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Today (Monday Mar. 4) is a neuroscience conference at Stanford featuring one of Brown's leading researchers in neuro-engineering. The keynote is "Listening to Neurons: Toward the Restoration of Communication and Mobility". The conference is free and may still have openings: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a...
Allan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change (TED)
You never understood what they were actually for, then. The namespace will have a schema, and the schema can be used to validate the elements of that namespace. Not used in a "just import the data!" scenario, sure, but a lot of people who use XML do care about that kind of validation.
Yes, hopefully.

Schools make no sense.
I think there will certainly be a measure of security with such a system, but it wouldn't need to be at the level of air travel. The danger of someone hijacking a train is finite - it has a definite path and that pathway can be planned to avoid Problem X or Problem Y. That's very unlike a commercial jet.
This is a bit like saying a vacuum tube TV is simpler than an LCD one because a mechanic can repair it. It's a myopic view.

Are you sure a thermal solar installation will last as long as photovoltaics? Any plant with the efficiency gains you describe has gimballing mirrors, highly thermally cycled metals, steam circuits, and freakin' turbines among other mechanical contraptions all over the place. I see a whole lot of disadvantages compared to a completely solid-state, arbitrarily scalable panel that lasts (conservatively) 50 years.

I realize some places might get really neat solutions out of thermal solar, but I just don't see how it's anything more than a niche. By contrast, photovoltaics have the prerequisites to take over the entire market from the bottom up. They are our future.
I wonder what the anticipated applications are? Surveillance seems like one obvious target (and I guess that's what the moonlight-scene was trying to show), at least if the sensor (and thus the final products) is not ridiculously expensive. Also the fact that it is being demoed at "SECURITY SHOW 2013" points towards surveillance.
Actually, I will need a robotic shirt-folding device, but in my home. Folding shirts sucks.
On F# code readability
People I know in industries that require drug tests get panicky when they have to take one, but somehow they never fail them. Apparently the tests aren't very sensitive, and mostly screen out only those who refuse to take them.
The next release of rubygems-openpgp, due out in a week or two, will do everything you want:

https://github.com/grant-olson/rubygems-openpgp/issues/15
Agree. I worked in-the-office for 12 years. Then, the past 2, I've worked almost exclusively remotely. It's been really good.

Just as when I started my first job, I had to learn new skills. As a diligent, good employee, I tried to learn quickly. And, now, I'm probably more productive than I ever have been.

But, then again, I don't sit on FB or Twitter all day. Each morning, I set out with a focused list of goals, and I try to get them done. And, I need a quiet space.

The hardest part, for me, was learning when to shut off. As an office worker, there was a natural dynamic and rhythm of the team. When the lights started going off, or when the cleaning staff showed up, you knew that it was time to go. But, sometimes, at home, I forget to turn off. I think I have gotten closer to burnout, working from home.

Collaboration is an issue, but we work in such small teams nowadays, that there aren't as many communication channels. Long gone are the 15-20 person teams. Now, I work with targeted groups of 4-5. We communicate regularly. For more high-fidelity communication, I have face-to-face meetings with subject matter experts and stakeholders and designers maybe once a month.

As a software developer, I can't see how this trend can stop. With the state of things, I will never again have all the people that I need in the same office every day. Skills are just too specialized now. And, services are specialized. To get everyone (and all their dependencies) in the same office would mean sacrificing a lot of quality and agility.
Get the book "The Teenage Liberation Handbook." It's a bit facile, but it's all about unschooling and how kids like you (and me, at the time) can and do succeed. Dig up the statistics on unschooled/homeschooled kids going to college. My parents were assuaged by the idea that many homeschoolers get into excellent colleges (meanwhile I never had a moment's intention of going to college; I had exposure to too many older friends in allegedly high-end university programs to think it was worth my time).

Your parents just want what's best for you but because they probably haven't investigated it, they believe the hype and durm and strang about dropouts.

Since you're the one who wants to do something "weird," the burden of proof is on you. (That's the position to take whenever you want to persuade anybody of anything.)
Actually I think the parent poster is male- I certainly read it the same way you did at first!
Connected Mood Lamp = RasPi + Arduino + LED Cube + Cloud + HTML5
Why would you use this service instead of subscribing on Amazon?
The days of ping of death are behind us.

Packet of death. Hmm.

http://www.kriskinc.com/intel-pod
I'm skeptical about the real usefulness of this service, simply because I just don't think it could match the timeliness or efficiency of the current distributions model. Right now you can buy these products in literally every convenience store, gas-station, drug store, supermarket and warehouse store in the country (ordered roughly by decreasing unit cost & decreasing convenience).

