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We could easily fix the CO2 issues by switching to nuclear power, and I expect we will eventually.

And over-fishing is a problem, I agree. I did say there were areas with trouble. But there is a solution: farmed fish. Meaning we are not at the limit, we just need to be smarter about what we do, which was my point.
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That stuff is insane

Btw, this is kind of a close to http://thirdcog.eu/apps/cfxr

(watch the vid)
This is clearly a controversial article. But I think it's fair to say Microsoft is not focused. Who can say what Microsoft's focus is these days? Without vision, the company and its followers will get lost. Microsoft may be able to stumble upon success by flailing about, but without vision Microsoft won't be able to tell the difference between success and distraction when it's staring them in the face.

To make an extreme example, is a great real estate deal a success to Microsoft? Microsoft might need to buy real estate from time to time and benefit from doing it well. And yes, some companies make lots of money in real estate. Should Microsoft be opening up a real estate investment arm? Probably not. But given Microsoft's focus these days, who knows.

The question isn't just what is a distraction to Microsoft, but what is Microsoft's focus? Samsung's focus is manufacturing. Apple's focus is product design. Google's focus is data. These are all big, successful companies with laser focus even if it appears from the outside they are working on the same things. Who are you Microsoft and where are you going?
And cache it does. Opera brought up a dialog box telling me that 5 MB wasn't enough persistent storage for NYT.
The old Yahoo, Google and Craig's List showed over and over that simple headlines and text lists, are the most dense and useable designs, efficient and readable.

The problem is the marketing types who feel that they have to 'brand' their product and then abandon the simple dense text list display, that people time and again vote for with their feet.

To a marketing droid, the text list display is the horror of horrors. With it, they live and die by the quality of the reporting, not the slickness of their graphic designs.
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I'm actually looking at taking programming beyond text by moving the control logic to graphs. The idea is based on the concept of Flow-Based Programming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming

It might be a misstep, as graphical programming has been tried before without much success. But I like the concept, and maybe new tools like multi-touch tablets finally make it viable.
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> Apple also sued Nokia, but they ended up paying royalties to them anyway.

The question there was never whether Apple would be paying, but how much. Given the pittance (a few euros per phone) Nokia apparently ended up getting with the best mobile patent portfolio in the world, it hardly seems like a win for Nokia or a loss for Apple. More likely it was Nokia being desperate to get the cash now to make their Q2 results look a little bit better.
See discussion here --- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2806727
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If the mouse has a forward and back button, it is very easy to use. Great design for me.
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One possibility: If the employee is fired other than for cause (crime, fraud, etc.), then the employer will pay the employee a pro-rated bonus at the same time other employees get their bonuses.

This is sometimes negotiated in executive employment agreements, but I can't say I've seen it in rank-and-file agreements.
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There are people at Mozilla following and interacting with the Device APIs WG, as with most W3C standards groups, but there will also probably be some measure of invention, as standards groups are a poor place to invent. Historically Mozilla has both implemented standards as well as shipped prototype implementations to test ideas that have not yet been standardized.
I don't buy it. That's ridiculous. There's no way the numbers are that high. Is John Biggs going to report every "rumor" that someone will whisper in his ear? It could very well be a smear campaign like the one Facebook tried to do to Google.

Would some Android phones have that high return rate? It's possible. But 40% return rate on average? That's beyond ridiculous.
We have plenty of fuel in the form of nuclear power. Just because we aren't using it today doesn't mean we can't.

I never mentioned the word recycle. I don't expect anyone to recycle paper. Instead you compost or burn the paper, and grow a new tree. The elements that make up paper are infinity reusable.

The same for the precious elements in electronics. True, we do a poor job of recovering them today, but we could change that easily, and keep making and destroying electronics forever without running out.

We don't even need to recover them, we have plenty in mines. We could store the electronics in a big hole in the ground (for example in an old mine) and only use them much later when we need to. The only reason we do try to recover them is for money, not because we are going to run out.

By far the majority of the stuff we build is made of just a few elements: silicon (in concrete), carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen (those four make up plastics, wood, and lots more) and iron. We are not going to ever run out of those - the planet is made of them.

We could keep making and destroying things forever without running out. All we need is energy. (There is no need to transmute elements.)

The rest of the elements could be easily recovered with technology like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_arc_waste_disposal - run that on a big landfill and you get every element you need after some refining.
Interesting, although the author, as many people who work out, follows a diet which someday is gonna catch up with him.

Eating lean meats, such as grilled chicken or salmon, is a sufficient source of protein. Hamburger and meatball sandwiches are not healthy and whereas this may not make much difference when you are young, it will as you grow older and your metabolism slows down.
Olive oil shots, as a source of calories, are completely unnecessary. It's a "healthier" oil than most of the others but, nevertheless, it is still oil.
I'm not a fan of shakes personally but they can be a good source of calories without too much fat (or sugar hopefully) and with a punch of protein. Oftentimes they are convenient to prepare.
Same here. I had difficulties not to cry the first time I put my glasses because I found everything was so wonderful!
Hence my point that investors are more concerned about money than the product. I meant short-term profit though.
I've had to rely on Flipboard for now i'm afraid (i know you've mentioned it already).
There was the news:yc app, but its iPhone only, so doesnt take advantage of the iPad screen real estate. I suspect the developer is working on an iPad version.
I chose "No - I don't have time" but the real reason is more "No - I forget to/don't bother to/I do but get bored after a few bad links and leave, and anyway I'm only there once a fortnight".

