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Their trademark policy is pretty controlling for open source software http://nodejs.org/trademark-policy.pdf I guess we need a name for the unrestricted version, like Iceweasel in Debian.
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> I'm going to make a generalization here and say that most Americans have lost this kind of DIY spirit.

Utterly false, you are simply out of touch with DIY culture, which is growing. In audio alone (a tiny fraction of DIY), people design and build incredible tube amps, horn speakers, etc. using a combination of hand craftsmanship and cutting edge computer simulation.

Sound-wise, for under $2k, it's not that hard to surpass what you'd buy for $200k. It's a world-wide phenomenon but nonetheless huge in the US. Check out http://www.diyaudio.com for example.
thanks for the encouraging words. Yeah I've a github account that i setup just some time back. Also doing some code- work and helping some friends on a small side project. I'm pretty much good at python and C language. Now I'm reading others code on github and learning from them.
This is very close to describing (in very vague terms and not too great on the detail) a part of my present side project, and as such I completely believe in it [and respectfully disagree with most of the other comments here]. If I don't achieve it - I'm pretty sure that someone else will, and it will (in whatever form) make a significant impact....

Though not great on the _how_ i think this article is at the very least forward thinking. I'm not sure why everyone else here has to try to box a relatively original thought in with whole bunch of old failed ones to drag it down (like the 'visual programming languages' we all know and hate).
One of my fav Jobs quotes (not catchy, but practical) is:

"...there needs to be someone who is the keeper and reiterator of the vision..."

If you have your own project/startup, then that's you. Even if you just reiterate it to yourself.

It features in this video that's making the rounds at the moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOlqqriBvUM&feature=youtu...
The word "want" is frequently used in science to refer to the tendency of a system to act a certain way. It isn't meant to imply volition!
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> One final note on the bioweapon/bioterror angle: if you follow the thinking of the people that actually contemplate the use of bioweapons, you'll find that bioweapons are only ever considered as denial-of-area or knock-down agents.

I think you are forgetting about the fundamentalist nuts who are hoping for the end of the world. I am sure they would see it as their destiny if they could get a hold of such bioweapons and start their own version of Armageddon.
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What do you think about this....ADVICE?????
I read it. I just wanted to get the actual point across.
The actual point being not the hypothetical, but this particular case.

Also, doesn't your "second half" misses a "not"? Like:

"""But just because hacker news is called that doesn't mean that query might NOT feasibly be better served by another site. To assert otherwise is pretty surprising"".
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This is yet another exhortation to "visual" programming.

Ironically, the author seems to believe that programming language syntax can done away with since the textual representation of a programming language is just an incidental detail, yet he simultaneously believes that the syntax is so central to what makes a programming language that by getting rid of it you'll be left with something conceptually independent from the features in any particular language.

I'll just quote a couple paragraphs from the article to illustrate how confused it is:

> In a program written in this way, using garbage collection is just a matter of plugging the right run time support, which you could get along with the system or you could buy from a third party. Instead, we erroneously consider garbage collection as a fundamental attribute of the language in use. As another example, in a language agnostic system we would would be able to create and call closures by just adding a simple module to the system, not by devising yet another language that supports closures as a first class citizen.

> But the advantages don’t stop there. Without the need for a language, it also disappears the need for a compiler. Everything is such a system is already parsed and ready to use. When we combine pieces of code they already know how to glue themselves to each other, so there is no need for a linker either.
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Thanks for the reminder! And just in time, one minute before launch.
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Non js-heavy version, for those who need/want it:

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/12/machine-learning-...
"As for Unity; its incomplete, buggy and complicated." -- four lines later: "The non geek will love Unity. Its simple to use [...]". The author fails to be consistent even in a single paragraph. Even the post's title contradicts its content.
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What I most like is the old Google style on the login page. Even after months(?) of using G's new layout, I still dislike it.

