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Usually 1-2 hours per day.

Although I don't think the time spending on social sites could measure how social one can be. You would probably have to correlate interactions with people and online social activities into the equation to get something meaningful. The dilemma there is that the latter two at the most is hard to quantify.
Looks good - just make sure you bring a laptop with a modern browser installed to the presentation.
Compare: http://pepelsbey.github.com/shower/en.htm
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A line like

However it is all moot anyway since we all die in december next year

would fit nicely as a conclusion for the article.

More seriously the extrapolation just doesnt make sense. a hudred years ago someone extrapolated the city sizes and concluded that urban civilisation was doomed because of all the horse manure produced by a 'civillised' city. Thats why we all live in caves now.

EDIT : link -> http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past-th...
This comment illustrates the problem with comments about problems with Haskell. It doesn't quite understand what it's complaining about.

Functor vs. Monad in this case is a way of talking about how exactly this construct should work --- it's not a meaningless distinction. As another response to my comment mentioned, both a functor or a monad are applicable. The question is whether two instances of this data type (I'm using non-Haskell-y terms for clarity) have influence on each other (in rough terms). So it's not that I was complaining that the parent was wrong. I was complaining that the semantics he was imposing on his quoted strings were too restrictive. Another poster instead mentioned ways in which mine were too loose. So my post was part of a constructive debate on what exactly we want quoted strings to do. That Haskell provides a vocabulary for communicating precisely and tersely is not it's fault, it is one of its strengths.
We can actually create gold today. Granted crating a 'tiny' amount of radioative gold is not particularly sensible but it's still possible.
If you want evidence of the complete worthlessness of this article, here it is: they list the self-employed tax deduction as a "tax advantage." This despite the fact that it only partially offsets the self-employment tax. You pay more taxes on self-employment income, not less.

(Technically, of course, the self-employment tax is the equivalent of the portion of your payroll taxes that your employer pays on your behalf, which don't appear on your paystub. In practice, of course, your employer factors these taxes into your total compensation, and they affect what kind of salary they offer you, so it's silly to argue that you're not the one paying them in the long run. But the reality is that you pay more taxes on $50,000 of freelance income than you pay on $50,000 of salary.)
Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/605/
Is that web site strictly for absolute beginners? I find it a petty that I can't skip the beginner lessons to try to learn something more advanced.
I'm a little disapointed. PyPy has just recently been becoming a fast attractive alternative to CPython (or Cython compilation).

If they go the STM route and spend years hashing out the details only to be 2x as slow as CPython, then that cuts out a huge number of people who would like to practically use PyPy.
> Does this proposal entail writing Python code without mutation of non-local state?

Pypy using STM should not change the semantics of the Python language or require alterations to code which does not rely on implementation details (code which relies on the GIL for its thread-safety may have to be fixed, it already has to be fixed for Jython compatibility).

> Isn't this harder in Python than in Haskell or Ocaml?

I'd expect STM to be much harder in imperative languages than in functional languages indeed. In fact, I don't think I've heard of a successful STM implementation in imperative languages yet.

On the other hand, I think most tentatives so far have been with STM as a library applied explicitly, and you run into issues of (mutable) objects "crossing" the transaction barrier in imperative languages, issue which "does not" happen in Haskell (there are ways to subvert the type system, but then you're on your own. In normal uses, I think objects under STM live in a different monad, and therefore can't be freely mixed with objects living outside of it) (I believe this issue would happen in OCaml, so on that front OCaml would be little better than imperative languages). This issue should not exist if all of the code runs under STM (ignoring explicit hooks to do so built into the system), and this should allow for "easy" implementation of explicit memory transactions as well (one of STM's promises is composability, so you should be able to compose multiple bytecode-transactions in a single explicit transaction).
Unfortunately, the article doesn't talk at all about overclocking. It simply disables logging across the OS - and I want verbose logs for my unsupported hardware. Disabling logging does not mean you're going faster, you're just doing less at the same speed.

Of much more interest and utility to me is the fact that the Snapdragon APQ8060, running at 1.2 GHz in the Touchpad, is rated to 1.5 GHz and seems to be stable at 1.7 GHz. Here are a few threads on overclocking:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16908501
http://www.webosbuzz.com/hp-touchpad/694-how-overclock-hp-to...
Quadratic growth is a subset of exponential growth. So both are correct?
We've created a simple two-person character-at-a-time talk utility modeled after old-school unix 'talk/ntalk/ytalk' (or, if you like, VMS PHONE).

