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pshapiroon MIT App Inventor

iPhone alternative: https://blueprint.io

pshapiroon Yahoo releases nodejs framework

infinitely

pshapiro on AFNetworking: A Delightful Networking Library for iOS and Mac OS X

Anyone know how this library handles caching?

pshapiro on Microsoft’s Augmented Reality 3D HoloDesk Lets You Play With Balls In Real Time

At last.

pshapiro on What Netflix Could Have Said This Week

Just me or does that sound awfully close to Apple's marketing language? "We think the benefits are going to be huge."?

pshapiro on What does 0^0 equal? Why do mathematicians and high school teachers disagree?

Thanks, I was gonna say the same thing. :)

pshapiro on How Elon Musk Thinks: Reasoning from First Principles.

If it's really a first principle then there should be only one of them. This is very important if you want to understand the world completely.

pshapiro on How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit

"If you don't act what makes you fail it doesn't happen." - Tathagata http://www.members.tripod.com/tathagata2000/teaching_6.htm

pshapiro on Ask HN: Is passion a fair thing to ask for from an employee?

Why would you want passion? The thing you should look for is interest. Passion only means that they don't have the necessary information to tell if what they are doing is reckless or not.

pshapiro on DNA

Sounds great but,
"There is no amount of training that would make up for the talent we’d extinguish by teaching them how to write annual reviews."
Leadership has nothing to do with writing annual reviews.
I heard that leadership means gathering people's power to accomplish a goal.
So while leadership may mean management, management is not inherently leadership.

pshapiro on Exposed: Facebook’s Secret iPhone Photo Sharing App (Which Looks Amazing)

I see what you did there.

pshapiro on Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold

Yeah, right!

pshapiro on ObjectAL - iOS Audio development, minus the headache.

I've seen an implementation of audio recording with CocosDenshion and AVAudioSession, but Denshion doesn't do any of the recording. It's only used for playback afaik so you can probably still use ObjectAL with this method.
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/cocosdenshion

pshapiro on ObjectAL - iOS Audio development, minus the headache.

You said it!

pshapiro on Google Code Jam 2011 Language Popularity

Why was C++ so popular?

pshapiro on New iPhone app identifies trees from photos of their leaves

Wow, I was just thinking about how to accomplish this idea yesterday.

pshapiro on Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25

If anything, at least we could give one to each child much more easily than a desktop or laptop.

pshapiro on Scientists Abuzz Over Rumor that God Particle Has Been Detected at LHC

The following might seem somewhat far fetched to you, but then again, when I was in your position it seemed that way to me too. One thing non-religious people are able to report about God is that what we call a god means the consciousness which is generated by activities. Consciousness is like an electrical signal in that it will transmit any information input into it. Something recorded in a consciousness can be said not to have very much mass compared to the actual object which was met, so curiously (and not coincidentally), people calling the Higgs particle the god particle is actually as wrong as the religious accounts of gods ability because god doesn't have the ability to change massive things by itself. Hope this makes more sense..

pshapiro on Scientists Abuzz Over Rumor that God Particle Has Been Detected at LHC

All the things you listed seem to be propagated by religions, rather than being abilities of a God or things that non-religious people report about gods.

pshapiro on Scientists Abuzz Over Rumor that God Particle Has Been Detected at LHC

From the article:
Dorigo — who said he doesn't have access to the full ATLAS memo — gives several reasons for this viewpoint. He points out, for example, that scientists at Fermilab didn't see the putative Higgs signal in their Tevatron data, which covered similar ground as the ATLAS experiment.
Dorigo feels strongly enough, in fact, to put his money where his mouth is.
"I bet $1,000 with whomever has a name and a reputation in particle physics (this is a necessary specification, because I need to be sure that the person taking the bet will honor it) that the signal is not due to Higgs boson decays," he wrote on his blog today. "I am willing to bet that this is NO NEW PARTICLE. Clear enough?"

pshapiro on HTTPSNow

Probably because he's not a Blackberry user... :)

pshapiro on Show HN: Our new iPad app for pilots - totally free for now

The type appears quite small. Do you know if this is a problem for pilots?

pshapiro on MIT's artificial leaf is ten times more efficient than the real thing (Wired UK)

I think the point is that it can use that small amount of energy to break the hydrogen bond in the water, releasing more energy than was used.
Edit: Apparently I made a mistake. See the correction, which I was the first to upvote.

pshapiro on Color.com should have been called Around.me

LOL nice try, but it looks like the domain is taken. I hope you have $350k.

pshapiro on Characters of Silicon Valley

They're on quora.com.

pshapiro on Node.js 0.4.4 Released

Install 0.4.4 on OS X (assuming you use npm):
$ npm install nave
$ nave usemain 0.4.4

pshapiro on Show HN: We made a web-based cash register

Can you give the definition of a cash register and a personal payments system?

pshapiro on Show HN: We made a web-based cash register

This is a great idea in part because of the incredible stagnation in the upgrade path for a restaurant's POS technology. In my experience the entire hardware+software system gets upgraded only once every 5-10 years at a typical restaurant. Probably because the two (hardware and software) are sold together, making upgrades a big investment.

pshapiro on Why You Should Never Buy a Home Again

What do you mean by, "Possibly true"?

pshapiro on You can't do that

Free electricity may be a pipe dream, which is understandably dismissed, even IMO (how could you get free energy from nowhere?). But a gizmo which pulls electrical or magnetic energy from the sun or surrounding space by some heretofore unimplemented and unaccepted method is not as much of a pipe dream. However it's just as quickly dismissed by academic physicists as a pipedream even though they don't know what specifically they are dismissing.
So I agree! Keep your confidence if you think you've got an idea that may work, especially when there's a bunch of people who have a vested interest in your device not succeeding, telling you that it won't work.