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E-book readers will (I hope) prove to be a revolution in that point.

My country gave one laptop to every schoolchild, but I wish they'd consider giving out e-book readers instead (or in addition to).

With the Gutenberg project and other resources, an enterprising child with the reading bug should have plenty to chew on :) . OTOH, as a child I read stuff due to being book-deprived which I probably wouldn't have read if I had had access to other options (encyclopaedias from cover to cover, astronomy and physics books, etc..)
My favorite part is at 2:42 when they show the fairly plain dashboard, and you see a lone toggle switch marked "Fly".
The LWN article on 2.6.39-rc1 had the main details: http://lwn.net/Articles/435908/

The most significant to me is that ipset is merged into main branch.
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I'd go further and say that libraries are one of society's more significant institutions and a powerful symbol that learning is a prized asset in its members. While the internet is more efficient and offers a greater range of materials I think that we are still in the early days of a transition to on-line learning and losing libraries at this moment risks letting the perceived value of education diminish in the eyes of the people who probably most need it.
Actually, this is exactly what it's like to bootstrap a company these days. You scrape along with no success and no money for a long time before it grows into something that can support you. Hitting the $1000/founder/month profit mark is a huge milestone since it means you can just barely squeak by without digging further into your personal savings. It means that if you can keep growing the business, you're going to win.

You'll notice that it's a completely different game than starting with big VC. And as you mentioned, it doesn't fit a lot of people's definition of a "business".

That's fine. Just remember that there is in fact another definition. Revenue Generation is still part of it, but it's not the end goal. Generating enough revenue to live comfortably on while minimizing the amount of time and effort you need to expend is the ultimate goal for a lot of us. In that context, a company that brings in $20k/month and runs on autopilot is the highest form of success. For a lot of people with different definitions, that would be classed as complete failure.

Anyway, enough talk. I'm off to Scotland for a week or so to get some fresh air while my business runs itself without me.
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Indeed that's the case. But then you may ask why don't he set it up once for the track and be with it? The track would have to be wildly disparate to need a periodic change at certain points in a lap. Such tweaks are mostly to cope more efficiently with varying situations: for example you don't take the same line when you're basically alone or when you want to overtake, which you precisely do at corner entrance or exit - since such cars are not wildly different in power from one another - and that's something the driver plans in advance of actually doing it.
Which is the whole point of the argument:

OAuth makes sense for browser based applications/access from one web application to another. It makes no sense for native apps since those can still grab your credentials in a wild variety of ways.

If you agree with that, then you should see that the change from

"Choose xAuth or OAuth, based on preference and usage"

to

"Use OAuth unless you are the official Twitter client, if it makes sense or not"

is questionable.
Less than 48 hours ago there was a discussion in #startups on irc about getting help for small projects. It often happens that someone needs help for something that might take a few days, hours or maybe even less. Often someone is helpful, I have done my share of quick design mockups for someone and been helped by others.

But I have also been involved in slightly bigger projects for instance BrainRacer where I helped getting a landing page up and running fairly quickly. In exchange mahipal will help med with coding a small iphone app I want to do.

It just comes up enough that it must mean that more people than me and a few other would like to participate in small projects like this. So in the spirit of the WeekendHacker ethos i quickly put together this service and hope that other people might find it interesting.

http://WeekendHacker.net is for those tiny projects or cries for help. You sign up, get one email a day curated with cool little projects that people will post. No spam, no BS. Just cool little projects you can join.
If Sonatype own the copyright to all of Nexus OSS, they then have the right to release it under another license as well. They can't take back anybodies rights to the OSS version, but they are allowed to distribute it under a different license.

MySQL used to do this - they required contributors to assign copyright to the MySQL company before accepting patches specifically so MySQL could sell commercial licenses to users who didn't want a GPL encumberment on their software that used MySQL.

If you've built "Software A" out of open source components to which you do not own all the copyright too, you won't be able to follow that path (technically, you _could_ reach out to each individual contributor/copyright holder and ask for permission to relicense their code. Good luck with that...) If you wrote (and released under an OSS license) all the Software A code, you've got the right to release it under as many different licenses as you want.
Here is a short video clip of a reporter attempting to get Mercedes GP's team principal Ross Brawn to disclose the details of the "Magic Paddle": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luWuJx2Ukik
Because you usually think you have come to your "moral, ethical paradigm" by reason, therefore you expect intelligent people to share the same paradigm. We also usually take technical skills as a symptom of intelligence.
The tech doesn't seem that complex, but successful businesses aren't about ideas, or technology. They are about applying technology to ideas and getting people to use it. The hard part to replicate of what octopart did is the 'putting all the pieces together' part.
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There's a patch in there that means the RCU filesystem optimisations from 2.6.38 are now operative for you if you run a kernel with security modules like SELinux active.
I'm going to be honest; I almost laughed at the premise...

