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We're trying to do something like this, i.e, let the user build more complex queries (than a free text search) for their specialization without having them write actual SQL ;) We've started off with Biotech - http://www.distilbio.com
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I disagree with both your points.

This isn't a redefinition of words. It's a clarification of the true situation. Again: if you're not paying for the product, and somebody else is, then you're the product, and your use of a system or viewing content, etc., is an intentional objective of the payer. You'd be well advised to be aware of this, because you're being manipulated.

And the fact that someone else is paying for the system doesn't make it right. Just because I'm not paying for a DRM'd product (and very often you do pay) doesn't make it "right". In this case, usually, there are to goods in question: the information good for which you are the customer, that's covered by a DRM "service", for which the publisher is the customer.

There are also goods for which there is no intrinsic monetary market, or for which the market is at best diffuse. Language is one such good (there are very few people whose paycheck is based on maintaining, debugging, and extending the English language, for example). Free Software is another, though there are both paid and unpaid contributors. And you might well ask what the objectives of those who are actively contributing are (propagandists and marketing types influence English, device manufacturers and standards promoters write significant amounts of Free Software).
Thanks for this. Could you share the rest of your reading list?
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Stripes was pretty much subsumed by JAX-RS. There are a few rough edges surrounding html rendering (thus microframeworks like Htmleasy) but for the most part, Stripes is no longer necessary.

Most of the history of Java web frameworks focused on ways to make form processing easier. Nobody (sane) does html form processing anymore. The "framework" needs to be little more than a way to render html templates and an rpc mechanism.
The ADM3A was a "dumb" terminal, constructed using a board full of 7400-series TTL ICs with no microcontroller. Probably to simplify the design, it wasn't capable of sending any multi-character escape sequences. (The ANSI escape sequences hadn't been standardized at that point yet either.)
I've had a lot of the same thoughts, although in a much simpler form. So, of course, I think the talk is brilliant. Thanks for posting it.

I found it especially relevant how he illustrated thinking in terms of imprinting and erosion. I've been thinking about my personality, and how I think about things, in different, but oddly similar terms.

I also agree that personal computing is, to a large extent, re-inventing the past. The best quote I heard on that, as best I can recall, is "The PC recapitulates the mainframe", which is borrowed from Biology's "Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny".
DRM covers an information or entertainment product.

In many or most cases, the end-user is paying for this product.

The publisher is paying for, and benefitting from, the DRM capabilities or service, offered by the DRM system/software.

There are two markets and products at play here.
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Don't do that either. December 31, 2012 at 9:00 PM + 365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 seconds = January 1, 2014 at 3:00 AM. I doubt many people would consider that to be one year later. Let a well-tested library handle the date calculations as you likely haven't thought enough about leap years, leap seconds, daylight savings, historical changes in daylight savings, and so on.
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Strangely enough, it was reported today that Microsoft is developing quality touch-screen components: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/09/microsoft-demos-super-fast-...
Is that what had to happen for Apple to do it? I thought Android was on the same carriers?
Seriously?

Search is another word for artificial intelligence.

Email means a universal way for people to communicate.

Lunar bases & flying cars aren't ambitious, they are just expensive.

Personal robots are here now in vertical spaces[1] and there are at least 200,000 cyborgs walking around now[2]. I think both these areas are worth working in, but I think you underestimate the ambition of a word like search.

[1] http://www.irobot.com/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant
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It's here, but not how you think: http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Do you know any hacker who knows about Raspberry Pi and isn't planning on buying one?

Radically undercutting existing platforms in price, but with comparable functionality enables totally new uses for general purpose computing devices. That's how to take on the Mac/PC business - not by hitting it head on.
I work at a consumer registrar, the only thing you need to do in order for us to hand over control of a domain to you is put a company logo on a word document, stamp it and fax it to us.

This does not apply to larger clients, but then if you're already looking for that kind of service it makes sense to go to a company that specialises in that.
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The full "rewrite" took less than two weeks, and much of that was redoing screenshots and mockups (easy, dull work).

The motivation for the change was to please readers. Happy readers make for a happy author. Among other things, happy readers buy ebooks and screencasts. For a free online book, the Rails Tutorial makes a surprising amount of money. I'd like to keep that record going with the 2nd edition.
I agree - this comparison is not exactly fair. The labels on Grub are defined in the grub config file - it's perfectly possible to make them less cryptic. Also, good luck trying to make the Windows bootloader load anything other than Windows.
Africa: A Biography: http://www.amazon.com/Africa-Biography-Continent-John-Reader...

