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I enjoyed the HN comments far more than the article itself...

For a while now I've been thinking I'd end up in SF or the Valley at some point over the next few years. I can't say dating ratios ever crossed my mind as a reason (not) to go. It doesn't exactly sound fun to be a woman in SF, so I guess I'd better spend more than a couple of weeks there and find out before I commit myself to meat markets and being a rarity...
This is what a lot of people fail to get - designers in particular. Sure, they may think they're cool because their 'made in the bedroom' portfolios exclude IE users, but when faced with real world situations away from the arty farty tools of Photoshop, clients get really pissed off when their sites don't work in the browser a) they're using and b) their customers are using.

I can't wait for IE6 to die off, but it's not going to happen any time soon.
You could tie the unemployment checks to reskilling programs. E.g. you earn 20% more unemployment benefits if you sign up for one of these local programs to teach you various skills that are actually in demand. Seems pretty straightforward - the hardest part is determining which skills are in demand, but anyone with a newspaper's job ads section in hand should be able to do that.
Apple and Sony both.

Their strategy seems to be that if you try it enough times and apply the lessons from the previous time then one day you'll find that holy grail, a format or a market that is completely yours, and as a result of that a captive audience that you can milk for a long long time.

Sony failed with betamax against the more open format VHS but they succeeded with Blu Ray vs HD DVD.

Apple with the Mac vs the PC (which technically pitted Apple against IBM, but which now seems to be reinterpreted as Apple vs Microsoft).
The bandwidth-sync correlation that's worth thinking about
Apple is profiting a lot from the App store in its current form. Profit is the definition of success in any realistic business.

There is no way to prove that this will ultimately fail when it is so successful now. You can try boycotting them, but then their failure will be your self fulfilling prophecy.
I don't now, but have worked in 3 different locations where IE6 was forced on its users. All education.

They have different financial priorities than spending time on upgrading software that "just works".
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Probably to gain that 10 seconds worth of load-time, which is enough time for people to close your site many, many times.

It's a tragedy really. I stopped using Cybertown over 10 years ago. A 3D virtual community accessed in your browser using a VRML plug-in. Today we apparently get excited if our browsers display floating circles.
Actually, I don't think Microsoft cares that much about their browser. It's not like it makes them any money. It was a selling point for their OS. Now there are plenty of alternative selling points.
Just give me a simple CPU and some I/O ports
I think the researcher here has confused Bayesian inference with Markov chaining? I'm doubtful this is an effective approach to unlock any kind of -meaning- from the inscriptions.

If this isn't an article for PG's comment, I don't know what is :)
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And these sharding issues don't happen with the things he marks as "scales!"?
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I never worked with Connection Machines, but I am also interested in them. If you haven't yet done so (which is unlikely), do take a look at Danny Hillis' PhD thesis:

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5679
You absolutely can have variable geometry between the axle and bottom bracket -- most all rear suspension designs do it, and then have clever linkages to cancel out the force of the chain.
That is correct. Things like S3 can expand without issue, and others like Voldemort handle partitioning data natively.
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right now reading this:

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I don't believe they are comparable. The situation, the products and competition are all different. And I really don't think they failed the first time, they may have lost of to the PCs then but they didn't perish as a company.

Their philosophy has been to create a great product and sell it in one package. And it has worked pretty good for them with Mac line of products.

With the app store model they still get to control the applications that run on the iPhone. Which does give them the ability to not approve any application that would make the user experience with the device undesirable. This control over the app store is being used for tactical reasons by Apple. But obviously whether it was intended reason from the get go, I highly doubt that. Add to this who knows what legal agreements they are bound by with the Carrier. The carrier may say it wasn't us but when things go bad between them I am pretty certain there will be a few people in both these companies looking at those legal agreements.