But then I realized how many times I've said "God I wish someone would create an intuitive way to read conversations on Twitter." All the broken references, replies not done as replies, and offshoots of conversations can be an amazing pain to attempt to make sense of.

Would I pay? Probably not. But I'm not laughing at the idea.
Indeed, this is not what I expected. I expected something with a web GUI. Then I remembered I've already seen this:

http://www.springwise.com/food_beverage/delmioorto/

You choose what to grow with a GUI, someone grows it for you, picks it and delivers it to you.
So how does this compare to a NASCAR wheel? ;)
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that topic and most of the comments are from 2008/9
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Still though the correlation with making money and intelligence is really low (I think I read it was 0.2%). And what if wether or not you are happier might be inversely proportional to how intelligent you are?

I'm just saying that being happy with your life should not be based on winning a Nobel prize.
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Filter old and new Hacker News link by tags.

I've gone through old Hacker News links and tagged them. Also, every hour, new HN posts are synced to Archfinch.

Only posts with at least 10 points are shown, and automatic tagging uses the Delicious API (no autotagging involved). Users can also tag things manually (and they do).

You can follow and block specific tags, e.g. you can follow linux, python and math and block techcrunch, facebook and iphone.

Some highlights:

http://archfinch.com/tags/ycstartup - all YC company news

http://archfinch.com/tags/hn/videos - videos that appear on HN (automatically embedded)

http://archfinch.com/tags/hn/pics - same as above, except pics

http://archfinch.com/tags/programming/history/lisp - an example of how deep the tags go
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I can only speak personally of course, but...

Is music bad for concentration? Yes.
But is music bad for WORKING? God no.

It really depends on what I'm doing. Playing music makes work (and made school work) far more pleasant (and thus easier) to do. But there are time when I need to concentrate, and for that I turned down the music. So, the answer? "It depends."
You're talking about different things. Awareness, Will, machine-like-decision-making.

Decision-making can be completely robotic. Will, or Free Will, and whether or not it's compatible with materialism, is another controversial problem. Awareness, is what you feel subjectively. I can build a robot that senses colors, and when it sees the color red, it screams "OMG! RED!!!". This robot however has no awareness what so ever. What you described is exactly the kind of thing that might happen with robots, but it has no relationship to the awareness/consciousness aspect of the problem.

> Here are some other examples of "mysterious phenomena" which it took a while to explain (...)

This is a weak argument, and really it's irrelevant to the mind-body problem. All things you described are physical states to begin with.

A more approximation of the mind-body problem might be some one saying something like this: fire is not the same sort of thing that water is. I can hold water in my hand, but can I hold fire in my hand? I can store water for later use; can I store fire for later use? Now this sort of argument could be right or wrong, but it seems like a plausible thing to say. It's not saying fire is some kind of a super-natural miracle.

I think we both agree that we don't know what awareness is; the difference is I'm saying I know what it's not: and I know it will not arise from a computer simulating a brain.

Overall I think consciousness is an interesting topic that's worth reading about. I don't mind someone being a materialist, but it doesn't seem like you appreciate the difficulty of the problem.

It's theoretically possible that one day we'll know more about awareness, and I don't know what that knowledge would be like, but I'm pretty sure it's not something that arises from running some sort of a computer program. And I can also say with about 85% certainty that it's not reducible to any of the physics we know about today.

It's also theoretically possible that we'll never know what awareness is. It might seem outrageous and somewhat a "forbidden" idea to speak, but it's a possibility. Either due to time restraints (the universe dying before we get there) or conceptual restraints (as in, maybe our minds are just not smart enough to figure it out). Unlike most other things in nature, I don't know of anyone who even came up with a hypothesis of what awareness might be. For instance, atoms where theoretically discussed long before science proved they existed, and many different models were advanced to explain and account for planetary motions (many of them were wrong, but you get the idea). But awareness, doesn't even have any model that might account for it; not even a wrong one. That's a strong indication that it might be something outside our comprehension; not much unlike the nature of space and time.
I thought exactly these two points when he said it's great for when you are stuck in a traffic jam and you can fly over everyone at 40mph. Well, not if everyone is already in there air! It would be funny in a weird twist of fate that if this was adopted an in 1000 years everyone started buying road cars again to avoid the airways congestion...

