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Wait - you think someone is going to build a robot more than once? Why wouldn't a person design a robot to be created via fairly generic methods such as cnc, 3d printing, etc, at which point a large portion of the work can already be automated. Creating an assembler, from presumably fairly generic assembly machines would also probably be a small amount of work, but interesting. At this point it becomes fairly automatic.

In case you aren't aware, most of the stuff I describe above is how people build factories right freaking now -- they take a lot of general purpose assembly machines and string them together in sequence. Some of the machines have special purpose, but only in high volume environments, and are supported by the general purpose ones.
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It is a bit of a worrying development, because science hasn't traditionally been a strong point of partisan differentiation across the board. There is a long history of Christian conservatives disliking evolution, but that specific controversy tended to stay fairly isolated, and didn't become a general anti-science position. If anything, conservatives have at various times been big promoters of certain kinds of science (nuclear research, genetically modified crops, etc.), and each party confined its objections to a few issues, and mostly on the fringes of the party (e.g. the Christian wing on one side, and the new-age/hippie wing on the other).

If I had to guess what's driving this, it'd be a mixture of:

1) ascendancy of a more "movement conservative" wing of the Republican party, displacing the more pro-science business-and-defense establishment; and

2) the ideologically objectionable area has expanded from evolution to include stem cells and climate change, and once you get to three different things you have a list, and then people start perceiving it as a pattern.

I must say that I was pretty surprised at some of the open attacks on science, though, like the calls to cut the NSF's budget, and people like Eric Cantor going on TV to attack specific computer scientists by name (while misrepresenting their research). I didn't realize that the National Science Foundation now has the status of something like NPR among the conservative base.
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I do appreciate that the layout uses the kopimi pyramid shape!
Don't.

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Purchase a theme for $20 that would take you weeks to design and more time to slice and code. Get profitable, then hire a professional designer.
120GB is low, but not nearly as low as other limits I've heard of.

I'm in Halifax, and the ISPs here seem pretty decent. Bell Aliant doesn't have caps at all - they used to be a distinct entity from Bell, IIRC, and are still sort of separate from the Bell that's often mentioned - and Eastlink caps at 250GB, or were planning to a few months ago anyway, but that's only for their 50 and 100 Mbps plans. The normal, standard-in-a-bundle plan is 20Mbps and is uncapped. I've been pretty pleased.
One of the Greplin cofounders previously created Zenter: http://techcrunch.com/2007/06/19/google-acquires-zenter-to-f...
What do you say to people who have this "world changing app" and want you to make it for free? Keep in mind these are usually friends and an "eff off" isn't really viable.
You'd have to work out the maximum theoretical food production without phosphorus fertilizers or petrochemical insecticides, and without using aquifers or artificial irrigation. Basically roll back the green revolution. The world was bumping up against food production limits when the green revolution happened in the 60s. But the green revolution is totally unsustainable. The sustainable population is probably somewhere around a pre-1960 number.
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It's less laughing and more "first world paternalistic concern for a third world nation trashing about".
At least for me there's no such choice as delete in the System Roots keychain.
The only thing I can do is to set it to "never trust" and still Chrome/Safari show it as trusted: http://imgur.com/NcUYf
Hi Colin thank you for making this place so interesting. I struggle to teach myself maths but greatly enjoy it.

As I see it the most applicable branch of maths for games falls under the umbrella of Clifford/Geometric Algebra - stuff like quaternions, cross products and bivectors. Indeed graphics programmers would gain a lot of power and elegance from the unified view provided by geometric algebra - rather than the hodgepudge of seemingly unrelated concepts as it is currently presented.

Topics covered in a linear algebra class that are typically used in games are basic - vector arithmetic, dot products, linear and affine transformations and projection.

Below you note that a vector and a matrix are different things. But I think the word is polymorphic. Sometimes, the notation aspect - table based syntax for arranging numbers is the focus. So someone will say that matrices are made up of n column vectors. Other times the focus will be on the linear transformation aspect. Where a matrix is more like a higher order function and is evidently different from the entities it is transforming. It simply requires a change of frame.
Small nitpick, I know it's not meant for a "serious" application, but this seems to have a significant digit problem. The number of people to have ever lived can't possibly be known to that kind of accuracy.

