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It probably is part of the USA-ian culture to present and sell your self or your work. It works great to present your work succinctly. I like listening to poster presentations given by USA-ians. Or very introductory talks about upcoming research projects.

However, once these talks are longer than, say, 15 minutes, I often feel that it is too exaggerated, too much focused on selling rather than trying to convey a deeper understanding of their research. I don't feel taken seriously as a listener; I feel as if the whole talk becomes an argument of authority. Then again, it is mostly a feeling and, when talking to the presenters afterwards, they are nice and knowledgeable and uncertain and all that. It seems more of a cultural difference really. In that respect I prefer listening to English (Great-Brittanish to count in those from Ireland, Sctoland) speakers. As a European, I feel I better connect with their stories than with those of USA-ians.

Still, presenting in English is hard for most of us who don't speak that language fluently. Speaking in public is hard in itself, but trying to convey your message in a tongue that isn't your own is frustratingly difficult. Personally I lack a basic English vocabulary as I learned the language later in life focusing on scientific and professional literature. I often find myself able to string more difficult words into a reasonable English sentence, whereas I am unable to explain it in plain words. Especially when talking or making conversation. Writing is easier in this respect: I have time to think and to look up words if needed.
Don't forget Ted Nelson's Juggernaut :) (first wearable computer, around 1974).

PS: For some reason there's very little information about this one on the internet, I probably should check Xanadu instead.
How did you decide which value of the PC to use (current instruction? next instruction? second word of current instruction?) when PC is one of the operands? The spec is not very clear on when exactly is PC incremented.
Charlie Brooker's "The Entire History of You" from his "Black Mirror" miniseries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_%28TV_series%29#3...) covers this: people are fitted with "grains" that record their entire lives and can be played back at will.
The creation of cash is hardly decentralized.
I don't know if the behavior you describe is commonplace on other cpus, but it seems quite reasonable, if only because it greatly reduces the complexity of the emulator because not every instruction has to touch every status register. What would JMP set the Z(ero) or N(egative) status bits to anyway?

I've only briefly glanced through the dcpu-16 spec, but it doesn't seem to explicitly call Z or N by the names I've imputed, I think they're just regular registers that get used for a certain purpose sometimes.

"this _sounds_ like nitpicking"

when emulating a cpu, there's nothing but nits. pick away :)
Its sad when someone introduces you to a new community, telling you how much they love to drink. Then when you reply that you don't drink, said person tells you .. you know actually I don't drink either.

First up, very few of these parties are advertised as a place to taste alcohol. They are advertised as get wasted as much as possible cause its cool. And its pretty much every conference I go to.

But at any rate, I think the "original" purpose was the same as why people drink when they are back at home: To reduce anxiety and to make it easier for people to get to know each other. I think that is a worthy goal since to me the main purpose of conferences are to network, the talks come second.

But I know the same deal from sports tournaments where its also play hard on saturday, get drunk on saturday evening, play hard on sunday. I just sick around as long as there is someone not drunk to talk to, or the DJ doesn't suck so that I can dance. So it goes.

I also recently wrote on my Facebook page, that this is yet another form of excluding people. Especially if the only non alcoholic drink is water and pineapple juice. But yeah the difference is that nobody has seriously (well jokingly they have) implied that I am a worse programmer because I don't drink, where as it appears to happen still way too often that women are assumed to be booth babes or n00bs.

But getting smashed also has the tendency that people do stupid things and when a bunch of guys feel like they totally own a place in numbers while being totally drunk they might also start thinking they can "own" that female geek hacker. So yeah maybe there is where we get back to the sexism debate.
This seems like a perfect example of overhype. Without tangible details about the device and it's actual capabilities, we are left to wonder what is possible, and many of us will be let down since you can't pack a thousand features into the glasses.
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I used to think and strategize about code while working full-time in a factory. If you get a job that's not mentally demanding, you can do that, and be ready to code when you get home.
This is awesome. I really don't get why it did not make first page...
Branching used to be done by turning the memory of the cores that failed an if test to read-only and just letting all of them continue the computation.

It's gotten better now, but branching is still extremely unwieldy to do. No branch prediction either.
"3) ... There are plenty of parts of the country where you can earn a combined six figure income while spending less than $100/sqft for a home in a good neighborhood."

