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Genetic engineering is going to be a tough sell with the masses. They won't touch GM corn, tomatoes, ... How the hell are they going to accept GM-mods to themselves?
The Asus Transformer Prime might be disqualified because it's not chromeos and it doesn't have a built in hardware keyboard, but it's a quad-core tegra tablet running gingerbread and soon ICS (keyboard optional).

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/transformer-prime-detaile...

I don't have a chromebook but I'm not sure what chromeos offers that android doesn't.
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I participated in a reddit secret santa exchange two years ago. I was flat broke, so I took my creativity and poured it into a series of envelopes. I made a collage of things my giftee liked, I took photos of things that were of his interest and made posters of them, I donated a small amount of money to a charity he was currently volunteering for (and sent him a screenshot of the donation receipt), and I wrote and had my band perform a song about him.

His review of my gift was "He took some pictures, played a song, and claims he donated some money. Better luck next year, I guess."
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The first Chromebook was advertised the same way in the Canary builds. The one that shipped to my zip code did not end up at my house. :)

The ad doesn't show up during apps - at least not that I ever saw, but, only on the app selection page or bookmark page.

It has been used very sparingly and I'm not sure I've seen it more than a handful of times since switching to Canary as my primary browser ages ago.
That's right. It's also easy to make an insecure platform.

The hard thing to do is to balance these two things.

This reminds me of two of my favorite quotes:

“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it.
Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.” – Alan Perlis

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple, awesomely simple,
that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus
If anything, it shows print media is still very relevant in our ever growing digital world. Over 100% ROI in two years...what other investments are doing that right?

Only time will tell if a mostly liberal San Diego will make the purchase of the paper by a powerful conservative spokesperson a success for the future.
I see. Your situation is more complicated then and not wholly of your choosing.

This is something to be sorted out, and I hope you'll manage to do so sooner than later.

Take care.
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There's a related but different recipe tool in the UK:

http://www.foodily.com/
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I'm an American and I've never understood this either. It's been around since the start of our democratic process, but these days it just seems like a counterproductive tactic.
What I think you mean to say is that breakthroughs should be about discoveries leading to an expansion of mind, that has yet to be known by any individual.

It's about breaking through the known, and can occur in any field of endeavour and will lead to new information: with that information a product should be created - Steve was, and Peter is looking for those products. They are in the position to do so, but neither will have that initial expansion of mind.

Seems like extracting the financial wealth of a breakthrough is why investors seek them.
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Since you can't do all reads in one atomic instruction and you also need to make it atomic with the write (CAS), wouldn't that still require a lock for the whole operation?
The title of the article was linkbait.
I agree that Google acts in its own interests, but they sure do care about the internet being run by Hollywood. With a locked-down internet and strong copyright legislation, Hollywood/other content owners would own all the ad spots and would cut Google out of the loop.

Google is better off with a decentralized internet of "amateur" content* on which they can serve ads and negotiate a cut of the revenue.

* Pirated content would work for them too, but it's not remotely worth their while to be publicly anti-copyright or to not comply with U.S. law.
I don't click on links like this one. Usually they are heavily biased in one direction and aren't worth reading.
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He also was involved in creating Mobil 1 synthetic oil, which is one of the better synthetic motor oils out there.

You could make the argument that better motor oil allows cars to stay on the road longer, reducing demand for energy/materials to make new cars, or increasing the number of affordable, reliable used cars for less wealthy (or more frugal) people to drive. Plus, some improved fuel economy (due to engine being in better repair longer), so less CO2 emissions.
That actually looks promising. To my knowledge, it's the first gratis solid modeler. The user interface is very similar to Autodesk's Inventor Fusion. It's also on the Shapeways' list of supported programs (by way of STL -- I find it odd that they don't use ACIS, but hey.)

However, it's Windows only, and still in beta.
I've been using the Pomodoro technique for a few months for coding. The technique was actually first developed by a software developer in Italy; there's a free ebook describing the process[1].

I was kind of worried about the context switching when I first started out, but it didn't turn out to be an issue. The breaks are a good breather and allow me to code for longer. The strict timing of the breaks also prevent me from slacking off and not going back to work.

The 25 minute quantums may be short for some people. There's no reason why you can't customize this and use 45 minutes with a 10 minute break instead.

[1] http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/book.html
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It's almost certainly downvoted because it's hazardous to your health.
> People have to realize that most, if not all authority is naturally opposed to progress.

