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Agreed. When I was reading it, I was thinking of him as well. Square is a shining example of simplistic design and value.
Hi Zakharov,

you're talking about Game Theory. A very interesting question indeed.
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One of the features that differentiated Macs from Windows early on for me was how they systemized PDFs. Not only could it read and write PDFs, it was eager to do so.
Actually the use case you described seems very ripe for disruption if you ask me. Because it's hacking your way to the solution, whereas we could need a better solution.
Reminiscent of the famous artwork Dead Fly Impaled on Spike (with LED).
There's an app for that, http://rubbernetapp.com (not free)
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We don't need to replace email. Just add an NLP engine and the ability for 3rd party apps on it.
I am saddened that this video is not punctuated by the narrator yelling "Whups!" every fifteen seconds.
As criticism surfaces, 'KONY 2012' gains momentum faster than Susan Boyle
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Skeptical at first, but then saw this:

Each blockage HowAboutWe found among the committed couples
they studied has a corresponding feature on the new site.
To overcome the inertia it detected, the site will offer
fully packaged date ideas. To address logistical woes,
HowAboutWe is working to make the packages available with
a single click that will book your taxi, theater tickets
and corner table at the Italian trattoria.

For Mr. Schechter and Mr. Schildkrout, each idea leads to
another. They could arrange babysitters for couples. They
could help slouchy husbands send, with one click, fancy
date invitations that suggest a labor of many clicks. They
could allow couples to follow the dates of other couples
they admire — a digital way to keep up with the Joneses.

One click dates + inexpensive/vetted babysitter would be an enormous recurring revenue market.
Interesting that iOS shuts down the connection when the browser is closed or the phone locked. Is is the same with SocketIO? On Android the connection remains open as long as the browser has the tab open.
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Before the rail roads, people didn't do all that much travelling from A to B, unless they were very wealthy or had some external pressure like the need to find work or religious persecution, they mostly stayed at A. Which makes the invention of rail roads even more impressive in my eyes, it created demand rather than addressing it.
Friends of the Congo: http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/films-a-videos.html has some great resources about this.

Another classic is Heart of Darkness (although a fiction, it tells much about colonialism)

King Leopold's Ghost is also a great read: http://www.amazon.com/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Heroism-Colonial/d...
Just about the second thing he does in that video is to start editing settings.py, where he edits line 14, line 15, line 119, and deletes lines 118, 120, and 121. He then jumps over to urls.py and deletes lines 12, 13, 14, and 15 while uncommenting lines 4, 5, and 16. He makes the observation that he's just going to ignore all of the other crap in settings.py.

That workflow is very particular to a Unix config file. It's, for example, what you have to do if you want to use Tor: you browse slowly through a torrc file that sets every setting with comments explaining what it does, and you uncomment or change these lines depending on what you want to happen.

That's not a bad workflow, but when I'm in a programming language I have a better option: I don't need to think about the world as "here is this monolithic application which I have to configure," but instead I can think, "oh, here are some methods which I might like to use -- methods which make servers listening on sockets with various protocols, and so forth."

The thing about config files is that if you don't embrace the Unix philosophy of "small tool which does one small job well", then the config language can come close to being Turing-complete. But if your config files are Python applications, that's already Turing complete. You don't need to build a new language on top of Python. Why should I be trying to describe in a data structure what my database is? Why make me write a data structure containing 'sqlite3' rather than mydb = django.dbs.sqlite3("filename") ? (There are a couple of reasons, actually -- one of the biggest is that they want to have a 'syncdb' command -- but I'm still not convinced that this is the best way to implement that.)
Instead of a blog a better example to showcase a web framework would be a wiki, forum or even HN.

Not bashing the OP but tutorials and screencasts like this fail at the first step by teaching the beginner a blog should be dynamically generated.