BTW: What is a "cancel" button doing on the signup form?
Been there my friend, I too passed out from a so called reputed private University.and too bad I came to know about hacker news only in the last year of my college :(
"Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art"

This quote really rings true for me. I'm teaching myself programming as a hobby (nothing serious, just the basics) and I've noticed a marked improvement in the way I conceive and solve problems at work even though my job doesn't involve coding.
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This article touches on some interesting ideas, but doesn't hint at the enormous amount of work that would need to be done to even see if they are feasible, let alone implement them. The author also makes important mistakes regarding PL implementation. Examples follow.

"Without the need for a language, it also disappears the need for a compiler. Everything is such a system is already parsed and ready to use."

A compiler is not just a parser! In fact, the parser is generally regarded as the easy, tedious part of a compiler. This confusion between the syntax of a language and its semantics undermines most of the purported benefits of his proposed "languageless system".

"Whatever the form used to interact with the program, a language-less system doesn’t care if parts of the program are shaped as s-expressions or C blocks: it just combine them as needed to create a program."

The difference between s-expressions and C blocks is not superficial: s-expressions present a natural API to the syntax of the programming language itself, allowing Lisp's distinctive feature: macros. Language syntax and language capabilities are not so easily separable!

"In a program written in this way, using garbage collection is just a matter of plugging the right run time support, which you could get along with the system or you could buy from a third party."

Performant garbage collection algorithms need guarantees about the code they manage (eg. the ability to distinguish pointers from integers for precise GC, and write-barriers for incremental GC). Choice of GC algorithm affects the compilation and capabilities of your entire program, and even the ways you can interact with other programs! You can't just mix and match PL features you find from various languages and expect them not to conflict.
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It's been "the year of desktop Linux" every year since about 2006 for me. Who cares what everyone else is using? Just find a system you're happy with and stick with it.
I can think of a couple of answers...

First is that no education should take place on someone else's dime. Let the market sort it out. So don't subsidize literature or mathematics, film studies or nuclear engineering. Step back and let the market work it out.

The second is that the government should subsidize education, on the notion that some fields, such as science and engineering, generate positive externalities that can't be recouped by the practitioners of these fields. As you can probably tell, I think there's a lot of merit to this argument, especially in core science. I think that a scientist or engineer who earns 100K a year often generates far more wealth than, say, a mortgage broker who earns 100K a year. It does make sense to me that the government would try to find ways to encourage this.

If you feel this way, you probably don't mind educational subsidies and tax breaks for certain types of activities (by the way, I read somewhere that China has excepted software engineers from certain types of income taxes).

While I probably sound enthusiastic about this kind of arrangement, the truth is I'm ambivalent about it, largely because I have serious doubts that this kind of government interference will work. Instead, it often leads to a system that is easily gamed (engineering majors take the subsidy and then go work on wall street, and get a tax break because they write software for trading algorithms).

So in the end, I tend to favor a more hands-off, market based approach - though with some state subsidies for certain educational paths and research activity.

Lightweight yet effective and highly competent government... I do think it's possible, and the societies that figure it out will run circles around everyone else.
Quantum Algorithms (run on quantum computers) are the future for Machine Learning. This article was from 2009 though, and I haven't seen a whole lot of progress in the field. Artificial Neural Networks that can model every possible value of every node at the same time is very powerful.
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and add to it , My University restricted the internet Usage to 20 MBs,didn't had much money to afford my own internet connection :(.
Can you contact me through the orange button in the upper right? I thought that would simplify things for everyone.
I can see this being valuable for developers who aren't interested in learning how to configure / tweak a VPS themselves (and I do know a few of those); not sure how big that market is, but there's definitely a market.
Out of curiosity, is there any open-source solution out there (i.e: configurable script) to automatically pre-configure a blank VPS out-of-the box with a list of frameworks / libraries - something like EC2 images, but for a vanilla ubuntu server for example ?
Why do the articles say Apple or IBM supplier? It's a Chinese company that treats its employees like shit and makes money by doing business with Apple. It's the Chinese govt. that needs to intervene.
For those of you not familiar with Chinese manufacturing this is essentially bullshit. If you walked in to the factory tomorrow offered way better working conditions and no overtime everyone would quit. This is purely about money, and most likely fueled by the Foxconn/apple publicity from last year. I worked at a Chinese contract manufacturer for six months on site and our biggest cause of workers quitting was lack of OT. The most interesting part of this article is which factory it is though, I am not sure of the percent of keyboards they make but I believe this is the fabled factory I was told about while in SE China that makes the majority of the keyboards in the world.

