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Who with? Who takes his orders and follows them? All of the field of climate science?

You are making a logical fallacy, namely the excluded middle. I never made the assertions you are mocking.

Are all of the many independent centers who are reproducing CRU research in on it too? And the many thousands of scientists with the expertise to uncover fraud are all willing participants?

Why don't you point me to these independent centers? Can you show me a case for contemporary warming which does not rely on CRU data?

Regarding Steve McIntyre, he corrected Mann's data. He altered the consensus, and (for a short time) had the best existing analysis. That, by definition, makes him not a crackpot.

Regarding antagonism, that's how science works. A good scientist will pick apart and search for flaws in any theory including his own. This weeds out the bad from the good.

If climate science is insufficiently antagonistic, that simply suggests their conclusions are more likely to be flawed.

An equally plausible interpretation is that these scientists are under intense political attack, taking it personally and getting angry, and beginning to unwisely respond in kind.

They are responding in kind within the scientific endeavor. That corrupts the scientific process, regardless of how emotionally reasonable their response is.
If they're not taking any money from the government, what do you care what other people study? Research is like buying lottery tickets, except you have no idea how big the payoff could be.

If you think 'our goose is cooked' and a transhuman intelligence could help us out, doesn't it make sense to support the development of a transhumanist intelligence?
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My version of that question is, "Why did the last 3 people to leave here do so?" The way people talk about those who have departed can give some surprisingly honest information about actual problems in the workplace.
See also this HN thread from October:

"Living in an RV as an Internet Nomad- 3G, solar, cost savings, and flexibility."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=910626
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Just because something is available doesn't mean it should be used.

Android actually kinda sucks (second post on page): http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2009/11/04/
And, since then, a patent issue popped up; see http://lwn.net/Articles/359939/
Clearly you need to present more of your work as scifi :)

As scifi incorporates more and more transhuman elements, these concepts become less radical.

I recently read the decently-written novel 'Darwinia' which
spoiler
takes a hard 90-degree turn partway into the story revealing the protagonist's world is really a simulation/recording, running around the time of universe's heat death, using "distortion lines in the Higgs field" as the substrate on which the simulation runs.
end spoiler

I think an important lesson is that you can't always design something to be viral (look at how fickle YouTube users are)
Cool, I've been waiting for something like this to sprout out. I've been working on something similar, haven't yet looked at the code, but I wonder how well it scales as far as number of users, since Mnesia supposedly doesn't support very large tables.
For this reason I chose to use PostgreSQL for things like areas, characters, items, etc. Because it's easier to shard and has a stable track record. However, for soft-realtime data (like area co-ordinates, velocity, etc.) in-memory Mnesia/ETS is the way to go.
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No, the language itself forces you to be verbose, and the libraries follow. Yegge's "Kingdom of Nouns" makes the point well.
Create an idea that requires you to do several things for which you would like to learn. This idea should ideally include offline processing of work, so that you are forced to read and understand many issues with executing jobs outside of the client/server request cycle (maybe this is image creation, video/audio transcoding, log file analysis etc etc). Then make sure your project can leverage some sort of key/value storage system like redis or memcached, or maybe a document store like mongodb or couchdb. Finally, make it something that people like so you'll get enough traffic to need zero downtime deployments.

If you make a project like this, you will learn most of the high value systems/concepts being explored and demanded right now. Additionally, if you satisfy the last constraint, you may have a cool successful startup at the end of it.
He also has a blog (which is often excellent) here:

http://spartanstudent.blogspot.com/
There's also the user's bandwidth budget - on mobile phones, outside the U.S., entry-level data plans may have limits as low as 100 MB/month or 10 MB/day.

If the (silent) updates bust the user's budget, they're not going to be appreciated ...
> Well, no doubt many people are happy to assume that the person holding the soldering iron is automatically the one who is right.

I can't believe how many are making that assumption. I had been reading TechCrunch for years before the day I saw Arrington post the original hypothesis for the CrunchPad. In fact, I can probably look up my comments on Google encouraging his going forward, and suggesting features. I'm blown away at how off track this has turned out. Unfortunately, if he didn't handle the legal stuff he has to take the turmoil I guess.
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http://www.nice-entity.com

Longtime reader, first time submitter.

I've just launched Nice Entity. Basically, it's a resource for web designers and developers to quickly and easily look up character references.

Yes, there are already a lot of sites out there that do this, but they either:

A) look awful,
B) are poorly organized,
C) not as complete as I hope my site is.

Any feedback and/or critique would be most welcome.

Thanks in advance!
I really enjoy the speed improvements that 1.9 affords, I can't help but think this will bring back the arguments that Ruby is a slow language simply because the "standard" implementation is slow.
I'd like to see more concrete tests of that, but it sounds neat.

I am fairly certain that the architecture USING the evented architecture wouldn't scale though.
The screen is 12 inches. I suddenly feel... small.
The best UI talk I ever attended was by a psychologist talking about memory. We got to the end and I realized he never talked about computers the whole time, even though it was at a UI conference.
I'm sure there's a market for Tablets but this thing is $50 more expensive than Dell's top netbook which comes with a built in TV Tuner or GPS. In addition to the 160Gb hard drive, full copy of Windows, WiFi, keyboard and a screen just slightly smaller than this tablet (12.1 vs 10.1).

For a device offering so little it's overpriced.
That is a judgment call. My opinion is that if they are going to react badly in the interview, it will be an ongoing problem for you down the road. But that is not universally true. For instance women of reproductive age who bring up children can cause worry that they might get pregnant. If it happens, the employer is legally obligated to accommodate, but it can be a big issue during hiring.

That said, surely you can find something which you would like to be accommodated for in the workplace? The interviewer just gave you an opportunity for implicit agreement on how you need to be treated in the workplace. Don't waste the opening.
My biggest weakness is that I have no respect for authority. I work hard when I want to please someone, but the threat of punishment is the best way to get even worse work out of me.

This means that many of my employers and teachers really adored me, and went out of their way to help me. When I was writing my honor's thesis in college, a postdoc invited me to her apartment to stay overnight and help me finish it in time. I got glowing recs for grad school, etc.

It also means that there are some people who for whatever reason pissed me off, and now I make their lives a living hell. There's nothing more satisfying then having someone pull out all their stops to try and get to you, and having them fail miserably.

Yeah. If I got this question I would lie.
So it was a fairly recent decision.

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To ditch crunchpad or to go with joojoo
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Actually, it's an idea I had when I first saw a Newton...
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Most people in the working world have a negative opinion of "academia". On the other hand, this anti-intellectualism is more pronounced in crappy jobs, so it might be a good filtering mechanism.

If your goal is to get any job, though, it's not the best answer. Most people will see that as a real weakness.
For one, to do things differently, I'd start without trying to define 'intelligence'. Nobody can define what a game is and still we learn, understand and say plenty of interesting things about games. Nobody can you define 'water' in a way that captures all the mental images people have when they hear that word and still we can say lots of relevant things about water. Trying to capture something like 'intelligence' with words is a foolish endeavour.
It looks great! A search box seems like an obvious useful feature (even though the dataset is small enough to browse through for the most part).

Edited to add: Shouldn't &quot; and &apos; appear somewhere? Yes, real quotation marks should be preferred in typography, but straight quotes are extremely common and sometimes appropriate (e.g. in source code) and it's necessary to escape them inside of HTML/XML attributes. And yes, I know &apos; has compatibility problems that should be made clear somehow...
I got "if you were a dessert, what would you be" on a college interview.

I answered "a frozen honeydew ant" and left it at that. (It's really a dessert in some parts of the world, I swear.) I got waitlisted.
> You're not going to claim they own everything they report on?

I made no such claim. What I meant was that TechCrunch's job is pretty much done from Fusion Garage's perspective. They're in the press.
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Good points, I suppose. Personally, I'd rather have a tablet computer that had an android-like OS on it, instead of just a web browser. Being able to use apps that aren't necessarily suited to a web page would be nice.

So would a 3G connection.

It's the same price as the iPhone when it first came out, but it does radically less on a larger screen. Maybe if it were $100 it might be worth it - but at this price point it's fairly worthless, IMHO. That, of course, would be different if it had the kind of app capability droid does.

As it is, it's overpriced backpack webtv. With a touchscreen.
Working around Androids quirks
> what do you care what other people study?

I watched people with genuine potential (Eliezer Y., for instance) turn from groundbreaking AI work to writing "AI might kill us all!" screeds and recycled mathematics.

A decade ago I was half-certain that he would eventually invent an artificial general intelligence. Now I am equally certain that he never will. Philosophizing and screaming "Caution!" is simply too much fun - and too lucrative. Ever wonder why he doesn't have to slave away at a day job like the rest of us?

> Research is like buying lottery tickets, except you have no idea how big the payoff could be

The "Friendly AI" crowd is engaged in navel gazing, rather than research.

> doesn't it make sense to support the development of a transhumanist intelligence?

Yes, and I do support it. Whereas the Friendly AI enthusiasts are retarding such development, not only by failing to volunteer their own efforts but through frightening and discouraging others.
So you're saying that single convenience is worth purchasing a significantly less powerful device for significantly more money? For what I can do standing on the metro, I have a smartphone and it still does more and is cheaper than this device.
QRCodes are alredy in use for quite some time, and are very popular in many places (specially Japan)...
I don't intend to design it as poorly as the human brain.
Professional looking slides can take a ridiculous amount of time to create and they add zero value outside of their intended presentation. Honestly, for an early stage start up the safest and best thing to steal is probably their slides. Stealing code creates long term problems, and if you have a customer list worth stealing then you are already a significant competitor.
Wow, what a lame article.

JooJoo != CrunchPad because it doesn't fit Arrington's original "product idea".

The Crunchpad concept was practically doomed to non-existence from Day 0. The ability to create a slick, mass-market useable web-browser tablet for $200 (or even $300) defies the current laws of marketplace economics.

Until Kindles are $50 (a dead-simple device that is more or less subsidized) we are not going to see a $250 color tablet style device (or at least not one that doesn't have an RMR or advertising supported price).

The CrunchPad was a neat concept, but I think that very few people ever believed a lawyer-turned-blogger with no product design experience was going to pull that one off.
It's not such a terrible question if the answer is run through a translator.

"I work too hard" => ass-kisser.
"I'm a perfectionist" => not aware of what "perfectionist" means. It's a crippling trait.
"Chocolate cake" => self-indulgent.
"Women" => sexual harassment lawsuit magnet.
Bring up the family if you're a guy; businesses love family guys, they think it makes them more likely to stick around, etc. But if you're a woman... DON'T DO IT. It's the most sure way to not get hired (well, besides the obvious.)
I've been working on a server for Ragnarok Online in Erlang if anyone's interested: http://github.com/aliter/aliter . It's structured similarly I suppose, except it has no monitoring server. Players are represented as gen_fsms, and the servers (login, char, and all the zone servers) can be distributed across various nodes, etc. It uses Mnesia for its database, and the scripting language will likely be lfe or Reia. (It's lfe at the moment, but if Reia evolves enough we may jump over to that.)

Unfortunately as I'm reimplementing a server for a client that already exists, I had to offload some of the time-sensitive stuff onto C as it's simply too slow in Erlang (in this case, walking + pathfinding).

Edit: Also, hot code loading is f'ing incredible for stuff like this. Get on, walk a bit, notice a bug, update it in the code, make:all([netload]) in the shell, bam, fixed. (Though I had to patch stdlib to fix a bug in c:nc that makes make:all([netload]) useless. I've submitted a patch and it's in the pu branch.)
First off, after hearing friends from LA rave about pinkberry on Twitter, I finally tried it early this year while in NYC. Am I the only one who thinks its gross? Tastes like frozen sour cream to me.

Regarding copycats, I've already seen them in Seattle and other cities. I know they have some strong brand recognition already but that's going to be one of their biggest problems.

I don't know a lot about the food business, but it seems like they're also in danger of being just another fad or over-expanding (ala Krispy Kreme).
It's a little kid's toy because the name sounds a bit like the French word for little kid's toy, so you won't buy one?

Did you buy an Acer Ferrari laptop because you thought it was really a Ferrari sports car?

What a daft reason for not buying one.
So, I haven't done the US Mint hack, yet....

But, I have spent the last 3 months buying the longest, cheapest round trip fares that I've been able to find, also called "mileage runs". American Airlines has had a "Double Elite Qualifying Mile" promotion, which means that I can reach Executive Platinum with American while flying only 50,000 miles instead of the usual 100k miles. This fall, I've done weekend trips to Madrid, Frankfurt, Florida, visited family in the Mid-West, and this upcoming weekend, a I'm finishing with a round trip to Barcelona. I'm flying out from San Francisco on Friday morning, spending 2 days in Barcelona and I'll be back home by Monday.

All told, I've spent $2200 on flights, and a bit more for hotels + food. What I get in return is being able to upgrade to first class for free on any domestic flight on American, 8 upgrades on international flights (worth $300-400 each if I sell them), and enough earned miles to buy two tickets worth $1100 to visit family in Central America this spring.

I have a hunch, though that after flying first class all next year on American, I'm going to have a really hard time flying coach again. I'm afraid this might be a bit addictive.

A friend of mine, (mcargian on hn) hosts a podcast about this stuff at http://upgrd.com. He turned me on to it.
No, I'm working on a safe wire, not a wire-safety cream. I tend to emphasize pretty hard that FAI is going to put strong constraints on the design from the beginning, and it's not something you could apply afterward to an AI that wasn't designed with that in mind.
crunch pad was a terrible name

Actually, it had two huge benefits: a lock-in for early adopters, and it is memorable. Don't discount the second benefit. Once enough early adopters talk about it, the general public will come to remember the name. This is extremely important for a consumer product.