I also thought about the props when he was just driving round, I don't know what laws are like in the USA but if you are caught with a lump of wood sticking out the back of the car in the UK then you get pulled over, never mind 6 x 3 foot knives!
They show the wheel clicking into place after the driver is in. How many contacts do you think they have between wheel and car? Is it some kind of serial protocol where they only need 2 wires? RS-485 maybe
Having finally incorporated email for all users, in five years time, they'll finally be bothering with voice chat. And all its users will think Facebook invented the idea.
I'd like to offer a slightly different perspective on this. As someone who is a hybrid hacker/biologist, I welcome something like TermKit. I have invested a good chunk of time learning unix commands and the shell because lots of scientific applications require it. Furthermore, as a data wrangler, the unix tools are a necessity for quickly processing and pumping files around. I require unix to efficiently do my job. I often think, "Gosh, what do all these other people do when they need to do X?" where "X" is some ugly task that I can hack some grep and sed commands together to accomplish. I don't think most programmers understand the sheer number of exceptionally well-educated, genuinely smart people who spend huge chunks of their day doing menial "copy/paste" in Excel (because it's the only real tool they can use) when they should be designing bridges, curing diseases, analyzing data, etc...

If you're a unix sysadmin or a full-time hacker, you can justify the cost in time and effort of learning and memorizing all this stuff. In fact, you'd be foolish not to. But there are a lot of people who don't spend all day in a terminal. Nevertheless, they frequently need the unix terminal to get something done. A tool like TermKit could be a huge boost for those people allowing them to bootstrap their knowledge without having to dive into the deep end all at once.

There are legions of people out there who are smart enough to learn some bits of unix if only the learning curve wasn't a sheer brick wall. If you need evidence that man pages and "-h" don't cut it, start typing common unix commands into google (xargs, tar, grep, etc...) and you'll almost always find one of the top suggestions is "command_name examples" or something like that. Why is that? My grandma isn't trying to use "xargs" I assure you. Someone with enough knowledge of the unix command prompt to know they need xargs reads a man page and they still don't know how the hell to use the command properly. That's a usability problem and there are modern ways to help with it (as is demonstrated by all the things IDE's do to help programmers all the time).

I'm really excited to see where this goes. There are all sorts of possibilities it opens up.
How about making the frequency once a week (every Thursday or Friday), and let the user specify his area of interest?
I just signed up, and this appears to be a mailing list rather than a website. You should probably tell people that.
What does this even mean? How did the Internet fail just because you didn't know about it? I'm pretty sure there is a lot of stuff that you aren't aware of, and that in no way reflects on the Internet as a whole.
What the author doesn't realize is that he, too, is being an asshole simply by dismissing all these people who have different opinions or a different moral compass from him. Calling someone a "gun nut" and trivializing the change from GPLv2 to GPLv3 doesn't automatically make them wrong.
OH MY GOD! THIS GUY WANTS ME TO CHANGE THE WAY I WORK!

I"VE BEEN WORKING THE SAME WAY FOR 20 YEARS

YOU CAN"T MAKE ME CHANGE!

CHANGE SCARES ME!

20 YEARS AGO MY TERMINAL DIDN"T HAVE LOWERCASE, COLOR, OR WINDOWS. WHY HE WANT ME TO CHANGE!!?!?

(Damn, I've never seen a group of people so change-adverse and closed minded about trying new things as the software developers that are in the business of making new stuff! Geeze! Download it and give it a try before you post a comment!)
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By Friday, I've already got plans for the weekend.
while they may fiddle for balance (for example as the fuel burns off, and the weight comes down, or as the tyres wear etc), I'm not sure they change it for each corner.

Actually, the setup of the car is not active at all, except for brake bias (which is set via a mechanical lever on the cockpit wall). There is no way to change ride height, stiffness, etc., dynamically.

About 20 years ago there was a period in which everything about the cars were dynamic (culminating in the Williams FW-14B [1]). The ride height and other suspension settings, etc., were all under electronic control, so that the setup could be altered for every corner. And thanks to bidirectional telemetry, these settings were actually controlled remotely from the pits without the driver needing to intervene. However, the arms race of complexity and cost led teams to agree to a ban on this technology. It's a bit of a shame, because the engineering had become every bit as interesting as the racing itself.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Williams_FW14
I'm not assuming anything about what's possible.

