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Is there any release date for the store and payment system? Will it only work with a few countries like google checkout?
Even just decent sublight space colonization would probably be enough to make human survival fairly reliable for the foreseeable future, but I don't think ANY space colonization is likely in the foreseeable future. On that count, I think we're stuck on this rock for a while (unless the singularity makes it easy) and will sooner or later screw up our rock. (war, probably)

There probably are ways we could steer into a stable human populated reasonably pleasant universe, but we're in a car filled with guns liquor and dynamite on a winding mountain road in the dark.
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I was trying to do this last week, and found this: http://drydrop.binaryage.com/
It updates Google App Engine from a github repository. Push your changes, and they're online. It's very easy to setup.
I think the choice of UDP is based on the use of Kademlia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia
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Except that he goes out of his way to slam the comment quality. Besides, I think the difference between well-commented code and code without comments can be quite vast, especially when you're inlining assembly, as is the case here.
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"You're wrong because the answer key says so. Were you not paying attention when I gave the answers to use during the 'review' session?"
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What language is the comment thread in?
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I agree. It is energy consuming to feel morally responsible for everyone/everything but just the same can be said about being dismissive. Irresponsibility for one's self makes this into a paradoxical binary choice. Eradicate judgement and the need for forgiveness goes with it.
When the MPEG-LA actually start suing people instead of just blustering about it then get back to me.
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Wow, thank you for your insight! Now I understand why you should always get the best and smartest lawyers you can possibly afford, even if you don't think you'll need all their expertise.

These two parties were practically made for each other.
well, that's really not the reason i didn't do it. amongst other things (my lack of preparation at the time, primarily) it just wasn't easy for anyone but a few big companies because the biggest requirement is that you have not only scale, but loads of data. this is no longer true. you now have aws, hadoop, etc, so it's easier and cheaper to scale, but this is why i knew google would do it. they had the capacity, and they still do. very smart machine learners, petabytes of data, scale, etc.
Why not build a web app? It will run practically on any platform that has a browser which is basically everywhere. That's basically what I do lately. Anytime I think of neat idea I first prototype it in firefox with the help of firebug and more often than not it turns out to be good enough.
Privacy?

(As in, are we really giving Google yet another look into the websites we visit?)
I think my answer here answers your question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1363449

Usually the way of gauging process is that people come up with specific goals and then either meet those goals or don't meet them. I didn't have a whole lot of goals, which means that whatever it is that I did accomplish was higher than my expectations.

I would recommend that other people go in with high expectations of accomplishing things.
Is "The above question has no solution", which is choice C, not a Godel sentence?
I did not say that the Singularity was certain or inevitable. I do kind of take it for granted but if you're saying it's not going to happen, that's a whole different argument.

I'm not saying "If humans continue to exist, we will certainly do the singularity thing." I'm saying "We are likely going to go extinct unless things change in a really really big way." And of course those big changes also have to not kill us.
The capability model for requesting extra permissions is terrific, but it should have been done using <meta> or <link> tags -- reusing their bundle format for extensions was a terrible idea, especially since they're going to have to implement all the DOM-based stuff anyway.
Your H0(null hypothesis) may be wrong.
I wish you the best! You'll perhaps have some competition if it still itches in spite of your job, after Broodwar AI Competition is over though. :)
...an infinite loop, so no chance of answering correctly - C.
That's the one I was thinking of. Thanx.
I have no idea what this does from looking at that page.
I haven't seen that clip in decades. He is soooooo groovy!

Maybe he grew up and became a Black Panther (or something like that)?
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Google will most likely be sued first.

Also, it's not like there wasn't ever a debate as to how much Theora really is patent-clean.. So among the three it is clearly the best choice so far.
I would say that in more than half the cases where I see a dead comment, there is nothing obviously very wrong with the comment. Sometimes it's dead because the user who posted it is auto-dead-ified -- everything s/he posts is killed -- but in most of the (few) such cases where I've looked back over the user's comment history, I haven't found anything very awful that they got put in that state for.
I've definitely considered that as a possibility, however part of the application is to discover (search for) files on your system, and then upload specific files based on requests from other people. I was thinking that this would be slightly prohibitive in the web browser, at least from what I know from building Java applets and Flash based uploaders. If I were to do this in the browser, I would want to use purely JavaScript, but I'm unsure if this would be powerful enough for what I want to do.
From the article:

>Caching at many levels is of course still a part of our application, but so far we've not found any reason to cache a single MongoDB document retrieved by primary key in an external cache like memcached, a practice that is currently common for us when we use relational databases.

