skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um, what? What are you referring to? You're telling us that someone has used a cipher for a long time, but what's the implications of this?

On the other hand, check out the zompist forums: http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/. That's roughly 100 people who are each working on artificial natural languages, with about 5 who are totally fluent in their language.
While I've heard a number of justifications for Lisp, based on feature A or B, to me the power of Lisp is pretty simple.

Essentially, lisp is the parse tree that all other programming languages convert their syntax into.

This means that all language features can be embedded as DSLs in Lisp using its macro system. No other language I know of can do this as conveniently as Lisp.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that yet.

Not sure how I feel about this approach. I understand they are working within limits outside their control, but is this the longterm strategy? Or is there a plan to (more or less) duplicate IB in MonoDev?
Unless you live outside the USA...
I didn't see your original post - you may need to ask friends and associates to help with an initial bump.

Reading the first few sentences of the original post I learned SharePad integrates with Google apps, allows unlimited contacts, and helps me stay organized.

I don't have a limit on how many people I can contact and am organized. From your description SharePad solves problems that I don't have so I'm not prone to comment on it.
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I noticed a lot of people confuse "realistic" immortality (which is presumably achievable through advances in medicine, but does not imply an infinite life span - only a very very long one and the absence of mortal disease) with forced (mandatory) immortality (which means you are sentenced to live forever, you can't die no matter what you do).

I am perpetually surprised how few people realize that only the first kind can be discussed rationally, while the second kind is at best a purely theoretical hypothesis.

So you start talking with them about realistic, scientifically achievable, immortality, and you end up answering arguments against mandatory immortality. WTH?

This is probably a topic that does not lend itself to rational discourse, kind of like politics or sex. Most people create this coping mechanism to enable them to deal with the prospect of their own demise, and end up unconsciously hostile to the idea of immortality.
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These seem to be more "12 steps to be someone who people think gets things done". Most of these steps are about image management rather then production.

My GTD rules:

1. Talk Less
2. Make Shit
If you have the opportunity to go to MIT and don't plan on being a ski bum, poet, or surfer after, take it.
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I agree with everything except for one thing, under disaster scenarios, its not so much a risk that the human race will go extinct as a guarantee. The heat death of the universe is coming.
John beat me to the punch here. We're thinking about a much more general mobile strategy. My personal mission is to try to design an experience for content, student interaction, and exercises that is usable on smaller screens because, although the tablet market is booming (thanks in great part to the growth of the iPad) the smartphone market is much bigger and growing more quickly. They are also likely to become commoditized more quickly (if you want to argue that they aren't there already). In any case, replace the word "iPad" in his post with "mobile" and I think you are closer to what John, I, and the rest of the team are talking about.
It's not just the speed, it is how many simultaneous connections at the speed that is important.

Also, 30 years ago, a MicroVAX was running at 5MHz, so anyone optimistic enough to assume we would break the 10MHz CPU barrier, could also assume we would break the 300bps communication barrier.
"the way China subsides its own banking system in such a way that $3 Trillion in reserves is somewhat illusionary"

Care to expand on this a little bit? I don't quite understand
OK, all jokes about "web scale" aside, why is MongoDB necessary for a measly average 2.4 TPS?
My reasoning is that if I can convince someone that even unrealistic immortality is desirable, the rest falls into place. Realistic immortality is also sort of more boring to argue about. Sorry, please don't hate me.
Creativity is free, but having mental models, abilities to express, experience and domain knowledge is expensive and hard-won. If you don't have the latter, the former (creativity) will not produce good ideas that fit and evolve the latter, to result in success and wealth. Not everyone has the former, and not everyone has the latter.
I'd certainly enjoy seeing this marvel in operation. YouTube away please!
i'm confused. is this also the end of vidalia? how will i use tor w chrome?
It's a shame it's a ROM flash, and not an app available for rooted phones. I don't think I'm willing to give up cyanogen's features.
I'll also add that people tend to like professional pictures better than their own. If I think of my wedding, as pictures, I like the professional ones better, while I like the ones my friends took more for the memories they bring than for the inherent quality of the picture.

The pictures you see in magazines are all touched up and beautified. You barely ever have pictures straight from the camera.

And this is definitely the appeal to all these filters: anyone can make a picture that has some of the qualities of a professional picture, but for banal events and things of your life, when you wouldn't get a professional.
You may be technically correct, but from the perspective of Netflix, it's economically "all" in that the addressable market of US households without Gigabit ethernet will be so infinitesimally small to not be worth worrying about when thinking about customer acquisition/retention or expenses.
Less than a year, no problem.
> If you are building anything more complex than a blog site and expect to take a decent amount of traffic, to the point that you may in fact care about optimizing at all, going with an ORM that writes sql for you is a really really bad idea.

