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This is why the Segway annoys me so much. Dean Kamen has an amazing ability to create things that restore great dignity to those who have had unfortunate events remove certain biological function. The iBOT, for those who don't know what it was, was a gyroscopic wheelchair that could go up curbs of up to 5 inches, climb stairs, and even allow the person to travel and "stand" at a height comparable to the height of a standing human being. The amount of dignity and function that it enabled was tremendous. Likewise, this new prosthesis looks amazing. Truly a wonderful thing for anyone in such an unfortunate situation. While somewhat odd looking today, I don't think it's hard to imagine it with some flesh-toned cloth over it (or better material) which really helps one both look and function and fit in well.

And that's what annoys me about the segway. Kamen has such a great engineering mind for things that so greatly affect a person's quality of life - truly life-changing inventions for many people. And then there's the segway. The segway doesn't seem to solve any problem - people have legs, there are a number of ways to balance vehicles that don't need something so fancy to stabilize themselves (bikes, scooters, mopeds), etc. And it takes his genius away from building amazing things like this which can transform people's lives in the way I wish I could help and touch someone as much as he can.

The part where the person was able to feed himself for the first time in 13 years made me tear up. Imagine being able to give that back to someone who had lost it. And it isn't just the function - it's the dignity that comes along with it.
Yes, big fat ones.
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This is in part because the manufacturers have adopted standards - be they patented, like x86 and directx, or open like opengl. Unfortunately, we don't see as much in terms of standards on phones.

Android addresses this, though, since everything runs on dalvik. A JIT would be nice if we're going to see more resource-intensive stuff.
Definition 2 is a flawed definition, perhaps some parts of astrology are wrong, but some parts of physics are wrong, we just need more time to work out the bugs in astrology -- more experiments need to be made.

If you're interested in this problem, this is a great reference: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/
Apple has open sourced the core OS and WebKit

I thought WebKit was Open Source before Apple used it to build Safari?
This is something that concerns a lot of people in the area. A lot of people want to solve this problem. There are all sorts of tools, but there is no equivalent of 'price' for philanthropy. No perfect solution.

One example is the way that the Acumen Fund "invests." They insist on there being good feedback loops. Subsidised farming (eg cheap micro irrigation equipment) technology is preferred relative to free farming technology because the former requires poor farmers to dedicate extremely scarce resources. This means that they buy in to the system.

Modular solutions are preferred to make-over solutions. For example, if a micro farmer (say 2 hectares) can buy or receive enough equipment to irrigate only 1/4 hectare and must make a decision about the second 1/4 hectare after seeing the results (perhaps reinvesting the gains) on the first, this is better then a plan to completely irrigate an entire village, even if they are contributing scarce cash to the project themselves.
Every time I hear or read what Greenspan says I become more and more convinced that his goal is to bring down the system ala Atlas Shrugged style. These are not the words of an objectivist, they are the words of a statist. Or, at very best, an extremely pragmatic capitalist. Dude is trying to bring down the whole Money as Debt and Corporatism system in on swoop.

Note to the strikers: Bring me with you.
I respectfully disagree with using the Chinese Wall (only a little bit though).

Seems like it would work in general, but I believe there are groups that sit on top of the Chinese Wall.

Stil, its a reasonably good place to start.
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No, it's not consumables. Virtual currency is anything which you can then trade for something else in-game. And that's not allowed.
Review: GoGrid vs.Amazon EC2
Philly Startup Leaders Manifesto - Because startup entrepreneurs need each other
I have it on good authority that most of the deals on Shark Tank don't actually close- it's just good TV. In which case Notehall was "stupid like a fox" and doing it just for publicity. They were the top Google trending term the next day.. better bump than most blogs will get you.
That particular list, yes.
British scientists develop 'brain to brain communication'
That's crazy. I read all of them when I was ten. I pretty much memorized the Ninja Gaiden book because I read it like 12 times (no idea why).
While it's true that Greenspan was a close associate of Ayn Rand for years, it rises to the level of conspiracy theory to suppose that Atlas Shrugged was meant as some sort of blueprint for real world action crafted in the 1950's and slowly implemented over time by Rand's associates. Right up there with the theory that Rand is a member of the Illuminati and Atlas Shrugged is the Illuminati game-plan to take over the world.
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I spent a month in iceland this summer and it is an amazing place. Beautiful landscapes, long nights in the winter/days in the summer, and it's sparsely populated. I'm not sure how great of an idea it is to put a bunch of data centers there, but I would love to figure out a way to colocate myself there. I feel very confident that they will find a way to recover from the unfortunate events of the past year.
Ideas Without Frontiers - Nature is a Brilliant Engineer
The relatively recent science of BIOMIMETICS is the application of methods and systems found in nature, to engineering and technology. Think "cat's eyes" lining the highway at night, or think of space-age Velcro (derived by an engineer observing plant burrs in his dogs fur,
after a walk). Other notable examples are literally in front of our very eyes with virtually limitless capacity for innovation - gecko's sticky foot pads, the whales 'bumped' fins to lower water resistance and increase effectiveness. Observations are not limited to physical mechanisms either - the swarming behavior of ants, bees, termites, and other social insects has implications far beyond the hive. Swarm intelligence "the collective
behavior of independent agents, each responding to local stimuli without supervision" can be used to understand and model phenomena as diverse as blood clotting, highway traffic patterns, gene expression, and immune responses, to name just a few. Swarm technology is proving useful in a wide range of applications including robotics and
nanotechnology, molecular biology and medicine, traffic and crowd control, military tactics, and even interactive art.