The 'Dead Aid' book and others like it. There was a specific book on the Congo whos title I can't remember atm, but I will find.

Wikipedia is also good for context, and the associated link, for eg. starting at the second Congo war:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War
They're expensive because they're inefficient. To accomplish them efficiently is ambitious and elegant without a doubt.

A startup that can chip away at what makes these things so inefficient is going in the right direction. Looking for inefficiencies, such as with present day email, is a good way to find a direction.

Economics is still at its heart the study of the problem of scarcity. Economies, and all economic activity, attempt to alleviate or manage that problem.
AFAIK 70-80 human studies have been done on tDCS, most of them placebo-controlled.

Here's a review on the topic from Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110413/full/472156a.html
Huh, very nice. I balked at the non-free app a bit, but hey, if it'll help keep the service alive, I'm all for it. I don't have a pressing need for it currently, but if it gets a bit more mature I will definitely buy the app and use it for the things I use Notifo for now.
Dupe-catcher seems to treat fragment IDs as defining a unique URL:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667166

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3685113

In fact, out of curiosity I tried to submit the story once again by munging the fragment ID. And was able to:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3687267
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Different approaches, different bugs. The seconds from UTC approach results in 1 month from Aug 31st being Sep 1st, and 1 month from Jan 31 being Mar 3rd.

I much prefer spelling out plainly the intention.
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Maybe, but a lot of us never touched Windows Vista, 7 or 8 and a lot of those really don't care about desktop OSs. You must also be aware that there are people who never used Windows. Ever.

Also, "super user" is a term normally associated with Unix systems. It's odd to expect people to associate it with Windows.
It was indeed beautiful. About the last statement - "Please be good to each other, and your self."

As a developer who has always been short on resources, incurred huge financial losses due to false startup promises and has met two separate incidents of street violence in a span of 4 months, I wish people were nicer, helpful and more concerned about others and that there was a better environment for everyone to grow. I still feel lucky enough not to have a terminal illness. But, a lot of people just burn out because of a bad past. And that's where, I guess, being good to your self part helps.
While I agree, and I fully expected it to go to March 1st instead, the core of the problem is that dates don't obey basic arithmetic identities. Treating Feb 29 as a zero value is an elegant solution in some ways.

But say 2012-02-29 + 1 year went to 2013-03-01. Then what's 2012-03-01 - 1 year? Does it go to March 1st every time, sometimes ignoring that there's an extra day in between, or does it go back 365 days (March 2nd)?

I suspect the only "solution" is to decide that calendar dates are for human consumption only. If you're doing any calculations, you do them on timestamps, where you can declare a 'year' to be one of 365.256363004, 365.24219, or 365.259636 days (sidereal, tropical, and anomalistic years)[1]. Given the importance of calendars and seasons, you'd probably want to use the middle one, as they all essentially share that length of time as a definition of a year. That way you can just screw the whole leap-year concept entirely.

Of course, then you're left with year-long agreements that expire at odd hours of the night.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year#Sidereal.2C_tropical.2C_an...
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I actually worked at Be. BeOS did a lot to make multi-threading more accessible, but it certainly did not "solve the problem!" BeOS app programmers still had to pay a whole lot of attention to threading issues, same as now.
One of the simple ideas we could do with email for power users is to show the sender a list of imap folders the receiver has created in his inbox and allow the sender(maybe an assistant) to target the emails in that folder thus turning it into a collaborative effort in organizing stuff
A gotcha to look out for in .NET's implementation is that because the library is adjusting invalid results down to the last day of the month, addition and subtraction operations are not commutative:

new DateTime(2012, 3, 31)
.AddMonths(-1)
.AddMonths(1) ==> 2012-03-29

new DateTime(2012, 3, 31)
.AddMonths(1)
.AddMonths(-1) ==> 2012-03-30
made me think of "the new volkswagen beetle".

Heck, my boss is making me rename our "next-gen" app to our old apps name before it's release simply because the old name has been heavily marketed already/ingrained in people's minds.

