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I've wanted that for years from the post office: one address, your stuff follows you wherever, you never change your "address" you just update your location with the post office. I explained the idea to my first wife in the late seventies, and she thought I was solving a non-problem.
A lot of things which we think are laws of nature, such as "people need to have A Job", are in fact just effects of a peculiar-to-one-time-in-history economic phenomena, like "transaction costs and overhead in arranging employment so dominate returns to labor that it is more efficient to maintain simultaneous overstaffing and underutilization of almost the entire professional work force than it is to fill orders for work like we fulfill orders for pizzas."

Tech has a wee bit of an effect in changing these economic underpinnings of how the culture works. So do economic arrangements, social pressures, the health of the alternative models, etc. (For a few decades there it was more economical in Japan to buy/sell labor in fifty year blocks than it was to buy it in two week chunks, like it is bought in America. That system is no longer healthy, which makes the two week chunk option more appealing.)

Anyhow, it is by no means a given that the net result of increasing efficiency is working harder. The Internet makes it really efficient for me to negotiate I've-got-brains-you've-got-money-lets-trade relative to the traditional employment system in this neck of the woods. This caused my economic output to go waaaay the heck up and my hours worked to crater.
Fair enough. I didn't think you were lying, I just wondered why your battery life was so much worse than mine.
Well I fell out with PHP about 3 years ago and moved to .net.

It's hard to get a real perspective on what is the best language to use, there have been rumours rails is over the hill now but it's just what I read around the web. I suppose this is my main reason for asking this question!
It's probably a long exposure camera. Each frame could be exposed for many seconds or even minutes. Any lightning that strikes during that time appears in the frame.
It won't be any more difficult for Amazon than it will be for any other OEM; phones are merging in from 2.3 as well. And that's making the assumption Amazon actually cares about being in sync with AOSP.
Why does he need to have a non-javascript version?

There is (thankfully) no law which say that your service must be usable for people who turn javascript of.
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This looks extremely cool, but I almost didn't bother to see what it was all about. A couple of suggestions, strickly speaking from my "cold start" (as in, I've never seen this before) experience with the website:

* The term "Demo" lead me to believe I would be logging in to the tool to try it out, which I wasn't really interested in doing. I was pleasently surprised to find a video there. Maybe consider renaming this to "Demo Video", or even better, "Intro Video", which is more descriptive.

* I'd even consider moving that movie to the home page. I'm sure lots of internet radio broadcasters know who Robert Klajn is, but he's completely unfamiliar to me, and it comes across as name dropping right up front. I'd have felt much better seeing the demo video up front.

* Consider adding a "wide" version of the site template for pages that show video and screenshots so that the media can expand beyond the 850-ish pixels you have in the left column. This would be especially impactful for the screenshots, which I found difficult to see at their current size. Ultimately, I discovered that I could click on the photos and view them on Flickr, but it takes a few clicks.

Overall a very cool product that encourages creation.
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"Like most people, questions about the existence of God and all things spiritual plague me frequently. I want to believe in such things, especially when it comes to continuity of my consciousness. I don’t like the idea of disappearing when I die."

One way to address this is to deal with these thoughts rather than entering a philosophical rat hole of trying to simulate our existence and find an analogy to the computer. Once you accept that an outside meta-influence is possible then you don't have to worry about all this "is there a God or not?" If God exists then God has powers that make Him imperceptible; if God doesn't exist then He's imperceptible. You can't tell the difference.

Oh well.

Better to live a life of good deeds and actions then worry about what's next.
Used to be; they haven't got their gitweb back online yet though. They're still in the middle of moving all their infrastructure internally after the kernel.org breach.
I signed up to be a donor, and I'm gonna try and convince my girlfriend to do the same. Thank you for bringing this to my attention!
I'm not sure there's a very solid correlation on that. It's true that the U.S. has a lot of startups, and also at-will employment, but actual experimental data is pretty weak, and the U.S. has been a technological leader through various routes for decades, not all of them startup-ish. For example, the old-line engineering firms (AT&T, Boeing, Lockheed, IBM, etc.) drove technical innovation for decades, and had much more "Europe-like" working conditions, where working more than 40 hours/wk was uncommon, employees were rarely fired except for gross incompetence, etc.

