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(I studied this kind of philosophy in college, mostly determinism, epistemology and the computational representational model of the mind)

Agreed.

What do you mean when you say "I".

Sure you can point the the brain. But when we look at the brain, we see the following "physical" attributes:

1. Atoms and their more complex configurations (molecules)
2. Electricity
3. Chemicals
4. Causal connections between the above 3.

So I ask again, where exactly is "I"? The easy answer is to say "I" is the conjunction of this system.

So that would mean that if we can take that system, and recreate it somewhere else, then that system would represent "I" as well.

This is problematic. Take the above as true and then think what it would mean to not CUT and paste, but just COPY and paste.

There are now two "I"'s walking around. Would you, looking at the copy and paste version of yourself then say that you are still "I"? Or are both of you "I"? Well, you are certainly not the "I" that your other self is saying is "I". Because you are looking at it. It can't be "I". So what the f#$k is powering that thing?

By that logic, what you are is more than just the physical. There are things like Qualia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia), meaning, memories and the associations between completely unrelated things that, as far as I am aware, we cannot map to the physical manifestation of the brain.

None of this is to say that brain uploading is impossible, because we just simply don't have enough information to refute or defend its possibility.

But I believe that the brain is more complex then the pure physical.
There's an ars technica article [1] that dives deep into the early industry of video games and how Nintendo held such a tight -- almost monopolistic -- rein over its third parties. A very good read, and I found it very interesting how Nintendo did things then that there's no way would work in today's business.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/time-to-feel-old-insid...
This was an awesome collaboration. Over 15 senior contributors at Red Hat working with us at Docker.
The problem is not in == vs =, it's in allowing assignment as an expression. Go fixes this, for example, by now allowing them: if a = 0 {} gives compile error.
The blue text with red caret solves a real problem.

It might appear odd in the context in which it appears, that is with the caret at the end of the line, but consider cases where the caret is between letters in a word.

When editing a section of text where you are looking to make a mid-word modification, being able to quickly and easily identify the caret position is important.

If the caret looks even remotely like any of the text being edited you may confuse it for the text or you may find it hard to see where the caret is.

The high text to caret contrast is only one solution to the problem of making the caret easy to find and easy to tell apart from the text itself.

On my stock Android 4.2 device the caret is a mid-grey within black text. On a small screen it is not clear to me with my inadequate eyesight where the caret is from just a glance. When editing mid-word a blue tab-style arrow is applied below the caret as a visual pointer. This sometimes obscures relevant text or controls.

As far as stock Android 4.2 vs iOS is concerned, I'd say that iOS has the superior solution in this case.
As opposed to hipsters in armchairs proclaiming every release the greatest thing since sliced bread.
You're upset that the cover is obscuring the word "iPhone"? Or is "hon" a euphemism for something and I'm not getting it?
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It was always having the Japanese in the periphery of my pop culture, contributing from a parallel world. They very obviously were (are) building on top of different tradition of art and storytelling.

Where I grew up a dubbed 70s manga cartoon (also about a little Italian) was one of only a handful of kids shows we got on our single TV channel.
I think is the all time classic:

/*
* If the new process paused because it was
* swapped out, set the stack level to the last call
* to savu(u_ssav). This means that the return
* which is executed immediately after the call to aretu
* actually returns from the last routine which did
* the savu.
*
* You are not expected to understand this.
*/
just pretend it's a joke about obvious flaws...
Some social media outfit just bought 85PB of storage from EMC
Every time I read this I think, "wow that seems like a lot of work." I wonder if the benefits are worth it?
8-hour workday laws are not new laws. Why do you think they are? And your view is basically that there should be no new laws, isn't it?

The relevant California law is that computer professionals are exempt from overtime law if they "mainly perform intellectual or creative work that requires independent judgment in the design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing, or modification of systems, programs, software or hardware. In 2012, they were required to earn $38.89 or more an hour ($81,026.25 or more annually, or $6752.19 or more monthly)."

My modification to that law would be to raise that to $75 or more per hour. What might be reasonable "horrific unintended consequences" of reclassifying programmers thusly?

"But at each studio there are usually less than 30 devs"

You don't know much about the history of unionization, do you. That's okay, neither do I. But I do know a bit more than you do.

The early unionizations include unions that came out of the guild system, not the factory system. For example, Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842), which settled that unions were legal in the US, dealt with the journeyman shoeworker Jeremiah Horne, who charged less than what the Boston Journeymen Bootmaker’s Society required.

It was legal for him to charge less, but then the Society would have called for a walkout. The master of the shop "would not wish to lose five or six good workmen for the sake of one", so fired Horne instead.

So we have a union which is effective even against a shop of 10 "boot developers", as it were.

