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There is obviously a market for a phone with minimal choice, and it's filled nicely by Apple. I tend to agree that Android can be overwhelming, especially to new users, given the overwhelming number of choices, both critical and trivial.

In my opinion though, the solution is not less choice, but better and stronger defaults. There's no reason why android phones couldn't be as simple as iphones out of the box, but have more options for configuration for users who wish to dig deeper. Instead, at the moment we generally have phones full of bloatware, where many of the defaults seem designed to sell products and services of questionable value, rather than to aid the user.

The example of default application bindings in the article is a good one. That system is indeed terrible currently, but there's no reason it needs to be. At a minimum it should be possible to edit the bindings of any installed application, rather than simply clearing them all. (Right now it almost seems like the designers were trying to follow this philosophy of minimizing choice, but ended up with a hybrid that is both more overwhelming and less customizable than it could be.) There is also no reason why users necessarily have to be interrupted by the choice of app to perform a given action. Instead, an app could be chosen based on some predefined hierarchy, such as first installed. Then let the user override that choice if desired. (For example, by pressing the menu button within X seconds of one app launching another, then choosing the appropriate option.) You get the same benefit without overwhelming less knowledgeable users with choice. (And yes, some users might never realize that there was a choice at all, but that's a fair sight better than there indeed not being one.)
I would replace a couple of the anthropocentric ones with:

1) What is the nature of time, and how/why does our consciousness perceive it as such?

2) What's inside a black hole?

I also have a philosophical question that maybe has already been explored:

Are the laws of logic always true in every possible universe? Could there exist a universe where p|^p is not always true? One where the ratio of a circle's circumference and diameter is not equal to pi? I guess these things would be impossible to imagine, but is logic just a description of reality, or is reality an implementation of logical axioms?
To pretend that for the majority this isn't annoying is disingenuous.
Isn't the newest version of Bootstrap already quite flat?

This looks like "Bootstrap 3 with sharper edges" to me. I guess an attempt at the Metro style?
I said lisp not Lisp. I think it's meaningful to refer to things like Scheme, Racket, Arc, Clojure, Dylan, Honu et al as lowercase lisps.

For example I believe those tick off all 9 items on pg's list:
http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html

Disclaimer for language lawyers: Using lowercase lisp is not intended to infringe Lisp (R), a registered trademark of Sole Arbiter of What's a Lisp Corporation. ;)
Delivery by self driving car makes more sense to me. Both are automated but a car avoids weight, landing and FAA issues. Not to mention that our homes are already configured for easy access to roadways.
I can't find the references to 1729 in the Futurama screencaps posted in that article. Would someone please point them out to me?
Believing you don't deserve anything you have or have access to can be a big hit to your self worth though, causing things like imposter syndrome or other forms of insecurities.
it was not meant to be a knock on jeff at all, in fact I was impressed he thought of that, it was more of an observation, upon first seeing it I actually took a second look and had a thought about whether or not that's actually what he was doing
Considering how many people end up with it by default because it's the cheap (or free) option would suggest otherwise...
Time, as pertained to one's life, is finite.
The 'inflation' of time is exponential - over time, time becomes more precious; the value of time accelerates...more than money.

Therefore time > money.
Still the argument "they have their ships therefore they don't need our Earth" is more than shaky. I concur with Hawking: we can definitely imagine aliens who wouldn't blink an eye before they won't care for life of humans, the same way we eat other animals or simply destroy them as the side effect of doing something for us more important.
I don't like to smoke it and I haven't touched it for over a decade. I don't care if others do it, more power to them.

Personally, I think the medical marijuana as it is in California is a load of bull. I'd rather the advocates just be forthcoming and say they want to get high. There's nothing wrong with that, and I think it is funny that they constantly hit every angle but the simple fact that this "medicine" as certain desirable side-effects.
To search your home, a warrant is needed. To search a remote site, less is needed, and you might never know it’s been searched, back-doored and compromised.
The Startup I am currently working on (also called "Jarvis Inc"), is aiming for the same star. While the current form is far from the contextual understanding. I love to see people working towards the same goal. This was our earlier mockup at jarvis.co. We only saw limited interest probably because of the high end market size. We are currently in the middle of building an open API platform as a spin off of this project.
Same exact experience - I was at least hoping for some cool natural language processing. Their "generate reports" feature just scrapes text from Wikipedia...
The problem with isolate scope is that you need to pass in all the data through attributes. This is great if you want something reusable that won't collide. My rule of thumb is that if it's got its own template, it should be isolated.

