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One of the Gmail labs allows you to do this (assuming I understand what you mean) - it's called "Background Send".

So instead of blocking and showing the "Sending..." message, it redirects you to the main inbox and shows a "Sending in background..." message, until the message has been sent. Of course, Gmail is so fast for me that usually I'm barely back at the inbox before the message is finished! :)
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I think he more means like the "Background Send" lab in Gmail, which gives you progress ("Sending in background..." -> "Sent.") while still allowing you to continue to browse the UI.

The default "Sending..." notation blocks you on the same page, doesn't it?
I think something different can be taken from the article -- how to be inspired.
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It would be like the a professional basketball player refusing to intentionally foul Shaq because they feel that hitting someone is simply immoral. I respect your desire to "Keep your word, period" and I also respect someone who refuses to hit someone in a sport. But you are simply putting yourself at a disadvantage to the team you are playing against.
On semirelated note:

I don't want to grant app access to my actual camera or actual location but I'd like to install it and feed it with fake data and see how it behaves.

Same with facebook apps and their permissions.

While installing an app where you are presented with permissions required by the app you should have ability to fake some of them and install the app.
In case you haven't seen how this thing lands, watch the link below. It's really so amazing how this is entirely automated and executed so flawlessly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o
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This is why the Spanish flu, the Swine flu, and H5N1 are most devastating to relatively young, relatively healthy individuals (their immune systems are the strongest).

The truth is that the complete opposite of what you claim there is what occurred. H1N1 (which I could easily find the numbers for) was most devastating to those with weaker immune systems, as most people would expect.

Age group--specific H1N1-related death rates were 3.5 for persons aged 0--4 years, 1.1 for persons aged 5--24 years, 4.2 for persons aged 25--64 years, and 7.2 for persons aged ≥65 years.[1]

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5848a1.htm
I think this is a little sad. Pragmatically, NodeJS is great. But the only reason it's popular is because browsers only run one (deeply flawed) language.
Thanks to the commenters who pointed to more balanced news stories about this line of research. Some of the other comments here mention the difficulty in developing strain-specific flu vaccines. That difficulty is why research on universal flu vaccines

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jul2010/niaid-15.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/06/flu-universal-...

is going on in multiple countries, with some major funding support. Antiviral medicines that treat cases of the flu tend to be in short supply in every flu season, but some governments have taken care to stockpile those in ways that ensure that essential services would go on in those countries even during a severe flu pandemic. Further research on broad-spectrum flu vaccines, including a possible universal vaccine, is warranted to prevent natural strains of the flu and is ongoing. Further research, development, and production of antiviral medicines to treat people who catch the flu is also warranted and ongoing.

A new pandemic, from whatever source, would be extremely disruptive, but as an astute previous comment pointed out, people can do things like self-quarantine, and such simple forms of self-protection were very effective in stopping the SARS epidemic in 2003. Predicting the death of half of humankind based the preliminary finding reported in the rather sensational story submitted here is not a prediction I believe or worry about.
I expect they reverse the rise if you are doing well. After all, they don't _want_ to take over your McDonald's - they want you to run it right. But I don't know this for certain.
Like institute effective quarantine measures, or basic hygiene, or vaccines

You say that like it is so easy. H1N1 spread all around the world despite the best efforts in all those areas.
Thanks for finding this. I was under the impression the FBI was just moving in like thugs.

Still reading this warrant, it is so vague what the charges are. And I wonder, among all the people that had domains seized, were any found not-guilty and had their domains returned? Somehow I doubt it.
Well, when you're drawing from a long pose (week or longer), the model is bound to change her/his shapes slightly.. So just drawing what you see is not enough, you have to understand the 3-dimensional structure of the thing you're drawing at least on a basic level.

But also, I agree -- foreshortening is hard until you learn 2-point perspective and can "see" perspective points that you can easily build up the foreshortened feature from.
I did pretty much exactly the same thing a few years ago. The power supply is about 25W, but judging by the heat coming off the frame I doubt it uses half that. The main power draw is probably the screen. I removed the hard drive and replaced it with a CF card (basically no power draw), and the fans have been replaced with a large heat sink.

For my photo frame, I used cron and set various times for it to turn off the screen.

Obviously it's a luxury in terms of power usage, but given that it pulls about as much power as a bright energy saving lightbulb, it's not really a huge issue. In terms of cost, 25W continuous costs about 6c a day, so I'd imagine the whole frame costs less than half that once you take into account the screen-off time and the reduced power draw anyway.
Personally I didn't like your main text introduction:
"Don't waste hours, days or weeks researching server-side JavaScript, cloud providers and NoSQL, and then compiling, configuring and deploying the systems from scratch. Get a preconfigured virtual server with a running sample application powered by Express.JS."