If anything, the 80-hour/wk and ready firing of employees thing was traditionally seen as a more "mom-and-pop business" type culture, associated with lower-status industries like the family-owned restaurant, not with technology.
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Say I live in a set, set_1, that has some property p_1. I can think about other sets, like my own, say, set_n, with similar properties for those, say, p_n. I am confined to set_1 so I can only speculate about what goes on in the other sets, if, indeed, there be any other sets. I speculate that all these sets, s, reside in some big super-set, S, with it's own p-like property, P. But this does not have to follow. I could have an infinite series of sets s, with their own unique p properties, but a super-set to which they belong does not itself have to have its own super-p property. It might, but it might not.

This is my problem with "Simulationism". It assumes such a "super P" property for the "super-set containing all universes". This property of course is time. The entire universe could be describable by a bit-string (Tegmark, et al) but that does not mean it has to "run" on anything, any more than a super-set S of s worlds each with property p has to have its own "super-property" P. I think it is a common misconception but not easy to clear up for people who don't have a technical background.
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Thanks, just bought a copy, I'll let you know!
There's no way it looks like that to the naked eye. This is probably a long exposure camera with a very high dynamic range, and we're seeing the dark side of the planet.

If you have a camera with a long exposure feature, try taking a 10-15 second shot of a nearly pitch black room. That will give you a sense of how this is made.
What does it matter if the answer cannot be known? If the question cannot be answered than "spending a significant amount of time deciding" is just waste.
Facebook, Google+, what about new generation social networks?: Outlyf.com
When you see the war between Google+ and Facebook, the two most important social networks actually, you can see ridiculous difference between them: Facebook is old and make new thing in a messy mix every month.
Google+ is lucky because of the benefits of Google reputation, but except privacy, it have nothing really new and useful than Facebook.
Now, new generation with a clear design and a useful system wants to hit: Outlyf.com
Outlyf.com is a social network who is really useful and who want to connect peoples having the same spot in common.
Spots are real places all around the world, like stadiums, nightclubs, bars, museums...
With a travel system, a blog, a map localisation and a real good privacy, Outlyf will be the next higher social network.
we have to follow them!
The social aspect and the feeling of being in a living and breathing fantasy world is quite intoxicating at first. I do agree that you need to be mindful of the fact that it is just a game and should be played for fun. It is not an achievement and is not helping to further your life any more than any other form of entertainment. It can be very easy to sink a lot of time into those things, but they are fun while they last.
Early stage startups are typically built to fail and although $50k isn't a lot in the modern sense of the word, you should really be careful in this situation.

You seem to be providing a small seed round so if they are successful, prepare to be diluted significantly (or forced to pay more to maintain equity portion). There are many rounds to come (Best case scenario).

The worst case scenario is that the money evaporates along with the startup. 20% of nothing is still nothing, unfortunately.

With regard to your acquisition of the site and technology - consult a lawyer. If the startup is incorporated already, then you will have to do some paperwork and you can ask for clauses that grant you I.P. rights if the company goes under.

A hands off approach would be nice, but you have to be careful. On the one hand meddling too much will interfere, but on the other hand doing nothing is typically a fast way to lose your money.

Best of luck if you decide to invest. If you have any other questions shoot me an email (in my profile)
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A number of east coast VCs invest in London, I'm guessing in a large part because:

1) London is as close to NY as SF is. This obviously doesn't apply to California based VCs.

2) London has a well developed legal framework for VC deals. When Accel invested in GetJar it was hugely complicated and took over 6 months to do the paperwork because so few VC deals had ever been done in Lithuania. You have to be spectacularly good for a VC to be willing to do that.
Discussed previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3160180
If you are looking for a new web framework and new database that will last you for 5 years, you're better off sticking with something mature.

I'm a bit biased, since I went from .NET to Ruby on Rails, but I realize that RoR may not have the 5 year shelf life you are looking for.

Honestly there are so many changes going in the web world, you are better off experimenting with a few and then deciding. Its impossible to say who will be on top in 2017. Its highly likely that the hot framework of 2017 doesn't exist today.

I would look at RoR, Play 2.0 with Scala, Django, and ExpressJS with Node. For front end stuff look at Backbone.

On the database side, stick with relational by default but experiment with NoSql solutions for non-critical data storage (logs, write once activity streams, etc). Get understanding of the persistence mechanisms and gotchas before fully committing.

Good luck!
Not defending the patent for FAT - nobody prohibits device OEMs shipping a piece of software that manages data on the device without requiring the FAT to be present.
This kind of machine-made urgency to utilize everything, creating lower prices (and for many, lower wages)

Lower Prices = good for the common person.

