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Implying Haskell should only be used in the ivory tower? Just because it can be abstract doesn't mean you can't do CRUD apps with Haskell - why not?
This proves that the market for "better mouse trap" is huge. Look around the house. Pick something. Anything. Create a better version.
>Yes. Seriously, on the historical timescale of kingdoms, democracy is a very young concept

So if freedom from slavery. So?

Besides, democracy was formally conceptualized 2.4 millenia ago, in ancient Athens. And it was practiced even before in various forms.
The last time I published a professional paper you had to give your affiliation with your university, government agency or at least what gives your opinion credibility. Who is this guy and where does he get his data to make this claim?
Sometimes part of the fun is imagining future tech...
Because those purists - and I'm one - care very deeply about the principles of the Open Web, the very principles that are touted on the W3C website itself.

The fundamental issue is this: up until now, anyone with the will to do so and a general purpose computer could build a browser that could display all the content on a W3C-standards-compliant website.

If EME + CDM are endorsed, then that will no longer be true. The Open Web will be a thing of the past.

That is why we're trying to prevent this from going forward in its current form.
Question for anyone really: how many different websites did you visit today, and how many different apps did you use today? Is that number even remotely equal? Do you think you'd ever want as many as the former as apps installed on your phone?
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How I Built a Raspberry Pi Tablet
We (EFF) raised a formal objection to whether content protection was in-scope for the new HTML WG charter; our objection was overruled by the Director, but there was no vote of the AC.
"BGI offers a glimpse of what industrial scale could bring to the future of biology."

"If it tastes good you should sequence it," he tells me. "You should know what's in the genes of that species."

"A third category is if it looks cute - anything that looks cute: panda, polar bear, penguin, you should really sequence it - it's like digitalising all the wonderful species," he explains.
In my more paranoid moments, I worry that the answer is: this work is explicitly intended to break the Open Web as we know it.

This is why I'm so keen to get all the requirements out in the open and start discussing them transparently.
Why one week with Google Glass was enough
When things are new they tend to evolve very fast. It's normal. The web is evolving nicely for something that's 20+ years old.

By the way why do we need a "standard UI" for taking credit cards? Is there a single open platform out there that has a "Standard UI" for making payments?
It sure helps propagating it, once you have a standard all the vendors can use.
No, it's perfectly reasonable that the MPAA be allowed membership. It'd be worse if the W3C got to choose who could join.

The issue is the 'crisis of representation' - i.e., some voices are heard more clearly than others.
It's really different from Google.com. They separate it into sections like:

Site
Blog
Webdocs
Q&A
Image

And then it's interesting that there are "Hot Topics" on the right sidebar... and no ads!

I really like this.
I'll be doing it soon. Currently looking for opportunities in Toronto. Defn not what I'm used to in the US.
Actually watching TNG for the first time now. If they want data, they ask the Computer. If they want analysis, they ask Data. Holodeck characters seem to have better reasoning capabilities than the Computer! I find it very odd.
>The problem, IMO, is that we have idealised democracy and forgotten that, indeed, it "is a poor system of government at best".

I think the real problem is we think democracy is just a form of government, whereas (and this was known to ancient Athenians) democracy is simultaneously all about active citizen participation.

If people just vote once in 4 years, and at best do a few protesting here and there in insignificant numbers compared to the total number of citizens, then that's not any a democracy in the original sense, though we might call it that.
For what it's worth, I think it's totally reasonable to ask a software engineer candidate to implement a binary sort, even if the candidate has to derive the particulars of the algorithm from first principles. If the candidate can't implement something as well-understood as a binary sort, how are they going to perform when given a totally novel problem that no one has ever solved before?

If anything, the problem with that as an interview question is that it is too obvious and common, and will not do a good job distinguishing between a strong candidate and someone who crammed for the interview and happened to practice that particular problem.
The article title does rather beg the question, but I suspect the author was thinking of how gestural UI has become commonplace. Here's a useful and (and somewhat bitter) critique of the MR influence: http://www.theawl.com/2013/02/how-minority-report-trapped-us... and a recent report exploring how it might yet have life as a TV UI: http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/13/seespace-comes-up-with-a-m...