Primarily the first sentence was a huge turn-off for me. Researching your technology and understanding it is never a waste of time. And Server-Side JavaScript is not some magic bullet where you need to know nothing but can write amazing applications. It is a tricky environment with some great power and massive 'gotchas'.

Personally I think you should either remove reference to research or fully embrace the word. A sales point could be more along the lines of: "Popular server-side JavaScript frameworks already connected and configured to allow you to jump directly into a working example. Great for bootstrapping your research project or spinning up servers for your already written application!" But, I have no silver-tongue so take my wording advice with caution. ;)
> There's no bio-weapon Al Quaeda working group or anything like that

You're aware that Aum Shinrikyo released aerosolised anthrax spores for a week in Japan before they stopped, and that it's only because they used the wrong anthrax that there wasn't widespread infection?

That was in 1993; I imagine it's technologically much easier and cheaper to do it now, but that there are tighter controls over chemicals etc.

The article is sensationalist. Bio-terrorists don't need to kill anyone, they just need to cause economic harm. They can do this by releasing blue-tongue or foot&mouth or whatever in a few farms. That costs billions and long lasting damage.

(http://www.fmd.brass.cf.ac.uk/)
with bitcoin under $3 I'm not sure the 'rise and rise' spin is merited.

maybe this is the 'valley of sorrow' after the 'crunch of initiation'.

but without a sounder legal basis, trustworthy, transparent governance, ability to evolve gracefully, bitcoin seems like an interesting experiment, but not very likely to be a widespread medium of exchange, stable store of value, unit of accounting.
Page design feedback: You should make the "Free Trial" link more prominent (make it a button with a bright background). Bump up the line-height on all the text; it looks too crowded.

Features list needs to give more specifics about RAM, disk space, bandwidth, etc., not just a list of pre-installed software (especially things like Express and Backbone that are trivial for me to bundle with my app when I upload it).

The bullet point about "We don't make you go through a proxy" is useful. You could also brag that WebSockets work—last I checked, this is a big drawback on Heroku.

Is there a reason you refer to Node as "n*d." on the front page, and "nod." on the features page?
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It includes the source code for the expansion pack game dll (in d3xp). You'll still need the original RoE assets (when I went to install them on Windows, the installer crapped out because I wasn't on Windows 2000 or XP, but you can just copy them from a directory on the CD- they're in a d3xp directory or something like that).
I think the article get across quite well the cult-like nature of the whole bitcoin ecosystem, from the founder worship to the reflexive scorn its adherents heap on non-believers. This point is tellingly reinforced by the HN submitter changing the title of the article from 'The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin' to 'The rise and... rise of Bitcoin'.

In a way, the sheer naivety of the bitcoin enterprise is quite endearing, despite the currency having no more chance of success than the libertarian oil rig city state ever did.
so there is a chance here to setup a business in being a "Payment Gateway Provider"
The preferential treatment is kind of annoying TBH. I've seen sites disappear from Google's listing for months as a result of simple issues such as a change of domain name (with all the required redirects in place).

Yet here, a website owner is purposely blocking the crawler and they jump with solutions to try to fix the problem. Sigh.
The slightly longer and more correct answer is the source release contains the game engine source and the Doom 3 and RoE game DLL source. The Doom 3/RoE game data is still required.
It's not what people expect and I doubt most people writing plugins for programs want to do so in unfamiliar territory.

This summarizes it nicely.
Thanks for replying.

It's the next step I would personally like to take. I've been told repeatedly that I'm "interesting". I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what to do with that (other than get into hot water). I feel I've made some progress in the right direction but I am still working out pieces of it in my head and looking for resources to help me put the final pieces in places.
I think he was talking about Simfy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simfy
Isn't this the same problem as nuclear knowledge regulation though? We definitely need some controls here, but the government doesn't need to control everything big brother style. Just a few specific items within a few domains of knowledge.

I'm not a big fan of government secrecy either but if the choice is between that and self-extinction, well...! Our Stone Age circumstances have left us with some pretty predatorial instincts and drives. It makes sense to put in safeguards to protect us from our own giant technological reach. It gives us time to let our social/cultural immune systems catch up.

And these probably don't have to be permanent - I'm not sure, but it does feel like we're moving towards greater freedom over time. Look at the chemicals you can buy in any hardware store or pharmacy today, and the instruction guides freely available on the internet. Individuals can already cause asymmetrically large harm but generally don't, because we're already fairly self-domesticated.

