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They're really looking to make stronger ties with the "maker" community, and are ramping up their DIY cred by hiring Meredith Scheff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpZ7FyjGkGk (of NorthSkirt fame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UktOOIK_6nU) at Noisebridge, and Ed Lewis at Instructables http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxRqGOSHbUg to do ads.
So what I take that relativity of simultaneity is showing, is that there is no "universal time" everywhere.

But this is all dependent on the positioning of the observers. The observers painted on the universal graph are all ones waiting for light to reach them. This is what is causing the confusion as to when is "now", as all the observers or points of awareness are separated in space. And I take it that, their separation in space is also what separates them in time... and thus each have different notions of when now is.

But can we not conjure an omniscient observer as our frame of reference? One who exists at all points, at all times.

Would he not be able to observe both the Earth on July 24, 2011 and what exists in the space of the water vapor cloud as Earth time is still July 24, 2011?
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i'm not sure whether i think this is a brilliant idea, this system of creating backups, or absolutely pathetic for even needing to exist.
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Chinese bulk human powered captcha solvers are stupid cheap. $.00139/ea in units of 1k [1]

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I don't see how function pointers allow inline or anonymous functions. They point to already-defined functions, which can't be defined inline or anonymously.
I think that's his point.

"After spending a long time in the functional programming world, and using Erlang as my go-to language for tricky problems, I've finally concluded that purely functional programming isn't worth it." (emphasis mine)
This response seems irrelevant. This is about a new programmer- not a project over ones head. The most important thing I did when learning = I sat down and wrote code, when I came across an issue, I learned how to fix it.
And because of that - it taught me to plan my code better as I went
This sounds like an argument for a Zune Pass model. As long as you keep paying, you get access to the whole library. But each month you also get to download 10 tracks, so even when you stop paying, you can keep your favorite tracks around. (They're DRM-free MP3s.)
I remember watching my local Radio Shack turn into just another commodity electronics shop, and not a very good one, at that. By the end, it was just a place I would go if I wanted to be harassed about buying a cell phone (i.e. never).

If Radio Shack has gotten rid of the high pressure cell phone sales people, started hiring nerds again, and started stocking the kind of things I need when I want to finish a project but don't want to schlep out to Fry's or wait for an order from Amazon for, I might return. But, it's been a long time since I've been to a Radio Shack, and I rarely think of them as the place I should go for anything, since they trained me out of that habit.

I have to admit that carrying Arduino and other assorted tinkerers toys does make me think maybe the company at least has some of its old spirit. I guess we'll have to see what comes of it. Next time I pass one, I'll probably take a stroll around...I'll know whether they've gotten good again by whether I walk out empty handed or not.
Yep, capacitive touch screen. Personally, I think the screen size is ideal... it's easier to hold than an iPad. It's not especially powerful, but it's nice for web browsing and playing Angry Birds :)

We bought a bunch at work and installed Cyanogenmod for one of our projects. It's the right size, and waaaay cheaper than an iPad. For $250, I'd recommend it for a general purpose (wifi-only) Android tablet. SSH is nice on it too.
Wow, this is really something. Now this explains a bit why John Resig moved to Khan Academy, which I couldn't comprehend before
http://ejohn.org/blog/next-steps-in-2011/
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There's a lot more cool stuff yet to be done with QR codes!

I'm going to announce this properly sometime this week when we've got a nice demo video, but we just (and I mean JUST) launched a new webapp for people who want to have flexible QR redirects with analytics.

If any of you guys are interested: http://omniqrcode.com
From this reading Datskovskiy feels like a more radical, less poetic version of Vernor Vinge.