UI design feels stalled in a very weird way. whenever I try to conceive of the most futuristic interface and responsive general-purpose interfaces I've used, I keep drifting back towards 2001 and Enlighenment and Xterm 0.16 :-/ I feel part of the problem is the ubiquity of server-side CSS; I used to have an awful lot more control over my internet experience in the pre-web days, and am starting to wonder if we took a bit of a wrong turn with HTML.
Just for record sake, I tried it on a whole bunch of others just now, like .co.jp, .in, .co.uk, and it's not like that on any of those.
Kind of surprised he didn't take the name Moreau :-) It will be interesting and potentially shocking to see what comes out of these efforts. Both good and bad scenarios come to mind.
Email the W3C. Tell them what you think of this bullshit (in reasonably polite manners).

I've done it. I've gotten a non-canned response.

But clearly they need more people at the gates bitching. This needs to be stopped.
If you can get people to stop using Chrome, Safari, and IE en masse over this issue that might have the effect you describe. Anything else won't, because the problem here is not the W3C per se but that those three browsers are very happily implementing this stuff (already shipping it in releases in the case of Chrome on ChromeOS and IE 11) whether the W3C actually specs it or not.

Oddly enough, the people producing those three browsers just happen to all be DRM system vendors (WideVine, FairPlay, and PlayReady). Who would think they're want to build their own DRM systems into their browsers, eh?
This is a really good answer.

HN is too obsessed with bubbles. Too many people forget that the same bubble that gave us pets.com also gave us Google
Hmmm. I think a vote would be a good start, but as an interested third party I don't think I have any way of encouraging that short of advocacy.
Yes, it's an ongoing joke here too - we watched all of TNG last year and are meandering through Voyager and DS9 this year. The Star Trek computer feels rather like a mashup of Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha, which is encouraging - but it is a bit better at handling interative requests to refine the scope.
Name me one app hat doesn't use HTTP.

The web is more than websites. Personally I believe apps will be long gone before the web will be. It's already starting with the gazillion of apps you need to install these days with most of them that should just have been websites.
I was once walking with a friend through the university library. We walked past a kid using irc on his laptop with neon green and purple on black text, font size as high as it would go, all in Comic Sans no less. Epitome of tackiness.

I made some idle snide remark about it. My friend points out that he knows the guy, who turns out to have significant visual impairment.

Cue feeling embarrassed for the rest of the afternoon :(
What do you mean by "Open Web"? AFAICT the term "Open Web Platform" is only 3 years old, and before that "open web" (not capitalized) just meant all the freely implementable standards, which makes your first sentence circular.

We've had non-free things in the web since GIFs, and flash is currently used for a lot of the things that EME will be used for.

I don't endorse EME on principle, but it is inevitable at this point, whether or not the W3C endorses it.
It does offer some things, but does it offer a "divide the community, halt the old version and still go nowhere much adoption-wise after 5 whole years" worth of things?

I started using Python when "Python 3000" (as 3 was called then) was just a pipe dream for the distant future. For all the trouble with the migration, it doesn't really offer much groundbreaking things.

Removal of GIL, a JIT, a few times or an order of magnitude faster, an integrated new async model etc would have been great. UTF-8 and a few tricks that could just as easily be added in 2.8? Not so much.
To their credit, the W3C are handling the level of interest in this very well indeed. Especially as many (myself included) have only passing familiarity with W3C process & protocol.

But yeah, the more voices making clear, well-reasoned objections to this, the better. Especially if that might actually result in it going to a vote.
The great meta-data bonus here is just "away". Now Google will have a much better idea of when you're not in your house. Why would I want Google to know when I'm not at home? I love the Nest. It's an exemplary work of UI, UX and engineering. But I've just turned off the network connection, and I won't be recommending it to any family or friends.
Children's Brain Image Bank Could Become 'Google' Tool For Doctors
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>As a PHP developer , i'm betting on Python and NodeJS for the future, i dont believe PHP has any real future outside a bunch of popular CMSe

Same here, having done very large php projects in the past, nowadays I tend to go for python (or more recently node) unless the client requests it.

One thing I foresee being a good niche in the future is updating/fixing legacy php apps. There's just too many man hours into them. It will be the COBOL of the web centric future.
The PC and the web aren't dying anytime soon. PC sales aren't going to 0. They are simply at a point where they are good enough to last a bit longer than they used to. With the replacement cycle getting lengthened, sales go down. They will plateau though. Nobody is stopping using pc's altogether. At worst people will be buying convertible laptop/tablets. iPad is awesome, but it doesn't solve all problems.

