some, greater or lesser, extent. But the effects can be taken into account in the structural design. For that matter, there are additives that are commonly added to concrete under special conditions, for example to lower the freezing point in winter pouring, that also weaken it in similar ways.
I think the solution is to build caching into the "home server" - it keeps a copy / can quickly retrieve messages from a remote server.
Re javascript: thanks, will do!

Re page load time: I'm using asynchronous loading of the scripts. This allows the page to load fully, and the JavaScript is loaded in the background.

It's not completely cross browser, but speeds things up for people with modern browsers. There may be a similar approach for adwords, but I wouldn't know for sure.