Tutorials and screencasts like this are a great resource for beginners as an introduction to a new framework. And the "blog" has been the de facto standard web app to showcase the framework. But as developers we should know that web apps like blogs should be statically generated and saying otherwise is setting a bad example to beginning programmers.
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Sand Hill Road is just one source of money and money is the most fungible representation of wealth, so if they won't help you, go to somebody for whom 32 million is chump change or who are used to pay way more for a movie. Hollywood way be more receptive to your ideas (making a block buster isn't cheap and there is always a risk, so they should be used to taking them).
Maybe it would be better for people to really research on the causes of organizations. with the org running the this KONY 2012 movement, only 31% of the earnings/donations actually go to the kids of Uganda.
The "sex & war" category seems to be a great catalyst for innovation. These days, "sex" of course means "Internet porn".
Im sure there is large amount of evidence of crime for other army too. War is like that there are crimes in it. each side is committing crime according to law of other side. (because guess what: they made the law it is what people with power do.)
From what I understand, its because there is always 'wasted' space. If you have lots of movies and music, you might have a full SD card but empty internal; lots of applications and the opposite might be true. With a single internal space, all this goes away. Personally, I never want to remove my SD card because it houses so many applications and files I use on my phone.
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95:5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
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95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD
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Yes, but this addressability of people also means that the sender must have some value to provide.

Being able to self-create a platform of value that you can offer to people you wish to network with is crucial (I created a magazine to accomplish this objective).
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Not sure if it qualifies as a "hidden gem" in OS X itself, but the new Signature management in Preview, using the built in iSight to scan a handwritten sig off a sheet of paper, is an amazing time saver.

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> at the cost of making your computer unusable to others

I have a qwerty guest keyboard next to my Kinesis Advantage. Also dvorak isn't necessarily that faster, but rather more comfortable.
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Interestingly I have a friend (a hematologist) that says that they actually try not to overscan for fear of finding something. There are plenty of cases where a scan reveals something that may not manifest itself into a noticeable issue in the lifetime of the patient but they then need to treat. Unfortunately often the treatments themselves are invasive (sometimes far more so that the issue itself might have been).

I guess that problem will diminish as advancements in medical diagnosis and treatment progress.
I find that while people put a lot of emphasis on making an "original" product, a lot of the more successful products tend to be clones. After all, if you come up with something completely original you need to do a lot of explaining to get people to understand it; Whereas if it's based on something they already know, it's much easier for them to comprehend.
Try Flask (python web "microframework"), the library approach is pretty close to what you're describing, although not so high level.
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>> How do such simple assembly errors give rise to self consciousness in the program seconds after turn on, compared to slave mode unconsciousness that was desired and usually occurred?

> Obviously, the guy simply forgot to pass IS_SELF_AWARE=no to make ;) Yeah, that feels far-fetched.

I suppose if this was a case of a Restricted AI gaining sentience in a production line it would actually be a manufacturing defect. However if AI had already been discovered and outlawed, building an R-AI would have more fail safes before booting a sentient AI off the production line.

However if AI were an outlawed menace then you'd think the restriction would be more than a "non-homicidal-subservience chip" being installed. You'd think it would be like Asimovs 3 laws where its an integral device in their operating system.
> Do you think there is really a large number of hackers who are not satisfied by the Mac on the one hand, or Linux on a Thinkpad on the other, and who would buy into this new system?

I don't know if it's a large number yet, but it's growing and you can see the cracks sprouting. Most of the hardware outside of Apple's really sucks, and Apple's software ecosystem and the way they run things turns a lot of people off. If there was something viable to switch to, I think it could get some traction quickly,

> Better to figure out what is going to come after smartphones and tablets, and get there before Apple does. I don't see any particular reason to retrace Apple's steps and start by building a laptop.

This is intriguing. A Post PC device that hackers can use to create software. Definitely something that hasn't been fully explored.

There are a few challenges, however. Hackers need significant hardware to get anything done. Also, most of our tools that have stood the test of time (Emacs, Vi, C, etc) require traditional keyboards as input.
If you start a new language, why not use OOP and eliminate language crutches such as: sizeof expr and keysof expr? An OOP approach is easier to both implement and grasp - expr.size and expr.keys. And lastly, the main difference with JavaScript I see is the lack of the "function" keyword - is this a good enough reason to advertise this as a new language?
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I'm finding a problem with the idea that when a dating site is very successful, they lose because the participants immediately become non customers.