Why do you think that unions are only effective in large factories? Do you mean to disregard the history of craft unionism, or are you speaking mostly out of a lack of knowledge?
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See, I'm inclined to call it sloppy, this would look nicer if it wasn't sloppy, the screenshot shows a state that makes no sense to a normal user.

However, if this is actually happening in some transition, then leave it. We all know that there are only so many hours. Bring some polish to this transition with a future update. I can't see dinging them on design for a slightly sloppy transition.
I appreciate what you're trying to say. People hire someone based on something shiny they see on Dribble, and they get something shallow and shiny as a result.

However, in my case, there was actually a lot more thought about the feel I wanted to the logo to project than you give us credit for. My company is about making predictive modeling easy, for people who are non-programmers. I wanted a look that was friendly, accessible, futuristic and high tech. I did spend a long time explaining to Ty Wilkins, my designer, what my business was about, and the feel I wanted to project.

We eventually decided that's we go with a mid-century "Tomorrowland" version of futuristic, as a way of combining the friendly with futuristic. The robot came out of that line of work. Since 50's robots were intelligent, it gets at prediction.

I think if you showed it to people they would come up with words like friendly. Eventually, I changed the name of the website to be Predictobot, to have a stronger tie in with the logo.

I did try hard not to be a back seat designer, since that's why I was hiring Ty. So the overall form of the robot is entirely his. The circle behind the antennas is to echo the '50's TV antennas. The orange is a warmer, friendlier color than more typical logo blues and greens.

So maybe I'm being naive, but I do think that we went through a good process of thought, that led to a solution that fit the brief. It wasn't just "give me something that looks good".

People do seem to connect with it. I don't hand out a single business card without getting a comment on how they like my logo. It represents what I wanted to project for my one person business. And I found Ty on Dribbble ;-).
It's not necessary in Java (though it's still a common habit). Assignment to a non-boolean is impossible in an if statement in Java, and you can make the compiler warn you about accidental assignments.
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No. Many smaller clusters.
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Thanks for the constructive criticism. I'll try to tone it down a bit in the real site. I just did the teaser site quite quickly to collect emails, before a conference I was talking at.
I can confirm that the elite can RROD. I had two originals RROD and finally got a slim, my roommate had one elite and had to get a slim after his RROD'd.
Here is a blog post from docker: http://blog.docker.io/2013/09/red-hat-and-docker-collaborate...
I actually really like that song, maybe because I came of age in the 80's. The funniest thing about it is that Rick Astley seems pissed. He should lighten up because nobody remembered anything about him before rick roll and now he's a household name.
I don't get the hype over flat design. The original iPhone UI was gaudy and overbearing, but the solution ain't a complete 180. Android strikes the right balance between clean looks with just the right amount of shading to lend affordance to the UI.

Also: Helvetica Neue? What were they thinking?
> but how can you defend the blue text/red caret?

As someone with slightly less than perfect eyesight it's an absolute godsend.
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To clarify things, we just posted this on the web site:

We love Apple.
We think this is the best way to point out what's not up to their standards so they can fix it.
It's all about intellectual honesty, not trolling.
Ad company I work for buys one of our traffic partners. I'm code reviewing their system to document it and find a comment describing how they defraud us.

That got awkward fast.
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In what way does this "gratify one's intellectual curiosity?"
Actually FUCK Show HN. My advice is to stay away from HN when doing your startup. Don't play to this crowd. It's just a huge echo chamber in here. Find a way to advertise your demo or beta product online - there's 1000s of ways to do this and get it in front of customers. The END.
Any info on the switch from Aufs? What is the new solution, and how does it compare?
...which, based on how the boards work, is essentially a downvote.

Each thread can have x posts before new posts no longer bump it. If you sage, you are using up that thread's available space (1/x worth) without bumping. Although this doesn't "downvote" in the sense that the thread is penalized/lowered, it "downvotes" because it takes up thread space with no benefit to the thread. Not to mention, sageing is a way to express your dissatisfaction with the thread, which I think was always the point (rather than trying to actually hurt the thread).
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I may be in the minority, but I really like the red/blue difference. I think it looks pretty good, and would be useful to quickly see where the cursor is.
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It's very sloppy. Especially for Apple.
I thought CCCP is a codec pack, it's in the name?
I'm sick of people talking about iPhone's market share only to follow it up with "Android, meanwhile, continues to increase its market share". You're comparing an OS with a product, that's like comparing the market share of a Hyundai sedan with the market share of Shell fuel (if the Hyundai sedan could only work with a given brand of fuel). It doesn't make sense and it doesn't serve any purpose.
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I posted my experience installing ios7 on my ipad 3 yesterday but deleted it thinking I should give it more time in order to be fair.

