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That's very easy for me to answer -- but I'm a bit older than most of you folks. As funny as it may seem the book that changed my life and opened my eyes was "The Media Lab" (1988). and the author of the book was Stewart Brand. What's interesting is that many of the things being talked about in the book are now very much a part of the real world. It's also interesting to note that Brand was also the author of the Whole Earth Catalog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand

The closest thing today to the "Whole Earth Catalog" today is really the net — especially sites that explore underground culture...
I'm, pretty sure that inmate sperm would be in pretty low demand :P
"We think it's benign, but we just don't know."

Whoever this is is obviously so far out of the loop and technical domain that everything they say should be taken with a heaping pile of salt.

I don't doubt that a virus exists, but the scope of it is likely wildly overblown. At least, there's no reason to actually think it's some military grade virus that is impossible to eradicate that intercepts all communications with the drones.
The next Real war will have a large component of disrupting the enemies internet.

I say we take all the black hat hackers that are in prison now, and put them in rooms where they try to deface websites, crack into databases, control satellites etc etc. Then when they get into those databases, rather than punishing the hacker who figured out how to do it, you punish the entity that left themselves in a state where they could be hacked.

Making our country resistant and strong against the next online battles starts today, not when congress declares war against china in retaliation for their militaries occupying our country.
Sorry, you now owe IBM a patent royalty because they have already patented this: http://www.conceivablytech.com/4823/business/the-ultimate-pa...
This really captured my biggest concern as well - thanks for the link!
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You're right. There are plenty who aren't NPEs who are just forum shopping.

It will be interesting to see how the AIA changes things, given that you won't just be able to sue dozens of people for infringing the same patent and consolidate the cases. But they probably still will be able to set up shop in Marshall, TX.
Honolulu does that for rush hour. And man is it ever frustrating for visitors!
I'd attach them to the PCIe bus somehow, or otherwise wire them straight into the motherboard.

Let me remind you that this computer can fire missiles at people, and has a potentially unlimited budget.
Your Kindle is tied to your Amazon account so the ads are based on your Amazon browsing and purchasing.
I'd guess Chris Lattner's response was singled out because Chris is the lead developer for LLVM, so even if it isn't the best response, it's probably still the most important.
Does anyone use this rule for setting their text editor's text size for programming?
You don't need to tell me about the systems. I worked on them.

It's far less worse that the control stations are infected as opposed to the aircraft themselves. It's pretty easy to shift control stations for a UAV. It's not so easy to regain control of a malfunctioning UAV. So, far from irrelevant.

That said, I was merely clarifying a common misinterpretation people were getting from the article.
I think this is one of those times where what you've used first is what you like best. My first Kindle was a version 3 and thought the buttons were weird when I handled a relative's version 2 last Christmas.
The CEO said that in America, people are a little lawsuit-happy. I don't blame him. It's not really possible to protect yourself from patent lawsuits, especially software patent lawsuits.
I actually had a couple late issues of "Whole Earth Catalog", but my real inspiration came from "Popular Electronics" (my first "computer" was a COSMAC ELF based on the RCA 1802 uProcessor) and "Radio Electronics". Later Jack Crenshaw's column in "Embedded Systems Programming" was instrumental in teaching me about powerful but efficient algorithms ... something I still practice today.

I suspect you're asking about the current generation ... I don't want to put words in the "youngsters" mouths but I'm happy to see that the DIY spirit is alive and well. It's something we can all agree on!
There are a variety of useful things you can feed trolls, rat poison comes to mind almost immediately...
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Well, multiple versions of code being loaded means that there are fewer common pages to share across processes. However I think it is the right tradeoff to make.
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I applaud the day, but I wish the website made it more obvious who Ada Lovelace is. I have a vague idea because I'm in the same industry, but I doubt the audience that this day is truly intended for -- the many girls and women out there who don't see the sciences and engineering as a female career -- know off the top of their head. Even going into the About page, her bio is very small.

