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This overlay looks like a fantastic product, with a few small issues (eg no landscape, still only using half the screen for content, etc).

Because nothing like it was available and I wanted a tactile keyboard to write & code with when travelling, I ended up buying an Apple wireless keyboard. 2nd hand on eBay set me back $50, and it uses bluetooth so battery life is sacrificed, but I've found it to be a fantastic option. You can type at full speed, it's got character keys so coding isn't impossible, and best of all you have your full screen available for your word processor / terminal session / whatever.

There are two big downsides, though:
1) Can't use it on an airplane, since it uses Bluetooth
2) It doubles the travel size of the iPad.

If you can live with these I think it is a great alternative to a laptop for many tasks (but not everything, obviously)
From what I've read, the signals from these probes are so weak that you need large receivers coupled with extremely low temperature electronics to detect them. That puts it out of the reach of everyone except the extremely well funded. In the end, it would be a short list of suspects.
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Funny. I have recommended 'The Game' by Neil Strauss to more than one person for reasons beyond just meeting women. Learning how to start and manage a conversation are powerful tools.
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Disagree. Intuitively, the difference is that an "obviously correct" methodology changes the way you write code, whereas tests don't. Tests have to be run; the mere existence of a test doesn't mean your code is correct. But, crucially, the things a test checks don't generalize.

This isn't a perfect dividing line. If you add hooks for DI because you need to inject a mock, arguably that's changing the way you code (this is the schtick of TDD, after all!) Arguably, you have to "run the typechecker" in order to see if you actually have well typed code, and for a sufficiently powerful type checker this might be like running a program anyway. But hopefully the basic gist of the argument is there.
I remember that Intel made it faster in Nehalem.
Drawing a line between the difference in losing money for a paying service and a free service, while technically correct, is not the best business practice. Any online business looses money by being down, whether they can easily quantify it or not.
Some people just aren't interested in running a business, which is fine. However, I see things in a different light. I love developing web software. It's been a passion of mine since I was 13.

I've been working as a developer for the past 10 years and I've come to a point where I'm tired of working for other people. Your path is in their hands and many times, you will be forced down a path you don't want to take. I've seen many companies go down the toilet because of decisions that were beyond my control. It has made me despise my passion.

I would rather toil my life away on something that will make me rich rather than someone else.
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It's part of the GSM spec to always allow a 112 call - even with no SIM or no account for the phone.

It's a bit of a problem in some countries - you get a lot of 'butt dialed' 112 calls - and the protocol in many jurisdictions if you have an emergency call and no voice is to assume the worst and send fire+police+medics
I have been spending a lot of time looking into how to best solve the web's current facebook problem. I'm especially interested in approaches to distributed social networking (think what the Diaspora guys are aiming at).

With that preface, it's my impression right now that https://singly.com deserves a serious look from communities such as hacker news. So, I'm mentioning it here.

A little about them: they're led by the guy who created XMPP (aka Jabber). He's written a new distributed protocol based on JSON instead of XML ( http://www.telehash.org/ ). They've been joined by the guy who lead Canonical (publishers of Ubuntu). Like Wordpress, they are part free software project and part optional hosting company.

No, I am not affiliated with them. But I am really thinking that I would like to be...
Liveris, the Dow boss who originates from Australia, has been saying the same to Australian politicians, that it needs to "fall back in love with science".

I believe his words are sincere, and spoken as someone who has working knowledge of how rapid progress is being made in China, regardless of the actual number of patents filed by the Chinese.
The problem here is not productive output or capacity of the economy, it is distribution of wealth. It's as if everybody was a window manufacturer, and no windows are breaking.

Not that I think we are quite at the point were machines can do everything yet...
Was there something in Queensland that prevented you from waking up earlier? If you wanted more time in the morning, why didn't you wake up at 5 o'clock?

I'm okay with people shifting their hours around, but why should I be forced to do the same?
For one, you're being needlessly insulting.

And come on, get used to headlines. If it asks a question that can be answered in a sentence or two and yet there is a full article attached you shouldn't get confused. It's not bait-and-switch; the entire article is about the syrup.
It's a couple years old, but this site also uses SVG for its rendering, though not in an animate-y way: http://emacsformacosx.com/
If the only reason a significant portion of society will participate in it is because they will literally die if they don't, i.e. it's a requirement for absolute minimum existence, that's a pretty sad place to have your society. That's basically "3rd-world subsistence farming" level of civilization. For some people, possibly even worse; there are some people who do badly in desk jobs who'd be perfectly capable subsistence farmers (if it were possible for them to acquire any land to farm).
>take away their food, they will adapt.

