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MIT's Holtzman on Internet of Things & Consumer Electronics 2.0
Preventing IT Collapse: Aim to do *less* with the less of this downturn
The servers were taken down in response to several weeks of DDOS attacks - see http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg19609.html

much ado about nothing
By checking if any object is located under the mouse pointer in the event handler.
Well, we have to build collection systems for those things growing out of the dirt!
ucanvcam should do the trick: http://code.google.com/p/ucanvcam/
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You mean you were making syntax errors all the time :)

The IDE fixing it for you made the price of not knowing the syntax of the language you are using small enough for you to not bother learning the language properly.

Once you really grok a language syntax errors are mostly gone, that's for the learning phase not when you start writing serious sized blocks of code. Sure, everybody forgets a quote or a comma every now and then, especially when switching languages. But in a compiled environment without an IDE the cost of a syntax error (one more ect cycle) is too expensive to go through so you really spend time learning the language.

The "I suspect it's more that you'll be most productive in whichever environment you know best." is very true, but once you know then equally well I wonder which will win out.
But everything can be serialized to a stream of bytes. UNIX (and moreso Plan9) is REST for OOP.
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"Not saying its justified, but their past behavior speaks to what probably will happen."

You mean that a moderate number of folks in goofy outfits will gather near AT&T headquaters? Scary indeed.
I'd reinvent money to represent the underlying trust metrics (e.g. Whuffie), or, even more directly, the prediction-market value of a person's life-potential, post-trust-investment. To put that more simply, "People's faith in X" would be a stock.
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There's nothing to say the latter 99% will be an uncivilized existence. Far more likely is that it would be very civilized, but no longer human.
True to some degree. But, the magical thinking behind things like ASCAP/BMI isn't going to go away any time soon, despite the fact that the metrics by which those royalties are disbursed become less and less accurate every day and as the old music supply chains die. The entirety of the industry is bizarre from a modern perspective, not just the record labels and consumer music supply chain.

But, yes, the worst pieces of the puzzle are busy destroying themselves as we speak, and better solutions are bound to spring up.
Two main reasons for this, as I see it (having worked in a such a setting for about a year before getting the hell out):

1 (internal reason). Large Indian offshoring companies (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL et al) have a HUGE workforce, and recruit fresh engineering under-grads in massive numbers. All the bureaucracy becomes somewhat necessary in order to manage undertakings of such magnitude

2 (external reason). Work-quality-wise, there isn't much difference between contracting work out to a TCS vs Infosys vs Wipro vs whatever else - hence this immense pressure on such companies to cultivate and tout such aspects about themselves. And let's face it, when you're farming out grunt work to code-monkeys, you kind of expect a 'monkey see, monkey do' attitude..
Wireless. Have a technology that combines mesh networking & resilient hardware a la Meraki and WiMax but without the standards wars and the proprietary-ness so that everyone can have cheap, abundant, reliable, free-as-in-speech wireless internet everywhere.

ESPECIALLY in the developing world, so that people in countries like, say, Kenya can have access to education, microbanking and the mobile startup ecosystem on their phones and leapfrog our asses.

In the same vein, the OLPC project is a clusterfuck and is a prime example of never missing an opportunity to screw up. Someone needs to turn it into a project that is viable and actually gets laptops and modern education software into the hands of kids everywhere.
So, you say that it would (in theory) be possible, that the human brain could create something more intelligent than itself?

Come on, that's ridiculous.

(Like the evolution theory, which is completely ridiculous, as it says that a less intelligent being can "auto-evovle" into something more intelligent...)

At this point, any discussion is pointless, as we already completely substitute reality with fiction.
Re tablets replacing Kindles: think PixelQi.
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Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps?
I've been wanting to learn Javascript lately, and I've become curious as to how Javascript/ECMAscript fares as a language for writing software to be ran on the desktop. Are there any ECMAscript implementations with good FFIs? Are the good libraries/bindings for writing GUI desktop apps in ECMAscript? Is it possible to get acceptable performance(comparable to Python or at least Ruby, perhaps?) from ECMAscript?

If you were writing a desktop app in ECMAscript, which implementation would you use? Would you actually consider using ECMAscript to write a desktop app?