Whether this is a good thing for developers, no. Whether it is good for Apple, may be in short term but probably not in long term. A more open policy with the approval process would be ideal.
I don't understand how twitter is more synchronized then a phone call or even IM, as twitter is not real time whereas a phone call is and IM can be.
As another site pointed out yesterday, the destruction of the engine also destroys most of their value to salvage yards, which means they are mostly just useful for scrap rather than reuse of parts.
i dont get this 3d in browser thing. apart from games what is the killer application? putting every possible tech into browser is just plain BS.

they make browser heavy and heavy in each major release thats why I returned to FF3 and i am not alone.

p.s: in future we would have browser containing drivers and bios. the ultimate BrowSer.
This blog post contains some interesting links:

http://stochastix.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/the-connection-ma...
Modern statistical machine translation works by training on large amounts of already translated data, called parallel corpora. Monolingual data is helpful and can help you fix grammar, choose words that are more likely, but it won't work without that parallel corpora. Basically, you need a Rosetta stone, and if you had that, the humans could slowly deduce all sorts of things from only a small amount of data that would probably be useless for an MT system. Actually, scanning, or OCR, is a similar process--you train first on text that already has been properly transcribed, then you have a model that can be used to do OCR on new data.
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There have existed, and do exist, cultures which value human lives lost in combat the same way we will view robots lost in combat. In a sense, our enemy already thinks this way. Each Jihadist's death, to them, is a victory in itself, and but one of many to come; a mark of progress in what is certainly the most glorious and successful guerilla campaign of all time.

I thought the author's arguments were heavily culturally-bound, and I don't think the use of robots in combat will change anything about the nature of war. Killing can be automated; war, and winning wars, cannot. There will always be repercussions the belligerent's society will be able to understand as "loss." Our current definition is lost troops. Our future enemies will figure it out if it changes, and make it as clear to us as possible in terms we can understand why we will not win. Nowadays, their tools are insurgency and domestic terrorism. Who knows what they will be in the future.

Preventing the start of future wars doesn't have anything, in my view, to do with stopping the Pentagon from further automating killing. As long as we as a country feel the need to maintain a military, we must continue innovating with the tools and techniques of war.

A larger and scarier problem with our country, in my view, is our society's perspectives - on itself, on the world, on the meaning of life and death in general. It is this perspective, and collective awareness, that will guide the way we use both our military and its robots in the future to solve problems and protect ourselves. The average American has never served in the military, seen directly or even heard second-hand the nature of war or the military. The average American hasn't even ever left the country, nor spoken another language. How can our leaders, products of such a society, be expected to make decisions about the application of war?

It's a question that saddens me because I don't think there's an answer, and this post has turned into a rant. Forgive me, back to coding!
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Of note for HN: "I am interested in working for a funded startup that has about 5-20 employees and is growing or would like to grow."
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Being based on something doesn't mean it's like similar. Is C++ like Simula?

My statement was probably poorly phrased, but what I meant is that a modern C++ program is nothing like a modern Java program. The approach are radically different. I'm thinking about what the heavy usage of templates in C++ allows, what you can accomplish in terms of generic programming.

You can write in C++ like you would do in Java/C# but that would be pointless IMHO (complex hierarchy, virtual methods, etc. : exactly what I try to avoid).

It's like saying lizards an birds are similar because they share a common ancestor (dinosaurs).
I have a feeling they would. Wiktionary and the like probably wouldn't - they don't have a profit motive and are more concerned about universal rights and access to information.
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Agree about the bad title; but it does resolve an important question, which was whether the script was a language at all. Establishing that it has the regularities of human language was a necessary first step.

Here's another interesting example. The Luwian script's directionality couldn't be established. It was not certain whether it was up-down, up-down or up-down, down-up or various possibilities. This paper established using Expectation-Maximization the correct order of reading for the script:

Discovering the linear writing order of a two-dimensional ancient hieroglyphic script
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~sdlin/publications.html

Luwian script:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyphic_Luwian
Doesn't work for me in Mosaic.
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"It is another demonstration of the Lamson Project and is free for now."

I don't think it is about making money. I think it is about fame: http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2009-07-13.html
"* He is witty and gregarious.

* His confidence can make him charismatic and persuasive.