Nature has a ~13 billion year start on us - i.e the age of the universe. So there is no possible way we can catch up with that head start - or is there ??????
I see what you mean, but he mentioned 'they'. I wrote it in paragraphs in my email so I can take advantage of spell check and then I pasted it. I tried editing it, but HN doesn't seem to let.
Good point. Like you say there are those who oversee both sides. It is inherently problematic to have anyone oversee both sides.... But people always assume that the worse case scenario is that if the sell side gets screwed, well that means some corporations (which are clients on the buy side) have dumped stocks on some poor, unsuspecting semi-wealthy retirees. Or if the buy side gets screwed, some investment adviser has leaked information to one of his or her clients about a company's new issue of shares or something.

But where the American public gets screwed is in the case where financial instruments are developed that, like the occasional large-scale computer bug, get into some sort of perfect storm / infinite loop. The markets have a way of dealing with that though, but they can't deal with it when the sell-side is attached to the buy-side -- and can't be afforded to fail. Anyway, just thoughts off the top of my head. Lots of people interpret buy side / sell side in different ways. But there is definitely a tendency to overlook how these banks are structured. The structure is not all that complicated, but of course it's not really in the bank's interest to analyze and fix it -- not unless you have a very long-term interest in the health of the industry or something.
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Another day, another step closer to ubiquitous computing. At least, I'd like to think so.
the problem is that many sites use different rules, which means every user has to remember 3-4 different passwords.
Return-oriented programming (clever way to exploit memory corruption) [pdf]
I know you guys are all joking, but those things really scare me.
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Maybe instead of killing spammy stuff like this you could have a "convert to Ask HN" button. This post could be converted to Ask HN: Professors Who Blog? It would be more fun, too.
Nature isn't particularly brilliant. Just impossibly patient. Every seeming moment of genius has a few million years of relentless trial and error behind it.

Human ingenuity's managed to catch up this far in what is an infinitesimally shorter amount of time. We can catch up - Zeno's Paradox is fallacious.
People who tweet would love this!

However, I do find a downside to this. I would have to be extra careful about my opinionated thoughts about others while I'm around them.
You could always use the database to track games between players.
No, I think bankruptcy is little better than failure unless the gov. will pump in funds as well.

That is what topping up tier 1 capital is about. The bankrupt bank may end up being temporarily partially or wholly owned by the government.

Clearing the books of that juggernaut would still send ripples through the system, likely freeze up credit markets, and wreak stock market havoc. I think Greenspan is right about breaking up such institutions.

I suspect you would then have 100 bankrupt companies instead of one. More careful derivatives regulation is obviously prudent, specifically there really ought to be ring-fenced capital backing up derivative instruments (like is required for proper insurance).
I suppose there's always taking yourself off the network - like how we step away from our computers sometimes.

...what, I can't be the only one that takes the occasional break. Right?
"In any case, the guy said they don't do agile. I am really loathe to try to go in and discover a way in which it could be interpreted as agile after the fact"

Amen!

Classifing any project with a practice passing resemblance to some "agile" practice as an "agile project " just leads to the twinned "all successful projects were really doing agile whether they knew it or not" and the "any failed agile project didn't do "proper" agile, even if they said they were" fallacies.

This is especially weird since "agile" really didn't invent anything (except maybe rigid TDD). It just packaged some "best practices" into one label. Short iterations was a known to be effective practice well before the advent of agile.
Good points, articulately delivered.
But you'll note my use of irony - "or is there ??????"
Whoever you have identified as fitting your hypothesis on early adopters. It's not rocket science.
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I don't understand what you mean by if my design or implementation is documented. I have nothing to do with the programming and I'm assuming you're talking about that.

