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I don't understand the downvotes, because it seems to be an interesting question, and the article is not very clear.

Is $900 the price for the gadget alone? Is the price for the gadget + 1 time enzyme kit? Is it the price of each repetition of the analysis (enzyme + disposables), but there is an additional initial cost (gadget)? This thing is reusable, or you must buy a new whole kit each time?
I had some thoughts the other day about hosts each serving up a different yet static set of bytes, but not having any knowledge what they were being used for.

I quickly realised that whatever was mapping IP's to particular bytes was going to be wildly inefficient when stored, and probably just as illegal (if its illegal to distribute).

The focus of the idea was to keep the spirit of BitTorrent (at least what I think the spirit is) while relieving the risk for those willing to share their bandwidth and computer resources.

Excellent read; thanks for the article.
One was written after the DigiNotar incident: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=94673
I think the metro UI is genuinely interesting and (dare I say it) exciting. The logo redesign fits with our times - but it's incredibly safe .. verging on dull.

Large corporations have so much ubiquity .. we encounter them so many times throughout our day. Daily exposure ensures familiarity and this familiarity eventually leads to acceptance; in one sense the logo could be virtually anything and would still serve its purpose (e.g. Pepsi redesign).

The age of the logo is over in my opinion .. these days the prominance of a logo has been supplanted by a fuzzier, more Machiavellian concept - the ability for a brand to connect with its audience on a personal level. In that respect a logo is sometimes simply fodder to for the latter; ensuring the brand and company are spoken about socially (e.g. the gap redesign / 2012 olympics).

It pains me to imagine how much Pentagram were paid for this.
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> This reduces the MITM to the initial handshake. This could be worked out to a degree with some p2p scheme or a set of DHTs for popularity count.

I'm no expert but I think the solution is already here in the form of http://convergence.io/ http://perspectives-project.org/ and other, similar projects. If each of us could have several trusted notaries (including an ability to run one) taking a look at every ssl certificate we accept by comparing it to what others are seeing, what is served in the dns records for requested domain, whether its integrity is secured with dnssec, what was presented on last connection, and whether it's signed by a trusted CA, we would have a pretty safe system, unshaken by the failure of any single entity.

Convergence is already doing a lot of it, unfortunately, last time I checked it was still breaking on SNI. But that's a minor problem with a particular plugin, the approach itself is, again in my non-expert opinion, great.
What does "Get corporate membership with EFF" mean?

Financially support an organisation that will defend your rights. It's like paying a retainer to a lawyer. You might not need them, but they will probably help fight for what's important to your business.
I remember this site envisioned the idea of realising original content:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/

Quite how you measure that though... I always liked the idea.
The jQuery-centric feeling is just because it is the most common library right now. The part about leaning heavily on a framework for anything that is not basic id more due to the fact that writing cross browser DOM and evdent manipulation is really a PITA.

If you are interested in alternatives to jQuery there are many of them available. I am personaly a big fan of the Dojo toolkit, since it is kind of batteries-included, it does less magic $ stuff and it supports a decent module system.
A lot of this is due to the current US control of the .com namespace.

I wonder what'll happen when/if the US shuts down some non-US business's .com, and that business starts getting court orders to force local ISPs to resolve that. It would either lead to a split in the .com namespace, or international diplomatic agreements on DNS (like how there is international maritime law about what happens in international waters). This would make the USA no longer have control over it.
Do other sites have "safe harbour" laws like that part of the DMCA? I'm not sure any do...
Programming is fundamentally a creative process. Watching someone code (especially someone good code) is a lot like watching your favorite painter paint or favorite tennis player play.

You are watching an expert dance and swing his way through something you enjoy and you might learn how to do it a bit better from them.
I wonder what scientific developments or artist interpretations inspired by Mass Effect could come around like those that have come around from Star Trek. http://roadtickle.com/things-we-have-now-that-star-trek-inve...
I'd agree with fezzi....on "Director".
This looks like it would be a great language to tackle the Project Euler problems with - which is usually a good sign, in my book. A big-int type would be nice though.
Maybe the LHC will give us the precursor to the Mass Effect drives/relays/weapons?