I'm not quite sure what they are actually caching as I can not find any valuable info in server headers at all, for example relating to varnish etc.
Apple already supports WebM as much as Microsoft does.
You can just install a Quicktime component that adds support for the container and the codec, which gets you <video> support without them having to do anything. Microsoft isn't shipping it either, but they announced that they're adding Google's DirectShow filter to their whitelist for IE9.
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People will just install the Quicktime component, just like they'd have to install the DirectShow filter to get support in IE.
I thought the same thing. I couldn't believe how composed and calm he looked!
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Google Places gives all business for a given location and radius (you can then grab expanded listings of whatever's found), but not specific businesses like coffee shops, however this kind of functionality will probably come soon, and for server side lookups.

The closest Places gets now to a specific lookup for a business in a certain location is just on the client side after manual keyword entry, using the GoogleBar: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/v2... (type coffee)
> one way to condense the score was to give just one or two voices and let the player figure out what the other ones should be since the transformation is an entirely logical one

Fugue construction isn't mechanical; if you had only one or two voices you couldn't reliably work out all the others. (You might be able to make a plausible guess.)
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Now you're starting to make some sense. I guess you can't trust a large company to behave ethically, only to stay within the law.

The problem is, the system is set up in such a way that it's impossible for a small company to stay legal. Even if you grew into a medium sized company, and you managed to spend the time required to research all the patents you're infringing on, the licensing costs for all those patents would be greater than all the money your company will make over its entire lifetime. Because you now know about all the patents, even the silly ones, and you can't actually afford to challenge all of them, so you just have to license them.

That is what would happen if a small / medium company did its best to stay legal when it comes to patents. It's absurd.
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This would be a cool idea, but the headline is a bit misleading.

From looking at their website, it appears that they have some kind of template that they use to create an iPhone app from RSS feeds, YouTube channels, ect, which they then monetize through ads. It looks like their "algorithm" is only applicable to the repackaged-website apps that they create, not a general service that you can submit your own app to.
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interesting. i actually envisioned a simple web interface that anyone, including joe luser, could use. the idea was to empower anyone to be more data driven, from the individual business owner in africa, to the small and medium business owners everywhere. i did recently run into directed edge. there's also data applied (their ui is too complex though).

by implementing a web app that anyone could use (mobile or not), i also envisioned a sort of community/market place where people could post their data and do simple stuff and/or have experts try to tackle it for a service fee. and whatever algorithms came out of that would be made available for future data that has similar features. i recently came across a similar site. can't remember the name.

anyway, i know this is not necessarily a viable startup idea. and if it is, it's ultimately all about execution. i'm still dreaming though and was psyched google launched their predict api.
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For all the clueless opinions flying around patents, Jason actually gave technical arguments ... imagine the shock I had to read an insightful technical article, rather than opinions filled with religion or politics.

> sometimes it take year for a single patent

It takes only seconds to issue threats. And a single threat can stop people from adopting it.
David Recordon, who wrote the big post on that page actually works at Facebook. As does Luke Shepard.
Your rubric doesn't denote whether I can answer more than one item for the question therefore based on "you can only choose one" then 25% is the chance of being right, as the correct answer is still one of A,B,C,D.
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Can you prove or disprove this statement?

"Godel's first incompleteness theorem is a Godel sentence"

Anyways, it is my belief that Godel's Incompleteness Theorem is false by definition of Truth. That is, what is true is provable and vice versa. Once you depart from this definition, you get statements that are paradoxical, and by my definition of Truth, the Godel Incompleteness Theorem is certainly paradoxical (thus False).
Will do. Perhaps I can set this up as a blog entry and then cross-post.

The problem, I think, is to keep this non-political. Somebody brought up the Rumsfield example, which I think is a good one. I also think McNamarra is another good example. The problem is that decisions that are very visible and make a big impact can also politically-charged. I think using a couple of SecDefs is okay, but I'm not sure.
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Well, any multple choice question is going to be unanswerable if none of the choices given are a correct answer.