Are there any good books or other resources you would recommend on writing desktop apps in ECMAscript?
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Yes, those Stone Age hovercrafts were really something. ;)
I would like to change 'industry' to 'media industry', it's not just the record labels that have a problem.

The reason why books are not yet as much subject to copying as music and movies is because they're still distributed in a format that makes it reasonably hard to copy them. It actually takes some effort.

As soon as books become available widely in electronic formats (not just the select few that you can get for your kindle today, Amazon claims to have 300,000 titles available but there are substantially more books than that) and without DRM the publishers will be right up there on the barricades.

I don't think there has ever been a technology as disruptive to established businesses in terms of jobs and dollars as the internet has been to the media corporations.
If they've found a way to stream video so incredibly cheaply why don't they just offer everything for free and make money as a CDN?
And these guys really did get close to reinventing the wheel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoQj-tobYOw
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I don't think I'd ever use Network Solutions as a "payment processor", as they are likely just a reseller of another solution, such as Authorize.net.
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to my knowledge this is what happens when DNA is replicated:

they take the tangled dna string thats inside the core of a cell, it is transported outside of that core and then some enzyme copies the DNA but it replaces the T protein with a U (could be another one). This is then called RNA.

Why do they do this? well the T protein is very vulnerable. By replacing it, they can now safely transport the rna to the place where they're duplicated.
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On the windows desktop platform you can use JScript and the .NET Framework to write just about any desktop application you can imagine.

This language (which is a good implementation of up-to-date ECMAScript) is somewhat light on texts however. There is a SAMS book by Justin Rogers which does cover the basics.

You might be better off looking at something like Adobe AIR which is an excellent approach to making a web style application run like a desktop application - well worth exploring and could be a good platform for developing portable (and applicable) JavaScript skills.
For upside-down flight, though, the shape of the wing isn't irrelevant. Many aerobatic aircraft have symmetric wing profiles, since the curvature of the wing reduces performance when inverted. (Higher speeds are required to maintain the required lifting force, and drag is increased).

Some of the popular explanations of aerodynamic lift are outright wrong, but most of them are correct about part of the story. Our CFD equations are obviously correct, otherwise our simulation software would give bad results. Maybe it's just hard to explain the results of these equations in an unambiguous way.

It is true that "air goes down, wing goes up", but this explanation is only one "why" closer to the heart of the matter.
An interesting video, that reinforces everything I saw when I explain these effects - I've taken a copy and must get in touch with the owner to talk about using it.

The point about Bernoulli is that it only applies in its naive form in fluid flow where it's effectively a closed system. If you introduce airstreams of varying speeds then all bets are off.

Effectively Bernoulli works because the velocity changes are being caused by the pressure differences. Take a very, very long plate with a hump in small part of it:

____________XXXX____________

Laminar flow requires that the "streamlines" are closer over the top becuase there is, effectively, less space to get through. The fluid has mass, so tries to go in a straight line. Considerably above the plate the fluid will move effectively in a straight line, so the fluid between that straight line and the plate has to move faster.

As the fluid approaches that faster flowing area, it must accelerate, and the only thing to accelerate it is a pressure gradient. In the video he is using other means to accelerate the fluid flow, so it's different.

At the end of the plate there is no downwash, so the only effect is Bernoulli, and in this experiment you do get a pressure difference between the sides of the plate, and hence "lift".

In the case of the flow around the "elbow" there is no acceleration of the air, hence no Bernoulli effect. Quite the opposite, I would expect a Bernoulli effect to push the "elbow" to the left. However, the air is being sucked around the plate, so the "downwash" effect dominates.

There are some really, really bad explanations in the literature and on the net, often written by people who do one experiment without separating the effects. They go on to teach, and unsurprisingly people get confused.
Are you talking about Postlets? I'm actually just getting involved in a property (leasing) related business and it's going to be a great stopgap for us while I build the real site
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why not simply embed a web server and connect to the localhost ? That makes your application internet ready as well when the time is right as well as giving the user to connect to your application from other pcs on the same lan.