Or giant talking mud-snail people... but I'll bank on the weapons I think.
"it isn't that different from the Tweet and Like buttons at the bottom"

Yea it is, it isn't a small button at the bottom. Also twitter and facebook are already full of noise but HN isn't, it feels like you want to promote noise in HN. Despite if this is what you want, that is what it feels like.

Every time somebody does this "vote me on HN" stuff, I wont if the content isn't really good and very, very clearly belongs to HN. It raises the bar even higher.
You can kind of use Wikipedia like this.

It would be nice though if all content had an audit trail, which you could trace through to the original sources. Could be quite enlightening.
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"I'm a designer so it's interesting to me what's behind all the Facebook hate."

I don't trust FB, but I don't hate it. Not trusting someone does not mean you hating them.

I don't trust a rapist to have a friendship relationship with my niece but this does not mean I hate them, I 'm just not going to let it happen. I visit them at jail and they are not monsters, they just feel a urge to rape.

I don't trust my sons playing with fire either(single digits years old) but I don't hate them, I love them.

I don't trust FB with my personal info because it is none of their business. Or should I say it is because their business is selling personal info to third parties.

That you don't see what they do with your data does not mean that it does not exist(out of sight, out of mind).

(Edited PS) What people HATE is being forced to use something they don't want to use in order to do something they want to do(like use this service).
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I had a somewhat similar experience when I played Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within.

I remember it being very pretty, engaging, with wide open spaces and interesting combat... and then you would get to a dead end. You would look around a corner and find the way forward. It might sometimes take a while, but there was always exactly one path through the level (and game!) on reflection.

I would contrast this with some of my favorite moments in Portal: you can either get yourself accidentally utterly stuck (and the game has to detect that and let you out), or you can find clever ways with a risky approach to bypass an entire level.

I guess I'm saying that as a general principle, every level should have at least four paths: one is risky and difficult and unconventional but will lead you to the end result a little bit quicker; one is the longer, slower way; and one looks like the longer, slower way but in fact goes nowhere or leads to a trap; and one leads you to a secret which might help.

(I also appreciate situations like Zelda where you don't tell me what order to complete the dungeons in -- maybe dungeon A has an item which is important for solving dungeon C; if so then consider building the risky-difficult pathways through C to not require this item.)
I'd love to see video of a swarm of these
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The problem with this overly simplified conceptualization is that there are so very many things that are extremely enjoyable, but require some level of expertise to enjoy them.

Music is a pretty visible example; if no one persisted through the (fairly lengthy) early stage when the noises you can squeak out of your violin are downright offensive, we simply wouldn't have violinists in the world.

I'd feel lost if I couldn't have music in my life; it's something I do every day; but when I started learning as a kid, it was often frustrating and never really fun, though I had some sense that this was going to eventually give me something I wanted.

That very experience -- i.e., work at something for years and it'll really blossom into something that's central to your life -- also gives me the spine to work at other things with no immediate rewards or even much enjoyment at early phases, because I can see the longer path.

Writing code sucked at the start, but I wanted to get the result, and I knew already that if I persisted over months, years.. it would keep getting easier, and it would become enjoyable. Now it's my living, and I pour incredible amounts of time into it.

I wouldn't be doing either of these things if I sat down at the start and said, "well, am I really enjoying this now? If not, perhaps it's just not for me..."
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That would be the case. Some people were unhappy with R6RS not keeping Scheme a minimal language anymore.

Now they're making one "small" Scheme and one "big" Scheme. That's a good thing because they can actively decide what to put in the big version (full numeric tower, e.g.) and what to put in the small language (e.g. a standardized module system).
Looks very much like a python without the legacy and a touch of ruby, ipython as the default shell, better multiprocessing, better os/system access, decorators and mathematics. Nice clear documentation too.

Given how similar to python they are their main competitor is pypy, which isn't too far behind them in performance I'd suspect (absent from the benchmarks though). I was fully expecting someone to make a non-compatible fork of pypy to create a faster python-like lang/something like julia. They should quickly get some elegant small libraries like sinatra/bottle and requests (access to dbs with http interfaces as well). A robust requests+lxml library built-in would be simply amazing.
This might help you.

http://angel.co/

There is nothing that anyone can provide you, you need to go out and basically see what interests you.
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PyPy provides an entire framework for people to write interpreters in. If you were to write one you wouldn't fork PyPy, you would use it.
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Mashery (http://mashery.com/) has done this for Netflix, Rotten Tomatoes, and others. I think they're more about providing useful API access technologies than actually doing contract work to get things set up though.
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Chrome is light weight, unbloated, it's just one of the reasons why I'd say that it has excelled so quickly.

