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STIX project has the potential to solve a problem that dates back to the 1400's
I think the book is excellent for advanced users too.
Webkit Inspector console.log begins supporting colours, à la Firebug
"AI hasn't been done yet because no one's actually tried."

Researchers have been trying to create some kind of framework for general intelligence since the 1950s with multiple governments (notably the US, EU and Japanese) throwing billions at it, with relatively little results - resulting in things like the great AI Winter.

We have lots of clever focused systems now that are made feasible by the enormous capacity of modern hardware, but I'm not convinced that we have made much fundamental progress on real human level general intelligence.

Note that I do think that general AI is possible - it's what motivated me to get postgrad AI research, I just think that it is a long way off. YMMV.
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>Most programmers are not gifted enough to read the docs? Well there's the problem.

Which one's easier - fixing an API, or fixing most programmers?
Food supplies and distribution, renewable energy

Those sound like deep political nightmares. I can see why they would want to steer clear.

Just the other day I heard someone complaining about the use of mined fertilizers in agriculture. Farmers used to have a renewable resource for fertilizer in grasses, but the market for cattle fell out because raising them was unsatisfactory to the population, so there is relatively little need to grow those grasses anymore.

Renewable energy is an even bigger minefield right now. Neighbours who were once great friends are now mortal enemies just because one party decided to erect a wind turbine. The rallies against them are growing stronger by the day, and wouldn't be surprised to hear about violence as a result of them soon.

I'm not suggesting the above are the right solutions, just examples of resistance at every turn in our attempts to find the right solution. The perfect solution doesn't arrive overnight, and even if it were to, I'm not certain half the population would even accept it. Even it would come with some drawback that someone doesn't like, making it seem like the of the world if you try to implement it.
I've said it before, but I'd love to see something like this as an oauth service. If anyone's working on it, feel free to shoot me an email.
What would be the purpose? Discuss..? Networking?
Intel are just about to release the "NUC" Next Unit of Computing. Looks pretty reasonable, but significantly more powerful and thus expensive than a PI.
Productivity Apps That Shopify Uses (Good List)
> but redundant and irrelevant data-structures

Now you're just trolling. Clojure's immutable persistent data structures are one of the primary strengths of the language, and what I tend to miss most when I'm working in another language.
The Engineering Model Of The Future: Malcolm Reynolds
Hacking a crowd of 430 hackers with 1720 balloons
"Balloon choreography" created during European Rails Conference Railsberry 2012 by some amazingly open-minded hackers spontaneously playing Balloon Hero ;)
r/nonsensical-conspiracy-theories is that way.
How Psychologists Subvert Democratic Movements
Samsung Nexus 10 quick start manual spotted
Yea right. Wait until a crisis and watch all the wealth flood into dollars.
I always wonder what kind of influence polls have on voters.

A lot of people probably won't bother voting if their state is a perceived landslide.
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-> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4695275
Interesting. I don't want every poll, but I would like to be notified when Real Clear and 538 are updated. Maybe with a tolerance band when they break out of a certain range.
Of those three countries, only one has US troops currently stationed there.
Is it possible to try to glide at, say, 100km?

Obviously the atmosphere is extremely thin at that height, but on the other hand astronaut would have extremely high speed at this moment which would help both gliding and add centrifugal force.

If gliding is possible at such height, then it can help lowering into thicker atmosphere prematurely, and therefore would prevent extremely fast deceleration.

Basically the more astronaut slows down - the lower it would glide, always trying to maintain manageable deceleration.

Obviously gliding idea was discussed by space engineers, but I couldn't find the reason why it was rejected.
> That's pretty rude.

He's entitled to his opinion and has the right to criticize whatever he wants, however he wants. If you don't like it, why not just move on.

Positive feedback is not the only useful type of feedback. If someone suggested, say, developing a new site on the Gopher protocol then the appropriate response is to tell them that it's a stupid idea, mainly because it is a stupid idea.

There is much more to be gained from emotionally disconnecting yourself from the fruits of your labour than it is to always, without fail be positive about everything. It is folly to pick yang over yin or vice-versa.

The fact of the matter is that a lot of people will have this emotional reaction to this project and not telling the author in order to protect their feelings is going to hurt their success in the long run.

I feel that being rude is insulting the person. Being honest is insulting the work (if one honestly feels that it is unworthy enough to be treated as such).

> Yes, yes you are. Or perhaps you meant "I am being a hater and a downer but I'm hardly having to put any effort into it".

A hater is someone who hates out of prejudice. For example, hating a celebrity because one is jealous of their wealth or think that they do not deserve what they have. I do not detect any prejudice here, just an honest reaction to something.

