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The main difference between current computers and the human brain (life in general in fact), is that we are programming deterministic (well, sorta...) computers. Our brains and bodies are however using probabilistic algorithms everywhere.

Now deterministic algorithms are really efficient at say numerical things, but as we see time and time again the universe is a hostile place which hates programmers and engineers. Think of the checksumming and other overhead needed everywhere because cosmic rays and what-not can corrupt data on disks/going over wires. And things only get worse when our problems get more complex or our solutions have to be distributed. Soon you have more error handling code then normal code.

Probabilistic algorithms accept the fact that stuff will break and we might occasionally fail catastrophically but provided our catastrophic failure chance isn't so big the probabilistic approach is much more robust.

This isn't to say that a probabilistic approach is the only way things should be or that the human body does not require any error checking (in fact, our DNA has an error correcting code built in). But in a hostile and complex environment such as our universe a fully deterministic solution only gets you so far. There is a reason why a lot of AI/robotics solutions are going the route of machine learning, evolutionary computing and similar probabilistic solutions.
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They keep calling each other friends.

WordNet: # S: (n) friend (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust) "he was my best friend at the university"

They are not friends. They both need to get over this and move on.
Not only do the supporters not vote, but they have very little political power nor do they provide monetary support.
Not maybe a Pirate but a Forty-niner
Ok I don't care about Musk's marital problems at all, but Arrington's little dramas are a lot of fun to watch. And very instructive too, as they reveal a lot about the real Silicon Valley.
Wow, those are two big fragments
No, Florida is a good location for people on the East coast. What's not needed is another conf out West.
How far does "however you see fit" go? Escalation to the nuclear option is rarely, if ever the correct course of action.
Non-YC startups, want to form a group to get better terms from vendors?
So one of the many things that are attractive with YC is that they represent a significant number of startups - which allows them to more easily negotiate terms with vendors and the like.

I am in the process of building a startup (solo founder here) and am facing the normal issues of merchant accounts, payment gateway headaches, etc.

Would be good, if we could create a group or association of some kind, where there is some amount of screening done and pre-requisites met - that allows us to negotiate with vendors and others on behalf of the entire group. Perhaps there would have to be some standard things (e.g. LLCs or C-Corps registered in the US, etc.).

Would anyone be interested in something like that?

Of course, getting better terms is the main 'benefit'. The other benefit would be, eventually having streamlined access to media outlets (the notion being that one group represents many startups, so more stories for journalists, etc.), camaraderie amongst other founders, sharing war stories and internal metrics/tips/etc.

Anything that might be of benefit to the entire group.

But, there has to be some way to encourage everybody to really be a part of the group.

Btw, I am imagining all types of startups (bootstrappers, VC-backed, angel-backed, etc.).
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It seems odd because like 90% of the words from the first sentence is repeated by the second one. Seems not DRY enough for me. It's more on the style of text than the problem, as I clearly agreed that by suggesting the data source to adapt to publisher-subscriber model (or some xml/json format)
Indeed. It gets little play in the West because Indians aren't as obviously un-alike as whites and blacks (and the only Indians most Westerners encounter are upper-caste), but the Indian caste system makes the worst excesses of Apartheid look like a teddybear's picnic.
A new kind of neutrino?
I wouldn't say there's much of an overall difference in the positions on state power between liberals and conservatives; they mostly disagree over what the state power should be used for. Liberals focus on state regulation of the economic sphere and think people's non-economic activity should be mostly left alone, whereas conservatives focus on state regulation of public order and morals, and think people's business activity should be mostly left alone.

It's not really a recent trend or specific to the Christian Coalition variety of conservatives; a belief in the importance of a stable social order, and an avoidance of rapid change or rampant hedonism, is a pretty core part of conservative political thought going back centuries (Edmund Burke is a frequent point of reference).

My observations of who libertarians grit their teeth and vote for is that it depends on which kinds of government power bug them most. Are you most angry about taxes? Or about the war on drugs? About business regulations? Obscenity laws? Permits and fees? Sodomy laws? Etc.
You obviously didn't go to one of the top ten preschools then :)
This looks cool, but it appears to be on hold:

http://irony.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=230812
Latest results from the Mini-BOONE project at Fermilab suggest the existence of a previously undetected form of neutrino, and also asymmetry between matter and antimatter ("CP symmetry violation").

