skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is that the Singularity is whatever version of "in the future things will be different" that a given author thinks will get them an audience.
scholar.google.com

Citations == Upvotes, Abstract == TLDR, and content is far, far more superior.
"... we were fed up of missing out on great conferences because we didn't hear about them in time. .."

What else besides time determines your likeliness to attend a conference? The might/might-not attend space is multi-dimensional.

You might also not attend because it is a long way away, too expensive, the attendees are stupid and nobody I know is attending and there are few sessions you like. I do like these kinds of services because the tipping point to going to a conference might consist of more than just the time, location and price.
People like to glamorize their business endeavors. Some guys at computers building a web-app just isn't that exciting to people without a lot of fictionalization or likening it to something more exciting.
Well, there's Cmd + ~ hotkey for switching windows of active apps in 10.6, and it can be added using some small app in 10.5
Replying to myself because someone answered this need!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1981256
I was just asking for this earlier! Thanks!

Can you subscribe to multiple topics in 1 feed? Or do you have umbrella topics like 'programming' that would cover all programming languages?
I wasn't talking about the Nexus One, I was talking about the iPad vs the Galaxy Tab. And I didn't say that GC was what was slowing down Angry Birds, I was talking about subjective relative performance between Android and iOS.

The point of my criticism is that memory management in objective-c doesn't take any extra time beyond overloading dealloc and writing a few more retains and releases for 90% of all cases. It's just plain lazy, imo. Your comparison to writing raw assembler is nonsense and ignorant.
It would be nice if you put up a screencast or some screenshots of the workflow. You have a lot of content on the site that seems to describe it, but I'd really like to see what the process looks like without needing to actually log in / link with my Google account.

Overall I really like the idea and this seems like a useful tool. Good luck!
Wow, I just emailed the address and got an autoreply with an invitation to the pre-launch beta! Ah, Google, you rascals of viral marketing...
> Isn't that your OS/Browsers fault?

I'm using Google Chrome, but that aside, they asked why I don't switch to more online applications. This is one reason.

> I thought they did this with LocalStorage/Google Gears?

They were doing it with Gears, but they ceased support for Gears--and thus offline Google Docs--as of like May this year, I believe.
All-in-One is kinda nice. It seems it should be the default. It still doesn't make the documentation window of any use though. I guess it has a little less chance of being hidden under a pile of other windows now. Command+backtick doesn't seem to do anything on my mac.
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The industrial revolution, while revolutionary, did not improve on the intelligence that invented it.

I bet it led to a significant increase in the average IQ. It may not have been a Singularity with a capital S, but it certainly did reflect back on its creators.
interesting (1 level down) shift happening :
OS/Linux -> EFI (BIOS level),
browser(application) -> OS level
Doctrine (http://doctrine-project.org/) is good, but not small.
It's hard to take your seriously when you don't bother to capitalize your sentences. Not a good first impression.
If you think about it for a minute, the vast majority of suspicious activity likely to be reported in a Walmart is related to shoplifting. That doesn't make this move by the government any less creepy, but it does explain why Walmart would go along with it.
The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis
Very nice site, ivanzhao. As you have already heard previously, I wasn't immediately aware of the mouseover intensiveness of the site- something that left me pondering - "surely, there has to be more"... This said (and said without having viewed on a mobile device), your portfolio was fun to peruse.

Since the logical leap to be made - considering this is a portfolio post on HN - was "surely, there must be more", I quickly discovered a lot of visual click fun to be had. Considering my typical click-in-click-out viewing patterns, the fact that your site inspired me to spend .6 seconds to learn to use it and then to also stick around to take it in speaks volumes about your creative presentation (IMHO).
I wrote one recently. Haven't had much time to maintain it but it's about as small n good as I've seen. :)

https://github.com/jasonmoo/DumbledORM
It doesn't seem to be the default but I guess I can find out how to set it up. I still think you should get a mouse based one click interface though.
Agreed. Climbing is enjoyable. Being cold... just sucks. I'll save the hardcore tests of my mental integrity for startups and scientific research.
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People seem to underestimate how much engineering will be required for intelligence to interact with the environment successfully. My dog might not be as "intelligent" as me, but he knows a lot more than I do when it comes to information gained through hearing, taste and smell. He has better engineering in many respects. Almost any life form beats me in "intelligence" if you define the test right.

There are already theories about how to build universal AI algorithms (check out Marcus Hutter's stuff at http://www.hutter1.net/). These theories are quite an accomplishment, no doubt. But they boil the problem down to one involving sequence prediction. Let's say that particular form of the problem is now "solved". OK now what sequences would you like to present to the algorithm for training? Ones from the environment? Great, but those will take time to collect. Simulated ones? It takes a lot of knowledge to generate good ones.