Incidentally, this poll has guilt tripped me into checking the new page again.
With regards to the retirement problem, that's only an issue because people are still thinking like mortals. Were we immortal I'd expect gap years to replace retirement. Many people would choose to live their lives in cycles, retraining every 50 years for a new job / change of scene, getting to a proficient level, then taking a break for a few years until ready (or out of funds) to retrain & start anew. Once they'd done a few cycles people would likely begin to specialise, picking up stuff they'd touched on in the past & taking it to the next level / mixing it with their other skills. The issues then arising are the capacity of the mind (mind rather than human brain since who knows what form it will have taken by this point).
I've assumed that with immortality we maintain physical (if still relevant) and mental fitness, as without those, extending life becomes torturous and pointless, causing people not only to not enjoy their lives, but also to become long suffering burdens on their families, just for the sake of a larger number of sun circuits.
> I think quasi-static websites should at least
> have plain HTML fallback.

http://www.nytimes.com
This title twists the quote. It's asking the reader a rhetorical question whether they would hire Steve Jobs but immediately lists Bezos and other innovative founders. I don't think Steve could get a decent job even when he was young nor did he seek one.
Then again, aircraft have looked pretty much the same for the last 50 years. Maybe programming isn't going to change as drastically as it has in the past, when more experimenting was taking place. (I'm saying this semi-tongue in cheek, who can predict these things, really).
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Exactly. The answer to their question is as much "no" now as it was 20 years ago.
I'm not sure the timing of this article is appropriate. Relevant yes, appropriate no.
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Not that it matters but... If you take it in context the 120 years are referring to when the flood was scheduled to occur, not the upper bounds on human life. (See Calvin)
If the puzzles on the website are representative of what level the course is aimed at, you can hardly advertise this as a "conference". It would seem more appropriate for interested sixth-formers, which makes it an admirable and worthwhile event, but probably of less interest to the majority of UK HN readers.
I think we people, who are using and depending on Java and Android shouldn't take these lawsuits too personal. It is just one point where the Oracle army (made of lawyers) found a possible hole in the defense of Google and tries to attack it. Who wins this battle doesn't actually concerns our lives at all (excluding the CEOs of Oracle and Google, of course).
The short attention span generation is just starting to learn why monopolies are bad.
I learnt fourier transforms as something done to 2D images before I learnt any other applications, so I can draw the FT of a simple image by hand, but I really struggle getting my head around other applications :(
The design is ok, but I don't like the way they've broken usability, standards and everything else.

I had hoped people would have learned from the Gawker disaster that requiring javascript to be able to see any content at all is a bad idea. I use the NoScript plugin in firefox and all I got was a blank screen at first.
In all fairness, Eclipse does have i-search, and on Ctrl-J it's not that difficult to discover.
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You are correct, that's the district I was referring to.
Sometimes there are very interesting posts there that never make it to the home. Perhaps the function that gives a post the score (something like a * voting + b * comments + c * total-comment-karma - d * age, I guess - never got to look into the code) could receive some adjustment, mostly in the age-related factor.
I am sure WP7 + Nokia will be a winning strategy. But it can not work until the phones are available!
Android would be a good choice also unless the system become so encumbered with patent costs if become unusable, which is possible.
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Fundamentalists working in care homes perhaps?
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I think the present emphasis on prisons as solely a form of rehabilitation is misguided. Prisons should be primarily about punishment.

What do I mean by that? Well, the urge to get revenge is an extremely strong part of the human psyche. We really want to see that those who wrong us wind up suffering for what they do. If someone wrongs us, our first instinct on the caveman level is to go over to his house and kill him.

Now, all this private killing tends to cause major problems in society if everybody is trying to individually punish everyone who wrongs 'em, so we outsource the whole "revenge" thing to the government, who sets up a criminal justice system to determine who actually deserves to be punished and then punishes them. You steal my bike, you go to prison and suffer, my bloodlust is satisfied, everything is cool. I don't have to kill you, which means your brother doesn't have to kill me, which means my brother doesn't have to kill him, and society is a much better place.

Now, in order for all this to work, we need the "revenge is bad and uncivilized" meme. This is the meme that discourages us from taking private revenge against people and tells us we should really just take it to the police. And that's fine and dandy, except some people seem to have generalized this from "private revenge is bad" to "all revenge is bad", and have started claiming that the justice system shouldn't be about revenge or punishment either.

I've gone on a bit already, but my main point is that the primary goal of the criminal justice system should be the satisfaction of the natural revenge-desire of crime victims, not necessarily the absolute minimization of the crime rate.

edit: Also, surely there's some fundamentally funky statistics going on with the "lowest reoffending rate" thing? Presumably prisoners are not assigned to this prison at random -- only the least problematic prisoners are allowed to go there.
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No, Twitter has over time replaced Google Reader for me. I don't know how to feel about it.
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There is a good documentary about it for Dutch speaking people http://beta.uitzendinggemist.nl/afleveringen/1094994
Except he congratulates them on using Java, not dalvik. The assumption being that Google would not circumvent the conditions for using Sun's Java tech/IP, naturally.
Graphs like this always make me wonder why people choose to live in Silicon Valley.