Where are these magical lands? I've lived in Atlanta and the SF Bay Area, and the salary difference between the two for engineers is around 30%, although house prices aren't much cheaper in the former - unless you want to live in the suburbs, and then you make up the difference in gas.

Medical specialists are tied to hospitals, some of which may be more affordable areas, but technologists (who this site arguably caters to) tend to be bound to tech hotspots, where house prices near $1MM don't raise eyebrows.
Actually it's just a plane that you can drive on roads. A driving plane rather than flying car, if you will.
Someone should try a Boost.Spirit implementation!
Ampex was also the home of an LSD-fueled research lab in the late 50s:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ampex+lsd
'Possibly' is being kind.
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Because most people adhere to copyright notices... Especially in this community.
I'm now curious how many people's last moments will be caught by these devices? How long until police brutality is caught by them? Would they upload instantly like video from my phone to G+?

The potential is that of cellphones to an even greater power.

I can't help but fear it will fail and be considered taboo for years.
I don't know what legal requirements we have, but I don't think EC2 would work, atm its all on servers inhause. I was talking about the concepts and ideas not the way datomic implements them atm.
The syntax of the assembly language is so simple that using Spirit would be an overkill (I was pondering to go with Haskell/Parsec but didn't, for that exact reason).
You are correct, Matt Cutts explains it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D...
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wait to you see what we're doing with it :)
Looking forward to the event.
Sure it's not aesthetically amazing, but it works. A simple news list unencumbered by heavy imagery or even ads. This is no where near the crappiest page design.
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Spirit is extremely concise. In what way do you think it's overkill?
Define "them".

If "them" = Facebook or Twitter... it's true, they could not read the text.

But if "them" = the service provider of the encrypted messages, well, I suspect that they can decrypt from their description. Which means that they can be compelled to decrypt, or that a member of staff could access the decrypted message... in which case we only have an illusion of privacy because it only gives us privacy from some parties and not others.
Hmm..I think we went to Tech around the same time.

Regardless, prices in Atlanta suburbs are less than 1/3rd of the prices in the bay area - and I am talking about suburbs just outside 285 - like Dunwoody that are <10 from Buckhead.

A $300K house in Dunwoody would easily cost more than $1MM in almost all of south bay.

There's no way you can make that difference up in gas - unless you go back and forth 5 times a day.

Having said that, your expected income in the bay area more than makes up for that difference if you are working in technology and entrepreneurial.
What about bedsheets, pillows etc. Also it seems it is hygienic to let the mattress air dry. I like this guy's sliding lego house: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juWaO5TJS00
I think its legitimate to note why someone doesn't want to go to conferences anymore. Now if organizers will act on that is their own decision.

But if nobody ever speaks up, then it implies that everyone is happy with things are going.
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The 4% is in fact dilutable. That was my first question when I heard the equity amount. Thanks.
Sad fact: most users do not access these services using a web browser, they access them through mobile applications controlled by the service provider. Most mobile web browsers doesn't support extensions either.
I'm afraid these browser extension solutions might be a solution for the desktop era, which will be long gone soon (if it isn't already).
This is the price we pay for simplification and applification. People no longer know their machines.
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Sigh. Why the hell do people use the Candara font?

Do they want people to have a hard time reading what they write?
And somewhere even that doesn't help.
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How does a company of this size manage to produce something so utterly rubbish? It looks like a teenagers blog from 2003.

That headline font is barely legible at that size and forces headlines to be much longer than they need to be.
You do understand that taxes are how we pay for the good things, right?
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None of this is in dispute - the point is that so far it hasn't resulted in end users being able to actually do more.
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Thanks for that insight about the long term nature of Silicon Valley's development. And thanks for the tip about Federal Telegraph. I must confess I hadn't heard of them before - that's a fascinating bit of history, and I will read more about them.

I was curious to know where they were located and found the answer on this great page of photos, so I thought I'd share it:

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/svtour.html
I think you are. That just means that you hit MySQL but doesn't necessarily imply that the data itself are served from MySQL. Filesystems are just fine for this task and as was already mentioned, most of the data are in the CDN anyway.
These guys have been working 3 years on their overnight success. Good job!
Still, you hear grade schoolers play it.

