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Not that your response is condescending, or anything.
LinkedIn is how Google recruiters kept track of me for many years before I sought them out for an interview in 2008. I work at Google today because I made a simple call back to the recruiter and got my phone interview scheduled the next day.
No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft software.
This is a deeper philosophical issue. With Android you have to remember your usage history to know what the back button is going to do. In iOS you're never going to accidentally switch to a different app. Once you get used to one philosophy the other will become annoying.
I was kinda hoping that this would be a Kickstarter project.
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Teams with domain knowledge should be especially valuable since they learned all the important lessons on somebody elses dime. The domain knowledge need not be too high-level for example. A team that could assemble all te infrastructure to run a modern web app could probably command a high premium due the time they would save in getting any company up and running.
It will still be a machine, won't be able to kill you unless you give it a gun. Our ethical rules generally show some respect to animals, because we can empathize with cruelty against them, but even that is relative (we 're not so sorry when we eat them). I see no reason why we should preemptively allocate ethical substance to a machine that thinks. Cruel as it may sound, if a robot is mean to me, i will unplug it.

All this talk about strong AI sounds more like science fiction fantasy. We need to realize that this simulation, even 10 years later will probably be extremely slow, taking minutes or hours to simulate 1 msec of brain activity (it would actually be interesting to have an estimate of the computing power that will be required).
That's a pretty good ad copy there, at least for this geek.
I'd be willing to sell shares in my startup for bitcoin. I can then pay developers with the proceeds to guys like Nick. I can then collect btc payments to my startup in order to pay back investors. It's a viable system. Beats having to go to the same old cast of characters for investment. Customers can become shareholders too. Bitcoin is family.

edit: can be family
Got an error when I tried to sign up as part of a team. No OAuth, just standard sign up fields. Seeing standard rails error page. "We're sorry, but something went wrong."
Is a model of the human brain, in which the same interactions between neurons occur as in a real brain, conscious? There currently doesn't seem to be a definitive resolution to that question, and there probably never will be. However, I would argue that the difference between a "useful large scale model of neurons" (where "large scale" means an entire human brain) and "a machine that thinks" (or contains processes which think) is almost nonexistent, unless you subscribe to dualist philosophies.
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Very basic bookmark saving webapp, developed for my own needs. Basically it just saves your bookmarks and provides a full text search. It grabs the bookmarked page when created and indexes it.

Use at your own risk, no warranty.

http://bookmarklove.me
Showering us with augmented reality contact-lenses so we'll be able to see geolocation-facebook. I.e. look out the window of my office and see conversations between people and join in if I must.

Wait. Facebook isn't that awesome. :)
Many amputees can still move the muscles/surface at end of their limb. So they put a sensor and then try to make an intuitive map of those skin/muscle movements to the bionic arm motions. I don't know how exactly they map the motions (statically vs a learning algorithm, etc), but apparently they can make it good enough that people can learn how to use the bionic arm naturally.

(Forgot exactly where I saw this. Hopefully someone can provide a source.)

EDIT: Looks like recently they've been able to actually rewire nerves. Short video here:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/02/bionic-arm-wi...
So on the up side, I think turning it off would be the same as putting it to sleep. The question is do you ever turn it back on...
Why limit it to iOS Developers? iOS is the current focus because that's where the market is now, but there are lots of developers who are anti-patent-troll who develop for other platforms.

It seems like what is really needed is a platform-neutral organization of developers who aren't as extreme as the FSF in terms of source-code openness but who do oppose the current patent system as applied to software. (I agree with the FSF on patents, but not on everything).
They changed the pricing model to remove the usefulness of the platform for small projects. Getting rid of the riff-raff. Practical evil elitism at work.
so someone can give legal advice, but say it isn't legal advice, and that makes it not legal advice?
"There's more, around the last 4 digits of a credit card. This is used by others as authentication when you loose your password, for example PayPal."

Can you say fundamentally flawed?
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Utter waste of resources.
This has a lot of great ideas, and I like the idea of an enhanced terminal in general, but I think it goes too far. Having to reimplement a large number of commands to support this concept of separate view and data streams is complex.

A few ideas I'd like to see integrated into an existing shell/terminal in a backwards compatible way:

* Syntax highlighting/tokenization of the command as you type. Show the different parts of the command you're typing: the executable, the arguments, the pipes, the IO redirects, shell constructs like loops and conditionals, quoted strings.

