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Brad Horowitz on Google+: We’ve shipped the ‘Plus’ but not the Google
Forensic analysis of AMD Bulldozer, and its disappointment
Google+ Guru Bradley Horowitz on Products, Platforms and That Pesky Memo
Spotify client for MeeGo/n9 released
429 Too Many Requests is really great for APIs, hopefully http clients start supporting this.
There's also a small series of Feynman that has been put on Youtube called "fun to imagine." They are short and most of them are very good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3pYRn5j7oI
Review of Usability and User Experience Testing Tools
Is free will really "free"? Your actions can be predicted from your brainscan
Finding evidence "against people you don't like" is exactly the problem privacy intends to solve.

I never want to meet you, if you see nothing wrong with snooping around my life and sharing all my secrets with everyone.
According to their FAQ they do not plan to support Linux: http://support.lytro.com/entries/20552347-will-the-lytro-des...

So my guess is that this will be proprietary and limited to proprietary systems. (Which disappoints me, as I have a preorder code and my credit card ready to buy, but I'm not going to change OSes to use their camera.)
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Chrome To Phone? Seriously. Imagining being able to bring your browsing session from your desktop to your phone hasn't been necessary for over a year.
You might want to look into the immigration procedure here in Japan first. The people are great; almost all that I've met are fine with foreigners. But not so much the government and companies. You need a fair amount of patience to make it here (especially in the work place), unless you already have a contact. Good luck.
> my car's GPS took me [away]

Why not using your phone navigation then? Here in China, without turn-by-turn GPS, I would be lost in nowhere, and the Chinese things they sell as GPS don't count.

> My smartphone is no replacement for a computer

Mine is, in many cases. Before, I was in the habit of turning on my laptop to check some pages or feeds after dinner, now I do this confortably installed in the sofa, on my phone.

I just miss, obviously, the content production abilities of a computer. Hope they'll find quickly a way to input text conveniently in a phone-sized thing. (I won't bet on the voice for that, maybe just a good hand writting detector could work as well)
DuckDuckGo needs to change their name, imo. Secondly, they need to reduce the number of links you have to click through to get to a site you are looking for. The disambiguation step takes too long.
How to Install Subversion on Windows 7
That something is enjoyable does not make it inherently good (unless you ascribe to Utilitarianism). There are of course other factors beyond pure enjoyment that contribute to the inherent goodness of a thing. You don't need to enjoy a medical device in order for it to be able to do its job well, for example.

Rather, the distinction I was aiming at was between "process" and "product". But I suppose that wasn't very clear. My intention was not to start a flame war on capitalism.

In my opinion a process can be sustainable (and thus very likely profitable), but a product can not. In this case a business model is a process and the thing you put in your mouth (the hamburger) is the product. For the hamburger to be perfect we would need an ever escalating process. Constantly adding more complexity or work to refine the product we can create thus creating an unsustainable process.

If you want to create a hamburger in a sustainable and profitable way. The McDonalds process is most likely one of the best ways to do that. But it will NEVER create a perfect hamburger. The same is of course true with the opposite. A tiny connoisseur coffee shop can conceivably create a perfect cup of coffee and push the boundaries of the state of the art. But it will NEVER be a sustainable process. You need to make compromises in order to achieve that.
Amazon Route53 – the good the bad and the great
428 seems interesting as a way to serialize objects and store them client-side, but assure the version stays consistent with the server. Or am I overthinking it?
Same here. When I was a kid I pictured myself living "the american dream" when I grew up, maybe move to the States when I became a successful entrepreneur (haven't made it yet!).

A few years ago I visited the USA for the first time -and have a been there a few times since- and didn't like what I saw. I like Americans, and I like a lot of things about the US, but wouldn't live there at all.

I think the problem was what Hollywood movies made me believe the US was, and what it really is.

