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That's all to do with the headline. Purely psychologically, I wouldn't care about a CS paper from 1973 (decades before I was even born) regardless of its quality or pertinence. On the other hand, something written by a famous computer scientist attracted my attention immediately.
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Personally I see this as being much less invasive then taking pictures of someone's house and posting the location of the picture. Which is pretty much Google Street View, are you opposed Street View as well?
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In that case "useful idiots" is a bit harsh (and not accurate from my reading of [1]).

The creation of this much open source software is a true public good. The people producing it (both at small companies and big ones) may be working away at misguided projects, but it's wonderful that as a byproduct they're producing software useable by everyone. In the future, it may be obvious that the open-source side-effects of this SV generation were more value-creating than the businesses created directly.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
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I actually had almost exactly this in the original version of the article. I changed it because there are lots of products/solutions that don't require people to pay for them but where the same framework still applies -- Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn are three examples.
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You're right, of course. But I only jumped in after you started it. :-)
Why would he step out of the Apple bubble? His crowd were Apple developers, that's the one thing they have in common.
Ah. I'm going to get my son up early tomorrow, talk him out of college and in to Android development. Or basketball star, I'm not sure which.
Except that the CC companies forbid merchants from passing the extra costs on to CC users.
Doesn't seem to be able to display the block characters neither on PuTTY, gvim on Windows or my Linux terminals/editors. Am I missing something obvious here?
I promise you that if you don't pay an equivalent amount of attention to data availability on these intel chips you wont see teraflop speed. If there's one thing that GPGPU did it was force idiots to have to thing about presenting data to the processor instead of leaving it all over the fucking place and letting the cache "sort it out" (read: "run really slow").

That said. I'll take one =)
Street View has been quite controversial in many European countries.
I would provide you with book suggestions, but as I said, most of what I've learned is due to lectures and examples.

If you've got to have a book, I've heard that O'Reilly's Head First Design Patterns is pretty good for the patterns themselves (heard the same for most of the Head First series). That book uses Java.

As for when I come across a problem, I've found that if you search for your problem on Google you'll generally get a good result. You could also check out the Stack Exchange networks, specifically Stack Overflow, try under the Java tag over there.

While I've never really looked, you might be able to find a nice Open Course Ware class on learning Java, but again, I don't know if they exist or not.

The documentation for Java is also really nice and fairly easy to understand.
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College is still useful. Basketball is a real longshot.
I also implemented some of the exercises in clojure, and my naive implementation without colt or incanter ran orders of magnitude slower than my octave code.

Then again i did not code it with performance in mind. I overloaded algo.generic for matrix operations, so the fixnum math was probably not inlined.
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Also, if you wanted to learn bare-metal programming, the entire RISC OS Api was defined in terms of assembler. It's not open source, though.
It is the same with other industries: Music, Movies, Theater, etc. Nothing is for sure. Not sure why we are singling the AppStore. There have been $100 million (USA) movies that have flopped. Most ventures will flop and only a few will take all the revenue/income in any industry.
It's more about recognising when you're on to something, and when you're flogging a dead horse.

And being able to double-down quickly in the first instance, and trash-can it in the second.
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The more I think about it the more I wonder if the people who like single-player vs. multiplayer are fundamentally different, that they are two very different genres. And that difference is what has made the latest multiplayer first person shooters so popular.

In another comment I said I liked multiplayer FPSs because they are like competitive sports. But the friends I know that like single-player FPSs and RPGs don't like sports, they didn't play them as kids and they don't like watching them.

The latest crop of MP FPSs, like MW3 and BF3 have mass appeal. I suspect a lot of the people playing them would otherwise be outside playing basketball, watching football, riding skateboards, or hanging out at the mall. The fact that these games are now on consoles makes it much easier for previous non-gamers to get into. Consoles are much cheaper than gaming PCs, and they are socially acceptable as non-geeky.

It occurred to me that all the author's problems with single-player games, e.g., linear levels, dumb AI, could be solved by playing multiplayer. So I tried to think of a way to combine the campaigns of SP with the player vs. player of MP. One thought was to have each MP map be connected to the rest. Winning an objective, like blowing up or defending a bridge would move the next round's spawn points to the other side of the bridge, and the game would continue with a new objective. More campaign-like.

More complex MP gameplay would appeal to me as an MP fan, it would require more team tactics, and the consequence of losing would be greater. But would it appeal to an SP fan? I truly don't understand the appeal of single-player games. Is there a way to make multiplayer FPS games more appealing to single-player FPS fans? What do people actually like about single-player first person shooters?
That was my first thought as well. People with disabilities aren't exactly rolling in cash. I think it's great you're not exploiting desperate people to the same extent the people entrenched in the medical-industrial complex are, but imagine... what if you released it much, much cheaper? How many people would you help then? Or even did it as a kickstarter and open-sourced it and put it out for free. Then people with disabilities and their families could contribute. My other reaction is that you mention talking with speech pathologists. It might be a good idea to get input from people actually using AAC, i.e. people with disabilities.