Then explain the massive success of Rails. Quite simply, you are wrong.
Isn't immortality physically impossible due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics?

Sure, we can live for a much, much longer time. But, "long" is relative, mostly based on what we expect. I.e. now we believe living 80 years is a long time, whereas centuries ago 40 may have seemed a long time.

What I'm saying is that surviving until heat death may seem long now, but that's only because it is currently impossible. Such "immortality" may seem very short if we could actually do it.

A similar situation is people who always complain they don't have enough money no matter how much they make.
The big cost for hosting providers in Australia is bandwidth. Broadly available fiber should help that.

I disagree about the need for the government to pay for international bandwidth. So far private companies have done that pretty well, and it's quite a competitive market.

More demand will probably encourage another couple to be built - but without needing tax payer money.
Death and life are fluid points, not black-and-white absolutes as some like to see them.

Then only thing that could distinguish me from a rock is self-awareness.

One can argue that self-awareness is enjoyable but he is merely repeating words of gurus who achieved self-awareness. Without the slightest realization of what they are actually saying. In reality, self-awareness requires introspective meditation and there is nothing harder than to sit still for long periods of time without external stimuli. Just like it's easier to code in VB than to subject yourself to abstract concepts of LISP.

Most people who consider themselves "alive" are more like imperative biocomputers, programmed for a specific task by educational system. One part of their programming is repeating to everyone "I'm alive". I'm sorry, but most people are coded in Visual Basic whereas only some in LISP.
I have a hard time getting over the feeling that an older civilization is also more conservative.

I'd assume most conservatism would die with the generation which rejects longevity. Those who embrace it are more likely to be interested in human progress and advancement.
Yeah that is a valid point. I understood there was a chance things might not work out because of several potential pitfalls. So buying it was my decision for sure, I accept that.

Unfortunately though the rest of my sentiment probably won't change and truthfully the video showing the 'integration' is just too much of a kludge for me to get past. I understand their are contraints outside the mono teams control, but I'm still not happy seeing that as the 'solution'. Maybe it's not the longterm solution, but as it stands right now, that's all I have to go on.
Do you understand what Tor Button does versus what Vidalia does? They're two completely different things.
> Photography itself is an attempt to create something that is inherently artificial.

Many photographers would disagree with this statement, and it papers over historical differences of opinion that have existed for over a century.

Compare Group f/64 with Pictorialism, for example.
> Google has seven major product groups. Advertising, Commerce & Local, Mobile (Android), Social, Chrome, YouTube and Search.

Anyone know who owns apps? Is Gmail not represented in one of these groups?
There's this guy who works at Firefox Europe, he made a little hack, you should check it.
http://paulrouget.com/e/mediaevents/

He needs feedback to decide if it'll be implemented in The next version of Firefox.
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I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not, but I'll bite. Price fluctuations are of huge importance to the Chinese. They gave the US lots of labor and their domestic savings in exchange for US treasuries. Now those US pieces of paper buy a lot less of the things chinese people need (oil, food, raw materials, etc.) than when they generated those savings.

China should have never bought as many treasuries as they did. They should have bought harder assets, like oil company equites, timber and farm land, mining equities. When they tried to buy an oil company, congress blocked them. There is still no reason they shouldn't have bought diversified assets.

Providing cheap financing for US government during the 2000's, was neither good for the US, nor for China. The US got an asset bubble exacerbated by the cheap money, and the Chinese now have dollars that buy 1/2 as much as the dollars they used to buy the treasuries.
My point is that the entire economics of IP traffic in Australia is driven by those international pipes. Massive internal bandwidth won't change that (less the effect of CDN POPs).

It is becoming a competitive market, but so is DSL. My point is that we're going to spend tens of billions on a white elephant we might as well actually spend some of it where it counts. Even if it took the form of giving (say) a billion dollars to each of PIPE Networks, Southern Cross Networks and Telstra to get them to lay more cables.
Is there a guide somewhere to get HE working with Linode?
Eli Pariser TED talk about personalization and "filter bubbles"
Great piece, there is a lot of misinformation out there and this really helps get to the facts!
I absolutely felt the same, but basically made myself take a look at the go[1] issue tracker[2], before just committing to working on a bug. Once I got one fixed, it was an amazing feeling - I can contribute to this project that is run by people from goddamn bell labs, legends in the industry[3], etc. - though my contribution may be small, I was able to fix something. Getting past that first hurdle was just amazing

Theeeeeeen I tried a more serious bug[4] - the only high-priority one in the whole tracker which hadn't been solved for over a year (yeah. Maybe a bit over-ambitious). After hours of learning C and the codebase (my day job is as a financial CRUD C#-er) I was able to find a way to fix it :-)

It has genuinely been a voyage into the unknown and taken quite some effort + despite feeling utterly not up to the task, but being able to contribute even minor changes to a project you believe in is just the most amazing thing, really.