However, this can really bite you in the butt. If you're doing something like

<div my-directive>{{foo}}</div>

where my-directive uses isolate scope, {{foo}} is broken. So I'd never use isolate scope for an attribute directive.
Zettaset claims Intel lied, cheated and stole its Hadoop software
Yup. Kind of like the Cold War.
Hate to be an a-hole but this is not impressive at all. The UI, the interface, and UE is woefully deficient compared to SIRI or offerings from Google.
Four screens for me. The left two 24" screens are connected to a Linux Mint box. That far left has a browser with developer tools. The next one has a full-screen vim session.
The right two are connected to a MBP. The left 24" has terminals (ssh'ed into the linux box) for Rails console, MySql and Rails log running in real time. The laptop's built-in screen is the far right, with everything from Assembla to email to Skype, etc.
Here's a typical screen-shot of how I work: http://i.imgur.com/UVOfAan.jpg
As others have said, I can also do with more screens. At the moment both the Linux box and the Mac has 3-4 virtual desktops each.
How can I get HTML code to share for new flickr interface?
rss2email running on a server. It converts rss entries to email, which then gets sent to an email account that filters them into a folder. Email is surprisingly an ideal platform for this kind of information. You can read it pretty much anywhere: web, desktop client and phone client.
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If you are targeting people who don't want to configure anything why are you using markdown?

I would have expected you to use something like TinyMCE. Markdown is like coding for non-programmers.
> According to Hardy, he visited Ramanujan in a nursing home in 1918: "I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. 'No,' he replied. 'It is a very interesting number. It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.'"
I used to have an old Linux professor that taught class on the weekends. He was a network engineer at his day job and there was never a day where I didn't see him with his fisherman's vest. Every pocket was occupied with some weird gadget, and his zipper had a keychain bottle opener. He had a single pocket entirely dedicated to candy bars and always made sure it was properly stocked. The man practically never left his house without his emergency candy rations, and as far as I could tell he didn't have diabetes or anything.

I guess you never know when a candy bar might come in handy.
I understand what the author is saying but I disagree, I'm a fresher at Cambridge University and for those of us that haven't come from the private schools it can feel a bit overwhelming and that somehow you have conned them into thinking you're good enough. I can't quite remember what the warden said at our matriculation dinner but it followed the same sentiment that basically every one of us is good enough to be here and that many of us will be feeling that they are out of place but this is normal and not to worry. A week in and I'm absolutely loving it (it's hard work though).

The first week should be for getting people settled in and making new friends.
>>but then there are a lot of other economic machinery related things that we need to figure out first.

The budget is shoe string, so small that its almost a rounding error in India's budget. I am not sure what you would accomplish cutting that and investing in yet another give-away-things-for-free schemes.

>>By the time ISRO of India matures up, rocketry elsewhere will move away from public institutions to the more competitive and cut-throat marketplace of private players.

Well this is as mature as it gets. A agency that has sent one probe to moon, another one in progress and is sending one to mars at a shoe string budget compared any other nation is by no means a 'immature' agency.

>>So I just don't see the point, enlighten me if there is one.

There is no point in anything. Anything for that matter, why climb the Mount Everest? Why invent the Internet, or go to the moon, or anything that will ever exist on earth. Earth is just a small rock going around an average star in some corner of a galaxy. Humanity is too small and feeble to have any impact on anything in the grand scheme of things.

>>Besides Indian Government should rather (and at least) be focusing on the more serious issues drowning 'our country in our own poop' -- things like corruption, poverty, malnutrition, malaria, dengue, power outages etc. What not!

Firstly this isn't one-after-the-other, you have to do things in parallel. Secondly if we were to wait to start before everything is right, we would never start anything.

Update: May be you should reply to specific comments. Besides, I will reply any way.

>>Can someone explain how ISRO is gonna compete tomorrow, and do the same space exploration at a competitive cost, when the rest of the world would have moved to space industry being managed by private players and even start-ups?

We should debate about that then?

How many start up's do you see in space exploration currently? Spacex doesn't count as a start up as they started with a pretty big investment.

Space exploration is expensive and requires funding across years to see any sign of success, in short you can't start a space exploration firm in your garage. This why ideally governments are better placed to chase such large decade spanning projects.

>>Someone indicated below that ISRO operates on a shoe-string budget. Can we fix that at least?

What do you want to fix? Can you point out what is broken first?

Only thing that needs to be fixed is that we need to aim higher, and provide them with better funds to get there.
Still remember that when the question is formulated as "what makes us humans" it gets the theological note to it implying that we are special, "divinely better" or whatever. And that we're not. We're just one specific attempt of all evolutionary attempts that happened through the billions of years.
how about asdf@gmail.com?
I don't think there are, news sites routinely stuff barely related or unrelated images in to articles these days.

