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A better nicer world.

A world where people hack together cool things using Google tech, or hack together cool things a bit like Google tech, or hack together cool things better than Google tech.
Whitespace in CSS Calculations
"(Pro-PHP flamers: I started using PHP back in 1999. Your arguments are not new.)"

See, that's part of the problem. PHP has been terrible for close to two decades. It used to be even worse than what Eevee describes.
The first Fortran compiler's creation took 18 person-years. Now there are C compilers which were written from scratch in person-weeks, like TCC.
Regarding #1: if you are doing software development on a system with any security requirements at all, you have already lost. Maybe I can see bending that rule for debugging a live system in extremis, but not for "pair programming".
Otis Brawley's "How We Do Harm" is also good reading.
You didn't really want to use your Lumia 900 for data, did you?
> Does anyone else do something like this?

Yup - I do exactly this for about the last year, and it works as you describe. Long-lived IRC sessions, all of my editing windows open as I like them. You can have nice monitor/chair/keyboard setups at work and home. I find I don't have much use for a laptop any more. If your Windows/ubuntu desktop install breaks, you can reinstall quickly and get back to where you were.
I ignored brand value for the sake of argument. But no, I really don't understand $1 billion of supposed "brand value"
I agree that the toshiba website is aweful. But It's not as if everyone but Apple is just talking feature besides talking about hardware specifications.

For example, here is Samsung's page for the Galaxy Tab 10.1:
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxytab/10.1/featu...
Thanks, how about access to your API :)
The billion-dollar app: How Apple propelled Instagram to success
The lurid history of Goatse
With no knowledge of engineering (or indeed the associated issues) I was interested to hear what the community felt about this kind of vehicle.

For the record, it was never my attention to post this as a sensationalist story (which I presume is why it's been pulled).
And most importantly, a $200 price tag...
Yep. Cut $20/mo off my phone bill and I'll very happily buy my phone at full price.
You don't like it? Don't use it. You're the kind of asshole that'll walk up to somebody in McDonalds and tell them that the food they're eating isn't healthy. You know what? Mind your own business.
That isn't right. Super-Turing just means that it has capabilities a classical Turing machine does not[1], which is why this article is so terrible. What are these extra capabilities it does and how does it do them?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation
The problem is that we launched on HackerNews which generally has a more Male audience.

We are going to try to get more females on PairMixer though other channels.
Here's the Science paper that describes super-Turing computation:

http://binds.cs.umass.edu/papers/1995_Siegelmann_Science.pdf

I haven't had time to do anything more than skim it. My initial bogometer reading is not quite pegged, but it's close.
if your name was Nikola Tesla your end result would still be penury

If you had been Tesla, your "end result" would be that you were Tesla.
This is a great idea...I use Jekyll for my blog but sometimes wish I could post quickly through my browser. Congrats on shipping!
If Instagram was worth more than a billion to Google, yesterday's headlines would've been different.

Perhaps Instagram should've been worth more than a billion to Google, but that's another discussion.
How to Fail Less: Steve Blank on the Secrets of Start-Ups
Meh. I'll wait till this research is published in AAAI, IJCAI, IEEE PAMI or something of that caliber, and not "Science Daily".
I read "sweatshop" and was rather confused for a bit.
I think we're going to see some clever optimizing DSLs (a la FFTW) -- restricted languages for the kinds of embedded programs you write on such an architecture will be easier to optimize than general purpose languages. Particularly if they have a clear cost model.

The Haskell embedding is very likely to head in that direction.

(See e.g. in this style : http://www.fftw.org/faq/section4.html#whyfast or this style : http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/polymer.pdf -- code generation + DSL + constraint solver for instruction level timings).

At least, that's what I'd do.
Yep, only thing I dislike is that the processor does not simulate the importance of cache. If the in-game processors allowed the selection of different cache-line sizes (both instruction cache and data cache) for different costs (paid via the in-game currency), it would add another level of depth to the game market. It would also mean getting into the nitty-gritty of optimization would be even more worth it.
You actually still would be extremely unlikely to succeed in doing it because of the dual class stock structure. Most of the actual voting power is in the Class B shares which are owned by a family trust which can't sell shares to anyone outside the family.
Are you serious? The barrier to entry for learning programming has never been lower than it is now.

I remember what it was like beginning programming in the 80's and trust me, it was much harder then.

Back then BASIC was the only language I could get for free. In order to learn C I had to (1) buy an upgraded version of my computer (CoCo 3) that had more memory to run an OS, (2) buy the OS-9 operating system (3) buy a C compiler for said OS (4) buy the K&R book. In total, I think that cost around $400, which explains why I didn't learn C until after I graduated (EE, not CS) and had a job to pay for that stuff.

