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The constitutionality of a Federal minimum wage is questionable. It was ruled unconstitutional in the 1930s along with a number of other expansions of Federal authority, however, the president and congress threatened to increase the size of the supreme court and add enough sympathetic justices to allow the replacement legislation to stand.

Changing the Constitution is intended to be hard. I want my elected representatives to be much more reluctant to change what the government is allowed to do than to change how it does the things it's already allowed to do. I especially want a list of things the government is not allowed to do to me, and I want it to be extraordinarily difficult to remove items from that list.
Really? I thought the HP-12C was still the gold standard in finance.
I'm sure my karma rating will take a hit, but my first thought was -- "Someone developed a program to replace Mike Arrignton and his ability to insult interviewees?"

But in all seriousness, the links to journals are your best resource for specific topic areas. I've spent a lot of time in data modeling, computer vision, etc. It is a lot about providing specific models (with some minor adaptation / dynamism in the algorithm) to provide for "learning" / "adjustment".

So start with areas that are directly related to your interests and try and iterate/generalize from there.
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Ha, you said it man. Looking back I began to realize that this was the biggest benefit of my degree.

Technically, a homeless person could dig in at a terminal in the library and teach themselves anything they needed to learn about computers. However, first they'd need to know what to look for and by God that was difficult before I spent 4 years talking to people who worked with computers all day. I think my time on Reddit actually enriched me there a bit, too.
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...But the truth is that if you’re product or service is offering a real value, people will indeed come back, even the pissed off ones. Maybe not immediately, but maybe a year from now or even 5 years from now....
I have a degree... in philosophy.

Everything I know about theoretical computer science I picked up from books, at a price far below the tuition of a typical university.
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Wow, someone built the system I was advocating for 3 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1495760

Awesome.
Is that just about the load averages you'll see in top?
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The major components of the calculator are the screen, buttons, and batteries -- I think those cost more then the silicon chips inside -- and those prices have not dropped as fast.

Nonetheless, they are overpriced.
That's what I assume he was talking about -- the average number of processes/threads in the run queue or waiting on disk I/O for the sample period.
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Apple bought Siri, a spinoff from SRI's AI division, earlier this year. That was a pretty big deal.
"Presumably a society run by engineers will at least not neglect to invest in infrastructure like we do."

Are you considering all of China? I'm pretty sure the U.S. overall infrastructure is still better than theirs. They wouldn't build up anything that wouldn't profit the state.

Maybe eventually that will change.
Out of curiosity, what would you have done if someone had said "Yes, you are making too much money."
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It's easy to find examples of undeveloped spaces within the city limits of Detroit because it's density has always been fairly low by modern urban standards. The surface area of Detroit is larger than that of San Francisco, Boston, and Manhattan combined, but the population is obviously lower.
I drove through Detroit 10 years ago knowing nothing more about the place than being the home of the American car industry. I was shocked at what I found, crumbling buildings, empty lots, streets in total disrepair. I took photos and showed them to friends and family, who couldn't believe their eyes and wanted to see more.

It's true that much of the decay isn't recent. It's also true that real people are living and suffering in the city.

But it's a fact of life that people are voyeurs, and the more grisly the topic, the more they like to gawp. To many, Detroit is a living cautionary tale, a city with problems, someone to gossip about and resure themselves that at least where they live isn't as bad as that.
I've been traveling a lot for work and miss my kids. I made them a game...
ah, a book of faces ... a face book, if you will
It is a jQuery plugin so that developers building sites with jQuery can integrate it faster the jQuery way.
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That sounds neat. I didn't now about the Skymap app. I've stopped browsing apps since my Iphone went through the washer. It goes to show that there are many ways to achieve the desired goal, so the real issue is not ADS-B systems but freedom vs. safety and how much are we will to give of one to get the other.
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You might just need to discuss it with someone. What is the technical problem?
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How can nobody here mention Courant and John's Introduction to Calculus and Analysis? I think I'm going to cry.
You could easily compare Detroit to Los Angeles or San Jose, though, two other cities that have historically low densities. The open space in Detroit seems fundamentally different from, say, South San Jose or the mountain ranges in LA, because of the presence of formerly-occupied urban ruins.
Seems most of these are either Linux, BSD or SunOS. I'm much more interested on getting shells on obscure systems like AIX, HP-UX or SunOS SPARC to port software to them. But those are really hard to come by.
Coding, watching movies, going for a hike, exercising, playing music, learning to skateboard.
Reminds me of the approach Master of Orion 3 took, sort of out of necessity: they found they had built a game with such absurd micromanagement that they had to add some AI managers to do some of the lowest-level "playing" for you in order to make the game actually interesting/enjoyable.
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Irrelevant. Individual states could do this and there's no constitutional violation. Canada is a federal system as well, which is why our minimum varies.
Thank you, that was kinda my baby--Ron had the actual idea of course, but I did the implementation. It was really great how easy it was to do.
I've got this...