* He is also prone to making enemies and feels he is persecuted by those who do not accept his vision and mission."

hm, this reads like the next line should be "he is the most interesting man in the world"...
I agree that these devices risk falling between two categories, not quite big enough, not quite portable enough, but I'm not sure about the keyboard thing. The on-screen keyboard on a decent sized tablet will be about the same size as a netbook keyboard and - unlike a phone - you can put the tablet down on a desk and type using both hands. I would imagine that a sensibly designed tablet might have little fold out feet on the underside to provide some elevation/rake at one end to support this mode better.

I definitely agree that an Apple tablet at ~700 USD would be massively too expensive - but then I think that most existing Apple products are fairly outrageously overpriced - and well off Americans don't seem to mind too much.

I actually think that with a good enough tablet, having external accessories/peripherals like keyboards, mice, storage etc.. would be a good thing, not a bad thing. When you're at home/work, you could use the propped-up tablet as the 'screen', with the rest of the 'computer' spread out on the desk, plugged in via USB. When you want to go out, just unplug the tablet and go. Lots of people use laptops in exactly this way now, as their primary 'desktop' & laptop computers - they just plug more stuff in when it's in 'desktop' mode. Using one like this would probably require a more general purpose OS, rather than something fairly phone specific like the iPhoneOS though.
Wait, what?

After reading the article yesterday, I was convinced that it was just a joke.
True, I've had a girlfriend stand by me now through two startups. Why? Because she has her own career and her own life. And despite being a Buddhist, thinks more about the future than the present, as do I.
Thank you for that, that echoed my own thoughts better than I could have ever put them into words.

My frustration with the amazing amounts of bloat that you have to deal with in order to do the simple stuff knows no boundary.

A PIC chip has more power than the machines that made Apollo 11 possible, I wonder if with todays technology we'd be tempted to go for some 'high tech' solution and mess it up because of that.

In the mid 80's I worked for a dutch artist on a project called 'SonoMatrix', a room full of speakers with a bunch of computer controlled tape recorders, amplifiers and channel switches attached to it.

The whole thing ran of a beeb, the user & printer port. We designed the hardware, wrote the software (both the controller in 6502 assembler and the user interface) and built the whole thing.

If I had to do that today I wouldn't even know where to begin...
I also don't understand why cable news has less value than just regular tv?
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He's plotted a scatterplot, using totally made-up data, that has points all over the place -- no particular correlation discernible to me, anyway -- then drawn a diagonally-oriented green ellipse over it, and said "behold the correlation".

After writing that, I briefly thought that perhaps he had some fraction of a worthwhile point after all because the top-right-corner might be inaccessible -- as he says, "not everyone can pay", etc. -- but wait, "Cisco Telepresence" (top-right corner) is just one instance of teleconferencing and lots of companies have that already, and "live seminar" (top-right corner) is what happens every day in every school and university in the world, and "movies" (not top-right corner) cost far more to make than either. Oh, and "one-on-one coaching"? How about "one-on-one conversation"? Still by a large margin the single most widespread form of communication in the world, I'd guess. (Maybe not in countries where most of the population spends all their free time watching TV.)

There might be a tiny kernel of truth buried beneath the bullshit: you can only get "high-bandwidth, highly synchronized" communication via a channel that's high-bandwidth in both directions, and that means either physical proximity or (what's currently) expensive networking. Wow, what an insight.

(Oh, and: "If you had seen this chart three years ago, you obviously would have invented Twitter". Because everyone, when they see a chart of ways of doing something, immediately asks themselves "How can I add one more thing to an already densely-populated part of this chart?".)
As I understand it, the low-MPG clunkers turned in are supposed to be guaranteed to be turned into scrap - not allowed to be resold.
Rebuttal: I am a social retard, typical geek, and it was only in San Francisco that I found some success meeting women. There are lots and lots of really interesting, amazing, beautiful women in San Francisco. I dated a bunch of them.

A year ago, I returned to the Midwest, and haven't gotten a date since.
Because it's basically a scatterplot he just made up. He's a marketer and not a researcher.