EDIT: Not sure why, but this is being downvoted. If you find it offensive or inaccurate, please let me know why. I don't care about the votes, I just would like to know why.
I guess I've been fortunate to have had jobs with actual tasks to get done since then, and mis-attributed the awkward situation to the realm of internships. I stand corrected.
yes, you will be able to own that coffee shop, but you won't want to. being their landlord is a better way to go.

also, i don't think software is viewed as a "high-prestige" profession.
In theory, you're complaint is valid. In practice, my browser is quite capable of detecting those ads and dispatching them according to my wishes.
I think the best sentiment is that we should go back to how things used to be in areas where we've regressed (immigration, human rights, limits on the power of government, etc.) but stay where we are in areas where we've progressed (racial integration, voting rights, overall prosperity, cleaner industry, etc.).
"[A recent article in Nature] show that, prior to the moment of conscious choice, there are correlated brain events that allow scientists to predict, with 60 to 80 percent probability, what the choice will be."

It's amazing how correct the Architect was and at the same time how limited: "But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic, and reason." Evidently, at the neurological level, there is no "logic" or "reason" as he uses those terms.
I hear you - and I do think the kind of distribution you picture is clearly where we are going to end up. It just takes time: time for hard-liners to retire, time for a hugely complicated distribution system to rationalize itself. But we will get there - and I think it'll be a great thing for all the arts.

Now, about it being 'impossible to finance big-budget cinema': the elimination of copyrights would hardly have that effect - it would actually make it easier to finance Hollywood movies because the cost of licensing works on which films are based would become zero. In the case of a film like Lord of the Rings - the estate's deal was for 7.5% of GROSS. Take those kinds of costs out and you get a much cheaper film to make.

As for a dystopia being required to enforce copyright law: all that is required to enforce copyright law is for the law to be aligned with the marketplace. In any such case, that means the law is infrequently or inconsequentially transgressed; it isn't the law that is feared it is the enforcement.

As I stated before, the law and the marketplace need to get together. When they do, it'll be a fine thing and won't require crazy DRM or a dystopia.
This is similar to what was around in the 80's with corporate people and owning a Bed and Breakfast. Many wanted to get away from the stress of corporate america and traded it for owning a B&B in the country. What they found was that running a B&B was obviously much different then staying there as a guest.

"The 1980's was the ideal time when everybody wanted to own an inn, thanks to Bob Newhart," she said. referring to the popular television show that featured Mr. Newhart as a Vermont innkeeper. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/realestate/19bandb.html?pa...

Something you like doing everyday and something you like doing occasionally are two different things. As well as something you have to do as opposed to something you can decide to do (like writing comments on HN - imagine if it was your job to do it 8 hours a day 5 days a week or more..)
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The Occupiers are leaderless and disunified, and that’s their strength.
I have no doubt that giving Siri personality is a great adoption strategy and makes it more pleasant to use. What I am perturbed by (and not outraged as the other commenter above you suggests) is the end-result of making technology "too approachable".

I really don't want to sound like a Luddite because I think technology is often wonderful, but it seems with every new iteration of hardware/software we are moving further and further away from communicating with each other and instead having the machines do it for us.

Here’s how I see that progression taking place:

1) Telephony enabled us to speak to each other without actually being in close proximity.... ok that’s pretty convenient I guess

2) E-mailing, texting & other forms of messaging allowed us to remotely communicate long-form, pre-composed thoughts without even using our voice ... ok I guess still good

3) Siri now does the typing and the sending, you just tell it what to do and it’ll act an intermediary between you and your friends…. Hmm I dunno if I like where this is going

…

4) Future AI will “liberate” us from the stress of even thinking about when or what messages need to be sent but will do it for us based on how we programmed it to manage our life… hell, just kill me now
The Singularity concept strikes me as a sort of wishful thinking. Technology advancing so fast that we no longer can control or understand it? Yeah, that already happened to my parent's generation with AOL, yet here I am texting this on my iPhone. New generations understand intuitively what the previous generation understood theoretically.