The most ironic thing about your post is that you mimic Grandparent's tone, which you yourself label as rude and throw it back at him. Surely a mature response is to respond in a way which you find acceptable, not simply stoop down to what you perceive to be a lower and, ultimately, unacceptable level?
Why the Tech Community Should Care About Prop 37
A pitch is typically the abstract of your story/idea/business etc. Not the other way around. Try thinking about it that way. To mix metaphors slightly, what you've laid out might be how an art crtic might look at art, but not how an artist would actualy approch his work.
The New Yorker is talking about this very subject today:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/10/da...

I read that article this morning and still signed up for pingpoll minutes later..
Carphone Warehouse leaks LG's Google Nexus 4 phone
I bought this book when it was in beta form. Thanks for reminding me that I need to update my version. I don't know Python but this book's existence has piqued my interest into moving into it.
Easy SSL is CloudFlare's Killer App
Detailed Comparison of Databases: Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak, MySQL Cluster
Mark Shuttleworth: “I Really Screwed Up”
I agree. I know a lot of developers that will benefit having a good example to work from.
I'm quite interested, but not interested enough to "sign up for early access".

Intend to revisit the site later (if I remember) once it's launched for real.
Interesting. I'd think the biggest competitor to fear is envato, but doesn't mean they shouldn't go forward with this.
TokBox acquired by Telefónica
Realtime text analysis of the presidential debates
"Didn't austerity measures help with that?"

Austerity measures are meant to crush an economy, not help.
I think that's a little insulting to the Germans, Japanese, and Koreans, all of whom live in democracies which could kick out the Americans if they really wanted.
We're hosting matchist (http://matchist.com) right now with PHP Fog and it's great if you want to just get going. I didn't want to (at least for now) deal with any sysadmin stuff.

We threw up our custom CodeIgniter install, configured our custom domains, SSL certs, etc. and there was (and still is) very little friction in getting going. Their support is also fantastic - immediate instant chat every time.

That said, if you're looking for granular custom control, PHP Fog isn't for you. (No cron jobs, no access to logs, etc.)
DARPA’s next “grand challenge”: tool-wielding rescue robots
HR Field Guide reviews Submittable's (YC S12) HR Manager
As someone who watched the proceedings I can confirm that the only dead things were our interest in using Ruby 1.8 and a rather large slab of smoked meat.
What are the relays connected to?
It's easy to get much clearer than that. Instead of "1", use a constant with a name like "VERIFY_HOST_SETTING_INSECURE_IGNORE_COMMON_NAME".
It's obvious that the Republicans and Democrats TOGETHER can't do it. Either party has things they'd be happy to cut (extra healthcare, extra military, extra tax cuts) - it's the combination of both together that are making the deadlock.

Also, it is mathematically as much a problem of not raising revenue as it is a problem of cutting spending. Strange that you did not mention this.

It isn't at all obvious that the level of the national debt is the only issue influencing the dollar's usage as a reserve currency.
Semi-relevant tidbit about exchange rates: Converting from currency X to Y, Y to Z, and Z to X does not always yield the same ending amount as in the beginning. The practice of arbitrage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage) involves looking for imbalances in conversion rates and converting money between currencies to end with more than you started with. (Disclaimer: It's hard to do, potentially risky, and the margins are usually very low.)
Where's Billy Mays?

Seriously though.. this only highlights how much better Apple's presentations are. At least they focus on keeping people on stage who know the ins and outs of the tech they are showing. This lady struggled with the term 1080p..

I'm beginning to warm up to Windows 8, though I still think usability is kind of a mess, and once you scale up to a 20"+ screen the launch pad looks 'confusing'.

That said, I'm very impressed with all the different devices they have ready at launch, but something tells me this is the part where they are missing the secret sauce that Apple posses. As a general consumer I'm simply befuddled at all the options - the paradox of choice - and I'm more likely to just go simplify things and go buy that Apple one instead.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this licensure exam is like those exams that was taken by some engineering graduates to gain the "Engr" status?
I agree that Node doe not own evented I/O, my point was more that if you care about concurrency, parallelism, evented io, you should work in communities that care about those things and build tools around them. Ruby as a community cares more about Rails than evented I/O. Node is purely evented I/O, so that's basically ALL they care about. I guess Python is probably more in between.

I didn't mean to say node owns evented I/O, just that their whole community embraces it.
Yeah, but they haven't put it in the framework of an actual benchmarked test like machine learning problems. They futzed around with prolog and other stuff rather than have any kind of metrics.
I love the concept of this... but it still looks buggy and in an early stage. (Which seems reasonable, only version 0.5.)

Some things I noticed: On the demo, scrolling horizontally is shaky and broken on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Although I guess this is my fault due to my browser size, but the set of tiles that needed to scroll to be seen were completely hidden. I didn't realize you had to scroll at first. In addition, trying to scroll back to the original position doesn't work since instead, my Mac thinks I want to go back a page in browser history. (Mac has two finger swipe to go back in a browser if you're not familiar.)

