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Looks like I've lost all the command line tools. Trying to install them via Xcode 4.4 results in telling me I don't have the appropriate permissions to download them (I have an Apple Developer account but I'm not signed up to any programs).

This of course breaks homebrew installs (I found the issue when trying to run an application that uses image magick).

Anyone else having this issue?
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I run a free service (http://eve-central.com - I am not a designer ;)) which has an open API - no rate limits, no accounts, no signups, etc. Yes, technically this is bad, and has had interesting implications for support (some APIs date back to 2007 without any changes), but in this case is the right choice. It works by throwing enough power behind it, and relying on caches. The API is popular for its audience - approximately 50+ million calls per month, which easily outnumbers the (ad supported) web front end pageviews.

Due to licensing of content, it would be iffy to monetize directly (technically even the ads are in violation of that), so I don't even consider it.
The problem I have with Vary headers is that many reverse proxies will just not cache anything with a Vary header. The reason is that if they add the value of the header that "varies" to the key of the cache, now they have to cache under many different keys the same content.

Think of all the different "Accept" headers that clients can send you, each one of these will get an entry in your cache. And now add other headers that should also be in "Vary" like "Cookies", "Accept-Language", etc. and your cache will be virtually useless.
the live tiles on my windows 7 phone does this actually for several apps (shows up to date info), including my weather app.
> There isn't one algorithm in the human mind to decode all of our mental capabilities.

Careful here. There could be one algorithm, but we may not be able to express its parameters in the way we like to for simple models.

These statistical approaches are algorithms. It's the fact that we can't make sense of the parameters that seems to lead people to believe that they don't explain anything.

The fact that we can't categorize all life in an unambiguous way that makes sense to humans doesn't mean that the elegant and simple algorithm of evolution by natural selection is wrong.

Model vs. initial conditions. Knowledge vs. search.
Thankyou for such an informative post, I have ordered the book. The forum posting on designerstalk is pretty awesome.
I think it is the other way around. Chomsky is trying to find the underlying structure of intelligence (just like gravity underlies planetary motion), and is saying that others are simply trying to generate a model of intelligence (through statistical methods) with no understanding of why the intelligence behaves that way. Gravity is the why, planetary motion is the model produced by data (acquired by Brahe).
That link goes to Currently still. Here's More Interestingness: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ngddmdmkjnnefgggjn...
Not to mention that it is a distraction to Apple employees. They are going to want to follow the case and (being human) have personal feelings involved. Already Apple needed to have released a new phone but haven't. People are tired of waiting and buying Samsung instead.
Right? I spent a good chunk of time trying to figure out who was behind it so I could send them some money, but couldn't. They finally added a form so I hit them up to put a donate button on there. If it interests you at all, I try to put all of the color and general prototyping tools I find on my snip.it -- http://snip.it/collections/1064-design--development-web
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On the other side of that, I'm in the U.S. but I use a VPN in Sweden so I can only see it in Celsius.

It might be cool if you could click the text, "20 ºC," to switch between the two.
When Two Phones Are Better
>What you mention as the UI/UX experience is what Apple is mostly suing for.

Oh..Really? Then why are they suing the rest of the OEM's whose UI/UX is not even remotely similar?

Before you make a point, its good to educate yourself with the topic, atleast to an average extent. Just my 2 cents.

And btw, your name certainly looks interesting =)
It's simple; they're just wishing away the patent exhaustion doctrine.
From someone on the inside, I've heard that they (well, the "line workers", at least, as opposed to Management) have been going through hell since launching the integration of their systems with... Continental's, IIRC (so many mergers; I'm forgetting which involve who). Apparently, they've escalated from SNAFU to FUBAR.
The calculator adapts nicely to screen size. For example, if I rotate my smartphone into landscape mode, the calculator switches from a more basic view to one with more options.
They have it in Boston and many other cities for $80 a year. Stations set up all over the city.
You cant label something as a fact then proceed to say "I think". (ii) is poorly defended. You set out to outline Chomsky's long and engaging political life just so that you can say that it influenced his linguistic theory. Chomsky himself have said many times that there is no clear correlation between his linguistic work and political activism. This is not new. He has been asked this in a lot of talks.

with this said, there were attempts at bridging the creativity exhibited by linguistic behavior and that of political freedom, such as in his "Language and Freedom" book, but this happen way after he established his theory.
But there is a WHY associated with F= G* m1 * m2 / r^2 -- an explanation for why gravity exists, which although isn't yet unified with quantum mechanics, is that mass deforms space. The statistical formula is cool on its own right though too of course -- because of its elegance.

However, a concise formula without an explanation is less interesting, and an enormous statistical model without any elegance or insight (perhaps driven by big-data) is less interesting still, although it may have practical applications.

