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I am the thing making decisions. To the extent that the thing making decisions didn't exist exactly when and where either I or the neuroscientists thought it was, that's merely one in a very long list of things that we were wrong about, and that our definitions were wrong. Declaring that this disproves "free will" is really overdoing it; it's akin to declaring "gravity" disproved after astronomers established that gravity works in space as well as on Earth. Yes, sure, "gravity pre-better-astronomy" was disproved, but that did not cause things to start suddenly floating off the Earth. First you draw a dichotomy where there shouldn't be one, then you demonstrate the dichotomy doesn't exist, then you declare that the whole thing is all wrong; it's just "A -> B, not A, therefore C" when you get down to it.

I am already well aware that the-thing-making-decisions is more than just the conscious mind itself, but while we have the words "subconscious" and "conscious" in reality there's no clean line between the two.
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Here's a Yegge blog post from 2008 where he defends his verbosity (in general):

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogging-theory-201-...

Summary: If your writing is too short, then it doesn't spill over into people's long-term memory and they will forget it all too soon.

Having said that, you should go read the blog post so you can remember it.
We would use such a JS file for large lists.

Is there a performant way to use this kind of JS files without loading the full database table into the frontend? I couldn't find anything in the documentation.
If you read the entire library of Babel, you will find an elegant counter-argument to this. Please don't dismiss this argument until you are done reading it, or your dismissal will be unconvincing.
More to the point: not spending is not voting, but not spending but actually using the good sends a totally different message to both the industry and the government.

Can one have an effective hunger-strike while eating?

Actually going on strike and not consuming would/could send a 'high-road' and morally correct message. Self-deprivation innately states the value of the belief. Refusing to pay while continuing to consume only reinforces that the item of consumption is where the value actually lies. It makes people look doubly foolish for claiming that they won't pay because the item has no value.
This is not really different that trying to convince students to study and not bet it all on sports. Family friends did a good job a few years back bringing their son back to reality; he was really good at basket ball; by having him find all the people from his school, county, and state, who made it. Then asking him how many didn't.

People seem to always underestimate the effort and over estimate themselves.
If not, then what?

Even while I agree with Alan Kay when he says that IQ << knowledge << outlook. But all three happen in the brain regardless.

Imagine we manage to build a machine that produce more insights than Newton. That particular form of intelligence would be quite likely to trigger a singularity, don't you think?
75% of the versions of Android have been open and in all instances other than one when they've said so in advance and gave a reason.

The only instance where they've said that it would be open and wasn't (3.1) was a logical follow on from 3.0 not being opened - not ideal but hardly grounds to suggest that when they categorically state that they're opening it up and that someone has been working on doing that for six weeks they're "making shit up".
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They aren't new users though. None of them are new to google.com, and most already have Google accounts. They are simply activating another Google service.

It's a whole different thing if you launch a startup like Dropbox and get people to use it.
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Thanks, but you really need to change that to 7 KB. I thought to myself "7 MB? What a weird JS library" and was about to close the page.
Looks decent although I don't understand why they used a deceleration equation on the Fading exits. I would think emphasis should be in the start of the animation instead of the end. A simple acceleration equation would easily fix this.
No, he didn't. He was legally in the country and he applied for asylum before his authorisation expired. It was all above-board, though that doesn't mean he gets to stay since the asylum application was eventually declined.
Right, it only lets you see photos you've taken from the lock screen, so no personal data is exposed.
Three.js is awesome, I just wish it had better documentation.

I threw this together in a couple hours:

http://www.davesgalaxy.com/site_media/test.html
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I have mixed emotions about this. On one hand it is great to see the press. On the other hand as soon as they started talking about agencies and SCAD in their post that was all that I needed to see.

Sadly, the Atlanta startup scene has way too many Wordpress designers doing basic websites, MBA/Marketers looking for technical co-founders and MBA/Marketers who are looking for funding to hire a inexpensive team in (select your favorite low cost development country). Atlanta has a lot of Agencies etc., but if the Atlantic is mentioning SCAD as a highpoint of their visit that says it all right there.

