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Yes, and the mechanism for this is no mystery. Academia is a political game. Your peers vote to give you tenure. They vote, anonymously, on whether to publish your papers. They vote, anonymously, on whether to give you grants. If you want smart students, you have to recruit them. Et cetera.

You do have to be smart, but you also have to make friends.

(And, let me hasten to add, there's nothing particularly wrong with this. The point of academia is to build knowledge by connecting with your students and your peers: Teaching, and learning. Socializing is the name of the game. If you want to hide in your closet being an isolated cranky genius you don't need the university, and vice versa. Well, except maybe for the libraries. There's a reason why research libraries have the reputation of being filled with slightly crazy cranky people. ;)
Because in return, they reduce mental load and time costs.
When you've been in business for a couple of decades, it is a great way to track down people from the past. I'm constantly finding that the person I want to reach is only one or two steps removed from me. Much easier to contact people when you don't have to cold call.

Circumstances change and I'm constantly surprised by people whom I thought were not particularly ambitious end up in very influential positions.

At the end of the day, LinkedIn is just another tool, but a very powerful and useful one.
As mentioned in the video, this would be a lifesaver for people who live hundreds of miles from the nearest doctor.
In fact, there's probably far more freedom with IP in China than anywhere else in the world.
When Twitter was first out, I had a look at two philosophers known for concision. Quite a lot of the entries in Spinoza's _Ethics_ fit into 140 characters, particularly in the original Latin. Heraclitus was a bit harder to find, but I believe quite a lot of his sayings will also. Wittgenstein did not occur to me then; quite a few of the entries in the Tractatus are well under 140 characters, German or English.

I briefly considered writing a script to tweet snippets of Spinoza, but decided I had better things to do.
The new graphics driver and chipset support seems pretty important for the average user (given that they have the the respective hardware). Apart from that, optimizations such as lock removals might make some things a little bit faster.

Edit: and the power saving for hda_intel audio probably will affect a lot of people as well.
As far as I know they use adult brains as models. A functional brain has "meaningful synapses", i.e. neuronal assemblies that represent a given concept, shape, etc... .

Getting these out of the box is impossible AFAIK, because of the sheer number of neurons and connections to relate to one another. Especially, since the neural code is far from being decrypted.

You'd have to replicate the development process, probably starting with a model of fetal brain.

Is there anyone familiar with the research around? Are these concerns baseless? If not, how are they addressed?
Mathematicians go to great lengths to make careful distinctions between objects, notions and concepts. With those skills you will have no problems with any Object Oriented Analysis - Design - Programming.

Wishing you all the very best of success with your graduate program.
Those Indians, they sure have big pockets! ;^) Jokes aside, that's a good point. When you have your own computing device, you have the chance to play around with it instead of just following a script ("click the blue e, type facebook, press enter...").
These low-cost models lack 3G and have a horrible battery life, but if they become popular, I'm sure we will see enterprising individuals opening hole-in-the-wall cafés offering cheap wi-fi and charging cradles.
Execution is more than building a site. Groupon, especially, is an example of a site that is successful due to the deals that they can negotiate and their quality writing.

That's not to say that I disagree with you that the builders deserve good equity as well.
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<snark> and I invented time machine in 2001 </snark>

Idea means almost nothing. Execution is the hard part.
I guess he meant that "strong AI" is you and me.
I've thought about this quite a bit (I was motivated by those experiences to go into AI research - which I did for six years) and I'm not convinced that the kinds of problems used in the tests I did map too well to "real world" problems - in essence all of the difficulties have already been abstracted away. Of course, I have no evidence for this but the fact that the logical/symbolic approaches to AI failed to live up to their early promise more or less supports my views.
The good news is, I still have a chance to make it! Hmm NYC or the Valley, decisions decisions...
So are you trying to improve your intelligence by interacting with people in a different way that challenges you?
Yes, that's the kind of thing I was talking about! True disruption, not the gradual improvement that has been going on for 100's of years. Something that allows for quickly building cheap, efficient and environment friendly housing.
On the positive side, if someone's copying you already then the idea must be good and worthwhile to work on. Converting the idea to a viable business is another matter completely and who knows, you might execute better than them. As they say, competition is a good thing.
So this would make USA worse than China then?
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John Gruber won't like this.
Actually, in my experience, read-ahead into cache is what the OS does NOT handle for you. To get file-level read ahead in *nix you need to use normal IO syscalls. mmap is only suitable for completely random IO.
My vote goes for pseudonymity. It has the advantages of transparency (such as reputation) but also the advantages of anonymity (such as to allow expression of less popular opinions without repercussions).
I disagree totally. I find it annoying to have a limited short term memory. When coding multiple files I wish I had a little more space in my brain.
In theory, Apple could develop some unique chrome for this and then reject any app from the app store that fakes it. That is probably the only way to do this securely with good UX in a mobile app. It's not clear that Apple wants to take on that role though.
Censorship is even more inflammatory IMO, it's not mentioned but the headline suggests it. It's a pretty cheap rhetoric if this is what he actually said, it's like saying that the U.S is like China in regards to Copyright if it's not blocked.
"Strong AI is impossible"