I totally appreciate your awesome effort and am glad you make a living. I just would suggest if you want to take it further, learn more of the landscape and think about it politically and where you want to make your profits from.
I absolutely agree, I think Grubber has gotten very comfortable in the so called apple bubble environment, I don't blame him though. But you gotta take his advice considering where he's at, and to be honest his advice is informative at least.
You've highlighted an important cultural difference between USA and European banking. At least in the UK, I know that it's common to overdraw one's checking account as a form of short-term loan. In the US, overdrawing your checking account is a cardinal sin, and it will win you a fee of $20 to $30 PER TRANSACTION presented for payment while overdrawn.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_gruber) says he has a BS in compsci and worked at Bare Bones Software and Joyent before he started doing Daring Fireball and writing as a full time thing, so it looks like he has at least some experience in the software developer trenches.
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That market desperately needs to be disrupted. No, they don't think they have some better feature, they think they can charge insurance companies and Medicare whatever they want for their crappy hardware and software, and the people who can't afford it are out of luck. They're like parasites on people who are as a class incredibly disempowered.

There are efforts to open source this kind of project, but they're few and far between.
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If only calls were recorded and letters were scanned. Analyzing the trends seems like pretty powerful data for a congressman.

Then again, you could say that the congressman shouldn't need a computer to understand the people he represents.
NFC has a huge uphill battle in the US.

It is not for the lack of ideas, nor is it the lack of people trying to build interesting technology with it. It is because of the carriers.

Yes, the carriers, like Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.

Before I explain why the carriers are the problems, let's step back and talk about how NFC payment works. On every NFC phone, there is a chip that is called the secure element. The secure element is the location on your phone that is separate from the operating system that stores highly encrypted data that only trusted programs can access. This is the only secure location on your phone that one can safely and securely store payment credentials. Storing payment credential on any other part of the phone exposes it to abuse.

On the NFC-enabled phones in your pocket, the carriers have full control of the secure element. They are actively preventing other companies from using this to store any information and fully utilizing NFC to their potential as a digital wallet.

The reason they are doing this is that Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile have a joint venture called Isis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS_(mobile_payment_system)]. Through this joint venture, they want to own a piece of the mobile payment market. Anyone that wants to create a mobile wallet must pay them for the right to do so. (Notice how the Google Wallet launched on the only carrier that is not part of the joint venture?)

[see http://www.nfctimes.com/news/isis-plans-launch-three-banks-c...]
"In addition, Isis plans to charge fees to banks and other service providers to rent space on their SIM cards or other secure elements in the NFC phones the carriers sell."

See also: http://www.nfctimes.com/news/google-nfc-platforms-should-be-...
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"Dickson Chu, Citi’s head of global enterprise payments for digital networks and mobile, speaking at a conference earlier this month, reportedly complained that Isis was taking the role of a “gatekeeper.” Isis would charge fees to banks and other service providers to rent space on its SIM cards or other secure elements, as many mobile operators plan to do when they roll out NFC. That’s in addition to charging fees for delivering coupons or offers. Google plans to charge fees from advertisers for delivering coupons and other offers but not from payment service providers.

“It's unclear what they (Isis telcos) are trying to achieve, other than extract a toll as gatekeepers,” Chu reportedly said. “There's so much more that they could do...as it is they are just hampering the development of NFC as a mass-market commercial proposition.”
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There are two reasons why the platform matters:

1) You might not want to build the next Facebook. Many developers don't actually plan to start multi-billion-dollar companies. If you are an individual developer, or a small team, you cannot cater to everyone, you must pick the one platform most suitable for you. And then you can go create a niche app and make a decent living from it.

2) Even big and successful companies started on a single platform. A classic example would be Adobe: Photoshop was initially a Macintosh-only application, and has been ported only when it was already hugely successful. But actually Rovio is the best example that the choice of platform is extremely important: They have been hugely successful only when they started selling their iPhone app, and started porting to other platforms only when they were already extremely successful.

Hell, even Facebook, Twitter, Google started on a single platform: the web.
I think the real magic comes from understanding the algorithms as matrix operations, and then implementing them by more or less just writing down the algebra.
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One thing I enjoyed about my 3rd and 4th year university units is that they stopped imposing language requirements. Hand it in, if the professor can follow it, you get marked. Otherwise he or she will call you in and you can explain it in person.
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Given that there are many lisp aficionados here at HN, some may find lush http://lush.sourceforge.net/ quite interesting. Lush has been discussed at HN before but here is a short summary: You get lisp syntax, optimized multi-dimensional arrays, extremely easy integration with C code, common numerical optimization libraries, and the option of translating (and then compiling) lispy code into a C dynamic library.

The language features that the interpreter supports is subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) different from the compiled version though they share the same syntax.

