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Have you looked at gwern's nootropic page? I've seen articles from it posted on HN on occasion. He seems to be doing a pretty solid job of testing the potential effects of various nootropics on himself.

His efforts to double-blind himself and using Dual N-Back for testing effectiveness indicate he takes this topic seriously, and is trying to be very scientific about it. (I say "trying to" because I'm absolutely clueless in this area; it looks to me like he's being pretty rigorous, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to make that claim confidently.)

http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics

In particular I liked reading about his experiments with Adderall (which I am using currently), modafinil, and especially the choline/racetam combinations.

Part of the problem may be the pitching of certain drugs as "smart drugs" when instead they are "effectiveness drugs". Adderall doesn't make me any smarter; it corrects a chemical imbalance in my brain, and in doing so makes me more effective.

(Well, honestly, it doesn't "correct" anything; it's like putting your thumb over the end of a garden hose and spraying water at a guy who's thirsty. Solves the problem, just not without a lot of mess. And with dopamine instead of water.)
http://iospress.metapress.com/content/e54588670x44419p/
But of course he woundn't get so many page hits with the less sensational "Qwerty is heavily left-handed."

It's because of tactics like this the web is going downhill as a medium of fair discourse.
In this case, Woz was one of the two founders of Apple. So it is quite relevant.
This title is greatly misleading. The article (nor what it's talking about) has nothing to do with a "C# on Javascript" runtime, and that would be ludicrous. Anders is a language designer, so it makes a lot of sense he would use his knowledge to help improve language support for the next big thing. C# has matured; Javascript can still use some work.
I don't know. No matter how often I hear/see this, I just can't plausibly believe it. I think there are a lot of things missing to make JS a plausible Javacript.

For this reason I kinda want Dart to succeed. Why not make the browser truly polyglot if we are trying replace OS with browsers?
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And that's why the link goes to an article discussing usage of Go instead of the golang homepage.
This is extrapolation like the ones with Glenn Beck at the blackboard.
Obviously they allow and people have patented things that are also copyrightable. I just don't think that they should allow patents for many of those things.

It feels like a painter suing another artist not for copying his painting but for using patented brush strokes to create it.
>'clinging to dynamically typed languages' and 'too scary' implies that the only people using such languages are incompetent beginners

No it doesn't, it implies they are accustomed to dynamically typed languages, and unfamiliar with modern statically typed languages.

>Same applies to your description of Go as nothing more than a bridge to Scala.

That's interesting given that I said no such thing.

>Are you so sure that everyone using languages other than Scala and Haskell is that much dumber than you are?

Who are you replying to? I said nothing of the sort.

>If Go will ever become one of those languages, it will take around the same amount of time.

What does that have to do with anything? Nobody is discussing whether or not go will become the corporate standard language.
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> Modafinil. Stay away from it. The stuff is wickedly addictive and many people have experienced significant long-term side effects, especially if they try to go off it.

And you are basing this on what? When I went looking for studies, even the ones on patient populations like cocaine addicts, didn't report addiction: http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil#tolerance
If you read the whole thing, this seems like some very clever satire.
Are you trying to say, that Apple was not aware about the thing called turn-by-turn navigation before Android?

> How fair it is for Apple complain about stealing ideas?

How about spending some time and finding out what the trial was really about?
Me too. I had to go to foreign child actors. Found a 4 with Kåre Hedebrant who played the kid, Oscar, in "Let the Right One In" (The original swedish version of Let Me In)

Edit: However, oracle of bacon says he's only a 3...
IMHO, HTML5 isn't the issue. It's just a convenient scapegoat to distract investors from the fact that they either lack technical prowess in mobile app development (fairly unlikely...) or simply have poor leadership, vision and direction to deal with the challenges of mobile apps. To succeed in mobile, Facebook needs their own ecosystem.

Apple, Google and Amazon are years ahead of Facebook at this point and they have a tremendous upper hand right now. I don't see how Facebook can continue their growth in the current post-PC world. They've basically peaked at this point with their facebook.com site, and for future growth my bet is that they'll start growing through acquisitions. Sounds like yahoo.com to me.
Have you checked out Rust (http://rust-lang.org)? They seem to be closer to what Go's original goals were, with generics, proper RAII, etc.
We can learn a lot about collaborative design from Aardman
"Do they think they need to do this kind of litigation to keep making products people will buy?"

Doesn't really follow.

"Are they trying to discredit Samsung as copycats?"

Absolutely.

"it's a positive business move" sort of thing?"

I think they would rather sign deals guaranteeing more product differentiation than get money directly from lawsuits so not really.

...

Whether they are right or not I think Apple feels genuinely aggrieved by Android in general and Samsung's close copying in particular. Again whether they are right or not I think they are serious when they say they don't want to be both R&D and Design for the whole industry.