And wow, if you've ever been forced to play the part of anything other than violin -- I played the viola part innumerable times in HS orchestra, and the cello part was even worse -- it's almost a punishment.
>> Viruses are not a fact of life for Mac users. Talk to anyone who uses or services Macs; you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone who's even seen an OSX virus. Whereas for Windows power-users, cleaning viruses for friends/parents is practically a rite of passage.

That's because the market share of Mac is so small that no smart virus developer would even bother wasting their time creating one.

On the other hand, create a powerful virus for Windows and the next day your on CNN.
It is.

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> Regex support is really bad in Python

More verbose than Perl? Yes.

Bad?

for x in re.findall(r'\d+', '12 drummers, 11 pipers'):
print x

How is this bad?

> file operations are not trivial.

File operations are trivial and well designed. You know, there is much more to file operations than in-place substitute.

> There is too much of Java feel to it

Bullshit.

> and it just doesn't have the feel of bash/perl/awk's scripting powers.

Want it to feel like Perl? Don't bother - use perl.

> Scoping is just not right.

Scoping doesn't require your testimony.

# foo doesn't exist
if blah:
foo = 'bar'
# foo exists if blah

This is perfectly fine.

> There doesn't seem to be a sane ways of evolution without breaking backwards compatibility.

When you change the semantics of the language, bozo syntax tricks don't help. Python 3 has semantic changes - syntax tricks aren't going to handle them.

> No equivalent of CPAN.

A large stdlib and PyPi.

> And in many ways white space based parsing is not good for large and nested code blocks.

Spaghetti will look like spaghetti, irrespective of whether block separators are braces or indentation.

> It still doesn't have multiline lambda's.

"still doesn't" sounds like it is something which is planned but not achieved yet. It is not something that Python designers are planning to incorporate in the language. Perl has multiline lambdas but I only used single line lambdas for sort, grep et al - anything larger than that becomes a named function. Unless you have blocks, multiline lambdas aren't used that much.

> And its too much do-it-one-true-way kind of language, that sort of is a blocker for quick hacking.

There can't be an objective explanation to a subjective statement.

> Because I like to write what I think, and not the other way around.

What's the other way round? I like to think what I write? So in Python you think what you write? That makes zero sense.

> The language is too verbose, and unlike Perl and Emacs there are no exponential productivity gains over time.

Complete, utter bullshit. There isn't a single language in the world where the productivity gains are exponential over a long time - there might be some when you are a beginner which gets capped pretty fast.
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These days I think you'd be much MORE likely to get press coverage for a virus that targets OS X than for one that targets Windows.
And that's what they were doing before the demise of the Concorde.
hahaha...Great link! Shocked that is coming from a corporate 'powerhouse' like NBC..i wonder how much they paid for this crap...
It's common sense - in most european countries you can allow others to earn money from your work, modify it and distribute etc, but you can't allow others to lie that they made something, not you, when the truth is that you made it.

So it's not public domain, because some rights are forever yours, but you can very well allow anybody to use modify and distribute your creation.
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I feel Nokia's video, in the article, is much better than Google's, mainly because the hero protagonist doesn't speak.
Except like the Google Car and unlike the Microsoft future video with transparency, flexible, credit card computer displays, and unlike Apple's Knowledge Navigator, Google has functioning devices.

Self-drivable cars hade been around for years. What's different about the Google Prius versions is that they look almost practical, if you squint just a little bit, just minimized the sensors a little bit more it could even fit within a car's stylish exterior. In contrast, some of the past versions were very slow driving and had a truck's worth of equipment in them.

I really think this is a false comparison (to other corporate future videos). Google may release a product that fails to gain adoption, but they will release something.

BTW, go search youtube for AT&T's "You Will" campaign with Tom Selleck. They got a lot of stuff right.
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I make a rough guess about the technology... It's like HTML5 based webapp relying on local storage. You change the remote HTML and clean the local storage for the update.

Like I mentioned in another thread, similar "push updates" mechanism have already been banned by Apple. (I don't know, why am I downvoted for informing HN users).
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Odd that this received a 'bad news' in the title. The Glass video got me excited about not needing to carry around GPS, a phone and other unnecessary gadgets, wearing only the glasses I already require. Also, the writer doesn't know what is currently happening inside Google X.
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Well, it's a good thing that designers don't use Macs then.

