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My first program was in QBasic, but I actually learned how to write code in turbo pascal. :)

...and delphi. and c#. and java. and perl. and scala. But well, you know what I mean.

(and I learned how not to write code in C++ and PHP.)
What I can't figure is why 2D transitions needs to be hardware accelerated to be smooth in mobile Safari.

Neither why their mighty Nitro JavaScript Engine can't handle smoothly a setTimeOut based fade in/Out.

Google Chrome on 8 years old hardware (less powerful than actual iPhone hardware) renders the moving web better.

Safari is a poor mobile browser.
The biggest problem with Apple Maps? Our overreaction
apart fron the editoe problems, It was used to write a control program for a cnc mill which talked to an Isa card that controlled stepper motors. The program took a basic description of the part to be milled and converted it into tool movement steps. this was all 2d but the parts were quite complicated as were the calculations. Tool movements is what killed it. We started with a list of lists structure but that took up too much ram so we moved to a skip list implementation. That also took too much ram so it was back to a singly linked list and an external preprocessor. So it turned from an elegant tool into a few chunks of ugly which had to be chained. That really doesn't work well on DOS. This was before EMS etc so 640k of segmented vomit it was. It was moved to a dedicated 68k SBC eventually with the ui in turbo pascal (over a serial line) which worked well and we could throw 4mb at it and write the control program in c using a cross compiler on unix (plus no segments=bliss).

I love 32+ bits these days :)
Using an out of band channel, such as NFC, is defined in the Bluetooth secure simple pairing specification.
However, be careful and only do a chargeback when you are sure you never want to deal with that merchant again. Many will blacklist you if you do a chargeback, because of that high chargeback fee (which they have to pay even if they have sufficient documentation to successfully fight the chargeback).

I'm kind of surprised no one has started a service for merchants to warn them of chargeback prone customers (there are people who go straight for the chargeback without even trying for a refund first).
Indeed, that's true.

One additional point: Customers that commit to annual billing generally tend to churn less often overall -- because they've made a more "considered" purchase and committed more time to the purchasing decision.
It looks interesting, but the screencast needs to be a bit more concise, and aimed at people who would actually use this. I made it through the first 5 minutes and gave up, because I wanted to see what the library did. I didn't want a tutorial seemingly aimed at absolute beginners, who in my mind wouldn't give two hoots about improved debugging at that stage.

Had there been a shorter overview of the cool things you could do, I might have got a better impression.
What is "IDE code"?
There's tons of places in NYC, but here's a few places I've been known to frequent

- Cafe Amrita, near 110th St and Central Park West. Generally has a pleasant buzz. I've noticed other techie types there, but not tons. They kick out the laptop crowd out on weekends, and at night they become more of a bar.

- Tea Spot, near MacDougal and West 3rd in the Village. A smallish place that has always been pretty quiet when I've worked there. NYU students are most of their customers, I reckon.

- Cosi near 23rd st and 6th Ave, in Chelsea. This is a chain, but this particular Cosi is well-lit, has good internet service, is large, and never seems to be very busy.

- As others have noted, New York Public Libraries are often great places to work. I sometimes sneak off from my office to use the Hudson Park Library, which is near Leroy and 7th ave in the Village. Its a tiny little branch library, but its quiet and the internet service is fast. There's a lot of little branches like that, look on the web site for locations.
In summary a strain of salmonella took advantage of the spread of HIV and the weakened hosts and with that followed the same growth patterns as HIV did from its initial tracking and spread.
NFC is a subset of RFID.
I worked in finance (as a trader). And I left. But I loved it. Most people didn't, but I did; I found the history and the mission captivating and I was not shy about showing that passion.

I left because they fired my charismatic manager and the firm's culture grew neurotic as the scandals and random terminations piled on. I saw the over-worked, sociopathic, misanthropic archetypes. But I saw the same personalities in Silicon Valley.

The capital markets are a critical piece of our modern world. We're still figuring out how these fascinatingly complicated machines work - they act differently in different cultures, in different sentiments, and under different geopolitical constraints. When they work...it's magical. The philosophical dimension of a weighted democracy doing better what kings and emperors through antiquity failed to do is a powerfully individualist statement. And there is so much more that has to be done. There are literally not enough hours in a lifetime of lifetimes to see all the implications and interactions and human potential waiting to be unlocked.

Do I sound like a crackhead? Probably. But I love the idea of taking what is not understood, considered "random" or "exogenous", and building something to bring it from the unknown to the known. I understand the historical struggle these resource allocation machines (how I think of them) have faced and why we need people to carry the flag, even if it means being hated and misunderstood by the public.

