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Context: Ashton Kutcher mentioned him at his talk at Startup School.
That didn't stop them making a movie about it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/
I think this is a key issue for tech companies and consumers. When it comes to data and privacy, there is a certain place where it becomes about the brand and the how much a consumer/user trusts the brand. I trust Apple more than most brands. I believe they are respectful of users and their business is devices and software. As where I trust a company, like Google, less. Their business is data.
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So, are there any languages that actually get this right? I'm sure Haskell does, being a strongly-typed, side-effect-free language. Are there any other languages that have this working properly?
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I find this to be incredibly short-sighted.

Educational tech pundits are so quick to judge new ways of learning based on the content they have right now. I'm incredibly excited by things like Codecademy (and obviously Khan Academy) because what we're seeing is the very beginning.

From the article:
"If you were to sit me down in front of a blank IDE and ask me to build something, I wouldn’t have any clue how to begin. (And the fact that I know what an IDE is probably sets me apart from a lot of novice would-be programmers.)

I can set a variable..."

Go find either A) a bunch of college freshman who just took their first couple programming classes or B) a bunch of self-learners who just read their first chapters of a programming book, and I bet you'll find similar feelings.

I don't know if it'll be Codecademy or any other product that exists right now, but I do know that a tool that helps anyone learn how to program is something that's worth the chase. Let 'em get started.
I went back to school at 27 and finally finished with a BA and MA at 32. I would totally do it again. However, I would do some things differently but at least I did it because that was one regret I had - not having that formal education. You could fulfill some of your longing formal edu by taking some courses online (and free) through the top unis. I'm taking an intro cs course through Stanford with 25 other women and we're connecting through a google group. You get the lectures, the books,the assignments just like a regular class. Doing this with others keeps you focused and you get study groups. The biggest benefit is that you don't incur a bunch of debt. Also, yes, there can be work experience credit but it is difficult to get. Talk to an admissions counselor and they can help you with that.
Less dense implies colder, as the volume is not constant, but expanding. Temperature and density are different things though - one is how much energy something has, the other is how far away from other things it is. Related, but different.

With respect to destroying energy - energy converted into matter is 'colder'. There's not the exact same amount of energy - it's not that it can't be destroyed, it must be conserved with matter (E=MC^2). Great example - kinetic energy is used in a particle accelerator to create new particles, and it takes a ton of energy to make even a tiny bit of mass, so the average temperature would go down as more mass is created (heat being the transfer of energy - once it's trapped in a particle, it's not transferred as freely).

(Caveat - I'm not a cosmologist...)
To me Zen seems like a lot of vague mumbo-jumbo. It can be interpreted any which way you want, making it sometimes seem wise and profound. The Buddhism I learned is quite simple and clear. It just boils down to two Golden Rules:

1. The Golden Rule: Treat others as you wish to be treated.
2. The Golden Mean: Everything in moderation, nothing in excess.

and the related commentary as to why these are good policies to follow.
Gentoo is more like automated LFS with package dependencies and optional binary packages that you build yourself (to distribute to other machines you control).
How do you know what the limits to Buddhism are? Have you tested the limits?

Letting go of conceptions was one of Buddha's teachings. "Certain things are predominately innate" is a conception and holding on to that limits progress [1].

[1] Progress in this case means deliverance (enlightenment).
This has been around for quite a while, and, as usual, the "99 Bottles of Beer" example is quite instructive as to how to use the language on a real problem. "Thou art as cute as the difference between yourself and the sum of a furry cat and an animal. Speak your mind." :)

http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-shakespeare-664.html
Yep. It took me a few moments to find the right Carl Fisher, so I figured I'd save everybody else the trouble.
There certainly is a "Black IIT" to bootstrap the tech reputation of blacks. It's called "MIT". Most Black applicants who are as qualified as a typical IIT student will get in.

Most Black Americans also tend to have a higher quality primary education than the typical Indian student - their teachers tend to show up for work and their schools tend to have toilets with > 2 nines of uptime.

As for "very serious about trying to export their own tech workers", their efforts have made it considerably easier for Indian/Chinese workers to get an H1B. I guess you are right - Black Americans would probably have a hard time getting an H1B.
I agree with your sentiment and hate the lame titles programmers apply to themselves, but you're missing a key point. Calling yourself a programmer is fine when your company's product is the software you write. If I work at id or at a company that sells iPhone apps and I call myself a programmer, it's obvious what value I create. But for the people making internal business software (90% of programming jobs according to Patrick) a programmer is associated with costs rather than profits, so it's a bad idea to craft an identify as a "programmer".
But Siri doesn’t just transmit and store data to be evil, they use it to improve the service to better understand what you’re saying. How do you feel about that?
> For the record, I do realize there are quite a few GPS turn by turn solutions for the iPhone, but suggesting they are a true replacement for Google's Nav stuff is like suggesting Google Voice Search is a replacement for Siri.