Even so, I fully expect memristors to deliver strong AI.
I really like http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/prayer/ (prayer webmail).

It's very much hitting the basic, fast spot though, rather than the gmail style.
Also, a quick test reveals that quickCheck on an Int will by default test 100 Ints across the entire range up to Int::maxbound. If your Ints are 64 bit this really isn't going to work very well on this code, regardless of what language you write it in unless you can stream the output. Any code that holds on to the list is going to fall over, since the size of the list is going to exceed physical memory for larger test values.
"If they AA's went away, then who would piracy hurt?"

C'mon - if that's as far as you are looking you aren't really trying;)
I was with them in the garage.

They found me, I was fairly well known as a Linux perf guy at the time.

I worked on the beginnings of what became GFS.

I left pretty quickly, I really wanted to be doing my own thing.
Best Buy launch their own mobile app directory
Note the "free world-class education".
Nutsmail have done a pretty impressive modification of the original Squirrelmail to include clean, good looking themes and plugins, all nicely packaged. Thanks for the link!
37signals reference in the article notwithstanding, they're right. When you stop treating every opportunity to interact with your users as an opportunity to interact with your users, what are writing?
Here you go, Sergey: "You're being a dick."
I was trying to go with his initial explanation of Google+ as a poor effort.
Trust me when I say that you should take down the JP site immediately. Your friend might be "native-Japanese," but he or she is only directly translating your text from English.

The biggest part might be simply that you are not incorporated inside of Japan. It's fine to state your fondness of Japanese culture to the JP press, but if you want to get serious about Japan, get incorporated and let your Japanese 代表 ("daihyou") take care of things for you.

The worst thing you could do in Japan is release a (in your words) "Work in Progress." Keep things that are incomplete in the labs and refine them until they are ready for society to enjoy. Japanese society is all about keeping risk low for oneself, one's partners and especially the general public.

If you are really serious about Japan, feel free to drop me a line. If you really think that directly translating English to Japanese will add value to your company, you are gravely mistaken.

Remember to manage your customer's expectations. If they expect you to be a Japanese company and you are not one, you are in for a world of hurt.
Sorry, your site breaks the 10-second rule: You didn't _show_ me what your app does or (give me a link that does) within the first 10 seconds of me looking at your site.

Sure, you _tell_ what your app does in an offhand, blurbish sort of way, but how does it work? What does it look like? What's a campaign, how do keywords work and why do I want to pay for them? What trouble are you saving me, exactly?

Alas, I can't find out without registering. Click, bye.

I commend your code sprint but afterwards it would've served you well to sprint on over to your friend's cousin's sister's house and ask her what she can possibly glean from your front page, if anything.
Android has no long term roadmap, no standardized hardware spec, and little meaningful vendor support. As others have pointed out, the carriers are on their own (as are the handset manufacturers).

To paraphrase Kissenger, you can't get Android on the phone. Google just releases what they release (or in the case of Honeycomb, doesn't) and it's up to the rest of the world to figure out what to do with it and how to do it.

iOS and WP7 in contrast have a coherent hardware spec and roadmap.
Lol - a market where people don't pay. Sounds like a great business to be in. It also doesn't sound like the people who are looking for someone to 'take advantage' of the good thing they've got.
The point is: there's something wrong with the rules.
This is similar to how I talked my brother out of his brief thoughts of becoming a professional pilot. It sounds wonderful, but in reality the pay is poor (unless you're one of the lucky few able to work their way up to a good long-haul route), a lot of it is boring, a single relatively harmless medical problem can end your career, etc. etc.

You have to look at the bad parts of any job when considering a career or starting a business, and it seems to be something that people are bad at doing.
A journalist from The Atlantic is on a startup tour of the south:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/a-road...