The litigation has the following aims imho:

(1) dilute the brands of copycats

(2) scare copycats into differentiating their products more

(3) force utility sapping differentiation via judgements
Thank you. Far as I understood there is no easy way to handle those errors. I'll take your comment into consideration when I start to learn it.
Given the estimates of the iPhone growth rate later in the article, I'm 99% certain the hyperbolic statements about the demise of Apple are satire.
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I told them my country was Canada. The welcome email they sent me included a link with an invitation code.

In the dashboard it asks me to give a Tax ID and SIN and lets me charge either USD or CAD.
If you look at the iPhone 5 compared to other new smartphones i don't think anything comes close in terms of design.

However I'm not sure if this can be said for iOS...i think the UI needs to be overhauled soon.
That is completely besides the point to how much you (over)spend on your children's university education. For all we know khan academy will overtake everyone once some news article starts the snowball and people just live at mom & dads house and spend the equivalent of living expenses.

The principles espoused on MMM applies everywhere in the world, you should really read into the math and the technique.

Sovereign debt is not normal debt, you can't look at it in such personal terms. Normal people can't just print money just to start.
The manipulation present on that "projections" graph alone is nauseating.
You're comparing apples and oranges. My iPhone has fallen onto pavement a few times as well with only minor dings. sillysaurus's wife's phone fell off a countertop, which probably indicates it was in a kitchen, which usually has tile floors. Tile floors are far more likely to result in a smashed device than any other type of floor, including concrete, so it's not surprising that there's a difference here.
When I was in 8th grade I performed well enough on a national math competition to get a vague, recruity letter from the NSA. Of course, being a 14 year old math junkie I was over the moon about it.

Fast forward 10 years, Wired runs monthly articles about exactly how much the NSA spies on its own citizens. My enthusiasm? Curbed.
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My first thought when I saw it; I used to have a receiver with a remote of those dimensions. Of course now I have one with a touchscreen remote...
I definitely went the path of PG essays -> exploring lisps -> Clojure, and I suspect I'm not alone.
I'm pretty sure there's plenty of a well-marbled tissue where my abs used to be :)
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Definitely equivalent but not always satisfactory equivalents.
The author also completely ignores the possibility of a double-sided phone. They've already shown you can have glass on both sides. Now just put another screen under one.

;-)
Does anyone know of a sort of hacker news for 3 and up?

I think it would be good for my blood pressure to find a place where people don't equate "changing the world!" with "finding a new way to sell socks on the internet!"
Use the source, luke!
Well he proposed to Kathy Griffin? /shrug, looks like they've edited to remove the offending word.
Speculation: Google starting from Jelly Bean (or after Jelly Bean), is going to give early source code access to OEM partners. If Acer is going to work on Aliyun some of those early access code could land into Aliyun, which Google does not want?
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Available for iOS (paid) and Web browsers (free)
There's also groups of "stupid" people who believe the moon landing was a hoax or our education over here should help the Iraq. So what? Is the existence of uninformed people really breaking news?
Oddly ms already has/had some sort of 'compiler'. Memory is fuzzy on it, internal use and only used to build one thing, libs for messenger in browser I think.
I would say, it's not only icons count, but the screen aspect ratio also. Now it is more to a stripe than to a square. Having an unpleasant feelings about this, and the future of Apple.
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I would also like to see it work with Erdös -Bacon numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number
Source code is still there. Acer still could have used it. Assuming this is true, Google threatened Acer with removing access to the always closed source Google apps and Play Store. It is a hardball business move and not exactly consistent with the shiny happy feel good part of the open source philosophy, but doesn't really make Android less open.
that's not true of the 3GS though. iOS 5 runs like a champ on my 3GS. But i installed it only after i read reports that it didn't screw up the phone like iOS 4 did to the iPhone 3G.
I'll be waiting similarly for reports of keeping at least the same level of performance on older devices (which will be pretty cool if it happens - the iphone 3GS only has 256MB of RAM and a much slower processor and probably slower NAND)
When I started reading the article, I thought 21 icons meant they overflowed the first screen, and that the phone shipped with one icon on the second screen. That seemed very un-Apple-like and interesting. As soon as I realized that number includes the four in the dock, and that there are still three spaces left on the first homescreen, suddenly it seems like a non-event.
Looking at the iPhone 5, and when Apple started to go litigation crazy I think a couple factors have combined to force them to go this way.

1. The iPhone 5 is an incremental update to the iPhone 4 template. It doesn't mean it's a bad product, it actually looks like it's a very very nice device. But it isn't the leapfrog over the competition that people have come to expect and Apple has built its smartphone business around.