There may be general principles to intelligence, how it evolved through natural selection, and what in general will make for an intelligent robot. These are some of the most interesting unmade discoveries. But it isn't a sharp dichotomy between "Chomsky" and "Norvig," although that is one way to frame the question.

We should explore all reasonable approaches to AI and make sure one method is not dominating the others, but otherwise let everyone explore what they will. Who really knows what actually will lead to AI?
Decent enough article, some good points made, but what the heck does it have to do with Inception and dream states?
> the majority of these athletes seem to have to rely on sponsorships to make a living despite their rigorous, continued training.

The way I see it, an overwhelming majority of sports showcased at the Olympics are not watched or cared about at all outside of the Olympics. Who's going to be following the hurdles in three weeks time? Not enough people for a hurdler to make a living I suspect.
It strikes me that the theories are not mutually incompatible at all. They have very different purposes. Chomsky is trying to understand meaning and intelligence at a deep level. Norvig is trying to build models that help people right now (and incidently, help his company to make more money). Any new insights from either path will help refine the other.

So it sounds like what you decided was that you wanted to explore one path and not the other. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a very different statement.
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I don't think they are comparable. The one linked by toni[1] takes PHP code and compiles it for running in Javascript; the one linked by kaolinite[2] is a translation of some PHP methods into pure Javascript.

[1] http://phpjs.hertzen.com/
[2] http://phpjs.org/
> Isn't this basically an argument over John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment?

No, this debate is completely and utterly different from Searle's Chinese Room argument! Searle's argument is a philosophical one for the assertion that a computer could never be a person. He concludes that this is true even if we were to eventually believe that we completely understand intelligence in the manner than Chomsky is lobbying for, and then fully implement that understanding in a computer.

For Searle, no amount of understanding of intelligence in any form will ever let us make an intelligent computer. For Searle, intelligent beings must be made out of flesh and bone. Or at least not out of anything digital and computer-like.
This. Yes, it's heavy-handed, but I would not be surprised to learn that the underlying goal is "keep the official wifi network from falling over from the 2.4ghz duty cycle hitting 100% across all channels due to N000 personal hotspots."
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Apple refused to cross-licence because it was suing with design and function patents, not FRAND patents (of which Apple's were already fairly licensed), so it wasn't under the same obligations.

It's the same logic underpinning their legal battles with Samsung and Motorola, where Apple is using design and function patents (some of them absurd) while the other two only have FRAND patents.

Mind you the whole thing is a mess, I've said before that I hope this all leads to some very necessary reform of the system. For one, the whole idea of FRAND patents has clearly come apart.
It is an interesting debate, though I think it's being shone in the wrong light.

According to the article, it almost sounds like Chomsky believes a statistical approach to AI is a disservice to the field. The point he's missing is that research in statistical based AI is just that - statistics research.

Chomsky and Norvig deal in two different fields, which happen to have similar applications. Norvig does research in statistical and machine based learning. Success in this field comes from a new model that can make more accurate predictions, or a proof that it is impossible to make valid predictions about X with only Y as input. Applications of this field include technologies which rival AI systems as envisioned by Chomsky, but the essential point is that this field focuses on statistics research, not AI research.

Chomsky is wrong in dismissing this as a disservice. I do agree with his main point, that AI research and knowledge is not necessarily furthered by statistics research, but that is simply because they are different beasts entirely.

Maybe one day, when the biology has caught up with us and we have a solid understanding of the brain, will we be able to create a highly intelligent computer. Until then, statistics research is most likely to yield fruitful results.
Thanks Colin, sequence - that was the term I needed, and my intention.
> I detest politically motivated scientific theories

Then you detest every scientific theory ever devised.
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Does anyone care that iGoogle is shutting down?
Too bad humans aren't rational.
You are taking it too emotional, you won't have success that way no matter if they accept you or not.
I agree that products shouldn't be banned based on small infringements, but it sounds like Apple doesn't want to license things like slide-to-unlock for any amount of money.
I usually buy refurbished to save money, and I'm always surprised how negatively people react when they find that out. I'm under the impression manufacturers very thoroughly test refurbished products (after all, they know part of it was broken!); it makes me wonder if on average refurbished might be in even better condition than new.
I am a entrepreneur/researcher working to create artificial intelligence. My approach follows Turing's suggestion that one should create a child mind and proceed to educate it. I employ Construction Grammar in my English dialog system - not a statistical parser/generator. Operating on a smartphone, I use available statistical speech recognition engines to transform speech to text, but from that point onwards the server-side processing in Construction Grammar is symbolic, thus engineered from first principles. Likewise, for English generation, my discourse planner emits structured RDF that the bi-directional Construction Grammar generator transforms into a text utterance. That symbolic text is then input to an available statistical text-to-speech engine available on the smartphone, to speak to the user.

