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I am a bit skeptical about the advertised price tag of $30. Last time when they released a $30 computing device(in 2009, see http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/indias-10-lapto/ ) it was just a glorified box with 2GB memory. I wonder how they managed to put a touch screen and a functional OS without increasing the cost by even a single dollar.

Anyways this is a big step towards lowering the cost of computing devices.
Spending generously on a great wedding photographer is the single best purchase I've ever made.
There's one at http://www.eterlogic.com which at a glance looks free for non commercial use - Virtual Drive SDK.
Is anyone here a member of TechHub that's mentioned in the article? - http://www.techhub.com/about.html. Is it any good?
It may still be viewed seriously by people who really want to believe that there's something essentially different about human consciousness, and that we are not "just" fancy meat-computers.

I don't know if it has ever been taken seriously by anyone who doesn't approach the problem from that point of view, though.
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I looked at the examples and they look awesome. One thing I didn't get, though: How will you keep in mind the various units etc? For example, it's great that Frink has the "beerbarrel" unit, but how would you know of this a priori if you have not used it before. There must be powerful search and/or completion mechanisms in the IDE to be able to use this effectively it seems.
I don't think I get the question, do you need people to help you open source it or help you work on it?

If the latter, stick it on GitHub and submit it here. It looks nice from the video, so I'd imagine a few people would get on board.
To be clear, I said that I would argue but I'm not saying it's the "right thing" to do in that situation. I really was more interested in everyone's opinion on that subject.
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> I mean beating figuratively

Haha, don't worry, I know this.

I've seen people beat themselves into doing what I consider an extremely boring way of studying, telling themselves "there's no other way". My point is that using a method that stimulates your imagination, or links the character to words, or explains how it got its shape, helps a lot to make things interesting and meaningful compared to studying it "in the vacuum".

Discipline and time are always required, but some methods make it less painful. My impression is that most people don't spend enough time to plan their studies. They take a class, get told "you must know these 50 characters for next week", and then just learn them with almost no context, pure raw memorization. After trying this, many people think they "don't have the temperament", like you said. My point is, sometimes it is, but more often than not I'd put it on bad methodology. It's possible to make it more interesting and learn them without a flogging ;)
Reinforcement learning was applied after the basic model was initialized with imitation. Maybe that can partially explain the small number of steps.
Seconded. Overstock is great for getting ridiculously good bedding fairly cheaply.
Last.fm?

There are some folks who suggest that raising money can actually be bad for some start ups. Ramen profatibility and all that...So, in this day and age of cheap infrastructure lack of VC money shouldn't really be a huge problem.It's more of a culture thing.
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Actually, plenty of them didn't have to be rescued; note this from the report:

"Payments largely from firms that have reimbursed taxpayers: Eleven of the seventeen firms the Special Master has contacted regarding his proposal have fully reimbursed the taxpayers. Of the $1.7 billion in payments identified by the Special Master, more than 90% were made by firms that fully repaid, or were taken into consideration in the Special Master's determinations regarding "exceptional assistance recipients.""

I don't know what the last of that means, but the rest suggests that most of these "overpaid executives" worked at firms that never needed a bailout, but were e.g. part of Paulson's "you are not exiting this room until you sign this agreement" 3rd World dictatorship riff, which was done so that the public at large wouldn't know which companies were actually in deep trouble (a strategy that was necessarily well publicized at the time).
The problem was a political one. When Lehman Brothers failed, I believe it was something like 60,000 people lost their jobs over the actions of 300 people. There was political pressure on a weak administration (Bush is already consigned to the bottom 5 presidents in American history) not to make the shitstorm it was handing over to the Obama administration any bigger. People losing their jobs in a recession == bigger shitstorm.

In other words, the process you described works great, but "creative destruction of the free market" is not a great talking point amongst the masses.
Spend more time on your dream than reading Hacker news :)
Premium membership is a viable way of making money. I don't think any of this user group would like ads though. I think they'd be willing to pay for some sort of premium status. There is the potential for commercial gain here as upvoted stories get lots of traffic from smart people with good income.
So why is it that as we grow up we lose all the passion, the energy, the will and the strength to keep our dreams alive.

Because we lose so much energy in general.

Because we don't take care of ourselves.

OP cites Tony Robbins. Anyone who has ever been to any Tony Robbins event knows that he always starts with health (eating right, exercising, and mental attitude) before addressing anything else. Because he already knows what many don't: if you're not feeling right, nothing else matters.