I take issue with your assumption that there is some 'clear' distinction between the goal of '"building a simulation of the physical brain hardware" and the 'goal to simulate human consciousness". A distinction, if any, between those goals is anything but clear.

Further, the people most interested in 'physical simulation' also tend to be 'materialists' who think a suitably precise simulation can reproduce everything interesting about a human mind, including 'consciousness'. Without any personal 'leap of faith' as to whether that's true or false, this is an interesting and deeply murky question.
Two questions:

1. How much
2. How soon

I love the EAA, if you're attending the fly-in this year ping me and I'll introduce you to my friend Chuck...
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Small feature request: include a plain text version of the email for those of us still using clients like Mutt. This is what we see at the moment: http://d.pr/rj1F
It will be a website it's just that I post through the mailing list. I do write it in the FAQ but maybe I should be a little more specific. Let me know if you want to be taken of the list.
From the FAQ:

Q: Is it just a mailing list?
A: For now yes. But if people feel the need for something else to be added we will of course do that
I will change that right away.
Definitely looks familiar :)

I'll be sure to write a blog entry on the topic soon.

Caveat: Both the OP and I have been working on Opa.
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Is this considered ugly by minimalist (say Apple like) oriented designers? Could an UI like this, to be used by experts most efficiently, be redesigned with a minimalistic mindset, or the complexity of the underlying system has to appear?
I had absolutely zero idea what TL;DR meant until I saw it here and looked it up. I agree with you, this article was extremely well-written and I feel that just summarizing the key points doesn't really help you to understand what the author was trying to convey. It's unfortunate that we've trained ourselves as a society to participate in info-snacking (gorging ourselves on as many tiny bits of info as possible). This is why there's so much short-form content. As opposed to circulating great content like this article (and subsequently discussing it), we go out of our way to publish less-circumstantial lists ad nausea that make us feel like we've done/learned something.
Agreed. And this kind of thing is why I install NoScript on Firefox these days.
I generally refuse to join or explore any further a site that requires me to enter my email before allowing further access.

From other comments I realise that this appears to be a mailing list, so an email is kind of the point, but still it could be made a lot more clear.

Just a bit of advice.
It's obvious in retrospect, but YC saw that Sam and Andres were animals[1]. (IIRC, Sam and Andres were the founders and brought on Harish just a bit after/during YC.) Octopart just would. not. die.

Personally, I think the current fad of pivoting and pivoting is probably makes for happier/better founders (my God, the trough of sorrow - I've been there and I wish that upon no one), but the Octoparts had a vision and just stubbornly stuck to it. A thousand kudos to them; they're stronger than I.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
Monaco, compare the Grand Hotel hairpin with the tunnel; very different performance characteristics and diff requirements, I'd suspect.

Silverstone, look at the Becketts complex and compare it to Luffield.

Spa Francorchamps, compare the requirements of Eau Rouge with La Source.

That's just three straight off the top of my head. Circuits are pretty varied; I don't know for sure that they are doing that with diff settings as they lap but anecdotally they alter brake bias pretty regularly so it wouldn't surprise me particularly.
Well, if we're piling on... "phenomenons"?
Maybe there's a Ferrari sticker there.
As Sam says, one of the best parts of Octopart is that it has so many distributors, especially the ones you've never heard of. So when Digikey and Mouser are sold out of what you need, you can find it somewhere else.
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should be:

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That's not surprising. Even among its adherents, C++ evokes a love-hate relationship. I really don't like the language, but reading Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" and Josuttis's "The C++ Standard Library", I have to say that I can respect what they have done.

And when you read something like "Effective C++", you learn to appreciate (or pity) developers who have to keep that much information in their heads in order to code. I personally gave up on it years ago and went over to C, but I like to keep up-to-date with what is going on in that world.
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A NSACAR wheel is pretty simple. A radio button and that's about it. They put the controls on the dash. Remember a NASCAR car and F1 car have different requirements. An F1 car's goal is to go as fast as possible and nothing else. A NASCAR car's goal is to go pretty fast, but take a beating while doing it.
I don't think OPA is the solution to the actuals web development problems. Perhaps we need more great idea and framework (symfony, rails, etc) from already well established languages and methods.
At first the "Drink bottle" button seemed pretty ridiculous to me. Then I remembered that driving 200mph and having to negotiate a water bottle by hand would probably be impossible.