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Pretty sure you're missing the point. This kid is 13, and he went and did his own research and experimentation, and followed through with a patent and a very well-written letter to the American Museum of Natural History.

My kids are younger, but I would be happy if I could give them the sort of environment/encouragement to follow their curiosity even half as well as this kid.
Giving away phone isn't new, as long as they're tied to a cellphone contact (they will be). Giving away smartphones is new, but given the pace of smartphone adoption it's not surprising- they're effectively replacing dumbphones in countries like the US.
Colin,

As civil adults and in all seriousness, would you stop? Do you see why I've complained? Cruft is cruft is cruft. Clearly your strategy to mend the dupe problem isn't having a positive effect. Maybe this is because new users aren't aware of the rules (but there will always be new users) maybe it's because people are willfully ignoring the rule (but in this case why should they pay you any attention?) or perhaps there are a multitude of reasons that all contribute to the gradual decline of the richness of information as a community grows. Whatever the case may be, as a long time reader of HN and a recent user, I find that the kinds of comments you make where you show a post is a duplicate does nothing to increase the richness of the content. Instead, your comment is yet another I have to try to ignore in search of meaningful content. Please don't take this personally. I'm sorry to have called you out like this publicly, but I don't know how else to reach you: please stop.
What you're saying is true if 'wasting time' was actually a problem. How often, though, in the course of reading a random news post or checking Twitter for the 478th time that day, do you realize the reason your program segfaults, or figure out to solution to making your application more modular and flexible?

While not an ideal use of your time, developers rarely stop thinking about the problems they're working on.

Now excuse me, I think I have an idea I need to go try out! ;)
I wouldn't be so sure. A lot of child-genius types end up regretting their youth and feeling like failures for the rest of their (long) lives; the risks of peaking too soon are well documented.

I hope he stays humble and does what he really wants to do, which might be in a completely unrelated field, with the same intensity he's shown in this endeavour.
>> It really confuses to see kids with red bulls typing code all day and night

Those kids are learning and will probably make a success of what they are doing. The payoff comes later.
Thanks for that.

Some might cheer and say "Ha! Auto-hoist, petard-wise," but this latest submission points to the page that documents the continuing saga. They have addressed many of the criticisms leveled at the paper in the submission wo which you refer, and carried out both further studies and a meta-analysis.

Hence I thought it worth re-visiting.

Having said that, the discussion on that submission is definitely worth reading.
US secret computer runs on Chinese made parts. What could possibly go wrong?
Honestly, I don't see how WYSIWYG GUI front-ends for building HTML are at all like compilers for high-level languages. Care to elaborate? I think your analogy will start falling apart pretty quickly.
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"Free" phones already exist in conjunction with calling plans. Video game makers have sold systems at a loss in order to profit from the games. Amazon is experimenting with reduced hardware cost for Kindles subsidized by ads.

I am not sure where the thresholds are in terms of whether or not ads can support free hardware, how this interacts with calling plans, etc. But this is definitely the way the low end of the consumer electronics market is going.
I loathe online multi-player. A good, long single-player campaign is still all I want. While 10 hours of awesome is better than 20 hours of meh, why can't I get 20 hours of awesome? $60 is still a lot of money for a game and I'd appreciate a high time, high awesome ROI.
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Paging is not necessarily bad. It enables an address space larger than physical memory at some overhead cost. If the working set for all running programs fits in RAM, the cost of paging is small. Paging from a HDD or a SDD is not going to have much impact if it is done infrequently and can be overlapped with useful fork.
That's an excellent point! Perhaps I will put something together anyway. Thanks for this :)
Very very few single founders get accepted into YC, those that do tend to have strong track-records and significant market traction
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> 'They never learned right in the first place.'

I can relate this to a game of Table Tennis. A guy I know played lousy for two decades, his technique never improved. Then one day he got hold of a masterful neighbor who taught him how to play, hit top spins, do spin serves, hit chops. He participates in amateur tournaments now and does fairly well.
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but the behavior and attitudes, could be a trait that he is the best. for connoisseurs of Thundercats, this episode is worth watching, and not to be missed. or you will be curious about life? certainly very regrettable. let us read Thundercats season 1 episode 5 summary
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C#'s type system is a bit messy over there. Besides Func<T> and Action<T>, there's also Predicate<T> , which works the same as Func<T, bool> except for being an entirely different type that's non-trivial to cast to Func<T, bool>. And the whole lot look a lot like delegates.