They say though that:

- Bender's serial number is 1729

- In 'The Farnsworth Parabox' there's a Universe 1729

- Zapp Brannigan's ship the Nimbus is BP-1729
I am not getting a cohesive point in your comment to rebut.

Either you are saying:
1. India, for example, is _exclusively_ (i.e. completely) ignoring welfare - something that is clearly wrong as the country spends a lot on subsidizing food and basic amenities - you can argue the specifics of the program but can't say that the program is absent.

or you are saying
2. India is _exclusively_ focusing on ISRO, also something wrong - ISRO is a minute fraction of the budget
May be something like, GPS + "Bluetooth pairing at destination". This could allow the fly-copter to lock onto the target when in vicinity of the original (or updated) destination GPS coordinates.

There seems to a bunch of seemingly plausible ways to do this, but the first group to work on the problem will surely solve it then patent the method.
"You're getting warmer. Kip — I think they eat meat." - Have Spacesuit—Will Travel
> Please note that congress is doing exactly what it was designed to do. Congress, whether you agree with it or not, represents the will of the people of the united states and Obama is ignoring it, refusing to do so much as negotiate (or so claims congress, and I see no reason to doubt their claims). He knew years in advance that this was coming and gambled. Every executive who has fought congress on this has failed, again something Obama is perfectly aware of (it featured prominently in his education for one thing, hell, it's one of the main forces that brought us democracy in the first place).

The Affordable Care Act was passed through normal legislative processes and defended by the judicial system. It has also survived an almost constant legislative assault since then.

Shutting down the government and threatening default over a piece of legislation you don't like is not part of the normal legislative process. It's radical. And you can even argue that with cute little last minute rule changes like HR 368 that it's borderline undemocratic as well. The American people may have mixed opinions on the Affordable Care Act, but I highly doubt they wanted the federal government shut down over it.
It could work better with residential buildings, I think.

Our building doesn't have a helicopter landing pad or anything that fancy, but it's fairly clear and well-maintained (no debris or trees growing up there). There's no reason a relatively light drone can't land without issues.
I'm glad to see they're rolling out all over the US. I really wanted to use them when I first heard about them but couldn't. It looks like I still have to wait until 2014 until they support a small business (i.e. < 20 employees) like mine, but I'm glad to hear they're on track to handle it.

Now the next question: who is going to buy them, how long will it take, and when they are finally purchased will they be torn apart by the buyer?
Hi ZenoArrow, Most welcome, glad that you liked it
Scholarships and grants have also been rising, and the net price -what people actually pay -has been rising much more slowly than that. For private colleges, it has actually fallen since 2006/2007: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/22/153316565/the-pric...
Not really responsive to the question, though. We (the Allied powers, particularly the US) went out of our way to give Japan and Germany a helping hand after the war, having seen the problems caused by allowing defeated nations to fall into ruin.
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This is what I think I think the author is missing, perhaps a better word than 'deserve' could have been used but the sentiment was right.
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Oh interesting, not having lived in the NT or ACT I didn't know about that one.
I would recommend a nexus device. If you are really into sensors like temperature, humidity go for galaxy S4 otherwise don't. Nexus 5 is coming soon,to wait few more days to buy a nexus
I lived with a Russian family a few years ago for a month in one of the ten largest cities in Russia. As an American, I found many aspects of their society to be rather hostile, but I found at least one region to be a beautiful area of the country with interesting, warm, and dare I say _happy_ people. I think many of us can trivially find reasons that the state of Russia is less than ideal, but the way you describe it is a bit off the mark.
Quantum states simply aren't the medium of the interaction for our consciousness. Our brains work on electrical and chemical signals, ginormous orders of magnitude bigger levels than quantum ones.
Can you post an issue on GitHub with a big template example (on gist.github.com). I'll be happy to add scala compatibility
Hmm, isn't this not secure? I can shoot this thing down in a variety of ways and get a free package. Not to mention a free quad copter.
Almost. Wanderlust. The ebb and flow of disaster and recovery. A pond overflows, a forest burns, a volcano erupts, a comet hits Earth. We always send out the scouting parties and come back. There is no immediate economic logic, just the 1 billion old instinct to check out the next habitat. By Tyma's cold logic, there is no point in tourism, yet we spend 10% of our global resources for an utterly useless activity. Why?
Here's one way to control for genetics - compare orphans who were adopted early (Pre 1yo) and then see what the correlation between their IQ and both the parents and adoptive parents IQ. (Or use income as a proxy for intelligence; it might be hard to get the dead parents to take an IQ test)
I should probably add that the circuit switched stuff really isn't incompatible with less obscure gear. You can even send raw TDM frames over layer 2 ethernet. There's an implementation in PBX software for this.