I don't think this would cause lower wages per se, if more people are doing less work (and getting less total pay), then this will lower the average wage. However that's not too important. More people have more money! yay!
I think the article is about squeezing out inefficiencies all over through centralized IT systems, but only if you see our free time as "inefficient" would you extend this idea to our personal lives.

The problem is that in a global economy one could argue that American workers are competing with Chinese workers that do work 7 days a week and have no free time.

Personally I think that there are plenty of places where the effect the article documents could be productively put to use for the benefit of everyone. e.g. most commuter cars have one person each. A giant centralized database of everyones commutes could make carpooling as easy as pushing a button on your phone over breakfast and seeing "be outside in 3 minutes" in response.

That's just one example. I'm sure there are others, "think smarter not harder" should be the idea in general.
> Despite my desire to accept religious teachings, I am constantly prevented by a simple fact: no one has found any physical evidence of something like a soul, or any mechanism which might enable a persistent consciousness beyond our current brain.

For a minute, forget about "persisting beyond death".

Consider consciousness, is there any conceptual model at all of how it arises purely out of the known physical laws?

I can imagine building a computer with strong-AI and I see no reason - what so ever - to assume that it may possess any form of consciousness. Given all that we know about how the physical world works, and how computers work, there's no reason to assume that some particular software configuration will give rise to subjective consciousness within a computer.
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I don't understand how your model hopes to capture any of the essential features of God as known to academic philosophers. You mention Godel incompleteness, but this only applies to sets of axioms which can be generated algorithmically. Furthermore, pure logic reveals that a transcendental first cause must be eternal, changeless (without the universe), non-physical, most likely having a mind with free will, etc. Your model fails to capture any of these essential features. In fact, I agree with the poster who says that you should reason about God, rather than try to model Him. Naturally my reason leads me to different inescapable conclusions than his.
Great point up to the last sentance which, whether you intended to or not, draws a line between the worlds major religions and quasi-endorses those on one side.
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> ... how is returning undefined any different from returning null ...

Because this valid JavaScript might have been silently slipped to the interpreter:

undefined = true;
Personally, not only do I not fall on this problem in any way, as I question the actual validity of it;

Firstly, there can't be a single "Question of God", since there's no single coherent definition of "God."

Secondly, if we define God as an entity which is ultimately undetectable and unfalsifiable, does the question of its existence really mean anything? It may be an interesting thought problem, but trying to answer it leads nowhere.
If, instead of trying to think of Haskell as an inferior Python--which it definitely isn't--you learned it from fundamentals up, all of the syntax would make much more sense.

This is essentially what I took from the article.

However, I still agree with the OP.

If you are already familiar with the language syntax, grammar, idioms, and so forth then it seems easy and trivial. I find a lot of Haskellers confused as to why anyone finds the language difficult and opaque. Many tutorials and articles are written to convince people that Haskell is easy to learn, I think, because they are familiar with it and desire others to be familiar with it too. Once one is familiar with the language it doesn't matter how dense and difficult it is.

The truth is that Haskell is difficult to learn. One does have to start learning from the fundamentals up because the fundamentals of Haskell are so different from everything else that it's difficult to relate to the previous experiences of most people.

Contrast this with someone who learned C or some dynamic scripting language like Python from the ground-up.. there are a lot of languages with enough shared grammar and vocabulary out there that they can reach out to them without abandoning their previous notions entirely about how programming is done.

Haskell may not exactly ask for one to abandon their notions of computing conceptually but I think it is fair to say that it does ask you to give up all of your previous knowledge of syntax and grammar in order to learn it.
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The problem is that even after it no longer makes much economic sense, people continue to follow it and the government makes laws based on the assumptions that was current 50 years ago.

So it actually becomes a law of nature.
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I often hear that non-technical founders have a hard time finding hackers and the hackers have a hard time finding a good sales/marketing co-founder. I think these two groups just live in different circles. The middle of the venn diagram is where both groups need to be to meet. Just get out there and go to events not-geared toward your tech/non-tech skills. Most people aren't comfortable being uncomfortable but that's what you need to do to grow (and meet people outside your current orbit).
'floor' on last line should be changed to 'round'.

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Twitter heavily uses rails, as I'm sure many other big sites do.

The best bet is to pick something that is used by enough large organizations that there is a good bet that if a major contributor disappeared there will be others able to take their place.