That is absolutely true, but as the people in power get younger, their reference point for what counts as "progress" advances. Politicians who grew up in the iPad era will be reactionaries against some as-yet-unconceived-of technological or social change, not against iPads.
That person Sandra Lerner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Lerner
Thanks, this is very well written and captures where I am right now very well.
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It's been used for ... ever. So it must have some proper effect.
In principle, you are right, a filibuster seems to run counter to democratic principles.

However, given the realities of how Congress works, I personally have no trouble using the instruments available to stop the even more undemocratic influence of money in politics, which IMO is what this whole process is all about.
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Very nice job and I although I'm not much of a baker I think I could see myself using this as I have always wanted to tweak some of my favorites. One thing I noticed if you import a recipe is that you get a bunch of 0.666666666667 type units, you probably should just provide the fraction for those.
I never refer to a perfect utopia where the code is superbly indented, nicely commented, looks great, etc.

But hacks will always be hacks regardless the discussion of "getting product out of the door" vs "never delivering".
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In a sense I agree with you, but things are perhaps not quite so black and white.

YouTube (as a platform) may have given us Justin Bieber, but it also gave us the Khan Academy. And the latter has surely inspired this recent surge from the Stanford faculty.

Perhaps education needs disruption as a prerequisite for some of these bigger problems to be tackled.
That's the thing - its not just about the representative and his/her values, it's about the constituents. There's still too many people alive and voting who oppose eg marijuana legalization to touch it. I think that's going to take another couple decades of attrition.

Luckily, even old people like the Internet.
In a pinch, I handed over my Samsung to my son, who wanted to play Club Penguin. He rejected it after 30 seconds of frustration.
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So is the architecture killing this thing? My Galaxy Tab 10.1 has no problem with video, Google+, or 3D gaming. It sounds that by anchoring this product to cheap netbook architecture they're shooting themselves in the foot.
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That's not the same thing at all; the epoxies harden to an inelastic compound, sugru hardens to a silicone rubber.
A common characteristic of breakthroughs is that they are at first frightening
if you own less than controlling interest in a company that has not gone public, my understanding is that you only own anything at all at the whim of the person (or group of people) that does have controlling interest; My understanding is that there is really no way to make it so that the people that own the company, legally, can't screw you if they want. The whole system is based on trust.

The smaller your percentage, the smaller your vote, and the less power you have when negotiating with others to form a coalition that would have controlling interest in the company; So yeah, I think your percentage does matter a lot.
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If it's cheaper than a VPN or a VPS, yes.
Then you shouldn't comment on it and thereby make it more popular.

But in all seriousness, of course there is a bias here. That's not a bad thing by itself. If you never read biased articles, I have to wonder how you form an opinion on anything. No offense intended, but all you've just said is that you have a prejudice against something you admitted to not reading.
It's good to see that at least some people in power hear the voice of reason over the voices of lobbyists.
What you are saying is right indeed, but most of the problems that you talked about are people problem rather than having to do something with the tag of "labs". Otherwise how different is the failure of two consecutive products by the same team under the same "labs" banner from the failure inside two entirely different banner!
You are digging a bit deep for the invention. That multi-touch is as important an innovation you claim it to be is yet to be seen. Then, to turn it to a higher argument (them vs. us style) about innovators and the us vs china is pretty far-reaching. Not to mention the false android claims, and pretty visible bias.

To quote you - "There's an entire ideology that is anti-intellectual, anti-science and anti-mind at work here." That ideology is that great passion, which you show, excuses false data and misleading talking points.

Of course this is my opinion, filled with my biases, so take it as you will.
It's interesting. Wholesale scraping of thousands of other peoples' recipes is ballsy, clever, but makes me a bit queasy.

But, I'm not sure how useful it is in this packaging.

The service that makes a shopping list for me for a given dish seems valuable. But the service that tries to lay out quantities seems sketchy. All you're providing is an ingredient list, not the technique; to get technique, you have to click through to one of a zillion recipes, and none of the ingredient lists in those recipes corresponds exactly to the ingredient list in your app.

Also, you need to do a better job with proteins. You can't make duck confit with "N pounds of duck"; you need duck legs (also fat, which didn't come up in the list at all). Similarly, chicken paprikash is made with thighs, not "N pounds of chicken". The solution to this is probably just to break animals up into retail cuts in your database.

There's a genuinely valuable "recipe lab" product to be built using a database of flavor profiles (like The Flavor Bible), a database of ratios (like from Ratio), and a database of core techniques ("roast", "braise", "fry", "aromatize", etc).