http://www.thrallingpenguin.com/articles/tdmoe-mf.htm
Explains why Stephen Hawking is so pumped and smart.
The 507 mechanical movements book he references is fairly well known and has been discussed in various places before. There is a website dedicated to each movement from the book, with animations for many of the motions.

http://507movements.com/
Sorry, no elasticity indeed. Just added resources.
Both the [Leopold Tenkeyless](http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=leopold,tenkeyles...) and the [Filco Majestouch-2 Tenkeyless](http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/usa-filco-ninja-majestouc...) are "full size [except the numpad], heavy, long-key-travel, concave key-tops, easy-typing, standard layout". I have the Filco.
HN discussion of original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6540842
That's the real key, it's popular because it's cheap, imagine trying to claim Chevy makes a better car than BMW because more people buy Chevy.
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If I’m understanding you correctly, you are implying that it’s OK to buy things produced by child slave labor, because otherwise the slave children would starve.

This is… an argument I won’t get into. Suffice it to say, I was merely trying to construct an analogy to demonstrate why, sometimes, using something less than the “best” product is preferable, and why, for some people, it can’t be considered a choice to use the less efficient product.
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> Your arguments are quite flawed as they could be applied in favour of feudalism or plain cattle slavery.

Not at all. I could make some solid suggestions for proven ways of improving on feudalism or slavery. But I don't know of any likely ideas to help Bangladesh beyond what they're already doing. More to the point, RodericDay apparently didn't have any either.

If I say Apple knows a few things about global supply chain management, and thus it might be a good idea not to criticise them as clowns who couldn't run a lemonade stand, it does not follow that I disagree with all criticism of every business everywhere just because my arguments could, in theory, have been made about other companies. Because that particular argument would be wrong applied to almost any other company.

> Also, "Communist" China has raised quite a lot of people out of povert as well.

That was the precise process I was referring to, and as I"m sure you're aware (hence your scare quotes), it was via the operations of modern global capitalism, very similar to what is even now beginning to take place in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the Asian periphery.

> I can't accept the notion that one has to have a thoughout solution to a complex problem to be able to express ones views.

To be sure. But RodericDay went far further than that. First, he didn't have the faintest suggestion of a solution; he didn't even suggest an avenue to explore. And second, he wasn't just "expressing his views"; he was condemning the system and its supporters in the harshest possible language. There is a difference between suggesting that it would be nice if Bangladesh could improve even faster, and saying that people who are pleased with their progress are pro-slavery.
I believe I am going to hack Russia by going to live there for a while. Let's see what I can do.
They have 13% of business tax only.
Wait, I know this TV show. It's called "Revolution".
Deserve is always a scary word. Every time I hear it - I assume the person is preying on my ego in order to sell me something.
> This is the crux of the argument. That choice is bad, and the people who like Android actually like tinkering, and don't really like customization, and it's just wrong.

I think you do qualify as a tinkerer, at least in comparison to most people I know who use phones. You have optimised your phone for your use by making technical choices, and it's probable that if improvements are made in the future, you will consider them and incorporate them into your workflow.

Ten years ago, I used to optimise my Windows and Linux PC for my use. Made everything perfect — the way you describe. From the UI layout, associated tools, extensions. I would set it up and make it perfect, perhaps every year or two I would incorporate improvements or drastically change something. I was definitely a tinkerer, even though I went through long stretches of not touching a "perfect" setup.
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There's another reference when Bender meets Flexo: they get excited because they both have serial numbers that can be expressed as the sum of 2 cubes.
What do employers think of failed startup on a developer's resume?
I went to a decent school and worked at a few companies as a developer. About a year ago, I started a company with my friend. We were both developers. We worked really hard and tried to take the product off the ground. We were able to solve pretty much all relevant technical challenges. But we never really got a traction and we didn't get any users at the end of the day.

I haven't expressed any explicit feelings about the current state of things to my cofounder, but it does seem like our company is winding down. I will have to find a job as a developer again.

How does a failed startup look for employers on resume?
Working with immutable data in Lua is not a good idea if you care about performance. You end up generating a massive number of short-lived objects and Lua is not built for that.

Java's advanced generational GC can handle it surprisingly well but of course for decent performance you want a language implementation optimized for working with immutable data (e.g. GHC, Clojure).
A Galois project:

http://smaccmpilot.org/

http://corp.galois.com/blog/2013/10/2/smaccmpilot-open-sourc...
> One where the ratio of a circle's circumference and diameter is not equal to pi

You don't need a different universe for that. You just have to be in Indiana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
There's no way I'm reading that big slab of text down the bottom of the home page. Understand the SEO benefits, but I'm sure you could break it up into meaningful sections and make it seem a bit less keyword stuffy.