As an example of the power of symbolic approaches, my parser has a complete symbolic analysis of English auxillary verb constructions, producing unique, meaning-rich, RDF-compatible semantics for:

I am learning about computers.

We are learning about computers.

We will be learning about computers.

I could be learning about computers.

I have been learning about computers.

I better learn about computers.

I had better learn about computers.

I dare learn about computers.

I did learn about computers.

I do learn about computers.

He does learn about computers.

I had learned about computers.

He has learned about computers.

I have learned about computers.

He is learning about computers.

I need learning about computers.

I ought to learn about computers.

I ought to be learning about computers.

I used to learn about computers.

I was learning about computers.

We were learning about computers.

Because of the so-far limited success of my work, I am inclined to agree with Chomsky's AI argument despite using a modern grammar opposed to his linguistic principles.

An artificial intelligence will use both statistical techniques and symbolic, e.g. procedural techniques, I think. With the most useful intelligent behavior being symbolic. E.g. an AI designing, writing and testing software.
Anyone here actually use it?
OK, I'm officially confused. I tried to submit this a few hours ago and found that it had already been submitted, and my submission acted as an upvote. Now I see you've submitted it, and the previous item is nowhere to be found.

I don't understand.
Well, someone's gotta' mention SICP, the book that has probably turned more people on to Lisp than any other:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html
"I'm worth it."
Pyrrhic victories at best. So far none of the injuctions have had significant impact on revenue for Samsung or Google. Android is already ahead in units (though not app or media revenue, Apple maintains huge leads there) and gaining market share. And Apple is burning goodwill at a staggering clip: just look at the comment tone in these threads vs. the same ones a year ago -- people who used to defend Apple's behavior are getting quieter and quieter...
I'm a huge fan of Apple's refurb store. But it can be a cat-and-mouse game because as stuff comes in and out of stock, the website will change minute by minute.

There is a site called refurb-tracker.com that puts out an RSS feed based on changes to the store inventory. I used some tool to turn that into a twitter feed @MacRefurb.

It's been running so long I don't even remember how to log in and change it. And I forget what tool I used to make the RSS->twitter conversion. But I still have 185 followers, 4 years later...
Where did everyone get the idea that it was "disposable"? All I got from the article/video was that it was made of recycled material.

I would like to know how durable this bike is, and how much energy is saved by using recycled cardboard versus a metal sourced by mining.
For weather at least there is no need for this on android. Just use the google news & weather widget.. or a widget for any task you want updating icons for that matter.
CISCO got the contract for most of the network infrastructure based on the kit being donated to education afterwards.

Apparently it will be donated to $$$$ CISCO certification courses run at CISCO training centers. And of course training == education

So they get paid £££ to install the kit, then they get a tax right-off to donate it to themselves and then they get to charge people £££ to use it to become CISCO certified engineers!
Given all the compile to JavaScript projects and even video decoders running in JS, I wonder why there is still no chip capable of executing JS on pure Silicon. Since the standard is a very slow moving target, that should speed up all Web applications a lot making it a considerable business case.
Well, as long as they basically keep printing money they'll continue this course.

WE don't like the skeuomorphic stuff (no need for quotes, it's a real word) but the general public does. It demos well and makes software more approachable.

It drives me nuts, but I'll bet it's here to stay. At least until the first video game generations are retirees.
Why is it irrational to hate Google?
OP here -- wait, what ?!
The last time (last rc) I solved it by downloading only the command line tools from dev center.
I noticed these guys seem to scrape Craigslist for data. I wonder what Craigslist thinks of that. Will they be the next helpful start-up killed by Craig?
Here's comparison table from a competing library LZ4 http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
This is a bizarre claim. My motivations for doing science are to understand, to create, and to stroke my own ego.
Safety (as an emergency brake)
The horror! The horror!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Riding a Mountain Lion
ALL Apples success is derived from the UI/UX side...

And isn't TouchWiz eerily similar to iOS's UI/UX?
Intellectually understanding things is useful. There's no anti-intellectualism here.

It's become increasingly clear that Chomsky's approach to language is not going to generalize to AI successes or explanations of many domains of human performance, as was promised. That approach has not yielded fruitfully anywhere except the narrow realm of syntax (in particular typologies of syntax). While machine learning has kicked butt left and right.

There is no reason people can't go on studying syntax at the same time machine learning expands. But it would be dishonest to ignore the extreme and exclusive claims laid down by Chomsky's school at the outset of the cognitive revolution. These claims were given a very liberal benefit of the doubt for decades. A lot of good work has been done in syntax. But now those claims about AI and psychology-in-general are clearly threadbare, since they have not yielded the promised fruits either in AI or in explaining human functions. They have not even yielded plausible IOUs. Remember, this was supposed to explain pretty much everything. Not even language acquisition has been explained.

That is empirical inadequacy. Who cares if Chomsky thinks it's beautiful?