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I'd be willing to join in and check it out. Username is "Simucal".
I use a virtual assistant service called Rent A Smile http://www.rentasmile.com - they're specially good for research work.
In today's context, most work in AI is statistics-based. So if you are talking about conventional AI (logic-based for example), yep it would be relatively harder to find.

Lets not forget though that machine learning and data mining and their applications: natural language processing, a lot of computer vision, recommender systems, financial predictions, fraud monitoring, some types of games, and innumerable others are huge advancements made towards the same goal that AI was after, albeit with different means (statistics) than originally attacked with.

Statistical machine learning is AI. And it is bigger than ever before.
I read an article last year or the year before (could have been in Time or Fortune). It was about China's Politburo - the 10 men council at the very top of their administration. They literally set the direction and policies for their country. Some 6 out of 10 of them had Ph.Ds in Engineering/Science.

That was definitely very admirable, for a country in their position, where they have to bring out large masses of people out of poverty, as quickly as possible, you need such leadership.
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I just wanted to follow up on ShelfLuv for those of you interested in the story behind the app.

http://blog.pekpongpaet.com/2010/10/03/the-story-of-shelfluv-midventureslaunch-hackathon-best-overall-app/

I've added some of the features that people mentioned in the post Review my hackathon MVP - Amazon instant search: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1739488

Also found out that my submits immediately become dead if I try to submit anything with my domain name.
And I guess my point is that I'm not convinced it's a distortion of the truth at all. Frankly, the photos you see are not merely processed photos sliced and diced to distort the point, they are really a fairly accurate representation of the city. It is not as if you have to go hunting these things out. You sit in Comerica Park and you are looking out at empty skyscrapers. You drive to Comerica park and take even a brief detour from the highway and you are immediately in parts of the city so desolate that you're not even afraid for your safety anymore, like you would be in a bad part of town, because anybody trying to carjack you would have to sprint across a hundred feet of open field. You take a cruise up the river and the contrast between the Canadian side and the American side is stark.

Yeah, there's spots of life, certainly, but those are what you have to go hunting for. Everyone is writing the same story because it's a true story.

I am a big believer in making sure you know the problem before you go looking for the solution, and informing the public can be a slow process. That's where we are right now, learning about the problem. I actually think that trying to paint the city in some sort of false good light would harm the recovery attempts, both by underselling the problems, and wrecking up the recovery narrative that will be a critical problem of getting things back on track.

(If such a thing is even possible, which frankly I'm pessimistic about. Something that you may not know if you don't live around here is that while Detroit is dead, the greater metropolitan Detroit area is alive, and bits of it are even thriving. I think within my lifetime it may no longer be the "greater metropolitan Detroit area" but merely southeast michigan, or perhaps named after one of the formerly-suburbs. Bringing Detroit back to the former glory is very hard because even if for some reason you might consider moving there, there's somewhere else in Southeast Michigan within an hour's drive that is a better choice for you, for almost every purpose. That's Detroit's real problem at this point; the factories aren't coming back, and all the other possible things it could become were crowded out into the suburbs or Ann Arbor, so there's just absolutely nothing left for Detroit. Really, Detroit is already dead, the question now is whether the location is so prime that a new city will plant itself on the same ground.)
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I understated things a bit - it wasn't just the originators, but SS advocates, at least until recently.

If you want to remove the cap, then either you're willing to pay Ross Perot $500k/year in benefits or you're going to have uncapped taxes and capped benefits, that is, another 15% tax.

Do you really think that rich people today won't object to another 15% tax?
I feel like almost anyone can empathize with this problem. A few points, which echo some of the other comments:

- Relish the small victories. Write down detailed-ish milestones that represent real progress. Checking them off can be a huge motivating force.