* Maybe command-specific syntax awareness like highlighting the flags and file arguments differently, regular expressions for sed/grep, awk syntax, etc. This would require descriptors for each command, similar to how autocomplete works?

* Enhanced output formatting, like the clickable paths, displayable images, etc. But rather than modifying/rewriting the program, have a way to describe how to display the output of certain commands. The shell should be able to figure out what the final command in a pipeline is, right?

* Detect and display binary file formats based on the content rather than the filename so support existing commands.
Care to elaborate a little about how well static content works for you?

I'm working on something where I was thinking about using S3 for static and building a really simple GAE datastore-backed JSON API pulled in from the static files.

Nothing complex but I want it to perform as well as possible. If GAE would work just as well, I'm thinking I should just keep everything there.

Do the front-end cache servers prevent unnecessary hits on the app server instances?
Not as well as a PC. PC gaming and console gaming are two totally different worlds
Appreciated the feedback.

* I agree and we will most certainly add this feature.

* Currently we manually approve all teams and companies. After you submit you can still edit your team so no worries. We will think about the flow.

* Profiles are something we are going to be constantly iterating on and we'll think of something to make situations like that smoother.
Still got confirmation email. "Confirm my account" link worked, and I'm into the site. Confirmation email is a little stark though, it should be fleshed out a bit more. Only way to tell it was from grouptalent was the from address.
Right, but this is a trivial idea that's trivial to implement. Facebook would have created this feature with or without the patent system's existence, so the patent is a net loss for society.
I think it becomes interesting when one of the Jerfs demands something different from the rest.
an incredible source of behavioral data
I 'm an eliminativist myself, so i see no duality. It's time to demystify "consciousness". It's a word used to cover a whole range of phenomena that arise in our brain.
For a newbie to the world of scripting, is Perl worth learning? Or would Python/PHP/Ruby/JavaScript be a better alternative?
If you set the Virtual Patient software to run with less than several square km of simulated environment or in low resolution mode, then you need to be sure and run the "defiant VP detector and shutdown routine" so as to avoid generating reams and reams of vitriolic rants mostly involving violations of human dignity. You can just filter those out of the data-set later if you want, but the d0m patient has a rather high defiance ratio, so better to shut the unhelpful instances down early and not waste the computation up-front.
Amazing work. This kind of API has potential to be a real game changer. Imagine what this style interface could do for things like Image, Audio and Video processing. Can't wait to watch see this progress.
There are going to be a lot of subtle difficulties with execution, but the concept itself is brilliant. It's easy to see how this could basically become the next Wal-Mart by enabling user generated talent monopsonies.
Isn't a much larger data set needed to rule out coincidence?
> We need to realize that this simulation, even 10 years later will probably be extremely slow, taking minutes or hours to simulate 1 msec of brain activity

This is just a difference of degree.

How stupid would a real-life person have to be before you could put a bullet through their brain, effectively unplugging them?
On quibble: In Android the back button really seems to serve the purpose of "take me anywhere BUT here". I have no real cognitive sense (generally) of where I am in the stack. I simply hit the back button until I get back to something that looks familiar.
I heard some Microsoft employees own and use iPhones. Isn't that frowned upon?
Good feedback. Makes some good points; the pixel-perfect layout vs. flow layout is a very significant difference. We've done a similar bullet-point writeup: http://voxilate.blogspot.com/2010/11/ios-and-android-odd-dev...

One major pain point is dealing with fragmentation. Of course iOS is no stranger to this, but it seems Apple does a better job preserving backwards compatibility. On Android there are wholesale API changes between 1.x and 2.x, and apparently Honeycomb revamps the entire Activity UI framework. Yuck.
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A large portion of our instincts are hard-wired.

What about a sadly-not-too-hypothetical case of a child being raised in total isolation? Do they not possess consciousness?
I bet about the same percentage that know about the long-hold of the home button to bring up the task switcher in Android (not many). I was amazed that my wife, who has had an Android phone for a year, didn't know about that one...
No. I've started joining groups in my country regarding development and simply posting my opinions in discussions. This has led me to become a wee bit more known than I was before, and I've had several huge IT recruiters add me to LinkedIn.

I know adding someone doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it's still a contact after all...
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There's a negative aspect to the multi app ui history model as well though in that its easy to create confusing app launch and back button behaviors. Example: if I jump from my app to the browser then hit home then later relaunch the app and I'm confused because I start in the browser.

