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I didn't make the group, I just saw it in the previous thread and noticed that it already had traction and quite a few members, I think it's better to discuss in one central place rather than fragmenting into a bunch of separate lists.

If you don't want to join the group, just post here.

Also for those of you wanting to keep it private, consider this: Studies show that publicly committing to a goal significantly increases one's chances of accomplishing it successfully.
I'm going to launch a side project of mine that I've been working on since May.

It's a somewhat ambitious Mac OS X application, and with no-one to keep me in check, the design has become -- sprawling, to say the least...

To improve the odds of ever launching it, I've decided on a single use case that determines my "MVP". As soon as the app can be used to build that demo, I'm going to launch it as a free alpha.

Last week, I actually shipped a minimalist iPad application (it's a port of a Mac app that I wrote way back in 2002):

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Luckily it was approved on the App Store on the last days of October, so I can't use its release as an excuse to cop out of "Launch An App November" ;)
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I've posted about this on HN before, but I'm a TA for an OS course in one of the best colleges in India, where this year we switched to a pedagogic OS written in Java. It's gone off remarkably well, since students don't have to deal with random memory safety issues within the kernel itself (they of course need to deal with memory safety issues with user-mode programs). As compensation, we've felt comfortable having the assignments cover a lot more ground than they used to when we used C++.

In my opinion, C and C++ are very difficult languages to be able to reason about code in, since there's just so much stuff around the operative part of the code. Java, while not ideal, is a lot easier.
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I refer to them as Sharepoint salesmen.
I don't think "ethics" is a trash course. At Texas A&M CS is in the College of Engineering. Engineering Ethics is a required course to graduate. One of the major points was using the Challenger disaster as an example case, hammering home the importance of doing whats right, not want management pressures you to do.

Furthermore, anyone with a CS Degree should be able to teach themselves new languages without any problems. When I see people complaining saying that "their school is not teaching them language X" I cringe. Universities are not vocational training, you are supposed to be able to handle independent study.
I believe it's only harder when you want to optimise for the outcome (winning), since it's hard to know what your opponent will do if you can't see them. However, if you optimise for total offensive/defensive power, I think you can do quite well with trees!
Pack of fools regurgitating views they get from the media, without any actual solutions.
If this turns out to be easy to learn, it could be huge. Fluid movement offers lots of possibility for high-speed.

Unfortunately, odds of getting this on my iPhone are about zero. This may be the first software that has made me envious of Android.
In the GSL (the largest SC2 tournament) there have been quite a few all-in rushes. Usually one player doesn't like his chances on the map, race matchup, or he feels he is inferior to the other player so he all-ins in an attempt to pick up an unlikely victory.
Tobacco at least only kills the person stupid enough to use it. Drunk driving kills thousands of innocent people.
It's an improvement, but not much of one. If the best you can figure out in hindsight is a way to only lose $2 or $3 billion dollars, you're not trying hard enough.
Unless he is referring to "honorary" doctorates, which are an entirely different conversation. These are sometimes given for reasons that may make it look like they were "purchased."
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For example, if the professor is fired, my guess is that he will have a hard time finding a job somewhere else...

I doubt it. In fact, I suspect the first thought of every mathematics department chair in Canada upon reading this story was "Lukacs is running into problems at Manitoba? Is there any way we can get him to come here instead?"
That's what I was thinking too but my AI knowledge is a bit rusty.
A genetic algorithm serves as a search algorithm that is finding a solution among a set of candidates. For example finding an answer to a sudoku.
A GA can also be used to perform optimization. For example arranging the structure of a bridge to maximize the load it can support.

The Starcraft build order as defined here is a planning problem, that is a problem whose goal is to find a sequence of action to get to a desired state. There are algorithms more suited than GA because they take advantage of the logical structure of the problem.

Do I get that right?
The learning curve along with the final max typing speed after mastery will be key.

Very excited to try this though, will report back tomorrow :)
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I don't find your answer unhelpful.

Before your post, almost all of my ideas were of the form "travel to set of places X and see what you see." Now, I have ideas of the form "follow y while learning z", where y may be a band, a sports team, migratory animals, a circus, or famous trial lawyers in open court.
What is the target audience for this and how would you monetize it?
The largest problem I noticed in college was students' attitude toward learning the material. In high school, I think the vast majority of people attack the curriculum from a "memorize and regurgitate" standpoint. In a lot of ways I can't blame them, but once a student hits college and begins training in their field, this has got to stop. Especially in the sciences.

I confess, it took me a little while to figure this out myself. But if I could go back and tell myself one (academics related) thing before starting college, it would be "No really. Knowledge is power. Stop passively accepting it and start ferociously acquiring it".

The students who understand this from day one will be the successful ones. The trick is finding a way to get it across to the rest of them.
It does seem like a pretty tough problem to define, and the issue of addictiveness really clouds the issue.