As far as we're aware, this is the ONLY existing implementation of character-at-at-time chat available anywhere on the web; we looked pretty hard and couldn't find any, so we wrote this to scratch our own itch. (The best we'd come up with prior to this was a shared etherpad doc.)

We would love help (a) making sure this scales to high loads and even more crucially (b) getting it to work under IE8.
This looks beautiful, and I'm definitely in love with the idea of writing presentations in HTML/JS/CSS rather than in a blob of Keynote or Powerpoint, but there's one thing keeping me back:

Keynote gives me a second display with a timer, the current and next slides, and notes. That's huge. On the rare occasion that I present I don't script out everything I'm going to say, and the presenter info keeps me from rambling too long or forgetting what my next point is.
There's the same issue with normal locks: any synchronization primitive is going to incur overhead. That is, in fact, one of the defense heralded by some in the Python community against the "GIL should Go" mobthink.
Mozilla does have an explicit mission statement.

> Mozilla's mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web.

http://www.mozilla.org/about/mission.html

http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto
Interesting.. but it assumes that thousand years from now it will still take an entire woman, not just a sub-component called fertile frozen egg to create a baby ex-vivo
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What about the Samsung picture frame some blogger presented. It predates the iPad by years and looks exactly like the Galaxy Tab.
I believe as long as iOS exists, google will be pushing Android to assert their dominance. I guess that's why they still don't really push chromeOS. (Do any chromeos laptops exist?)
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I tend to agree. Hipmunk has a hip name, and is trying to create a brand for themselves, but it's hard to use word of mouth to market a flight search engine... it's like trying to use viral marketing to market a detergent.

It's hard to compete against established brands like Expedia, and Orbitz that has millions to play with.
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Have you considered reading the fine article? That issue is covered.
The obligatory xkcd link to go with this article[1]. But to turn this in a more interesting direction, there are many unimaginable things that can happen in 5,000 years and I can think of a few. And also reasons why people choosing to self correct downwards might be not so bad. Some of the below were very uncomfortable for me to imagine although I try to practice not closing my mind.

Increased Productivity - So far, technology has made each person much more productive but it has also made them more expensive on the environment. I don't see that changing. And with more people being able to do more, the base level of required population drops. so a self chosen drop might be optimal for society's continued well being.

Life span increases and uploaded minds - If I were alive in 5000 years I would be suprised if the average life span had not been extended by a significant amount. Not to mention the possibility of minds hosted [2] on computations carried out by photons, particle spin or whatever phlebotinum they have.

Environmental stress - With people living longer and getting ever more expensive for the earth to host maybe it is ok that we are already self correcting now. Food may not be a problem but exponentially growing economic productivity could be. A lot of the environmental damage would be greatly reduced if there were less people[3]. This is a very dangerous line of thinking to traverse though and must be done only by those with a temperment strongly fortified with wisdom. Too rational an approach at scale will not be good for the individual.

Designer Babies - I read that people are already filtering baby genders and against diseases while they are still embryos [4]. It is only a matter of time till filtering graduates to optimization. Ignoring the possibility of a brave new world or gattaca scenario and the subsequent upheaval then destabilization of society as the have nots revolt, such a population could easily optimally repopulate the world at a controlled rate without people having to marry to make babies.

[1] http://xkcd.com/605/

[2] The idea of mind uploading I find thrilling but very uncomfortable. Even if I were one such uploaded being, the difference between that being and I would dwarf the difference between me and a bacterium. I may as well have died.

[3] Assuming it is not the endpath of civilization to completely dismantle its planet for its needs. and then go invisible.

[4] http://singularityhub.com/2009/02/25/designer-babies-like-it...
One thing I've found is that using a bit of a subset of regular expressions seems to work very nicely for doing many lexing tasks. Things like using ^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]+ (or whatever shorthand your RE system has for those classes) can make a lexer nicer to work with. Now I wouldn't be trying to do lots with most of the other features in them for a lexer but it ends up a compact but simple to understand way of describing the input the lexer is looking for to pull tokens out.
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There are models from Samsung and Acer.

http://www.google.com/chromebook/
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I was doing the same thing with my old MSX-2; it's a Z80 based system which is easy to program, has a video digitizer, midi keyboard, 2 3.5 floppy drives, 256 kb memory, tons of software and communication via modem or rs232 interface. I'm still looking for the schema for the ethernet card; not much luck there though. I run, depending on what i'm doing, http://uzix.sourceforge.net/, Basic or MSX-DOS and I must say it all works quite nicely.
Yes, once the page is loaded, everything it needs to run is there. There are no further AJAX calls or loads.