The web, like pc's, is also not going to die anytime soon. Linking between apps is far too complicated, and finding things without Google would suck. If you know exactly what you are looking for, perhaps apps work for that. It is the equivalent of type in direct traffic though. Otherwise, you are going to google to find something specific, or twitter/facebook, to find something random. Each of those things require the linking of the internet. You may or may not use the built in browser much, but you will use the browser view in those apps to consume the content that is out there.
PCs and non-general-purpose computing are headed for a divorce, and rightly so.

PCs started as general-purpose computing for people who needed general-purpose computing. Now, 90%+ of PC users, if asked if they need general-purpose computing will go "Uh. Sure. Whatever."

The population of the open Web, with open standards, will shrink alongside the population of people who actually need a Personal Computer under their total and complete control.

90% of people want a game, a pop song, and a movie. And the publishers of those products don't want them to steal their products. Some of that 90% will break in the direction of open culture, on an open Web. But not most of them.
Because they haven't got it locked down enough yet, presumably.

Chrome on Android doesn't support it either, yet, but http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=275989 is targeted for Chrome 32...
OT: But if you get a chance, watch [1] Black Mirror. There is 2 seasons of 3 episodes. skip the first episode maybe? but I liked it because that* could happen tomorrow. Where as the other shorts are in a somewhat see-able future.

I feel like Spike Jonze was inspired by a few of the episodes. Her was still an amazing movie.

1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/
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>Speaking of, I often feel there is a myopic view of computing that says mobile is workable for work production because the people making the decisions are those who can be mobile—they travel extensively and don't produce a whole lot. They may be creative, but they are not the creators. For the rest of us, we spend a lot of time at home or at an office, two locations where we easily can install high-performance desktop computing in one form or another.

What kind of "work" are you reffering to? I know top programmers, photographers, musicians, video editors that work from their laptops, either at home but also on the road. Work as in, deliver final results to customers.

If they, with their increased demands, can do that, who wouldn't, and what exactly do you do?
Most text inputs in Mac OS support at least C-a and C-e too.
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As a class, just about any program that depends on security through obscurity has this trait.
This is a silly deduction from flawed assumptions. PC sales don't necessarily correlate to PC usage! I don't know a single person that doesn't use a PC from day to day, including my nontechnical friends.
I'd probably skip the the Waldo episode before I skipped the first one, the first one is one of the best in my opinion (though less technology-focused in nature)
Probably because most of the computer's processing power is dedicated to running those holodeck simulations :-)
Well, I guess that's one reason/excuse why Nest turned me down a summer internship when I applied last November.
Seems like if you are doing an AMA, reddit is the place to do it. I can't imagine any blog comment system working well for the task, and I can't imagine a way to build a profitable company that makes an AMA solution.
? What's the joke in this? Besides diodes not emitting noise, that is.
From around 2006-20011, Minority Report definitely dominated UI design. The current trend of flattened interfaces is more reminiscent of Star Trek the Next Generation.
I prefer to use PayPal on websites that accept it so I don't have to go find my wallet. I buy stuff on Amazon instead of other sites because it already has all my info and I don't have to type it. Making processing payments as simple as possible helps streamline them and make them easier on the consumer.
Just in case anyone is tempted to see this movie, in my opinion it was not very good with very awkward masturbation scenes.
Unless the cable companies back in the day used separate antennas for each subscriber, it's not quite the same thing. Aereo actually bothers with this step.
I haven't seen the movie, so I gotta ask - do those glasses have built in displays? Cause that seems like the near future and a better one than just vocal communication...
The only population that matters: people with money, who are willing to throw it at shiny things without thinking too hard.
I'm not downloading an app for all the following (off the top of my head):

game hints, movie times, stock quotes, business news, sports scores, sport highlights, sports stats, weather information, famous quotes, game reviews, gaming faqs, movie & actor information, tech news, hacker news, gadget reviews, programming Q&A, movie reviews, concert info, concert reviews, music, movies, books, book reviews, music reviews, music news, web hosting discussion, home fix-it crap, countless shopping circumstances, diet & health & exercise sites & discussion, drug information / supplement information & research, cooking recipes, cooking videos, photos, political news, political discussion, stray funny shit, local news, random blog posts on random blogs with random engines behind them (I'm not downloading six or eight apps to cover the blogosphere), and on and on and on and on and on

I'm not downloading apps for even the, let's say, 50 sites I visit each week covering a couple dozen topics. With almost every one of those items, a different site does it best (eg rotten tomatoes on reviews and imdb on raw info).