If you try to say, what is more dangerous - taking one ecstasy tab or one cigarette - even if the ecstasy is more dangerous in the short term, the possibility of addiction could make the cigarette much worse.

I guess maybe you could work the other way - start with say, 1 cigarette, and then try to calculate what amount of ecstasy is an equivalent dose? However I would guess that it fluctuates largely on how much you have at the same time?
Maybe, I'm mistaken but when I think of desktop Java apps pretty much the only significant ones that I come up with are IntelliJ (which I use) and Eclipse. And I'd much prefer something native to the resource hogging of IntelliJ.

I don't think they're killing off a big industry by ditching java on the mac. It's just potentially going to make things more of a pain for those of us who write server-side java code on our Macs. Do you think their move will have an effect on that industry?
This thing would never get charged in my never-more-than-very-dimly-lit home office.
No, I think it's different. Programming is so much harder than plumbing from an intellectual standpoint that there is a strong correlation between people who enjoy programming (and thus do it in their free time, and strive to excel at it) and people who are competent programmers.

You could probably spend two weeks with a good plumber, having never picked up a wrench in your life, and with the right tools be able to do 98% of the work a plumber ever needs to do.

Take someone who has never used a computer and put them next to the greatest programmer and teacher ever, and that person will probably be able to do ~2% of the work a typical programmer will ever need to do.

Since the intellectual barrier to entry is so high, hobbyists are likely the only ones to do it well, as it just takes so much of the brain power of someone to be able to be a good programmer. So someone who isn't using all of that brain power, or a significant portion of it, thinking about coding is simply just not going to be able to compete with someone who is.

Compare that to a plumber and I think your analogy falls a part.
Agreed. Apple has the same power as others and they should take their side on debates like these. Honestly I don't get the gist of the original linked post because I think there's nothing to worry about.

All the technologies are in the market, some will win and some will lose. The only thing that will define this is adoption, and Apple is adopting the technologies they believe are the best to deliver a great user experience to their customers.
Wait- you're saying that hairy men are ugly? Shit.
I know 2 (former B.Sc.) students who claimed this condition through the office for students with disabilities. One of them literally had anxiety in that she never used the extra time, but knowing it was there was a huge help. The second one did it after seeing how easy the program was to abuse (I considered it myself but I was almost done).

I'm not sure how I feel about the classification, but I had never heard of anyone failing to get it who tried hard enough. Although it doesn't help turn a D into a B, it seems very useful when you're in the A range competing for graduate schools (which they both pursued).
If you have the technology to make a bomb, just take it somewhere else crowded that's less defended. Or do something like the D.C. sniper did years ago.

If you calculate the lost man hours of productivity on airport security, we're getting killed everyday.

There are definitely ways to avoid this, but it's probably best discussed outside this forum.
Agreed. Reading that made me believe the site was a parody of sorts.
That's definitely world changing... regaining touch with one's near and dear....
The specifics of your girlfriend's case apart....Losing touch with one's own mother.. for 6 years??@!#@!#, and Facebook re-uniting them??
Unless this was a forcible separation due to a natural calamity/war... (in which case my heart-felt sympathies) anything like this is really inexcusable.
I really,really find that sad if the current, or future generation would be requiring Facebook/Twitter to keep in touch with one's parents. That trivializes relationships.
Why don't they modify the prices, so that the after-tax amount is always a multiple of 0.10? That would make more sense since they are creating the problem in the first place by choosing not rounded prices.
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It might not seem like it, but publishers are coming around (at least in some domains). RDFa is getting traction as a source for metadata in communities like education and open content (disclaimer: it's part of my job to convince people in this area why they should also publish RDFa metadata).

I'm convinced that this will be a gradual thing that takes hold in certain areas where it's immediately useful, and from there extends to other areas, sort of like the beginnings of the internet.
I am under the impression that most CS grads get more experience in Java than anything else?

It was C++ for me, but that was almost ten years ago now.
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> The majority of CS education that I've had so far has been theoretical. There has been a lot of math and pseudo code, and logic. Programming rarely comes into it, and when it does, it is (generally) trivial (and it is OK if you get it partially wrong).

Here's my beef with this. It's programming. It involves a computer and perhaps an internet connection. Anyone, for essentially no money at all, can sit in the comfort of their own room and start writing programs. There's simply no excuse for students to not be doing this.

It's not like a photography student who needs access to a dark room, or a chemistry student that needs an expensive lab, or whatever other types of careers out there that involve lots of expensive equipment. We're talking $1000 that just about every single college student has already spent.

When I was in college I read SICP for the heck of it and in my discrete math class where the professor declared we could do our assignments in any language we wanted, I did them in Scheme. I also wrote a Sega Master System emulator, a game engine, a paint program and countless other things. I'm not trying to brag because when it comes down to it I consider myself a pretty average programmer. But it's not at all hard for a student to do this.