I want to tweet/share this link but am afraid most people will click on it and go "What the?". So I'll just send the wikipedia entry on her instead.
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It would be great if Ars had used its security and technical staff to tell us if this is a problem or the minor annoyance that the military says it is. The article amounts to little more than a summary of the drone program and a bit of "he said she said" http://archive.pressthink.org/2009/04/12/hesaid_shesaid.html reportage.
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Yeah, why bother training the computer to do it when TSA employees can cover that angle.
Also, this line should be fixed in the bio page (which takes two clicks from the homepage to find):

http://findingada.com/about-finding-ada/who-was-ada-lovelace...
>>The Analytical Engine remained a vision, until Lovelace's notes became one of the critical documents to inspire Alan Turning's work on the first modern computers in the 1940s.
Most applications these days are more read-intensive, so there's a good pay-off for performing data processing as it's being prepared for storage. And I've been reminded (the hard way) time and again that the sooner I clean/correct data, the less likely it is to hurt me later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48)#Smart_ship...
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> On 21 September 1997, while on maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia, a crew member entered a zero into a database field causing a divide by zero error in the ship's Remote Data Base Manager which brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48)#Smart_ship...

Wow. Reading more of the wiki article (and linked sources) reveals that the actual towing to port is a contested issue. Noone denies that a /0 error killed the whole ship though.
I've definately noticed number 4 and 5. For my Windows Host, Ubuntu Guest, modified files work fine, but I have to remount (or reboot) for new or moved files... It's awful and makes me mad every time, but not much I can do about it.

I use a virtual machine each for my php and django apps, and use VboxHeadlessTray to hide them in my system bar. Works great except for painful upgrades of VirtualBox in Windows, associated having to upgrade guest additions and the shared folders.
The definition of "software patent" is about as misused as "impeachment" or "HTML5". Ending software patents fixes very little with what is wrong with the patent industry because most of what people assume are software patents, likely aren't. Take the Lodesys patent debate for example, at least one of those (#7,222,078) wouldn't be considered a "software patent". PG says Amazon's 1-click checkout patent isn't a "software patent" (http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html). Software patents are not the issue.
A few options include: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_connector and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_port
Maybe this is the revolution we need to give a chance to the next generation to have fun programmable robot. I was promised that as a kid and I still don't have it!

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US hacks other countries war machines with targeted virus: brilliant!

Other countries hack US war machines with targeted virus: man, I couldda stopped that shit easy.
Would be a pretty neat exploit to buffer overflow someone's actual kernel via a carefully constructed module name, though.
So shouldn't the title be: VBox is crap on Linux?
How does the PC make the drone 10,000 miles away fire the missiles once you take the NIC out?
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It depends what you were browsing when it picked up your interests and who is watching when it shows the ads!

A UK ISP got into trouble when it was (illegally) tracking all your web browsing and replacing each site's ads with it's own ads based on your browsing history.
When it replaced the ads for a childrens charity on a national fundraising event with some targeted at 'gentlemen's special interest' sites there was something of an outcry
(Shrug) I just wouldn't use Windows. What's wrong with VxWorks for this type of thing?
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I've seen this in person and it's v cool - just ordered mine!
I have never heard of a drone running anything other than an RTOS. However the ground stations for command/control/monitoring are typically run on traditional Windows-OS machines.
Here's a bigger brother of that speaker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEeWtBAE5LY
I'd glue those into a PCIe USB card or straight on to the motherboard. Then fill all the remaining holes with glue.
I think people are ok with Google in that role because they are not (obviously) trying.
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Definitely. Performance requirements do justify what you're suggesting. Preprocessing when possible is a great principle to follow.

The point is that you're keeping your original data around is the key part.
Most good things, taken to an extreme, become terrible in some ways. In this case, consumerism -- the United States, and increasingly the world, have taken consumerism to an extreme. Our culture has been systematically shifted by laws, advertising, taxes, and our own desires to drive us towards making and lusting after purchases.

We enjoy a high quality of life, and many amazing technologies, in part due to our rampant consumerism, but the side effects may not be worth it.
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Canadians can give through blood.ca (the list is international so if you are compatible it'll help Amit).

http://blood.ca/CentreApps/Internet/UW_V502_MainEngine.nsf/p...
Try it. Io is really a joy to use. I don't use it for any professional work yet but I've used it to craft some little tools for my personal use. Really fun to use.
Memory usage is reflected in general performance, even when the whole system fits into RAM, because RAM hasn't infinite bandwidth. Larger memory usage -> more traffic between CPU and RAM. And cache effects make the issue even more important. Modern systems may have gigabytes of RAM, but still only couple megabytes of CPU cache.
What Stallman's for is free as in 'free speech'. Free as in 'free beer' is something completely different.
That happened again in response to the flood of posts about _why when he "died".
Direct link for slides here:
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>"Patents are meant to protect the little guy, not make lawyers rich!"

