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Android isn't bad at all

Who are you replying to? The comment you replied to makes the arguable point that vendor add-ons are a problem. That is a debatable point as each iteration of Android has essentially usurped functionality pioneered in those skins.

but you need to understand why it's so popular - it lets just about every phone maker produce incredibly cheap handsets

Gah! Where are all of these "incredibly cheap" handsets? ZTE? Huwei? The overwhelming bulk of Android handsets (edit: I realize this is worded poorly, but I mean relative to sales -- the top selling handsets are predominately the top tier devices) are priced similarly to the iPhone. And why are you making uninformed comments about Android on a board where the overwhelming majority of participants are very informed on the market?

And ignoring the fact that Samsung, HTC, and Motorola probably spend more on software developer, per handset, than a Windows Phone license, even if they went for Windows Phone licenses is that $5-$15 license fee going to really be the difference between "incredibly cheap" and not incredibly cheap?

This Android == the low end nonsense is garbage. It is hubris of the worst kind.

Terrible. Just terrible. I'm going full jerk now, threatening my glorious Avg:5 score, but save comments like that for Engadget stories.
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> First, the title should be changed. The source article is titled "Score One for the Robo-Tutors" or "Machine Learning: Score One for the Robo-Tutors", not "Students Learn as Well from Software as from Live Teachers".

Where does this idea come from that the title should be the same? Granted, the current title isn't quite perfect either -- "Study Reports Software Speeds Up Teaching" would be more accurate -- but it's at least more informative, and certainly no more editorial, than "Score One for the Robo-Tutors".
What are you talking about? The only aspect of Blogger that is robot restricted are the search pages (as they should be).

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/robots.txt
The picture suggests to me that the "bike" if you could call it that is actually more of a two-wheeled open car. The changes are remarkably minor. I suspect it could hold the tools just fine.
First of all, I should have clarifed that "I had a couple of issues" means I had to fix some broken computers where that had happened.

Secondly, you just said you wanted "A single person actually who had trouble with these rules". I presented you with such a person (indirectly).

While it isn't dangerous, it was annoying, because it took some time to figure out why various tools where no longer working correctly.

To be honest, you seem to be getting surprisingly angry that there at people who might want to use this shiny thing called github, on which many projects they use might reside, without fulling understanding every detail of git, ssh, etc.

I know some mathematicans who can write amazing algorithms, who I would want involved in projects I work on. However, they use windows and don't really care about the finer workings of unix. Personally, I think it's good if such people has the easiest access possible to making a quick push request, on their own machine in their comfort zone.
Hopefully with the speed he added Python, ruby / rails support is only weeks away too. :)
Where are you getting that? It doesn't match what I'm seeing. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/robots.txt
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Looks great - good luck
I still think this is the primary consideration in this acquisition. That being said, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. When I was at Google there was a lot of challenges to creating any sort of hardware (the most capable of the groups was the Enterprise group that made the appliance and they still had a hell of a time at it). It is a very different discipline than 'iterate rapidly and ship early.'

For Google's sake I hope they can successfully run this business, or recognize early enough that they can't. If it turns out that it isn't in their DNA to run a hardware biz then it is important to re-spin it out before it dies from mismanagement.
Mining is the problem - these people at Newmont/BHP/Barrick are trying to destroy the economy by digging gold out of the ground.
I love it, especially the grouping of files: route + models + templates, in 1 view is something I see a use for. Does anyone know of an editor which can do something similar?
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This is truly amazing, the detail put into something we All take for granted is truly mind boggling
I don't quite understand what the difference is between Light Table's modes and IDEs' plugins. Domain-specific components are exactly what make IDEs 'integrated'; without them they are generalised editors. But there is absolutely no difference, as far as I can tell, between Light Table's new SQL mode and an SQL IDE plugin.

I'm personally much more fond of the Unix 'tool approach', in which there are no task-specific modes or plugins, but tools can still be composed ad hoc, as in Plan 9's Acme.
PUSH looks perfect to me, but while I wouldn't say the PULL example is anti-affordance it is at best confusing. If the handles were rounded and rotated so the curve faced the user (http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00fviQTDboYJqL/Door-Pull-... OR http://www.bnl.com.au/catalogue/door_handles/6x4%20handles/D...) then I'd agree 100%.
Boy am I happy I pledged for Light Table. And the benchmark mode looks so freaking great. I'm getting excited just thinking about it. I don't think I'll be able to wait until the early beta. ARGHH!
Finally, after two years, issue 40, "Ability to share scripts" is resolved:

http://code.google.com/p/google-apps-script-issues/issues/de...

