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After reading through much of the discussion regarding Matt's many interesting points, it's somewhat troubling that nobody addresses the most obvious problem with the realization of sufficiently good AI. In both cases mentioned, in regards to cars, taxis, buses, and call centers, you displace thousands to millions of human workers. While this is all very nice in our tech fantasy lands if these scenarios come to pass you have another mass displacement of low -> middle skilled workers.

It's of my opinion (I also remember reading about a global conference regarding this issue),that our current society can't withstand another displacement event of this size, even if it does come gradually. In the United States anyway, we can already see massive unemployment due to certain jobs just not existing anymore, for example, token booth clerks, replaced by automated kiosks, cashiers replaced by automatic kiosks, conductors replaced by automated trains, etc. etc.

Furthermore, there is always less need for highly skilled workers as the top, so say you displace 1000 construction workers due to automation, you may only need 100 foremen, leaving those previously 900 workers unemployed with no prospects of employment even with sufficient education. It's a major problem in my opinion, and possibly a problem we'll have to deal with in our lifetime, especially if we see minor to significant improvements in AI and automation.
Not quite.

Here's the actual story.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/techsquare-0317.html

"The most intriguing tenant, still invoked by almost everyone who spent time in the building, was the Central Intelligence Agency, which had an office on the third floor under the name R.K. Starling Associates. The office spawned numerous pranks and jokes; one of the best known was a hallway sign that read "Intelligence," with arrows labeled "Central" and "Artificial" pointing to either side"
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So does technology, I guess?
A note about GoDaddy: their prices fluctuate. If you enter the site via a Google Ad, the price drops from ~$60 to ~$13 (I'm in Canada so I'd be interested to know what the prices are like from other places).

1. http://www.google.com/search?q=ssl+cert

2. Click on one of the GoDaddy ads.

3. ???

4. Save
Plus DSL can be bonded.
It also shows people here are unwilling to comment from a position of ignorance; a smaller percentage of readers will be authoritative on such an advanced topic.
kids going to school - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hUTzQXyQSo&feature=relat...
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How are you so certain (that he would have treated GS differently)? What evidence would make you change your mind?
Let's not forget that fail0verflow found the keys. After this he saw that it was possible to exploit the loaders.
Remove the www.
I don't see the problem; lowering scarcity lowers the need for employment. A king's feast from the 1800s can be bought today with welfare money. When we eliminate the need for all jobs, we can just relabel ourselves "socialist" and call it a day.
Why NOT? This is a very cool CSS/Javascript hack, I love it
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> No. It will still be faster to fly. Are you serious? I mean gee why fly from New York to London when I can take a speed boat and have it take three days? I mean, seriously?

I never consider flying from edinburgh to london, a journey I make fairly regularly. the flight takes 3/4 hours less, but door to door ends up around the same time, and is far far less comfortable than the train.

> I will. Just because you can live outside the city and travel to it at a faster rate does not make it a given that one would choose to.

I dont think he was trying to say every single person would move out of the city, just that it would be an attractive option for more people, which isnt really arguable in the hypothetical situation that commutes are fast and comfortable
Cool, another painless deploy service.

Anyone know what the pricing may be on this?
It doesn't seem that unreasonable to think that they have a continual need for additional developers.

They're also not the only company that has a "We're Hiring" post in each of these threads which strikes me as a good thing--assuming the term of employment for new developers is longer than a month. :)
YC is not an incubator, and nothing like it existed when Google and Facebook were started. As I mentioned in the parent comment, I think the closest match is Sean Parker, and he owns a very nice chunk of Facebook :)

There's a very good chance that the next Google or FB will be part of YC, because YC is a smart deal for founders, and therefore it will attract the smart founders, and those are the people likely to start the next Google or FB.
You're not being fair to the GP. The things mentioned are just contemporary common sense about the obstactles. If you want to predict the future, I'd say the onus is on you to refute those points rather than the GP providing specific reasoning why all his points won't be overcome.
I may be mistaken, but are these not push notifications you are talking about?
Sure, in an ideal world, but I find it very hard to believe that this will come to pass peacefully and in any just matter.
All the time. Typically switching between safari, iPod, mail, iCal, twitter and Evernote
Just want to point out, regarding gas mileage: If the cars have a dedicated lane, that lane can have a power line running through it. You're basically talking about personal light-rail at that point, for which going 200mph is a solved problem.
That's usually not how the quality of returns is measured.
Except that's not the same kind of multiplier at all. I don't understand why you would make a comment without doing any research. I guess you're not an economist.
I think it's not that it's an IDE for a specific language, but an IDE written in a language that a lot of people would like to hack around in. So the value is in being able to write plugins or what not in ruby.