How do you think it is better than conventional navigation devices/apps? Do you have a link to a demo video or a review that shows the coolest features? The only distinguishing feature I can see is Street View integration.
Gentoo is basically that.
I've tried google navigation, and it didn't work that well compared to a typical paid turn-by-turn navigation app with offline maps.
I agree with this completely. In a sense, the dystopian presentation of a movie like Blade Runner or Akira feels oddly more comforting. Street venders, gangs of kids doing nothing in particular, smokers, etc. Even the cleanest, most polite scandinavian social democracy still has all these things, but they're conveniently left out of these "utopian" visions.

I think, if anything triggers our discomfort, it's the subconscious question of what happened to them.
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Looks like the Polish version of America's "There I Fixed It" blog (http://thereifixedit.failblog.org).
I’ve opted to learn JavaScript, mainly because I think it’s one of the essential building blocks of the Web.

I would say that JavaScript is (Not) essential, not essential at all.

The building blocks of web software are the agnostic components of LAMP (operating system + web server + database + backend CGI processor.) And, we're even removing some (all?) of those building blocks. For the front-end apps on the web browser platform, maybe start by painting, then learning HTML, then CSS, then JavaScript. Use JavaScript sparingly for special effects and extra help, but not as the main line of your story.

The most useful code, is code that is not even written because you don't need to (especially if you're not sure how to code in the first place), and code that gets removed is even better. And, interfaces that don't show themselves are a big improvement too.

My advice would be learn how (Not) to Code. Still, be persistent and learn how to code, but go even further and learn how not to code.
One of the main problems about technological visions of utopia is that they so often assume that perfection is the absence of problems. Perhaps, but the more a world approaches that perfection, the more limited it becomes by necessity. Hence, the glimpse of Microsoft's world of optimal productivity is a glimpse of an intellectual and spiritual desert: meetings without purposes, productivity with nothing to produce. Human ingenuity exists to solve problems, so it's extremely ironic what emerges when we project to a world where technological ingenuity has vanquished the problems we deal with today.
It follows the same progression as everything else in our nanny state of a society.

When I was a wee lad in k-12 school, school parties were a smorgasbord of home-prepared treats (brownies, cookies, punch, you name it). Fifteen years later, when my kids were briefly in public school (we yanked 'em and un-school them now), home-made goodies are now forbidden as health hazards. So instead of a unique assortment of recipes, you get every kid offering the same bland varieties of Oreos, Ho-Hos, and Chips Ahoy.

Pardon my French, but it's a fucking sad state of affairs our society has found itself in.
> Basically anything on the phone that displays an address (web browser, Google Maps, apps like Yelp, etc) displays it as a clickable link letting me instantly pull up directions and switch into nav mode.

This is in iOS too. Of course you don't get turn-by-turn, just directions, but if Apple is eventually going to add turn by turn you'll find it there.
This is exactly why it's good not to have a pure democracy: I'm just trying to get my point across an I'm immediately silenced.
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Such a fascinating article, I guess there is money in open source software, provided you execute as well as the Automaticc team.
I implemented a shakespeare interpreter a couple of years ago and it was great fun, although I had to extend the language a bit to be able to write tests.
Sadly, there was an ISO commitee where I could send requests to get new standard features :)
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..and if we had no security, would it be any better?

I'm shocked at all the anti-security people here on HN. Do you also have no password on you wireless connection and pay for goods online with no SSL?

I would really like to see if the people downvoting have any security precautions in place in their daily lives. If so, they are a little hypocritical.
That video, and the demo from the link above is amazing! The speed of progress is blowing my mind, especially in the area of image recognition, and analysis. Though there's incredible progress in AI, wireless technology, and virtually everything else. Everywhere I look engineers and scientists are pulling off mind blowing things. I'm going into the future expecting the unreal, yet still when I see it I feel like i'm experiencing future shock.
Did we watch the same video? Apple makes much more usable and sane UIs than the jumbled, awkward-looking (but pretty) ones depicted in the Microsoft Productivity Future 2011.
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They don't have a case, but they're not trying to make one. They have to make a show of responding to demonstrate that they'll defend their mark by issuing the letter and filing the objection. If they don't, then when their mark is threatened with genuine infringement, the infringer can point to all those other cases involving logos containing apples and say 'you never complained about those, and my logo depicting an apple is not all that different.'