Also with open source systems there are generally more discrete parts that can in theory be interchanged with others.

If microsoft did something drastic like announce the end of the Windows Server line (or even just IIS) for example then your entire MVC.Net/SQL Server stack for your app is now defunct.

If Linux was to become no more if would be significantly easier to move your app and it's supporting ecosystem to BSD.
And even now I get the feeling that Django is
steadily being edged out by Rails.

As someone who is pretty familiar with Django's internals I can say that I don't really care -- because I can always modify Django to suit my own needs and indeed have done so to work around certain problems it has.

3 or 4 years ago you wouldn't have looked a bit crazy
for picking either over jQuery.

Making choices is also a matter of taste. I picked jQuery because it was lighter / easier to use ... but right now, honestly I'm searching for something else, because jQuery is starting to look like those alternatives I avoided (too big). Also, you pick something based on real constraints, not popularity - does the framework do what you want? Is it too light? Is it too heavy? Does it have third-party contributions for doing X or Y? And so on.

What about coffeescript? Is it here to stay?

Does it really matter? All that matters to me is that with CoffeeScript I can avoid cross-browser syntax differences (dealing with IExplorer syntax issues is a pain in the ass). It also makes my code prettier. It makes me happy. When CoffeeScript will be gone, in the worst case scenario I'll write a script to convert from it to the latest fad du-jour.

This highlights an important point however - because Javascript is a standard that is here to stay, with CoffeeScript I'll have a clear migration path. With anything on top of Flash however, you don't.
most likely having a mind with free will

What does that even mean outside of the physical universe?
Thanks! Much better.
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What it will properly do is to make it so that the same person gets different wages based on which part of the job he is doing.

For example as a software developer you may make $50/hr at your main job but at your weekend call center spare time thing you only make $10/hr. This will not drive your wage down but it will drive your average wage down.
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I feel this way about working for other people.

If I'm going to slave away for 8+ hours/day on something, I would rather have it make me rich than someone else.
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In my suburban New Jersey neighborhood, garbage collection is handled by two private companies. Granted, we're not a serious metropolis, but we're not exactly a village either. The system appears to work, trash gets collected, and whenever my provider attempts to jack up rates I call and threaten to switch and they play ball.
This has been Tufte's point since long before iPhones and iPads made touch screens so popular. He wrote a whole book called "Escaping Flatland" after all.

It's not at all that he doesn't appreciate the potential of pixels---he's been a long advocate of pushing them to perform at the levels he desires---but instead that he believes that the information lost in graphs, charts, interfaces is incredible. He is constantly studying methods to attain significant data density in graphic representation.

His argument here is that we have so many sensory signals we pay attention to naturally and garner great amounts of information from. Touch screens manage to interact with just one or two of them.

It ends quaintly, too. Not with a call to arms to improve touchscreens, but more like Brett Victor's essay, with a call to remember to appreciate the physicality of the world.
I would add that it looks like Microsoft had never considered WM to be a consumer phone: there were competing with RIM and Palm by throwing more enterprise-worth features, not caring about UX in general (other than maintaining UI styling across applications) and letting hadware vendors ship any hardware that minimally does the job and saves vendors' money. With all due respect, Apple was in an unique position: they had underserved consumer market in front of them and right hardware became available (or the processes were advanced enough to accomodate Apple's requirements in system design).

BTW, ever wonder why Apple doesn't ship LTE iPhone? The hardware quality is not there yet and LTE firmwares are still work in progress.
Classical Self-fulfilling prophecy.
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What if the answer can be known? Several people in the world and throughout history claim to _know_ the answer through physical experiences. They are easy to dismiss as crazy, but what IF they've discovered HOW to search? Some things just can't be measured by physical apparatus (like love for example).
I would say that understanding composition (.) come before understanding bind (>>=), as bind is like higher-order composition.
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I just chose Georgia. It's the closest datacenter to me (in Florida).
ICT appears to mean "Information and Communications Technologies" something I didn’t know.

Also man is that a depressing story.
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I'm looking to start an e-learning start up. Been involved with some start ups on the business side and I can code enough to set up a web app / social app, but looking for a technical cofounder who has better chops than me.

Contact me if you're interested.
Define consciousness.
Exactly. 3.5 grams of weed sells for about $35, and a reasonable recreational dose is about .03 - .05 grams when vaporized, i.e. about 30 to 50 cents per use. You could even use marijuana once per month for less than $5 per year total.
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