A lot of people go into finance for the wrong reasons. I feel sorry for them. A lot of them are held there by a fear, not of losing the cash flow, but of losing the prestige or business card. These people need help, not derision. But concluding the entire industry is corrupt is like looking at JustFabulous and a handful of overworked founders and concluding Silicon Valley a blight on humanity.

P.S. I don't expect a huge salary just for working at a bank. But if I'm coming up with original ideas, I will do the calculation of what I could earn if I went out on my own, and if the bank figure doesn't line up with that figure (it didn't) it makes sense to arbitrage. This is classic entrepreneurship and there is nothing more sinister about JPMorgan having to compete with a star player launching their own fund than there is Google having to pay out to top performers who may otherwise do well launching a start-up.
Nice one! Will check it out! :-)
This is creative, I like it. It made me think of how many problems that sales people have that go unsolved, this sounds like one good way to address them directly.
The video is from Belgium, where RFID cards are the norm.
Yeah, I kind of glossed over the vacuum aspect of the attitude indicator because I don't understand all its intricacies. The video pretty much confirms my understanding of how the gyro is kept spinning. The original author's description of air puffs sounds a lot like how the filtered air is ducted in to the housing and vented off in quadrants. I suspect that has more to do with maintaining the gyroscopes precession (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession) than leveling the gyro in mid-flight.

I've heard that during prolonged banks or pitches, the AI can eventually find a different "level" than the true horizon. I'm trying to find more info into that phenomenon though.

In the mean time, I've found this article that seems to be talking about the same accuracy and drift issues as the original post, but explains the issues with more clarity and also includes sensor graphs and code samples: http://myahrs.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/turning-errors-contin...
Principia Cybernetica:Placing the Web at the Center of Man’s Quest for Knowledge
An old article, echoing the early days of the Web, which I found interesting. From the article:

“Every time has its own approach to these eternal philosophical questions, deriving from its knowledge and technology. We hold that in our time, the age of information, it is systems science and cybernetics, as the general sciences of organization and communication, that can provide the basis for contemporary philosophy.”

"Systems of agents interacting with each other display complex dynamics, and sometimes undergo transitions in which the whole system displays so much coherence and unity that it begins to control the parts. […] The Principia Cybernetica crew believe that the Net is about to trigger another metasystem transition, in which computer and communication technologies worldwide come together to form a brainlike whole."

"… it’s worth reflecting on the Principia Cybernetica dream, the view of the Net as a means for drawing our minds and souls together, to move slowly but surely toward the unattainable goal of truth. One hopes that, as the Net moves into the next phase of development, this kind of seriousness and intellectual quality will play more of a role once again, as they did in the early days before the wonderful and chaotic explosion of graphics, sound and e-commerce that the last decade has delivered us."

http://www.goertzel.org/benzine/PrincipiaCybernetica.htm
Given reddit's geeky audience, i wonder if they have analyzed their results to see statistically significant effect.
You can look at http://www.openwifinyc.com/ for lots of places, with indications of speed and outlet availability.
He never said the latter isn't an entrepreneur.
12mb :) It cost more but the time to market was much lower and it was multi user so I think the trade off on cost was quite good.
Most (all?) NFC implementations require the screen to be on to perform NFC actions. Of course you could just slip your hand into someone's pocket and turn on the screen...
Should I try to get severance from my current employer before I leave?
I'm in the seattle area working for a large tech company A (<i>woo mysterious</i>). I have an offer from another large tech company B in the Bay Area. Would it be wise to ask A for severance instead of just giving my 2 weeks notice? Is it a "bridge burning" move, or just a strategic play that's acceptable? I accept I'll never be able to come back to A, and I'm totally ok with that. Will it blackball me with B in anyway? I.e. HR talking to each other etc? Do people usually do this? I don't really need the money, but it's more of a statement to my current boss. May not be worth it, but I wanted to ask for people's experiences.
I'd be very interested in a writeup or a link to your repository
Commercial pilot with small experience with gliders here. I can not be sure, as I lack the scientific background, but I think this study is missing the important contribution of waves in the way albatrosses gain energy from the wind.
If you watch videos of sea birds, you´ll see that they try to fly close to cliffs or wave crests, that way they take advantage of the upward currents generated.
When albatrosses turn windward I´ll bet something that they are aiming for the upward current created by a big wave. I don´t think they can do something like this with weak winds or no sea to take advantage.
Gliders and paragliders routinely use upward currents to stay for hours in the air(altitudes 50.000´, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlan_Project). This currents can be generated by mountains or by the air heated close to the ground that climbs as a bubble (and tops as a typical summer cotton cloud or in a Super thunderstorm..).
Small ascending currents are even able to stop the descend of a 60Ton commercial airplane while crossing them. But are to thin (a 100 yards in diameter or less for small clouds) to be usable by fast and heavy jets.