Oh.
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Yeah, I think the saving grace is that it's actually fast, unlike 90% of corporate-y websites these days.
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There are many badly designed web pages on the Internet. Why is this newsworthy to HN?
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I highly doubt they will "pack features into the glasses". If I were to guess, they will pack them into a smartphone platform which communicates with the glasses over bluetooth. That is, the glasses will be a peripheral of the smartphone.

Also, nothing they showed was very exotic. Google already has walking navigation. Google already has Hangouts, Screen Sharing. Google already has Goggles image recognition. The only 'sci fi' element was the always-on microphone handling Siri-like queries. They could have showed a lot more crazy stuff: face detection, augmented reality tracking, augmented reality games. They didn't show anything that isn't technically possibly to achieve. It's rather mundane if you think about the features they showed as applications on your phone instead of displayed on your eye glasses. The only thing different is the input/output device.

Apple announced the iPhone 6 months before you could buy it. The initial version didn't do much beside fixed functions and Web browsing. It wasn't until the App Economy that it's potential was unlocked. People speculated for months about app development only to be told much much later that there was none. People speculated over flash. Over Java support. MMS messaging. In fact, I have an old post from 2007 exactly discussing all of this naysaying due to speculation: http://cromwellian.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html

I think Google has actually put forward a very pragmatic concept video that is fully realizable, albeit with latencies and delays and voice recognition accuracies that don't quite match up to the real world (but even Apple commercials show apps serving up answers faster than they do in reality)
If Apple started releasing videos like this it might be revealing. For Google it just seems like the kind of out-of-character "mistake" they frequently make due to their less strict and more decentralized nature.
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OK, that make sense. :)
Ah, that grapheme doesn't actually have color IIRC, but the hair is not filled, thus giving the impression of a fair-haired person (rather than dark haired)
It's just really low-hanging fruit I think (the spec is crazy simple), and people are understandably excited to get to work on something of the sort vs. boring day job stuff.

I think we'll see a massive wave of python/javascript implementations, a few C/C++/C# ones, and then finally a trickle of novelty implementations in haskell, lisp, brainfuck, etc. This part could last for months. :)
Hopefully/probably, very long since the CPU in question is quite small. 64 KB of total memory (code and data) is rather cramped to run Linux. Also, it has no I/O and no interrupts. It'd have to be a pretty radically small OS kernel.
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"Just like ICQ"

What's it used for in the porn industry, do you know? I didn't know there'd much need for IMing
I suppose the question is if you would need to have multiple cores running simultaneously on the same processing element, or if the fact you have some many processing elements means you can just be inefficent and give each core the role of emulating a processor. I haven't seen anything about the core speed of the virtual cpu. however if its 5 or 10mhz, you don't really need high performance or efficency, your just need a way of craming more jobs into your servers and leaving the CPUs to run other game code.
Did not pre X versions of Mac OS have more viruses in the wild with much smaller market share?
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" is excellent. I don't think the synopsis really did it justice.

Diamond supported his thesis very well, while it could have benefited from some environmental feedback information, on the time scales he was examining I think he appropriately examined the economic impacts of the individual environments societies developed in, the "flak" he received is in some cases undeserved.

He meshed his expertise and argument very well, resulting in a great contribution to the understanding of the development of human societies.
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If by null pointers you mean that some data is nil where it should not be, then certainly — they are a problem. In fact this is probably the biggest class of problems I encounter on a daily basis.

I still think you don't need a type system to address this. You could even argue that "nullness" is not a type, it's a data value (an out-of-band data value, shall we say). The way I deal with it is tests for corner cases (I always try to have tests that demonstrate what a piece of code does with null parameters), preconditions and assertions.

I agree that good static type systems can be of help, that is what I meant when I wrote that they seem to help some programmers. I don't dispute that. I dispute the other claim that I understood from the article: that languages that enforce a rigid structure are strictly necessary for "production software".
Email encryption is too much of a hassle, yet has enormous potential. I sure hope you succeed!

Then I can finally send encrypted emails to my mom. Yay!
usually this sort of things aren't going anywhere than the labs.
There are obviously privacy questions around anything like that, but personally I'd kill to be able to play back parts of my life.
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