I am hopeful that will change, but the first step to solving this is getting over the Stockholm syndrome, admitting to how bad the problem is and not just accepting the status quo. Saying that at least we have some organizations forming is great, but not enough.
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So by ramping up non-criminal removals, does that mean they are actively trying to reject more appeals just to meet quotas of people they must deport (as opposed to rejecting or accepting them on the merits of the case)?
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Device would consist of a really nice handle. This would have a socket for an attachment. There would be many attachments available. Each attachment would take one type of razor blade. Thus, the buyer would buy one nice handle, and a couple of attachments (for each blade type that they like).
Just imagine you know nothing about the US except what you see in movies. Do you see a lot of poor people?

There obviously are movies and TV which show a much more "real" version of the world. But the most popular TV and movies tend to show an idealized version of reality.
I was looking for a reference price for the iPhone 4. It's in a separate article: http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/iPhone-4-Carries...
I find his "points" muddied by all of the extra words. His typical essay starts out on a tangent and then slowly winds through some analogies tenuously related to a main theme. Sometimes I don't mind the long-winded essays, but I think almost all of his writing would be improved with a summary paragraph or two at the top.
I agree. I'm not wild about the "open" model they adopt - the code is (generally) open but the project certainly isn't and they do seem to play around with it to suit their commercial needs.

But given that Amazon have gone and lifted the Android code base and reused it without any endorsement or sanction from Google and largely not to Google's benefit, Google deserve some kudos for continuing to outsource Android at all.
When all the components and manufacturing costs are roughly estimated, it would be better to say they cost "about the same" instead of $0.49 (a 0.25% difference) because they really have no idea what Apple has negotiated. Their estimate is probably +/-$50.

Also, Apple already has all the tooling in place to manufacture the body and machine the steel band at very high volume, which a large cost not captured in their analysis.
There is: give the list a fixed height and a scrollbar to display more. Load the first two or so pages immediately and render them, then request more right away (or as the user scrolls, if they scroll faster than you can load them). As the user scrolls, remove dom elements that are more than a page above or below the visible area to keep the number of nodes small. Obviously, cache the data (and the removed nodes) so that when the user scrolls back to the same spot you can load them again quickly.

If performance is important and you have a lot of data, this is an enormously tricky thing to get right, and perhaps impossible in a general case.

Note that fast scrolling of lots of data is a little-noticed but extremely optimized operation in the OS X and iPhone UI, and has undoubtedly received multiple man-years of attention.
@_dte here (the author)

vihnboy - a debugger for CSS animations would be great. Luckily, the webkit inspector will tell you all the CSS properties an element carries and indicates CSS errors. However, it doesn't show you errors with associated keyframes - that would be awesome.

james33, johnyzee - the tech is pretty well supported, but indeed has a long way to go. It's in the css3 spec, which is great, and IE10 will support it. Remember - it's an extra layer of interaction, not an important feature of any website. use it subtly.
So heres an interesting point:

1) No Twitter/FB integration. Yes, you want this NOT using your mobile data. You just need that msg sent ASAP with minimal overhead so that the message has the highest chance of getting out there. Also proably easier to implement.

2) If you are getting arrested, how will you turn on the phone, get to the app, open it, and long-hold the bullseye. This should be set up as part of a buddy system. O well... first steps and all i guess.
I think I like the Photura form better. Looks like it is designed to be held by human hands, instead of to be sat on the table and looked at itself.
also, i don't think software is viewed as a "high-prestige" profession.

It really depends on where in the world you are.
My hometown is Tampa, FL. In 2005 I decided I wanted to start a tech company. I couldn't even get more than 4 people together for a programming meetup, let alone something related to startups, so I moved to SF. I'm back for a couple of months and was delighted to find out that there is a startup incubator (Tampa Bay WaVE) that no only exists, but has put 80 startups through its program!
This is exactly why I switched to a BlackBerry after using both an iPhone and a couple of Android phones. Most of what I want to deal with is text, and the BlackBerry handles text better than any of the other smart phones I've tried.

The Droid I was arguably better for dealing with coding over SSH, however BBSSH is sufficient on the BlackBerry to actually code on a remote server. And, I enjoy having non-gmail email accounts that actually work well on my phone.
Sounds like you're mad because you paid for phone calls.
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Interesting perspective, though, you seem to have had some bad experiences with Americans, sounds like you've been to the bad side of some big city. Small town America are closer to the Hollywood prototype you see in the movies; friendly people, helping strangers and all that.