With a 'tailored' delivery service, you're always going to end up with too many at the end a month - in which case you might as well have bought a big box from a supermarket or Costco/Amazon at a fraction of the unit cost, or you'll end up with too few - in which case you will have to urgently overpay at the convenience store or gas station anyway.
Small shout-out to my friends at Juniper [1] who run the same business and did not get techcrunched. As the article says, a little competition probably isn't bad in a large market like this.

[1] http://www.getjuniper.com/
I meant that jumping ship might be easier at any company. Businesses put rigid limits on raises. If you want to make a market rate it's best to get it when hired.
Doesn't that imply living in cities? Not to everyone's taste, by any means.

Also, how is this going to work out for couples/families?
I think there are a lot of places where this is happening and the more we can out it, the better it will be. I don't think we should just let it pass.

As a brazilian noted, voters don't know they should pay attention to it, politicians are ok with status quo, but we should press on.

I am looking into this site mentioned, BribeSpot.com
You could say the same of any subscription service. Despite being a male, I can tell you that in NYC at least, having a pallet of tampons in the basement is not practical, given that no-one has a basement or any spare room for a pallet.
man, well this guys a bit of an arse.

anyway, the more grids out there, the more creative my descriptions of percentages become - which is my number one factor when choosing a grid system...
Well then we better get crackin and get into those richest 1% soon :)
Yes let's see, losers like Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Victor Hugo, Jack London, Rabelais, Bill Gates, etc ..
silicone has "strong resistance to action of biological factors"...at least according to http://www.wiley-vch.de/books/biopoly/pdf_v09/vol09_15.pdf

tampons are designed to break up, on the other hand, so the jury may still be out on this one?
I also stick to using Pocket. The best part is the tagging feature. Whenever, I add something to Pocket, I ensure to tag it. Later when I need to find something, I can simply lookup the tag instead of finding a needle in the haystack.
I can't help but feel all these websites miss out on what makes Hacker News great: density of information leading to a quick scan of the zeitgeist. I just feel constrained looking at this website's frontpage.
Is being "out of office" your job?
I think you're overstating the risk and need to be exceptional, actually. For the kinds of jobs we're talking about.

# of employers who asked why I didn't list any high school on my resume: 0. # of clients who asked where I went to school: 0. I may be exceptional now, but I wasn't always, and I still got good jobs.

I either put nothing about education at all on my resume, and explained that I left college because xyz, or jokingly put "The School of Hard Knocks" and that worked for me.

FWIW I have done everything from working for a local software dev co., to consulting for Pepsi, and I was employed as a consultant for Bear Stearns ("hired" by their staffing agency — it's a weird setup), with these (lack of) credentials. Never had a problem.
Completely concur with your observation, except your analogy with gay people (something beyond one's power of choice) is somewhat uncalled for.
The Oscar protest that you didn't know happened
> For example some artists may not want to "limit" their thought process to just logical, to more freely connect with and express their emotions [...]. But after being trained to program it may be quite difficult to think any other way but logically.

Is there any evidence for this assertion? I've noticed changes in the way I think after years (not a couple classes) of programming, but I highly doubt basic programming knowledge in any way inhibits creative ability. However, if there is reason to think so, I'd be fascinated to read about it.
So, dissolve the shirt at the end of the day, and "print" a new shirt for every day.
Well, Zuck did. Gates did. The other people portrayed didn't, you're right. But, they enjoy it. And they admire those that can create something out of nothing by programming. Sure, it was romanticized a bit. But, it doesn't change the fact that you could get rich by coding. You could make something that people REALLY love to use. This is pretty unique to the profession, I think. Yeah you could be a writer and write a novel people love, or a painter, etc. But none of these things pay particularly well.

I think coding is a pretty neat and unique skill set that is relatively limitless. And, if this isn't true, I think I'll just keep thinking that it is true, because it keeps my head in the game.
White House hackathon a success; could a Patdownathon be next?
> provided that they've proven they can do the work and know the language(s) in question.

And that's the rub of it for me: you have to let them lose on your project in order to prove themselves capable, and you have to hope they work out, i.e. learn on the job and you guide them through it. A Philosophy or Classical Literature major has to start their IT career somewhere, right?

So we have the old apprenticeship model rather than the professional model, nothing new here.

This is fine for junior members, but breaks down hard when you move into leadership roles when the leader is unqualified (both in experience and on paper).
You need at least 150k to live comfortably in sf.
Makes sense. Though again, that's not exactly breaking the back of an existing monopoly. Frankly if you wanted to do direct research funding the obvious mechanism would be just to increase the direct grants paid right now, which are going to existing university faculty.

I think you and the grandparent both seem to be arguing that "removing the undergraduates and sending them to MOOCs" will somehow change the character of the way "academia" works, and that's what I just don't see. Undergraduates are a side project at these schools -- as mentioned, they don't provide meaningful funding (tuition breaks even at best). And at most, they provide a cheap labor pool for the research programs. Take them away and you'd never notice the difference.
this will be an expensive piece of gear. that moonlit video was just insane.
I don't see MOOCs and universities as fulfilling the same purpose at all.