If the graphs are correct I'd need to make around $250,000 per year there to maintain the standard of living I have here in Tennessee.
It would make sense to first colonize outer space or, more controversially, sharply control births (or eliminate them altogether), as we would simply run out of space. You need prosperity and an abundance of resources for your cyclic program to work.
I wouldn't be surprised if nicotine proved to be important for longevity.
It's worth noting that this poll has dramatically increased the vote diversity of the new page. I hope that the increased attention will continue -- the new page needs lots more flagging & voting than it currently receives to keep the front page high-quality & diverse.
The first solution that fits isn't necessarily kept, unless it can be refined to a high enough level of development to compete with other emerging solutions. The eye, for example, evolved separately many times.

BTW, in human engineering the first solution is also often kept. Look at nuclear power. We probably should be using the thorium cycle, but we kept light water reactors because they were the first big reactor commercialized (for military reasons). Another example would be x86 architecture. I am not arguing that evolution is magical in any way, just that human engineering doesn't show signs of being much better in many cases.

I see a lot of engineers who are ignorant of biology claiming that "evolution is slow" and that we should be able to snap our fingers and do better. It's a popular point of view among the singularity crowd.

Engineers are trained to be arrogant about their abilities. This is probably a good thing, since it causes them to fling themselves at problems fearlessly. But it's also not necessarily realistic.
Look at the source: it's from the Daily Mail. I'm surprised that's not an autokilled domain, frankly.
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The puzzles on the web site are old and not representative, but I've not had time to update them yet. With nearly 50% of the attendance already booked, I've had very little time to go back and address the inadequacies of the original site.

But thanks for the reminder - I need to go and address that. As a stop-gap - here's a list of talk titles from 2010. Not all of these made it - we had 50 x 5 minute talks, and some of these didn't make the cut:

http://www.mathsjam.com/MathsJamTalksOffered_2010.html

But the talks and puzzles were really a starting point. The main purpose was to get people together to talk about what they are interested in. The talks only accounted for 60% of the time, the rest was in coffee breaks where people talked about maths at all levels. We had PhDs talking about their latest difficulties, and industrial mathematicians talking about the applications of the latest results from various areas to their work. We had teachers finding new ways to present concepts, and we had retired people lending their expertise and thoughts to students.

And there were puzzles, demonstrations, magic, and other stuff that geeky people like.
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I wish the new page had two columns. The right column would contain posts that have been flagged, the left column would contain unflagged posts. This would free up space for more valid posts to get looked at by allowing spam posts to be quickly moved aside. The posts could be moved aside when some threshold of people had flagged, and any post I flagged would be moved aside in my view of the new page.

Also, it would be good if posts that have made it to the front page were removed from the new page freeing up even more space.
If more characters lived extended lifespans, perhaps the general public would be more accepting of the pursuit of immortality
At only 20wH/l for this battery, and with the grid and metal parts still visible, this "transparent" battery does nothing great.

The energy density is laughable.
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> How bad is it? He spends 12 paragraphs "justifying" 7% future growth alternative scenario based on the 7% observed growth from Q3 to holiday Q4.

Haha, that's incredible. Lies, damned lies and statistics.
It should be noted that this result was completely expected. It turns out that light traveling through a medium can have 3 different velocities: phase, group and signal. Typically the latter two are the same and we can think of the group velocity as being the real "speed of the particle", but that is not always true. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_velocity#Physical_interpr... for more.

This experiment manages to measure the signal velocity for the leading photon and verifies what we already knew for larger signals.
How else would you achieve it - throwing exceptions for program flow is quite common in Python for example; Iterator.next() throws StopIteration when it reaches the end of the iterable.
I love having images to scan instead of just headlines (which Andy seems to detest), so when my local newspaper redesigned their page, I fell in love http://www.sydsvenskan.se/ (Swedish)

Breaking news at the very top, then a top story, then the other top 4 stories. Then a simple scrolling list of the latest news by time descending (great when you check in a few times a day).

Of course, as a local paper they have a lot less content making it a much easier job than something on the scale of the NYT.
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Kludgy as it sounds, I just made a list and dict object that was expandable and had more pythonic way of dealing with arrays.
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I wish people would stop calling the act of scraping together a new linux distro "writing an OS."
I think it's a weak argument, actually I think it's a slippery slope if CEOs can't say anything without that implicitly granting all sorts of permissions. It's a valid defense that Schwartz obviously meant to welcome Android to being based on Java, assuming they didn't infringe on Suns intellectual property.

"I'm happy people is so excited about watching our movies" is not an endorsement of pirating said movie.
It would be interesting to compare and contrast this with any data about polyphasic sleep. I'm all for, and very interested in, getting less sleep but feeling better, and previous informal experiments have suggested that it's possible, but there's so much conflicting data.