What makes you think that? Given that we have one class of systems that have evolved general intelligence I can see no reason why we can't engineer others. This may, of course, be rather difficult but I'm not aware of any good argument that engineering a general intelligence is impossible for fundamental physical or logical reasons.
commit 442b9635, increasing the initial tcp window (initcwnd) to 10(segments), first landed somewhere around 2.6.39-rc2. I consider that a significant thing for servers. The initial receive window was increased first, several months ago. (I think the receive window change was in .37 but I don't know for sure.)
Here's the author's response to HN commenters:
http://krainboltgreene.heroku.com/log/11/
I'm sure Apple thinks it's positive because otherwise they'd just follow Amazon/Google. So it's hardly "spin", quite clearly Apple feels that what they're getting is going to be well worth the costs. They have a decent track record too.

It's certainly positive for Apple's customers that they don't have to spend hours and hours and tons of bandwidth uploading their music.

It's certainly positive for Apple and their customers if the fees are lower then they would have otherwise been or if Apple was able to get other concessions from the labels.
I bought a tempur-pedic earlier this year and I have to say it's the best sleep I've ever had. I used to toss and turn during the night and I usually had back pain in the mornings, but not with the tempur-pedic. I get uninterrupted sleep and no morning back pain.

My previous mattresses were decent spring types and they were comfortable, but nothing compared to the tempur-pedic.
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Unless you attach arms with machine guns to your supercomputer, I don't think safety is much of a concern, really.
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Finance isn't a Zero-Sum game (well, not all of it anyway). Investing money in the right place can create more wealth for all of humanity.
Blocking Javascript by default? I am, and similarly didn't see any content. Temporarily allowed JS and it works.

Why do sites require Javascript to show any content at all? What's the web coming to?
What was said:

The representative also said the problem with Mac Defender
is getting worse.

Compare to title.
A case in point that experts can handle complex interfaces, as long as they provide more control.
the guy he was referring to:
http://sam.ai.ki/cancer-2.html
IMO, the biggest problem with education is how crackpot the teacher teaching system is. They seem to have no more scientific basis than Postmodernism, despite the fact that they actually research something that can be research.

There's a book called "Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom". The author explains (more or less) why Direct Instruction is so much more successful than other, newer, faddish techniques. Actually, Direct Instruction is also a bit faddish, and could certainly be improved by a more scientific approach.

Unfortunately, teacher trainers think that drill work is boring, and anything that recommends drill work must be wrong, because it is (to them) unpleasant. Maybe not as unpleasant as studying stuff you don't understand (which is what happens if you don't drill), but they don't have to accept reality.
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The legal precedents prevent that.
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Supposedly the labels were asking Google to block torrent sites from search results. A store is the only missing feature and it just wasn't going to happen.
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>Sure, using an A&P is fine.

Not sure what you were trying to say here, but using an A&P isn't "fine," it's mandatory, and it's very expensive.

>...less costly than that of a traditional airplane wouldn't you agree?

Maybe a little, but not significantly. This still misses the point: airplanes are required to get periodic maintenance way more often than cars, and airplane mechanics cost way more than car mechanics. The complexity of the airplane isn't the primary cost driver, the frequent maintenance and the safety requirements placed on that maintenance are.

>It appears this vehicle costs $84K. I believe any person able to afford a 100K class of car would certainly be able to pay the maintenance and insurance costs to drive it as a car ;)

I know a lot of people who own small planes. Most of of those planes were purchased for a price comparable to this thing (because they were purchased used--they would have cost considerably more than $84K if purchased new). All of these people are upper middle class, so these planes represented major expenses for them. They all have to be very careful about how much they fly their planes or they would break their budgets; using their planes as cars would be a terrible waste of money.

Becoming certified as an A&P is a very expensive and time-consuming process, but it pays off in the end for professional A&Ps because they can charge a premium for their work. However, I know a few people who went through this process even though they already have great careers and have no intention of working professionally as A&Ps. Nor were they especially enthusiastic about aircraft maintenance as a hobby. They did it because, in the long run, it was cheaper for them to become certified so they could do all of their own maintenance on their planes rather than pay somebody else to do it. That's how expensive aircraft maintenance is.
Ideas are cheap, it is all about execution. A lot of hackers have so many ideas, that we can actually start blogging idea-a-day. I bet nobody would steal them, because everyone else have their own ideas. Unless your idea is validated, nobody will want to steal it.