I continue to feel it's not an overall positive - glitchy, stuttery and slow animations, degraded battery life, UI inconsistencies, touch lag and inaccuracies ( never thought I would say that about iOS ) are all significant downsides for what is essentially a paint job and a one that I happen to not like very much.

But then maybe it works better on newer hardware. This would be the second time in Apple's update history that older devices got a poor update experience.

Curious what new features people like enough to offset the downsides.
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Relying on undefined behavior surely shows sufficient cojones.
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whats app has a huge privacy & security issue and their user are realizing it now so i hope BBM become their next choice .... it would be great if someone introduces true encryption though :)
A guy in a shirt, a guy in a polo, and an Asian lady. Why not a lady? Not calling you racist, but it is interesting how the race of non-whites seems to be included in some manner like it is always relevant. Why not mention the race of the two other people? Is it less relevant? You only mention the lady once. What role did she play in the situation?

Just curious.
The splash page linked here is a 1-page app written in JS and running on node.js. It has a couple interesting things, scroll down and watch it animate inside the iPhone. The code is open-source, https://github.com/artsy/flare.
Isn't Apple hiring the best/smartest/creative developers?

How are these small/annoying issues are passing the test cases?

Don't they have the same development cycle as they had while developing the first Iphone which was a huge thing at the time.
This is an interesting thought about the disadvantages of software text editors:

"A long time ago, I stored all of my thoughts in a computer text file. It was actually an AWESOME system. The computer has so many advantages that the paper world doesn't. [...]

For all this awesomeness in the computer, you are unconsciously pulled into a problem:

ALL OF YOUR TEXT looks EXACTLY THE SAME.[...]

YES, YES! I CAN HEAR YOU COMPUTER-PEOPLE'S COMPLAINING. ``But you can use FONTS!'' But you can make it Bold! But you can make it Italics! yes! Yes! YES! I know it! You CAN do all those things.

But that doesn't make it FAST. In keeping notes, you don't want to constantly be dicking around with your UI. You want to be able to JUST WRITE.[...]

So, by contrasting with the computer, I have described the kinds of things you want to concentrate on in your notebook. USE DIAGRAMS EVERYWHERE. They are FAR better than coercive linear text. And USE VARIABLE WRITING STYLES. Write sloppy, write neat, and everything in between. It communicates to you. Use shorthand and abbreviation. Know Gregg's script? Use that when it suits you."

In general I feel that this whole text/book could use a lot of editing. It's intentional of course, as the author says himself he just spits out the text without going back. Still, at a length of >100 pages it is frustrating. Thank you anyway for posting, it is very inspiring!
1000 words on why this matters: http://www.slideshare.net/eonnen/high-performance-network-pr...
Doesn't help with the visual distraction though. People are walking towards me all the time, or towards the people behind me, or next to me, and they are jumping around and waving their arms around and shooting nerfguns at each other and I don't know what.

Even after rearranging my desk such that I mostly look towards the windows, the hardest part I tend to concentrate on is staying focussed, and by now, maintaining that for more than half a day is extremely hard.

It's also making me sad. I can go long durations with intense focus. Given the right problem and atmosphere, something like 6 - 8 hours of intense focus and progress is possible, my high score is somewhere around 15 hours with minor breaks at a ludum dare. This is just not going to happen in this environment.
Open plan offices are one of many signals that make me very wary of modern management concepts. In trade publications 20 years ago, you'd read breathless articles about the end of cubicles and the advent of minimalist, modern, open office plans.

gasp! collaboration!

gasp! accountability!

gasp! blah blah

Now years later it's obvious why they took over the world, CEOs everywhere saw the bright open office spaces, with just desks and

gasp! cost savings!

Open office plans are a way for a company to be cheap and that's about it. No investment in offices needed, no investment in fussy cubicles, no interior decorators needed (just expose the brick!). Rent a warehouse, buy desks at IKEA , assemble and voila instant office.

These days management even tries to get strategic about open plans. I'll put this department next to this one and this one so they can talk to each other more freely and voila synergy!

Absolutely the worst environment for thinking jobs possible (the contrapositive is, if it's a good environment for your job it's probably not a thinking job).
You can, others can't.
In what bizarre universe does the 5C reek of insecurity ? The easy road would have been to release a cheap iPhone.

But instead Apple chose to price it the same as the previous iPhone 5 and expand their margins.
Just creating a couple of different users does not give nearly the level of isolation a VM does.
People collaborate on open source projects all the time without uttering a damn word.
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You could make the same point about OP specifying the type of shirt. It was just a detail.
I'd say it isn't about being smart enough, its about making it simple for them and to potentially provide more of a real hook instead of a hack at a later date.