Almost all of us have ample energy in our teens and twenties. But as we get older, we have to make a conscious effort to maintain energy and vitality. Most people I know in their 30s, 40s, and 50s don't do nearly enough. We slow down, put on weight, and lose energy. It happens so gradually that we barely notice. And we blame everything else: family, finances, lifestyle, etc. And we avoid acknowledging the elephant in the room: it's awfully hard to get passionate about anything when we only have enough energy to plop down in front of the TV with a bag of chips.

Most people I know with the energy to accomplish a lot, regardless of age, take care of themselves, especially those working 2 jobs or running a side business.

All of the other reasons (fear of failure, responsibilities, etc.) make sense, but I wonder how many people don't follow their dreams simply because they've run out of energy by not taking good enough care of themselves.
Encapsulated this is Penrose's argument in a crude fashion

1. Humans can perform Turing-uncomputable operations (mathematicians mainly)
2. All of present day physics is computable
3. So there should be some uncomputable physics yet to be discovered.
4. Penrose feels this new physics should be in quantum mechanics.

A small video of Penrose's argument : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gl6aThSs1s

On one hand the very notion that a computing device is conscious is patently ridiculous. Why? Because everything computes something. Even my fan computes a function so does the engine of a car[1], but are those artifacts conscious? The only honest answer is to say that this is a difficult problem.

This is a very good interview of David Chalmers (the philosopher who originated the term "Hard problem of consciousness") that I found on HN sometime back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1Yo6VbRoo

Obligatory XKCD reference: Can a bunch of rocks be conscious? http://xkcd.com/505/

[1] Very trivially they compute the function which describes their dynamics.
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My underdog consulting "startup"; it cost me $10 for the domain and 3 days to do the site html. I just wanted somewhere to document previous side gigs just so I can have a line-item in my resume.

Holly crap! in the last 10 days it has been on FIRE. Three different B2B projects and it's paying more than my last full time job, which was by every measure a very posh gig.

It's such an specialized technical niche, the entire global search volume for it is less than 5k annually. A fact I didn't even care to research before I "sunk" 3 days into it. I just wanted something on my resume.

And this is all I have to say about it :-)
It's never that obvious. When a regulator is hired by the Street, it is usually because they have lots of industry knowledge and know all the other regulators. That alone is sufficient. It also makes the case for industry self-regulation easier to swallow (in the eyes of regulators).
Ditto. I've recently realized that networking skills are the fastest way to level up in the real world.
Riak.. sounds good! Is this just an implementation of Chord (http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/chord/) with a REST API?
Perhaps statistics, (of the relatively advanced variety rather than the mean-mode-median variety), should be inserted into every high school student's curriculum. It is, after all, far more important to the life of the average citizen than, say, trigonometry or calculus. And it ought to be easier to understand.
Depends, I would say fixing bugs is equally important from a business perspective.

But it sounds like you need to talk to your boss if this your company's stance on support vs new features. As everyone knows fixing bugs is harder than green-field development, however people might be getting promoted above you for other reasons or they might just be asking for a promotion.
Has anyone read Norvig's only listed SF book R.U.R?
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> Review the app on it's functionality/style/etc not on the short-comings of it's server infrastructure. The latter is a detail that can be fixed pretty easily while the former is pretty permanent.

Was this missing a "/sarcasm"?

This seems like the most recklessly harmful remark I've read on Hacker News in ages.

Ideas are easy; implementation—especially in iron—is hard. It matters, and it's exponentially harder post launch.

> would you write an article about how great twitter is and then be sure to write but I occasionally get the fail-whale!? I don't think so, it dates your article severely and isn't really relevant to the quality of the product

Mashable would, two days ago, on 21 July 2010:

http://mashable.com/2010/07/21/twitter-scalability/

To quote this "severely dated" article:

> "[Twitter] must first and most importantly achieve an acceptable uptime ratio. All the partnerships, revenue and media buzz in the world can fall a bit flat when the app itself doesn’t work."
I used California's Paid Family Leave program to take the entirety of July off work. My daughter just turned 4 months and every day she learns something new. Even though I'm at a rapidly-growing company, I wouldn't trade time with family for anything.
This "Guess the Dictator" game was a hit years ago, http://www.smalltime.com/Dictator. It's pretty much the same thing and they're lots of fun. http://hunch.com is leveraging this type of decision tree learning nicely today.
You don't get big without VC - you're right about culture though.
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Frink is a general purpose language, not just a unit conversion tool.
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Emacs has M-x compile, which also does debugger integration. You can edit the build file(s) directly, it's not that hard. I'm sure vim has the same thing.
Internet anonymity (or pseudonymity) also enables people to tell the truth without consequence, much like tenure. But also, like tenure, enables people to lie without consequence. Internet pseudonymity is open to all and has produced a much more relevant, efficient system of promoting truth than the closed tenure system which only protects a few. The internet's version of tenure has allowed people to get sexual information, controversial political information, and much more. Internet pseudonymity is a much cheaper and effective tenure system.
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Several good life investments, but I'll go with a monetary one...using all my savings at the time (a shade under $6k) and convincing my Dad to lend me a bit more cash so I could purchase Google's dutch auction IPO shares.