(Credit to Simon of Space for this line of thought - http://cheeseburgerbrown.com/stories/Simon_of_Space/)
Creativity is a stupid buzz-word. Here's an easy way of being creative: find two different objects, and link them together creating a third object, like this (from my room):

Abstract painting of a guitar

Door-shaped plush toy

Plastic bottle in a shape of a cigarette

Door-knob that turns on the stationary bicycle

Notebook-shaped pillow

A lamp that projects bible verses

Window with a magnifying glass

Headphones that have a constant noise of airplanes flying over my head

See, was that hard? No, it was easier than a frog-shaped cake. And that's why I think it's useless.

This comment and your comment are both examples of creativity, since we 'created' something new. And who gives a shit?
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Why don't you bother doing your real work right the first time? As long as there's a well defined spec, you might as well follow it instead of being creative and original when it comes to implementing standards.
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I suppose another way to put it is that there are too many negative and "hostile" words ("waste", "don't", "no", etc). Your suggestion manages to avoid all of those.
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Hmm, mine doesn't, but maybe I have that enabled. I thought that was the default behavior...
It will be amazing when it has happened, yes. (Not being snarky - I think it will happen as planned.)
Obviously not, from the article:

"Last week I wrote a story on the compromise of an industrial control system in Illinois that destroyed a pump at a water processing facility. The same day a hacker came forward and posted internal information on pastebin.com from another compromised utility in South Houston, Texas."

"Within hours of publication I was contacted by the hacker involved in the Texas incident and I was able to ask him a few questions via email about the state of critical infrastructure security."
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This post on Six Revisions is a great starter list: http://sixrevisions.com/javascript/20-fresh-javascript-data-visualization-libraries/

What libraries would you add to it?
Probably not all that relevant here, but I think that Java's verbosity is a barrier to entry in itself, even if Java programmers do not think so. When I worked in a Java shop a few years ago I would have happily coded up quick extensions and scripts[1] in something like python, but never even considered doing so in Java because there was too much effort involved. I guess I'm arguing that the users must feel that the benefit of writing a script or extension must feel like its much greater than the effort of not doing so and the effort of writing the extension and that Guile is just plain too unfamiliar to most that the effort seems to outweigh the benefits, even if in reality this is not true.

[1] I did actually write a few Python scripts to generate repetitive Java code because I felt that doing so would be much less effort than writing the code by hand.
If you want a programming language for which parsing is trivial, code is stored in a pre-tokenized manner and there is a direct correspondence between tokens and machine primitives, Chuck Moore's ColorForth[1] foots the bill. It's orders of magnitude simpler than what most of us would consider a programming language, but you can still build powerful abstractions and extend the language to add features like garbage collection, type systems[2] (not built in the same dialect of Forth, but you get the idea) and so on.

[1] http://www.colorforth.com/cf.htm
[2] http://home.vrweb.de/stephan.becher/forth/
Wow I really appreciate that! Do you want a link somewhere crediting you with writing that copy?
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Because it's about personal ethics. Simple as that. The fact that companies, or someone else, are not acting in accordance to ethics should not influence anyone's decision in that matter. If one wants to be a honest person, one should be that person regardless of what everyone else is doing.
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Joyent wants a signed license agreement to say "N_de.JS" anywhere unless they decide your use of the trademark is "nominative" which is subject to their interpretation. They are giving out free licenses now but assuming revenue for the N_de.JS market increases to be more significant, one has to assume that there will be more and more pressure to extract a greater share of the revenues by using these license agreements to either stifle competition or to pull in fees. Especially since one of their main businesses seems to be directly competing with many of those services. So I'm not in a rush to sign a license with them and therefore just avoid using the term for now. It does look silly though so I may have to rethink that and consider this free (for now?) license thing.

Also thanks a lot for checking it out and the feedback. I made the CoffeeScript logo link to your book page.
Been there, done that.

But if you're seriously considering dropping out, good luck with finding a job in the sort of competitive market you're in. With more than a thousand applications per job listing, the recruiters will first cut out the non-degreed/non-engineers. Then you're looking at a select few (like Zoho) who may take you in for a marked down pay which gets you no where.

Or you can try to make it on your own, put in several man hours of effort into an idea and push it to market. If you do manage to get a release out, know that your odds of success have improved from nothing to one in a hundred.

Or you could simply suck it up, maintain a minimal profile at college necessary to get your degree, and work the nights on getting a real education. Then you're in a (IMO) far better position, life-wise.