I think Apple tends to produce their iDevices at pretty much the absolute state of the art. I think previous smartphones and recent competitors did not because it let them yield better profits given an inefficient supply chain. Now the competition has caught up and is also operating at the state of the art.

Now they just produce a very very nice device with specs more or less in-line with the competition. The differentiation is harder to demonstrate.

At some point during the development cycle for the iPhone 5 they had to have compared it to the competition in the marketplace and come to the conclusion that it simply isn't going to cut it the way previous phones have. They'll still sell it as an upgrade to most current users, but the rate of new user growth is slowing down and the rate of defectors to the competition is increasing. They must have decided the 5 simply isn't going to do enough on its own as a product to change that.

2. In the past year the competition has started to outsell them. Despite having the iPhone available across the major carriers, and having arguably a nicer device at a similar price, it just seems to be an increasingly hard sell. The iPhone 5 may not be enough of a difference from the 4S (in line with consumer expectations) to sway consumers back over into Appleland. Long new product development pipelines have prevented them from pushing out a product that really stands out in a meaningful way in the market anymore.

So Apple is hedging, they've calculated that the new iPhone 5 won't swing the pendulum back in their favor, and the only choice is to try and frustrate the ability of the competion in bringing even newer products to market. Apple isn't hoping to make money via the awards, but in swinging the pendulum a few percent back in their favor. It could mean tens of billions on top of the award.
You're conflating Malthus with Darwin.
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Agreed - the real news here is that Anders Hejlsberg is doing something that not only isn't C#, but is JS-related. Surprising, and therefore immediately interesting.

Where's that headline changing mod, when you need him? ;)
Hadn't thought about the similarity to file sharing, but it makes sense. Sort of a chaotic neutral in contrast to mass retaliations. Early on with file sharing, I thought that a system might arise where people would voluntarily pay into legal defense or settlement funds for the people randomly targeted by enforcement agencies. A kind of insurance system against the possibility that you might be next. It didn't turn out that way, and in retrospect I think it would mostly have encouraged the RIAA etc to keep pursuing random sharers instead of trying to go after the center of bigger hubs such as megaupload.

Back to the point at hand, once again we have a division of culpability, but a little more deliberate in the case of modern filesharing services like megaupload. The systems are legally and technically engineered so that the responsibility for "unauthorized" actions rests as much as possible with the distributed mass of uploaders and downloaders, per the provisions of the DMCA (in jurisdictions where it applies). And within that mob the accountability for the sum total of infringement is spread thin. It's an unpalatable choice for the enforcers, I think, with the current tools available to them. Or maybe not, and they just go where the money is.

I'm one of those who thinks a good portion of the spectrum of copyright infringement is overblown and outdated. I'm much more concerned about the feedback loop of bad behavior on /b/. But I wouldn't at all want to see Christopher Poole pursued like Kim Dotcom, either.

That's the conundrum for me. I'd rather come up with ways to combat the feedback loop during destructive mob events. I think the level of feedback is a function of both moral-alignment and attention-alignment in the mob. I put forward another wordy hypothesis about it elsewhere in the comments here. Attention alignment is somewhat novel because in a physical mob people can't jump out of the situation as easily switching to a different browser tab.

I'm sure there are more dimensions to it, but these two seem like possible attack vectors if you want to dissolve an angry distributed mob. But you have to do it in an appropriate and ethical way. The shock-and-awe of the megaupload case is, I think, clearly based on fear, but also an attack against the moral cohesion of the file-sharing mob. They're sort of pushing the guy into the role of criminal, extremist, profiteer.. any of which might resonate with any of us and knock people out of moral alignment with each other. If you make enough peers associate file-sharing with criminality or profiteering, you can shrink the mob.
Does Google have a "Powered by Android" licensing scheme like what the Mozilla foundation has for Firefox's source?
I've found that law rather accurate for news headlines, but rather less so for blog posts or scientific papers.
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It's not about the quality per se but I think their problem right now is that users' choice is overwhelming them and the one-size-fits-all approach of the iPhone has diminishing returns after a point. The variety, choice of screen sizes and price ranges of the competition is only getting better by the day.

A new iPhone is released only once a year, so it better be very good with a lot of new technologies, features, new designs etc. for sales to last all through the next year. iPhone 4S sales started lagging in the 3Q itself this year, compared to the 4th quarter for the iPhone 4. This is because people start waiting for the next version or switch to the competition because they have better specced devices with more features. I think Samsung timed their Galaxy S3 launch perfectly to coincide with the iPhone 4S getting old enough to beat, and they beat it in monthly sales for the first time, which is a noteworthy thing in itself.