To use his own words you could say that his articles have very low bandwidth.
It's also solved the images thing too, letting us choose what we see outside of simple text.

These people think subscribing to a service makes things easier on us, when in the end it's just making things more complicated, and honestly it's likely wasting more time too. And that's assuming middle-man service doesn't go belly up sometime in the future and force us to manually resubscribe to everything all over again.
I wouldn't hold my breath. Touch screens were invented in, what, 70s? And it took somewhat 30+ years for it to be widely used by the average person.
Er, no, it's pointing out a selection bias which means that anyone inclined to take the existence of this person writing about "why there are no girls in SF" (plus, I guess, the apparent shortage of people writing about what a great place SF is for heterosexual men to find partners) as evidence that SF is (functionally) very short of women -- which, let's face it, lots of people would -- should think twice before doing so.
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I thing there's an explanation to the NoSQL movement and why non-rdbms are gaining popularity these days.

Not a long time ago, if you had to handle 1 billion records then you were already big with piles of $ sitting beside you. Then you would just call Oracle or Greenplum (or whatever) and say "Hey, I've got some million $ here, care for it? I just want to be fast(tm)"

Lately it is quite possible to be small and forced to handle millions of records daily or struggle with new technologies that require less man power for development but need scaling a lot earlier (e.g Rails). You have limited resources and if you can get away with Tokyo Cabinet on a single machine instead of a 100k mysql cluster then you get to live longer.

As any new cool technology it'll get some hype and then fall back to being the right tool for the job. It's good to have some alternatives to RDBMS, some problems are really not relational.
Curious that a person with such an abrasive online persona wants a job as a team leader or 'technology evangelist'.
I've been having that exact thought for quite some time now.

It seems that the art of programming - or at least, the practice of it, equivalent to "proficiency" or "competency" - has shifted from fundamentals of the machine and the language's intrinsic semantics, which allowed you to actually create something anew, to spending 90-95% of the time trying to figure out someone else's API. In other words, the real skill now is reading reference material, and trying to figure out how to fashion a bunch of opaque, prebuilt Lego blocks together.

It's just no fun that way, and it relies on very different mental faculties than the ones present in fundamentals-based programming. Writing low-level backend processes in C may have taken a lot more work for boilerplate and nontrivial data primitive/data structure support, but it was real creation - using the actual power of the language to get something done. Now it's all about figuring out how the SynchronousIOGoatSoapBubbleVectorManagerFactory interacts with the SynchronousIOGoatSoapBubbleVectorReflectorParserTransformer.
A sample size of ONLY 10 CEOS (not all entrepreneurs are CEOs and 30 is a respectable sample size), no control group to see if just about anyone will answer "yeah, that about describes me" to the same questions, no control questions to see if the entrepreneurs will answer "yes, that's me" to stuff that is not hypomanic. What kind of conclusions can you draw from such a study?
the paper be found here:
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There's an idea for an FPGA project, building a CM or it's closest equivalent.

Interesting observations about wires in there.
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Looking at that graph, isn't the logical next big thing white noise pumped into your ear from the future?
Maybe that's true in San Francisco, but I have indeed found a woman who will eat what's left from my meal only to go back to her own multi-day coding session. Here's hoping that she's going to make us both rich and powerful as well ... one day... :)
>anyone who paid attention in HS chemistry

anyone with internet access
Yep; that's the thing that people who didn't grow up poor miss. The 'cost' of being poor (as a percentage of income, not as an absolute figure!) is higher for poor people than the 'cost' of being well-off is for well-off people. Late fees, overdraft fees, frequent maintenance expenses stemming from owning and/or driving crap, higher interest rates, other types of pricing premiums for things stemming from their being inferior status as a buyer or a borrower of various goods and services, health, etc.

Add to that the pervasive psychological and physiological pathologies unavoidably common among poor people - whatever you think of how that reflects on their "responsibility" - and the external costs of those, and, well, you get the idea.
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