skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another (less lyrical) way of phrasing it might be:

"P1: There exists X in the set of (ideas, notions, feelings, etc.) s.t. X cannot be expressed as a combination of statements.

Humans get around P1 by using more than mere statements to express themselves. The consequences of their doing so might be called 'art'."

The word "statement", as opposed to "phrase" or "sentence", was used to draw a distinction between mere statements about facts-of-the-matter and literature. The implication was that "statements" are things like "the sky is blue" or "war is bad", from which semantics can be derived through syntax and the grounding of referents. In other words, I'm implying, here, that "literature" is not a simple collection of statements.

But regardless of the status of literature, i.e., even if literature were a mere collection of statements, are you claiming that every feeling, notion, idea (etc.) that can be expressed† can, in fact, be expressed via text/words/phrases? In other words, are you claiming that (a) language can express everything felt, thought, experienced? Or, alternatively, are you claiming (b) that no non-linguistic medium of expression can express that which is inexpressible by language?

†I'd use "communicated", but I fear someone might take the position that "communicate" only has a technical information-theoretic definition.
nmap is smart enough to determine what service is being offered on a given port and what OS is running.

The above combined with the offending computer usually being a Mac and it's named something like "Bob Smith's Computer" is enough to common-sense narrow it down within a minute or two without having to use passive mode.

(Also with the repeat offender I kept his MAC handy.)

Then just initiate as many TCP connections as you can a la Python or whatever is handy.

(of course your mileage may vary with this approach such as when clients are isolated from communicating with each other.)
Compare and contrast the the top thread here with the one on reddit. Obviously two different perspectives.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/v8yrl/microsoft_...

The questions are:

- Is the keyboard any good?
- Is the stylus any good?
- Is the integration any good?
- Is the experience any good?

If Microsoft can get to yes for all 4 of those in a timely fashion, then they will at least have a business niche machine. Price will be less of a factor for machines that come out of the company budget.

Even if the app ecosystem doesn't take off immediately, Microsoft could strategically pick the right dozen apps to hold things down until then.
The power of HTML5 and javascript for creating applications is vastly over-hyped. I get that people are excited by the possibilities, but it still sort of sucks in terms of allowing you to actually take advantage of even a fraction of the power of the machine. (But we can have gradients and bouncy animations now! Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!)

Here's what you can't do in a web app yet: anything that requires serious CPU horsepower or memory efficiency. That's a lot of things! And the people that think that clever interpreters for javascript are the solution to this are nuts -- everything comes at a cost. Even the most clever JIT is probably going to double your memory usage, which sucks for cache coherency, and, well, for memory usage in general.

I see all these news items here that can be paraphrased as "check out this thing we did that was cutting edge on desktops in 1996! Now it's on the web!"

And on one hand: yeah, cool hack; but I mean, you're running the equivalent of what people would have thought of as a super computer 15 years ago, but web standards are essentially confining you to making toy apps.
OP here: I thought this "verification" process was a particularly scummy/duplicitous use of getting people to use one's app and deserving of a bit of sunlight.
This site's design is annoying. Does it really need to fade in that most commented/most viewed sidebar every time I scroll? Why the hell do I even care about that when I'm trying to read the article? Goddamn marketing monkeys, when will they get a real job?
I bought a bamboo stylus for my iPad and love it. I use it all the time.
You state that users from Fortune 500 companies that use massive amounts of iPads never use iTunes and that "iTunes doesn't even exist on the iPad"... and that is something you state as "facts" that would need to be refuted.
Is that how zero platform bias blindness revealed itself to you. Can we keep this sane instead ?
This blog post is from 2009 and has been discussed on HN already:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=440595
That sounds a little counter-intuitive. Do you have a reference?
For non-tech users it is a tool to create web pages, though. They will go to that more easily.

For the tech users they know it's not an IDE and not meant to be. Anyone claiming the opposite is a troll/likes to bash Mozilla (cause it's trendy in case you haven't noticed) and so on.

And in case you dare to argue my point: if you're talking about an IDE guess what? Well, you already did. You're a tech user.
Wasn't there a post about how 1 day this year will be 1 second longer? Can't remember it... leap second?
Computerized handwriting recognition will never be good enough

Yes, but making eInk good enough is just a matter of getting latency down low enough.
From a marketing perspective, the video on the site is terrible compared to Apple's iPad site. If you go here:

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

You see someone using an iPad, how big it is, how simple it is to use, what it's capable of doing, and you can immediately think the possibilities.

Microsoft's video shows some dark crumbling rocks and dust, and this strange tablet device with different colored keyboards. There is some shaking and wind blowing and hammering. It barely scratches the surface (ha ha) of what the device can do.