Cliff's Notes: Welcome to consumer marketing 101.
This isn't really a CSRF attack, and serving up content specific to the current user through a JavaScript file is an odd practice to begin with.
Donate blood, too. Platelets are especially helpful with many advanced treatments.

In the Bay Area, I suggest Stanford Blood Center (http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/).
In 1916.

That was when AT&T first entered into anti-trust restrictions as a result of its anticomptitive practices in the long-distance telephone market, resulting among other things a 1958 DoJ consent decree preventing the company from marketing computer systems, which meant that in 1969, when Ritchie and Thompson wrote UNIX while at AT&T the company couldn't sell the software, and gave it away (with love, from Ken), resulting in most effective development moving outside the company by the mid/late 1970s (notably to UC Berkeley and MIT), a fact ultimately recognized by AT&T when it sold UNIX to Novell, who transferred the official UNIX trade mark to The Open Group in 1994.
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Yes, it refers to MINIX.

However, it is a betrayal of UNIX's history.
It would be great to have a todo list with a similar interface to today's email-integrated calendar apps. Someone could send me a todo item, and I could accept or reject it. If I accept it, it gets synced across both of our todo lists. That would be a huge step up over putting todo items in email.
I am more interested in Sabu's indictment and guilty plea, because I don't buy that they caught him because he logged into irc once with his real IP. that doesn't prove you are the Sabu from Lulzsec
Facebook and Google have improved the daily lives of billions of people. Tesla Motors' electric car? Very impressive and a lot of promise, but so far all it's done is increase the self-satisfaction of ~1000 people.

Look at Star Trek. Other than the spaceship itself the most impressive things are the technology the people use. The Siri-like computer interface, iPad-like computers, Skype-like communications technology, etc.
Is that the case for all cancers though?

I live in Australia, and we are indoctrinated to check your skin for moles that maybe cancerous. There are claims that the high rate of early detection leads to higher survival rates[1].

My understanding is that early detection of bowel, breast and prostate cancer is relatively easy and produces good outcomes too.

There are radical ways to do early detection (sub dermal computers continually monitoring, etc etc) but there are ugly hacked solutions that just might work, too.

How much would it cost to build a toilet with a bowel cancer test kit built in?

[1] http://www.cancer.org.au/policy/positionstatements/sunsmart/...
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you can do it only if your smartphone supports USB host. Some have this kind of function (i.e. Samsung Galaxy II S), some others dont have it and you need a kernel mod, if you can mount it on your device
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1450298
(and AFAIK you need external USB power)
But there are decades of precedent against how much people will pay for email.

Look at a large enterprise org - you think that Lockheed with 150K employees would spend $50/yr/user on email?

Hell no. they dont spend 7.5MM per year on their email accounts for the employees.

Thats the problem with enterprise scaling vs cloud/startup scaling. They are inverse;

The enterprise wants the cost per unit to go down when scaling. The startup/cloud wants the profitability to increase at the same rate when scaling.

We all want great services, but NOBODY wants to pay for it.

I myself seek to offload cost at every opportunity; work pays for machine, phone, travel, software etc...

Same model.

Yeah - I'll seek to solve problems I have, but not based on how much I would pay - but how much I would like to offload that cost.

(Clearly there is a lot of grey here, and there are areas where this doesn't make sense -- and others where it does -- and these are not mutually exclusive. (i.e. in areas where I am both building for the consumer and the provider (healthcare))
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Did you read the article?

Do you really mean we need Americans to put pressure on politicians to support bad and likely deadly policies so that said American people can feel an (illusory) connection with people in the Third World?
It seems the $1 million in awards actually worked. Last time around Pwn2Own hackers didn't even bother to try and hack Chrome.
I just finished this tutorial yesterday actually. I personally don't care so much about the web design aspect as much as the RoR logic and techniques. Are there any major things in the new version in that department that I should be aware of? Edit: I loved the tutorial by the way - thank you so much for putting the time and effort in to writing it.
It's likely that even Steve Jobs would not have invested in Pixar if he knew how much it was going to cost to make it successful. He originally put up $10 million ($5 million for Lucas and $5 million to finance it). It became a money pit that either pride or faith compelled him to keep funding.
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While I don't have access to the financials of Invisible Children, I take issue with the seemingly implied idea that all charitable organizations should be run by paupers whose only reward is a warm fuzzy feeling. If we limit charitable actors to people who don't desire a certain level of compensation, we very severely limit the number of qualified charitable actors.