The whole situation is reminding me of the PC wars in the 80s, where Apple had a seemingly unassailable innovation lead, and then squandered it away by offering limited choice and higher prices, while Microsoft very smartly licensed DOS to Compaq and others like Dell and HP, and the rest is history. Apple's marketshare is now 17% vs. Android's 67% which is about 4 times more. No wonder Apple is going crazy with the patent war against Android. That's probably their only weapon against the equivalent of the hordes of the 'beige boxes'.
Maybe they will announce an AOT compiler for C#, since they had open positions for it some months ago.
i read an article by pg saying he thinks email is practically an impractical to-do list and it would be nice for someone to create a replacement ( for emails ) under the guise of a share-able todo list;

i think
Well, the page does say "However it has been suggested that about 5–15% of users fail to make a complete recovery from the psychosis in the long term."

And there are other statements suggesting that people that have suffered from acute psychosis are prone to relapses (if a chronic user has more problems than a dabbler, that at least suggests accumulated damage).
Any organization rewards its most productive members. If Apple's marginal dollar of profit starts coming from litigating rather than Innovating it's not just bad for consumers, it's bad for Apple (over a longer horizon).

Who do we want to have higher status, Jony Ive or Noreen Krall?

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/10/apples_chief_couns...
Having developed software on both Rails and Django, I prefer the latter. Reasoning: python's community seems more professional. They have well-defined language change and enhancement processes (the PEP), good docs online, almost every question imaginable has been answered already somewhere, and the performance ain't too bad.

Plus the code smell overall is just... lesser.

Then again, I came from a background of C and scheme, and somebody on c2 wrote that python appeals to people like me more.
IIRC they employ the guy who wrote Script# and they use it for some projects.
Get 8 hours of sleep a day. I bet that can be somewhat difficult for a typical HN reader.
My experience is similar. Sinatra is great for one-man-shows or really simple REST apis. For the rest, forget about it...

However, Rails is just too fng complex. It's true what they're saying, Rails-only programmers aren't necessarily Ruby programmers. For a good reason, even the simplest tasks are performed with Rails metaprogramming magic behind the scenes. Idiomatic Rails programming actually means not doing imperative programming which sucks. Programmers want to actually know and control what they are doing.

I once dealt with a legacy Rails app that had really complex Models. ("Fat models, thin controllers") Of course the original designers hadn't thought about every corner case, and of course not thought about what AR is actually able to deal with seriously. The app was just slow and not maintainable.

But to say something good about Rails: creating standard web pages with it is a peace of cake. All standard tasks are automatized.

Great when building but it sucks when debugging and maintaining.
Why is tile more likely to break a screen than concrete, out of curiosity? I'll admit I only ever dropped a watch onto tile and it did break the internals.
"Modern HTML5/JS apps depend on beautiful, consistent RESTful JSON APIs."

"Rails is great for JSON APIs."

"Many of these companies have client-heavy HTML5/JS applications which consume a JSON API coming out of Rails. Many of them have APIs that are routinely cited as archetypical RESTful JSON APIs."

Rails is great for JSON RPC over HTTP. It's not great for beautiful, consistent RESTful APIs. It still lacks basic support for hypermedia. Without hypermedia you aren't being RESTful and you aren't reaping the benefits of being RESTful. All you have is a weak convention for doing RPC with HTTP methods.

None of those companies are examples of REST either, they're all doing JSON RPC, and propping them up as RESTful does a disservice to REST and a disservice to Rails. How can Rails make progress towards hypermedia APIs if people won't even acknowledge that it's lacking?

I know people like Steve Klabnik are valiantly trying to get Rails to adopt hypermedia, but it isn't there yet, and there are significant technical and political barriers to overcome.

Node.js frameworks, being in their relative infancy, aren't burdened with the same barriers as Rails and have the opportunity to move faster than Rails could. No framework has dominated the Node.js community like Rails dominates the Ruby community; there's still the opportunity for a Node.js framework for building hypermedia APIs to take center stage.
you'll notice that a lot of the talks and sentiment are of a "rebellious" nature. At the very least, security people are strong advocates of privacy.

It sound to me like the sentiment is not so much rebellious, as it is very ethical.
No. Not for me, anyway.

Go seems okay. I tried to write a few small programs in it but spent a lot of time hunting around in the manual for how to do things. D (as in dlang.org) has a very similar feature set (static but not annoying typing, lightweight threads, value types, GC, native high-level arrays, yaddah yaddah) but is more familiar to us C/Java programmers. One feeling I get is that Go exposes a lot of quirks (e.g. the 'make' function and inter-thread messaging) in the syntax of the language, whereas D takes care of those cases with regular library functions. I was impressed that while writing my first D program I rarely committed any syntax errors, as I found it an intuitive extension of Java/C syntax. So if anything is to by my next go-to language, it's more likely to be D than Go. Or does that make it a d-to language? Ha ha ha heh hrm cough.