I've built a music management system along these lines and it works quite well. The internet ready part of it causes all kinds of unintended but useful side effects, stuff that I never thought of when building it.
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You mean just like craigslist?
Ahh, I always thought it was like Just In TV; with the emphasis on live, up to the minute broadcasts.
This is very similar to the game Apples to Apples, except with questions instead of adjectives.
It's the difference between optimizing for lines of code written vs. lines of code maintained.

It seems odd to me to read that. From what I've seen of it, Java seems to be hard to maintain. The capacity for abstraction is limited, leading to repeated or generated code in multiple locations. To make matters worse, hooking in to things requires that they be designed to be hooked in to. Contrast Common Lisp method combination.
Yep, I'd suggest giving Adobe Air a spin. With some plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript you can create a decent (enough) cross-platform application. If you need an idea to get started, have a look at http://github.com/roam/morse/tree/master.
fabricate: The better "make". Finds dependencies automatically for any language.
an .0001 difference would seem to me to be 'too close to call' and a reason to reopen and let both teams work for another 30 days to get to a larger than .1 difference.

Just like in ping-pong, extend the game if it is that close until there is a clear winner.

With a winner takes all contest like this there has to be a clear winner.
Actionscript 3 is very close to javascript. The Adobe Air framework allows you to deploy desktop apps.

Depending on what you're trying to do you might want to try XUL Runner https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner . It will allow you build an html/js app that can run as a desktop app.
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Yes, the difference is negligible, but you obviously can't change rules of the game when it has already finished.
All the energy ultimately comes from the same place tho': the nearest star.
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We've been using memoize to build stuff for a while now, but we needed something that worked under Windows too. So here's our "fabricate" build tool. It's BSD licensed -- enjoy!
Bunnie always talk a lot of sense. It's good to hear his take on hardware.
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Performance wise, consider that people have been using scripting languages since the 90'ies (Tcl/Tk) with perfectly acceptable results, so that's not really your problem. The issue is going to be finding how to do a GUI.
You could try Rhino:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rhino_documentation

Steve Yegge suggests it's the next big language.
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell

Written mostly in javascript, with dynamically-generated bindings to GTK+ et al.
I agree. If you get a chance, James Howard Kunstler's "The Geography of Nowhere" is an interesting read about this and other travesties of modern architecture and infrastructure.
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I had a lucid dream when I was much younger then couple years ago I tried a couple methods and imediately when I realized I'm dreaming, i'd wake up. Experimentation also led to sleep paralysis on couple occasions.
I haven't tried fabricate yet, but I think the number of build-tools out there is a sure sign that something fundamental is broken.
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I think it's just the nature of the beast, and an example of a complex problem with a lot of different solutions.
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Update: The reason behind this and AT&T's blocking appears to be that 4chan is currently the target of a DDOS attack conducted at the expense of ISP bandwidth. The ISPs blocked 4chan to contain the usage of bandwidth rather than to censor content.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/94pf2/att_is_now...
You can accelerate without changing speed - it's a vector.
In Britain, the minimum wage is £3.53 when you're under 18, £4.77 when you're 18-21 and £5.73 when you're 22 or over.

When I was still at school, I worked part-time in a big chain store. A lot of the time, when someone turned 18, they were suddenly "not needed as often" and had their hours cut and were first in line when the shop was laying off. I got laid off about two weeks after my eighteenth birthday and the shop suddenly hired a bunch of new 16-17 year old kids...

Still, they went bust about two months after that!
The KDE desktop shell, Plasma, has js bindings so you can develop plasmoids (applets) with javascript.

http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/JavaScr...
Not sure why you were downvoted. I don't think the idea so "out there". Apps embed their own sql servers, too, why not a web server.

I think it would be nice to have a launcher that launches both the client and the server then.
Just like when craigslist renamed itself listfoundation. Thankfully that didn't last long.
I somehow think of the 'expressways' or whatever Isaac calls them in his book 'The Caves of Steel'. Basically just what you described, I think.