- Don't give yourself a way to back out. You can do this by quitting your full-time job (!), or more practically by telling people you know what you're doing. This has two positive effects: a) you'll get valuable feedback, and b) it won't be as easy to give up because others are expecting you to do what you said you'd do.

- I've got a list of Youtube videos that I like and find motivating. Here's a link to my list, but you've probably got your own as well: http://www.onwardly.com/category/get-pumped-up . Relatedly, I also get a lot of inspiration from others who have done amazing things in different fields.

- I'm not an engineer, so this may not apply, but it helps me to have multiple parts of a project I can work on at once. Its nice to switch modes sometimes between future-planning, marketing, working on the financials, etc.

These are just a few suggestions, hope they help.

As a last thought, getting through this period is what often separates the wheat from the chaff. Also, I recommend Seth Godin's "The Dip".
I liked the end of the article:

Jeffrey Swartz is President of Daly-Swartz PR (www.dsprel.com). Jeffrey has been involved in PR and marketing communications since 1973 when he was named corporate commmunications director at Frost & Sullivan in New York. Before launching Daly-Swartz Public Relations in 1986, he served as vice president of corporate communications at Silicon Valley-based CompuPro.
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You have two options:

1) Work at a non-startup company for more cash upfront with very little to no potential upside.

2) Work at a startup for little cash upfront with large potential upside.

To each his own.
My web 1.0 (or perhaps web .9) cake generator is at http://www.cakemessage.com/

It's got the best in 1993 web UI technology.
Not sure how good this AI would be. It pretty much delegates micromanagement and lets the user make high-level decisions. However, it doesn't seem fine grained enough to handle different situations. The fact that the 8 buttons include unit names is slightly worrying; is this is specifically for Protoss? What if a reaver drop is the current optimal plan of attack? What about scouting? There were no scout units at all. The video just shows the person clicking "attack" and the zealots/dragoons automatically moving towards the enemy base, so maybe the "black sheep wall" cheat is presumed to be enabled. Scouting is one of the most important tactics. How would the system deal with cloaked units, etc? It just seems like a helper system that does trivial things like executing a standard build order, assigning probes to resources, etc.
I am unsure why Page Sponsors are needed - isn't the idea to going to sell the final book at a premium?
Awesome idea about the auto-sizing of text. I will give it a shot tomorrow.
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This article is just a PR guy taking points from Seth Godin's 2003 TEDtalk.

I rather hear it from Seth. Skip to 5:30 mark for the meat of it.
http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_on_sliced_bread.html
Thanks!

I use many of those projects daily. Your work is appreciated.

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Apparently jokes are OK in this thread.

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(Surprised no one did this yet.)
PS. I'm going to have to agree with the "most of the time is spent on making the frosting color look best" strategy!
There was an article in the economist a few years ago about the dominant professions of government leaders for various countries. I couldn't find it, but the basic gist was it is more a reflection of the most accessible prestige positions in a given country rather than the values of that country. If I remember correctly the study was inconclusive as to whether this actually effected governance in any meaningful way.

I'm disappointed I couldn't find the article cause it was interesting to see the dominance in various countries: engineers in china, businessmen in japan, lawyers and legacy wealth in the us, lawyers in the uk, teachers and doctors in france, etc.
In fact, it is pretty obvious that the developer's decision to write tests first is blinding him to the problem and seeing a solution. By whiplashing around tests rather than taking time to just think about what you want, it takes an hour to write a simple solution to a warm-up question in a good technical interview.

On the other hand, as a way to get around sticky conceptual barriers, perhaps this approach is great. One just wishes the barriers were set a bit higher. But perhaps the trick doesn't work as well there.
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I like to know who I'm dealing with. I like to know if it's one person or 100, that you have been in business for 6 days or 60 years, that you're based in New York or Taiwan...

I use this when making decisions, whether it's awarding a contract or buying a simple consumer product.
If it's "hacker folklore" (I think this counts) and it's not a brand-new account by one of the guys who were there, it's probably already been posted ;)
I disagree. I see mint reaching that "more people" as the reason why it succeeded, not a side effect
Funny. I tried obamamillion.com couple years ago to make a similar thing of a million obama supporters. Never took off :o
I <3 free, but many of these are hosted on DSL accounts in people's spare boxes on their home network.