This is big news in the Google Apps Scripts realm because it enables shared libraries, eliminating headaches of duplicate code copied and pasted where needed.
Playing devil's advocate, if Moore's Law ends in, say, 2015 then Samsung and other chip makers may not even be in business in 2020.
I don't think processor speed is the real problem when trying to recreate human intelligence. We don't even know the algorithm, otherwise we could simulate it at below-realtime speeds. And since we also don't know the exact structure of the brain in sufficient detail, brute-force simulation is also infeasible.
Not only that but Google has been calling out Facebook on this since long before G+ was launched.
> The futurists are always spending someone else's imaginary money.

A $35 raspberry pi can outrun what used to be multi-million dollar mainframes. Are you sure that cost factors are relevant when the trend is so strongely toward lower costs? If prices drop, then lower utility uses become feasible.
It is not paranoia since there is a long history of GM/transgenic crops escaping and cross pollinating with wild-type.

Source:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=genetically...
Absolutely. I love cooking with fresh ingredients and hate fast food, and most restaurants for that matter. Although I may love cooking some foie gras a few times a year, what I cook is generally a lot healthier than what a person who doesn't particularly enjoy eating eats.
Ethics and legality don't always align. You will always find people who are willing to push the ethical line a bit further out to satisfy their greed. Then of course, it's not too much further to meander across that legal line as well.

What can government/regulators do? If they respond harshly and abruptly, they are criticized as being too heavy handed, and enemies of capitalism. If they respond slowly and deliberately, they are called slow and ineffective.
With all of the demos and information posted I still have trouble visualizing this working for real-world applications. A specific example: in the Python/Flask demo, functions were added to the current view as it was called. How would this work in a more complex case with calls to many functions, each which call many more functions (and so on), each belonging to different objects, etc.? The view would quickly become a huge list of functions and code blocks, most of which you probably don't need to see at any given time, and at this point it's no more useful than plain old user-curated tabs.

That's just one example. The same conceptual problems pop up for stuff like on-the-fly code execution (what if your code depends on user input or many SQL queries or files that may or may not exist at that point), benchmark mode (benchmarking a complex app is obviously a lot more complicated than just running two code blocks side by side), etc.

I know this is just a demo and it's all very early in the process, and I'm not saying that this should be a solved problem yet, but I just can't picture in my head a way that this could ever be a solved problem as long as LightTable remains somewhat similar to its current state.
The first time I heard about Light Table I was rather critical but this begins to look like something that could really replace vim for me. This is rather surprising given my general distaste of IDEs.
It looks like it would perform very poorly (a bit like a recumbent tricycle project I abandoned.) It has a really long wheelbase and a lot of weight up high. I bet the steering was less than ideal too.

I wonder if he would have been better off keeping the front axle/engine assembly intact and adding a single trailing wheel.
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Someone mentioned MarkPad/DownmarkerWPF in the thread but Code52 has a few other projects that use WPF that are good examples. Mishra Reader (https://mishrareader.codeplex.com/) and Espera (https://github.com/flagbug/Espera) are two other apps I also like.
So-called skins have a very poor reputation primarily because of their influence on slow update times (whether real or overblown). From a pure usability perspective, it is really only hardcore "nerds" who have such an issue with skins: While they have less and less importance as Android itself refines, during earlier generations they were a critical element in bringing the platform to the mainstream.
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Works great using Firefox on my Ubuntu laptop with only integrated graphics too. Although I had to click the NoScript placeholder to allow the WebGL to execute.
BTW, this would be an awesome event. Everyone camps in a desert with a 2CV (or collection of parts) take a week and have a race/parade back to some location.
Awesome & beautiful, love it!
> It is not possible to trust Wall Street, the whole thing is built on insider trading.

As the old saying goes: If you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
You are spot on. Unfortunately the 'Lean Startup' book basically overloaded a lot of words around Lean. I love the concept in the 'Lean Startup' book, I also love Lean methodology in manufacturing.

But it is confusing as hell to talk to people in both fields becuase a lot of words have different meanings now.
Thanks, somehow I forgot that China had put a human in orbit.
Just one point:

> I also like being told where semi-automated processes are placing critical files on my filesystem. I'm surprised that annoys you.

No, it really doesn't annoy me. I'm very happy for you to use git from the command line. I use git from the command line and don't intend to use this new GUI. It would be no good to me anyway, as I use linux.

However, I get the feeling that you are annoyed that other people might want to have a full automated process, and not care where the critical files are being placed.