For these reasons, I suspect the Singularity is safe from us for while.
I find the animation to be rather annoying.
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Seems like a great idea but I agree strongly with point 1 here. As retarded as it is it took me 20s just to remember Lady Gaga's name.

Why not just start playing a video with the volume down, a one-click unmute button and then have five or six more popular ones for someone to chose down the side.
I think I'm biased, but I no longer use any other framework rather than FatFree (http://fatfree.sourceforge.net/).

Let's see how I build my website

require_once 'path/to/F3.php';

F3::route('GET /','home');

function home() {

echo 'Hello, world!';

}

F3::run();

Nice, no? This help me start quickly, iterate rapidly and scale easily when the project gets bigger by dividing and expanding the small parts.

- You chose your own directories structure

- No .htaccess hacking needed.

- Own variables table

- Lot of useful plugins, like a lightweight ORM, Form Handler, Unit Testing, Very flexible Caching

- You decide to use OOP, MVC, procedural programming... or a combination of your choice

- Really lightweight: 50kb
You need both idealy
Did you at least have consent from them to rehash their idea?

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1981552

Boom-shaka. You're in good shape chief.
Students Warned Not to Read Wikileaks if they want a government job
>Forth makes MUCH more sense in an embedded context, IMHO.

Forth is just unbeatable in an embedded context. Minimal porting of a few basic words and you're up and running with fully functional environment you can adjust on-the-fly.
Are these pieces of paper really worth $100 a piece or only the cost of the paper and ink? Since the notes never shipped, and likely won't, thus won't backed by the government I have a hard time thinking this is a $110 billion problem.
I know that our team was happy to learn about this. Whether it will get used or not is yet to be seen. I did take a few minutes to get it compiled and running locally last night and have to say that getting basic* Wave functionality was easy on Ubuntu 10.10.

*UI and feature set is pretty light in comparison to the current state of Wave(+UI)
I have a three step solution.

1. Create an amazing dream programmer job opening.

2. Use this as the interview problem.

3. Hire the one with the best solution and put it into practice.

I bet it turns out you only need two weighings.
Great idea!
I actually found some nice video's I haven't seen in 25 years.and the recommendations are fantastic!
Keyboard shortcuts obviously; arrow keys and space bar so I can remote control it from a couch, bathtub, shower or while dancing with a hmd.
Why would someone bother to counterfeit the new bills when the old bills will be around in circulation for over 100 years?

Wouldn't they just counterfeit the old bills?
Remember the definition of a communist in America is anyone who isn't senator McCarthy.
Why does he need consent?

There are already 5 other apps in the app store that do the same thing as the wiki game, his is at least has a twist.
I don't think Lewisham meant "for authentication". Once logged in with Twitter, you might still want to easily send a message to your Facebook account. One might also imagine the conference could have an associated Facebook event. Nome of this would require dropping the current "use Twitter as primary login" concept you are describing.
And you trust Google with the keys?
JsFiddle
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Not yet, but we have a bunch of improvements planned that would help address that use-case.
+1 I've used this for a few projects already :)
You remember the $300 hammer? Well this is the same procurement operation!
True, Star Trek only had a handful of androids.
Oh, like "Share this on Facebook" buttons? We'll take a look at that.
Just found this, and think its super useful, and I wanted to share.
The Feds need to hire this guy to build an automated sorting machine for them:

http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic

If he can build a machine "Capable of generating 1.3 million rolls per day" on a shoestring budget, I'm sure a sorting a billion notes with a bit larger budget shouldn't be a problem.
I wasn't necessarily saying Facebook should be used as the identity mechanism, just a Facebook share button so people could put it on their News Feed.
From your stylesheet: html { min-width: 1080px; }

This strikes me as a bit radical. I browse on a MacBook Air (11.6"), and this resulted in me having to scroll my window both vertically and horizontally to read through the page. I don't have to do this, normally. Maybe shoot for 960?
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I apologize for that..
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Depends on how you look at it. Yeah, they're "worth" $100 apiece because they can be exchanged for goods and services "worth" $100. (Let the chicken and egg lie.) So it's $110 billion worth of cash that can't circulate. Good or bad thing? That's over my head.

On the other hand, they don't cost that much to print, only 12 cents. But there's 1.1 billion of them. So that's $132 million of work that's not doing any good right now. Still a good-sized problem, without considering the time and expense of sorting and replacing bad notes.
I wondered why this is legal and my doubts were resolved in the FAQ.

"Having the winnings become philanthropic gifts solves the legal problem and also introduces an appropriate element of service and generosity to the whole process."
I've used doctrine a few times, its nice that it does auto-loading by default (helps on load-times), but it does immediately quadruple the codebase of almost all my projects.
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Oh sweet. Glad to hear it beagledude. :)
Enjoyed your photography.
Wow looks like web.py for PHP. I think I've seen a similar project whilst lurking around Github the other day.
It sounds like at early stages founder salaries are an issue. Does the number of founders and their salary needs have much of an impact on early valuations?