Maybe they are not suitable for commercial flights but could be used for small drone fleets loaded of scientific instruments. They would only need a small electrical motor(for those moments with out wind), solar panels and enough battery to fly the way Albatrosses do, and of course the AI to maneuver.

edit: After reading some comments and the study again, I see that I missed the point. I realize that it´s possible for a small "plane" to use the wind gradient to soar.
With commercial planes you don´t look for it, but you have to avoid it!, if you are flying at your approach speed (lets say 140 kts) with 20 kts head wind and you suddenly find wind shear of 20 kts tail wind, you´ll find yourself with some 40 kts less of speed and fully into stall. The opposite is used (as I understand) by the albatrosses to win total energy.
Is still not usable for larger planes as wind gradient is thin and very close to the ground.
Strong jet streams are used every day by commercial flights to cross oceans. The routes are changed along the winds. For example USA to Europe flights will flight with the jet stream(and save more than an hour of flight time), and Europe to USA flights will avoid it. All routes are based on the weather reports and previsions.

I really would like to hear Elon Musk take on electric planes. He claims he has some calculations on electrical high altitude planes, that would be awesome and ground braking.
The stock V6 UNIX kernel is 28,684 bytes, and /bin/sh is 5888.
Any chance of this being open sourced?
Could you enlighten us? I've read about fiber optic gyros, but I assume they haven't gotten small enough to fit in a mobile device. (Since they require kilometers of fiber.) I really don't know enough about how the solid state (?) gyros work.
You don't want to lose sight of the fact that he's using this argument to support an injunction; what he's doing isn't quite as benign as saying "all existing laws should apply", because the existing laws don't promise preliminary injunctions in every case where technology butts up against copyright.

On the other than, this is a case involving a product that has no purpose other than the one that the content producers say directly infringe their rights; in other words, it is at first blush a better than average candidate for an injunction.

But then back on the other hand, he's making general points, not points narrowly tailored to cases like Aereo.
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The app is such a great idea, so I bought it immediately, but I have to say I'm disappointed. Much of my travel abroad happened when I was young. There were no smartphones, or GPS.

But I know plenty of the places I've visited, hotels I've stayed in, train routes I've ridden, etc.

I'd love a way to "paint" the fog away manually, and maybe tag that "painting session" with some metadata (dates, at a minimum, maybe photos, etc).

Possible in the future?
Just a tidbit: The market is about 15% up this year, so his investors are probably worst off that if they just invested in an index fund.
Never ceases to amaze me that so much scientific innovation can still be derived from understanding mother nature.

From optimum pathing with slime molds to effortless gliding by Albatrosses and so much in between and still to be discovered.
Personally I think there are many uses for NFC. The way I see it, NFC is a way to enable short range communication with physical objects in the real world that are NFC enabled as well. I speculate that a NFC mobile device can be used as your key to open NFC enabled secure locations and objects (e.g. car keys, office keys, house keys, safe locks). Another usage I speculate is with pet's and pet tags. If a pet is lost you could scan the pet or a tag and it will tell an individual who own's the pet and the pets name.
The line count shown in the centre console is a little useless.

I find myself losing despite having the most lines just because my opponent gets the most tetrises.
You're assuming the whole thing isn't staged.
Grounded on jane st is terrific. Great coffee, good number of plug points, extremely pleasant interiors.
>I think he's saying if you invent a new tech, YouHolodeck, you're not magically exempt from copyright law and you can't just post existing copyrighted material ("but it's different, it's holographic"). Existing laws should apply, without needing constant updating ("on the internet", "in the holodeck", "in the singularity").

I don't agree that he's saying that. The issue is that (leaving DRM circumvention tools aside) standard copyright law doesn't prohibit distribution technologies at all, just infringement. Hollywood doesn't like that -- they want to be in charge of what distribution technologies people are allowed to create, regardless of what they're used for. So their end run around it has two parts: 1) They refuse to sanction the use of the new technology for their own content, and then 2) they argue that because it isn't sanctioned by the major players, substantially all use must be infringing and dissemination of the technology itself (regardless of use) therefore induces that infringement and has no substantial non-infringing use.

It isn't about Mickey Mouse and the local mime. Aereo doesn't pick which channels its users watch. Its users can use the technology to watch PBS broadcasts (e.g. of your local mime) that are distributed under Creative Commons or other permissive licenses, or Presidential speeches that as U.S. government works fall immediately into the public domain, or use the technology to record video that the users have negotiated a separate license for with the copyright holders, or make a variety of legal fair uses of the plaintiffs' copyrighted material. Or the users can use it for blatant infringement, e.g. to record sitcoms and burn them to DVDs to sell in the street. But that's all between the copyright holders and the individual users. Aereo is just providing the technology -- and Hollywood is trying to stop the technology, not the infringement.
That is one way to look at Aereo; the other way to look at it is that unlike a DVR, which is a gadget that consumers buy and use to enhance the way they consume broadcast signals, Aereo completely repackages the broadcast itself, copies the content, and delivers it in a new form that Aereo can profit from but that the content producers can't.