That being said, I haven't used it for anything more than peeking at it.
From my point of view:

* Horrible usability and bad user interfaces.
* Even worse design of the applications.
* Integration with existing systems make the apps so huge that lots of bugs appear.

Oh and super poor management is also a big one
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The total loans in existence is a multiple of the starting money. Same thing. And also the same is refusing to subtract the total debt for some reason. Unless you have some kind of, you know, argument?
We went through this already :

Against: "Facebook is not worth $33 billion" http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...

For: Everyone who understands market valuation http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1720050

A detail somewhat in the middle: DHH is mostly saying that these companies should not be worth that kind of money before they have some serious revenue.
He's not saying that they will never be worth their current market valuation.
I assume these are the apps you use most often. When you open an app that you use less frequently (e.g. Stocks or Clock), do you manually remove it from the multitasking bar once you're done or do you leave it there?

Don't apps build up in the multitasking bar to a point where it is faster to close one of those apps and access another from the home screen, rather than using fast app-switching?
Except Kod doesn't really do anything much yet ;) I think we're stuck with Textmate (which rocks for what it's worth).
Some Linux (Vim) themes would be helpful. I somehow doubt my boss would fall for the Visual Studio one. :)
That really sucks. We moved to this little town mostly because we could get acreage and decent connectivity.
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set your own price

That was only the deal for the first couple of days; it now has a fixed price of $4 (or a postcard) per month.
Does the chart take into account the fact that returns compound over time? How were the values calculated?
Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1258935
If we plot a Nolan chart, people would be heavily clustered along the leftwing-rightwing diagonal, with some variance, of course, but a strong trend nonetheless.
All the drugs are down the street at the institute of transpersonal psychology. I think Myron and Jean Stolaroff live within biking distance as well.
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This has huge potential! I really like the idea of an niche programming jobs site. I've been jealous for some time now of the design community which seems to have many such job boards. I was also stoked to see Q and J make it into the title. I've been learning q/kdb over the past month and keep asking myself "what am I going to do with this?" (other than personal projects of course).
They are not handling the load well, and it is getting bad enough to discourage me from commenting there. It was annoying but livable when it was just slow loading when reading, but lately it has progressed to errors when trying to post. That is a lot more annoying because then you've either got to give up on the post, or save a copy somewhere to try again later.

It's also losing the status of inboxes. That is, it will show the orange envelope meaning you've got a message (typically someone replied to one of your comments). You then click that to see the reply, and it just sits there not responding. If you give up and go elsewhere, it often has marked your messages as read, even though you never saw them.

I'd prefer if posting and dealing with the inbox were given high priority, even if it meant more "you broke reddit" messages when I try to read stories.
Sure, it's a duopoly now and could turn into a monopoly in the near future but wireless/mobile networks are making improvements and that could bring real competition to customers.
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That's right. If they can hype Facebook enough, Goldman will cover their investment easily. It's less about what Facebook turns out to be actually worth in the long term than what GS can help make people believe it's worth in the near term.
I find it interesting that the responses on plausibility seem to be based on technical or social feasibility. My gut instinct is that resource shortages are going to change the world in unanticipated ways, and what is currently imaginable due to the inexorable march of "progress" will no longer be economical. Hopefully the transition is smooth so we can keep the best of technology (such as the internet) without the waste and depletion of the environment that capitalism so far has failed to account for. Maybe after we figure out the sustainability thing, fully automated ad-hoc transportation could be worked out in the far future.
You say that as if that's a bad point: what's the point of being always on the bleeding edge for the end user ? What do you think is the work of a linux distribution (or any packager, really). I am quite proeficient in python (which has basically the same issue), and certainly can compile it by myself - but this takes time, knowledge, and is detrimental to the platform in the end if that's required. There is no hard issue that I cannot solve by myself, but OTOH, as soon as I want to share things with other people, this is nightmarish because of versions issues, incompatibilities, etc...

Lots of people use python but are not developers at core, and having constantly changing things every few months is horrible. Imagine what would happen if everybody was working the same way: gcc in debian would be optimized for gcc developers, so you are always on the bleeding edge, and if your program crashes because gcc had a bug or temporary incompatibiliy, no biggie, right ? Same for kernel, etc...

The kernel is actually a good example on how to do things: the kernel itself changes quickly, but distros do the work of stabilizing things.
For me personally, I doubt it.

I think the article you are referencing has significant problems, but I won't go into them here.
What kind of share did those investments generally get you?