I can't impute any desirable value here except from what I can derive from other Windows devices, which is that the thing will probably require Norton AntiVirus and will blue screen on occasion.
The intel version at least will be able to run all apps- and the keyboard has a multitouch trackpad.

UIs will need to change, for sure. But as long as it's possible to port large portions of the codebase of existing Windows apps (see the demo of Lightroom they showed), there should be a lot of options.
What you're getting is the ability to deploy linux containers with very fine-grained control over resource allocation. Maybe you're using redis as a job queue, or to hold a handful of counters. Maybe you're running nginx to serve static assets with custom rewrite rules. You can run it dotCloud and pay peanuts - knowing that you're one "dotcloud scale" away from all the gigabytes of ram you can eat.
I've been looking at Chrome OS for this very reason. Apparently it includes a terminal app. I almost never have a program other than a terminal and a browser running, so it would work out perfectly.

That being said, since the Chrome OS devices don't have a full suite of command line tools, I'd need Internet access to attach to a VPS. Current cellular data pricing makes this a sketchy requirement for me.
All they need is a good product at a lower price. iOS struggles at the tablet form factor. Great for phones, too limited for tablets. No, too limited to be the "main machine". Much of that is apple's fault for locking it down too far.
Onenote is a really great compromise. The handwriting remains, and it converts to text in the background. It's not perfect, but it doesn't have to be.

As a TabletPC user and a lawyer, I've been waiting for this form factor for years. IMHO, the only reason the TabletPC didn't thrive is (i) short battery life, and (ii) weight/size. This machine is, to me, the great promise.
Hmm, interesting point. There's enough time before launch for that to be an option, at least for the display.
Simply having a full-sized keyboard gives this product the edge over Asus Transformer series.
Any word on pricing, availability and whether the x86 will have a locked down bootloader (as the ARM will probably have)?

BTW, even for the locked down bootloaders, I read somewhere Red Hat was going to use Microsoft-provided keys to sign their boot images. I wonder if that means they'll be able to have Fedora on an ARM device.
i've an AirOS router, wifi driver is buggy. Company didn't fix it after a year.

Installed OpenWRT, no bug. Posted on their (the company, ubiquity) forum, reply is "we don't support that and if you install it, you're on your own, we won't fix bugs!"

Oh the irony. Whoever wrote that probably didn't even realize what he just did.
<3 this. I've preaching this for the past year ever since I discovered the amazing combination of the 8yr-old Linksys WRT54GL [1][2] + Tomato SpeedMod firmware [3]. Amazing how that router still dominates the ratings of all routers, both in terms of numbers and average rating, and there are still more ratings trickling in almost daily.

Also, I don't know if SpeedMod has been merged back into mainline Tomato or not, but it's worked flawlessly on my WRT54GL for almost a year now.

I completely agree with Jeff's conclusion as well - commodity hardware + FOSS = potentially unbeatable. FOSS that has had a chance to literally evolve on the same platform for almost a decade, assuming it hasn't been abandoned, can really demonstrate the power of software evolution, for lack of better term.

1. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124...

2. http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Linksys-WRT54GL-Wireless-G-Broad...

3. http://touristinparadise.blogspot.com/2008/04/linksys-wrt54g...
Your code solves the external side effects problem but using the primitive also allows the time to be finalized eg:

private final long creationTime = System.currentTimeMillis();

so it still has advantages over making the field a Date object.
Marco.org actually isn't on Tumblr anymore--he uses Second Crack, a blogging engine he wrote himself. Read more here: http://www.marco.org/secondcrack
Jesus fucking christ, get some assertiveness training if you're having that much trouble with something so basic. Life is tough, if you don't learn to elbow your way in you'll always stand on the side-lines and will forever be relegated to being a spectator.
This could become an amazing travel device

Yes, it seems optimized for use on an airline tray table.
For me (chrome on osx) it just started with youtube.
If the enterprise market is happy with the functionality, they won't care about the price differential since it's not too far off a decent notebook. But the consumer market will not buy this if it's priced the same as an iPad. Look at the dismal sales of the Lumia phones.
It's not clear that they didn't bring their own water from somewhere else, however.
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Interesting! I checked out the website and the recent interview in their news. Seems a lot of people are actually put off by the dollar investment required for maximum fun.
You can back up your files and applications to the cloud without relegating all of your computation to sandboxed Javascript.
That was my reaction too. I'm more than sympathetic when women are made powerless and put down, taken advantage of, harrassed, assaulted, etc.