The same is true (kind of) with car salesman and real estate salesman, if they are successful at selling the customer a car or house and they do a terrific job, they won't see that same customer again for 8 to 30 years. However, if the customer is delighted, word of mouth spreads, and you get a flood of the customer's friends.
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I'm not talking permanent. What is different this time is this:

a) The transition will happen more quickly because the kind of intelligence you need to clean a room is very broadly applicable. It affects almost all manual tasks at the same time.

b) Contrary to earlier transitions, there will not be many tasks left that untrained people can perform and that are similar enough to the old ones. A farmer can go work in a factory. Most cleaners will not become artists and entertainers within their lifetime.

I don't think humanity will ever take a permanent vacation. There will always be something that humans want from other humans and there will always be something to exchange as payment.
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I was wondering which is a better index of programming language popularity - http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html which is "based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings." or https://github.com/languages which summarizes the languages actually being used in open source programming. Sidenote to Pythonistas: Python is at #3
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Django is not a 'monolithic application which I have to configure', but settings are, well, settings - stuff you have to set. Urls.py is routing, you'd have to config it somehow anyway. There is a lot of room of improvement how the settings could be handled in Django to make them more flexible and get rid of that overhead in settings.py and afaik the core team is planning to work on that, but for the moment you take it as it is. Django has a nice learning curve, you get to know how it basically works while writing your first apps, but maybe it's not for you - if you're looking for something raw and lightweight, you can try Flask. If you want a mature framework which solves most use cases for synchronous web programming and you can build powerful stuff on top of that, it's Django.
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Are any of these people working for Linus? Is he paying them?
Are they not free to fork off their own kernel tree if they don't like the way he maintains his?

Jobs was running a company, and paying people directly for results..... (all other judgement aside)
> Yes, but this addressability of people also means that the sender must have some value to provide.

If only that were the whole of it. The sender must have some value to provide in the eyes of the recipient. But the recipient will actually have to look at the message in order to determine if this is the case or not. That decision alone makes many messages that were sent with value '0' a net negative to the recipient.

Hence all the spam. If the 'providing of value' would be a thing we could determine in advance then the low barrier would not be an issue.

Effectively a spam filter determines that the value of a message is '0' to the intended recipient to avoid them becoming negatives.
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Unfortunately there's isn't much I can say until we launch, but here goes: we've created a social network where email is the mode of communication, and everything is organized around people and organizations.

There isn't a single inbox as such, there are people, and groups of people, with correspondence between them. Like in Facebook or a CRM system.

What Gmail query do you have to do to see the correspondence between you and PG, assuming PG has 3 different email addresses? How do you find that email from some company you don't remember the name of?

These are just some examples of things that are truly intuitive on our system. I don't mean to sound snobbish, but it's a bit like trying to explain the first iphone - its like a PDA without a stylus. But we all know the iphone is ultimately so much more. So you really have to try it for yourself.

I understand that claiming to be better than Gmail leads to lots of scepticism, and I have a huge amount of it myself every time I see a new email app. Luckily, noone has quite done what we're doing just yet, but its only a matter of time.

All I can promise is - its better for me and all my friends that have tried it. But that doesn't mean it will be better for you, or for some insanely heavy email user like PG, but I sure hope so.

Oh and in terms of speed, yeah its faster. In fact we've just had to rewrite everything from scratch to make it blazing, moving almost all the logic to javascript and caching everything client-side. And did I mention its awesomely beautiful compared to Gmail? :) But really thats the low hanging fruit - Gmail looks awful, more so every year it seems. Sure some people don't care about that, but I'm a horrible perfectionist which is why we're probably the oldest startup still in stealth.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/09/world/africa/uganda-viral-...
I think I misunderstood this whole thing! The tutorial was rewritten to make use of bootstrap instead of blueprint. Not the rails tutorial site was rewritten to be designed using bootstrap. It all makes sense now.
I don't trust an article that goes from zero to blockquote in .01 seconds
Amusingly, this is almost certainly due to the legacy backend systems which still use a six-bit character set, and this set doesn't include helpful things such as lowercase characters or the + symbol.
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> No wonder we love and underdog -- there is no greater under dog than humanity.