If they were all just Func<T> (or aliases for that, or wrappers over that when multicast is really needed), it would be a lot simpler.
Oh yeah, I'm The Conqueror. And I'm not saying that as a gloat, either. I recognize my issues and deal with them. Keeping the code un-complex and working on front end stuff is my bane.

I once killed an open source game because the other devs couldn't understand how I'd implemented actions. They all quit. Even after I offered to remove my changes and we could do it another way. -sigh- (I still think it was the best way, though. lol)

I've met The Philosopher, too. If you meet a good one, make him be your mentor. It'll stroke his ego and up your game considerably!
Know what, video means I have to put on a shirt and comb the cereal crumbs out of my beard. Who wants to make that effort? I'm using a computer so I don't have to.
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My experience is that the harder a framework tries to "support" Unicode correctly, the more likely it's going to have bugs ranging from annoying to showstopper.

Simply passing UTF-8 through almost works if it wasn't for the fact that "pass through" allows illegal character combinations that can cause all sorts of trouble.
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I retract this. Reading deeper, I see that he was comparing equal solar cell areas, and thus your analysis likely correct.
I like it. I am however not the target user.

Also it is not that original:

http://tryhaskell.org/
http://tryruby.org/

In fact theres already a javascript one:
http://tryjavascript.devfu.com/

But it does seem friendlier somehow that the others.
About time :), Have been testing since the alpha and am really happy with the service
Entertaining characterisation if nothing else, but also quite accurate at describing some known stereotypes as well! I suppose I am mostly The Inventor, with a bit of Problem Solver thrown in.
IF you're making an infographic to help your average consumer facing business, the purpose is to get links and traffic, not to share information. The average person doesn't care how accurate information is or how it is projected - but they do care how interesting it looks and how shocking the facts are.
100% agree. Long hours once in a while is just part of the dynamic nature of life. A job where the hours are consistently longer is ALWAYS a sign of bad management. Always.
A lot of comments mention tracking the sun. I'd like to remind everyone about SolarFlower.org - the open source solar collector with a clever, non-electronic sun tracking system. See http://www.solarflower.org/faq.htm.
I think what sets this apart is the curriculum format. You can go back through and review lessons. I don't see something like that on the sites you linked.
> Contrast this with an FPS or platform game. Your character isn't remarkably different from beginning to end. The only thing that really changes is your skill level, and/or the items you collect (but which are usually expendable, or lost upon death and respawn).

I believe the term you're looking for is "emergent gameplay," where the player's deeper understanding of the game is rewarded with new gameplay mechanics, perhaps forcing them to revisit what they already know. And I'm not simply talking about unlocking new guns. I'm speaking more of new abilities that put new demands on the player. Things may be harder in the short term.

One example would be the portal jumping that the original Portal required. One of the last levels in the game had you peering several stories up in a room and realizing you had to get there, and you had to figure out how to do that. The portal jump could be frustrating to learn, and yet, the game required you to do so on one of the final levels.

IMO, most modern games falter when they require too little of the player. The same basic gameplay is rehashed over and over with tiny tweaks applied each year -- Call of Duty is essentially the Madden strategy applied to FPS games. The skill curve is far too shallow, but if it were deeper, then they may not buy the next version. This is probably because people don't necessarily want to learn some fresh and interesting way to compete, they just want to take what they already know and go at it.
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Did you wipe accounts? It's not letting me login, and I get "Email not found" when I try to send a password reset e-mail.
SolarFlower.org - the open source solar collector - has a non-electronic sun tracking system that I think might be more efficient than PV-powered tracking. See http://www.solarflower.org/faq.htm.
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Ahh yes very good point.
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I'm of the school of thought that anything is trainable, including programming, barring actual physical limitations. I think up to a point, even a low point, programming is something almost any average person can do. I think the brain has proven time and time again how adaptable and elastic it is.
This was where I was going too. (However, I'm not sure the power output of a panel is simply the sum of the individual cells. I thought that in a series array, the least illuminated panel essentially limits the panel current. Not that this matters in this case, since he wasn't actually measuring power. The voltage certainly adds.)

The experimental issue I thought about is that the experiment is situated next to a large wall. While the flat panel is facing away from the wall, it looks like some of the panels on the "tree" would also receive diffuse light from the wall. So effectively, the tree seems to have a larger collecting area than the flat panel. This would also make the tree less sensitive to shading.
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I came across it recently while cleaning out a box of old stuff. Was wondering if it was ever emulated and found that.