You know, I've seen some services lately that allow you to tag random data and put it in the cloud. As long as you were clear that all user data was public, you could easily use one of those for user-related storage.

And now, of course, there's WebStorage, available on all modern browsers.

I'm looking forward to a future micro-project that incorporates all of that stuff. Should be a hoot. If I had my druthers, I'd try to pick something that everybody would think would be impossible, then do it.
I guess the absence of the APIs can't really be both baffling and not surprising, but I agree with your point. Especially Apple will be sad to see it's 30% go, but it has to realize that the app store will still have its place, if only for the discoverability. Web app builders on the other hand can do so much more with these APIs, while circumventing app store rules and pushing updates whenever they want. Perhaps this could be the rise of alternative app stores on the iOS platform as well, that would be awesome. Fingers crossed for Apple implementing this.
If you write anything of any consequence whatsoever, it will be employed by thousands or even millions of people, run for hundreds of thousands of hours, do many dollars worth of work. It will likely outlive you.

You are also likely to find yourself, one day, in possession of a machine that, if it doesn't work correctly, will destroy your company's value and get all of your friends laid off. [1] You and your colleagues will have built that machine, partly from scratch and partly from stuff you found lying around on the Internet, and you will be handed the button and told to turn it on.

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[1] Mind you, these are minor consequences. Really important engineered things have much more severe consequences when they break: Patients die, soldiers die, hundreds of airline passengers die, entire towns fill with water, a few thousand square kilometers become uninhabitable for centuries, an entire regional ecosystem dies...
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_why is not an average programmer. His advise is good for masters of programming. He is also a super nice guy and sounds like he thinks anyone could become a super programmer.

I don't think so. And I fear his advice will be taken most to hart by below average programmers.
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> Compare: http://pepelsbey.github.com/shower/en.htm

Your link is significantly worse than deck.js on "non-modern browser" (Camino in my case, so ~FF3): shower's slidemap is completely broken and the slides do not open "full document". deck.js has layout glitches in the navigation and status displays, and drops the transition effects (and stuff like drop-shadows) but the slides themselves work.

S5 is more spartan, but more reliable than either proposal.

Edit: and as opposed to S5, neither can really be printed even in a browser able to display them correctly (tested in Safari 5.1):

* S5 has a pared down print CSS, you get only the slide contents (not sure if it's possible to get additional notes), ugly but good.

* deck.js is unprintable, the printed document changes erratically depending on the slide you're on and it never looks like something that could ever be used

* shower is completely broken when a slide is fullscreened (prints a single page displaying the bottom half of the current view), in "overview" mode it does have a nice print css... but one which emphasizes the looks of the slideshow rather than having good/useful prints: there's a truckload of space between slides, an ugly drop shadow around each and every slide (drop shadows which don't even appear in the overview), apparently no handling of page breaks (so slides are cut off across pages, half on one page and half on the next)

Why would you print them, you ask? Well to give printouts of course, but also to export to PDF, a very useful feature of MacOSX.

edit: tried Shower in Opera (11.11) since it's by an Opera Software guy, it's a train-wreck: fullscreen slides don't work and print is terminally broken and utterly unusable. Latest version is 11.50 so I'll probably try again with that one, but not really impressed so far.

edit2: tested in 11.50, "fullscreen" slides work correctly, print is still completely broken and unusable.
This topic was posted yesterday, but didn't generate much interest (8 points, 22 hours ago, 0 comments):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2912642

http://medgadget.com/2011/08/nanologix-makes-live-cell-petri...

Both articles pointed towards articles on the technology from various tech blogs. Here's the official press release and company website:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110808005626/en/Amer...

http://nanologix.com/index.html

Regrettably, the actual study is hidden behind a paywall (except for subscribers and students in Great Britain and Germany).

https://www.thieme-connect.com/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0031-128509...
I like the idea behind this and other projects like it, but I have one main issue with it/them:

It isn't trivial to share presentations, which is something that most people will want to do. Sadly the fact that you can build a presentation in HTML (and that people can look at it online) doesn't outweigh sharing a PDF. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for lighter more flexible solutions (which html is), but the market as a whole generally isn't.
Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine, which was used to inoculate millions. Just about every medical procedure used in practice and documented in textbooks was developed by the best doctors, systematized, and then scaled out.