Could turn out to be wrong, of course, but it would need changes to the Standard Model if it were right.

[EDITED TO ADD ...]

Abstract of paper at Physical Review Letters: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v105/i18/e181801

Presentation of what may be the same experimental results: http://www-boone.fnal.gov/slides-talks/conf-talk/vdwater/vdw...
There is another post in response to this comment containing four full paragraphs explaining why Newton wasn't succinct, but the post is now marked as dead. If anyone familiar with the Leibniz vs Newton history wants to turn showdead on in their HN settings and read the post, I'd appreciate commentary on its accuracy and origins (and, perhaps, an explanation of why it was killed).
You're assuming that all startup founders come from the poor-recent-college-grad pool.

I'm working on an idea (applied to this round of YC but didn't make the cut), and the primary thing I need/want from YC is the mentoring and connections. Funding-wise, the $15K or so they'd invest wouldn't shift the needle of my personal finances one bit. I saw this post and briefly considered the idea of bidding, and then flying out from Boston for lunch if I won.

I am not saying this to brag about the fact that I don't necessarily need $15K. I am saying it because it is important to recognize that not every startup founder is in the same or age income bracket.

You are also confusing or blurring the line between YC and pg. Paul would likely be able to dispense valuable advice and offer insight and perspective on the current VC trends to a wide variety of startup founders, including those that are in the mid-30's with some experience and an idea. As I write this, it occurs to me that perhaps the people who CAN spend $500 on a lunch may be the types who would need or want some kind of advice on an entry path to the game since they can't follow the live cheap and eat ramen path.
> You had CPUs with different speeds (286 to 486)

We had the turbo button back then. Maybe we need a turbo button on the Android. You could call it the "Anti-Frag" button.

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Just getting the ASCII art right back then must have been the toughest part.
The COO is italian, not American. They all used to work in America, that's all.
Yup, not to mention that there is more value in 'How to win friends and influence people' than in most 4 year degrees.

Friends of mine joined the accounting club at their university because it had the best hockey pool.

So they end up at the end of the year invited to some wine and cheese thing where the guys from KPMG, et al, are talent scouting. Being the accounting club they are hanging out with a bunch of wall flowers. Started chatting with the guys from KPMG and at the end of the event they all have job offers, so my friend finally says we'd love to accept but we're english majors, they say, don't worry, if you really need to learn accounting we'll pay you to go take it.
One example would be, rather than being a single startup trying to deal with Paypal, perhaps we could negotiate with BrainTree Payment Solutions for a more streamlined solution for members.
As a security guy, the idea of connecting this to my system scares the bejesus out of me. I want to point two small things out: USB device drivers are universally poorly tested, and this device could be anything. There's nothing stopping such a device from running an exploit in ring0 and taking full, instant control over your system.
We need proportional representation. I'm pretty sure I'd have better choices with PR. Right now its a choice between people that don't understand economics or real life and people that don't understand economics or real life.
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Shabda, don't bother to feed the troll next time.

If you go back and look at this "known" person's history, he repeats same asinine sentences over and over again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Riots_in_India,

This is a list of communal riots in india. Go figure who hates whom
As with any time when you couple your device with some random hole you should take all necessary precautions to avoid contracting a disease.
"Catlike typing detected" goes back (I think) to this: http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/
I don't think so. Right now you can write universal applications for iPhone/iPad changing the view controllers, resources (textures) with the same underlying core code. I think that Apple next big step will be an unified architecture which will allow developers to build cross-platform applications that will run on iPhone/iPad/Mac using an hybrid UIKit/AppKit. Maybe in OS X 10.8, time will tell.
I'm not saying that the DRM isn't horrible... I'm just saying that you don't have to buy DRM'd books.

Don't buy from Amazon! Buy from other sellers who provide DRM-free ebooks instead. One of my favorites is Baen. They have a massive free library, and I've bought quite a few books from them as well.

Project Gutenberg is another great source, of course.
The cell phone was not invented in 1973, that thing Michael Douglas carries around in Wall Street is called a brick.
First Intel Macbook Pro came out with an ATI Radeon X1600 or other. I figured I'd wait a generation or so Apple could iron out the kinks. I finally picked up the Macbook Pro with NVIDIA 8600M graphics, that worked out well...