The first portable with interchangeable games I believe?
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>The privacy plugin that I am working on, Parley, would solve the cross-site tracking aspect of this bug, since it blocks all third party requests.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...
I think it is also related to the angle of sunlight falling on the leaves - not just the shading. The passive arrays may be completely unshaded but they may not receive the optimum sunlight through out the day.
I'll just keep the "You won't-- you cannot-- become a better programmer through sheer force of programming alone. You can only complement and enhance your existing programming skills by branching out. Learn about your users. Learn about the industry. Learn about your business." quote. I think that's the main point of the article. Also, the article is more than four years old, I'd like to read what he thinks now or five more years from now.
I don't see Google giving away phones for free. This would be seen as anti-competitive and unfair by their partners and they would drop android and seek alternatives like windows phone. Google wants a world where Android runs on different handsets by different manufacturers. This is part of why the Android ecosystem is so resilient. Failure of one manufacturer is not going to destroy the Android operating system as there would be other companies to pick up the slack. Google cannot afford to fight the mobile wars on its with strong enemies in Apple and Microsoft who would love to see Android die.
"Untitled Document"... some people don't know how to do web.
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oh some more things, re-reading that lovely "Fibonacci Flim Flam" essay I linked above, it turns out that:

sunflower seeds actually turn out to grow that way because the organism tries to pack the seeds as close as possible.

from this, if the close-packing manages to occur without disturbance, the golden ratio emerges--but if it is disturbed by anything (disease, damage, etc), the golden ratio becomes less accurate but the organism still continues packing the seeds as closely as possible.

that is how you can tell that the organism "tries" to realize a close packing and just happens to produce the golden ratio and sometimes Fibonacci numbers as a byproduct: if the process would have been based on the golden ratio instead, a disturbance would cause a spiral out of control with many empty patches.

finally, I almost forgot his (and nearly implied otherwise in my previous post), just the fact that the golden ratio occurs in a process or system does not mean that Fibonacci numbers are involved. there are many other number sequences of the same recurrence relationship as Fibonacci numbers that produce the same golden ratio. Lucas numbers, for example. However, the smaller ratios of those other sequences can be very different from the smaller ratios of the Fibonacci sequence (neither sequence approximates phi 0.618.. very closely for small numbers).

Counting seeds in sunflowers shows that some of them follow the Lucas sequence instead of Fibonacci. But again, you don't see those in the design books! (or sometimes you do but nobody bothers to check)
Great multiplayer games are immune to this because they require something of you, and reward you for the increased skill. (They dont' generally reward you outright for time investments in the way a heavily behavioral game would.) So you will still have the initial newness hit, but then it settles into a stable relationship where you agree to continue learning the ins and outs of the game, and it reveals more depth to you, much like a relationship.

Such games are rare, but they do exist. Here's a way to spot it: if you hear other gamers complaining a certain game is "elitist" (or similar rhetoric), it might possess those attributes. Examples: Starcraft, Tribes, Marvel vs Capcom (high level play), plenty of others.
"I doubt that Windows is dominant anywhere where interesting stuff happens: be it HN, or developers' conference"

FUD
I realy like that website! But... I'm just wondering if anyone else here who does website design seriously doesn't just go to themefor* dot com and download a premade awesome wordpress template for $30, install it in a night, migrate content over or toss up lorem ipsum, and flip it for the 2gs.. hope that made sense.
WoW has an interesting split. Younger gamers tend to spend more time in game so you see more of them. But, there are a lot of older gamers that play less than 20 hours a week and the average age is fairly high.

Note: I am 100+ person guild where more people are over 50 than under 20. We raid 2 nights a week and are middle of the road when it comes to progression aka top 10,000 ;o guild world wide. http://www.wowprogress.com/guild/us/malygos/Wasted+Epics
Because the article title doesn't make it obvious - this is with regards to the Galaxy S smartphone, not the tablet. And again, it is in the full-color side-by-side photo, just like it was for the tablet:

This time, a picture of a Galaxy S smartphone has been resized to match an iPhone 3G
The real benefit of a tracking system is that it makes it possible to use a concentrator to focus more sunlight on a smaller PV area. The panel cost is mostly in the PVs, so increasing collecting area by using mirrors is more cost effective than just using more PVs. However, this setup only works if it's pointing right at the Sun, so it requires a tracker.
Yeah. I think an open source port of this for Android would be cool...
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So you're saying it was released to a critical reception and terrible reviews?
It's probably related to abstract thinking. Some people (the majority?) have a preference for concrete thinking, and they get stuck at trying to just grasp the very concept of computattion.
You have a point. But 90% of the lessons are relevant to any C-like language. It uses Javascript sure, but I think it does teach the beginnings of how to code.