In the context of scaling machine learning code you often hear that one should/could write most of it in matlab/octave and the critical parts in C. But anyone who has done it would know it is such a butt-hurting nuisance. In comparison the C integration is a pleasure in Lush.
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A lot of smartphones are acquiring NFC capability (the so-called "android beam"). One of the most popular new toys this year uses NFC as an integral feature (Skylanders).

NFC will soon be standard on a lot of phones, and once the installed base becomes significant then it's only a matter of time before usage becomes significant as well. Especially when you remember that with smartphones and tablets there's no need to wait for a substantial build out of expensive fixed infrastructure.
I disagree. I think companies ought to develop for every platform, companies ought to create a market, but developers ought to specialize generally.

I don't think most developers are capable of being excellent at iOS development, web development, Android development, desktop development, etc.

Certainly it's not advantageous to specialize only in a particular language (particularly a dying or dead one), but that's quite different from a specializing in a particular platform.

If they have worked with developing in these many areas, they'd likely have some experience in each, but be not experts in any -- there are just too many.
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i) Google has unfortunate previous form. They've collected information from unsecured wifi, including snippets of emails; lists of people suffering from certain medical conditions; passwords; etc.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11797907)

They've made a "mistake" once. People want to be sure they don't make the same mistake again. (Scare quotes around mistake because, really, that's a lot of data to be accidentally scraping.)

ii) EU tends to prefer "Opt In" over "Opt Out", and it needs to be an explicit opt in. That means the company has to tell you what they're gathering, and why, and give you the choice to agree. Sure, that makes it very hard for companies to gather information (such as this which is on the very lower end of the privacy scale) and do useful cool things with that data. Some people (and I'm one of them) welcome the clear bright line that explicit opt in would draw between ethical companies (like Google; they're not evil and this wifi data gathering doesn't come close to being evil) and unpleasant seedy dodgy companies, who wouldn't bother obeying EU best practice data laws.
This is a copy of Safari's Top Sites, down to the smallest detail (even the icon to toggle it is the same)

I'm not saying it's bad to implement a good feature from another browser. I'm saying the article is shit because the only reference to Safari is this:

Rather that just copying Chrome, Safari and Opera, Mozilla has tried to innovate a concept that already exists on many popular browsers.

So if by "innovate" you mean "copy exactly" and by "many popular browsers" you mean "Safari" then yes it's accurate.
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One thing that could be easier is booting MacBook Pro from USB stick. A Unetbootin that works on Mac, and builds usb sticks bootable on Macs, would be good.

Or maybe bootcamp could mention Linux.
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I preferred yours. You at least gave some comments about the solution.
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I'm tinkering on a hobby project to create a crowdsourced, open-data replacement to Google's geolocation web service that could be used for open-source projects like freedesktop.org's Geoclue [1] that might be blocked by Google's terms of service.

Companies like Google and Skyhook have massive wardriving efforts. If Google gets legal challenges about data privacy, could individual wardrivers be exposed to the same legal challenges if they published people's Wi-Fi data publicly? This would put a damper on my hobby project..

WiGLE.net is a similar crowdsourced, wardriving project. They've collected 48M Wi-Fi networks over 10 years from wardriving hobbyists, BUT they refuse to make their data available for download or create a public web API. They force people to use a crappy Java client and undocumented network protocol to access their server. Plus, they resell their users' crowdsource wardriving data to undisclosed buyers!

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue

[2] http://wigle.net/gps/gps/main/stats/
Cool idea, but I'm not driving 10 miles out of the way to get to KFC/Taco Bell.

I don't think this should feature restaurants but rather "things to do", hiking trails, look outs, maybe specific food places (local legends, etc) but specifically things that "make up communities" (I think of like college football towns, etc)
The Newton failed because it didn't solve the problem, not because it was too early. The problem was a usable mobile platform.

Take an iPad back in time to the era of Newton and it would sell. That's because it solves the problem well.
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How's this:

Whatever you create, even if it's for iPhone first, don't get bogged down on it being on "platform X". Photoshop, as you mentioned, is a great example, it didn't need to be on a Mac to be great. It just was developed there first, and now sells more on Windows (I think).

If you focus too much on the platform, once that market wanes, you end up nowhere. This is what I meant by the MFC guy -- maybe an even better example is the VB 6 guy. We know this guy, right? He's an expert with VB 6. He made a damn good VB6 app 10 years ago, which he's supported since then. But he spent too long focused on VB6, so god help him trying to get a job today doing C#.

Your idea doesn't have to be as big as Facebook. All I'm saying is, don't get so focused on the platform that you become that VB6 guy. Focus now, sure, but developers over time should be broad and flexible. And if you are starting something new, your idea should be too.
An interesting and fun project.

But . . .

> Krawczuk arrived at around 11:30 a.m., dangling a green canvas grocery bag that held a small white box containing the apparatus--a plug computer, battery, and car inverter--that would fuel the Wi-Fi and serve the content.

. . . be careful with weird looking boxes and bundles of wires in today's paranoid atmosphere.
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