Universities are for institutionalized learning, research, and credentialing.

MOOCs are for supplemental learning afterward.

A person really should continue taking classes and learning for professional development and personal enrichment throughout his or her career. MOOCs are fantastic for that. I don't really see them as ever being a suitable replacement for an undergraduate education, though.
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Learn to Code: Portland Code School Meet and Greet
Mistakes guaranteed to stunt y our startups growth
Updated my profile. You can reach me at janosdobronszki at citromail dot hu

But we must check out the mentioned bribespot thingie first.
It's partly low demand (relatively speaking) and partly because the machines to make it have historically been on the expensive side (i've heard something like half a million or so). Then there's the time that it takes to run a batch of filament and all the other normal business issues there. It'll definitely come down but it'll likely only approach the range that has been hit with lyman's machine. The pellets have high demand and extremely high quantity (injection moulding). That being said, even when commercial costs come down to this realm they'll still likely have more consistent and higher quality filaments (longer runs tend to even out issues in the plastic).
I just love this Android App
I'm really impressed by the timeline on the article. Appears to be implemented with https://github.com/athletics/infostory ; anybody know if this was this custom made just for Forbes, or even just for this article? Seems like a ton of effort for a small detail, but it really enhanced the article for me.

Edit: Better googling yields this article which talks a little bit about the timeline, so definitely not just for the article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/lewisdvorkin/2012/09/13/inside-f...
The thing it would solve is risking all their BGP peerings going down as a result of day-to-day service operations (i.e. every time they add a filter).
You're also forced to breathe and drink water, are you not? Do you plan on blaming that on the government too?
Searching for Eric Schmidt
Perhaps comparing it to color theory is a stretch, but I think comparing it to something like 'learning how to see' as an artist is apt, and highlights the absurdity of the position you've taken.
Science Saved My Soul
Mmm...I think there are pros and cons to Big Data. On one hand its great because it adds convenience to not only the corporations but also the lives of consumers. Although its pretty creepy that people we've never met can know a whole lot about us just through collecting data, it really takes the guessing game out of buying/selling products. With that being said Big Data allows us to only really hear about the things we might be interested in, so its a great time saver. However, this can be problematic, I feel like Big Data can make people revert back to some very nasty ways of thinking. Big Data enables us to categorize people, and when people are categorized we tend to stereotype them. Maybe it could be changing our lives in a bad way because it has the potential to make us revert back to primal ways of thinking. A sense of oneness and collective equality is lost.
I agree. This is a good idea but the giant thumbnails are very hard to parse since they clash with each other. Would be nicer if it was a simple uniformly styled text list with taglines, and user interaction (mouseovers/expands/something) to show thumbnails?
I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say the current rise in unemployment might have something to do with the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression. One triggered by a giant real estate bubble and financial "engineering" that was, at best, criminally negligent. And a current incomprehensible fashion for "austerity".

You've also created a false dichotomy. The choice isn't between massive unemployment and a spiral of consumerism. People can do other things with their time.

What's happening in food is a fine example. People are intentionally spending more money on slow food, on organic food, on local growth and production. That's creating a lot of jobs. And even better, a lot of entrepreneurs.

We aren't out of growth opportunities until we're out of problems. Education, the environment, entertainment, the arts, parks, public safety: all have problems that people want to fix. The solution to increasing wealth isn't to force people to work less; it's to find valuable things for everybody to do.
MIT Technology Review asks: “Which disruptive European companies did we miss”?
This reminds me of a humorous blog post by the New York Times interactive graphics desk, in which they debated several options for overlaying flags for swimmers...not for live TV but for their 3D renders:

http://chartsnthings.tumblr.com/post/29133053109/the-olympic...
Unless THC cures alcoholism and the issues people have that fuels it, I rather doubt that.

I for one prefer alcohol regardless. Beer is more for me than a means to an altered state of mind.
Is this real or just a weird joke?
Staying Great
Meet the Starbuscks barista Steve Jobs called for 4000 lattes
Except that virtually everyone can easily have everything in a single, fully normalized relational database on a single server. People have convinced themselves that relational databases can't scale, based on nothing at all.
A'int that the truth!
That being said, I would like to see the tampon/pad manufacturers try something that would help a lot of men out.

The tampons and pads themselves are very simple. But, like toothpastes, deodorants, or soaps, there are a TON of options that get piled on by marketers. Wings/No Wings, Light/Heavy/Overnight/OMG, scented/unscented, Thong, etc. I must spend 5-10 minutes just trying to make sure I have the right ones that she likes. Is "Heavy" the same as "Overnight"? What did she tell me again?