Having the ui stack capability across apps is great but as a developer it requires some extra effort to avoid confusing incidents like this for users.
The nice thing about distributed caches is that the closer the cache is to the user, the lesser the traffic traversing wide-area. So, the main hosting website wouldn't even see all that traffic!

But I guess these make sense only for static content...
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LinkedIn has been quite useful to me personally and professionally.
- I was contacted and hired because a recruiter found me thru LinkedIn.
- The best thing I like about linkedin is its search tool. I have also noticed the quality of traffic, both organic and paid, from LinkedIn is of high quality for b2b lead gen purposes.
The question that pops in to my mind is, how could we model a human brain, while we still have no clear idea how it works?

There are many many unknown genes and pathways involved in brain development and function. So without knowing these details, how would one go about 'emulating' a brain.

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Happy to share. Metzinger takes a hard line on strong materialism and against the existence of the self. For a more general overview of current strains of scientific thoughts on consciousness I'd recommend _Conversations on Consciousness_ [1] which interviews leading researchers who are representative of the varied approaches to the field.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Consciousness-Minds-Thin...
You and I are a team. We charge $200 per hour with an equal split. The unbundler comes along and whispers in my ear. He says I'm better and he can pay me $105. Of course, being awesome (and human) I agree with his assessment. He says I must keep quiet about this. Easy to agree, since I know you won't like it. Then he tries to get you for $95 or less. The bigger the group, the better this tactic works. The more complicated the scenario, the better this tactic works. A variation of this just happened to me this week.
Isn't a "team for hire" a "consulting company"? What am I missing?
You raise a great point. Definitely agree on the fact that legal / ethical frameworks are required.

However, it might be very hard to do without knowing what the emulated "being" looks like. Its hard to imagine placing legalities and ethics on something whose powers (and possibly, limitations) are absolutely unknown. Consequently, the law might be misplaced, restrictive, or downright abusive depending on what it turns out to be.

Having said that, I agree with your broad point - having that advanced technology without the social aspects to deal with it might be a nightmare!
What? "The city will pay the Redmond, Wash. software company a little more than $1 million per year for the new product."

But surely they could use Hotmail or something right? That wouldn't cost $1 million a year?

I'm missing something.
IANAL, but I think that in this context "legal advice" has a meaning beyond the English one. It is also used to indicate an attorney-client relationship and the associated liability and confidentiality.

So someone can give legal advice (English), but say it isn't legal advice (Legalese) and that makes it not legal advice (Legalese).
I don't really get this. Does facebook still run ads and on a dead person's page? If they do that seems a little creepy.
It would be nice if they took the opportunity to dump the registry whilst dumping backward compatibility.
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Before starting to evaluate claims that this model will replicate any human behavior, I think it's important to consider the case of C. Elegans. It always has exactly 302 neurons, and we know exactly how they connect to one another (we know its connectome), yet the furthest models have gotten with replicating its behavior is simplified, feedforward models of locomotion.
In light of this, it is very hard to believe that we will be able to reproduce the behavior of 100 billion neurons which are constantly changing.
This is not to say that Blue Brain is not an immensely useful tool to develop knowledge about the brain: it will be an excellent way to study what the implications of the vast amounts of data we have collected about the brain. However, to claim that the model will behave like a human brain seems like a stretch.
So you can recompile existing programs and have them work... recompiling is much simpler than rewriting.
> I mean, any competent developer would immediately realize that this password reset system is flawed by design, especially with the fact that the user's information requested is the information the hackers already have!

That's not actually the problem here. It's pretty standard practice to only ask for an email address to initiate a password reset. Google, for example, only asks for email address. Asking for additional information, like DOB, isn't really a security measure. It's more of an annoyance prevention measure, to make it slightly harder for random people to initiate password resets in your name.

The problem with what Sony was doing is that you could circumvent the verification that you had access to the email address you gave. The way it is supposed to work is that you initiate a password reset, and the site sends you a link that you have to follow to get to the form where the actual password reset takes place and you enter a new password.

The security comes not from knowing your email address and DOB, but rather from having to actually have access to the email.

The way Sony's site was working, when you initiated the reset request it was possible to figure out what the link was that sent in the email, and hence finish the reset process without having access to the email. Oops.
>"non-related browsers"

Chrome and Safari both use webkit. Of course that doesn't explain Firefox.
What do "software" and "hardware" even mean in the context of the brain? All of what you call "software" is just the result of combinations of neuron patterns and chemicals, all of which could be included in a simulation.
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This is a great idea. Often when I do projects through Elance I bring in team members to supplement different parts of the project. It would probably be beneficial to have a point of contact for each project as communicating with clients takes a ton of time. Otherwise one person turns into project coordinator and misses out on the fun stuff ;-).