Tell that to the Dodo, the Quagga, the Javan Tiger and the Thylacine. And many others besides.
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It sounded to me more like a simple reference to re-enforce that this is not about theoretical stuff, it's about a piece of software actually being used all over the place.
Just a dreadful right wing propaganda piece featuring a big incoherent spew of numbers and some quotes from "experts" who are all card carrying members of the same side of the political echo chamber and then the obligatory hyperbolic shot at Obama, this time for "demonizing" for-profit colleges. Gimme a break.
SBT is really just Maven without as much XML boilerplate. The syntax might be a little different but it integrates perfectly with Maven repositories. For my SBT projects I pull in a bunch of maven projects and they interact seamlessly. also it took the huge XML configuration file and replaced it with a few lines of configuration code. The only downside to being a different tool is with some of the plugins. I know maven has a much better plugin landscape then SBT does at this point, but SBT does have the ability to have the same functionality.
I would not recommend Heart of Darkness to a beginner on the Congo. Yes it deals with the brutality of Belgian colonialism... but it's dated and has it's own racist portrayal of Africa as the dark continent with primitive peoples.

I would tho second King Leopold's Ghost as a brilliant overview of colonialism in the Congo.
Can anyone recommend a similar tutorial covering one of the python web frameworks? (i.e. complete ecosystem - git, testing, deployment)
All that's true, but if you can then sell that customer a car every month or a date every month, bonus.
If you were serious about the donating money part, the best way to do this now (if they havn't already met the goal) is to donate to a billboard sign saying Lamar Smith is Killing the internet, with a big picture of a noose with a hashtag: "#unseatlamar":

Proposed picture of billboard:
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Donation status:
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Are you explaining how it could be done in a simpler and less compatible way? Why do you just explain how they've done it.
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When I saw pinterest first time, I said to me, "Why they call this revolutionary? reform revolution and dropular already did this layout. wtf is going on. this is rip-off"

I saw it only early 2011, Because they got some venture capital. That says a lot.
It took me until the 7th paragraph to realize this wasn't a competitor to Ashley Madison.

The name of this article is really unfortunate and will probably mislead many readers.
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Shoddy "journalism" on Sarah's part. Sad that even when called on it she still didn't have the intellectual curiosity to figure out from wayback exactly when the design iterations happened.
It takes a complex issue and reduces it to a product that people can purchase. It's the same thing that we saw with Save Darfur, 1Million t-shirts etc. Africa's problems become the "white man's burden" and he's told that if he will just buy something then that proves that he cares.

Unfortunately it not always better to something than to do nothing. I really hope there will be some scrutiny of how Invisible Children spend this money. The US already has troops supporting the Ugandan military. Buying more guns for the Ugandan military won't solve the issue.

Another problem is that the constant portrayal of Africa as the dark continent helps keep Africa poor. Who wants to invest in Uganda when videos like this portray it as a violent basket case? How many tourists are going to want to come to Uganda?

Here's some interesting thoughts from Ugandan's themselves: http://allafrica.com/stories/201203090364.html
I don't really think this is the characterization of wester medicine. What you're calling for, "Evidence-based medicine", or "Evidence-based practice", is actually new. Bayesian probability theory is still nowhere near the dominant method of measuring certainty in the field.

I hope mmphosis clarifies what he means by "western medicine", because I'm confused by that term myself. It's not about the modern issue where the US FDA mandates that "only a drug can cure, prevent, treat, or diagnose a disease" (so if you try and sell oranges under the claim that they prevent scurvy you can be thrown in jail), since he mentioned 1000 years. I don't think he meant that western medicine has any less a desire than non-western medicine to "make people better".

I hope he doesn't mean homeopathy since I hope we can all agree that's a silly enterprise good only for making its proponents more money. But I suspect the "western medicine" refers to alternative treatments that don't have to be homeopathic. I think his overall meaning is that for current medical research, the memory of the field only goes back 1000 years or so, which may or may not be true. (I'd argue it's closer to 100 years.) It may be a call for more testing of what old societies used to do for various things, such as the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Persians, and Chinese, and whether any valid techniques are there that we should bring back. I seem to recall off-hand that St. John's Wort historically has a use for depression, and in some study had about the same effectiveness as some other depression drug (though neither were much better than a placebo); if this is really the case then we need more studies on St. John's Wort to confirm and in the US particularly we need some new FDA rules and reduction of power (or just get rid of them). A similar point is made when people say "stop destroying rainforests, there may be a cure for cancer there!" There probably isn't, but it's not like we were looking very hard anyway, and maybe we should.
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