(They're some kind of walk-escalators that stretch all around towns, cross towns, cross land. Which you move onto the slower one, escalate your speed for the next strip, jump over to the next strip, etc. )
I doubt Apple is coming out with a tablet for one reason: Apple not only creates products, but experiences. They consider both the style and function of a product, along with the way the user interacts with it. The iPhone can be gripped with one hand, and navigated with the other, and when entering text, the user can grip it with two while still comfortably typing with his/her thumbs. With a tablet, I see no comfortable way a user can interact with the device, let alone hold it comfortably for viewing. Tablets are too big for thumb typing, and seeing as how Apple usually stays away from moving pieces ruling out any swing out arm, typing with two hands will be a pain as the tablet itself will most likely be flat.

I don't see where the tablet fits in between my laptop and my iPhone - two products that have been developed pretty well to accommodate the way we interact with them. If Apple has indeed decided to release a tablet, I'd be very very interested to see how they dealt with all the ergonomic and inputting issues that come with a tablet - issues they always seem to take into consideration quite heavily.
I hear this one a lot -- why wait? Also the cousin: if there is such a huge possible downside, shouldn't we do something?

I guess I'd have to say "no".

There are so many problems I have with this -- even assuming we're changing the climate -- that it's difficult to know where to begin. First, is there some badness that is going to happen in the next 20 or 30 years? Or are we talking about 60+ years? Because if people seriously think they know anything about what the next century is going to look like, they're smoking crack. We could all end up as smoking radioactive rubble, in which case a couple degrees of warming would be the least of our risks. There is simply no way to compare various scenarios, likelihoods, and risk exposures to make an intelligent guess about things so far off in the future. It has nothing to do with "this won't effect me, so I don't care" -- although that's a perfectly natural point of view too. It's simply that freaking anything could happen in a hundred years. To sit around and worry about a few degrees temperature change leads me to believe a lot of people don't have anything better to do with their time.

That's the thing: without hard numbers this is a religious discussion -- a discussion about how most people "feel" about what's happening. I just don't "feel" the danger is anywhere near the level of being worried or changing the way our economies work. To me that sounds like crazy talk based on fear-mongering. It reminds me of every other religious movement I've seen -- mankind has sinned, we will pay the price, we must change our ways, punishment may come anyway, etc.

I'm sorry. Given the archaeological climate data, the current state of the models, and the distant future impact, it just doesn't seem very rational to me to be that concerned about it. That doesn't mean I'm not open to compromise. Heck -- build a few thousand nuclear reactors over the next 20 years. It'll make the air cleaner, reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, and make the greenhouse gas people happy. There's lots of room for working together, even with different worldviews.
Sorry, forgot: This stuff is quite new so you might find some stuff missing from the bindings, but it's growing speedily. For the curious, it uses QScript.
Abstraction and convenience layers still need to be learned to be used properly. If you're used to doing things yourself and you shift to using helper tools, there is going to be a learning curve. The idea is that it pays off in the long run so it's worth learning.
Not to be confused with Fabric (http://www.nongnu.org/fab/), also a very cool python tool.
The post wasn't so much of a take on hardware, as it was a general wondering about the state of cellphone manufacturer schematics..
Not down -- the author has renamed the article (presumably for SEO)

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/stephen-hawking...
instead that aiming relentlessly to extend the quantity of life misses the qualities that make it worth living, including hope and the stunning curiosity that comes with youth.

Misses the qualities that make it worth living? Have you checked out what death is? The only way you can have hope and curiosity is by being alive to experience them. Prolonging the state of being alive is a much much better way to address "quality of life" than saying "death is for your own good - you'd probably be miserable otherwise anyway".

There's beauty that no matter how burdened an individual is by experience, they will die

I think not, because there is nobody outside "people who are alive" to be experiencing the alleged beauty. The next generation don't get to try "again", they get to try ... full stop.

Try what, though? Humanity as a whole isn't trying to do anything. There's no outsider giving points for space exploration and underwater colonies and disease eradication. The only point to progress is to progress the lives of people who are alive, and anything other than that about "the next generation" is a holdover from the fact that we don't have enough power to affect big changes in one lifetime but we can argue that they are worth changing for the next generation. It would be even better, not worse, if we could be changing things to improve our own lives a hundred years on.
This is an excellent approach, and in my view will be common in the future. It can also elegantly solve the problem of offline access, with the local web server syncing with the remote server in the background.
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I think you can already submit ideas for the theme. Ludum Dare is great fun.
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