Here's a chance to visit in Atlanta:
http://www.atlsuds.com/2011/10/19/special-event-the-atlantic...
In Brin's defense, Yegge is very wordy and prone to go off on tangents. Although I got through the leaked G+ post, I stopped reading several of his blog posts less than half way through, and I am much less busy than Brin is. Also, unlike me, Brin probably already knew the facts about Amazon revealed in the G+ post.
Ask HN: Was yesterday's post about TTAG a prank?
I was looking for it again today, but can't find any trace of it.

There was also a blog post about it at forbes.com which seems to have disappeared as well.

TTAG was about aggregating retail product mentions on Twitter, FB, and other social media sites, which (supposedly) was a better leading indicator of stock prices than other estimates.

Was it a hoax?
Why I Left Google and Learned to Love Failure
It's in jest. There's something funny about the username "VBProgrammer" in a discussion about identifying bad developers, from the stereotypical POV.

Disclaimer: I started as a VB guy myself. Now I fall in the C# and Python camps.
I know the school board where I live has banned teachers from using Facebook, and to further your point students under a certain age are not allowed to use either Facebook, or Google.
Occupy Wall St.? Or new jobs plan?
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I agree entirely with magicalist. I've tried to get my head around the stink about real names on Google+ since it first went crashing through the internet, but it seems like people shouting about teacups being too small.

The point of Google+ seems to be to do networking with your friends and co-workers. Why would one want to be anonymous in this environment? You're going to anonymously share pictures of yourself? I do not get it. If it's a pseudonym that you just happen to really like, then okay -- maybe you've kept it since your days on AIM and are really fond of it, after all things like JHR1987ILOVETHEBEATLES are pretty cool -- but other than that what is the point of this?

It seems like wanting the right to carry a gun in space. It's not going to do you any good, so why are you fighting about it?
It could also be that it takes a very large amount of time to check and verify what can be released as open source code. Reorganizing the code so that proprietary drivers and internal-only APIs are abstracted out can take a very very long time. Even if nothing has to change, the time spent checking for these things was probably better spent working on Ice Cream Sandwich.
"We must believe in free will -- we have no choice."

Issac Bashevis Singer
Reuters Photo of Gaddafi after Reported Dead (Warning: Graphic)
Exactly. Honeycomb was something of a stopgap to catch up to iPad while Google went for its unified phone/tab ICS OS. Considering all the 1.6/2.1 tablets that were released this year that were just horrible, I can see why google went this route. The industry was fucking up tablets pretty badly and I can't imagine AOpen or Archos or whomever having access to a half-cooked Honeycomb source and pushing out yet another shitty product.

Instead we have gems like the Transformer, Galaxy Tab, Xoom, etc. Seems to me that google made the right move. Soon they'll all have access to ICS anyway. Lets see how badly these other companies fuck that up with their crapware, questionable UI changes, and cheesy hardware (I believe Archos or some other company is still selling resistive screens). Even if they do, we already have an established set of decent tablet products.
If the code is unfit for others to read why is it being shipped in production devices?
The Feynman Series (part 1) - Beauty (video)
Why am I being down voted for this? It is not spam and not intended as flame bait. It is not off topic and it is not pointless humor. It is a serious comment that needs to be debated and not hidden away at the bottom of the page.

I am not stating anything extremely controversial, simply the same thing the article is stating, but with a slightly different wording.

Don't down vote me because you disagree with me or because you think I am bashing capitalism (I am not, I love capitalism). If you think my argument is weak or lacking, please tell me so in a comment instead.
World's first 1TB 2.5-inch SSD is here
There's also a lovely three part series:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmbwczTC6E
Perfect consistency is only useful if your perfectly consistent product is any good. Much depends on your target audience. Bad quality control can hurt a lot, but so can perfect consistency in producing a bad product. If your audience is the sort that thinks McDonald's is quality food then that's obviously where you should aim, but many audiences don't.
When Bill Gates held the equivalent position at Microsoft he used to dedicate a week twice a year to reading long texts.