No. I'm against patents because ideas shouldn't be owned, especially obvious ideas. Patents have never, ever served the little guy. That's pro-IP propaganda and at best a 17th century idea that never panned out.
As a Chrome developer, I'm biased, but I think a lot of very important and innovative work is happening on the web platform, and virtually all of it is open source.
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Perhaps. But in modern politics, diplomacy, etc., intentional strategic "leaks" are a common practice, for many reasons.
One of the most Mac-like Windows apps I have ever seen, barring iTunes & Safari, of course.
I installed the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ addon for firefox and have set news.yc to use the following stylesheet:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") {

.title{
font-size: 16px !important;
padding: 0.5em !important;
}

.subtext{
font-size: .8em !important;
padding-left: 0.5em !important;
}

.comment {
font-size: 16px !important;
}

.comhead{
font-size: 1em !important;
}

.pagetop{
font-size: 16px !important;
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}

I mixed px and em as I tried different settings, but just stopped when I found something I liked.
Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs
google - top notch engineers, given whatever they need to get the job done, no bureaucracy, still get owned?
Stallman is nuts -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083536
By this argument, you're claiming that once dead, everything you've ever done is suddenly right. Well, again, that's kinda dumb.
I agree with quite a few of the "bad things" Mr Jobs has done, but that doesn't make them "good things". It has nothing to do with honesty. Nothing. Nada. Zero.

Also, I don't need someone, like historians, to tell me how to think. Neither a global population's moral. I have my own though and my own morale.
I know, again, that's not a common point of view. Much easier to go with the flow. And again, Mr Jobs would agree. If you want to honor his memory, maybe it's time to think different^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H on your own.
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Just as a naive consumer of its facilities, I find LLVM produces binaries from C and ObjC code which are smaller and faster than their GCC equivalents. I'm attempting to write my own front-end as well, which is easier than I had expected. I don't care what the black box does, c.f. "The user doesn't care"(TM).
A good addition to the readme might be to say what operating system it's for.
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I agree. By making a robot with hardware people have laying around and are familiar with it will make it more accessible to the masses.
Thanks for the fortune-cookie wisdom. That tells no one anything. We don't have square pegs or round holes, we have complex engineering problems to solve, and LLVM's complex shape is obscured by a community that doesn't agree on its shape, so we have no way to tell if it fits our holes.
That was something that I needed to read. Yes, Steve was a genious, but we can't let death create a saint from him. With Apple's giant profit margins he could enforce better working conditions. I also don't like the closed ecosystem idea, but that is just my PoV and I understand why people support it to have a better overall usability.
The thing here is that if something goes wrong and malicious code ends up in the db, I have to go through every comment and clean them vs. just changing the code which cleans them way out.
30KV, but low amps, using the same power as a speaker of similar size.

It's actually a pretty good speaker, as it contains no moving parts. The disadvantage is not being very good for indoor spaces, since electric arcs generate ozone.
Cool I have to read it. What are some of the sites you are talking about?
I don't know myself but I'm willing to bet for sure it's Windows. DoD contractors prefer hardware that has simple-stupid .NET libraries, you won't find Linux drivers for most of it, nor a developer that can separated from the cozy comfort of Visual Stupio.
And what purpose was it designed to serve? That's exactly the problem I'm alluding to -- the LLVM developers don't even agree amongst themselves, so how am I supposed to know?
For what it's worth, they still ask on the YC app if you are applying in response to an RFS.

Hard to tell, but that's probably a good indicator that they still are interested in them.
Is this the Mike Daisey who had some Christian mob throw water on his show notes?
But it's a false dichotomy. There's nothing inherent about usability that requires jailed computing.

I submit two examples:

1. The Apple Mac was unquestioningly a pioneer in computer usability. Yet it didn't need a kernel that refused to run apps that weren't "approved" with a cryptographic signature from some central authority. (Yes the original Mac case was closed but there was a high voltage monitor in there and it had no upgrade plan anyway. Most later models were expandable.)

2. I have Google Nexus S running Android that's every bit as usable, even for nontechnical folks, as an iPhone. It's not carrier locked and the OS is predominantly open-source, much of it even GPL. It doesn't need rooting or jailbreaking because there's no jail to break. And guess what: there are way more people "actually using" Android phones than the jailed ones from Apple. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smartphone_share_current.p...

Jobs was good at many things: leading Apple, leading product development, advancing quality and usability, making products people want to buy, making great profit margins. He was an incredible guy.

But just because the same person and company also embraced jailed computing doesn't mean that it's somehow a necessary condition for usability, any more than the dictator is a necessary condition for the trains to run on time.