So I am with @briancurtin on this one - just push yourself to try it, it's genuinely worth it. Knowing you contributed something to a project you care about is just damn awesome. Seriously :)

[1]:http://golang.org

[2]:http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/list

[3]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike

[4]:http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=667
And Comcast in San Francisco (at least in the mission) offers a 50mbit connect that (when I've had it in the past) works better than advertised. I think peak downloads we saw were just over 7MB/s.

What's the problem?
My understanding of bnoordhuis' proposed was that the elements of the hash table would be students, rather than lists of students.
"An idea is a direction."

You're making my point for me. Directions are cheap. It's the road traveled that matters.

"The value lies in what the customer receives, not the man-years."

OK. Build your AirBnB clone in two man-hours. Go!
no, i don't (as i said, i use chrome). maybe that is why i am confused? the reason i ask is that they seem to be focussing on a "browser bundle" which is firefox based. see https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

[edit: thanks Larry for response below. i currently use a separate invocation of chrome that starts in incognito with proxy configured, and then start tor with vidalia. but i will consider switching to a ff-based bundle. replied here as didn't have a "reply" link for some reason - seems to be a limit on posting rate?]

[ps ironic that one of your most recent posts, driveby, was on how amazing it is to be supportive of people that don't understand things...]
> SQL is quick and easy to write

You can't write it faster than an ORM. anObject.save, your SQL can't beat that in tersness and by the time you've written CRUD SQL for one table the guy with the ORM is far ahead of you in getting actual work done.

> I don't think it saves dev time at all.

It saves massive amounts of time, if you don't think so, then I doubt you've used one long enough to be able to have a valid opinion on the matter.
At my last startup, we had a customer derisively call our product a science experiment. It became a fun excuse for the sales department.
You won't notice a thing.

-Rackspace
>CRUD stored procedures can be generated directly from the database schema, wrapped in C# objects using the same code generator, and compiled into your project whenever you make a schema change.

Yuk, no thanks, I'll take the ORM.
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Yes. Also consider that the long-term fiscal crisis in the US is due almost entirely to promised Medicare and Social Security benefits, which are required because the elderly generally can't be as economically productive and are expensive to keep alive. Cure aging, and the need for those programs is greatly reduced.
Meh, live hard, have fun and then die so the next generation has their turn.
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I've done business with a guy who went to MIT more than 30 years ago and he still puts MIT on his email signatures, he says that even with all that he's accomplished it's that title that still opens doors for him. If you can do MIT it's a no-brainer, it will be paying dividends for the rest of your life.
I'm a 42s diehard, but the Free42 app for iPhone has gotten so good that I'm not using the real one anymore (and it's larger than the iPhone which is off-putting)

Still, another great calculator for programmers. The extra fn keys are great for working with large hex values.
It appears you've confused China with a dollarized economy, like Panama or Ecuador. China bails out its banks with Reminbi, which the people's bank of China prints electronically -- not with dollars.
Obligatory TechCrunch linkbait complaint: Since when does renaming something mean "dissolving" it?

I realize the 2nd half of the title makes it more clear, but it's still pretty blatant linkbait.
I don't know if I'm misinterpreting Derek Muller, but I didn't get the impression that people had to be confused/overwhelmed to learn. I think it's only necessary when there's incorrect prior knowledge.

If interested, here's my take/rant about it:

I believe that prior knowledge and misconceptions can change how people deal and interpret new information. This can help or it can hurt the learning process.

It can help because it often makes new knowledge more likely to "stick." For example, a soccer fan is more likely to remember soccer scores [1]. I know there's other research that indicate more prior knowledge leads to quicker learning, but I don't remember them off the top of my head.

It can hurt in much of the same ways Derek Muller describes. When hearing new information it can easily be misinterpreted to match current knowledge. For example, anecdotally, those only familiar with the words "negative" (bad) and "reinforcement" (adding/reaffirming) are more likely to misinterpret "negative reinforcement" to mean "punishing behavior by adding something bad" instead of "rewarding behavior by taking something bad away." I believe there were similar findings/studies within statistics. Another common one is F=mv as shown in Muller's videos. I'm sure there are plenty more examples.

I believe Derek Muller's problem with Khan's videos is that they might not challenge incorrect previous knowledge. I agree with Muller and personally feel that Khan Academy will likely encounter some of these same problems when students watch the videos.

But, I also believe that the other half of Khan Academy (exercises) provide feedback that videos alone otherwise do not have. I believe that the requirement for mastery through the exercises can and will challenge at least some of these misconceptions. Particularly if the questions are good questions.