What will happen is the Munich PTO will look at it, itemize the differences between the two trademarks, and then (probably) grant the Apfelcafe its trademark. Apfelcafe will do the same thing in the future is someone opens (say) an Apfelkindergarten. If you don't have a record of proactively defending your trademark against possible infringement, then you can lose your claim upon it.
How often does its index of all of the businesses get updated?
If you trigger a full GC "from outside", the way you would trigger a restart, you'd perform whatever you do for a restart (stop accepting requests, finish accepted requests, be unavailable, start accepting requests).

My point was that a full GC does not need to re-profile the code, re-JIT the code and warm data caches, like a newly restarted JVM does. Sending a user request to a JVM to be run in an interpreter with cold caches is not good for user satisfaction, so a newly restarted JVM needs to be given mock requests to warm it up (like a script for PGO static compilation). A JVM doing a full GC does not need all that to become fully ready, and if it has enough free RAM to defragment quickly, the process should be much more efficient.
>And how would you even write this snippet, pre auto?!

typeof(t1 + t2) sum = t1 + t2;
As does Java, but they get it wrong for arrays. I don't know if C# has that problem or not.
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If I wanted to learn how to do it myself but still let it be repeatable, would it be a good idea to write a script or scripts that does it instead of running all the commands by hand?
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It says they serve ads sometimes on free blogs, but if the visitor is using Firefox, they will not serve ads.

Anyone know why not?
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The article said that yes, you could, but it wouldn't be as efficient as their actual fan.
I kept a few screenshots from the old days. Check out this one from September 28, 1998 (complete with vintage Netscape browser action around it)...

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Edit: it has the logo in question. I thought this was a person who was crowd-surfing. Yeesh.
Java does; List<String> is not a subtype of List<Object>. This greatly confuses many programmers, since String[] is a subtype of Object[] (they made this mistake before Guy Steele got involved).

Naturally, SML does as well. SML also has immutable lists, which are covariant.
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Yes, less dense and colder is redundant.
That should be decltype, not typeof, btw
the way the economics work out, independent consultants rarely spend much time on basic research

Am I wrong to read this as: "After forty hours a week spend on doing well-paid work for clients, it's hard to find another thirty hours to scour literature and write up results, while still having a life?"

Because I'd be cautious in assuming that academics work much less than seventy hours a week. ;)

It's true, though: Doing an actual stint in academia is the right way to get a lot of scientific publications out. But: It doesn't pay well. It's not the most effective way of keeping yourself alive, or creating clear and saleable value for others. That's why I call it a hobby. You are taking time away from more valuable pursuits to advance the field, teach people, and maybe even practice a little art.

I'm sad to see that people think my use of the word hobby is so demeaning. I'm a big believer in hobbies. Here's my philosophy of the ideal life: You're born, you enjoy a series of hobbies (some of which may be deadly serious, like Steve Jobs' hobby of inventing the future), and then you die. I suppose I could look for a better word, but if the word doesn't express the concept of loads of fun it's not the right word.

Apparently writing essays on HN is the hobby of the day for me...
Couple notes.

* This is a straight conceptual extrapolation of current technology and designs. The only thing that I don't see coming from today's tech is the holographic projects. Oddly, most of the design seems to look like Apple-inspired tech. Does Apple consciously design to look like a sci-fi future? Or do their views of the future become shaped like Apple?

* In the cubes, there are no walls. The cube-dweller did not have headphones. Major, major "graaah"

* There are a ton of animations between slides in the screens. This is a waste of time.

* I didn't see any "stupid" activities like reading Failbook, watching MTV, any of those very popular mental cheetos activities. The future has "stupid" entertainment.

* Transparent fridge door = win. Where do I get one? I like that future!

* Also, one curious thing about this is that this is a presentation of rich people (that's not an indictment). The wealthy people whose houses I've visited who are rich in the US seem to have large amounts of space and everything seems to be insanely tidy (maid service? I don't know). Most less wealthy people have less space and things are a bit more jumbled up and around. This seems to be a conceptualization of a junior executive and her family.
Not necessarily. If I'd invented a wacko free energy source (and I don't believe for a moment that they have) then I'd sell the machines, or the patent to the machine, and not the energy.

Why? Because I don't want to spend the rest of my life running a utility company.
Duh! Because a 12-year-old can mostly only hurt himself by losing control of a lawn mower or weed eater. Give that same kid a 5-gallon tainted cooler of ice and lemonade-flavored Kool-Aid, and he could poison an entire neighborhood!