When it starts supporting a tonne of libraries it has to really start beefing up on it's dependencies.

So, at what point should Google allow/prevent access to their CDN. Additionally, the CDN is notoriously slow for updating to the latest versions. How would these changes them be rolled out to the browser? Through updates, or just realllly long caching?

Plus, this would then turn into a kind of DMOZ, where libraries compete to get included and struggle...

Plus the CDN supports multiple versions, does this mean that Chrome would have to support all 22 versions of jQuery?

jQuery is not a defacto library. I don't start a project and immediately think, lets include jQuery. However if it was precompiled, in Chrome, then the barrier for making this choice would be lowered, and I might find myself just including it for the sake.

I think this is totally unfair to other librariesm and it could quite possibly prevent or at least stifle innovation to some extent, since if the footprint of including jQuery in your application is zero, why not just include it, rather than try some other cool DOM project that's not included in the CDN.
You certainly aren't alone!

Perhaps we sometimes expect too much. You don't listen to music to remember the lyrics, you just enjoy it. And you can enjoy and discard a piece of writing too.

You can easily idle away time. Right now I'm procrastinating.
Very interesting. I have tried combining Git and Dropbox. That eliminates the need to provision a git server and allows you to mesh with people having less experience with Git.
Then they should focus on both during their interview process, right?
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If you're wondering why a puff piece featuring the Mass Effect series is on io9, it's because the third game in the series is coming out on March 6th.
Well you are being a bit nitpicky as pypy is both the python implementation and the JIT/Rpython/framework bit. What I mean was someone holding very close to the python implementation in almost everything (syntax etc.) but streamlining it/breaking compatibility/giving it a new name ("python3-as-it-should-have-been" perhaps?).

Further, if we are going to be nitpicky, when you use something like that for its intended purpose it's still a fork - I forked Twitter bootstrap for my new project/I used Twitter bootstrap for my new project - so "you wouldn't fork PyPy" is a false statement.
1. Browser computes hash for all JS files loaded, and tallies number of uses.

2. JS files that get a certain number of uses get marked for compilation.

3. On browser startup, the marked files are recompiled into the binary.

4. The modules are pulled in when the browser detects an HTTP requested file matches an existing file.

MD5 hashing couldn't be used, due to collision vulnerabilities!

I guess the question is whether the browser's JITter is already as fast as compiling javascript into the binary.
I quite enjoy just chucking on a playlist of The Flashbulb (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+flashbulb).

There tends to be enough ambient, non-lyrical tracks to keep me interested. Some infrequent breakcore tracks get me amped as either a break or a queue to think harder :D.
Sounds like you should probably do it, just for the experience and opportunity to improve your understanding of what these things are like for founders. :-)
I'd be happy to log in with Facebook, but every single time I've tried to do it, Facebook informs me that the application wants to help itself to my contacts, my wall etc etc etc. Now I don't bother.
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> if we are going to be nitpicky, when you use something
> like that for its intended purpose it's still a fork

No. Fork is definitely not semantically congruent with use. You're only forking Bootstrap if you create a path that diverges from its mainline; don't get confused by GitHub parlance.
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Awesome! So much better than yet another "reverse this binary tree" non-question.
The writer of the article didn't consider any novels to be in the running (or non-US television shows really), so of course Banks didn't warrant consideration (although humanity is in a pretty privileged spot in The Culture, just not terrestrial humanity)

The general setup of Mass Effect vis a vis humanity's political significance is pretty similar to Brin's Uplift Universe. We're small potatoes and upstarts and most of the players hate us.

I'd also have to say that the article almost seems to ignore Mass Effect 2, in which humans are (or can be, depending on what you did in the original) pretty much running things. (that's how it was for me, and I believe the proximate cause was that I didn't go out of mY way to save the council at the end of thE first installment, because I hate the worn out "let millions die to save the privileged few / my girlfriend" trope in action adventures.
Thanks for the pointer. From what I can tell, it seems like you'd use Mashery if you were building an API for yourself, or for someone else? It seems to be more about the operations of the API that the strategy behind what methods the API should have. Right?