Oh, undoubtedly. But they will go down the path of least resistance which will more than likely be a life of crime. It's also important to recognize that not everyone is cut out for intellectually demanding jobs. There is a wide variety of intelligence levels throughout society.
Why do people bring up the mobile gaming market as evidence of Apple's move into gaming, when mobile gaming has always been a niche. It's a totally different world from living room gaming. So called "hardcore gaming" is not a niche. It is in fact the mainstream. Gaming stores have mid-night releases nearly once a month for a big title. Hardcore games have the same level of fan enthusiasm as an iPhone release. Let's at least acknowledge what they are up against.

Surely Apple is capable of getting into this market, but that product doesn't look like anything they are working with now.
Here is an excellent and readable paper on implementing regular expressions http://sebfisch.github.com/haskell-regexp/regexp-play.pdf

They also extend it to weighted regular expressions and even lazy, infinite regular expressions.
I'm reading it now, and this is a great little book.

I particularly like how many of the illustrations and examples came from students (presumably course projects of some sort) in earlier iterations of the course.
That sounds like there would be a high probability of one shard obscuring another shard, or a shard not settling in a diagonal position.
Sounds like a horrible world to me.

"Life could become dedicated to enjoying art"?? Ugh!!!!

"...could enjoy the variety of clothing..." are you kidding? That sounds horrible.

There is a basic human need to be needed. People who have everything but are not needed are miserable. People who are needed, but have little are happy.
You can keep the work though from what I can tell - if you have a shredded documet reconstruction system then you can simply scan five docs and get $50k ... they don't keep the thing that's valuable, the system.

In a logo comp the only thing created of value is the output itself. The equivalent would be if the logo competition was to create a machine that created logos on demand and then only give you a small price for that machine.
Because when I'm trying to close a deal with a customer, and I ask when they're free, I'll really impress them by saying, "oh, you're in UTC-5; we're in UTC-6"

How does the article referenced make anyone's life easier? It forces everyone into doing an equation instead of just one person (the host of the meeting)
No they don’t. Some people genuinely hate notifications. I do, for example. That’s a valid reason for not liking Growl, configurability doesn’t figure into it.

If those who hate Growl were to claim that everyone should hate Growl they would certainly be wrong – but that’s a different point.
Actually, it is attached with the equivalent of a hinge. The user can quickly retract TouchFire while it is attached to the iPad, giving full access the entire screen. And they can quickly pop it back over the screen when they want to type again.
Agree. Using Ruby and Coffeescript. I'd say if you want to use Coffeescript well, because you like the syntax, you'd have to know Javascript and which Javascript is generated by every Coffeescript word.
"In reality you will probably be happier sticking to employment and working on and launching a side project as and when inspiration strikes. Burning 20 hours a week of your free time will likely lead to - in this guys case - divorce and for other people burnout."

That will work until your employer makes the wrong business decision and the company goes out of business or there are budget cuts and you get laid off.

Oh yeah, and if you work for any technology company and have a side project, you better check any contract you signed. Most say that anything you work in your off time is company property.
I guess the question for those of us who aren't inherently interested in people is how do we build such an interest, curiosity, and love for everyone? You can't just read Be Here Now and suddenly be enlightened and feel one with the world.

(The question is not exactly directed at you since you seem to naturally have such an interest.)
I don't believe that Google is actually just postponing taxes. Instead, they are also being selective about what money they pay it on. Basically, the money has been obtained in Ireland, sent to the Netherlands, and then Bermuda. So it hasn't touched the US, and they don't owe US taxes. They can then do two things with that money. One, they can bring it into the US, pay taxes on it, and use it to do whatever it is they plan on doing with it, or, two, which I think is more likely, they use it to finance international business, and they never pay US taxes on it. However, there hasn't been any "loss" to the US per se. If anything, it's the Irish who should be up in arms
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I read the article, roll my eyes, then read the HN discussion and roll my eyes again.
It seems to do well for all of Facebook too, doesn't it?