But this girl was far from powerless in this situation. That doesn't excuse the guy for being an unthinking sexist dick, but her blog post is a little too much of a pitty party.
The book is dead, long live the book
I made this just for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A78RVmhoGMw
Visual Studio opens in 2 to 3 seconds.
Games you have to install are better than browser games. As long as that's true, computer users will be comfortable with the idea of installing applications, because they did it all the time when they were kids.

Of course, the same thing is true of word processors, CAD applications, IDEs, photo editors, and ... basically everything but e-mail. Why do I want to use web apps again?
People will bitch and whine, but you've got to hand it to Microsoft the Surface tablet is pretty appealing and I say that without any bias or affiliation with Microsoft. The video was a bit cheesy and very motion graphics oriented which is completely different to their regular style of low-budget looking ameteur product videos.

I won't contribute to the Microsoft is trying to compete with the Apple iPad debate but I will say you'd have to be an idiot to not at least try and challenge Apple's dominance in the tablet market which Microsoft is doing and is probably one of the only company that has the potential to succeed in doing so.

If the price is right, I'll definitely buy one of these. Using my heavy laptop on the train just isn't viable any more and I can't code on an iPad because it doesn't have a keyboard.
I was pretty impressed. It's a huge indication that MS is taking the evolution of the computer very seriously and are making a very strong response.

For myself, I'm interested in the device and I may end up buying one, it looks like it could suit my needs very well. However, what's good for me may not be good for MS. I fear that Windows 8 may not be enough of a seamless, hassle-free experience for the average user as the iPad seems to be. If MS only gets the high-end power users in the tablet and PC market I think they have a very real risk of get squeezed out of the market between android, apple, and linux. This is a strong move, and they're still at the top of the market, but the market has been disrupted and they need several strong moves to keep on the top of the game.
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A few months ago I researched how to install open-source router firmware.

I ended up chosing dd-wrt. I had some security concerns (such a technical forum stores passwords in plain text!! Does this imply anything the security of the project?) which I voiced on their forum.

Their responses shocked me:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=681593

I'm probably not going to install dd-wrt.
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re ledgdersmb
- yep - the ledgersmb crew did some great work to the SimpleInvoices code to make it work for them

re interconnections

* depending on the target market

* the people who need integration already do some form of accounting already - and a 'full stack' accounting solution like http://xero.com is more appropriate for this market

* simpleinvoices market is people with no accounting system or desire for debit/credit stuff so we have make no attempts to make quickbooks, etc. integration work
The tablet looks nice, but the keyboard looks as if it will be one of the worst keyboards in the history of the universe. As someone who loves the idea of a convertible tablet, I really do hope that I'm wrong.
>Yep, Firefox 3.6.24. The most up to date one on the version of Linux that I'm using at work. I'm not sure why you/backbone need to rewrite the URL though - surely a vanilla page would work just as well?

It's not really that simple, it has to do with how Backbone falls back when the pushState functionality is missing and how it interacts with the structure of our site. We're currently looking into better ways to shim/workaround this somewhat lackluster default functionality.

>I understand compliance, allergies etc. are a tricky issue. There a more narrow disclaimer and/or warning (eg. this recipe contains nuts/gluten/...) would be definitely appropriate, not to mention useful if it were on the actual recipe page.

I just listen to the lawyers (and my CEO) on these matters. My job is to build product to help people.

>In that case the disclaimers completely overstep the mark, and undermine any claims of competence. Would you trust an engineer who disclaimed all liability should their bridge fall down? Or a doctor who wanted you to waive the right to all negligence suits?

Would you refuse to work with a doctor because he had malpractice insurance or an engineer because he worked through an LLC? It would be irresponsible for either of them to do without.

You seem to act as if our terms of use is somehow extraordinary when it is anything but.

I'm not here to debate hypothetical circumstances, just make things to help people.

Let me know if you want a beta invite via my email address so you can decide for yourself.
But that's a bug in Excel. "Non leap years will never contain a leap day" is true.
Serious horsepower is a latency issue these days.

Anything that takes a lot more time to process than the round trip time, might be worth running on the cloud. CAD operations, for instance are very optimisable this way by having a local and remote version of a function such as a 3DBoolean, where easy operations are run locally and more complex ones leverage the network and run quicker than they would natively on the host machine.
I've always preferred "courtesy" as describing the way I treat people who haven't yet earned substantive respect. Doesn't seem to be common usage, though.
Your Air is not a touch-enabled tablet?
> This is just begging the question, and it's clear that no matter how much evidence there is that there are some things that science can't explain these will just be written off by those who have 'faith' in science.

You don't have any examples of this in this post, though.

