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>Extended life is great, provided you solve the problems of over-population / birth rate exceeding death rate, and resource depletion.

No need. This is just for those with the dough to spend. Who cares about the unwashed masses?

To the people that will use this, upper middle class is like white trash.
Not quite. any part that links with kernel must be GPL. other parts may not be. See how NVIDIA/ATI do it for examples
That's too bad, because those little Wifi SD cards are actually pretty awesome for microcontroller projects, since you can talk to them over a standard SPI bus, and they're fairly inexpensive for what they do. Hopefully Transcend opens the source. If they did, then there would be more reason to actually buy these cards as embedded Linux systems, meaning more sales for them.

EDIT: I wonder why hardware manufacturers are so insistent on keeping the source closed for products such as this. From what I've heard, the software onboard the card is quite buggy and contains numerous exploits. If they just let the community help improve it, I'm sure we would be seeing better alternative distributions for this card (kind of like Cyanogenmod with Android)
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The entire point of the comment you're talking about was to point out that the nature of the most substantial critiques of the Hyperloop were economic and not (to use your term) "technical". It's your comments that are unfair.

Also, none of these are my opinions; they're opinions distilled from published critiques of Musk's plans. I didn't simply make them up.
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For the same reason you cannot buy a 300 feet yaught today.
I assume he used "instinctively" precisely because he doesn't know exactly why. Perhaps, "intuitively" might have been a better choice of word here.
none of 1...3 applies here, though.

just #4
This is a good thing for Blackberry. The previous CEO's were too laid back, and this laid back attitude trickled down the ladder. A lot of long time employees still have this attitude, and are being let go to allow for new, ambitious people to be hired. Or so I've heard.
and since it does nothing like dispel the notion (see, again, omitted variables)... what exactly does this contribute again?
Yep, they can probably not teach you much about any non-trivial problem in calculus, nor would probably engage you much in current advances being made in field. They would make fantastic teachers for teaching Algebra-I and II.

Some of my worst courses have been Field theorist teaching electromagnetism.
Ansys does not really need publicity. They're essentially the biggest multiphysics FE package out there.

That said, Bloomberg news as an outlet to explain technical info is always doomed for failure.
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Overseen also. Overlooked? Well.. that already happens.
Why not just let TED know about this? Like you say, if there are pseudo-science talks at a TEDx event, TED will want to know and get involved.
I solve the "people think I'm doing email" problem by telling people: "I'm taking notes, not checking email" :-) Especially at interviews, so they know I'm really paying attention.
Join a kickball league (like through WAKA). You get all the fun & camaraderie of team sports, but no one is too serious about it, and very little skill is required. If you can hold a beer while kicking a ball then you're good.
In the current environment, if you already have an engineering undergrad, an MBA would do you best. I am not a fan of the programs, but the degree will open doors that are mostly shut for pure engineers.

In many areas and locals, not necessarily Silicon Valley, a pure engineering man is seen as a lackey. An engineer with business cred is considered valuable, just my experience.
TEDx events get kicked out of TED all the time for this.
This name came to mind and I wanted to buy it but it was already taken.

I checked the url to see if it was being used at all, and it's not -- maybe it's just me but I think the error message is intentional and well played. That is all.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mnnc6/we_are_steve_cy...
This combines both of them, both source repository viewer (fisheye) and code review (crucible).
Sad to see the NodeFly Logo die out. But great to see the product become part of a larger offering. Visibility into node.js event loop has been mission critical for our team. Way to go Strong loop and their mission!
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I've done that. Doesn't work for most of the Youtube videos I want to view.

BTW why the downvoting? I'm simply stating the facts here: most Youtube and Flash videos can't be viewed on Linux, period. It's been true for several years now and sucks bananas.

If you've got a Linux distribution that allows display of more than 80% of Youtube and Flash videos then please tell me what it is. Otherwise don't be buttsore and downvote me simply because I'm stating an unpleasant truth.
New SEC fundraising rules are a really big deal
Some of the buyers who buy through the Mac App Store would have bought directly from Omni instead, but the rest would have been lost sales.

Also, just because more sales are done direct than via the MAS today, Omni may not expect it'll always be that way.
Well I guess there's criteria for the process (quick, cheap, responsive etc) and criteria for the logo. Typically important reqs would be that it uniquely identifies your brand values/mission, that it 'reads', works well in all sizes (pixel and vector), works well in colour and mono - so I couldn't really say much based on this. Obviously you can't hate it but personally I'd be almost trying to push my taste out of the equation as far as possible and instead focus on a functional list of measurable criteria related to my venture. For the 1% left that is taste/magic/pixie dust, I'd defer that to the designer on the assumption they are highly visually literate and spend all day thinking about it. (I say that having once been an art student so quite a difficult temptation to resist but nobody does their best work with a back-seat driver.)
I hire UI and UX designers. It is rather difficult to find someone who is truly adept at even one of those skills, let alone both. Throw in HTML/CSS skill, and now this big-picture-focused-thinking mindset, and I might as well go on an albino sasquatch hunt in Central Park. And if you work for a big company like me, you have to stick to a salary range set by HR department for a given position.