I haven't started on a business plan but I would like to make one. Do you have any resources you suggest to write one?

The idea is kick-ass (to use your phrase) and the website has a lot of potential added-value available to the consumer.

What benefit are you suggesting there is to promote my development team so I can hire others? It took me a while to get them settled and comfortable to do the job! I don't see where you're going.
He doesn't say what area or which country but I spent a few weeks in Burkina Faso in West Africa. ( it will rank as one of the poorest countries in the world) I hung out with a friend who was working on a food security program for a US based NGO, so I have a good idea about the current conditions.
The farmers are trying to grow crops in terrible conditions and I don't think any amount of money is going to help them. It's just an arid barren soil with absolutely zero infrastructure. Which doesn't really matter because these farmers are trying to grow food just to live, not to sell.
I think most of the country has conditions not suitable for human habitat, but those are the people that need help the most.
The brain is very interesting - it doesn't have a fixed set of input/output "ports".

Instead it can use whatever is connected to it.

For example someone attached a vibrating belt that always vibrated on the north side of his body. After a while the person wearing it does not consciously notice it vibrating, instead they basically have a new sense - they just always "know" where north is.

Output works the same way - after playing a game for a while you don't need to think: press this finger or that one - you just want the character to do move, and your fingers do it automatically.

If you use a tool for a long time, it essentially becomes (to the brain) an extension of your body.

So same with this device - it doesn't have to be intuitive - after a while it simply becomes a part of his body. The brain does not see it as "else" it's simply another limb.
I was going to joke 'bout some 'iphone killer curse' I then read it had a 1ghz processor and was going to running Android. This seems like something that might have a glimmer of hope.
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Acquires = "is given"
do i understand this correctly...

its tracker for 'who's got the most followers?"

and that data will start feeding or adding to the digg algo?

:/
Who said I was installing anything? I only got involved because I tried to find a document on it and couldn't

So I built a search index.

Which worked better than the Sharepoint version (This was Sharepoint 2001, and I don't think that supported full text).

Incidentally, the company I was at was a MS Solution Provider (tm), so they did have some expertise in installing software.

My view is that any software which has defaults as bad as this sucks.
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The JEE application servers are not supported either. But his is not a big issue, since one can always start the app server outside IDEA and still be able to debug it with the Community edition.
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Sam's String Matching Algorithms Collection
i use 2 grams of 'salt' on my password plus the site name where i want to login. it's simple an easy to remember.

http://journal.kilabit.org/salt-n-pepper

how do you "create" your password ?
The 2008 you dreamed of. Old article.
That's true, but their entire model is still built on a database built up of 5-discrete-value ratings. True, it does seem that they place an emphasis on reviewers' similar tastes, but they are still crippled by the poor resolution of their data.

They're spending so much energy tweaking their 5-star algorithm by tiny amounts, but it seems like they'd be much better off investing in a richer database medium - like attention spent browsing various genres on their website while looking for their next movie...

I don't know, it just seems like the five star system is so crude for a company willing to spend millions to improve their recommendation system by even a tiny amount.

"So you like this movie? Like, would you say, "4 stars" like it, or "5 stars" like it?" really? That's what your database is made of? - know what i mean?
Compared to things I've heard myself, none of those seemed that bad.
No angry professor of "A Gentleman's C"? Makes me laugh occasionally.

http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/
Quick question

Currently, if I buy an app it's available for use on both my iPod and my wife's iPhone. With in-app purchasing, will purchases be reflected across both devices? If I upgrade from demo to full on one device, do I need to pay again on the other device?
But it's all dirty Micro$oft money! That can't be good!
I think I'm missing your point about "dignity".

As per your sentiment , we should all be doing whatever we can to restore dignity to those that need it.If you ask that of Kamen , you should certainly ask for it from yourself.

You are presumably reading this on a computer you own , and drive to work on a car you own. You can increase the dignity of a number of people by selling both and donating the proceeds to a worthwhile charity. ( I can think of few things more dignified , than say , for a starving kid in India to be able to go to bed with a full stomach for one night). And charities like giveindia.org make this very possible ...

And yet you haven't ... You might argue that there is no way you could do without either.

How is Kamen's "indulgence" in building a Segway any different? The starving people would be annoyed with you too,as you indulge yourself with luxuries like cars and computers , when they have to debase themselves just to feed themselves and their families.

(No offence intended. :) When I say "you" , I mean us )
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How do you define "good" ?
That's a Scott Forstall quote; Jobs was still off sick at that time.
I live in a place that talks a lot about itself (Lawrence, Kansas). I often wonder what this meta-recognition of oneself does to the way people act in public. HN seems to be another place that is incredibly aware of its surroundings.