http://books.google.com/books?id=kaJZkwhVRYEC&pg=PA293&#...
Put that way, it makes sense. Thanks.
Regaining Democracy
Yeah the benefit is that Yegge's a good, humorous writer usually gets a large audience. "Hardened interface" still cracks me up. His point is usually fairly clear, and odds are good that plenty of other people will be capable of providing the executive summary.
Have you checked RoundCube out? It's a modern and open source self hosted email client - http://roundcube.net/
Tenth Cave: OFC (Obama Fried Chicken) opens in Beijing
Of course the 1000-page comment isn't serious, but Brin also isn't letting it slide -- he intended to throw some water on that debate.

Your summary is much more graceful than my own. I blame Brin for my forced brevity, lest I lose his interest.
>I have real problems with declaring Bill Gates 'amazingly chartitable'.

He's given away billions and billions of his personal fortune. If he literally stole the money (which he did not), the giving away of it would still be amazing. He's also giving away his substantial creative energy and his time.
Can a robot write books? Yes, and they're absolutely terrible.
At first blush, targeted advertising seems scary. Upon a second look, who cares? This isn't the Gestapo, they're trying to sell you hamburgers. So what if they know that you like Orson Scott Card? I like that Amazon occasionally introduces me to a book I will enjoy, that's a benefit to me. I only look at ads for ~.3% of the time I'm on a website anyway, so what difference does it make to me if they're more to my taste?
I guess GP is being sarcastic: All what he describe is a pain with a laptop and easy with a smartphone.
Is this a personal experience that you are generalizing or it is actually faster to get a wife to the US vs a fiancee? Any link to actual law is appreciated.
In pg's Hierarchy of arguments http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html , "I stopped reading after x pages" is "DH2: Responding to Tone" and therefore always unconvincing.
Will librarians revolt over Amazon's Kindle lending program?
Yegge Golfing: Shorten Steve's "1,000 pages or so" rant for Sergey Brin
Maybe I was the only one who laughed at Sergey Brin's remarks about Steve Yegge's Google+ Platforms rant.

In the spirit of Code Golf, what's the shortest summary you can come up with for Steve's "1,000 pages or so" rant?
> Even so, I fully expect memristors to deliver strong AI.

Why would they?

Is strong AI a function of storage capacity or speed?

An AI running at 1/100th of what a future AI may be capable of is still an AI and I can't see how a mere improvement of a couple of orders of magnitude would do what decades of Moore's law have failed to do so far.

If strong AI was just a matter of speed then we could theoretically take any of the large clusters available today and run it at an appreciable fraction of its normal speed leading at a minimum to a validation of the fact that it is indeed a strong AI that's been created.

The barrier seems to be more that we don't know how to go about building one from a software perspective than that we wouldn't have the capability to design the hardware.

So how would an advance in hardware suddenly fix that?
Totally off topic, maybe. Examples like yours are used, I've noticed, a great deal in the history lessons of James Burke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_%28science_historia...). He regularly describes what someone did, using an uncommonly-known name. Then uses the name everyone knows as a fun little reveal at the end of section.

Why not totally off-topic... Well, he also seems to use it so that he can focus on the person's actions in the descriptive context of the person's time/inventions which he has been using up to that point. See, if he brought in the well-known name early, then he well effectively be changing the subject from what he was talking about to what people know about the famous person. And that harms his attempt to show a new angle on the well-known person. This is Somewhat similar to a pseudonym allowing an position/argument to float free from the particular individual stating it, and thus be judged on its own merits.
I know this post might feel like old news at this point. But over the past weeks I've felt compelled to try to put these ideas into words. I think the dynamics of the OWS movement are hard to understand, and though it took me weeks to finally get around to finishing this post (I've been really busy), I really wanted to take a stab at thinking it through. I'd love to hear any feedback from you all. Regardless of political views, this is a historic event and I don't want to live through it thinking only what the media tells me about it. Thanks -