I also believe that Khan Academy is going to find themselves in a position where they can potentially have a lot of interesting data. I'd love to be able to see whether they can use this data to find some of these common misconceptions and then improve videos and/or questions. In the very least, I believe that their exercises will serve as a good metric to see where misconceptions are being poorly addressed.

We also have to keep in mind that, at least in the pilot in Los Altos school district, these videos are not the only source where students are learning. They still have time with teachers where these misconceptions can be addressed. In addition to that, they'll have the opportunity to review the videos to contrast, reflect on what lead to the misunderstanding, and hopefully reaffirm the new knowledge.

tldr - I believe Khan Academy's exercises and class/teacher time might help deal with the issue of misconceptions.

</rant>

[1] Morris, 1981 - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1981....
We were actually YC W10 :)

(edit: original title referenced "YC W11")
The author is flat-out wrong in some points, like this one:

By doing so, we’re missing the point: the flaws we so deliberately recreate were never intentional and never wanted. The fuzzy glow and odd colour-shifts were to due limitations of the film and processing techniques used.

Actually, the films and processing techniques were painstakingly created over the course of a more than a century. Sure, there was certainly as much chance and serendipity involved as there was design, but the chemists, marketers, and end users all made conscious choices to lead us to where we are today.
We avoid all that headache by letting MongoHQ take care of the details, it literally reduces my work down to just making sure I have sane indexes.
>Its way easier to get everything from Thai food to dry cleaning to auto parts in a city.

Actually it was easier in the remoter parts of Ohio for me to get parts than it ever has been in NYC or SF.
The difference at a high level is that sql has a syntax and set of capabilities that is quite unique, and every single database vendor has its own extensions or differences driven by their particular approach. To really replicate all of this in code you would have to go beyond the basic data structures and syntax of that programming language. And at that point might as well just have sql. It's a paradigm and an approach expressed through its own syntax, you can't easily copy all of it in a totally different programming language..

As for checking for type safety, I think frameworks that do sql-to-object mapping (with type safety), and also handle cache for you, are a very useful thing. Making raw calls on database connections is definitely too far "in the other direction" :).
That was an example.
As it happens, this is almost exactly how I feel on the analog v. digital audio debate, when vinyl proponents advocate their choice by talking about how "warm" it sounds. I don't want warm, I want accurate.

My photo collection is the raw JPGs coming out of the camera, and they'd just plain be the RAWs if I saw any advantage to that. (But I can't tell the difference, so I don't sweat it; on my camera RAW is a bit of a chore.)
They are not orthogonal. Amount of estimated damages differentiates between kinds of theft (petty larceny vs grand) and is pretty much directly used to calculate imprisonnement duration in hacking cases. Some 30000 USD/year, IIRC. That's why companies always inflate their damage reports. Severe abuse of justice for the defendant and the company risks pretty much nothing.
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I'll make it simple.

Ordinary chinese citizens save $1T in bank deposits.

Bank loans the $1T to mall developers, and high speed railway developers. The developers promise to pay the money back.

They don't pay the money back, because the mall is empty, and no one can afford the high speed trains.

The people worry that the bank can't pay them back, all rush to the bank to get cash.

The Chinese treasury uses $1T in USD reserves to stop the run on the bank.

So, what he is saying, is that the Chinese central bank is already on the hook for about $1 trillion in bad bank loans.
you can always use photos from your camera roll in instagram, making it a post-process only app. Or you can take photos in instagram and (unfortunately) not have a 'raw' file left.
Congrats to Darius, Aaron, and co.
Imagine an ORM causing a speed issue.

Performing a code review the code uses a LINQ-2-SQL multi join. LINQ-2-SQL takes a high level ORM description and generates SQL code from it. The generated code was slow and cost a 10x slowdown in production.
Yeah, I don't understand your comment, either.

The $3-trillion is foreign exchange reserves China has accumulated from running massive trade surpluses with various countries.

They may blow some of those reserves on failing pet projects, but that just bolsters the point of the article: that it's nearly impossible to spend this money, let alone intelligently.
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Gmail must be part of Social.
I see now... CHROMAom was the original name?
Yup, it's still our legal parent company name, but we found that when we told people we were CHROMAom they said "huh?", and when we said we were COLOURlovers they said "I know COLOURlovers!"
We're storing complex, loosely-structured data, which perfectly fits MongoDB's schemaless document model. The fact that it will easily scale up with us is just icing on the cake.
Eureqa does model selection as part of the optimization, so that would be an advantage over vanilla linear regression. Of course, there are a lot of specialized model selection techniques for linear regression that would probably be better. Using Eureqa for a linear model doesn't really make sense anyway. I think it would be mainly useful for exploratory data analysis.