Say startup A has 3 founders willing to take $100k gross. They hire 2 $100k employees 100k expenses. Startup B is a single founder with a mortgage that needs $100k and hires 4 $100k employees and $100k expenses to get the same amount of work done.

Startup A has 1 year runway on 400k. Startup B has 1 year runway on $600k. Would this be reflected in valuation?
while human species may be focused on Singularity as a technological event, there is another extremely significant possibility - emergence of human species v2.0, split from inside the current v1.0. It may be helped/facilitated (or may be not) by the technologies - computer, material and/or bio-genetical.

The technological singularity, Skynet style, is possibly just crutches for the human v1.0 where is v2.0 may possibly just skip this step.
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> Gears
Yeah, this is because Gears was basically HTML5/localstorage
"It is my firm belief, and I say this as a dictum, that all these tools now at our disposal, these things part of this explosive evolution of means of communication, mean we are now heading for an era of solitude. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal — be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever — human solitude will increase in direct proportion." -Werner Herzog
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Hi mlgrinshpun,

Really appreciate your careful observation.

I was aware of this, and it was a design tradeoff that I was willing to take (like this controversy "low-lighting" thing).

The big dilemma is always "how to pack a lot of information into a limited space without looking cluttered".
I also tried 980px but that extra 100px does make a big difference (plus considering the "flow" of the text). Therefore I gave up the relatively smaller market of netbooks/11-inches MBAs and go with 1280px screens.

Thanks,

Ivan
So it's more like WikipediaMaze then...

http://www.wikipediamaze.com/

But I doubt that it matters that it's similar game play. How many roll the dice & go around the board games are there?
the second problem a counterfieter faces after making the bills is safely disseminating them. Large numbers of old bills is suspicious. It's true right now the 'old' bill is still common and thus not suspicious, but once it has mostly phased out it will be.
This is entirely voluntary.

For instance, I know that Bieber exists, and I can probably count on my fingers how many times I've seen pictures of him. I found the one or two songs of his I've heard innocuous and utterly forgettable - I probably couldn't identify him if I heard those very same songs again. I'm not even aware precisely why he's the go-to example of annoying celebrity, lately.

I'm not utterly isolated from the world or media, though. I just actually choose what media I consume.
Not sure what you're getting at here--Lanyrd lets you see where it is, who's attending (and which of those are your friends), the planned sessions, and the date/time.
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I basically just want to preach and share something to people who has interest in something like me.
Is there a non-cosmetic reason the defective bills are unservicable? I say just circulate 'em, unless the blank spot is very large.
Paper doesn't last very long. Five year from now, the old bills will still be in circulation, but they'll be uncommon. Ten years from now, any time you try to use one of the old bills, the merchant will look at it very carefully before accepting it.

The trick is to keep security measures a decade ahead of counterfitters, so that the only counterfit bills are the ones which are antique enough to attract extra attention.
So, I will say that I bundled documentation and "openness" into one box, which I probably shouldn't have. The connection is that absented of the "openness" we were really looking for, we sought documentation to describe what's going on. That said...

CoreLocation is a good abstraction. However, its primitives for specifying what trade-offs you are willing to make in acquiring a location are, well, primitive.

A couple of random examples:

- CoreLocation doesn't tell you the source of the location sample (GPS, WiFi, etc). It gives you an estimate of accuracy. Of note, it doesn't give you a measure of the accuracy of the accuracy. This is of import as we have seen examples where the data is off by a whole hemisphere -- I'm not kidding! I understand that exposing these details is kind of "ugly", but obscuring it is removing signals that we could use to figure out the reliability of the data, and what techniques we might be able to use to "clean" the data. I am willing to concede that CL is a good API for general use, but when you're building consumer products, that doesn't cut it. The guy in New York who was reported as being in Antarctica (again, seriously), doesn't really care that the iPhone doesn't provide us the tools to fix that, he just wants it to work (and he's no longer a user).

- Related to the first point, but separate: the implementation of the algorithm for seeking to the desired accuracy is a black box. This makes it really easy to use for basic stuff, but you really don't have any way of knowing the result, in milliwatts, of passing in a given value to that argument. There are ways to mitigate this (which we've had to explore), and we can experiment to learn what the drain is, approximately, but hiding that information has obstructed our development process. Consider also that CL doesn't allow me to specify how long I am willing to wait to get the location fix at the desired accuracy. It does not let me set a budget in milliwatts for a location fix. I realise that Android doesn't provide those exact abstractions, but the tools it does provide make it easier (by which I mean "possible") for me to build them myself.