When he says "Even if you ... plug all abstraction leaks, the lowest-level concepts on which a system is built will ... limit the heights to which its high-level “payload” can rise." I'm reminded of the part in a Deepness in the Sky when Vinge muses on the nature of the increasingly complex and layered systems which control the ram ships and how no one was ever able to completely refactor the mess.
Good post would have been: "What I have done: ..."
hey, pal, i didn't start this conversation. someone sent me a link to it from twitter after it was well under way. you don't like it, don't read it. i'm doing my best to not respond to all the ignorant stuff about me on here, but certain things need to be clarified.
and this isn't about me. get over yourself and see this bigger picture and how many are effected and they don't even realize it. you're safe, great. you're the one who owns their own server and squirrels all of their data away on it each night. the VAST majority of people do not.
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I agree. I think it's a good article, and it boils down to - if you're paying a monthly fee, don't do it for DRM'd tracks
Yes, I was refering to that idiom. Thanks for the clarification.
oh... and check out the comments down the bottom of the article... fun reading :)
I really don't see the issue here. I pay peanuts to rd.io each month (can't get Spotify here in Vietnam yet) to have access to a vast catalog of music I want to hear occasionally or just preview. The small handful of albums I really care about I buy in FLAC format and backup in S3. I get the best of both worlds with a minimum of fuss. Subscription-based music services have significantly increased my enjoyment of music and freed me from the hassles of managing a big local library.

I don't care about DRM on streaming music because I know I don't "own" it.
I walked in last year wondering if I could get RJ45 ethernet caps at a decent price. As I recall, they were 8.99 for five (NB: used in pairs). After shipping, I wound up buying 100 from Monoprice, for about a dollar more.
This is from your post on how to do a backup:

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...Gmail will only let you down a few hundred emails at a time. You can repeat the command (let getmail finish each time before you run it again) until all of your email is downloaded.
==

You honestly expect users to fetch of their mail a few hundred messages at a time ?

You also leave out the fact that if you re-run that script a number of times in a row, Google's server's will block you until you fill out a captcha and wait 24 hours.

GMail is a free service, so having limited features and options is expected. But it's troublesome that Google doesn't feel it has an obligation to respect its user's data. An admin you're not allowed to contact thinks you violated the terms and all of your mail is deleted. Business contracts, random chats with cute girls/boys from school, messages from family and friends who might not be here anymore, ... all of it is gone.
I suspect either his manager knows, or he is in a position where he doesn't have a manager.

To quote: if I don't provide this information we loose access to our payments platform
Original discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020130

Original discussion on follow-up article:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023232
Everytime I see someone referencing "free speech" in a way that makes it painfully obvious they skipped over the words "CONGRESS shall make no laws restricting..." I want to bang my head against a wall.

Google is a company, a company that's providing you a service free of charge. They are 100% within their right to tell you how not to use their product.
Totally serious question: how is Radio Shack still in business?

I would love to see them go back to basics, with drawers upon drawers of components and wires and stuff. Seems like nobody likes doing that stuff on their own nowadays.
The article is premised on the assumption we typically "own" our music, but I just don't think that's true.

We don't own what we hear on radio.
Anyone old enough to have owned a vinyl record, 8-track, or cassette knows we "owned" those until the player "pwned" us and scratched the record, warped the record, or otherwise ate the tape.

The CDs I "own" mostly mark me as ... old with 1980s musical tastes.

I'm actually pretty happy with combination of Rhapsody and Google Music, though there are definitely some albums I wish Rhapsody would get (The Beatles, and, ... Soundtrack to American Werewolf in London, and, ...).

But actually Rhapsody, Google Music, and Squeezebox Server have made me purchase a lot more music than I have for a long time.

Of course, the music I purchase tends to be used CDs from Amazon for pennies plus shipping.

I would in fact like the Zune Pass model.
I'd blame NASA for using the word "reservoir".
Just for your information, I've been using Spotify in Vietnam for 10 months. You just have to sign up with an address in one of Spotify's launched countries, and pay the monthly fee ($4.99), since it won't work as free.
If there is any chance of them turning around, buzz would be crucial at this stage. Tell all your friends, and when you do visit, ask specifically about the Arduino (and maybe some other things that haven't been mentioned).
I never bought more music in my life than during Napster's heyday. Spotify seems to herald much of the same. It's going to be expensive.
Didn't someone already share this like 2 weeks ago?
I wonder if Radio Shack is going to implement a DIY education system or something. I don't know how to build stuff with Arduino but if they had a little kiosk that showed how you could set up and program a hello world (led blinking) in Arduino I'm sure it could interest some people who had no idea what Arduino is.
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I use gmail, but I use it as me@mydomain.com. If they ever suspend/destroy me, at most I'll lose a few emails before I point my domain elsewhere. I already maintain an account at fastmail.fm for the few times that gmails smtp has gone down; they are responsive and I've had email conversations with them a few times.