But once you have cash rolling in, you will have tens if not hundreds of clones spawning up with in few weeks.
What is considered as "good/ethical/moral" is relative...to individuals and time...few hundred years back, to even think that earth goes around sun, was considered not good/unethical/amoral by lot of folks...
Or simpler still - the iTunes application will generate fingerprint of the whole audio in each file and send it along with whatever metadata is available. Then serverside the fingerprint and metadata are analyzed and if a certain criteria for a match are not met, iTunes is prompted to upload the file.
Good point. I would expect the Apple service to only work with Apple devices and to have the same 3 device (or whatever the number is) limitation that they currently have. I'd also expect it to be a pay service, as Apple doesn't do freemium.

I'd consider it a major fail if it's not accessible through a web interface, something I'm not expecting.
Probably worse than China.. add hypocrisy to the list :)
There have already been dozens of these superstar from YouTube/MySpace/wherever success stories. I don't know of any that haven't converted their overnight fame into some sort of label deal. It is my firm belief that the only way to properly monetize a music career that can't be pirated and without record label "help" is to build a devoted live audience, which takes years if not decades. Any sort of fame that's caught on the internet is as fleeting as the next famous act on the internet, so while a huge YouTube video or car commercial may guarantee big crowds for one show, they very well may not be there for the next one. And define "paid enough".

On the other hand, you will always have plenty of young, attention hungry people for whom the lure of a record deal and instant riches and fame will be plenty to sign away everything for the chance at it. The point of the whole Justin Bieber marketing machine isn't just to sell his product, it's to fill the labels' funnels with the next round of wanna-bes. And to be fair, the internet wasn't just invented. Napster was over a decade ago but labels, the RIAA and all their purchased goons in the govt. have been very effectively suppressing innovation through legal action for that entire time, and I don't see that trend abating. If anything it seems like it's getting worse.

It's a bummer, but record labels aren't going anywhere for a while.
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That was what made Lala so brilliant:

1) No subscription requirement. I'm not convinced that the average consumer spends $120 a year on music and wants that expense every month of paying for a MOG, Spotify or Rdio.

2) Extremely low per-song price made "impulse" buys easy.

3) Matching your library to their catalog without uploading.

4) A really nice web interface. Extremely good for 2 years ago. Amazon's is so-so, and I haven't tried Google's yet (looks good from screenshots). I doubt Apple will do one at all.
It's about empathy. I can't be tortured that way, and neither can you. But a copy or a construct could be - and many of us find the thought just as distasteful as if it were a flesh-and-blood person.

If the simulation could talk to me, I'd rather it be treated decently.

This being said, I think there are ways to go around this problem. There are many ways in which my brain could be disabled so I wouldn't mind it being "tortured" or experimented upon. Consciousness is an emergent property - take away a few of its building blocks and it disappears.
As of right now they are not willing to fight.
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> You're thinking in legal terms. This is about money.

Which matters not at all.

> Amazon is one of the largest music sellers in the world. Google is has enough money to buy the whole industry.

Being big is not sufficient, nor is having money. Apple has more cash on hand than Amazon and Google at the same time.

> Pick your fight.

You don't even make sense.
I think people need to use their willpower and intelligence to automate boring stuff out of existence.
Interesting to note that the steering wheel alone costs in the region of $40k.
Chrome 10 is a modern browser, too.
Relevant: http://censoredgenius.blogspot.com/2011/05/fight-goes-on.htm...
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Yes, but the record companies insist that they're not licensed for this which is where the issue is.
Can you listen to input events on type="password"? If so that's a pretty big security failure. I'm going to test it.
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And while they're fighting Apple are establishing themselves as the number one player.

This isn't about what's right, it's about what will work.

I'm not sure Amazon (or Google) really think they can be successful but I'm not sure that's the point. I think they're just manoeuvring - potentially trying to show the record companies that there is demand, that there is money to be made and to encourage them into a mutually agreeable licensing deal.
I feel bad for the unemployed youth, but are can they really be called "doomed", considering freedom of movement of workers in the the EU?
This is Sony and Universal Music we're talking about not some two bit patent troll with no balls. They've got pretty good lawyers, deep pockets and believe (rightly or wrongly) that they're fighting for their survival.

Spending more and more on lawyers is likely to really only benefit the lawyers.
The biggest surprise was when he alluded to the fact that when going through a corner you have to change differential settings three times ... I imagine just taking a corner at those speeds would be hard enough, let alone playing around with buttons while doing it.
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Learning on your own != learning as a college CS student, it seems. I'd be curious to compare and contrast "Hacker's Paths" for students versus people trying to squeeze in a few hours a day. (My intuition is that the theory-first approach makes more sense for students than for the self-taught.)
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Fly with my car for fun.
And talk with my computer about private stuff :-)
It would be nice to be able to search for teams with specific skills in a location without having to sign up and see how many results there are.