Moral of the story, it's a crapshoot, buy if you need it.
What about a computer that is capable for beating a Chess Grandmaster? I think that's revolutionary.
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Consuming less (I mean at the consumer level, not raw resources) is hardly a way to promote the progress of our civilization. Finding a way to sustainably consume ever more will yield much greater outcomes in technology and happiness.
If Caste == Religion, then there is no Hinduism.
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But surely people must know this by now, and it still goes on. How many private flare-ups and legal notices have been posted on Techcrunch in the past five years? Joojoo was blowing up about this time last year. Yet the bullying/suits against Arrington continue.
836 million Indians survive on less than Rs. 20 (less than half-a-dollar) a day.
http://goo.gl/OUJ5F
But they do report news. Had they simply ignored it as it blew up, wouldn't it be more childish to not cover it? I think Arrington handled it rather professionally, and didn't sink to the lows that Calcanis has.
The book recommendation "Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People" truly is amazing book. I recommend everyone to read it.
(I know this comment was intended to be largely funny, but I feel I need to point this out.) Thing is, this isn't like downloading some files, but like dropping a random PCI card into your box. By connecting this to your system, you're really ceding complete control, with effectively no way of preventing any attack from taking place. Is it likely? Not particularly, but it's definitely possible.
A proper REPL can do a lot of the same stuff you'd use a debugger for, and a whole lot more. With a nice REPL you'll do just fine without a debugger.
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I don't think people are downvoting b/c they agree/disagree/love/hate/care about the people or companies in the article; my take on it is that you are getting downvoted because your comment had no substance and was just sarcastic whinging. Your comment could have been straight outta YouTube land and I don't think folks here appreciated it.
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I think your memory is fuzzy. For example, under GWB, the Democrat's use of the filibuster was also frequent and controversial. There were judicial appointments that went unfilled for years because the Dem's refused to discuss them.

(as much as it pains me to defend the GOP)
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Interesting. I just started a bootstrapped Dallas-area musician forum to help promote networking and live performances - http://musicdfw.com/.

Does a forum/calendar make it in their terms do you think?
From this page, it looks like every drop.io user already has a magic key that they could copy and paste into a migration tool.

http://dev.drop.io/

Assuming that their userbase is large enough for some percentage migrating to benefit you materially - consider building a migration wizard now.

This sounds like a talent acquisition - I doubt drop.io would be hostile to your poaching their about-to-be-ex customers. They may even be willing to suggest your tool to their users.
So why don't junior pilots form their own union? Wouldn't that introduce more competition into the labor market and equalize (or at least rationalize) pay between "junior" and "senior" pilots? Or is aviation one of those industries where working your way from the bottom is celebrated?
I think the hype is real, at least the hype about the upcoming wave of major and disruptive technology companies based in India and China. I think American startups and established technology firms will compete effectively against these companies, but the effect on other countries with a less-established startup and technology investment culture is more worrisome.

I'm particularly referring to Canada (which I'm most familiar with since I'm Canadian). Canada continues to fall behind the US in terms of productivity and technology investment. Apart from a few of the major population centres and Kitchener-Waterloo we have little in the way of a startup culture. We do have a strong tradition of entrepreneurship but it appears to me that this is mainly focused on traditional and particularly service-based businesses.

Technology firms here will also tell you that Canadian companies are slower to adopt new technologies than companies in the US, India and China.

Countries like Canada that have let innovation stagnate because they currently enjoy a high standard of living may be in for a harsh wakeup call as Indian and Chinese companies start to really come into their own.
I don't understand the use of URL shortners.
I wish I had enough karma to down vote you, for not posting actual URLs.
In Japan? That's surprising, since NMT stands for Nordic Mobile Telephony.
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How would you filter all kinds of "chatroullete without penises" things ?

YC not just represent SIGNIFICANT NUMBER they represent some(!) of the BEST startups. Thats why they can access vendors, bloggers etc. YC is a credible brand that would be hard to earn for the new group.

Whats wrong with BrainTree? I my mind possible 10% discount from vendors is too small treat that doesnt solve any significant problems that founder meets to organize a few new group for it.

Just my 2c

Pardon my Eng
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1859829
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http://goo.gl helps in tracking the visitors.
The vulnerability is wide-spread, but Firesheep was released with handlers written targeting specific sites, including GitHub.

So, yes, I would have appreciated a heads up from those guys.
Same story, different source:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1860241
It's intended to be serious, I just decided to add the humorous slant to it after I started writing.