What is your home country?
I agree with several things you say here, but this doesn't make any sense: "Isn't it a damn shame that Mickey Mouse, after three-quarters of a century, being a character our grandparents enjoyed, isn't somebody we can have? That the cultural contributions of John Coltrane aren't ours to enjoy?"

It what sense aren't you yet able to 'have' Mickey Mouse?? Or 'enjoy' the cultural contributions of John Coltrane?

Your statement would only make sense if companies were removing these products from the marketplace and using copyright to ensure their removal. In the case of true orphaned works, I have a different mindset - but Mickey Mouse and John Coltrane are widely and continuously available in society because someone can make money off it.
That's to ensure the marriage wasn't a false one for the purposes of immigration fraud.

Honestly, as long as your brother-in-law got his permanent residency in a timely fashion and could work in the United States and live with his family, I don't think there's anything to complain about here. I went through the same process - apart from the naturalization at the end, which I've got no desire to do.
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I liked the term Shared Source for what Google are doing, though I was informed that Microsoft have already coined that for the stuff where they make the code public for review but not use.
As one of the commenters asked, I wonder what startup(s) they're visiting in Greensboro, AL?
You may also want to look at this other great video:

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I didn't claim that a sustainable businesses can't do good work. I simply claimed that sustainability is at odds with producing good things. Which is a fairly different claim. Though I can see how the distinction was not perfectly clear in my comment.

But to be honest I thought I was being very careful in my wording about something that should be self evident, e.g.

"...will most likely not be as inherently good as it could be."

Running a business implies a trade-off. The trade-off is that if you want to be successful (i.e. sustainable) you need to focus on the business and not the product. Which is exactly what the article is stating.

Maybe a better example to support my claim is Apple. They make great products. But the way they do that is by focusing on the process of creating great products. Jonathan Ive specifically talks about this in the Objectified documentary. He says that most of their time is spent on designing the manufacturing process and the tools needed to mass-produce the products, only a very small part of the time is spent on the actual design of the phone or computer and that design is almost always a direct implication of the manufacturing process rather than something they magically dream up in some creative haze.
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The difference is that you can't run the same executables on all of the PS3's cores, the SPUs don't even have the same instruction set, much less stuff like memory management units.

The big difference between this and Kal-El is that Kal-El uses a fifth core on the same architecture but a different (high Vt) process for the handoff, with less potential for power savings. Kak-El also takes 2mS to make a transition, rather than the 20uS that ARM is advertising for A7/A15 systems with structures in their caches built specifically to enable this.

On the other hand, Kal-El will be coming out long before we see A7/A15 hybrid systems.
Contrastingly, I don't like the fact that I'm next to my computer all day. I'd rather have a smartphone and be out and about the town or in nature. Laptops increasingly feel old-tech and kludgy to me.
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Just host your own mail. You're never going to get those requirements met by a service. The incentives don't match. Spamassassin can't match gmail, but even for my address (in use for 15 years!) it's reasonable: maybe 6-10 false negatives per day.

Whether moving off google specifically is really that useful, I'm mixed. No other cloud providers have a better record certainly. I guess I don't see the logic, except as a knee-jerk "enemy of the week" thing (mild troll: you're an iPhone user, right?). Getting your data out of the cloud in general makes more sense to me, but is a lot more difficult.
"The goal is not to see if the person can get the answer. The goal is to see how the person approaches unexpected or novel problems."

Then maybe we use different definitions of "brainteaser". My definition of brainteaser is a problem that needs a single clever, non-obvious trick to solve. Groping for a clever trick is usually very random and doesn't tell me much about the skills of the person trying to solve the problem.

If I want to judge someone's approach, then open-ended problems where you have multiple solutions (preferably involving several easier-to-get steps) are much better than single-insight brainteasers.
I can't imagine that because I was raised here, that's why I'm asking. I saw plenty of poor people in real life and in popular movies; when I see American movies, it looks like home to me, it's where I grew up.
If he saw a big opening he could exploit, he'd be there regardless of whether it was drilling for oil or starting a babysitting empire.

This is why most everything that we use is shit.

Also see: http://thetudu.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/the-real-reason-well...
I have to agree that, there is no mistake when translation became a degree in many universities all over the world. It's not something that could be mastered simply by knowing two languages (even native speaker of both)

I think for the 代表 part of things, it applies to any places in Asia, almost. You can't pretty much get around anything if you don't have a local to sort things out for you. Either partner with one or hire some for this matter.
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Is strong AI a function of storage capacity or speed?