When I am interviewing college grads I can smell the ones who just scraped by on their classes and didn't explore the field on their own at all a mile away. They always have and always will get a firm "no" from me, there's just no excuse in this field to not take the initiative to learn on your own.
Like the concept, reminds me of QuickWrite. However, I am skeptical of claims that text could be entered without viewing. At a minimum it seems that viewing would be required to target the center circle. Maybe this could be solved by "re-centering" the entire input space based on initial touch.
So what would you do if Stephen Hawking's disability had emerged a few years earlier?

Keep him out of university?
No. I rarely carry a phone. I just check the new page a lot. It's my standard way of checking whether everything's cool with the site.
Addiction and dependency are separate issue when dealing with drugs. I am physically dependent on opiates. When I was a child I was hit by a truck and bashed up pretty good. It pretty much ruined my neck. Anyway, in the absence of my medication I don't jump to the I need to commit a crime to get it nor would I. Addiction is a psychological phenomenon in which the user becomes consumed with the drug and will do anything to get it, it is a compulsive disorder and has nothing to do with the actual drug. If Alcohol where illegal an therefore prohibitively expensive you would see the same behavior among addictive personnel with Alcohol. Just because someone is physically dependent whether an abuser or not does not mean that they exhibit addictive personality traits.

I don't know about the legalization of Heroin, crack and Crystal Meth, I don't know enough about them to form a factual based opinion on their legalization, but I do believe without a doubt that Opium, Marijuana and Coca should be legalized immediately. The possession of a plant being illegal is ridiculous and the fear mongering around these weaker formed was unfounded in the first place.
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I can't tell you if it's "right", as I haven't worked on this particular problem, and ML is hardly black-and-white. GAs might give good results, it's just that there is usually another algorithm that will give better results faster.

Again, it might work very well, I just think that some sort of tree-based approach might be faster and more efficient.
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This would be nicer if they rounded benefiting the customer at all times.

Although I don't exactly see how a few pennies can slow down transactions in any significant way. You can get up to one more penny than you would get in quarters. Pennies come in roles >2 as large as quarters.
I think there's an interesting statement being made by this professor about speed, if the thing in question is really his exams.

I mean, he seems to be making the statement that someone who produces excellent papers and research but is incapable of coming up with a coherent response to an arbitrary topic in a short timeframe is unworthy of a PhD.

It seems to me there's a place for people who can't think on their toes, even among the ranks of the official Doctors.
OP on Reddit didn't mind (I asked him). But give credit where credit is due.
So there we have it: part of one sentence is true. It was known to be theoretically possible, of course. :)

Actually, Friedman gets a bit of a bum rap because he's so fun to make fun of. As long as you ignore all the (pseudo-)facts, some of his insights are pretty good.

Edit: It is interesting to consider how some of this stuff makes it past editors at a leading world newspaper, though. If people like us can google these things in our limited spare time, what the hell are they doing?
Since they don't own Java, they can't "deprecate" it. They are just ditching their own implementation of Java. According to them, because release cycles of Mac OS X and Java don't match, thus Java being generally a couple of versions late on the Mac.

Windows don't ship with Java preinstalled and it isn't that big of a deal, people install it the first time they need it and that's it.

That's what is going to happen on the Mac.
1. The author explicitly states that HTML5 is a good thing. He's just worried about a time when a successor is not a good thing.

2. Apple growing hugely day-by-day does change things up a little bit. Doesn't it?

3. Flash being supported on iPad could have changed things a bit.

4. Apple is known to be particularly insular, especially because of it's quest to define consumer experience.

5. Bluray is not dying, bluray players and discs are being sold in record numbers. Perhaps you meant optical storage is dying for computers.

6. The article is specifically talking about their new found power. Your statement has no bearing on this except makes it feel that you're making an appeal to gloss over the possibility of Apple's power being used for bad just because it's a 'good' company.

For example, as Apple's share in PC market grows, it might be enough to send AMD/ATI down, since Apple won't ship their chips thereby granting a free monopoly to Intel and Nvidia which is bad for everyone involved.
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That was my thought but a 500GB hard drive in a notebook fills up fast when you have 40g - 100g virtual machines. I was counting on technology to "fix" an organization issue. Now I just have a lot more of the same issue.
#1 People of similar attractiveness do tend to gravitate toward each other.

#2 People of all levels of attractiveness are able to measure other people's attractiveness on the same scale with relative accuracy.

Dan Ariely has a very good talk on this over at bigthink.com:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/20752

Given this, I think stratifying dating sites on attractiveness would actually improve successful match rates. Whether you can do this all in one site or need to create stronger logical boundaries is really a matter of implementation.
How does SO setting a cookie in Chrome help Firefox, Safari, Opera or IE ? and how about on any other computer I'll ever touch?
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