Are people generally more aware of their surrounding on the internet based on the explicit action of choosing where to go?
I know this is literally hacker news news, but it's not hacker news. I don't get why it's even on the front page.
Why does the news always only cover the "pledging" and not follow up with how/when and if at all that pledge and subsequent giving has helped the people they were supposed to help?
The same way you'd define "sarcasm," I imagine.
Well, it's Bill Gates' Microsoft money, so it's actually the good part... remember when MS used to be the good guys taking on the big guys?
Ask HN: Self awareness
I posted this on a post about the leaderboard of hacker news, and how someone had changed positions. It lead me to think about how self-aware hacker news is as a community.

I live in a place that talks a lot about itself (Lawrence, Kansas). I often wonder what this meta-recognition of oneself does to the way people act in public. HN seems to be another place that is incredibly aware of its surroundings.

Are people generally more aware of their surrounding on the internet based on the explicit action of choosing where to go?
In that case, I don't understand. Why couldn't every shareholder with unwanted stock do this, less receiving money in exchange fore his/her voting rights? Put differently, if this is possible and legal, what keeps everyone else liable?
I'd insert a cyborg joke here, but it seems too cliched and insensitive when the invention looks this brilliant!
> They could slap a dial-pad on the Zune software and ship a product in 6 months or less.

I'm guessing you have not worked there.
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Congrats on the launch. I second much of the feedback that's already been given on this page, but I wanted to mention two other specific things I've noticed:

1) Your "What is EventGel?" box at the bottom of the page (which is evidently anchored to #help) has too much text. It looks like you've listed every feature of your app. Can you reduce that to a few bullets that speak to EventGel's primary benefits, and maybe move the longer copy to an "about" page?

2) Under each comment is a "permalink" link. I think permalinks to your comments here are probably unnecessary in general, but right now those are links to the event page itself rather than to a comment.--so that an event page with dozens of comments has dozens of links to itself labeled "permalink".

Also, tk999 mentioned difficulties scaling the timeline widget. Just as another datapoint: In my experience where this starts to fall down is in the user exprience when you have very many events in the timeline. It is difficult to get this to look and work just right with a large number of user or programatically generated events. But you could also spend some time on design within the timeline. (For examples of both, see, for instance, http://open.britannica.com/timelines?id=128. The timeline UI becomes unwieldy when the events are densely packed, eg. http://open.britannica.com/timelines?id=107) But as previously mentioned, I'm not sure the SIMILE timeline is the right widget for you to be using anyway. I think I'd look to other approaches to display the event information.
More fearmongering. There's no proof that any of those disasters would have actually happened.
I asked them about this in some unconference. They were very smug about it, they said that hardware developers will want to implement the whole thing as completely and as compliantly with other Android phones as possible and the message was "we don't care". I think Android development will become close to the nightmare that mobile games developers used (or still do?) to face.
Perhaps that's because he didn't write all of them:

"One author that worked closely with Seth Godin was Peter Lerangis. Using the pen name of A.L. Singer, Lerangis wrote four title: Blaster Master, Ninja Gaiden, Infiltrator, and Bases Loaded II: Second Season."
You can't prove an alternate time line, of course not. But there certainly have been bank panics in the past, and it's pretty clear that many banks were on the point of collapsing, so it's not fearmongering at all - it's well within the bounds of possibility, which is a very good reason for staying away from it.
I can't help but think that providing and advertising a specific service targeting only a handful of cities is going to give a good handle to all those state revenue boards trying to say they have a nexus within their jurisdiction for purposes of tax collection.
I agree with most of that, but interest-bearing savings accounts should not be insured by the government. If you're earning interest there needs to be some actual risk involved, otherwise it creates too much moral hazard.
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The law is different from country to country, and I am not sure about the law or the facts of the case here. But the person that controls a corporation usually has a fiduciary duty to the corporation and usually cannot merely give away the assets of the corporation.

Here the corporation had an asset (voting rights) that got sold, but the proceeds of the sale did not come back to the original corporation selling the asset but went to a completely different corporation. Depending on how this was done this may be improper.

What usually happens in this case is that someone that is a creditor of the corporation sues to get the money back. However, here the creditor did not sue because it seems like they were able to get their money from another source as explained in the other posts in this discussion.

BTW none of this is legal advice :).
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And, yes, I have a horse in this particular race.
Good point. I also hope that Apple will include some kind of indicator in its listings so one can tell whether an app uses in-app purchasing.