You pretty much sunk your argument with the very first example. Salk gave the polio vaccine away for free so that kids wouldn't have to die anymore from it.

Elitism states that only the best should have it. Altruism states that everyone deserves to have it.
I didn't know there were other socialist dictatorships in South America. We've had many (right-wing) military dictatorships though.

I don't particularly like him, but I think it was inevitable that someone like him would show up given the history of economic inequality in the country. You have to realise that you can only tell people it's their fault for being poor for so long before they react.
I think it was a Dreamcheeky. Here's a video of it being controller by an iphone app I wrote: http://www.colorfulwolf.com/blog/2010/03/11/iphone-rocket-la...
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Quite right. I didn't express that very well. An interface is appropriate with implementations for each separate library.
One good read is: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1454466
"Software Transactional Memory: Why Is It Only a Research Toy?" by Cascaval et al.

I think transactional memory systems with at least some hardware support are potentially more interesting.
Excellent. Now we gotta recode all the plugins :(
I think he might have meant 2x slower than without STM and not 2x slower than CPython. Also from everything I have read you would still have the option to not use STM at all and just use the GIL which would not come with the extra overhead.
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I like to think about money this way: when the world ends and we are left in some of post-apocalyptic zombie epic society do you think that gold will still be valuable? Gold cannot feed you, protect you, or help you survive in any way. Besides being very resistant to corrosion and very malleable, gold really doesn't have that many special properties.

Really the only reason gold is considered to be so valuable is because its rare. But if you really want to talk about money, then goods and materials have far more intrinsic value than gold.

In fact, your post is totally wrong. Most currency was very nonstandard, with all sorts of alloys and rare metals being used.
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Not sure why this is relevant (also I thought new users were meant to be green?). In any case, if you read the author's github page, touch support is in the works.
We have this already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916374
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> all civilizations on earth

Not all. Silver was money in China. A significant fact because for several centuries European nations wanted Chinese goods but China wanted nothing from western barbarians but their silver.
It seems I'm in the minority here, but I really like what Arrington is saying.

People will pay $100-$200 for a dedicated eBook reader. As much as I love my iPad, it does come with a few extra things that one doesn't necessarily need. There's room in the market for a $200 tablet from a consumer point. I have no idea if it makes sense from the manufacturer's point of view, though.

That said, this recently created space [cheaper tablets] has started to be dominated by Android tablets. Can webOS find a place there? I don't know. But I think it will have a greater chance of taking on this market than the $500 range overwhelmingly handled by Apple's iPad.

edit: if they go as cheap as chips and hardware + a little more, they can also have a huge impact on basic tablets used for education, etc. in my dream world, techcrunch somehow licenses webOS and makes the CrunchPad once and for all.

double edit: in the comments someone suggested subsidizing the tablet device to lower its cost and making it up using app sales or a subscription. think game consoles. that would be interesting.
That's not the point, you said 'I can get 2% on bonds' which is a completely nonsense comparison, that's what I was saying. You confused a 2% per year yield with a 2% per transaction yield.

And the hypothetical pilot that I used as an example doesn't have to pay any costs - he just puts a gold bar in his suitcase. With gold prices of 33k€ per kilo, he can (hypothetically) put a kilo in his luggage and make 660€ on each transaction, or start with whatever initial amount he can scrape together and double his money in 7 weeks.

(yes there are probably regulations on what pilots can do when on duty, and customs regulations etc, my point is that there are many people who can externalize the costs you mention and they can make a handsome profit. If I'm a sailor on a cargo ship, it would be easy to take 10 kg of gold and make 6600 euros on a shipment. Split that half way with whoever bankrolls it, and it's still a great ROI).
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Would it be possible to only run the STM code when the program is multi-threaded? This would require the program detecting that it is single or multi threaded (would that be difficult?) and might provide a good trade off: either be single threaded and be fast, or use a lot of threads and be 2-10 times slower than Cython, but without the GIL.
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There's a balance though. In your free time, you should be the mad scientist, but on the job, correctness and maintainability is crucial in your final product. You can even play the mad scientist at work, but production-quality code has to be clean and professional, and that should be your code's final form.
It usually depresses me, because it reminds of the kind of progress we could of made in the next 30-40 years, if we had only put forth the same kind of effort.
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I stand corrected. I vote yours as the best comment in this thread.
People may pay $100-200 for a device like that, the manufacturing reality may not allow for such a device at the moment.