It would be great if even ONE company tried to classify their items with a simple code number. If wifey just said "Hey, pick me up a pack of C-2s", I'd be a customer of that brand for life.
Instead of z-index hacks, you can solve for Webkit (the only browser where this quirk happens so far) with:

-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased !important;
The margin on this business must be very thin. I assume they are just buying the tampons wholesale and then reselling them on a subscription basis. At the same time the barrier to entry for this type of business seems very small which ultimately means that the margin gets squeezed even more.

It would be interesting to know what value added services they can provide to increase their margin.
Debate: Is Software Security a Waste of Time?
Software firewalls can't prevent that problem.
I think the promise of a ready VC funding is all that is needed to get people to come to the San Francisco Bay Area in order to seek their fortune and build businesses in the tech industry. No cringe worthy TV show needed... but of course no one is going to stop the networks from making another one.
If you want to stick with Windows, go for the X1 Carbon, but if you can't find a way to purchase it in time, I would highly recommend the MacBook Air. I switched to Mac last year and don't have many regrets. If you find you dislike working in OSX, you can always install Windows 7 in bootcamp. Android, Java and web develop work great on OSX (though I have no idea about robotics). The only thing I would recommend is go for the upgraded RAM and SSD, as the MBA's hardware can't be upgraded at a later date, and from my experience, OSX kinda sucks at memory management (if you do a lot of multitasking).
Oh, on second read you're right. Sorry! =\
Due to the suction they can cause problems with IUD.
I will look into it, thanks for the heads up.
Hm. Thanks for that, I always just assumed that was true.
Just to go full inception, this is my coverage of their coverage of our coverage of their coverage:

http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Penge/2013/03/04/141416.htm

Main take-away:

* #2 on /r/technology
* 79% of hits are currently international
Why do you need Software Tester?
Nice work. I'm glad you are tackling it [1], now it's off my table. Hopefully your site is back up to let me signup. The UI could benefit from simplicity.

[1] = http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5030945
Native resolution of this baby looks to be 864 mm^2 / 19 micron^2 ~= 45MPix, in line with the latest Nikon and with rumors of high-density FF Canon. The innovation here is noise reduction and not the sensor itself... obviously Canon will charge an arm an a leg for that video camera - and won't ever make it into a DSLR to not cannibalize their profits.
So by your argument, when we purchase a physical book, we should pay taxes in every locality that that book passed through.

So let's say it was manufactured in Florida, shipped from New York, and sold in California, by your logic we should be paying state taxes in Florida, New York, and California.

Is that right?
Such is the natural supply-and-demand backlash resulting from promoting excessive demand for overpriced supply. Telling every kid "you must go to college" and then persuading them to sign up for absurdly huge loans cannot end well. The end, then, is MOOCs, and whether it is well, well, the author seems to think it isn't.

Charging some $3000 per class when many classes are little more than the content of a borrowed $30 book will, with a little social media technology, culminate in a teacher loaning the books to 100x his usual class population, charging 2% the usual per student cost, and coming out of the session with more money, more successful students (though perhaps a lower percentage), and the ire of anyone else who didn't pull off this stunt first.

The long-term consequences of prolific government-promoted-and-backed loans & grants skewed the educational economy so much that the correction will be dramatic and dire - and the correction, however many may dislike it, is unavoidable thanks to the nature of supply-and-demand. Such economic meddling should be avoided in any market for exactly such reasons: there will be a correction to the natural norm, and the longer that correction is held off and the process distorted, the more destructive the correction will be ... but the correction will happen.
Most people who smoke don't tattoo it across their forehead you know.
That's a sad prediction. I like going into the office.
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What's the downside? You say that as if it was bad to hire someone from Poland...
The Flow language they implemented for this is interesting.
http://www.foundationdb.com/white-papers/flow/

I think we are going to see eventual consistency deflate as people relearn to love transactions. SQL also makes users of a database a lot more productive. The bottom line is you don't want your devs spending time and effort reasoning about database behavior, you want them focusing on business logic. In 5 years hopefully the world will catch up a bit with Google's Megastore and Spanner.
Voigtlander is making an 0.95 25mm m4/3 lens, and it's only $1100 or so.
I started the project a few days before that was posted. Seeing that only inspired us to continue.

EDIT: Yeah, the site is getting hammered right now.
The tampons still have to be manufactured, individually wrapped and packaged, and delivered to the customer. Let’s say a single menstrual cup lasts five years and a woman has periods for 40 years. That’s 8 menstrual cups and a HUGE heap of tampons. I’d vote for the cup.
It'd be good to have the projects tagline on the mouseover display - so one doesn't have to navigate away to see what a project does. Great Job!
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