This article offers many solid advice for that talented albino sasquatch designer looking to differentiate himself in his job application for a well-funded start up.

But for the rest of us monkeys, having an extremely solid looking visual design skill (even at the expense of being a bit too trendy) will serve us well. These days, I have to go through about 30 resumes to see 1 that has fairly good design skill, and still not Dribbbbbble level.
While it might seem like a vacume the amount of air left in the tube makes it far cheaper to operate. It's one of those 1 +/- .001 foot rod is not that expencive but a 1 +/- .0001 foot rod is getting there and a 1 +/- .00001 foot rod even more so. Basicly vacume pumps cost more, use more energy, become more delicate, and move less air the closer you get to hard vacume.

However, there is still plenty of air in the tube to be an issue at the proposed speeds thus making Hyperloop cheaper and more complex than a traditional vacume transport.
and the Galaxy S is Ice Cream Sandwich. It can run Jelly Bean but doesn't really have the RAM to run it well.
Yay!

- Hidden Taco
With the rest of the world moving on, if you have a relatively attractive solution to an obsolete problem, what's the point?
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This isn't the first time this has happened, shoddy "science" at a TEDx event. How long until people start saying that TEDx is the actual scam?

It's a shame because I love TED itself. They've tried regulating better, but I just can't see a way out for them except closing TEDx down completely and coming up with something else. The TEDx reputation is already destroyed.
I wonder if, at the end of the day, TED has some objective or at least repeatable method of determining whether a talk constitutes "pseudoscience." Obviously, the speakers themselves won't consider their own talk to constitute pseudoscience, and neither will the speakers' supporters, so does it just come down to a numbers game? Or does TED defer the judgement to a list of sources (perhaps people or journals) which is considers "legitimate science"?
Regarding the "just" in your sentence, it seems to be more responsible to let the TEDx organizers know first, as he has done, in case it was a mistake. Contacting TED now makes sense.
I've always thought TEDx were entrepreneurs/inventors hawking their own stuff anyway, so I never bother watching any of their videos. This example just made it more obvious that TEDx is mostly a waste of time.
Some prisoners already consume the vomit of other inmates who throw up after taking drugs.

Ain't life grand?
"You can't just wish energy into existence with an idea."

Yes, I said as much.

"Efficiency gains aren't going to cut it with the energy consumption dynamics we have."

Maybe not; that's a broader question. The point is that you can displace some need for energy with efficiency gains or alternatives. The more energy you're using, the more of a difference an idea can make, since ideas tend to mean proportional improvements in efficiency (though not necessarily large proportions).

Whether it's sufficient is a huge question that would require a lot more attention than I'm able to give this right now (which is why I've persisted in staying out of the mainline of the discussion here).
TEDx is an exercise in distributed management.

So far, they are slightly average in most regards.
I'd like to invite any BlackBerry engineers over to IRC channel #Techendo on Freenode. We're working on something and would love if you want to make some change in the world. :)
Maybe because this keeps happening. A little publicity helps put a little pressure on to avoid further future embarrassment.
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Distressing, but it leaves me wondering what Ms. Vojtko did until she was 58. Had she retired from some other job, gone back into the workforce after the death of a spouse?
You + Java Steez.
I.e. People who think they are machines want to live forever?
>An open plan workplace, in which enclosed rooms are eschewed in favour of partitioned or non-partitioned desks arranged around a large room, are supposed to promote interaction between workers and boost teamwork.

Instead, everyone's too busy maintaining social facades for the entirety of their day, day after day, rather than focusing on their work.
What could be done is closer curation of TEDx events, rather than simply leasing out the name & format to whomever. This would decrease the number of TEDx events you could hold, and probably also make them more expensive to host- but maybe that could be a good thing.
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This is a great article, and all the mobile web performance tips are spot on. But please, don't take this advice and use it to try to make your mobile web app try to be like a native app. Don't emulate android or iOS elements in HTML. emulate native performance, not native UI. there's no easier way to make your app feel wrong. You'll never be able to perfectly emulate a native android or iOS control using html and js, so stop trying. build your own UI that isn't trying to be something its not, so that your users can't tell when you miss.
TED has very little involvement in TEDx. The TEDx organizer, who is NOT a TED representative, is responsible for screening.