Just remember what happened at Foxconn before power to the people starts rolling off your tongue; they had the best working conditions in any Chinese factory(arguably), a number of suicides that was below the national average for the number of people working at the factory, but because they where Taiwanese owned the Chinese gov't let the media run with the Apple suicide link. Foxconn raised salaries and it all disappeared. This isn't a human rights situation, this is all about money on both sides.
Urgh, where to start?

Unity isn't going to drag any joe-average users to suddenly want Linux on their PC. It's neither consistent with what their used to nor does it create any kind of superior paradigm to what already exists.

Sure you can browse the web , play music and do the odd spreadsheet etc with it , big whoop we've been doing this for years , it would have been exciting in the late 90s not now.

The barrier for Ubuntu is not really it's UI. It's problems like having a really horrible flash player, poor selection of applications for many tasks (not to mention games).
Not to mention other nasties like pulseaudio,networkmanager,dependency problems etc.

Ubuntu is so desperately trying to be a cut price apple, now they want to move to tablets.. Ok so they will have the same problem they have had on the desktop for the last 20 years, lack of consumer applications.
There are very specific things that have to happen at certain points during the countdown. I expect that the plan to have the 10 minute hold was created after the software was configured for all the last minute tests. Reconfiguring all the software would be impossible right before the launch, so instead, they stop the clock. Stopping the clock is not unusual, and all the software that works off the clock is built to deal with a hold.
Hello, I'm web developer from a Turkish university IT department.

First of all i must tell my opinion about hacking web sites: if your site is hacked, find the hacker and give him to justice. Propably we agree about this. But, also fire your developer if the vulnerability is too childish.

And probably we don't agree about this subject. Because every developer i talked about this issue said: "this things happen... we cant predict every hacking method before it happens." etc.

But the root of the problem is a lot of developers see security as "add-on feature" instead of system feature.

I see a lot of SQL code like this, every day: "SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id =" . $_POST['id'];

Trusting user input without validating, sanitization? And this brings us to another problem:

Universities are government organizations and the manager are chosen by "governmental standarts" which are "none".

A lot of IT department managers aren't coming from IT background. Some of them are just written some sort of statistical fortran program while in graduate school. If you have to write a complex CMS and want 3 months to do it, you probably have to do it just in 1 month. And the answer for your "3 months request" is: "X said a program like this can be written in just under 1 month". And x is some intern student.

And this brings us to another problem: Intern students...

Turkish university IT departments use students. I'm ok with that. I started as a student too. But, if you are "interested in computers", this is ok to get the job. And after that you are assigned with writing essential LOB software or even staff payment software. And you are writing "WHERE $_POST['id']"....

I'm bored... That's it for now. Thanks for reading.
I know nodejitsu has some stuff along those lines, but I don't think its anywhere near as convenient as my image.

I also think, although I would have to check, that Linode probably has some kind of N_deJS stackscripts that someone made. Again, I doubt that it is as fully configured or as convenient as my service, and that will cost you almost twice as much, since Linode only has 512MB instances (which for many sites and applications I think is way more than you need with N_de) which cost $19.95/mo. Also that won't give you any kind of DNS setup which I am doing for you just by typing the machine name in (probably not a big deal for a lot of people but it does make it simpler).

Also, I am actually hoping people who know their way around a shell terminal _will_ want this. The idea is to avoid always having to build Node and configure Nginx and reassign ssh and some things that you really don't need/want to do from scratch every time unless you feel like you need to prove you know how or something.
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The one I found most interesting is:

"Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art."

It's clear that Jobs had viewed the iPad as being a way to help change education. Though you can't program on the iPad currently, I have no doubt that it will eventually come in the future.