On another note regarding the low amount of money, having someone like paul around is worth considering as extra value with the investment similar to when 37Signals took money from Jeff Bezos.
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Ask HN: which companies to invest in?
I've got some basic group investments (mutual funds, etc.), but the chart from the NYT showing what a crapshoot investing is over the long term, and my general lack of knowledge about where to invest (and lack of time to research it), and the stories I read from people who correctly predicted that Apple stock would do incredibly well, etc., have me wondering if perhaps there are some companies that people here would recommend investing in.

So - where should I put my money?
For those that don't like the choice of the first guest, Kevin has investments in at least Square, but Crunchbase also says Twitter.

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/kevin-rose
Ok.

I tend to invest $10-$25k. There was one for $50k (which is a loser) and one for $40k (which returned a bit.)

The better investments tended to have smaller allocations for me. Hotter deals tended to go on to Series B.

I've spent maybe $800k on investments. The unrealized value of the portfolio is approximately $1.6m, most of which is in one company. Since the original investment was only $25k and my first actual investment, if I had just stopped there I would be doing way better.

I cannot conclude that I am actually any good at this.
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He did say, "barring a previous exit", which excludes you.
Thanks, I'll be working on those. Can you send me a screenshot of your environment? I'll take the SS and turn it into a usable theme.
Interesting that you'd turn monopoly into a casino because I turn monopoly into poker.

When I'm only doing average or not so well as I want to let on I make sure I have my 1000s on the top of a large stack. When I'm clearly leading I spread all my money into individual stacks so that people can clearly see that I'm far in the lead. The same goes for properties. Especially when I have stuff built on them. Anything with the most value is up in people's faces unless I'm slightly behind the curve where I obfuscate what I have to not seem a threat. (Games of monopoly often turn into horse trading in the late stages.)

Translating that online would be hard. Fun but hard.
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I don't understand why this is such a hard problem to solve.

I assume that every business that manages to farm content and SEO it up to the first page must be making a decent investment in time and resources to achieve this. It doesn't happen overnight.

So wouldn't it be easy enough to maintain a blacklist or at least a de-value list that would bring the return below the investment? Shouldn't there be a streamlined process for assembling this blacklist? They must already be doing something along these lines and no doubt quite a bit more involved than what I'm describing here.

Could they add in a crowdsourcing flag link next to all search results. This wouldn't blacklist anything automatically obviously but would assist in identifying which results should be investigated further?

Why is it still an issue? Is it a legal problem? Can they be sued for maintaining a blacklist?

I'm not trying to say I know better, so I must be missing something. Maybe someone can shed some light on my ignorance?
paul - it sounds like you don't like to be the original investor going in with an unknown commodity -- that an accurate assessment? if not YC, what are other filters for you?
The thing is, the multitasking tray displays applications in MRU order, so it already does what you're asking for in your last sentence. The tray as the equivalent to alt-TAB on a desktop, which is handy for MRU switching, but pretty annoying if you have lots of windows open.

I would presume most users, if they haven't used an app recently, or if they don't feel like using the tray, will just access it as normal through the regular menus or Spotlight search.
If all you know about the "Dark Ages" came from your high school text books, then yes, "Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages IS Wrong."

The book looks interesting, but isn't unique in challenging these assumptions about the "Dark Ages".

As a popularizer of the Middle Ages, Monty Pythoner, Terry Jones is one of many who have championed that period as a much more complex era than we were taught:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2004/feb/08/highereducat...

If Abacus and the Cross looks interesting, you should also look for Terry's book Medieval Lives.
Nice, I really like the layout for some reason, hope it succeeds!
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No, this is different. geohot compromised metldr, fail0verflow did the other loaders. geohot's exploit is different, no one but himself knows how he did it (not even fail0verflow).
"Because YC is a smart deal for founders, and therefore it will attract the smart founders"

YC might be a good deal but that does not mean it will attract "the" smart founders. Yes it will and does attract some smart founders but just because you dont want to do YC does not mean you are not smart or that you are less likely to have the next big thing. If anything this "All smart founders will go to YC" attitude is one of the main reasons you are more likely to miss out on the next big thing.

Whoever is out there creating the next big thing might not even know that YC exists and if he does there are a plethora of other reasons (life and work related) which may cause him/her to not want to apply. Even if they do apply PG has said his strong suite is not picking who gets in and they pass on good people all the time so you are not only hoping that you see the next big thing but that YC sees them too. All these additional criteria make it less likely that you will find the next big thing IMHO.
If you're on a Mac, try: Control + Option + Command + 8

That'll invert your screen colors, and "might" make it readable. Press the same key combo to de-invert.
This case was appealed in 2009. The Ninth Circuit did not directly address the issue but, reading this summary, it appears the district court's ruling wasn't quite as shocking as the headlines portrayed.