One thing that'd be neat to do would be to scrape flavor pairings from your database of recipes, do build a bottom-up "Flavor Bible" instead of trying to figure out a way to get the rights to the Flavor Bible itself.
It's a design breakthrough. What's inside, the inexpensive, mass-produced components, is more or less the same as what's in all the competing devices. But the design, the packaging, is a breakthrough.

What's problematic about this Apple popularism and Apple's hermetically sealed approach to selling computing devices is that it does not encourage, let alone even permit, people to learn about what's on the inside and how it works. These are computing devices, not refrigerators.

And in the _grand scheme_ of things, that inhibits progress. It limits the potential pool of competitors and innovators.

Though it preserves the competitive advantage of businesses like Apple, Intel and others. Increased consumer uptake fueled by elegant design certainly furthers what they can do. But the incentives for them to innovate are limited. Do the minimum. Reap the maximum. That's just smart business.
Wow this thing is awesome. Wish it was a little faster.
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We still need those kinds of lubricants, they're just aren't available now except for emergency cases.
The multi-touch interface was developed by Microsoft Research in 2001:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface

>There's an entire ideology that is anti-intellectual, anti-science and anti-mind at work here. One manifestation of that ideology is support for things like welfare, etc, because they believe that it's just chance that separates Steve Jobs from you and me. (and not hard work.)

Actually it's well demonstrated that you need to have money to make money. The few cases you can site as exceptions are exceptions, and for every exception I can point to a thousand (maybe a million?) people who work hard and are barely making ends meet. And each and every one of those exception stories contains a lot of luck. Claiming that hard work == success is insulting to all of the smart people who have failed, and truly insulting to the millions who work hard in ways that you're discounting as "work."
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Sometimes, refinement is a breakthrough.

The AK-47 was not the first automatic rifle nor the most powerful or advanced. But because of its clean design and deployability, it is likely the most significant firearm in modern human history.

What about those statistics that show that a relative modest reduction in consumption would do more to save the environment and energy supplies than any foreseeable technological breakthrough in the next 50 years? Any refinement of technology today to reduce consumption would likely bore someone like Thiel; at the same time, they may also do more to save the world. Why is break-out innovation not to be respected?
I might consider paying to access iPlayer in the US (I live here now but still have a valid UK license). But I don't think I'd be willing to stick my name on a list of people willing to break site T&Cs and licensing restrictions. That doesn't sound smart.
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Miller Puckette is the primary author of pure-data (pd)and the original author (while at IRCAM) of Max. In Max/MSP/Jitter, MSP is the DSP portion of the code, named in homage to Puckette. (Max itself is named in honor of Max Mathews.)

David Zicarelli's Cycling74 maintains the original Max tree, though their contribution far exceeds "maintenance". Puckette's pd is a rewrite of Max intended to transcend some architectural limitations; as its name suggests, its conception of "data" is more fully abstracted away from the C underpinnings still visible in Max/MSP. In my opinion, pd is a more mature architecture while Max is a more mature product.

As far as I know, the only drama in the timeline revolves around Opcode (particularly its sale to Gibson), which led Zicarelli to start Cycling74. Beyond that, my impression is of mutual respect.

The tradeoff between maturity and elegance is sometimes maddening, but both are worth exploring. Max has a 30-day trial and pd is gratis/libre.

Some development history, including detail possibly of interest to hackers: http://xavier.amatriain.net/Thesis/html/node77.html
Miller Puckette: http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/
Max Mathews: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mathews
pure-data: http://puredata.info/
Max/MSP/Jitter: http://cycling74.com/
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Technical debt is a major red flag especially in a savvy organization that realizes it's accumulating it. Especially if much of the early success relied on it.

I was talking with a prospective client that had spent the past three years rushing a SaaS solution to market. They even referenced the technical debt as an area they need help with overcoming as they move forward.

Second order change is difficult for any organization or established project, but remaining consistent with your message can drive the process in that direction. Sounds like a challenge for the two of you, but try to bring solutions / recommendations instead of minor resistance that might get misinterpreted. Not easy I know.
I agree that it was not a great technological breakthrough on it's own, but it is greatly responsible for a lot of folk's interest in new technology and programming among other things, which should not be understated.
That's when you don't factor in 'skills'. If you're 'any' CS grad, you're right. Be if your skills are above average (CS and business sense), this skews the return of investment of the startup.
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Don't work on my Kubuntu (Chromium 13.0.782.215 (Build 97094 Linux) Ubuntu 11.04 ).

Nothing happens when I click the button.