(From their company page, http://mashery.com/company: "We help brands... manage (their) API Powered Platforms..."
If it's a small company, it's very likely the interviewer's manner is a good reflection of the company culture.
That's pretty common for new language implementations - Node.js was around for a couple of years before the Windows port was ready.

To be honest, if you're targeting early adopters of a programming language Linux and Mac support is probably a lot more important than Windows. Smart Windows users can always run Linux in a VM.
Nope, statistical significance is based on two things.

1) Assume the model is true.

2) Conditional on the model, what is the probability that the observed differences are due to chance? The p value is then the probability that a test statistic at least this extreme could have been produced by chance.

Its actually p=0.001, not p=.10 also.
It's great the metaprogramming support seems to be a requirement for new languages these days.

Unfortunately, this one combines the inconvenience of Template Haskell (explicit invocation of macros with @) and the bugs of Common Lisp (the section on hygiene says, basically, "we have gensym"). Fortunately, the language is young, and I hope they can improve this story.
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You actually treats the social shame as small piece into this huge puzzle, but it's wrong.

Almost everything we do in adult life is to make social life easier. We go to college, learn new language, we read news, we buy things. All this has an small practical value but huge social impact. Knowing what's going on the news is a HUGE part of our relationship with others.
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Another one I came across was mashape.com "A place to easily discover, manage and hack badass APIs". Few examples: NLTK, sentiment analysis, DuckDuckGo.
You need 3 chairs, 3 tables, 3 computers and internet connection. That's all you must have:-)

Might be nice to have a coffee machine also...
Concerning the gender/ethnicity aspect:

I would go even further than to say it only has an effect on a single individual, since I think this "choice" has no effect.

You only play a non-male, non-white, homosexual character if you already are open-minded enough. If you aren't, you can just continue to roleplay your stereotypical strong white male. There is no challenge to the preconceptions of the player, simply because he gets to choose what he wants.

A book, a movie, a comic, they all pose a challenge by presenting you with characters as is.

I fail to see the revolutionary potential here, instead, the player gets to project his already cemented views as well as auto- and hetero-stereotypes onto his character, thus reinforcing his already prevalent world view.

I'm not saying new media is inferior per se, but the choice aspect is really the polar opposite of what you want if you want to make people reflect and think.
There is at least a market for an API toolkit where you could choose an API model, security features, the DB to connect to, the language to use and the data model.
I wonder what they think about or have learned from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language) , another recent-ish attempt to deliver a modern and powerful scientific programming language.

Personally I'm a little wary of being ghettoised into something overly domain-specific for scientific/numerical computing. Really good interop may mitigate that -- something which can navigate the unholy mix of C, C++, fortran, matlab, octave, R and python routines one comes across trying to reproduce others research work, would indeed be awesome.

I do wonder if some of the noble demands of this project might be better delegated to library developers though, after adding a bare minimum of syntax and feature support to a powerful general-purpose language. For now Python+numpy+scipy seems a great 90% solution here.
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There's also http://apigee.com/.

And for high-level guidance, http://redmonk.com/, kind of a Gartner for platforms/developers.
Very exciting. The real power of MATLAB likes in its toolboxes, though, I wonder if there will be an easy (and possibly automatic) way to convert toolboxes.

One more thing: it would be awesome if the `manipulate` from Mathematica could be incorporated somehow in that web interface. See:

http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/videos/manipulate/
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Much praise!! These guys have incredibly good taste. Almost every single thing I can think of that I want in a programming language, they have it. All in the one language!

The fact that it has parametric types, parametric polymorphism, macros, performance almost as good as C, good C/Fortran interop, 64 bit integers and an interactive REPL all in the one language just blows my mind.

I wasn't able to tell if it is possible to overload operators, which is another thing essential to mathematical code.

I was also unsure why the keyword end was needed at the end of code blocks. It seems that indentation could take care of that.

I also didn't see bignums as a default type (though you can use an external library to get them).

However, all in all, I think this is the first 21st Century language and find it very exciting!
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