I have the confirmation email from Google laminated and framed in my office. :-)

Plus I got to pay my Dad back with a nice bonus too!
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Yes, but in that it's empirically indistinguishable, from an ethical standpoint we should assume it exists when we see the hallmarks of consciousness (though perhaps the primary hallmark is an intrinsic understanding of the concept itself.)
Good idea with the GitHub. But we could use someone that could help us prepare it GitHub ready. I though that during summer holidays there should be some people willing to be part of such interesting project :)
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Wall Street has already taken their lumps. I'd like to see feel-good government policy take its lumps now. Specifically, the kind of policies that encouraged and/or forced banks to make loans to uncreditworthy individuals.

Any time you hear a politician shitting on a bank, it's because they're trying to distract from the role the policies they advocated had in all this.
Fixed. Tons of (mt) Wordpress sites got hit with this. Luckily, the fix is pretty straightforward.
similar ideas but afaik riak draws it's lineage directly from amazon's dynamo paper, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo_(storage_system).
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The author also presented on his own language, Finch (http://bitbucket.org/munificent/finch). It was a great presentation, and the language implementation is incredibly easy to read and understand. I don't see using Finch for any real projects (like many of the languages presented) but it was inspiring to see so many people presenting well-crafted labors of love.

For someone interested in programming language design or implementation, Emerging Languages Camp had a lot to offer. It received universal praise from everyone I talked to.
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Weird. I submitted this last night, and it was auto-killed.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539899
Speaking from my own experience, I'd say that my biggest hurdle to following my dreams is a false dichotomy created somewhere in my imagination. For some reason, I always imagine 1) no income, 2) no reduction in expenses, and 3) not being able to get a job should I go belly up.

I started working part-time about 5 weeks ago, and it's become obvious that I was fooling myself for the sake of maintaining the status quo. Now that I see that it's relatively easy to find income outside of my day job and that my family can cut expenses if we are more deliberate about how we spend, I wonder why I have always imagined the worst.

The biggest factor is stuff. It's true that what you buy enslaves you. Houses to a mortgage, cars to a loan and expensive insurance, retail items to credit card debt. The more you can eliminate or reduce those expenses, the less of an excuse you'll have to keep working in a situation that isn't fulfilling.
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Low cost deployment is the new reality.

a) Without having a low cost deployment option the competiveness of microsoft is greatly reduced in the big data market.
b) It might take Microsoft 3-4 years to work out the business model but having a portable .net framework with low / zero cost deployment would make apps written in .net viable in sectors where they dont have a chance currently - embedded , big data.
c) The few startup people ive talked to have all worried about "theoretical portability", ie they might never use the portability but they would like the programs to work on different OS's.
d) OSX actually benefits greatly from its unixy structural similarity to linux / bsd. Most developers I see here in NYC develop on osx and deploy on linux (linode, heroku etc)
e) While Mono is a great project, having a blessed / direct version of .net would reduce the business risk in the mind of customers.
Since "result" is on the stack it will only be allocated at the time of the function call. Also note that the stack grows downwards in memory. To get the memory layout you've shown you'd have to be summing up the bytes in the unallocated memory between the heap and the top of the stack. Probably this is explained somehow in the standard but I don't personally know.
eli, no i wouldn't. but the coverage on this product is imbalanced for a product that isn't working yet. PR is good and necessary.
We use Riak and are launching a limited beta soon. Not only is the product good, but the company is fantastic. They'll call you up to chat about anything you want even if you're not a paying customer. They recently opened an office in San Francisco and in the announcement on their blog said that you can literally stop by any time to chat about Riak, or anything else interesting. Too bad we're not in SF.