As time goes by I feel one of the most important things is to reduce the amount of work it takes for people to get started with something, particular because I have wasted so much time on it. Did I waste the time I spent getting started with git? vim? python? Not at all.

Did I waste the time I spent getting started with emacs? ruby on rails? mercurial? FreeBSD? Arch Linux? screen? To be honest yes. Each of these things, in their own way, had an annoying and non-user friendly setup and start, and I've since stopped using them and don't believe the skills were transferable. While I enjoy learning things, sometimes I just want to get started. Also, sometimes I want to get many collegues, who are less computer literate but still experts in their own fields, started.
I assure you European banks are just as corrupt as American banks.
Update (2012-05-22): Google Apps Scripts now supports libraries:

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-...

Yay!
It'll be ironic when that domain owner is sued for trademark infringement.
I still find myself wondering if we aren't in an advertising bubble instead, with social media a rider and not a driver per se of the trend.

I'd go a step beyond that and say if there is any bubble, it is based on a large number of people targeting market share of a market with a fairly constant size, advertising spend.

Everytime you add a company trying to get advertising dollars, those dollars have to come from some other company and making advertising more efficient doesn't nessisarily mean Cheif Marketing Officers will increase marketing spend.
That's what the hubbub is about, if you don't get it you're not trying.
Sorry in advance for this but... Is there chance that this could be a hoax? It's not that it couldn't happen but I couldn't find the obituary or any other reference to this other than the same text reposted on another blog.

Also Buildstarted's account was just created to post this entry, which it is not helping me to sorting this out in my mind. I don't want to be skeptical but I take very serious these kind of news and it would be really sad that somebody would be joking with these matters.
I actually wish that were true. I don't have any real interest in this particular case, but I would actually find it fascinating if a billionaire used his corporate resources to settle a personal vendetta against another compnay (although it seems like a gross misuse of company resources).

But that being said, I think it's incredibly unlikely that that's what happened here. I think Oracle is just genuniely displeased that Android has completely subsumed Java on the mobile platform, and wants to find a way to attach themselves to Google's success.
Sure, anything can be built given enough time :) The difference is that those modes can be built in a couple of hours with arbitrary UI and virtually any interactions you can think of. It's hard for me to imagine being able to build any of the things I showed in say Eclipse in any reasonable amount of time.

The idea is that Light Table will be built from the ground up to support very dynamic environmental contexts in which you can place anything.
Anyone know what the cost of this launch was vs the Soyuz/Progress?
Here's the Reuters report, which has more detail:

http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USBRE84L06920120522
This somehow reminds me of Microsoft's "strategy", or whatever you want to call it (VisualStudio LightSwitch, SharePoint Designer)?
Please keep doing this, and explore what else besides keyboard shortcuts can be learned best with the "drill method". I plan on giving you real positive feedback by voting with my dollar as soon as I get some work done today, but I suspect that for some people (I am one of those people) that the "drill method" is an excellent way to learn new things. I am a person who learns by doing, and as such repetition is the key to me becoming an expert with a new language, framework, IDE, etc. Talk about "making wealth" a la PG, this makes a lot of wealth for me, and I suspect there are more like me.
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4 watts when idle

no power management? my standard voltage laptop with a spinning disk, screen and low backlighting idles at 6-7.

And can you really get away with no HS/F at 13 watts under load?
This is done very poorly here on HN. I got hellbanned on my first account. I have no idea why, and there was no warning of any kind. I have not changed my behaviour in any way as a result, I simply made a new account. I don't see how that helps the quality of discourse. Hell banning needs to be restricted to people who are obviously just being offensive for the sake of offensiveness. People who may be just trying to contribute but break some un-spoken rule should be warned that what they are doing isn't acceptable, otherwise they have no way to adjust their behaviour.
i.e. paper has higher resolution, and is more readable than a pair prototype glasses? I think so too. The title is needlessly incendiary.
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Won't happen.

Lawsuit domains are common. He will sell it to a lawfirm doing a class action which is perfectly ok to do.

FWIW - FACEBOOKCLASSACTION.com was registered almost 4 years ago:

Domain Name: FACEBOOKCLASSACTION.COM

Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.

Whois Server: whois.register.com

Referral URL: http://www.register.com

Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 17-jun-2011

Creation Date: 15-jul-2008

Expiration Date: 15-jul-2012
"You don't pay the fare they aren't going to argue with you"

Where does that happen?
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Yeah, they have a series of tests they have to complete over the next few days before NASA will give them the go ahead to dock.
"...ostensibly for fear of [...] alienating faculty with what is liable to be seen as an attempt to use technology as a smokescreen for draconian personnel cuts."