Overall I love this idea and wish you great success! Keep it up.
Thanks. I was going to tweet the link so I shortened it. Is shortening deprecated on HN?
I love the well-informed rant. You have lots of interesting points.

As a person, I'm glad LinkedIn exists as an appropriate place for business connections. I am not always keen on having coworkers as Facebook friends.

LinkedIn does a good job of keeping track of contacts. “Is the freelance lighting designer available? Our intern from two years ago is working on a great project.”

Can LinkedIn do more and do what it does now even better? Certainly. Do I feel their current incarnation fails? Not really.

I don't want LinkedIn to be more pervasive in my life than it is. It's good enough to just "be there" and maybe give a soft email every two weeks.

Also, thanks so much for the kind words! I hope to fond a job soon, but I'm really just excited to be on the West Coast.
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I'm pretty sure that the city doesn't want their employees to have email addresses like "jblow15433@hotmail.com". You pay providers (like Microsoft and Google) to host your email domain as well.
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It would be good to have a clause stating something along the lines of "Any modifications or addendum to these terms need to be prominently displayed and clearly communicated".
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> On months you go over the old free limit by $0.05, you will be charged $9.00 instead of their proposed $9.05.

No, you will be charged at least $9 every month because you can't tell in advance when/if you will exceed the free quota, see you must leave billing enabled all the time, just in case.

The new proposal is better than the previous proposal but it still sucks. Large customers get $9 of value and startups get shafted.
Well you can always just lay down more of the concrete cloth for a floor.
SLAs, privacy, wining and dining and a "you have money" line item.
Yeah it's wonderful until Annoying Facebook Girl[1] and all her girlfriends find out about these awesome features.

1. http://www.quickmeme.com/Annoying-Facebook-Girl/
why should indexer/searcher be coupled to email files in particular, instead of dispatching on MIME types? why should the datamodel be something ad-hoc instead of RDF?

http://blog.whats-your.name/post/2011/02/14/sifting-thru-you...
I love this, and I need this - but I don't $99 need this -- I $20 to $40 need this....
BB is sort of like programming in 1999. You've got an ancient JVM version, so you can't use very many 3rd party libraries. The default widgets are completely style-free so any chroming you want to add is a custom job. Even persistence becomes tricky as java.io.File isn't available.

On the pro side, APIs tend to be more straightforward compared to Android. One benefit is that you can write much of your code in a synchronous style without callbacks or risking the dreaded ANR (Activity Not Responding) exception. Just don't expect to reuse a lot of your code without major modification.
Keep it... the name says little. Sfalma will give you little google competition which on the long run may be important.
Finally, basecamp uses the url basecamphq.com ... who would imagine that something like this would work.
Firefox 6? Do you mean 3.6?
Somewhere in-between where AOL and MySpace are today.
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This is going to be incredibly interesting to see what happens starting tomorrow for the remainder of the trading week. From a business perspective, this company is hardly worth its 4.5$ billion valuation. However, I have a theory that we're starting to see companies that are valued based on unquantifiable social utility as opposed to just hard economics. Although, this could just be "the bubble" finally forming...
It's not really surprising that Google didn't get it given their lack of a significant track record providing enterprise level services compared to IBM and Microsoft. I'll add that the backyard angle probably wouldn't have been mentioned if IBM had been selected over Google even though Armonk is a whole continent away.
I agree. Theres also barriers with banks/exchanges getting in the way and lobbying a startup out of existence.
The c elegans models are better that you think. Which nematode behavior is not able to be replicated by our models?
Don't see how 2-5 are disruptive at all. Small evolutionary steps. Incumbents just starting using/installing those are subcontracting out. Wood frame house today is except for a few more holes and wires in walls largely same as wood frame house 100 years ago. Carpenters still put them together, roofers still put on the tops, plumbers still plumb.

A disruption would be something like we no longer have to build houses we can buy them off of Amazon and have them delivered by fedex.
It's almost there. You can already link your PSN to your Steam account.
With 2 million in income for the last quarter unless LinkedIn has something up their sleeve, 4.5 billion is a little too much.
About having something up their sleeve, I haven't seen any innovation from them in the past 4 years or so.