Now that's just a tiny list, and just from my personal list, and it's not comprehensive. There are hundreds of sites that contribute to that tiny list. A few of those items are covered comprehensively (eg Pandora in streaming music let's say or instagram), the rest aren't. And even in the case of instagram, there are dozens of sites that deal in images or photos that I want access to.

Today I wanted to know who makes rail tanker cars, and who might benefit from their updating due to safety concerns, there's no app for that, the information was on the web among a dozen very different sites, and that's exactly where it'll remain. There are a thousand subjects I could spend the next few hours rattling off as examples, from auto repair to home repair to cooking to porn, that will not be even remotely covered by a single king app.

The web will live long and prosper, and a very select few categories will get smashed by killer apps.
That's really only "libertarianism" in the American tea party sense, and fairly unique to the US. It's not that it is conflated with anarchism online, it's that Americans have conflated it with laissez-faire capitalism offline. The reason it seems different online is because you're seeing what the majority of the world understands it to be.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-kind-an...

"Chomsky: Well what’s called libertarian in the United States, which is a special U. S. phenomenon, it doesn’t really exist anywhere else — a little bit in England — permits a very high level of authority and domination but in the hands of private power: so private power should be unleashed to do whatever it likes."

Powerful patents being used to dominate individuals, whether through infringement suits or through depriving them access to the market is about as far from libertarianism as you can get. This becomes more intuitive when you observe that the individual farmer has been put in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario. He does not, in fact, have his economic liberty.
The concept of internal firewall did exist, until they were accidentally removed that one time.

Why would firewalls between silos continue to exist when they've already been blown away?
They're distinguishing between the web (DOM, browser space) and the internet. So the claim isn't that services will go away, it's that people will increasingly write apps instead of HTML.
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No, they are just regular glasses
As a long time fan of the BBC (well all my life really) their web written content often disappoints. When it's on a topic I know it's too often wrong or misleading. They need to bring their written web content up to the level of the rest of their media product.
Agreed. I was like, i have to go to the static pages by typing the full url?
The good news is that Nest owners can now be assured that they will only get porn ads when their other half steps out of the room.
But all this standardises is the interop between the browser and the non-user-modifiable client component, the CDM.
This is an interesting project. The same problem also came into my mind recently. I am very happy to see the results and further challenges.

Another thing may be that Python is targeted to more general purposes.
The part about halting pig's aging at one year stopped me in my tracks.

The whole article was incredible, but that has been my lifelong dream (for pets) Imagine a dog that stayed one year old forever. Or a giraffe.

Edit: Guys. I get this isn't an immortal dog. I just want it to stop growing at one year, like the article says. I also understand this isn't a perfect commercialized technology.
I see EME as a way of reducing the area which DRM can affect. It is a sanely designed box around an insane (but persistent) concept. Whereas flash applies usage restrictions to the whole environment, EME is strictly for streaming video and audio, and encourages the rest of the system to be developed with open technologies (HTML5 and JS). It is the minimum evil necessary to meet the requirements of the existing contractual obligations that cause DRM to exist.
Yes, malware. EME creates a nice standard compatible way for bidirectional communication with arbitrary servers, for native code run with the privileges of the user. ( By now there is at least a security considerations section in their standard... what could possibly go wrong.)
CL's type system has a few warts to really do static typing well.

For a language that truly hass optional static types see Shen[1]

[1] http://shenlanguage.org/
Or your browser is faster, depending on what you're doing.
Then we make products like the nest that sit in out houses with cameras in them, tie into facial recognition software and alert the police. Or, even better recognize that intruder is not on a white list and owners are not home and use automated home protection to disable them.

Those kinds of situations are the driving force of many thin a: warheads & bunkers and safes & crackers quickly come to mind.
http://www.w3.org/standards/

W3C standards define an Open Web Platform for application development that has the unprecedented potential to enable developers to build rich interactive experiences, powered by vast data stores, that are available on any device.

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission.html

The social value of the Web is that it enables human communication, commerce, and opportunities to share knowledge. One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability.