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> Have you tried Amazon Fresh?

I have not. To my embarrassment I didn't even know about it. But I checked it out and am going to give it a whirl. Thanks for the suggestion.

Gotta love the low switching costs of the 'net. It's not that easy to switch your physical grocery store.
Even if you call "the placebo effect" what we call "magic", what he's trying to tell you is to try it yourself as opposed to just dismiss it based on nowadays views of the occult. You might wonder "Why would I do that? Science has all the answers, everything that is can be observed, therefore magic is bollocks!" and you're completely entitled to think that, but it's my belief that dismissing other world views simply because someone else told you so is kind of naive.

"Chaos magic" and any other type of faith-based system will require you to take that leap in order for it to work (as it did for Alan Moore, as another comment mentioned). If you don't want to because you don't want to embarrass yourself for trying some "wacky voodoo", it's alright, but again, as much as the world is increasingly secular and atheist it's still nice to respect other people's belief systems. What works for you might not work for them and viceversa. There's no need to demean beliefs if they do not affect you in any way and even if they do, I'd go as far as saying to start attacking them when they harm you in profound ways.

If you do try, though, hope it works out for you, it's a nice ride that gives understanding to many things including awareness/consciousness.
This is much more complete, and also you know when you are doing GitHub things and when you are doing Git things.
"The User Illusion" by Tor Nørretranders is a must read for anyone interested in the subject. One of the best books i've ever read.
They may have helped. Apple was definitely working on it more than six months before it was announced.

Google Wallet initially capitalized on Mastercard PayWave (or was that Visa's?) and when the other cards wouldn't play ball they made a virtual Mastercard for use.

Now that the card companies started playing ball, maybe b/c of Apple's push, Google can work with the new standards.
There is a lot of discussion about "functional programming" without a consensus on what constitutes that and what are paraphernalia.

A notion exists in a word form when it has some definition, even if it cannot be articulated well. Here by "definition" I mean something like "the ability to categorize examples even if fuzzily", i.e. saying that "a rock is not conscious while a human is" already indicates the existence of a definition. Note that this doesn't require that you be able to describe the category in a nice precise sentence.

Through dialogue, critique, experiments, we can gradually construct a specific sense for the word that a group of people can work on. Take "energy" for instance. The word existed before physicists defined it precisely, and even the definition within that domain evolved when quantum mechanics came around. Furthermore, the usage of the word isn't limited to contexts in physics only.

Is it worthless to ponder "what might a physics definition of consciousness be?".
try to get the derivative of sin(x) from his approach.
Truth be told, a significant portion of my day job is still web application stuff. The web, whether that's HTML/CSS/JS applications or APIs, is inescapable at this point for a huge portion of programmers. Only the lucky few get to hack on databases, hypervisors and file systems for a living!

But, armed with the knowledge of sockets, processes, etc. and how this correlates to performance/scaling, I've been able to carve out roles where I get to spend a decent amount of time working on problems that I get excited about.

But even before I was able to work the knowledge into my day job, nothing beats the dopamine rush of learning things that fascinate you! The rabbit holes that learning the basics of Unix have opened feel like they could occupy my hobbyist hours for the rest of my life.
Glad to see you alive, battling, and bucketlisting, Amit. As a huge fan of Photojojo (considered applying a few times even), I am happy see that it will be in capable hands that you trust.

Make every second count and leave that shutter wide open. :)
The Android Market lets you depreciate old versions of Android now for your apps by leaving up the last compatible apk for them while newer devices get the latest version of your app.

With that, you can either let the old version die slowly as users upgrade devices. I haven't attempted it, but I assume you can still somehow push bugfixes for the older version without newer devices also getting it.
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The most realistic virtual reality I have ever participated in was the Duke immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE). There is a program that simulates a kitchen. There are cereal boxes, silverware, etc that you can pick up and even throw across the room. When I opened the refrigerator door, I instinctively moved my body out of the way. The crazy thing is that it's not even the best tech out there. The resolution was crappy and the physics were a little bit off. But if you stopped actively paying attention to the details, even for just a moment, it was enough to make some part of your brain think it's real. VR doesn't have to much better (if at all) in order to be really immersive.

If you're at Duke or somewhere nearby I highly recommend checking it out. They have visiting hours fairly frequently. http://virtualreality.duke.edu/
Err, wat.

It seems ridiculously reasonable to compare programming languages on the time-scale of modern computing (~70 years). Dismissing the comparison like that is pretty crazy.

However, don't get me wrong: I totally agree that the years between the stable releases of the projects makes a big difference, especially now, while it is such a large percentage of the total lifetime of them.
This is actually something I'm actively working on in my area, where there are a number of independent small tech consulting companies (most of them with just one employee), all with different niches and skillsets, and none of whom have offices or shops.

So everyone already has their own client base. The goal is to share some work, leverage eachothers' skillsets, and share a common space with inventory and a shop setting where you can meet customers in a professional environment.

The downside is that everyone's pretty independent-minded so it's a bit like herding cats. But the upside, if it works, will be pretty great for everyone involved.
In the summer, in most locations, you don't want free heat. However, the article states that the unit will vent the heat outside when it isn't desired.
That non-definition comes from a dictionary of psychology. If we are to define consciousness in any way, I expect the breakthrough to come from a combination neurology/neuropsychology, physics, and control theory.
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One project where my friend and officemate Steven T. Kent (now chief scientist and vice president at BBN, and a chief advisor to NSA) and I lost was our strong argument to put mandatory end-to-end encryption into TCP

It's interesting to read him saying this, because Reed is also one of the co-authors on this foundational paper on Internet design:

http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...

... and a straightforward consequence of the philosophy of the End To End Argument is that encryption doesn't belong in TCP at all --- different applications will have different service models, and E2E tells us not to confine those applications to a lowest common denominator provided by a low level protocol.

At any rate, given the evolution of transport cryptography between 1980 and 2010, the lack of mandatory TCP encryption is almost certainly a mercy.
A Hungarian friend learned German with Star Trek The Next Generation this way.
Memory alloy bounces back into shape 10M times
I don't trust them to keep the service operational in the future if it doesn't get momentum (see Google Buzz, Google Wave…), if it doesn't bring enough money in (see Google Reader…) or if they finally give up against some competitor (see Google Code…).

I trust them even less to not put Google+ inside this, which for me is more or less the same thing as shutting the service down, since I really don't want to use Google+ (I mean, really), and I don't want people I share photos with to be forced to use it (I mean, really). You seem to be sure they wouldn't do this, I think the exact opposite. Well, future will tell us.

Now, you're right in that they have a excellent history of allowing their users to get their files back. This is something I definitely trust them and thank them for a million times. Now, a photo service isn't relevant without a sharing feature, and if the service is shutting down, no backup that I can think of backs the sharing up.
Cloud&Heat are another company doing this in Germany: https://www.cloudandheat.com/en/index.html
Because the software development industry is stupidly fragmented.

Get 12 developers together in a room and you'll get 12 different answers on the best way to build anything.
...And no data cap, and don't mind a chunk of your bandwidth being used, and don't mind a locked box with an always-on and encrypted connection to who-knows-where in your house. I'd also worry about what happens if/when it breaks down. (For instance, if the power supply fails. Or whatever: there are pretty much always single points of failure on such things.)

A neat idea in some ways, but I'd be wary.
> I am a firm believer that one should spend at least 10 or 20 years learning French and then read Les Miserables and Le Compte de Monte-Cristo.

Sure do that. But no harm in reading these two books a few times before that, too.
This looks like 180, not 360.
I can see that as a justification for the first Iraq war, but the second only increased oil prices and destabilized the region.
Link to research [0] (Ultralow-fatigue shape memory alloy films), for those that have access.

[0] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6238/1004
The translation of the names in the Lord of the Rings to German is also interesting. Our hero from the Hobbit becomes Bilbo Beutlin.
Definitely not worthless to ponder "what might a physics definition of consciousness be?"

But definitely utterly worthless to ponder "Is consciousness an illusion?" without knowing the definition of consciousness.
Wow that's bad. That's like microsoft bad. Which, is actually fairly insightful; is that what happens when an organization gets too big, they lose sight of what's actually good anymore and just do design by committee?

Also, it's as if... there is only one design. Like, they figured everything out for you and you should just use that. Bootstrap is not so different in this, but i get the vibe that this isn't so meant to be tweaked; that's the air I get about it at least. That what's there is what you should use. Which, is really arrogant, because it googlfies the web, and by no means for the better.

But really, I don't know what they're thinking, and I hope this doesn't become more of a thing; but they only seem to keep pedaling it.
It has been rumored that for iOS9 Apple will be focusing on reducing the overall footprint.

There are a lot of 8GB devices that could be upgraded to iOS8 but are unable to because of lack of disk space.
Extensive prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9619367
The answer is this:

People have been pushing for data density far more than data retention. And the smaller the cells get the worse the data retention is. People see "this SSD is x GB and that SSD is y>x GB", and go for SSD number 2, without bothering to check all the specs. (Even if they are checking beyond size, it tends to be mainly benchmark-based - which, again, tends to hurt data retention.)
And they will most likely crash if you do, because they are not expecting a SecurityException. I prefer the CyanogenMod way to just give out empty data, if a permission is not given by the user.
There was an article on HN in which the author was talking about the impressive translation of Asterix comics into English - not only was the translator able to make the English as pun-filled as the original French, but in most cases the translated puns were very similar in nature to the originals.

Unfortunately I can't recall enough about the article to search HN for it.
You're correct, most linguists agree that what apes are capable of is not language.
2) I have two people that have been programming with me for about six years now. We created a tool for building business applications on the web. In some ways its very much like Microsoft Access for the web. Its crazy good now, we're on something like version 10. We use it for most of our clients as a supplement to MS Access.

Unfortunately, at this time, it only works with PostgreSQL and every time we show it to PostgreSQL people they love it but want it to be open source. Obviously, we had hoped to sell it so that's a big disappointment.

We have an address book and a calendar. We're mulling over writing a webmail client and offering it as a "small business server" since Microsoft seems to have stepped away from that. I'd rather not do the work unless there is demand. How do I test that?

--
So we have no shortage of choices. We could do a hundred different things at this point. The tool we built is phenomenal and would allow us to build any number of things quickly but out of all our choices we don't know what is likely to be profitable as a product. All we know for sure is we don't want to consult anymore because its a dead end.

I'd like to productize what I do but I don't see how. The aerospace and medical companies I deal with don't do cloud and seem unlikely to pay me for maintaining a server in their building. Making a profit on servers is a dead end since they are hard to sell. How do these Micro$oft guys come in and bill $25k every three years like clockwork?
Wow, that's some pretty complicated stuff.
I can only imagine the monstrous code that could be written using this.
But with Google, you can have the reasonable expectation that if this product does go away, you'll have the chance to export your data.
No kidding. I can only imagine the headaches if the security drama (like upgrading bit lengths, deprecating ciphers, certificates etc) that keeps SSL on its toes were built into TCP. In this case, simplicity rules IMO.
Isn't Jython not a JIT compiler, and isn't Jython much slower than cPython?
Exactly. This is a great description and may end up being the state of things forever. A precise definition likely requires that the thing being defined is significantly less complicated than the thing defining it. I suspect a proper physics definition of consciousness would necessitate singularity-quality general AI. But then you'd be unable to define the distinction between those consciousnesses and the more advanced one that was defining them.
I have no idea what your point is.

Why shouldn't Google be devoting resources to solving this issue ? Being unable to upgrade is a massive security risk and prevents developers from rolling out new and interesting features in their apps.

It is largely a solved problem. You have a core OS/SDK which is upgradeable and some sort of plugin style architecture around it for themes/new features. Sure some OEMs may ignore it and fork the OS but then Google has the leverage of Play Services / Android brand they can use as a stick.

And whether iOS is licensable or not is irrelevant. For their particular phone it is upgradeable without carrier intervention. Why is every Android phone different ?
>> Einstein officially runs on MacOS X with partial support for iOS, Android, Linux and Windows.

Maybe one day :)

I still have an eMate sitting here, those things were (are) amazing, especially sharing (beaming) files to each other. And with the wifi card in it, I still fire it up and play occasionally
> with the caveat that main can't be unsafe

Why not? Is there a specific justification for this beyond just "you shouldn't do that"?
> (That's still worse than an electric heat pump though, though - those have > 100% heating efficiency in terms of electricity input).

"Coefficient of Performance" being the over-100%-not-technically-efficiency measure for heat pumps. [0]

Or "Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio" if for god knows what reason you want to measure it in British thermal units per Watt hour. [1]

So a setup like this isn't actually competitive with a heat pump in most conditions, but if the electricity was going to be burned in a datacenter anyway you might as well use the heat for something productive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_performance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_energy_efficiency_rat...
In a lesser known twist there was heavy debate on the SGML working group that documents shuld have embedded links. For various reasons that did not come to pass but it Effectivly pushed back the web by 5 years until HTML showed up. Presumably if DNS has been out just a little bit sooner the web would have taken off much sooner. Though computer cost and limitations may have set slowed adoption.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_L...
> I just don't understand why the telecoms wouldn't use the newest OS as the default.

Why would they allow you to upgrade the OS when they can sell you a new phone and a new multi year contract. It's a pretty basic strategy.
Path also made the same post on their official blog: http://blog.path.com/post/120147299377/a-new-chapter-for-pat...
Probably not, the use of personal hardware is forbidden, and I think that includes personal USB drives as well.
Well, that's to be expected.
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“the most unique memories I have are of places I've never been to” – Helen Situ
I was referring to the Martin Kleppmanm piece on "Accounting for Conputer Scientists". It seems like it was meant as an exercise in mapping accounting to graph theory, but somehow morphed into a go-to tutorial for accounting.

Looking at the comments on that website, it has even developed a sort of fanboyism. But IIRC, it led to some "interesting" insights when it was first discussed on HN, like "sales are liabilities".

I find the alleged impenetrability of basic accounting to be rather baffling in general.
"Dave Morin is a cunt."

http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46539276780/...
This is really interesting for several reasons. But this most important one for me personally is that Google decoupled this service from the other services.

My own use case is managing photos of my young kids, but I think the benefits of disentangling the service from other Google services apply to many different scenarios.

Like many parents, my wife and I take thousands of pictures of our kids. And, like most serial breeders, we no longer have time to deal with managing them or even importing them ourselves. We just want ALL our pictures to automatically go to the same shared archive, no matter who in our family took them and no matter what device was used, and we want to access that archive from all our computers and tablets and phones.

Apple's new iCloud Photo Library is totally unworkable for us, because iCloud's services are all coupled as a monolithic group. There is no way to do what we want without setting all our devices to use the same iCloud account -- but if we do that, then we can no longer find each other with Find My Friends, no longer have separate calendars and notes and other iCloud features.

For our photos, we currently use Dropbox Carousel -- but that only works because my wife doesn't use Dropbox, so we give up nothing by having her phones and tablets set up using my Dropbox account.

So for me, the key thing here is that Google smartly disentangled photos from its other services. My wife uses Gmail, and I use Google drive, but we can both set up Google Photos independently of the other Google services we use. So we will probably switch to this.

I can see this level of granularity being useful at work, too.
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Though a court side camera at a basketball game would make an interesting vantage point... People definitely do sit court side for the view.
Extensive prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9620292
Mutation invariably involves....invariance. There are many ways of looking at this, here is mine: If a := b and a.F := c, then we must assume b.F := c is possible. However, such edges are not tractable in a type system, so we conservatively rely on invariance instead.
Growing up and going to university in Montreal most grocery stores would deliver within a certain radius for 2-3 bucks extra. You could walk/bus to the store, buy as much food as you need, regardless of being able to carry it, leave your address with them and they'd deliver it later that day. Better yet you could phone in your order in the morning and pay an extra $2 (this is less than 5 years ago by the way), someone would pick out your order for you, and then it would be delivered that afternoon.
> hub is best aliased as git, so you can type $ git <command>

I'd rather have a git subcommand to interface with github. The way hub works is to alias over git and make it do github things by default. That seems like an obviously wrong way to do it.
Samsung/HTC are never going to just abandon Android arguably no matter what Google does.

People have invested money in apps and content which locks them into that platform.

Tizen is a non-starter (nobody is building apps for it). And Microsoft is still struggling for traction.
While I’m honored whenever anybody appreciates important design choices where I’ve been involved, this is not quite right, and it’s a little embarrassing to be the inventor of something so simple.

Actually, UDP was “un-designed” by me and others. By this I mean that UDP was the final expression of a process that today we would call “factoring” an overly complex design.

Actually he should not be embarrassed. Engineering at the core is taking something complex and making it simple, as simple as can be but not too simple. It takes tons of effort to simplify. That is why most engineers/developers think that complexity shows their knowledge, it is actually the direct reverse of that. But where you try to simplify you will feel currents pulling you the other way and you'll have to swim upstream for a bit.

Thank you for inventing UDP and by inventing I mean simplifying something unnecessarily complex into something usable. It has been the key to many game technologies and has made possible and been a base platform for some wonderfully complex things, simply by being simple. Complexity only through simple parts.

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
― Ernst F. Schumacher

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius
According to this article co-ops are a place where non-whites congregate and find their safe space. Wow. Bringing ignorance to the masses I see.
Arbitrary side-effects can be a recipe for problems, definitely.

One-way flow is, to my mind, best used in conjunction with persistent data structures and some tangible mechanism to coordinate state changes under a single reference, or a small set of references.
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It's depressing enough to see it on Facebook. Here it's unbearable. HN should be preserved as a place people discuss using facts.