Sorry, that sort of thing just bugs me for some reason ;)
While this is true for most consumer users who work using their providers DNS, for networks such as enterprises/corporate locations, it's common to find they all share a common internal DNS resolver, which may be located in one physical location, while the clients are sprawled all about over the world.

I think this does give a bit more power to the geo-aware dns services (such as Cisco GSS), if they implement it.. but it's a long way off, as many ISPs and networks would need to upgrade their resolvers to support this extension.
Bottom line: too many sites try to have too many features - they should focus on having one prime functionality. It's like writing a paper - it has to have a thesis that is clear.

I would disagree that minimalism is dying. In fact, minimalism is key these days. Users are now bombarded with too many apps and websites. A minimalist app with a clear thesis (what does it do) is essential. People have to understand what your site DOES in 1 minute or less.
Google is doing something comparable with Google Voice and Search recognition transcriptions, inviting corrections both manually and by using similar techniques to spell correct in text search.

I suspect a lack of data is the biggest challenge in improving speech recognition
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Google is doing something comparable with Google Voice and Search recognition transcriptions, inviting corrections both manually and by using similar techniques to spell correct in text search.

I suspect a lack of data is not the biggest challenge in improving speech recognition
The synchronizing with Dropbox is pretty clever. Had never thought of that. Probably some latency issues--it wouldn't suit all cases but definitely would be a simple fix to a few problems I've had in the past.
Thanks for pointing out some of the more anecdotal evidence from this article. I wish there was some data to compare things instead of it seeming like 'things were better in the good old days.'

One thing that is for certain is that obesity is a huge problem for younger generations. Part of that may be from less physical activity, but it is also no doubt due to recent food innovations that taste better, are cheaper, and are way worse for you.

Yes, kids these days text more than they talk on the phone, which is more than they probably talk in person. But if you look at it from the broader picture, plenty of aspects of life are the same as they've always been. For high school and college kids, the 'epitome of fun/social' is still going to parties. We have better/more porn to watch, but the end goal will always be to have sex with real girls. Sure, some kids grow up behind a computer and become very socially awkward, but were there really no shy and awkward kids before computers?

Action sports have taken off in the past twenty years, where 'physicality' is the center of it all. And its due to no small part of technology, which creates better equipment and increases exposure to actually make the sports more physical than they ever were.

The kids are still alright. Look at what kids still value as 'cool.' Not the video gamers, but the athletes. Being fat will never be 'cool.' Real social activities are always regarded as more fun then online chatting.
There are more elegant ways to add touch-usable capabilities than gobbling up real-estate (iOS implements the "context menu" as a long-click meta-mode). You could also use persistent buttons like PalmOS/Android.

Discoverability is a prime way to keep things elegant (ie, don't push it in a user's face - let them find it easily).

Of course, if Microsoft wants to address BOTH touch and desktop, then I wish them well... that's a herculean task and I don't think any solution work well for either.
I've paid hundreds of dollars for personal finance software that each turned out to be terrible (Quicken, iBank, Koku, in that order).

$5 per month is a reasonable price that will motivate me to continue making the product kick ass for those who value it as much as I.

If confidence & organization with your personal finance isn't worth $5, then I suggest you use your bank's built-in online system or Mint.
And there's a hell of a lot of bad developers out there.
I see your point - however I still think that the company's predisposition is too important to be left out. In this spirit I suspect premature scaling to be a dependent variable (instead of being a first-level factor).
In computing, there is an emphasis on the tools, rather than what you do with them.

It's worth noting that it's not limited to computing either. Countless amateur photographers spend their time discussing hardware, rather than techniques and other aspects that would benefit their craft to a much greater extent.

Personally, as much as I'm fascinated by the tools, I'm much more curious about what you do with them. So I'm always glad when I see someone succeed and create something useful with an odd stack of technologies. It reminds me to focus less on the tools and more on the creation process.
I'm not sure how true this would be for the general public. I like human interaction when I'm out, but I typically only avoid restaurants that have bad food.
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The Catalan team built a human castle—a Catalan tradition recently recognized as inmaterial world heritage—and raised the Catalan flag that symbolizes self-determination—a human right—, while the Spaniards in the event started shouting, whistling and insulting the Catalans, as seen in the video.
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People are predators and that's what predators do, never stop searching for what they need. Predatory behavior is the problem, and there is little will in successful predators to outlaw there own behavior.
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IntelliSense knows the library, omnicompletion just autocompletes similar words in the current file.
This is an Über Failure if I have ever seen one. They detected the breech on July 19th but didn't think to check to see if anything was amiss?!? I think that OS companies and browsers must come down hard on compromised certificate authorities. A ZERO tolerance policy should be enforced resulting in a permanent BAN if your private keys are compromised!
VXLAN: encapsulating L2 packets inside of L3 - IETF Draft
Why don't you put it in your HN profile?
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Tower cost is probably exponentially related to height