See http://lctjournal.washington.edu/vol5/a23Hall.html
I use it without knowing it. Multitasking still works even if you don't use that fast switch screen.

I would have preferred something like the WebOS card model though. Oh and web page "tabs" still suck in MobileSafari
No, it works on any two binaries.
With all due respect, you do not appear to have understood my reply.

I specifically state that it does, in certain situations, create wealth. There is a tremendous amount of economic research to support this.

Of course, I agree with you that printing money does not always create wealth. Far from it. There are many cases in which it does not create wealth. Highly inflationary economies are a good example of this.

But if you re-read the three situations I describe, you will see that they do indeed describe places that the printing of money will create wealth that would not have existed otherwise without the printing of money, and which are above and beyond the mere reallocation of wealth.

Perhaps to better understand why your point is not true is to understand your claim from a different perspective: that the money supply should always stay exactly constant, year after year.

Even a cursory understanding of my first point (that economic growth in and of itself requires a corresponding increase in the money supply) shows this to not be true. Imagine the economy grows and the money supply stays constant. The value of products available per dollar now increases annually. This is deflation.

Now you are implicitly claiming that deflation is a good thing.

To read more on deflation, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation
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I'd be wary of calling sodium fast reactors inferior on the basis of their past performance. All SFRs ever built were essentially prototypes; all their operating experience combined is less than what LWRs had in the 1960's. If thorium reactors had fewer spectacular commercial failures (e.g. [1]), it's largely because they had fewer commercial attempts.

(That's not to concede that SFR failures were entirely commercial -- political obstruction was a large factor too. Both anti-nuclear opposition in general (post-Three Mile Island and post-Chernobyl) as well as specific, extremely misguided opposition to plutonium breeding. Argonne's IFR project was killed for this second reason [2]).

>Thorium-based designs seem more realistic and useful, I wonder why this is not investigated more: it is more common than uranium and produces less nuclear waste than uranium-based designs.

There's no meaningful distinction between FBRs and thorium reactors in fuel supply -- both have theoretically thousands of years of potential, so that it's silly to call this a factor. Nor is there a significant difference in waste production. (Though if I remember right, some minor actinides can only be efficiently destroyed by fast neutrons. This isn't an important difference; MAs are a small component, so you can augment a thermal-reactor fuel cycle with dedicated "waste burners" (e.g. [3] [4]) and still have a mostly-thorium fuel cycle).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

[2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/inter...

[3] http://energyfromthorium.com/2009/11/11/lftr-and-msrs-achiev...

[4] http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2002/nea3109.html
I'll throw myself in as a datapoint here: I'm using vim exclusively for over 10 years and I still use the arrow keys to move around.

I just like it that way and never had a reason to re-train myself.

Don't force yourself into "best practices" needlessly. Find the way that works best for you - and get hacking!
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No, no, no. This is a different exploit. We don't know how he did it yet. (He did get the private key mathematically, using the method from the talk, but not using the revocation list exploit)
Wonderful. This and WakeMate track data that are immediately relevant to the user. The app is simple but the visualizations are a nice touch. Great free app.

Data from the consumer, for the consumer. Interesting stuff!
Piracy was there before this. This is for homebrew primarily :)
like in PGP, you would use a session key: symmetric encryption of the thread, then encrypt that symmetric key once for every thread- or forum member. you can only add people to this; to remove people from a thread you would need to send the remaining people a new session key. that's the rough idea we have, we are still waiting for someone to implement a research app so we can test how well this works.
This all basically comes down to, if one assumes all these things about the future, then the author's claims hold merit. The author should have made that disclaimer if that were the case. Throwing everything into assumptions isn't the way to go. As for facts, especially regarding the idea of 200mph door-to-door I do some in another reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2065066

However, the refuting facts should really come from a scientific study, not from me. I'm sure Google is studying such things right now. I'd of course be glad to do some research for some more factual assertations and put it into a blog post if I thought I was going to have a top-voted HN link to it.
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Slightly similar (framing content inside of images to mimic other environments), I just added a boss key to viewtext.org to view web pages in a window that looks like Visual Studio. I plan on adding other environments soon.

Example:

http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://weblog.raganwald.com/...
I was planning on buying a KIM-1 when my dad surprised me by buying an Apple II. I didn't end up writing anything in assembly on the Apple II, though. My first assembly language was IBM-370 in college. I wish now I had started with the KIM-1, though.