Since I think most would define a multiple choice question as one with a list of answers from which you pick the correct one, I say this question fails to validate.

Thus not only is this multiple choice question unanswerable, it's not even a multiple choice question. Try wrapping that around your head.
It's a vulnerability exploitation framework. It is used by security experts for vulnerability development and penetration testing.
Most misleading title ever.
No. Godel's incompleteness theorems say nothing about non-arithmetical or non-mathematical statements nor do they apply in contexts where no formal system exists. Some sort of paradox, sure, but Godel doesn't apply.

Truth is not a mathematical concept, and determining the "truth" or "falsehood" of a sentence has nothing to do with Godel's incompleteness theorems.
I agree. I had only heard of Rob.

And easily the top .NET employee is Anders by far.
This idea looks so much like the AOL of 1994 (or worse, the MSN of 95) I want to give up an move to the mountains.

The web is a wonderful construct, a thing we should treasure as it makes everybody equal. You can put up a site in a couple minutes, make your web app and put a dent in the universe, and be just a couple keystrokes away from everybody, just like Google.

It's really disappointing when people want so much a nice walled garden to be imprisoned within.
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It's a labs release - they don't want to get every S3 customer on day one. This pricing is a good way to get some beta users and soft launch. I'm sure they wouldn't be in this if they weren't going to match s3 pricing at some point.
For the record: This time 37 signals is perfectly right. These patents are absurd. The most is "objects for keeping settings". Really, they just covered everything out there, any software, any device.
The court should dismiss these patents.
"What's the advantage of "installing" an app from Chrome Web Store?
When Google Chrome users "install" a web application from the store, a convenient shortcut is added for quickly accessing the app."

When I read that I say to myself, "wait, you mean a bookmark?"
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I'm curious why you suddenly started bashing the AGPL in the middle of an unrelated discussion? I believe Reddit is covered under the CAPL which is more like the GPL than the AGPL.

No one forces website operators to use AGPL code. It's a trade they make in order to cut development time in exchange for meeting the openness conditions. It's up to them to decide if that is economically worthwhile.

Banning people from deciding that trade is worthwhile would be fairly counterproductive. And having the courts invalidate the license because you have a philosophical problem with it seems to be slightly unfair on the people who wrote the code and chose to give it away for free (with some conditions attached). You might as well say it's OK to steal library books because, hey, you don't believe in the contract that says you have to return the books is fair.
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Being somewhat problematic for long running process is not only a function of memory leaks.

Even with the better runtimes now available, suggesting that they come close to the stability (and performance and long term memory consumption and profiling + debugging capabilities) you'll find on the big JVMs is not really helpful (JRuby being the obvious exception but even here I am sceptic).
So, what does this mean for Apple? They're betting on H264 being the web video codec. If YouTube is all in WebM and Firefox supports it, that's 60% of the browser market and one of the largest video sites. Is this game over for H264?
Interesting to see how the spelled-out-version of your joke gets more upvotes. You'd expect hacker news readers to be smarter! :)
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Cool, but "hacker news"?
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It's most likely a set of users who expected something and did not have a good first user experience with your product. Maybe their expectation wasn't matched, they were confused, or they were just browsing. But that's all conjecture, you need to find out from those 25%. Only they can explain their behavior.

Learning about your customers should be top priority. I would definitely follow up with those 25% via a very friendly email, as mentioned in previous comments. Don't be surprised or upset if very few of those 25% reply to your email (would you - for a service you abandoned?). Good luck learning!
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You can see the full 23 minute episode here http://www.vbs.tv/watch/motherboard/the-singularity-of-ray-k... (the show with the interview, seen at the very end of the YouTube video)
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There's a semantic difference between an element and an attribute. Unfortunately, XML is specifically used to model element-as-attribute relationships, so a lot of people start wondering about the exact, nebulous, distinction. Elements are the more flexible of the two, but possessing of some quality that you (and many others) wish to avoid.

The difference is much the same as that between native datatypes and objects. Some languages explicitly expose everything as objects, while others contend that, for example, boolean-objects are overkill and downright problematic.