Jobs also shared the same belief as Alan Kay. Kay was angered that Scratch wasn't currently possible under Apple's rules and viewed the Dynabook as a way to teach children how to code. A comment like this shows that Jobs probably had this in his mind but wanted to take baby steps with what he probably viewed as the future of Apple. It could also be that he wanted to get the foundation of iOS correct before moving into something more complicated as programming.

I wonder if Jobs felt the same way in his later years. I'm guessing he did. With traditional blue collar jobs disappearing, computer science is becoming an ever-increasing necessity for the future workforce.
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It would be fascinating to see results from a selection of big well known universities in US, EU, etc.
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I used to work at Google and I recognize it as an attempt to solve problems that Googlers have.

Imagine you were in a globally distributed organization of over 10,000 geeks. And all of these geeks are producing documents at warp speed. Based on need it could be text formats in SVN, Google Docs, or graphics. Everybody gets hundreds, even thousands of emails a day, and uses IM obsessively.

And there's a strong need for extreme openness with other teams, but also an occasional need for extreme secrecy.

All these things are archived, but in different places. How do you know what the latest design is? Well, you can check recent email threads, or your chat logs, or the wiki, or your product documents, or...

So the theory here is to end the madness of all these competing formats by making one format that has (potentially) all of their attributes. Your one format can handle any media type you can represent in HTML. All commentary is inline, and you can even develop the comments into full blown documents. You get IM that has history like a wiki, or, wiki collaboration as instant as IM. And all of this could be subject to access control.

Unfortunately that makes it all very amorphous to the average person.
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No, allow_mult was set to false. Similarly to the author, it was running on AWS, so that may be a factor.
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One thing that Reuters failed to disclose while it continued to cover the NASDAQ breach, is that it offers a competing product. They finally added the disclosure after being called out and asked to by NASDAQ:

http://www.securityweek.com/reuters-accused-omitting-disclos...
No. You wait a few hours (maybe half a day) and see how other people get on with the patch. Then you patch.

Or you leave more holes for the automated bots and worms to exploit.
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I am aware that this is common usage. I am also aware that this common usage has many critics, who hope that members of the general public gain a better understanding of science than most members of the general public now have.

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/PatheticFallacy.html

Teleogical explanations (the organism does this because of a desire or drive to survive) are especially common in popular "explanations" of evolution, but they are still errors. Organisms survive or not because of some outcome of their interaction with the inanimate natural world and with other organisms, period. It's perfectly possible for a virus to evolve that kills off its entire host population. (Very likely, that has happened more than once in evolutionary history.) No tendency to survive to reproduce in another generation should be appealed to in order to "explain" why most viruses are not as virulent as theoretically possible. (Lack of virulence of viruses has as much to do with differential survival of hosts as it has to do with differential survival of different strains of viruses.) I'm denying that the claimed general tendency is an invariant feature of all viruses.
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I already switch one of my production PC to Hackintosh due to Unity. I believe OP's just a propaganda anyway.
Note the present tense in the first quote and the future tense in the second. Unity will be a very user-friendly system once they fix more of the bugs.
Maybe Unity isn't the best possible UI they could've made, but the strategy is definitely a good one. They need an UI that's as easy as possible to use if Linux will ever be destined for regular consumers.

On the other hand, they might've done this too late. Android will probably be the popular solution on all devices and machines that could have been running it.
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Basically, holds are used to give the personnel some breathing room to make checks and ensure everything is okay (and presumably to relax a bit, go to toilet, and other human necessities). If something does not check out, a hold could be extended to debug the problem - on the other hand, when the clock is running, the schedule cannot be changed because many things are preprogrammed in the launch vehicle and the spacecraft to occur at certain clock ticks.
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"""Who cares what everyone else is using?"""

A lot of people. It's called "network effects": if more people use my OS of choice, I get more stuff for it, from support to applications to resources to see it develop faster.

The real question is "who cares what YOU are using?".

Why there always has to be one guy in every discussion of desktop Linux, going "I use it on my desktop just fine"?

We don't care, and it's not what's under discussion. Some people also use QNX or Plan 9 in their desktops just fine. That's not the f*n point.