I could be totally wrong, but it seems this is about speed and convenience and a way to try and thwart others who may be equally as smart whom have secured their machines. If you make it vulnerable by placing a hook into the OS etc, makes it potentially harder for someone to get around unless you just stay off net.
- CDex
- DVD Flick

:)
You're pretty much making a text book ad hominem attack. You're going after him instead of his argument. It's as simple as that.
They time interleave four Analog Devices AD9288 [0] dual 100MS/s 8 bit ADCs that are over clocked to sample at 125MS/s (so 125MS/s times 8 = 1GS/s).

What's fascinating is a number of people in the HW community have managed to reverse engineer the Rigol DS1052 scope. A Hellene on the EEVBlog forums has lovely pencil drawn schematics [1].

[0] http://www.analog.com/en/analog-to-digital-converters/ad-con...

[1] http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/rigol-ds1052e-nasty-surpri...
> Curious what new features people like enough to offset the downsides.

i have iOS 7 on an iPhone 5, iPad 2, iPad 3 and iPad mini. no touch lag, "slow animation" or "inaccuracies" so far.
Guess I'm confused: What features of Docker does this provide?

Also, if you're willing to virtualize something, and want Docker features, why wouldn't you virtualize Docker?
What was the closed form expression for the number of rabbits?
Pure damage control.

Steve Jobs had a brain and a backbone to go with it. Not sure the current crop do. I hope they find someone with vision and an expiry date to inoculate Apple against the stupidity of business people.
Leave Luck To Heaven.
Humans seem to gravitate toward certainty and consistency the way moths fly toward light. It's an emotional craving, and in order to be rational we have to be exceedingly comfortable not knowing things (and realizing we often don't know what we don't know).

The more a person seeks the opiatic, emotional feeling of fake knowing, the more receptive he is to religion, political brainwashing, conspiracy theories, prejudices, social authority structures, etc.
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I guess I'd have to see some compelling benchmarks of a JVM on OSv vs a JVM in a more traditional VM image.
Personally I think that it's a bit misleading to lump bugs and questionable design choices under the same 'sloppy' banner.

Good quality criticism regarding choices developers and designers have made have lead to some of the best debate and discussion I've seen on HN. Conversations that focus on criticizing execution (for example the UI bugs in the tumblr) have been some of the worst.

As a developer I would get huge value out of having a nuanced discussion about the pros and cons of iOS 7's language, particular as we begin (or have begun) redesigning our apps - hopefully that is something this tumblr can evolve into eventually.
OK, so run your JVM on something like Heroku or dotCloud that does use LXC. Too bad those are in turn running on EC2, not on bare metal.
Good storytelling. One quick detail per person sends the reader on the path to creating their own imaginary picture.
This assignment is wrapped in parentheses. GCC will not issue a warning.
So the concern is that a debt financing would be smaller than a potential equity financing by some order of magnitude, as it's constrained by trailing cash flow rather than future opportunities?
Yeah, formally Ive may have lot of power but he may not have Jobs' balls to apply that power.
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Would you really let that impact your decision as to whether to use a Scooter to get to work? It's too cliché to mention all of those people die going to work using other methods of transport.

I ride a Motorcycle because I enjoy it. However, there are many Londoners who use one primarily for commuting. It takes around 40 minutes on the tube to get to Central London from where I live, plus the wait time for a tube and the issue of whether you can actually get on it when one arrives.

I can do the same journey I can do in 20-25 minutes by motorbike. Because I can filter (lane split) the journey time is much more consistent than in a car and contributes less to congestion and has less impact on the environment.

While the level of safety will never be the same its quite clear that its a reasonable trade off. Especially if you live further from a tube station than I do.
What Nintendo platform did you develop for? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Yamauchi#Nintendo_64

"Yamauchi admitted at the 2001 Nintendo Space World event that he had intentionally ordered the Nintendo 64 to be difficult to program games for. The idea was to repel untalented third-party developers from the console, and hence tighten the quality of third-party games. However, his plan backfired and merely increased the number of poorly developed games for the console. As a result of this, the Nintendo Gamecube was to take a step in the other direction, and provide an easy, smooth and intuitive programming environment for game developers.[6][9]"

It would have been interesting to see Yamauchi-san carry on through the Wii and Wii U/3DS eras -- what would he have done differently than Iwata? (On a side-note about the Crash, E.T. gets shit on a lot when it's arguably not so bad a game and ahead of its time in many respects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NgL5H2RdI4 with fixes for common complaints: http://www.neocomputer.org)/projects/et/)
Would they have preferred the metal and glass meets billiard room look of iOS6?
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Regarding the alignment one, I guess it's about the many seemingly random baselines and horizontal alignment points: http://imgur.com/pDEuLb6
the guy is exaggerating right?
The hard-left argument that this will empower an elite is a silly and pointless one - life extension technology will be developed by China in the unlikely event that Western Luddites manage to throw a spanner in the works in their affluent countries.