If I were to use data from these drops I'd want a junk system that I could flatten between uses dedicated to the task. Connecting random usb devices to your system is a recipe for disaster in a billion ways. Even connecting well behaved usb devices to your system with unknown data on them is fairly risky due to the poorly chosen default settings of popular operating systems like Windows.
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The Tokico Shocks is made from stainless steel and mandrel bent tubing. All of the sets that are offered are tested, because the company always wants to make sure that their products will be some of the best that are available on the market.
Why not take the part-time physical labor job now. That way you will get your gym time, it won't such your metal energy allocation, it will work at paying off your current debts/bills, and put off the time when you have to take a job to earn money.

If you could work just 1 day a week, or 2 hours a day for dour days a week, you could put off crunch time for a long time.

Just a thought.
Sorry to say this but your baseless accusation of the HN community is also unwarranted.
I wrote a post about the sale of TechCrunch to AOL a month ago:

http://www.cforcoding.com/2010/10/did-michael-arrington-scre...

In putting together the timeline there was in my opinion a real stink surrounding Arrington's actions. It all just seemed too convenient and coincidental and unsurprisingly to MA's benefit.

I read this post and there is a similar stink. Mike is just too much playing the hapless victim of a tyrannical ogre to be credible.

TC might have done q lot but Jason brought a lot to the table. Compare and contrast with the far less exciting Disrupt conference.

Frankly this sob story has for me made jason's version of events far more credible.

EDIT: sigh, and so the down voting just for my opinion begins...
> "I choose not to interpret this as a setback for legalization, but as proof that prohibition is in its dying throes."

I'm pretty sure some people believed that in the 70s as well.
it's been above the Greenback three times now in the last few weeks. wait til it gets above and stays above parity for at least a day before it becomes real news.
PCs haven't been CPU constrained (for mundane tasks) for quite some time. The long-pole has been hard drive I/O, switching to an SSD will boost perceived (and actual) performance substantially.
This just in: some people hate hipsters.

(I am not entirely convinced that faux-polaroid effects are a tragic loss of data as he suggests.)
People shouldn't be afraid to say something wrong. If you say something wrong, people should correct you and everyone will learn (including readers that don't know anything about the subject).

The issue is if people that see that you're wrong, instead of correcting you, just downvote you. In my opinion, a wrong statement should not be buried with downvotes, it should stay at 1 point with a reply that corrects it and that get a lot of upvotes.
I agree with this. How is it facebook's responsibility if the user's wireless network is unprotected? Of course the companies are silent. It's not their vulnerability and it's nothing new, it's been like that since forever. Encrypting all traffic for them is expensive and breaks functionality. What are they supposed to say, to warn users? Something along the lines of: "Warning, HTTP session hijacking has become REAL USER FRIENDLY recently."
Where do you draw the line?

People are going to commit suicide anyway, so why not legalize it and tax it?

I would have voted no if I was in CA, and am glad it's failed.
Not sure I'm convinced about this point:

how can we explain a 19:1 pay differential..? The answer is to look at who controls the pilot's union: very senior pilots.

Why wouldn't the junior majority vote out the senior minority or leave the union?
Same story with lots of comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1863678
While I think Arrington is justified to express his views on the matter, he should certainly start a personal blog that's not affiliated with TC to do it. Lately he is bringing too much of his personal and company dramas (CrunchPad, Angel Gate, Jason Calacanis) to the TC world and it's hard for people not to think he is leveraging TC to his own advantage.
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I really wish this kind of tabloid news didn't make it to the top of Hacker News.

We are a community of Hackers. We set out to change the world, create things, build value. Why then should we be interested in petty clashes of Silicon Valley drama queens? What difference does it make who hates whom and who sues whom? How does it influence my new startup?

Before upvoting something, consider: does reading this story make me a better hacker?
Seymore Paperts Mindstorms program. Read the book it's brilliant.

http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful...
It is, but as mentioned in the same thread the parser side of things is pretty complete and quite robust already.

It's also a nicely written piece of code if you need to dig in and change anything.

Finally, the fact it's MIT licensed means you can just lift and use the code as a basis if needed.
>sometimes I wonder, how people could handle PCs 20 years ago.

They didn't. That's why the Mac was a runaway success and the fragmented PC marketplace floundered.
It is the first time I have seen a picture of computer taken with soft-focus filter. Mac worship has reached the new heights.