I tend more towards your perspective, for whatever it's worth.
Because it works. I've to look no further than myself. It's changed me significantly for the better in this area of life.

The term PUA has a negative association in the mainstream because there is a perception it uses jedi mind tricks to bed the girl. This is not helped by myriad of products aimed at newbies that promise overnight success. On average though, most decent PUAs become decent after lots of practice to become less shy and more charming. Many many of them are nerds(my wing is a RoR programmer and also very good with the ladies).
You're leaving them, they owe you nothing.
Don't read much SF, then?
I assume articles covered by a popover are not worth my time and just click back.
This was a great a comment. I normally rail against Wall Street precisely because I've been around some of the people who go into the business and seen some shitty attitudes about life, but the call out to a higher calling of doing humanity a necessary and useful service really strikes a chord.

In your opinion, are there any trading firms that you feel embody that idea that they should be working to create systems to better allocate capital (instead of, say, gaining all of the capital for themselves)? I'm attracted to the problems that banks have to solve and deal with, but the culture around the current solutions is incredibly off putting.
I see three main reasons.

1. The web has its origins in the world of research and academia where most publications have at most 2 columns and usually only one. The current "newspaper/magazine" trend and the challenges associated with it and large display sizes are quite recent.

2. In the early 90s, the average display size was 800x600. At that size, a line of text set at 14px contained roughly 100 characters. Nobody really felt the need for shorter lines. Besides, newspapers don't lay out their content in columns because of legibility concerns but because it makes cutting and moving (parts of) articles easier an improves the general flexibility of their composition. And that's good for advertising, too.

3. Back to the origins of the web, one of the main design goals of its creator was to create a medium that was as independant of the client as possible. From that point of view, columns seem to be quite difficult to execute well. But of course, most of today's web doesn't really fit in their original view.
Easy solution, just implement the application in native code.

No need for workarounds and hints in an application whose main function is to display _documents_.
It is a hell of a lot easier (cheaper) to use actors than to actually pull this off, at least the banking part.

Since the video is an ad and makes no serious claim that this isn't staged, I'm betting that it is.
Did your grandfather set it up himself?
Creating Triggers for Social Tact
Did you read the amicus that Techdirt is (poorly) summarizing? Because I read your comment and I can't find anything in it that refers to what Oman actually said. You instead seem to be arguing about what "the content industry" "wants". The content industry obviously wants a lot of silly things, but we're discussing a specific court filing --- more importantly, that's what 'tedunangst is talking about, and so if you're not talking about Oman's filing it's very weird to say he's wrong.
That's one way to look at it. That was my initial line of thinking, but my career trajectory has suffered because I stayed and believed certain promises from management. It's on me that I trusted them without doing my own fact finding, but they also bear a portion of the responsibility. Maybe I'm just bitter.
Apple does something called pixel doubling. If an application takes no action, it won't just be rendered smaller. Instead, Apple zooms the whole app, causing everything to get very fuzzy.
I am yes in my day job. I've been ranked as the top sales person in both the organisations I've worked in since graduating.
I haven't used this particular opener but can in general say that it works for some guy on some girls and doesn't when used by other guys on other girls. Basically it's not a total dud nor magic from my experience of seeing my wings use it.
This is great. Ironic, but I'll give it a shot.
I think this is cool, despite the fact that it will undoubtedly leave out some interesting experiences. However, it also serves as a visceral reminder of the kind of data being made available to third parties when using this type of app. It makes me want to create something similar which I and everyone else wishing to use it can then keep entirely to ourselves.
Batteries operate by the principle of ion formation. The chemical process is exothermic with respect to the transfer of electrons from the cathode to the anode. So the more charge that is moved the hotter the batteries get. This is often the limiting factor for charge conversion.

Capacitors on the other hand simply store charge using electrostatic field attraction, the only barrier to their current flow are the i2r heat generated in the conductive paths (a superconducting supercapacitor for example could dump all of its charge instantly without any problems, if such a thing existed, its manufacturer would be worth more than Apple :-)

Flywheels store energy mechanically as angular momentum, they have good energy density, and can return it quickly by being attached to a generator, but are generally hard to deal with in systems with an external acceleration because their tendency to precess if that acceleration results in a rotation that is perpendicular to the flywheel. The proposed carrier ones I've seen are shown as being on gimbals for that reason.
Agreed. I do need to look at a niche before I try and grow the business.
You may not realize it, but that's a quite damning statement on the CUDA compiler.
they could have not pixel doubled the applications and instead let them be smaller and still crisp.