Exponentially? So that every additional 50 feet, say, doubles the cost? I seriously doubt it. I would expect a quadratic relationship: the incremental cost to make it taller is proportional to the current height. Maybe I'm missing something and the relationship is cubic, but it's certainly not exponential.

(I know, maybe you didn't mean "exponentially" literally. But we're engineers here :-)
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Great tips. I will work on them to implement as you suggested. About the stream, I think I will put some images related to the question areas or may be some additional info on each question.
I need to learn to be good at story telling. I have tried so many times, but this is all I could come up with. May be I should sit with my friends to come up with a good and a compelling story.
Thanks for the great advice.
I'm guessing this article is great as the site has been down a while (congrats! I think?). However, I'd like to read it :), cached version anywhere?
Finally, a place to store all of my information on Michael Bay.
Gartner: Social CRM Market Will Reach $1B In Revenue By 2012
Why must you laugh? If it works, why not?
Same - they never said I didn't have to go through - they just said go through here. I knew better and got the tug instead.
Inkling lets you sketch on paper, record each stroke in your graphics program
Off topic, but according to your website the first human was born January 1.025 in year -50000. :)
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You can certainly build a computer out of legos. Or at least a Difference Engine, and what really is a better introduction to computability than making your own calculator? http://acarol.woz.org/difference_engine.html
No, it uses the same DNS server your OS uses.
Someone who "doesn't believe in commit messages" thinks his opinion on VCS is worth something?
> Every feature of git may be liability in some environments

Scoff.

> I might need a controlled server with an audit-trail where any ability to rewrite history is a liability. SVN wins hands down here.

No, it does not. Nobody can mess with YOUR git repo and while they can make their repo look like whatever they want, they could do that with any program by replaying/recording a chosen history. Moreover, git uses the content hash as an identifier so even if history is rewritten, you automatically know.

> I might want the ability to lock binary files since my repo is mainly a set of designs created by the gfx people. SVN wins.

Only binary files? But fine, there are numerous ways you could prevent this from happening with hooks, but even if someone did slip past and checked in a change to a file you had forgotten to protect you can see that change and revert it trivially. Catastrophe avoided.

> On the contrary, maybe my environment is such that the svn server is on the local network and I actually feel uncomfortable with people running around with their laptops and all of my VCS history on them. Git fails hard.

This strikes me as a made-up fear. Are you this paranoid about browser cache files from developers browsing the repo? Editor caches? If you've got secrets presumably they'd be easily leaked from specific single files. It's not like the attacker would need to achieve a 100% repo duplicate to win - having any company files accessible is a lose, even if they didn't happen to be sensitive this time.

But anyways, let's say you've locked everything else down except git. Two choices, (well, and uncountable others no doubt, but...) break the project into submodules you would be willing to lose, or use git fully - on a VPN-only share, such that then the laptop gets turned off the repo goes away.

> SVN is a serious VCS.

Not in the way you mean it, a serious contender. Using it cripples a project by requiring it to work the SVN way, a slow painful, second-only-to-VSS way.

It's not like it needs to be ripped out as a security hole (that I know of), but nobody should consider using it for new projects, or should have in the past few years.
Ah, sorry I misunderstood your question.

To answer your actual question, I personally do it because I almost wish the journals would do something nasty to me. Then, I would tell everyone I meet at every conference about that for the next few years and would hasten the decline of the current status-quo.
The blog was written by a Ph.D. candidate at UC Davis with expertise in the biochemistry of DNA repair. I'd say that he has some expertise and he likely has a greater knowledge of the effects of ionizing radiation than a mid-level TSA official would.
> So even sortition might be exploitable.