Last year, to learn Javascript I opened my browser, got a free download of Notepad++, searched a Javascript tutorial and began programming. If I wanted to learn C from scratch today, it would be as simple as downloading gcc. Not to mention that expert help if I get stuck is all over the net.

Getting started in technology, at any level I can think of, is much easier today than at any time in the past.
Congrats on this, Hodge.
It's not an article, but a copy-paste of a press release: http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/newsreleases/articles/149986...
Cloud Computing is What?
Well first, I don't think you're an idiot. I haven't downvoted a single one of your comments because I think they are all constructive and thought-provoking...even if I don't agree with many of your points. =)

Regarding Aspirin, Penicillin, et al, many of those drugs are the low hanging fruit in pharmacology. We've already plundered many of the easy molecules. I would contest that many of the present-day pharmaceutical assumptions are predicated on the fact that the easy molecules have already been found.

The reason many drugs fail is not because clinical trials are too long - its because the drugs themselves prove ineffective, unsafe or both. Is a 2% increase in survival rate worth a 20% increase in mortality due to complications and side effects?

We are past the days that you can find compounds that mold poops out, and use it to cure 90% of humanity's ailments.

I certainly agree that clinical trial regulations are too long, with too much bureaucracy. They could stand to be shortened considerably. BUT, they also exist for a reason - safety is important.

Also consider the safety of the patient. Cancer patients are usually willing to try anything to avoid dieing of cancer. There needs to be some protection such that these people are not unduly taken advantage of.

There is a fine moral line between allowing people to take risky drugs to cure their disease and allowing companies to treat cancer patients as expendable hamsters.

*Side note: I am no fan of big pharma either. They are effectively marketing firms that sell pills, not research companies (anymore). But that is not really what we are discussing at present =)
"This model is inspired by the brain," is another red-flag to me.
Maybe this means they will be forced to sell Sony Music. That would mean the music labels would consolidate even further. But that's fine with me. It will be bad in the short term, but the more monopolistic they'll become the sooner artists will quit them, and the big labels will finally die.
Yep. Sony is a lot like Bose (and probably other examples) to me; they continue to make high quality items, but there is almost always a functionally equivalent product to be had for a better price. In a world where it's so easy to read reviews and price shop, they're getting crushed.
I'm not intimately involved with this, as it sounds like you are, but it feels to me like the NYT as a paragon of American journalism won't be easily replaced. It's true that the people who work there would find other jobs (at least most of them), but I don't think the value of the NYT is just the sum of its people.

How do you recreate the culture that comes from a history of unrivaled excellence and the role of being the "paper of record" for so many generations? That's not an easy mantle to pull out of thin air. How do you convince a younger organization, or even a smaller organization, to continue to devote resources to cover unprofitable stories like the continuing developments in Tunisia, for example.

Same with Apple, I would argue. Take all the people that work there and spread them out to competing companies and you don't necessarily get the same results.
This makes a lot of sense to me. Back in college, Facebook was a place for communication with friends. Wall posts back and forth had an intimate feel, and no one worried about privacy when it was a closed network.

Somewhere along the way to to a professional career however, I cleaned up my profile, switched most of my updates to public, and shifted towards news sharing and commentary. Twitter and Google+ serve the same purpose for me, and Path feels restrictive since I don't really want to mix family, high school friends, college friends, work friends. This looks like it definitely has the potential to fill that void for private group communication.
I agree and it's a shame that writers feel like they need to use a hook to attract readers. However the reason I decided to post the article is because I was hoping that the users of hacker news could provide more input concerning the concepts discussed. As I would like to get more involved in AI, this article seem to be presenting a new method to look at it (At least I think it's new).
Haha yes me too. Glad to have misread.
now I'M going to read it as sweatshop! :)
Just because Psychology and Philosophy majors bring in most of the school's money doesn't mean the Comp-Sci dept isn't fantastic.

According to Google, it's third in the country.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/rank.html
It's going to be harder and harder to operate businesses that rely on the ignorance of their customers to achieve their margin goals. The last time I was in BB, I was trying to pick up a Roku box. After upselling me by being out of stock on the heavily advertised cheaper model, the sales person tried to sell me a connector cable that cost more than the box itself. Nice!

There is no real news about BB's business model in this announcement. A more interesting question is what remaining verticals are relatively untouched by transparency and fact-based marketing?
What is the point of posting this here? This has already been fixed. It is a brand new feature of the binary. Big surprise, it isn't perfect.

Snobbery at its finest.

Let me guess, Ruby, Python, Go, Java, etc. doesn't have bugs? Right.
I wasn't saying it's not possible to have autocomplete for dynamic languages. I've used VJET, a pretty good Eclipse plugin for JS development.

I was saying that "Even something as Spartan as the Javascript REPL in Chrome" can't do "real" autocomplete.
The article did not make sense so I dug up some of the papers in question. Those do not make sense either.