In fact, I think the evidence points to the contrary and it would be a shame for this confusion to send computing on a step backwards in one direction or another.
If the drone is running a RTOS, wouldn't the GCS need RTOS-like reliability as well to communicate with it? That's all I can say (I think)
Great article ... follow the HN conversation here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349
One solution could be to keep machine images stored

Didn't I read recently about a real virus discovered in the wild, that could infect the BIOS of certain computers?
I wish that before Steve had left us, someone would have been able to ask him about the lack of a magical user experience for developers. While Apple has always made "closed" hardware, the Apple II and the early Macs were delightful toyboxes for swaths of young people: BASIC, Hypercard, ResEdit, etc. They (we) learned, tinkered, explored, taking the concept of a "bicycle for the mind" to a whole new level.

There's a lot to like about modern Mac and iPhone development: the tools and the documentation are arguably better than they've ever been, and the APIs have become absurdly powerful. But there's very little magic or UX to be found for the young and the new: even if you scrape together the $99 and brave the frustrating certificate process, it still takes a lot of overhead to make anything happen on the screen. (Recent improvements like ARC and storyboards help, but they're a band-aid.)

I think there remains a tremendous unfilled space in the computing world for usable "prosumer" programming, in the spirit of Hypercard. If the FSF types could pull their neckbeards out of their UNIX sphincters for five minutes, they'd see that the real barrier to truly free software is software that's trivial to learn how to edit or create [1]. And if Steve had seen this as a priority, I have no doubt that he could have made it happen.

[1] Obviously, not all software could be written this way; we'd still need engineers. But even web-enabled Hypercard-style apps would allow people to create a great deal of value for themselves and others, and give them the courage to venture deeper.
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On an iPad 2, the text appears, and then dissapesrs. I can read the comments only.
Now that I think about it, mainly it seemed like it was easier to get into hardware back then, and today the entrepreneurial boom is really all about software and lots of money or expertise needed to get into hardware development. (as a startup.)
Wikipedia is definitely a great resource, but it doesn't provide a common context to listed works like the Whole Earth Catalog did. I mean, the Whole Earth Catalog had a whole intro about the spirit of their generation and why they listed what they listed, in addition to explanations and comments about the listed works.
I would think about this for a second; the DoD doesn't manufacture, produce, or design these systems. They contract that out. Considering that General Atomics Aeronautical is a smaller defense company (relative to other ones), I'm sure they could make their own decision about what OS to run on the planes and on the ground. That's all I can say...
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This article makes several valid points, but the overall 'hook' or theme doesn't really make sense. Steve Jobs was very nostalgic, greenlighting the original 'think different' campaign profiling historical figures, and more recently the iconic advertising featuring The Beatles, which apple worked so long to get into iTunes.

There are also valid points made about the manufacturing situation in China, but he did not explore any real counterargument. The factory jobs in China are not perfect, but do we know if those workers are fundamentally opposed to it? China tried to avoid this type of capitalistic society for a generation, and was not happy with the results. I think it is fair to critique the standards of the factories, but without providing an alternative solution to lifting a billion people into prosperity, I think it was kind of a low blow against Steve in the article given the timing.
Thanks for the response, some viewpoints there that I did not consider (mainly due to my own ignorance as someone not entirely connected to the design and art communities). One thing you mentioned I've never really been able to wrap my head around:

But the work that comes out of them isn't generally great, and the clients that use them are generally the kind of clients nobody wants: fussy, demanding, unimaginative and cheap. Clients who probably wouldn't be paying for design services otherwise. It still costs money to get good work. That's what it's really about: protecting the value of the work you do professionally.

Why is this the concern of anyone but the person doing the work and the client receiving it? Granted, on the whole, by-and-large it's not anything that's going to destroy the creative design industry or invalidate a beautifully composed ad campaign (for example) but it is something that I've heard before.

"Well the work produced isn't that great, these designs sometimes suck".

At the end of the day, if the end goal is to please the client, and the client is pleased with what they have, does it matter if it came from 99designs or if it were produced by Sterling-Cooper?

I suppose the same can be said for spec-work. If the producer of a product/service/design understands that they are working potentially for free to win a contract, who's business is that but their own and the clients? It seems like there might be a disconnect in that if your goal is to maximize output and bring in a respectable wage-say as a freelancer-that you'll go for clients who are willing to negotiate fair terms, and compensate you a decent wage. Instead, what I see (and this is just anecdotal observation) is people vilifying designers who choose to work on spec.

I might be missing the point entirely, so take what I'm saying here with a grain of salt.
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