Riak doesn't have authentication or authorization built-in. It is on their radar. We have a light-weight backend for that stuff which doesn't know about most of our data. It obviously has to know about users, but other than that it just serves and stores JSON.
Great point. I once read a quote that said there are two types of people in the world: dynamic and static. In that light and in my own experience as well, it comes down to how well you can manage and increase energy.
I spent $600 on a train ticket from Halifax to Vancouver with stops along the way, and did it by myself. Besides being a great trip, I was exposed to a greater variety of people than I usually have a chance to interact with.
If you want to gain some domain knowledge in this area, especially for smaller community banks, be sure and check out the excellent 5th comment.
Writing a code generator. It was so difficult that every other programming task since was easy in comparison.

Conventional wisdom advises not to try anything too hard because you might fail. True, but that advice discounts the biggest dividend of all: who you become in the process.

I didn't realize how important this was until I saw how easy it was for me to do most ordinary programming gigs. It was like playing basketball with a regulation hoop when I had already practiced with a smaller one. Other programmers struggled because they hadn't seen that problem before and they had never stretched themselves.

Building hard things on my own made me a much better programmer when I did work for others. By far, my best investment ever.
Attempting to read s[i] when i is outside the bounds of the array is undefined behaviour, so the compiler is free to ignore this case. See example at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined_behavior#Examples_in_...

Certain pointer operations may result in undefined behavior:
int main()
{
int arr[4] = {0, 1, 2, 3};
int * p = arr + 5; // undefined behavior
}

In short, you can't assume that result will be placed after the array. What if result is optimized to a register? It actually sounds quite likely to me given the tight loop.
To be honest with you, I don't really know linkin (>_< I know). But I really was thinking of something simpler. Nothing clever or trying to be too smart.. Simply a job posting but only available to personal contacts and friends. Maybe with a few filter, but you get the idea.
Well said.
Startups add value to society.

But society quickly discards anything that is not of value.
How come Wall Street still thrives? Surely there must be something that they offer?

It's Government that doesn't add value. It failed miserably at its job of regulation (whatever was left after glass-steagall, that is), passed highly unpopular policies whose results have been questionable, and now passed another monstrosity that it hasn't even finished, but will leave it as an 'exercise for the readers'.

I would say Wall Street is an ugly manifestation of the perverse incentives that Congress helped create.
The problem with the pitch accent is that it varies so much by region that if you included them in the kana (like the universal phonetic alphabet) you would end up with something that was completely unreadable by people from a different prefecture. (Ok, I'm taking that to an extreme, but still. The Japanese have enough problems with various dialects without putting pitches in the written language. I think I would cry.)

Yeah, that's definitely true. You would have to use it just for 標準語, sort of like how pinyin with tonal diacritics is primarily used for Standard Mandarin, since something like 関西弁 would look completely different.

By the way, I remember reading (on HN, I believe) that a lot of the problems with English spelling are a result of the original typesetters (i.e., for Gutenberg-style printing presses) being Dutch, so they failed to accurately spell a lot of English words.

And Esperanto is for noobs ;) If you want to see a real conlang built from the ground up, check out Ilaksh: http://www.ithkuil.net/ilaksh/Ilaksh_Intro.html
You can have anything you want, just not everything.
I've looked at the doco, but I can't seem to find a way to declare a new glaven, even in jest. That should be a central feature in a language named Frink, shouldn't it?
I want to know how I can increase my volume of interesting emails by 50% per day.
If you define a failed startup as one that's never made a profit, there's no shortage of them with "$MM exits." Bebo, anyone? Plus its easy to find startups where founders or execs took money off the table long before there was a whiff of profit.

And since many VC funds include CALPERS as a large investor, it often ends up that "tax payer money" is the ultimate source of the funds.
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So you put your previous work up and they found you?

Just out of my curiosity for how this could develop that quickly, are these long-term projects or quick projects that you've already completed but pay well because of their specialized nature?

Care to elaborate more on the type of work it is?
i'm glad you've found success. can you say exactly what your dream was though? your own business?
Problem is that these institutions make the largest profits when they produce bad pricing information in the form of complex overvalued derivatives poorly understood by those rating and buying them.

It's also possible to accept that providing prices, liquidity and investment is a positive contribution to society whilst still thinking that this contribution is massively overvalued when it comes to pay packets, lobbying power and protection from the results of their own errors.
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So, is this going to be mitigated somehow, or will everyone just ignore the requirement, or will somebody launch Fresh1099s.com and make a pile of money to reduce my headaches considerably? Stay tuned . . .
I'd be curious to hear how many of the outraged people in this thread already deal with at least, say, 4-5 1099s (other than the obligatory one your bank sends you to report interest earned) in a year.
Eventually you'll have to face http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1B#Criticisms_of_the_program