> there is absolutely nothing to suggest that consciousness is material in nature

Wrong. The existence of psychoactive drugs and the effectiveness of fMRI scans disproves this statement.

EDITED TO ADD: What evidence would make you change your mind about this statement in particular?
I think you've raised some fine points here. eoghan has made some great points in responding.

In building a platform we're aware that there is a large piece around education and ensuring our customers use the system effectively and respectfully. It's in our interest that they do this as it means they'll see happier customers / better conversions and continue to find value in Vero.

Further to that I think there will always be a need for true customer support and one-to-one customer service depending on the situation. We've got a few features to help with this, one example is being able to see what emails your users have actually received in order to better understand their needs when talking to them one-on-one. We'll be adding more over time!
Ooooh, nerd time!

If you are moving faster than the speed of light, you are perceiving whatever you are moving away from in reverse, because the light you are seeing was generated before when you left. (you are passing into light that is older than the light you started with). In terms of space-time, you would then be going backwards in time, if your point of reference for time was the Earth (and hint, given that we have all these nuanced time thingamajigs, it is)
I think this is what Bud was referring to:

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/04/92-of-the-fortune-500...
I just see how ad designers for that picture/video prepare their creatives on their macs and fill dirty for selling their souls to M$.

That also brought me another memory: Zune. So much hype and so poor results.

Microsoft should stick with desktop/business software and keep milking it.
MS is not capable of doing anything else profitably anymore.
Xbox 360 - 67.2 million sold since November 2005.
I have the Samsung reference tablet from Build. The stylus works very very well. Being able to lay my hand on the screen and write accurately is great.
Even the most clever JIT is probably going to double your memory usage, which sucks for cache coherency, and, well, for memory usage in general.

There's also NaCL.

https://developers.google.com/native-client/
All well and good. But the UI divide between Metro and Win 7 is just there.. I see no attempt to change any aspects of the traditional windows UI. Metro still seems to be a shell unable to hide the real UI underneath.
I work with a pretty decent chunk of the fortune 500, and I would disagree.

What I've seen is an aversion to the iPads, but there are certain places where they can't keep them out. If wireless is authenticated on AD or PSK, it's very difficult to stop them(though there are a growing number of options). If the executive has the power to override IT policy on approved devices, they have no choice.

For what it's worth, it's commonly referred to as the "Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)" movement or "the iPad problem".

Very few have truly accepted and encouraged iPad use since it's not an enterprise device. If you do have IT sponsorship for it, most companies are having to draw new lines around it rather than simply owning it like they historically did with Blackberries. Examples: you have to pay for your own, it has to be managed by MDM and have wipe privileges, you will have to access all applications through VDI, etc.

That said, enterprises aren't thrilled end users can take them home and sync them with their own iTunes and mess with what IT has built on the tablets. Plus Apple's grip on all aspects of the device don't lend to being controlled by MDM very well.

Enterprises are still looking for a replacement for Blackberry, and Microsoft is looking poised to make a shot. Apple doesn't seem interested in compromising their product to fit into the enterprise market.
I was pretty excited about this device as well. Until I downloaded and played with Windows 8. Windows 8's inconsistent and confusing UI blows. The Metro integration into Windows 8 looked like a last minute decision because most apps still have the Aero interface.

Microsoft has realized that the hardware to software integration is crucial to a great user experience. However, they spent so much time on the hardware of this tablet that I'm wondering if the Windows 8 software can match.

That said if this tablet is under $600, it will sell like hotcakes.
I am writing this from a Transformer Prime, which has totally replaced my laptop. But I have to augment the Android OS with Debian to make the machine useful to me (which I run in a chroot jail).

I agree that Windows in such a form factor could be quite compelling to lots of users.

I think the Asus Transformer has a better form factor though since it does not need a desk to support the screen/keyboard--you can use it on your lap like a laptop.
Blah blah blah. Everything in this universe is cyclic. First we had huge servers and dumb terminals because CPU time was expensive. Then we had powerful desktops and lean servers because connectivity was expensive.

Now we have powerful desktops and extremely powerful servers because we want to be more connected to each other and don't have the resources to replicate the full set of data on every desktop (i.e. space and processing power (performing operations on that set of data) limitations). Give it some more time and the whole internet will become a peer-to-peer network (Diaspora, who the fuck knows what else). Give it even more time and we'll have huge servers again for unforseen reasons (oh how I wish I was a prophet).

Or maybe we'll realise that we're repeating the same pattern and come up with a completely novel concept upon one of the iterations terminating. It's not really a cyclic universe, it's more like a spiral. I guess that this is where the singularity occurs.
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