It appears to be a poorly executed and overstated attempt at (re-)discovering high-order inductive computational models. These are equivalent to Turing models unless you happen to have a hypercomputer at your disposal.

The endless parade of low-quality claims like this is why no one takes AI research seriously, even the quality work.
> That being said, when I go into BB it saddens me to see how they up-sell ignorant people. It bothers me so much. I'll be inline behind someone and they'll offer an initial setup and cleaning of your new PC for $75+ and I'm thinking to myself I could do this in 20 minutes and I'd do it for a lot less. Installing memory is way more than it should be. Backing up and restoring, etc, all relatively simple things they charge so much for.

The same argument can be made for cars(oh boy, a car analogy!). It's much cheaper to change your own oil yet people still go to oil change shops and pay a ton of money for it.

The reasons are ignorance(not knowing how to do it yourself) and convenience.
I see it more like the spreadsheet model of the 70s.

I've written about a spreadsheet oriented approach on http://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration-...
How to Keep Your Organization Mediocre
There's a note in the article that the docking will proceed autonomously. I understood that SpaceX has people working on computer vision for autonomous docking, which I think is farther along than NASA is.
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Thank you for posting the article. I was having some difficulty finding more information.
Marx was wrong, and Marxism failed. A Chinese peasant who goes from earning 2 cents per day to earning 1 dollar per day has gained enormously, and they know it. That is why Foxconn sees so many applicants for their job openings.

Capitalism is the system that produces such gains, and it's pulled far more people out of poverty than Marxism ever did.
Any chance you guys will be doing a wordpress-like thing with this by open sourcing the software and charging for hosting?
Cost of keeping engineer/supplier secrecy [financial, intellectual, and morale cost], unable to use real people as beta testers, more difficult to involve outside research centers, encourages insular culture. "Oh, is that public now? I don't even know anymore."

In the case of something that has a developer culture around it (say, a chumby or something) you have a higher number of developers ready to go 'at the start' since they've had time to think about killer apps.

One could point at how early-stage multiplayer videogames are developed for a good counterexample.
The terminal, which used to be a full screen affair has been missing from the last few dev builds (haven't tried this one yet so I can't say if it is back yet). But being able to use it alongside a page I'm working on would be great. Maybe someone who has given it a try can chime in.

Also,
Does anyone know if this has any snapping/splitting/keyboard support (a la TMUX/Awesome WM/StumpWM)?
Acquisition price reflects the value to the acquirer; market cap reflects the value to the shareholders. Neither reflects value to society - something completely unrelated.
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Are there other companies that do this sort of thing?
Maybe this is the place to plug http://nacl.cr.yp.to/, by at least one author who has an excellent track record of shipping software with very few vulnerabilities. And who discovered the S-Box cache timing vulnerability mentioned upthread.

If you have the freedom to invent your own encrypted network protocol, instead of having to be backwards-compatible with SSL or SSH, you should seriously consider NaCl as an alternative.
Great idea. Mixing the past with the present, even if it's novelty some of these are classics. I'm not proud of myself, since I'm supposed to be being healthy, but I just ordered some.
All of her publications are available on her webpage, except this latest one, which I assume is the subject of the press release: http://binds.cs.umass.edu/publications.html
Apple testing a Prototype of iPhone With 1GB RAM and iPod touch “5.1”
Chrome OS and Android will merge at one point.

http://www.silicon.com/technology/software/2011/02/16/androi...
Looks great! I'd been bemoaning the lack of local sweet shops with family over the weekend and then clicked through to find you're only a few miles away! (I'm in North Leeds)

A couple of thoughts on the site:

- I'd rather see how many pink shrimps, or fried eggs I'm getting, rather than '20g'. Even if it's just approximate.

- A more 'see through' bag would be good. I realise I could click to see the contents, but I kept getting carried away and adding too much.

- The £2.50 delivery was initially off putting, and then I realised you do local for £1 and larger orders for free.

I'm sure you'll be getting my custom :)
Calculate pi to 700 decimal places.
I've been using my MBP with an external DVD drive for a while now and I've been happy with it. What makes you think Apple wouldn't just drop the internal drive and supply an external one for a few years?
Catering for the Extremes (1995) (mathematical education for able students)
This very well may be true, and I'm not arguing that the NYT is a benevolent force (although I might argue that it's more benevolent than most of its competitors, but that's not relevant here). Only that it's very important and influential. One way of arguing for my claim from this worldview would be that the NYT is obstructing systemic change and preserving an elite. Any one company whose demise would be "hugely helpful in getting our political system back on the track" must be important, right? Would Facebook (not social networks in general, mind you) closing hugely affect our political system?
and yet, the new york times effects every news reporting agency across the world. it's stories define the news cycle, make and brake candidates for president, redefine foreign policy and effect governments all over the entire world.

facebook wishes it did that. if the ny times disappeared, there would be a hole that could not be filled by the other news networks. the quality of news, as a whole around the globe, would suffer. There is no comparison.

we should remind ourselves to zoom out from the california coastline every once in a while.
According to various philosophies and religions, defining life in terms of "doing" is one of the fundamental errors, and it does have various negative implications if you think it through to its logical conclusion.