(remember the FatBrain naming story).
Between all major desktop operating systems offloading more and more desktop graphics via OpenGL, and the increasing availability and those same desktop operating systems adding GPGPU APIs, the GPU really does directly affect desktop performance.
Except the fact that the contrast on the actual content is bad. Darker backgrounds and lighter text has been proven to get read less (60+% more if it is lighter background and darker font). The clouds are cool but the contrast is not.

This type of contrast is good for entertainment (movies, video games etc) not code samples. Even if you have to go with a dark background and light text make sure it is not extreme. A good sample of a dark site that is contrastually(I made that up) readable is : http://www.smashlab.com/ OR add a 'high contrast' button that you can click such as on: http://www.merixstudio.com/

Trust me when you get older than 27 you'll thank me.
I appreciate the succinct blog discussion of past failures: http://www.next-gen.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view...
If you think that you can wait until AI looks like it's going to be developed now, and then suddenly develop all the math you need for the actually quite different design problem of Friendly AI, you have a very romantic view of how long it takes to do new basic math. I sometimes call this the intuitive theory of "science by press release", i.e., when science is needed, you just need someone to issue one of those press releases you read about. And if someone hasn't shown that they're good at issuing press releases, why fund them?

It's quite routine to read a math textbook in which there's an equation, and then one line below it a slightly improved equation, and five years passed in between the two.
You're right: the person playing the gatekeeper has to pay attention for at least the agreed upon 2 hours. The character however is free to zone out, ignore everything, switch the subject, etc, etc.
> On a side note: this is the tech equivalent of celebrity gossip...

Which is why I'm surprised the submission is not a techcrunch URL.
I have to agree with you - "marketing"? - Arrington did some heavy duty technology evangelism for this one - they should have given him something for all his efforts.
Yes there are a lot of tablets these days.

Why haven't they been successful?

For example: http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-N800-Portable-Internet-Tablet/si...
Now I remember why this seems so familiar ...

I used a similar method to the pacman solution to make a simulation of traffic. By modelling the road as well as the cars, I could measure the distance between cars by having the road remember when a car last passed over, and give that information to the next car that passes over. The simulation was enormously simpler by modelling the road and storing information in that, rather than just in the obvious objects - the cars.

In effect, cars left traces behind for the next cars to collect and process. Distances between cars could be calculated simply by knowing the times of transits and speeds of cars. Uncertainties needed to be taken into account, but the road could also contain pointers/references to the cars that had passed over.

In my case I distributed the simulation over 1024 processors and the messages were explicit. I find object-oriented programming largely to miss the point. As Alan Kay once said, the point was never the objects - it was always intended to be about the messages.

Of course, that's a religious argument, and probably better discussed elsewhere.

ADDED IN EDIT: I really ought to write up some of my experiences ...
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Impressive. It's hard to find a differentiator that is strong enough to generate that kind of loyalty, but it looks like she's nailed it.
Lack of adoption of systems research by desktop operating systems does not prove the absence of interesting systems research.

With the exception of MS, most of the systems research I was referring to is not used in (or intended for) desktop operating systems.
I agree. The problem with "I'm a perfectionist" is that:

1. It's a common stock answer, so giving it signifies a lack of imagination.

2. Taken at face value, it's a real weakness (good; honest), but it's one that can cause problems for the business (bad). It's a crippling trait which might prevent a person from meeting deadlines, and that's not something you want to indicate during an interview.

You want to answer the "biggest weakness" question with a genuine weakness (not "I work too hard") but one that can't, in any way, result in missed deadlines or upset clients/co-workers. This means that most people need to "lie" to the extent of selecting their #3 or #4 biggest weakness. The actual biggest weakness, for most of us, won't get the job.
If they never had any prior involvement with TechCrunch, they'd still be in the press. On Engadget just as they are now. Hell, they'd probably be on TechCrunch too.

The difference is, the press might be a little more positive that it is now with this big mess.
Actually it was retried with $2500-$5000 on the lines, and of those I won one of three, then called a halt because of the amount of mental stress. So in total I'm three-for-five.
Because there's nothing like it out there?

It's not a cheap netbook with a small screen and a small keyboard, and it's not an expensive tablet PC with PC laptop innards - it's a cheap netbook innards/tablet PC form factor/touch screen browsing device.

Because despite the price they were aiming at sounding too good to be true, everyone went "oh that sounds too good to be true ... but they say it so it must be true! I'll buy two!".
You might want to check who you're replying to. cstross isn't as famous as Stephen King, but in science fiction he's one of the best-known contemporary authors.

Personally, I'm in a very different sector of the book market than cstross, but what I know is entirely consistent with what he said.