Which has always kind of surprised me, because I always suspected that kind of arms-length involvement would wind up with TEDx running the TED name into the mud.
Kurzweil works for Google.
> Clicking "like" on something in facebook is nothing like a form of voting. It is a form of subscription. It says you want to get updates about the thing you "liked."

This is not how I or (citation needed, I know) most people use likes most of the time.The subscription scheme with likes was foisted on users by facebook to enhance their ability to sell themselves as a marketing destination.
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From the "who would have guessed" files. Open plan has never been about the workers -- its about the managers and cost.
How does that explain the good quality phones which come out of (atleast) Samsung.
The London riots? Of 2011?

They should have release BBM for iPhone and Android 2 years ago.
The most important thing about this story is that in -- checks -- Croatia, there isn't a single bigger event that is as accessible to the author as TEDxZagreb.

TED will get involved, but they will protect their brand. Not smart Croatians.
yes, but it's much faster now (look at how quickly the RNA World Hypothesis took over after Noller, Woese, and Cech demonstrated their results. One might say we're catalyzing paradigm shifts through network effects. Then engineers would complain I was using management talk, but I can assure you, that's a succinct and accurate way to explain it.
The event organizer sounds like a real fampoonza.
Your data is mostly lies. The actual fact is that, other than iodine deficiency, malnutrition has to be extreme and prolonged to cause developmental problems. Not even the worst privation of WWII in Europe caused noticeable developmental changes in children compared to the pre- and post-war cohorts.

The data on American children show the opposite of starvation. IQs continue to climb, height and growth rate remain high, and the age of puberty continues to fall. This is especially true for the "deprived" Africans in your references, who have the fastest IQ growth of any Americans and an astonishingly low age of puberty (8 and falling for girls).

Your references trot out the high rate of welfare handouts to the poorest Africans. That's because they have an average IQ below 80 and most of their jobs have been taken over by machines. This is the expected transition to a post-scarcity society.
Agreed (as I say at the beginning and end of my post) and that is why I hope this company receives an expensive legal education
What, you have a problem working in a cafeteria?

You know, not everybody is young and cool enough for this lifestyle..
BlackBerry still rules in some markets. The BlackBerry Babes would not approve of these layoffs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lDJGHCX2wA
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are ways of calculating whether a hidden variable is more likely to cause the observational data than the independent variables of your model.

A simple example would be a wet lawn. We know rain causes a wet lawn, and our observation shows indeed that rain and wet lawns are strongly associated. However, observing a case where a given lawn is wet, and yet there's no associated rain is a clear signal that a latent cause hasn't been accounted for (namely sprinklers). This principle still applies in noisy observational data or probabilistic rather than deterministic causal relations, though you do need a bigger sample to reach the same confidence.

We also can look at measures of model fitness. If a variation of the model that hypothesizes a latent causal variable is more likely to generate the observed data than the model without it, we know we've missed something. The general case of this is that we learn the model itself from the observed data.

This page from Kevin Murphy is a reasonable survey of the methods: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Bayes/bayes.html I also recommend his textbook.
My ideal environment allows for free and spontaneous clustering of small groups of developers in spaces that have some noise blocking partitions between clusters.

You get a good balance of people sitting together to work on things while not being distracted by dozens of others in the same office.
Looking at the javascript one I wonder if the data is skewed by the many minimized code.
I don't use Whatsapp. It feels kind of anti-internet to me.

When your phone's battery dies, you can just keep checking your Whatsapp messages on your computer right? False.

Want to switch smartphone platforms, just log in to Whatsapp on your new phone and all your old messages (read: PHOTOS) are expectedly there, right? HAH.

Moved countries, and now I need to broadcast on my Facebook wall asking people to re-add me on Whatsapp? Because I got a new phone number? An app running on my supercomputer in my pocket with a retina display is still tied to a phone number? Are you fucking kidding me?

I use FB chat and Hangouts. I would use FB chat exclusively but it can't do video calls.
Sure, but the rules are completely arbitrary.

What if they suddenly say only apps distributed in the MAS can use AirDrop, CoreData, CoreAnimation, etc.?

It's not as if they will bother telling developers beforehand.

Go look at the Apple developer forums today, under the iOS 7 beta section, people only found out that the iOS App Store allows older versions of apps to be downloaded because 9To5Mac found out about it and published a blog post. No official guidance (as yet) has been given to developers.
>> It is important to cut these evil companies to size by boycotting them.

Or encourage them to participate by releasing source, then we all win.
And yet, despite all the studies and data, these things continue to spread like a plague through the corporate world.

...because it makes upper management feel good to keep the peons in a bullpen.
So I've envisioned a phone app - how to find coder?
I, like many others, have conceptualized a phone app that I think has strong appeal. The next major problem is finding a competent code developer to partner with to make it real. Are there reputable clearing houses for match-ups like this? What resources are there in general for this?