I know Facebook seems banal because we interact with it in some way several times a week, but is your head wrapped around how huge that thing is?
my general relativity prof in grad school used our class to beta test his new textbook-in-progress. it was nice because we got free photocopies of each chapter, and in return were expected to point out mistakes etc.
Spoutcore has been down for hours, does it not exist anymore?
For those who are interested in what a world where (intelligent) robots are the source of production, and humans are the content creators, I highly recommend this short story: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Sounds like Heaven on Earth to me. Now to make it happen during our lifetimes!
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A key feature of TouchFire is that it can be easily retracted when the user wants to use the full screen. And it automatically aligns itself with magnets; it snaps into place on an iPad 2 (it also automatically aligns on an iPad 1 with the Apple cover).

By the way, I love TapTyping. There might be some new speed records coming your way soon from TouchFire-enabled iPads...
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Agreed. If the kids are being taught the wrong things, you don't get pissed at the teachers- you change the standards/tests. Same as with any good software!
For the other side, let's say I make $X but only need $X/2 to live. Try finding an employer who will let you work half time for $X/2. It's pretty tough, especially if you make $X at something "professional", rather than, say, digging ditches.

Rather than working ~20 hours a week, work ~40 hours a week, half your life.
Many third-party applications use Growl for notifications. Buying Growl and maintaining the API would mean that Mac OS X Margay's exciting new Notification Centre feature would have instant support across a wide number of apps.

The actual cost of buying Growl is negligible to Apple.
We use Citrusleaf at my job, definitely one of the fastest nosql stores I've seen. However it doesn't nearly have the kind of flexiblity that mongodb has, we tend to use it more as a persistent cache like redis then a real database, its not quite as easily to write queries in it.
Just to note that Russia abolished the switching of clocks but didn't really go back to 'standard time'.

> Russia moved its clocks one hour forward to daylight saving time on March 27, 2011. According to the new legislation this is now the country's new standard time. As a result, all of Russia's nine time zones will be permanently two hours ahead of mean solar time, which corresponds to the position of the sun at a given longitude.
http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/russia-dst-law.html
I used to have the belief that most web businesses are uninspiring and useless, but if you go down that rabbit hole, you may as say every business out there is unimportant. Louis Vuitton and Prada just makes us more vain, and waste money. Who needs iPhones anyway when a regular ole phone can do? McDonalds kills people. Wall Street causes the recession. Cars? They pollute the air and are destroying the Earth!
If you cut all those out of your life, you don't have a job anymore.

Cell phones, cars, computers, internet... these aren't luxuries. These are mandatory investments that people have to make in their career. Investments they have to make out of their own pocket.

Try getting a job without a phone. Doesn't work.

If I was a retired millionaire I could cut them out.
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Why is the material taught different?

States are the ones responsible for picking what material to teach their children. This is why material can be different.

There is so much that we could teach our children, there isn't a clearly defined set of "This is what is best to teach them", so different people will produce different sets of things to teach. This is why material is different.
I find Growl notifications really easy to tune out and ignore when I don't want to pay attention to them, but like having them there if I'm waiting on some incoming message, transfer completion, backup notification, etc.

I definitely find them a lot less obnoxious than a bouncing dock icon, probably due to their location and the fact that they go away after a few seconds.
An earlier Hacker News discussion on this article can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815457
This is deeply incorrect.

If it were correct, mathematics education would have to begin with set theory and physics probably could not begin with F = ma. Our pedagogy is cumulative but it is tellingly built on some hand-waving and "you'll have to trust me on this part".

This means that we can take a different approach to it pretty easily. For example, why does set theory often wait until college and probability until... never? These concepts are much more analytically useful to the average person than is the quadratic equation (which you can look up as needed) or (heaven help me) angle-side-angle.

We teach math through loaded down problem sets instead of heading right after the most conceptually useful (and therefore) meaty chunks first. We don't even teach children mathematically-grounded science for the most part; that's a missed opportunity to take those problem sets and make them analytically powerful and memorable.
Have you ever been party to textbook adoption time? The textbook companies are buying dinners and drinks for the teachers, "conferences" for the department chairs and offers of all manner of paid amenities for the school district.

Obviously, with a pricing model that can afford sales costs like that and a price tag like $175,000 for district-wide adoption of a single textbook, the industry is ripe for disruption. At the same time, the industry probably has lobbyists poised to protect their model with "think of the children."