Yes, absolutely! I actually think the most appropriate benchmark is memory bandwidth, which hasn't been improving as fast as FLOPS or storage capacity. It's not a matter of running a strong AI at 1/100 speed on today's fastest supercomputer. It would be more like 1 billionth or trillionth speed.

The reason for our disappointingly slow progress in AI over the years is that our hardware is still nowhere near powerful enough to usefully implement the same algorithms as the brain, and we likely won't even develop the right algorithms until we have hardware closer to the requirements, so we can test and iterate.
I think that's a pretty unfair summary. Brin didn't suggest he disapproves of everything longer than a paragraph, and Yegge's post wasn't art or literature. In the context of a question whether an executive has read something an employee has written, it's a much more reasonable statement.
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Yes, the combination of high pay and time/place flexibility is very appealing compared to the way most people live. You can still apply the same theory within computing, though. For example, a lot of people start out wanting to invent their own programming language, both to "scratch an itch" and because it's a pretty high-status gig. Then they get bogged down implementing libraries and fielding requests for new language features and I'm sure it's no longer so much fun. By contrast, databases or filesystems might seem boring to use but there's actually a lot of exciting work going on under the covers. We even have our own equivalent of the B&B scenario, with people who want to develop cool web stuff and then find they have to spend most of their time on the underlying functionality (assuming they have any worth speaking about). In the end, it's always worth thinking about the job rather than the product.
That goes against the principle of open-source. The principle is that by releasing code to the public you will get contributions from others (an extra set of eyes) that will make the project overall better.

But to accept this principle to have to also accept that some people will take your code and use it in ways that you don't approve. The hope/belief is that the good will float to the top. If you don't accept this premise then you don't really have an open-source project.

I can't figure out why Android open sources its code, ever. They don't seem to care about contributions from the community, and they obviously don't want people using their code in ways they disapprove of. It seems that the major reason for open sourcing their code must be something else. What I keep coming back to is that it somehow protects them (in most cases) of patent violations.

I've asked this in the past: what is Andy Rubin's open-source credentials? What open-source projects has he been involved in during his long and successful career?
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Sergey has a dry sense of humor that doesn't always come across well in quotes. My sense is that plenty of execs and other people in Google read Steve's post and gave it a lot of thought. Steve's post was long, but he made a ton of great points.
I should be clear: I don't mean to accuse Dan Morril of making shit up. The guy is probably speaking honestly.

But in the larger picture, Google has been calling Android open source from the beginning. They haven't released source for 3.0, 3.1, or 4.0. (Yes, the 4.0 devices haven't shipped yet, but if they're really shipping in a month, the code has been in QA for a while.) That's disingenuous, to me.
A correct response code is the minimum to play nice, and a body, HTML or otherwise, is courteous. They are not mutually exclusive.

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Yes, but the only feedback provided was that my argument was a straw-man. I.e. they disagreed with the point I was trying to make. And as far as I understand, the social contract on Hacker News implies that you don't down vote if you disagree, only if the comment is spam or trolling, etc.

Although I suppose I'm on the verge of becoming somewhat of a troll right now.
Sending your own widget up and having it bring back snapshots of other continents and a round Earth, only seconds later. What an amazing feeling it must be. Makes me wanna go dig up my old mechanics book. Can someone give a ballpark figure of how much it would cost to build something like this and how long it took them?
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Perhaps not on the grey one, but the other two are blazed hues of anodized aluminum.

Sure, it makes the thing look like a gun. But there's a reason guns have pistol grips. They work well for the intended application. They're functional.

Without any kind of grip, this thing is an awkward tube that takes pictures. Perhaps it could work as a spyglass, but because of the touch screen you can't raise it directly to your eye. So you have to fumble it between two hands trying to aim and shoot. Have you ever tried to point a 10ft. pole at something with just two hands? It's very difficult. I'm envisioning the same difficulty trying to take a picture with any level of zoom on this thing.
A common use of Bluetooth with mobile phones has been for a wireless headset or handsfree operation in a car. This is another example of that but it happens in your home using cordless phone sets as the extension.
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"As the GPS devices on Qu8k failed to log readings above 100,000 feet, the attempt is likely disqualified."

would love to know what happened
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