Also I disagree on the last paragraph. The topics you mentioned are far less useful for learning to program than the material this tutorial covered. They are advanced topics, and only used in special situations.
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Most programming tasks involve reconciling a bunch of competing constraints. Abstraction techniques make it easier to deal with subsets of those constraints but abstractions leak and even well abstracted software still involves the interactions of many small pieces. This is why it takes 20-30 minutes to get your head into a programming problem - you have to pull enough of that problem space into your head to start manipulating it.

The best programmers can get into that space faster and pull a bigger chunk of a system into their heads at one time. This is why they don't necessarily write clean code because they don't have to. The less gifted of us need strong abstractions and code discipline or we just can't keep up. This is why somebody like Linus Torvalds can afford to be disdainful of a lot of common practices in software - he doesn't need the extra help those practices provide.

And all this happens well above the level of a strong mathematical formalism.
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This was already discussed in length just four weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2800581
Explanation why this actually doesn't have a lot to do with Fibonacci from the other thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2903073

Additionally explains/shows that the Fibonacci sequence, or the golden ratio, both do NOT generally occur in nautilus shells, spiral galaxies, ancient design principles, body ratios nor are they perceived as significantly more aesthetically pleasing than other ratios of small numbers.
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Much like developers are not (usually) designers, designers are not necessarily: brand experts, user experience experts, or anything other than designers.

I understand designers getting upset with clients that think that they know more than they do, but I've seen just as many designers that are prima donnas that are more concerned with making something look "cool" than useful or appropriate for the client.
As corroboration, my first assignment at Autonomy basically amounted to writing (on-site) a component that had been sold without the existence of a single line of code.

I think the obstacles for a startup wouldn't come from Autonomy's core techology---more the amount of stuff they've acquired around the edges. Pieces like KeyView (which is fairly good at reading just about any file format you care to mention) make the whole Autonomy package much more attractive than their search tech would be on its own. Plus, as you said, you have to be willing and able to compete with their sales force, and that seems like a soul-selling endeavor from the beginning.
the whole confusion would arise of thinking developers as an Engineer or Craftsman
> The reality is that some people can think in abstract terms, while others cannot.

This is true, although there's also a gray area of spectrum in between. I've worked with a few programmers who could write imperative-style code just fine, commented and clean, looping over arrays and FizzBuzz and such; but who never grokked first-class functions or SQL set-based operations. (I've replaced many a complex cursor-looping SQL procedure with a set-based query running ten or more times faster.) I think a more nuanced description of the question here is whether and how one can successfully drive oneself to think in progressively higher abstractions. It's not all black and white, abstract or concrete.
>The plugin mentioned at the end won't work - not unless it's going to have a tedious whitelist.

RequestPolicy (Firefox addon) works just fine, not much tedious than NoScript or CookieMonster, for example.

While remotely hosted images may be a strong argument, if the page breaks due to missing fonts or scripts - it's really only site's fault.
I wouldn't be surprised to see more Apple hardware in more middle class areas of the larger cities where people have the money to spend and are engaged more aggressively in conspicuous consumption. Here in Nha Trang there are at least five large PC shops but only one tiny Apple shop.
Ben Fry is amazing. I've done a lot of info-viz work and his PhD Dissertation was incredibly helpful. He is much much easier to read and comprehend compared to Tufte.

I highly recommend it: http://benfry.com/phd/
Oh I get the point. I hope he reads my message because that's the kind of feedback he needs, not the deluge of "oh you're so smart for a kid!" comments he's probably getting.

(Disclaimer: I get paid to teach engineering to precocious youngsters part of the year. I'm quite familiar with the demographic.)
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Wikipedia seems to have a different definition: "Emergent gameplay refers to complex situations in video games, board games, or table top role playing games that emerge from the interaction of relatively simple game mechanics."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_gameplay
Even better. Though I know he still uses NetJets quite a bit--my dad worked with someone who now works for NetJets and flies with the Buffets fairly frequently. She says despite the cash and jets they're quite down to Earth--down to cabs and not black cars.
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I think it's an important point to keep in mind, and honestly I don't understand why Google "by design" refuses to perform at least an automated test for extensions.

BTW: Awesome Screenshot has already disabled this behavior with the latest update.
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