If giving to a charity was viewed as purchasing a product, in this case effort toward stopping a vicious warlord, then is ~30% 'materials' cost, 70% staffing/travel/advertising/office space an absurd ratio?
It also lets users feel less resentful or stressed about "having to" upgrade just so they can say they have the latest model. Now, like MacBook, you can just say you have an iPad, and you don't have to explain what sales cycle you're in. Also makes the product base seem less fragmented.
The reason why this works for Macs (and for cars) is that when the new model comes out, the old model is no longer manufactured and sold. Once it goes out of stock, it's gone.

With the iPad (and also the iPhone), Apple has been employing a strategy of continuing to manufacture and sell the previous year’s model along side with the latest model. Next year, when Apple brings out the 4th generation iPad, how will consumer’s be able to tell what it is that they’re buying? Apple will be selling a $400 3rd gen iPad, next to a $500 4th gen iPad. How will the consumer know which to choose?

That’s why I’m not sold on the new naming scheme for the iPad. We’ll have to see what Apple does in 2013.
Nope, the logic is just the same. So many people requested Bootstrap that I determined the market demand warranted the extra effort. But given your situation and goals, it sounds like there's no need for you to re-do the tutorial.
This is true. How many people use JQuery UI? Millions. How many regular folk complain that widgets looks similar? None. In fact they appreciate the standardization because there's less cognitive workload for them.
Good analysis.

I like Play overall but two things concern me, both related: 1) they are moving toward Scala and 2) they are adopting sbt.

This looks to me more like a "picking a shiny toy" move than something that is being done to benefit users (Scala is still quite a marginal language and sbt is very controversial, even among Scala enthusiasts).
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I don't find 'they' any less readable than using 'he' or using 'she'.
From the cheat sheet at bottom of the article:

"rm -rf / - Make Computer Faster"

I laughed but that may not be the best thing to have on a cheat sheet targeted at newer users.
It may not be useful to everyone, but it seems like a sincere project (from skimming the website). Why is it being described as a joke?
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Right, which is why an understanding of how .NET handles the calculations is important. If it's important that you preserve things like "last day of the month" there are libraries[0] which support this and will do date calculations accordingly.

[0] For example: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dday-ical/
And yet, Star Trek falls firmly into the social SF camp. The tech is incidental, left abstract or waved away with babble so that the personal interactions can proceed. Obsessing over the latest gadget incarnation wrapped in shiny branding is just the opposite, consumerism rather than tech which quietly enables.
Looks pretty interesting but I find myself having to guess what you're doing. It's important to be concise and reference things people already know ("Pixar") when you want to convey information quickly, but it's unclear what the value of the technology is in the 2 paragraphs I could find written about it. Everyone knows "Pixar" by name but I'm struggling to understand what you're doing. Is it animation software that maps photographs to the virtual world and renders it "almost-real"?
Given cash-strapped, effective, charitable organizations with a better than 90% operational efficiency are not hard to find, yes.
"A New Search Engine": You don't need to compete head-on with the biggie(s) even if you want better search. You can vastly improve search by specializing, i.e. getting data that the biggie(s) don't yet have. Find something that is "universal" but where the necessary data is hard to obtain. Then innovate on how to obtain that data, rather than focus on how to search or match etc. Find a business model where you provide value for both those who generate/grant access to the data as well as those who use/search it. When you have that data, either build on it or sell it to one of the biggies.

"The Next Steve Jobs": Watching the TED talk by Cynthia Breazeal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAnHjuTQF3M&t=09m25s), it recently struck me that the next Apple will come from the robotics side. The engagement level and seamlessness you can achieve with the physical medium is on a completely different level from "devices". Even smartphones/apps require (at best) minimal cognitive facilities for interaction. Being able to I/O on a "reptilian brain" basis with body language, tone of voice, etc. could literally "change everything" by weaving intelligence into even the dumbest activity. People will not be able to do without such robots if they are well done.
He didn't just leave Lift, he left Scala altogether. He's now working in Haskell. Check his latest blog posts for the details (and the scala-tools.org controversy).
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Does it mean that apps on the android market are limited to 50 millibits as the article says?