So, no, I don't think this is just "a personal hangup" of yours...
I worked at BB for a year back in the day. I can say that the blue shirt employees were only good for 2 things: attaching overpriced high-margin peripherals/cables to sales, and pushing the extended warranties. Those who were not good at either did not last long there.
More cores means specialized design (aka. nvidia one low power core and 4 high performance cores), and selective activation according to requirements. Software taking advantage of cores is still an issue tough, but for games and multimedia it's definitely not hard.
I wonder if that's due to the profit margins on the big-ticket items(like an HDTV) being so low that they have to make it up on the accessories.
Huh. I would try seeing what happens when you use Bayesian techniques, assigning a Bayesian update to each month, say, that a declared couple on your site remains in their relationship.
+1

I like it as well although the experience on my iPad could be better. It seems that your implementation relies on mouse move events and ignores my touch-move events...

But I like the idea. :-)

I might order something once my next shipment from Candy Japan arrived. :-)
Well - when you can turn all but one of the cores off (or down to extremely low power consumption), and/or when you have asymmetric cores where the one core that runs alone most of the time (when the device is sitting there, waiting for user input) is an extreme low power one, then yes, more cores mean stingy power use.
print is a sunset industry. news is not. the ny times is about news, hence the apps and online deals they have.

and just in case you think that's not enough, it's more of a revenue model than instagram had.
Has anybody used this in a production environment? What kind of lessons did you learn? We've been interfacing hadoop and mongodb manually with shell scripts, and we're considering this as a possible solution.
Consider that Facebook is probably how a lot of people find NY Times articles these days.
I second this. Think about all the hype and excitement he is building simply be releasing a processor instruction set. Pure marketing genius =D.
Just to name a couple similar companies off the top of my head:

http://parse.com

http://kinvey.com

http://cloudmine.me

http://proxomo.com
I already did. And it is great. I can take my phone with me when traveling, pop in a local SIM and actually save lots of moneys.
Surviving the corporate world as a programmer.
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Jerusalem hospital shows off vaccine that destroys cancer in 2 shots
it's simple with yubikeys
Open Source projects ranked by awesomeness
Isn't Parse already doing this?
Candy Japan: snacks from Japan to anywhere twice a month
The Only Reason My App Worked Was Due to a Slow Database
Putting the word "worth" in quotes kind of makes this article "worth" nothing, doesn't it?
Are you suggesting the console market is always competing head-to-head with the PC market?

I would argue a steam console that played console-oriented games using the steam platform is a great idea to compliment the pc-based service, and not competing head-to-head.
What TRAMP, which is good, gives you is quite different to this.
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I did, and Ruby was quick and easy. I wrote a bunch of programs and felt comfortable enough that I could understand stuff if I looked at it. But Rails seems like a whole other animal. And your right, this is the difference between languages and frameworks. But, without Rails I'm not sure how to get to a web app with Ruby. With PHP I was writing web apps before I really understood the language.

I don't mean to be saying that I'm doing it right, or that mine was a good way to learn programming. Just mean to be giving a data point about the relative approachability of PHP and RoR for actually making stuff as a beginner.
More like Steal This eBook. :)
Last time I was at UMass Amherst it was Bong Day or something, and people were out blithely blazing up on the lawn of the university square.

Must have been some years ago, then, because Extravaganja has been held in Amherst town for a long while now.
Ok, let me fix that: "The article tries to be a comprehensive list of problems with PHP and @ is an error suppression tool that is notorious for being misused throughout the community".

> I refactor all external PHP code before I place it inside of mine

> You don't like a feature of PHP? Don't use that feature. Simple as that.

I don't know anything about you, but judging from that attitude you haven't worked in many teams. Of course it's not as simple as that. If I had a penny for every time I had to fix someone not checking that strpos() === FALSE, well, I could fund my own startup. You may have the luxury of refactoring all over the place, but the reality out there is that horrible code like this is left to fester until it causes real business damage.
That jailbreaking works by taking advantage of OS exploits to gain root access, and, in fact, represents a glaringly obvious, popular, and easy to use vulnerabilit has nothing to do with Apple fixing it quickly?
In that case, it still doesn't make a difference whether Java is installed or not. Dylan's point is that the only difference between having Java installed by default and having Java installed on first use is launch time the first time you run a Java program.