EDIT: on Firefox too.
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I'd have to disagree, we had multiple presidents who were drug users; the hippies are in power now, and the war on drugs marches on.
even better, "git pull --rebase" on it's own. the origin and master can both be custom per branch and work as defaults if not specified.
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This is tripe. He completely misses the point and instead goes on to list other, unrelated projects that have overcome some of their problems. Notice he doesn't say "Android doesn't have malware", while the original article (and many more before it) say "Android has malware". True, anti-virus won't fix the problems, and true, there is unlikely to be a traditional "virus" on a mobile platform, but that's not the point. The point is, malware exists, and it exists more on Android than other mobile marketplaces. Remember the definition of malware, don't get tied down into the Windows classification of a virus. Malware is a broad term.

Instead of shouting and screaming and dismissing the claims with the wave of a hand, we should be working to eliminate malware on mobile marketplaces. Chris says malware isn't inherent to Android but the fact remains with an open market and training users that sideloading applications from a random website is safe and acceptable, malware IS more inherent on Android. None of their competitors allow for this kind of free and easy installation of random applications. Google needs to figure out how to stop malware without destroying the very thing that made their OS popular (the open platform).
If you take reasonable precautions.

A) There are few legal ways of really screwing over investors.
B) You can sue for most of the legal ways.

Unforgettably, it's vary easy to screw yourself over when dealing with a start up. But, the real problem IMO is that employ's generally have less leverage and can't afford to sue. "We got an offer that's very good for us and acceptable to the investors. So, sure you get nothing but I don't need to care because this is no longer my company have a nice life."
VPN services such as http://www.witopia.net/ are perfect for getting around location blocks. These types of services are commonly used by people in the online ad business/online video business.
The Microsoft Surface is not "multi-touch"[1]. It uses a completely different technology.

Further that wikipedia article shows that the someone had the idea in 2001. Good for them. The movie Minority Report came out in 2002, and was in pre-production for years before that. Thus the IDEA was not new. Nobody has claimed that the iPhone invented the IDEA.

That you make no distinction between someone expressing an idea, and an actual invention of a technology, shows that you're just reaching for excuses to rationalize your ideology.

Your attempt to insult my be claiming I denigrated people who work hard is also ... missing the mark.

Finally, the surface uses a completely different technology, which is driven by cameras, to the iPhone, and does not have the same capabilities as the iPhone.

So, even if the Surface itself had been invented in 2001 (rather than just the idea) it still wouldn't be applicable to this discussion.

This comment is exactly why I hesitate to post on Hacker News in the first place, and rarely respond to comments to my posts.

[1] this is a precise technological term trademarked by Apple whereby the impact area of a finger is resolved down to a single pixel, and multiple such fingers can be tracked simultaneously. The surface does not do this.
The fundamental reason that most innovation has occurred in the computer/internet sector over the last 40-something years is that failure is acceptable in this sector. That is, when a computer or webapp crashes it's not the end of the world. But a failure in a drug or car or power plant means serious consequences, and sometimes fatalities, and subsequent regulations/laws to make sure such things are never tried again.

Now, you can make a pretty convincing argument[0] that we are as a society committing Bastiat's fallacy ("Seen vs. Unseen"), in that there are more lives lost due to not developing new drugs than there are due to failures of new drugs.

The failures are seen, the lack of new drugs is not seen.

However, the deeper point is that we are currently simply too wealthy as a society to tolerate the human costs (in deaths[1]) associated with rapid innovation in real world technologies. Wealth means necessities are met, but necessity is the mother of invention. This is why war and serious hardship gooses technological innovation. It's because life becomes cheaper, and test pilots and volunteers for new vaccines become more readily available.

I don't think Thiel would disagree[2] with this analysis, but it does mean that the problem can't be solved simply through shifts in entrepreneurial focus. Americans simply aren't ready for the kind of messiness that real world innovation involves.

[0] http://bit.ly/mtGRyv

[1] Perhaps strangely, we are more ready to allow people to take futile risks like bungee jumping or skydiving than we are to allow people to consciously opt out of various health/safety/etc. regulations (and suffer the consequences).

[2] Taking the totality of his statements in context, including the article on the Founders Fund website ("What Happened to the Future?"), Thiel and Levchin's point is not that the iPhone isn't innovative but more that there hasn't been much innovation in big areas like energy, medicine, and transportation. Indeed, by some measures we're moving backwards in those areas: the real price of energy has gone up, new drug approvals have stagnated, and top speeds have gone down since the Concorde was retired.