I also use thunderbird and have it automatically save the All Mail folder.

Given the years of monolithic indifference shown by Google, I don't know why anyone with the awareness and ability to use their own domain for email doesn't do so. It would be terrible to have your identity yanked from you; I think that's worse than losing copies of emails that you'll probably never look at anyway.
Yes, he was billionaire-ish from Microsoft, and I imagine he does believe in what he's doing, so I guess he's not intentionally a bloodsucking asshole, but I don't know that that makes it that much better.
Oh man... it would make Radio Shack awesome again. I might actually visit one of those stores on the way home. The parts might be more expensive, but if it saves me a trip to China, I'd do it.
It's no secret that x86 is an inelegant architecture. There was no shortage of RISC CPU architectures in the 90's designed to dethrone x86. Windows NT was even written to run on two of them (DEC Alpha and PowerPC). Apple and IBM carried this experiment forward the longest, but it didn't work out that way.
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Excellent article! Much better than the normal post we see about focus or procrastination. But now I have something like 10 more tabs open and a couple of book I'm probably going to be buying... Thanks!
Is their really much a technical problem preventing flying cars? I think it's similar to space in that it isn't overly energy efficient as I'd assume withut completely redesigning our cities you would need vertical takeoff. Then there is a lot of safety considerations, I think self driving cars would need to be accepted well before anything could happen with flying cars.
I own both an NC and an iPad, and I'd disagree with the assertion that it's easier to hold. Even though it's glass, the flat surface coupled with the mostly-flat back of the iPad makes it a lot easier for me to grip.

Even though it's Android, the price is certainly right for an entry-level tablet.
And what would be wrong with a warning email (even an automated one), rather than going direct to execution?
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It has been a while since I've even considered buying components from them but over the past couple of years I've gone into them looking for things like USB cables and HDMI cables, only to leave in disgust when seeing the cost was about twice what the same thing would cost at Best Buy (and Best Buy itself is already ~4x more expensive than buying such things online at monoprice, etc).
This is how almost every CS and EE class was for me in college. Sure, I could have cheated on all the homework, but if I didn't understand the material, I was going to flunk the final exam. I think cheating is a bigger problem for classes with large assignments you work on outside of class and fewer exams.
If I wanted to teach myself something, I wouldn't be going to school for it. The whole purpose of grades, testing, and catching cheaters is so a school can determine if a certain person deserves some credentials they give them or not. Ideally we wouldn't need them, but you tell me a better way apart from projects (which have their own problems if they're in groups) to measure a student's proficiency in something while remembering they're taking 5 other classes at the same time with professors who may do the same thing.

I do agree with you on possible bite-backs to a highly test-oriented system, and poorly made tests are very easy to game. Lots of students coast through high school and then around their sophomore or junior year of college stuff starts getting hard and they don't know what to do and don't know how to study.
Guess you missed this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2718252
If I buy a CD, burn it to my computer and then sell that CD, do I have to delete the MP3 copy on my computer? The law says yes; I "owned" the music while I possessed the CD. When I sold the CD I gave my ownership and my copies are illegal. I'd bet that 99% of people would keep the copy on their computer though. Until this perception is changed, the author's point doesn't really matter. Because I'm paying so little for Spotify and because of it's very history of struggle coming to the U.S., I know it could be temporal. As is pretty much everything, including the physical media which can also degrade.

Maybe services like Spotify will change that perception and the consumer and the industry will meet in the middle with a cheap subscription price. But unless all of the methods of illegally accessing music are closed, I don't think that'll happen.
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Talk about a nonsense article. I have been using spotify ever since the very beginning in 2008 and I have yet to experience any of those issues. Besides. Even if spotify where twice as expensive it would still be a good deal if you listen to music a lot.

Much to do about nothing.
I think his Point #5 should say "knock something OUT", not "knock something UP". If someone asks you to knock something up, you should probably ask your wife for permission first.
I've been a Napster subscriber from some time and they are actively engaged in a version of this. They have two tiers of music: "free to stream" and "purchase only or :30 preview": they have gotten into the habit of moving tracks from one category to the other as they get popular or in some cases pulling entire albums from their catalogue for unexplained reasons.