Generally, I use attributes for strongly typed data, and elements for untyped or (semi)structured data. Schemas are vital for typing.
Your statement seems to presuppose that granting a government-protected monopoly to the first person to come up with something new and innovative is a desirable outcome in software. That's necessary for you to apply the value judgement of "good".

But I don't accept this premise. Even if automatically updating software over the network was prescient and innovative in 1995, that doesn't mean it would be prescient and innovative in 2000, or 2005, or 2010, even if this patent had not come into existence. I strongly believe that this kind of technique was inevitable as networks became ubiquitous, and getting the government involved in granting a monopoly on the technique is iniquitous and harmful to innovation.
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x^y/y = z
x= chance of a correct answer (1/4)
y= number of random attempts

1/4^2 divided by 2 = 1/32 (The odds of picking the correct answer twice in two attempts) and so on..... the more you try the less chance you have of succeeding so just give up and cheat off the guy next to you. I made this crap up so what's the chance of it being right? a)0% b)0^ c)what he wrote d)no chance
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If anybody is giving the Google Prediction API a whirl for recommendations, we'd love to hear about your findings!
It's quite a problem. I'd really appreciate if google could just let me search for strings i put in quotes exactly the way they are.

Recently I wanted to google stuff about the windowmanager i3. It was quite difficult, even with queries like "i3 windowmanger".
I like that twitter stream, there is some poetry and uniqueness in it, and it can be even considered as a new literary genre. BTW, don't you know more sites like SMDS? (different content, some format).
That was my first thought as well. They never even said anything about video - the article acts like its obvious they mean video, but it really doesn't sound like it. If they're hiring devopers with HTML5 interface experience, that's probably what they mean. I can't see hiring new devs just to use the video tag, at least from what I've seen.

Of course I'd love to be wrong on this, and will probably sign up for Netflix if I am.
Are you self-aware yet? If not, you should come back and stay longer. Though someone else may be sleeping in the Chinese room (really, it's more of a Chinese closet) now.
Haha, i think this is a different type of "Hacker News"
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Before I state my criticism of your mission, let me say that I respect what you are doing, I think it's incredibly interesting, and I think it adds spice to the world that an organization like the Singularity Institute exists. I think the world is a better place for it, and I respect you very much for spending your time exploring these issues.

That being said, I think the way you state your mission appears a little immature to me and many other people, and I think that very seriously detracts from your credibility. This is very important, because with more credibility you could accomplish many more things that make the world a better place. One of the most important things about scientific research is having a concrete, well defined way to attack a problem you're setting out to solve. People are working on quantum mechanics because there are lots of concrete things they can do and test, and people aren't working on antigravity because they don't know where to begin. Your research is from the "antigravity" category of problems, i.e. problems where we don't really have an attack.

This doesn't mean working on these problems isn't useful, or that you should stop, or that you should spend your time doing something else. It does mean that your research is highly philosophical - it is very interesting intellectually, it has potential to attract great young minds to work on interesting things, and it will likely produce results that will get people thinking in new directions. This is always a good thing. But it also means that you are extremely unlikely to find practical solutions to any of these problems, and it seems that everyone is recognizing this other than you. When you present yourself as an organization that is working on practical problems, instead of intellectually interesting philosophical problems, it becomes very difficult for many intelligent people to take you seriously, and I think it significantly detracts from your goal.

Once again, I think what you're doing is great, I wish more people were doing it, and I sincerely wish you luck and success. I am merely trying to show you how many intelligent people that would otherwise be interested in what you're doing view your organization. Please treat this comment as a constructive argument for changing your marketing. At the very least, think seriously about slightly adjusting the wording of your mission statement. It might get more of the right people interested, which will likely accelerate your work, and make all of us better off for it.
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There may or may not be announcements (cough http://jobs.netflix.com/DetailFlix.asp?jobid=flix3803) but note that Adrian is one of the more senior cloud architecture guys at netflix - he's not a streaming guy.
Excellent. It's damn annoying having to give Google 30% of every sale on the Android market place. Much better to just make an app free on the market place and then make people pay through paypal to unlock features.
In the long run, this probably won't matter, people will just search for "mia new album" and find it just fine.