If you want a reliable shell for personal use check out http://lowendbox.com - there is a whole market for *nix VPS's for as little as $10-$20/year.
He is talking about being told too much about someone in the context of a marketing pitch:

>And the next time you send me a marketing piece or invite me to visit your website or talk to me over the phone, don't lead off with talking about YOU.
I've fluxuated between 100K to 350K in the past 5 years.

You don't HAVE to ask for a higher raise every time you get a new job. Going from finance to non-finance pretty much requires you to take a pay cut anyway.

The salary ceiling depends entirely on the industry you work for. I would think on average you still should have ways to go especially in NYC.
I trusted HN to know it was Osborne. So, I didn't make the obvious correction in the story, nor the more subtle point that Osborne was about to get crushed by IBM, nor yet the point that it's clear in today's world that showing early adopter customers unreleased product to get feedback is frequently a good plan.

Re: your work advice, I'm mulling over exactly this point -- there's a question of timing here, I think. Is it better for the business for me to keep this guy afloat, since I have not been able to get him booted? Not everything in business needs to happen realtime, although I would like this situation sorted out sooner rather than later.

I confess I don't really understand the difference between refusing to work with him and undermining his ability to work with me, but I think I get your point regarding a good outcome for the business being the primary goal.
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Just so you don't recreate the wheel, here's a Perl module that provides Bayesian text categorization:

http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/AI-Categorizer-0.09/

I'm currently using this (and String::Approx) on a not-so-secret project...
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As others have pointed out, a lot of things that "work" stop being considered AI.

But here are a few recent advances off the top of my head:

The DARPA Grand Challenge. Robot cars that drive themselves. http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY93kr8PaC4

Google's Machine Translation system. Far from perfect, but it can usually do something reasonable between over 40 different pairs of languages. They added Latin on Thursday.

CMU researchers have developed a classifier that can look at your MRI scans and tell what you're thinking. (Still in its infancy, but still.) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/346917/The_Grill_Tom_...

People working in my research lab are working to automatically reconstruct words from the ProtoAustronesian language using just the modern words. Our results are typically extraordinarily close to what historical linguists have done by hand.

People in a neighboring lab are working on a system that can automatically distinguish between a nuclear detonation and an earthquake as part of the Test Ban Treaty Organization. They're making good progress.

Take a look at PhotoSynth: http://photosynth.net/ which can automatically reconstruct 3D scenes from disparate photos taken from different cameras with no prior information needed to stitch them together. http://grail.cs.washington.edu/rome/

The face detection that is now standard on many cameras was one of the great problems in computer vision.
The best part, it is powered by Facebook (Connect).
I've seen your app around at thought it looked interesting. A couple initial thoughts:

1. A larger array of images to choose from. Since this can be ANY kind of measurement. I would even like to see user submittable icons/graphics and a hosted repository somewhere.

2. Custom keyboards would be nice depending on the kind of units. The calculator style keypad is a good example.

I'll let you know more once I have a change to play with it throughout the week.
Thanks, this is helpful, and in the general direction I'm settling on. The heart-to-heart with the CEO was indeterminate. I am focusing on getting the guy's description aimed at biz-dev, an area that will be objectively measurable. If he's successful, we'll just have an overcompensated biz-dev guy on our hands, an improvement on the current situation.

Regarding his value, I believe he's providing some emotional value to the CEO which is not material to the interests of the company. This is one of those 'soft-benefit' areas to my mind -- the CEO has gotta be happy, or things just won't work. On the other hand, there's gotta be a budget for CEO happiness, and I don't think we are in agreement about the appropriate size of that budget, or how much is being spent here.
Thanks! I did have a custom keyboard but with the new update it broke. However, I'm definitely looking out for another option. And yes, I'm looking into including many more images too.
Check out GlassDoor.com - they are actively trying to fix problem of lack of data about compensation. People post actual salary data as well as detailed company reviews.

Note that they do require a free registration after your first few searches. The registration requires you to enter a salary or company review, which is a pretty fair trade.
Generally when I get bored, it is a sign that I am burned out.

Consider this, you are a hacker, and you have a computer, and (since are reading this), the internet.

If you cannot think of a way to entertain yourself, then your creativity is toast. You need a vacation.
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