While I'm sure what they are doing is legal it still is a shady "the first hit is free" type business model. So far the annoyance has been minimal as my tastes are not too mainstream but it still pops up far too often.
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"Purple air sounds like rage." Is grammatically correct and passes a wide range of linguistic filters, yet for some reason it has zero meaning. Still read it a few times, it feels like there should be some meaning there. This get's at a core problem with language. Language is based around the assumption that something meaningful is trying to be communicated so we rarely bother with much precision. You can refer to ideas as physical objects but parsing into something meaningful requires a lot of context.

Redness seems to refer to some sort of external stimulus, but both redness and red are really internal qualifications of some external stimulus. So, I can point you to a red filter that looks at color codes and compares them to FF0000. If I then run that filter on FF0000 I get an internal state of 100%. But what that does not create something with emotions and your linking them in that sentence so what's wrong? I would suggest it's not the fact that the code does not produce emotion that's the problem it's your assumption that anything that understands redness must include an emotional context. Still, if you want both a test for redness and an emotional response you could code a simple AI with competing goals who responds emotionally to increasing amounts of red in it's environment.

Granted, you could then argue that such a simplistic representation of internal state is to simplistic a response to cover the full range of emotions. But a that point your not talking about 'redness of red' in the abstract but getting into mimicking your personal emotional responses. Which could be done to some reasonable level of accuracy.

PS: I could also have completely missed what you where trying to communicate, but I hope that line of reasoning demonstrated what I was talking about. Namely that in the context of AI you can translate abstract philosophical ideas into a meaningful context but they stop being interesting somewhere in the process.
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>> guerrilla tactics and explosive devices to get their point

>> across?

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Stock opportunities are my favorite to miss since at least I know what happened... seems most of life opportunities you'll never know.

Should I have studied harder for that test? Should I spend time on my project or hanging out with my friends? Asked that person out for a drink?
Yeah, his whole argument is based on this

Simply put: the way we consume music is fundamentally different to the way we consume movies and TV.

This used to be true, but I am not sure it is any longer - at least not for everyone. Listening to the same album obsessively over and over again is certainly a phase I went when I was younger, but now I am perfectly happy to listen to Pandora, especially as my tastes have broadened, and finding new interesting stuff to listen to trumps the need to hear the same familiar stuff over and over.
Keep in mind that some people, like me, actually have a one-word name as their legal name.

Would be nice to get a warning email, rather than waking up dead.
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Many years ago, I used to work on grants from the Postal Service. The goal was to read addresses and sort mail automatically.
The metric we wanted to minimize was 10*E+R , where "E" is the fraction of errors (where the system returns an incorrect answer), and "R" is the fraction of rejects (where the system doesn't give an answer). The thinking was that it is 10x more expensive to send the letter to a wrong address, than to reject it outright and have it processed by a human. This includes the cost of customer service, anguish, bad reputation, etc., and not just the cost of delivery and re-routing.
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I don't care enough about Radio Shack to be part of their personal army, and what feelings I currently have are negative (me and the shack still have some unresolved issues, you see). I guess I wish it was a cool, nerdy, store again...but, if they don't want to be a cool, nerdy, store, and would rather sell phones to grandmothers I'm not going to make it my mission to convince them to do something more interesting.

I'm gonna let Radio Shack make the first move in our reunion story.
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Wow, you haven't experienced any of those issues therefore they can't bait and switch?
"A Guided Tour of Emacs" has a screenshot of the follow-mode along with a simple explanation:
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I saw BigChampagne (http://bcdash.bigchampagne.com/who) tweet about the article, and they say that even among the younger people they work with/survey say that ownership is more important than access. I don't think it's changing.
Yeah, conventions cover pretty much every case you tend to come across. Got a column called CompanyID that has a foreign key constraint over to the Company table? Perhaps this is a relation... Nice of Rails to make it acceptable to simply ask you to name your stuff in a consistent way so that things just work.

The added bonus of a build step is that you don't need to keep regenerating the same classes and SQL code every page load, but it's not really any different from the programmer's standpoint.
Interesting. I got banned when using a pseudonym that I usually use in video games. It was 2 words (first name last name) so it shouldn't have come up as some 1 word spam/business account (which seems to be what they are targeting for the bans). The account was also active, with me interacting with lots of real-life friends.

Oh well, never really planned on using Google+ in the first place.