Stop cribbing about something you have little control over, and focus on doing what you can to improve things for yourself, and if you see fit, for others.
7:30am? The official launch blog says 10:02am (EST):

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/launch/launch_blog.htm...
This article is nonsense. The author is belittling pretty much everything that has been achieved in computer science over the past decades without provide any examples or theories as to what could be done better.
Thank you. I was annoyed that someone who wants us to take his writing about language and programming languages seriously couldn't even spell Chomsky's name right.
I don't know anything about fabrication, but my spidey sense tells me that this won't happen for a while. It isn't a capability issue, it's a cost issue. There's obviously a tipping point, but cheap human labour has to be way ahead.

For robots, beyond the cost of powering and maintenance, repurposing has got to be a killer. Changes in material (plastics, to aluminum to composite...) has got to wreck havoc with automated assembly lines.
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This article seems to be also proposing... a programming language. Or at least "environment". Visual programming is something people have proposed, as is interactive manipulation of an "actual" parse state, as with some of the Smalltalk environments. But then you still have different choices of abstractions, like what object model you use, or what concurrency model. I don't think you can avoid that by renaming it from "language".

You could program in raw machine code, then sure, no separate language, "just" instructions for the computer. But then each machine has a different... language, too.

Or you could program in "pure mathematics", expressions, etc., but then you have a choice of which formalism to use for that. I doubt there will be only one.
November 26, Saturday (Launch Day)

7:30 a.m. EST (4:30 a.m. PST) - NASA TV launch commentary coverage and launch blog.
10:02 a.m. EST (7:02 a.m. PST) - MSL's Launch
12:30 p.m. EST (9:30 a.m. PST) (approximately) - Post-launch News Conference
12 - 5 p.m. EST (9 a.m. - 2 p.m. PST) - Scientist in Action for MSL (Education Channel)
The coverage started at 7:30am. This is the first time I have watched one of these and I must admit I am pretty excited.
Flot (http://code.google.com/p/flot/) is missing from that list.
"the only difference between a Java programmer and a C# programmer is that they use somewhat different keywords and have to program against a different run time library"

yeah well, most people spend their time combining libraries and making them interact with each other, so it is actually kind of a big difference.
I think it's good to be interested kind of across the spectrum, both in abstract ideas and very concrete stuff. Some people never take the bird's eye view, but it can be a very powerful source of inspiration; some people stay there all the time, which isn't very fun.

My random idea is to keep two books on your nightstand, one being something like for example an introduction to Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, and the other being something like a biography, novel, or history book.

I've always found that thinking is most fun when you get these little sparks between the abstract and the concrete. "Oh, the way this saxophonist is tracing out different lines but always returning to the zero state of the modal backing chord makes me think of Deleuze & Guattari — I wonder if you can think about the 'body without organs' of a jazz tune?" (This is also a good way of being a bit pretentious about all sorts of stuff...)
Yes. I am sure that most people who have tried to use a 'visual' programming environment to achieve anything non-trivial are relieved to get back to a text-based environment.
It is clear that the author hasn't actually done any work on, or even deeply thought about, computer languages. Claiming that a whole field is misguided and hinting at a much superior approach without going into any details is a special form of trolling.
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Still hoping Motorola will unlock the bootloaders for some of their older Androids (Droid X please!).
At T-4 minutes they hold for 10 minutes and the commentary said this was planned beforehand. Does anyone know why they don't just plan to launch 10 minutes later without the 'hold'?
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"After some time he asked me if I was aware of the work by Chromsky [sic] on formal languages. I told him that yes, Chromsky work was a basis for much of the developments in theoretical computer science."

Really? You couldn't proof-read long enough to notice two misspellings of the single most recognizable name in modern linguistics, and you want people to read your blog post on that same subject?
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Well my friend, here are a few things you should know:
1. If you are interested in research, you should approach professors/find out what they are doing etc, even at the worst of schools, there is always someone doing something worthwhile.
2. As it looks like you are already following hacker news, keeping up to the posts on the front page itself should give you a lot of ideas and things to tinker around with.
3. Believe me, undergrad education is useless, everyone does it to get a degree. What really matters is the environment around. The people around you will help you learn more at school than the course itself does.
4. Ask yourself these simple questions, if the answer is a "no", try working towards making it a "yes" :
Do you have a GITHUB Account ?
Have you tried getting your hands dirty with any OSS project ? (not necessarily code, configuration ? testing ?)
Do you follow journals in your area of Interest ?
Which courses do you love at school ? Have you supplemented the course with some extra reading ?

These are just a few questions that can get you started, for example, the course for algorithms/data structures at most schools in india sucks big time, why not follow it up with a reading of AOCP or the MIT algorithms book.
And yes as someone already mentioned, concentrating on work rather than cribbing about the system will take you better places.
BTW, I did my undergrad from a so called "reputed private university" in India too.
I do and I've tried various methods to be more productive about my learning and projects. Still the college stuff really pisses me off.