If the product educates students just as well, and at a better price point, why would the cuts be "draconian"?

I would deem it intelligent business and a better use of government resources.
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> I assumed that doing any sort of integration with Git would require C-level bridging.

Short of re-writing git in c#, it does require bridging. That's what unsafe code is for - calling out to dlls written in c.

> Didn't realise there was any sort of decent C# bindings for Git.

I kind of just assumed that there was. There usually is. The licences page lists "libgit2", so it's probably this one: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2sharp#readme (edit yep, LibGit2Sharp is mentioned later on in the licences)

The file LibGit2Sharp/Core/NativeMethods.cs seems to do a lot of the bindings.

> the WPF ones that I've seen were quite clunky

I said that WPF was flexible, I didn't say simple or easy :P Also, to get good design, you usually need the help of a designer. Most coders will produce "clunky" UIs. I would. Somehow, the Windows desktop space has been very slow to deal with this.
Being specific is not a feature, this is what you do when you have no other way to solve a problem. The ambitious challenge raised by Light Table was to generalize Bret Victor's ideas to general programming, if they are unable to do this, I'll stick to my IDE.
"they'd be torn to shreds"

Where are you taking buses that the passengers are so rage-filled?
My university was one of the pioneers in self directed learning.

It was during the black death when there was a shortage of lecturers and many students wanted to go away from the city to learn remotely in their own homes

So they came up with these portable reading tablets, a sort of p-book, which contained the lecturers words and could be read anywhere, even in bright sunlight. Eventually large stores of these were collected together in data repositories- a bit like tape libraries but with human robots.

- they also invented exams when they realised it was cheaper to examine a 100 students at once and outsource the marking than have the professor viva each student individually.
Yahoo says that Reuters has the information. Reuters says the information was delivered by Scott Devitt, Internet analyst for JP Morgan. Scott Sweet, senior managing partner at the research firm IPO Boutique, backed up the story. It was also confirmed by "an official with a hedge fund firm who received a call from Morgan Stanley about the revision."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/us-facebook-foreca...
If Android, then Nokia would be in the same boat as HTC, Samsung, etc. are today...paying Microsoft to use Android and facing the prospect of going head to head with Google's house brand.
I previously worked for a (small-time) handset manufacturer, and have done product testing for several others. I also have friends who work or have worked for some of the major names.

None of the companies have any clue whatsoever when it comes to UI design, software development, etc. The majority of the process is usually centered around putting some kind of brand-specific skinning on the OS as a "differentiator". It only gets worse when the carriers request their own specific branding on a handset. Usually the designs are put together by one or two designers and the emphasis is often on visual impact as opposed to usability. Flash tends to win over function, and often times things are redesigned for no good reason between product releases.

It's no surprise then that Apple is eating their lunch, at least they have a coordinated effort.
I'm angry at willful ignorance and attempts to justify it.

I truly, TRULY have no problem with making key generation push-button. I really don't. I have a very BIG problem with people who don't understand it pushing that button.

But you're right, I give up. All I can do is ensure that these people who demand of themselves nothing but the most disgusting of human characteristics -- willful ignorance -- do not come anywhere near my systems or projects.
SomethingAwful is a great example of how poorly the "require payment to deter trolls" method works. It completely warped the user base into a pseudo-facist circle jerk.
Says Reuters. Yahoo just reprints articles from the big news sources, such as Reuters and the AP. Word for word.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/us-facebook-foreca...
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I'm a bit confused about this. I distinctly remember the news about the earnings warning (due to difficulty of monetizing mobile users) coming out before the IPO. So there can be no complaint there.

The article suggests that the problem is that the banks underwriting the IPO cut their own estimates for Facebook's earnings based on this warning, and then didn't share it with the general public.

Surely this is nothing out of the ordinary- lots of banks/brokers/financial institutions produce research/notes on shares which are only distributed to major clients.
Finally, a cheap ATX-compatible ARM board. Give me PCIe and DIMM slots and I'll be salivating. Equip it with something like a dual-core Cortex chip and I'll be throwing wads of cash in all directions.
12 months is what he actually said in 1965.

The law is named after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore, who described the trend in his 1965 paper.[2][3][4] The paper noted that the number of components in integrated circuits had doubled every year from the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 until 1965 and predicted that the trend would continue "for at least ten years".[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores_law
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Because consumers do not have choice, the person ensuring that the service is free and universal does. It is by definition not a free market.

I didn't indicate that I think any should be free. I think education should be universally accessible.
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