I also don't think you've successfully made the argument that the OS will know better than us. It's a generic tool, which makes some assumptions. It will have made compromises that don't necessarily work for us. It will not perform optimally for every use case. Going back to something I said before, it seems to optimise for getting to the desired accuracy quickly. For background location tracking apps like ours, that is not a priority. Power is. Neither CoreLocation's abstraction nor documentation provide for this use-case.
The qualitative and quantitative improvements from the flynn effect and the population increase reflected back on humanity as a whole, not the creators of the industrial revolution. This is why we've got accelerating growth, but it's also why the second derivative is still small.
There is sponsorship for a PPC LuaJIT port (targeting embedded systems, I believe) and Mike Pall has expressed interest in an ARM port in the past, but I don't know what the status of that is.
It’s obviously not a $110 billion problem. That’s a sensationalist way of framing it. The only problem is that the production costs will be higher (no joke when more than one billion notes are affected but nowhere close to an additional $110 billion – the article says about $120 million). It doesn’t matter at all how many more notes than needed are printed as long as the superfluous ones are destroyed before anyone could do anything with them.
Maybe. Foreign legion [0], Royal Marines [1] say otherwise. It's more about "unity & team" rather than "I".

[0] http://french-foreign-legion.com/french_foreign_legion_code....

[1] http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/royalmarines/history-and-ethos/...
memory management in objective-c doesn't take any extra time beyond overloading dealloc and writing a few more retains and releases for 90% of all cases

It's the other 10% where the memory leaks that bring down your app come from.
Talk about your disingenuous headlines - it's not like this printing problem has cost the government $110 billion, it just represents $110 billion in printed currency that is not yet in circulation.

That means the government spent about $120 million to produce bills it can’t use. On top of that, it is not yet clear how much more it will cost to sort the existing horde of hundred dollar bills.

In other words the true cost (so far) is one one-thousandth of the sensationalist headline.

And then there's this:

"A very high proportion of the notes will be fit for circulation," said Darlene Anderson of the Treasury Department. "We are working really hard to try to get a solution to the problem."

So basically, if estimates are correct, most of the costs will be re-couped and a minority will be true losses.
This isn't rocket science. The linked document takes all of 10 minutes to read and understand. If that is not enough, there are three years worth of WWDC sessions on memory management available on iTunes U (this year's are even free!). It's something as basic as learning a new language's if/else structure.

For reference, I'm a five year Java dev who has now been doing iOS dev for two years, and had no problem switching from GC to manual memory management.
I liked the idea immediately when I saw the title :)

UI suggestion: Try making the Jam button bigger and slightly more button-ey (even a 1px drop shadow would help), also maybe add a » too. Would make it clearer that it's a call to action.
And how many times would you care to have seen pictures of him, or heard anything about him? Probably zero. So it isn't exactly entirely voluntary, right?
Java advocates everywhere will look somewhere else. Just look at the thread here!

Right, the writing is already on the wall, because guys like us have already made our mind up that it is on the wall. They have lost the mind-share. Almost every reason for Java's ascension, has been eroded away, the future of Java is exactly what everyone was running from when they found Java. That's why I asked, Oracle's refusal to work with Apache marks the beginning of the end in my mind. It pretty much states openly their plan. The plan that all the "fear mongers" where warning us about. I asked people thought on the Java replacement, because I really would love to know what people see as the successor. For me at least now with the Apache thing decided, it is not a matter of if, it is a matter of "to what".
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One point that the article doesn't mention is the iPhone Simulator, is a simulator: it simulates the iPhone environment.

Simulators have both good and not so good points.
On the one hand they are pretty fast, since they use "host" code and "host" APIs.
On the other hand, since they use "host" API, you can't rely 100% on them.

For example, the iPhone Simulator simulates the iOS OpenGL ES API using Mac OpenGL API. While developing cocos2d for iPhone I found many differences between the Simulator and the Device.
But in spite of that, I still suggest developing mostly everything on the Simulator, and every now and then to try the app on the device both to test the performance and "reality".
Please. IF you're using Chrome OS, you're "trusting" Google. so encryption that's impossible to disable is ok.
>a dog will never stumble upon quantum mechanics

i'm always amazed by such blatant anthropo-glorifing-centric statements which imply as obvious facts the doubtful things like this:

- that dog's brain has much less processing power. The sheer size difference is many times adjusted by efficiency difference (where human's one is less efficient)

- that quantum mechanics is a super-achievement, replication of which is a mark of higher intelligence. To me the ugliness of QM is bordering on a shame for human intelligence.
Yes, it's definitely true that knowing someone there helps, but more specifically, having a dialogue about intriguing ideas with someone there helps.

I don't think knowing how to show off is necessarily more important than being a good artist/innovator/engineer, but it's at least as important. The Media Lab wants to show off too, after all, and they need people who are good at it.

I'm not sure how you see the Media Lab as different than other art/design schools in that respect. It's definitely different than engineering schools, yes, but it's not an engineering school.