Anywho, I love where this is going and hope to see more. It'd be awesome to be able to create actual Metro-styled web apps. It appears right now that the framework is only set up to re-create the home tile screen in Win8.
'Steam for Linux' Community Group Launched
Those keywords make sense when you google Troppio Media Ltd and look at some of the sites. (and urban dictionary "googun").
I'd like to pick up a Windows 8 (Pro, not RT) tablet right now. I wish Microsoft had more control over hardware. This webcast isn't going to end with "and you can buy it right now" since stores won't start selling stuff 'til tomorrow... and I'm not confident stores near me will have any tablets for sale tomorrow either. The nearest Microsoft Store is 4+ hours away.
Thanks for sharing that link, good article.

Still, its main concern seems to be the predictive value of forecast models, given that "stuff happens" -- while I'm more concerned with the fact that the obsession with polling and forecasts coincides (hard to tell if it's a cause or an effect) with widespread ignorance when it comes to massively undemocratic features of the US voting system.
1. This is happening all over the world, not just Switzerland. Because of FATCA as well as the IRS's enforcement activities over the last few years, U.S. persons are seen as risky and expensive customers. It's more profitable and less risky to send U.S. customers away than it is to make the IRS happy.

2. It's worse for entrepreneurs. I am now seeing my U.S. clients lose business opportunities outside the USA. Would-be foreign partners are increasingly deciding that having an American in the company (as an owner and increasingly frequently as a mere employee) exposes the whole venture to too much U.S. government risk:

- The U.S. person will likely report on his/her/its ownership portion of the joint venture. Typically this is Form 5471 for a corporation, for instance. This causes financial data about the company to bleed over to the U.S. government from abroad.

- The U.S. person will likely have to disclose company bank accounts on Form TD F 90-22.1; this includes how much money is in the account as well as full bank details.

The privacy leaks are unacceptable to non-Americans. Why should their business affairs be disclosed to the USA, when the business never touches the United States? The easy solution is to reject the U.S. person who wants to be in business with them. Which they do.

3. The consequence: I am seeing (and helping) an increasing number of entrepreneurs acquire a second citizenship then terminate their U.S. citizenship. I'm afraid that I am seeing the beginning (for the USA) of what people say about Detroit: "The people with get-up-and-go got up and went."

(Disclosure: I am an international tax lawyer and I do this stuff in my day job.)

(Personal opinion: All of that pessimism aside, let me just say that I experience frequent moments of gratitude when traveling abroad that I have the U.S. passport. Yes, it is a Very Big World with Many Fabulous Places to Live. But there are also some places where I am glad I can leave.)
Intercepting USSD calls in Android
I would like to see this happen.

I am caught in between a 100 different things in the next few months so I doubt that I can be of too much help in the short while.
How We Got into Y Combinator
I didn't say anything about being biter. I said "still disputed by many Canadians".

You don't have to be bitter to dispute something.
You may be correct. I tend to use the term loosely when looking back on an event and discussing it. Regardless of whether it was good or bad.

I felt that their actual blog title, "Eating the 1.9 Elephant," didn't reflect the content of the post.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4517540
What is the source of polls this app is using?
"in families that couldn't afford a 'real' computer, or couldn't/wouldn't allow kids to try potentially damaging things on the family machine."

How many of those families are going to buy a rpi, have the knowledge to teach set it up and teach their kids, etc? What's going to get kids programming is a really cheap "normal" computer, just like it always has.
Like what? AAA has a definition involving budget, it doesn't just mean "not indie". I am not aware of anyone operating at that budget level and using C#.
I gotta say they really have a coherent message now.
Specific conspiracy theories aside, it isn't implausible that the country with the largest military would be motivated to use that military to defend its economic position. It's also not entirely crazy to think that other nations would be terrified of a country with a massive military falling on hard times. Countries with lots of guns and lots of desperation do not tend to make decisions that are good for everyone else.
Inside a startup's mobile build process - Hojoki with Trigger.io
>I don't know because this article says so but doesn't explain why exactly.

I think it's pretty clear. What broadcom released was a binary file and and code to interface with it. It's not that the driver functionality is any different than what's already available it's that all the important functionality is in the binary file that was provided without any source code.

They made a big deal about the first open source ARM gpu driver but, for the most part, it's still a black box and it's not really useful to developers looking to change/improve the gpu performance.
x86 Windows 8 tablets from several manufacturers have been available for pre-order (e.g. on Amazon) for a couple of weeks now, for shipment tomorrow. (Of course, that doesn't help if you want to go into a store to play with different devices before buying one.)
It's a different, weaker level of type safety that's become so prevalent that you probably take it for granted. The runtime checking is just to make sure that operations are performed on logical types.