I know that my wife (who has been through several of these textbook adoption periods) is frustrated beyond belief based on the cost/benefit ratio of these textbooks as opposed to what the district could probably pay its teachers to produce themselves. I can only imagine that if this sort of thing spreads beyond a negligible percentage of schools making their own texts, the textbook makers will probably become more actively involved in stopping it.
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The "Implementing Regular Expressions" page gives the full (scientific) background to

"re2 - An efficient, principled regular expression library"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3204427
I think you missed parent's point. If you hate notifications, Growl is good because it lets you disable them all easily, instead of having to disable them in each application.
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Thanks! I either missed that or it was an update to the post.

When walking around alone in SF, I'm actually irrationally afraid of getting hit by a car and nobody knowing what happened to me. So yeah, if this is what happened that would be terrible and one of my worst nightmares come true.
I have little doubt that a group of people well educated in any given subject can do better than the average high-school text book. They're often riddled, not just with mistakes, but fundamentally wrong lessons. First year university physics courses often review a substantial amount of high-school material to correct fundamental mistakes in students understanding of the basics.

I think the problem lies with the notion that people who teach physics are more qualified to write a text-book than people who do physics. The result is a pretty text-book that uses all the latest teaching tricks, but teaches things that are wrong.

I'd like to see text-book companies moderate some kind of collaboration between teachers and do'ers to produce a book that is both correct in its content and easy for students to learn from. In a sense, first year physics profs can also be viewed as the ultimate consumers of minds educated by high-school texts. They have a good idea of what students need to learn in high-school to be well grounded in their subject area for their first year of university. Instead, we design text-books to help students perform well in standardized tests that frequently prioritize the wrong things and make the same mistakes as text-book writers.
I really love the photo. :) The digital robot interfacing with the laptop through it's keyboard; seemingly the only permitted I/O in the future. Trust issues between different hardware vendors must have hit an all time low after the various standards authorities fell apart!
Half the startups in NYC use mongo, but that might be cause they are connected to Union Sq Ventures
I read in an interview that at the end of the year, 37signals takes most of its profits, and pays them as a dividend to its shareholders. I don't know if lay employees get a chance to own stock, but if they did it could be a great incentive.
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Instead of mass-produced textbooks, the more than 3,100 sophomores in the state's largest district are learning from an online curriculum [...] distributed over the web.

I thought the whole point of the article is that the alternative taken up was a digital one. The scenario you describe seems unlikely, and very cynical.
it does not seem like the average worker is as well-off as the past had predicted

Well, we may not all be working 8-hour weeks and vacationing in Hawaii and Mexico, but the simple truth is that people on average are a lot better off than in the past. The only stat I have in my head right now: Infant mortality has dropped from 2.6% to 0.6% since 1960.

A hundred years ago, poor people had dirt floors. That's unheard of today, except among the utterly destitute.
>These are people who weren’t interested in just any white-collar work. They wanted to do transformational, world-saving work – which would presumably be underwritten by taxing the rich.

Tidily sums up the whole article and its flaws. Gross generalizations to sweep under the rug any inconvenient facts how the rich and powerful play the system to their advantage.

I see this whole article just as a distraction, an attempt to defuse a very real and acute grievances.
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Holy bright yellow background, batman!
Is life on Earth due to a quirk in the laws of physics?
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>However, the key to ultimate success in all of these is that the person needs to like you and respect you. Girls don't like guys that approach them and rattle off about how funny they are, how much money they make, and what a great lover they are. Girls respect guys who are confident and layered, not guys who throw all their cards on the table in a 30 second pitch in a desperate attempt to be liked. Bartenders will first serve patient, confident, respectful customers, not eager, aggressive douchebags flashing twenties and snapping fingers.

The key is to understand that neither women, bartenders nor venture capitalists are homogenous hordes that can all be handled with the same neat little set of well-defined procedures that you read in a book or hear at a seminar.

Especially not women, what with them comprising half of the planet's population.
As wealth accumulates among the masters of technology, asking what jobs might provide value to your peers is the wrong question. What value can your friends provide to big corporations?
You're confusing OS with the kernel. The graphical environment is part of the OS.

EDIT: is -> is (often)
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Because no one actually knows exactly what the best things to learn are for human beings. Plus, it's constantly changing.

Secondly, different teachers have different experiences and teach differently. We're human!

How could it be the same? The only way I see is to remove as many human elements as possible (teachers most notably). Are we headed that way?