But seriously, this topic makes me wonder about all sorts of things we did as kids that might have been technically illegal but we all did anyway. Such as mowing lawns and babysitting while too young. Did you know most states technically require sitters to be 16 years or older?!? The paperboy as we fondly remember it (I want my two dollars!) might be technically illegal. I mean, don't labor laws restrict non-farm employment to 16 years and older?

I'd be curious to see a real, thorough analysis of the legality of so many things we take for granted.
This is another issue that's been mythicized by Android users. There are plenty of great turn-by-turn apps—free and low-cost—that work online and offline. I've used MapQuest (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mapquest-4-mobile/id316126557) on my iPhone; worked great.

Come on in, the water's fine: http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios-navigation/id6010
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I can relate to this "Jobs wasn't a real Buddhist" nonsense because I practice Buddhist meditation and still can have a difficult personality. (I'm extremely intense and opinionated, to the point of being moralistic.) I was a lot worse when I had no spiritual path. The fact that I still have personal difficulties (as nearly everyone does, including most Buddhists) does not mean that my practice has been without value.

Spiritual progress is intensely personal and hard to measure, but the existence of anger in a person doesn't make that person "a bad Buddhist". It's not like Western concepts of religion where you're a bad $RELIGIOUS_DEMONYM or a good one. There are skilled people and unskilled people. Steve Jobs was using Buddhist teachings and practices to develop skills that most people don't have and that he probably lacked, to some degree, even unto death. No shock there. Getting to Enlightenment takes a long time.
I was an Ashton hater before today, for reasons probably related to jealousy, but today he won me over. I was really impressed by his groundedness and humility...at least while he spoke on stage.
Some more on the subject in a few Less Wrong articles:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/xl/eutopia_is_scary/ argues that any much better society -- including any utopia worthy of the name -- is going to be different in ways to counterintuitive that they would sound scary. The present would seem the same way to someone from a hundred years ago; why would the future seem normal?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/xm/building_weirdtopia/ Has some attempts to come up with "weirdtopias", bizarre visions of the future that sound oddly compelling. It's a fun exercise.

And from a completely different web site, I have seen one work of fiction that bucks the trend by being set in a utopia so good that you might actually want to live there:

http://cityofreality.com/

So, you know, not all utopias are creepy and sinister.
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Probably as often as the data provider(s) that Google is feeding into their system as well. You didn't think that Google was actually collecting that info directly, did you?
Some of what you say makes much sense. I went to a school with about 20% blacks. Although I have heard from others in more homogenous schools that its not much better. You are also right it is not limited to blacks but I could not think of a term that succinctly captured a minority but from a less affluent demographic and more likely to be of a culture that has fractured from its roots.

But part of what you say is a symptom of the chronic heuristic I spoke of. To perpetuate ignorance just because those who do not appreciate it will leave? makes no sense. Why, leaving is almost part of the job description of a sports or entertainment job and they don't get ostracized. Plus part of the problem is a lack of availability of models. The more that achieve the more it becomes okay to try an intellectual avenue as a way out and the less and less notable it becomes to be interested in say math. Plus as a matter of numbers some of them will come back to try and better things, the spaces in entertainment are much more limited than in technology.

Finally, "acting white" exactly exemplifies what I mean. Just because I am not fluent in ebonics, like music with guitars in it, like to read scifi by Egan and books on information theory does not mean I am acting white. Nor does my like of chicken, basketball, funk, hiphop and bboying mean I am acting black. It is a cultural and personal lifestyle choice not predicated on color in deciding what I wish to identify with.
30 here and 1/2 way through my bachelors, I had no coding or tech experience and I've not looked back. I had a hunch I'd like it; I've always been good at maths and logic.

Jump on in, it's lovely in here!
Where to get money for your startup?
I love website called Kickstarter.com, but unfortunately it's only for USA startups. So, are there any good websites like Kickstarter for Europe startups too? Or are there any websites where investors could see your website and then decide if they want to invest in it or not? What would you suggest?
At least it says below it: "A fly-through over Oslo, Norway created by C3 Technologies".
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We need new scientist to tell us the hypnotic state is real? Too bad there have been many studies before this which are quite conclusive.
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If the fact that they now have a license devalues the value of the original contract you signed for (I am assuming) exclusive rights, then that is why you have the right of first refusal in your contract.

Thanks for putting it that way, it makes more sense when I look at it from this perspective.
It should be somewhere here: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/298670703
That's awfully cynical. What's your basis for believing this?

Remember, Apple isn't Google. They're not trying to monetize search, or sell your user data. With Google, you are the product, not the customer. But with Apple, you are the customer, not the product.