But the idea is that it's not easy to exploit. If it is more than trivially difficult to leverage, then that is wasted time/effort that dilutes from the greater message.

ie, why waste effort on the "tie-breaker" message when you can just spend that effort avoiding it altogether and push yourself beyond the margin-of-error?

The key to sortition is that effort expended on gaming sortition is wasted and non-complementary effort compared to the original contest/competition... right now, getting that 0.1% by dirty tricks is equivalent to getting-out-the-vote of 0.1% more of the populace.
Do you guys know that shooting theives stops them from stealing ?
I really wish Chrome would warn me when a site jumps to a new CA or even a new certificate. Last I checked, details on the current certificate wasn't made available to plugins, so I can't easily write it myself.
> So say you search for something on google; google returns its search results page, your browser gets the page, looks at all the links, asks DNS for the IP's to all those links' addresses, and DNS auto-sends YOUR (truncated) IP to all those addresses' servers?

Yes.

> I guess I'm unclear on why it would do that.

The DNS prefetching done by the browser exists to save your time.
Instead of waiting to do a DNS lookup until you click on a link in the
current page, the browser does DNS lookups on all links in the page as
soon as the page is loaded. By the time you're done deciding which link
to follow, the browser is already done with the initial step required to
follow any link on the page.

> If the truncated IP coming to a CDN isn't coming with an actual request, how do they know that at some time later your actual request is from your truncated IP? (I also don't understand why a CDN would use some sort of DNS address as a geolocation strategy, but I guess that's another discussion.)

You seem to have misread the description.

A CDN is a group of multiple servers and all of them could, in theory,
respond to your request for a specific web page. The servers in the
group are spread out all over the globe, but all of them share the same
domain name. When you look up the IP address of the shared domain name,
this new GIS draft sends your truncated IP address to the DNS server of
the CDN so it can choose the server in the group that is "closest" to
you.

I hope that makes more sense.
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If that were true then at some point in the future we will go back to a pre-1960 number. Do you honestly think that will happen? And how?
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Groupon's largest shareholder and chairman, Eric Lefkofsky, has a back story investors might want to know.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/10/groupon-eric-lefkofsk...
I use it for all of my dotfiles. A small script moves them to the ~/Dropbox/bckp/dotfiles and replaces them with a symbolic link. Also for my ~/scripts folder.

It's wonderful to have access to those in a matter of minutes if you are starting with a new machine...
Integrating Location based functionality into your apps makes them more feature rich and robust. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Android's built-in Location service.
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Does anyone know approximately how much dedication would this course require (in hours per week)?
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This is great. Seriously. I cut my teeth in the early 2000s writing the type of PHP code that would make your eyes bleed. Global variables everywhere. HTML/PHP/MySQL in the same file. Career-wise I ended up going down a backend/database developer path, so if I do anything with consumer-facing web applications, it's on my free time.

I'm working on such an app now, and right now the fastest way I can get anything done is writing similar code to what I wrote in 2003. It's not quite as bad, but I continually succumb to doubt. Shouldn't I be using a framework? Wouldn't Python or Ruby be a better language to use now? Is it 'cheating' if I just throw these form elements in an HTML table? Shouldn't I be using something more scalable for the backend than a default installation of MySQL 5.1?

And yet, every time I try and address any of the above, it just gets frustrating to me. I have a limited of free time to work on this web application each week. So I want to spend that time actually DOING things with my web application, not just ramping up on learning some stuff so that I can maybe do some things a few weeks from now. This web application is getting a bit of traction with users. I always figured that I would eventually "code myself into a corner," and that making these suboptimal technology stack choices would result in me hitting some local maxima that would bite me in the ass and I'd have to basically rewrite everything.

But after reading this blog post, I feel a lot better about my choices. If this guy can make his web application work with the technology stack he prefers, then so can I.
It's a lot of money compared to what they spend on other essential SaaS products. A GitHub account for that same team would only cost $12/mo. Bug tracking (assuming you're not using GitHub's), $29/mo. 2 1GB Linode plans, $80/mo. Email from Google Apps, $0/mo.

I think it's less about "a lot of money" and more about there being plenty of room for a competitor. Especially one with a "$49/mo for unlimited agents" model.
What sites are running this hilarious back end?
While I'm not sure if it counts as "riddled with ads," Skype is certainly moving in the direction of ads: http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/03/advertising.html