And it's equally clear that learning of various kinds has to occur and also gives us the more parsimonious and elegant solutions to problems (no-solution and no-explanation is not elegant even if it is simpler).

Machine learning has a great deal of conceptual beauty - if you study it rather than pooh-poohing it because of some facile abductive argument to UG.

Computing power isn't a problem. The scale of the human brain is enormous and we are still nowhere near reaching it with our computational resources.
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> Apparently having a high IQ is a better predictor of being a good business guy than a good hacker.

By a very tiny margin. I'd have to dig to accurately say whether it's statistically significant, but I assume it's not.

(Assuming you refer to the high/medium level complex technical jobs with .56 and .51 versus the manager's .58)
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They took a simple feature and hacked it to its limits, I'd say that's pretty cool.
They mostly work as it is, things like imagemagick you need to recompile and reinstall dependent gems

But first update Xcode and the command line tools
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Jim has better sources than Gruber, he just won't reveal as much which kinda sucks.
Doesn't work for me, it must think I am in San Francisco. I'm in Phoenix and the weather here is 92f not 61f.
3GB, my word, son...crucial.com is your friend!
I would highly recommend using http://code.google.com/p/django-evolution/ over South
NYTimes.com drops apps for Blackberry and Palm Pre
On twitter, he actually points to the Arstechnica subscription (5$) which will give you the review in pdf/epub/mobi

At least he seems to be fine either way.
Verizon's plan: kill DSL, kill unionized labor, raise prices.
>> the general public does

Source? We don't have much data to measure the fondness of end users for skeuomorphic interfaces of the Mac OS sort.

You mentionned some of the reasons to make UIs like that, and of course Apple is selling trunks of devices, but how do we know that users specifically like Calendars, Reminders, the Fullscreen mode of Photobooth, etc. ?
To me this fall in the reptilian reflexes box. Accelerating signal related to increasing proximity => act.
I find it slightly amusing that nginx+unicorn is called a "traditional" setup ...

When I see "traditional" I start wondering if it means fcgi or Mongrel.

There have been quite a few traditions.
I often open a new tab to read an article off the homepage. After I've read all the articles, then I'll click on "More", and receive a "Unknown or expired link." message.

It would be helpful if instead the More link simply gave me the next 31-60 ranked articles, even if they were duplicative with what I'd seen before.
Apple didn't even come close to laying the pavement for the "app" concept. I was installing apps on my palm m100 back junior high school. They were paid, there was an app store, it just wasn't connected to the device because the device didn't have a network stack.
We'll eventually see chips optimized for JS execution. It just takes a while. It took a long time for H.264 (video) decoding/encoding to be built in to the hardware.

JS is also a general purpose language, but there's still plenty of potential for hardware optimization.
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Can be downloaded from: http://blog-easy.jjude.com/. Why I developed: www.jjude.com/2012/07/playing-with-objective-c-cocoa/
Startup Success Theory: Choose Short Men
Android AlertDialog
.mail app
If you call 1and1 they can take it down very quickly:

tech-c-firstname: Hostmaster
tech-c-lastname: ONEANDONE
tech-c-organization: 1&1 Internet Ltd.
tech-c-street1: 10-14 Bath Road
tech-c-street2: Aquasulis House
tech-c-pcode: SL1 3SA
tech-c-state: BRK
tech-c-city: Slough
tech-c-ccode: GB
tech-c-phone: +44.8716412121
tech-c-fax: +49.72191374215
tech-c-email: hostmaster at 1and1.co.uk
I get funding data from Crunchbase; I hope by being transparent with Seed-DB it helps improve data quality there, too. (Though I also want founders to eventually be able to add it in themselves on Seed-DB.)

If there's a missing exit, please let me know details. jed.christiansen@seed-db.com
Software updates would be it. What's not to like about getting back to work (or uh web browsing) that much faster? Myself, I'd be that much more likely to install security updates sooner rather than procrastinating.
these days, we use set of pre-built commercial scripts to harden servers.

especially once you get into PCI compliance, there is no way to do all this yourself.

things to perform generally are:
- install grsecurity kernel
- clamav
- aide / rkhunter (IPS)
- proper file perm/ownersips
- JIT (just-in-time patching)
- real-time malware
- anti ddos via sysctl
- disabling un-needed services

checkout atomicorp.com's ASL, it takes care of a lot of these things,

also aqueduct is also a good starting point, which is a set of bash/puppet scripts to perform these mundane tasks.
Ditto.

Another good example is Cappuccino/Objective-J. One of my favorite things about the whole Cappuccino/Objective-J framework was that 280 North built 280 Slides with it very early on. Going through the paces of developing an actual app with your framework is an essential process to creating something really useful.

The fact they've already decided they're not going to actually build a sellable product on top of it anytime soon is worrying, to say the least.