My favorite analogy for this is the restaurant one. Haskell insists on having two waiters: one to deliver the food and a second to deliver the check. Clojure allows one waiter to deliver both, but throws a fit and leaves the restaurant if the check arrives before the bill. Assembler eats the first thing that arrives and signs the second, even if the bill comes before the food.

Clojure is "type-safe" in that it will exit instead of performing an illogical action (e.g. dividing a string pointer by a network socket). It's just as type-safe as Haskell code littered with fromJust.
Five reasons Internet voting is a terrible idea
Show HN: BrokeFounder - Helping Bootstrapped Founders Pay Bills
Travis Shrugged: Silicon Valley’s Cult of Disruption
The site seems down at the moment
So the genesis of this comes out of probably the most prominent pain point I've experienced since my first business failed and something that I think resonates with a lot of people: how to maximize time spent working on your start-up while continuing to pay for whatever expenses need to be paid for.

Most full-time jobs require a heavy time commitment that's unavoidable and makes finding time to spend developing a product and/or service on your "off-time" monumentally difficult. In my experience, the difficulty of the day job is largely irrelevant; personally, I've felt more exhausted or unwilling to get things done after doing nothing all day at a day job than I am when I've actually had something consequential to do. Having a resource like this to draw from and connect with other smart founders who know the score and are willing to pay for expertise is something I would take advantage of in order to take back control over my time. So as others have done, I've built something that I myself would use. Why the list model? I felt it was something that could be tested quick and easily w/ a lean approach.

Right now, I'm curious to see what people think and how the initial concept resonates. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated.
Take a look at dotCloud too. It's simple: http://docs.dotcloud.com/0.4/services/php/
Right, I've used Uber a few times, and you can rate the drivers AND the drivers can rate the passengers. In one case, a local driver was heckled by a drunk, rude woman and she was bounced from the system entirely. My service is better because the drivers aren't bitter and seething over the next possibly crappy fare.

I don't know how anyone could compare the service to a "gypsy"/unlicensed cab. Towncars and limos are not the same animal.
Add to that another simplistic cause: the aging of the population of the West.
Apple & oranges. The only thing these 2 have in common is their name, the clojure version does a lot more.

A definition of a similar keep fn in clojure would be almost indistinguishable from your lisp example (it would just be more readable).
It is not about collections, it is about breaking the conceptual unity of the core language by using [] for a parameter.. array.)
I don't know if we can still use the Apple keynotes as references as Tuesday one was really painful. It was slow, packed with marketing keywords, and Tim Cook was unable to ramp up the suspense through his speech...

PS: I am not watching the Microsoft one right now, so I have no idea if it can compare.
Exactly ! Syntax and meta-syntax are sometimes easy to mix.
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Arg this article is infuriating. His conclusion is that only government taking the initiative will fix things: "political leaders and the public must care to solve a problem".

He mentions SpaceX, but only in the context that its founder is one of the members of Founders Fund. Not a word about SpaceX building ships to go to Mars. Because that doesn't fit the narrative that only government can solve problems.

A big problem now is energy. The solution is nuclear. Right now in the US government and the public's main role in nuclear is to ban the solution, which is what has created the problem. In France though the public and government didn't ban the solution to the problem and so 78.8% of their electricity comes from nuclear, without any disasters in over 30 years of operation, and a nationwide system of incredibly cheap high speed electric trains powered by this network.
On Being A Senior Engineer
The Amazings - Try something old. Learn something new.
New PlayStation 3 Hack May Be One That Sony Can’t Stop
They sort of pushed a middle ground between Microsoft and Apple. They have their own tablet, highly engineered and well built. Might not be the best value for the money, but it's solid, looks nice, and isn't a bad option. Then for the Microsoft side of things, they have OEMs doing their own thing, pushing weird and obscure form factors and generally making everything they can to see what sticks.
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If you'd like to listen in on these, you could try the Wide-band Web SDR:

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

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Yikes. Exactly what we need; more people focused on polls that all say the same thing--the election is close. Knowing that Gallup says it's 51-49 one way or Rasmussen says it's 51-49 the other way contributes exactly nothing to the world.
I'd be more interested in an app that blocked out polls and political news.
It's a great idea if you can strike a balance between the 2 groups needed for this!

I have a feeling the not-so-broke founders might be few and far between.
I can only guess at what horrors lie below New Relic's calm waters that it took them 8 months to convert their code to 1.9. It's not that different! I have generally flipped over to 1.9 as part of Rails 3 upgrades, the rails part being far more work than the ruby part.

What on earth were you doing that took so long? Is it because NR's requirement to parse a lot of log files, so the changes to strings had outsize impact?