Thanks
Honestly, since everything is tunneled through HTTP and sent using javascriptish storage notation and half the content is html anyhow, I think it's fair to say "the web" now. It's not the 90s anymore... Web technologies have take over the rest of the internet.
Very good point! I didn't think the statement about curing cancer and getting back 3 years was a very thoughtful one.
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I guess I should be saying "it's hard to argue with the numbers," and yet my temptation is precisely to argue against the numbers at least for my job (programming for a tech company). I just don't understand what I would be doing in my own office, other than wasting space and spending more time leaving my office to find coprogrammers I have questions for.
Assuming that we accept that the 'arrangement' is what we are, and not the specific atoms, copying that arrangement would produce a new arrangement that isn't you, since all the atoms are arranged differently relative to all the other atoms in the universe.

Assuming that the preceding is wrong, and that it's only the relative arrangement of atoms inside the brain that matters, a computer representation of the arrangement of atoms is represented by a totally different arrangement of atoms that is the computer, and therefore cannot be you.

Uploading only works if we can say that you are just an abstract mathematical pattern that can be represented in any medium. Quantum physics does not address this question. It is a question of philosophy.
"a marketplace of "best courses" that the schools purchase"

The last thing we need is more attempts to shoehorn market-based approaches to education into our schools. Ignoring the matter of corruption among the school boards that would choose such courses (take a look at how textbooks are purchased for comparison) and the matter of politcally motivated interests that would undermine whatever market you manage to set up, we do not need the sort of close-to-the-margins, race-to-the-bottom, divide-and-conquer-the-customers approach that markets produce in other fields. Markets produce the kind of results that evolution produces -- sometimes beautiful things, sometimes disgusting things.

Higher education has already been undermined by market-based approaches. By focusing on what students are willing to buy, universities have lost sight of their academic mission. You see it in CS departments, where tough courses are watered down, where theoretical topics are pushed aside to make room for vocational training. You see it in humanities departments, assuming you can even locate them. You see it in the money spent trying to make schools look like suburban malls during a time when library hours are being curtailed to "save money."

I would also be wary of creating a monoculture, where the most popular curricula become universal and everyone comes out of school with the exact same way of thinking about the world. There is something to be said for encouraging some amount of diversity in our education system -- which is what happens when teachers develop their own curricula.
you can just keep checking your Whatsapp messages on your computer right? True
I'm using bluestack software.I only checking whatsapp only office hour only.
There was a book on that a little while ago by Shelly Kagan (decent excerpt at [1]). I think the evolutionary perspective is clearly "correct," but it doesn't quite answer the big questions for me. It establishes that "death is bad" is an axiom of our ethical system (and not a theorem of it,) but it has nothing to say when we ask whether we should attempt to adjust our morality.

1: http://chronicle.com/article/Is-Death-Bad-for-You-/131818/
>Now I am not suggesting that you strap boilerplate to it, however a note that reassures people of their freedom to use the code without fear of reprisal is a polite consideration.

I might do that. My other software comes with copyheart notices, I just hadn't gotten around to tacking it onto dali yet.... Originally dali is part of a now-on-ice project, which carried the notice.
Have you ever priced cubicle panels and hardware? How about erecting walls and doors? There's a secondary benefit here.
Just to give my view: Because it's an engineering approach. We don't have to completely understand a highly complex system before we can make some fixes. Intervening before it breaks frees us from the work of repairing what we can't manage. This resonated with me the first time I read about it.
I can't find any word on if this concentrated in either the software or hardware groups or if its across the board.

If its the former it seems like BBRY is trying to make a go of it as an independent company, if its the later then it looks like they are making themselves look pretty in an effort to sell themselves.
I think it would be misleading to call it a vacuum tube, since there are well known implementations of that where the capsule is moved by air pressure/vacuum. Meanwhile the hyperloop has electric propulsion. If he had said vacuum tube, no one would have guessed the propulsion mechanism. The air pressure being reduced in the tube is done more for efficiency than as the mechanism of movement.
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I'm not sure the web is embracing flat, it's more like designers get bored and feel the urge to do something. They have to justify their paycheck and raison d'etre.

It's like the fashion industry, what is out of fashion comes back in because somebody says so and the catwalk is then flooded with retro fashion.
the paper is quite interesting. http://www.modha.org/papers/012.CICC1.pdf
One of the big things though is that BBM is big over here in Indonesia and is the main selling point for Blackberry. It seems odd, but blackberries are consumer smartphones over here. This could go one of two ways:

1. BBM could become a larger service that Blackberry finds some other way to leverage, or

2. This could lead to the loss of the last few really major captive markets for BBM.

I don't think that Blackberry can survive withotu finding a way to leverage BBM in these markets.
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