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The worth is in the design, adoption, and utility. Anonymous currency has MUCH utility. And this currency, unlike the paper issues by states, is backed by math.
China's been buying a lot of dollars to hold their own currency down. I assume that won't continue forever. When it does stop, the USD will drop & Yuan will rise. Also, Pimco, biggest bond trader in the world, has dumped all their treasuries. I'm with them :)

My guess is that the USD is seen as a safe haven during these risky times, but not a long-term store of wealth. That's why treasuries are (temporarily) high.
I've been fascinated by Buzsaki and others in complementary fields since learning of them, and I've also written down some of my own ideas on the subject, from a purely theoretical perspective at least. I can't wait for what we might see in the next few decades.

http://guscost.com/2011/04/12/science-analog-confabulation/
Branded? AT&T is no longer locking down future devices, has enabled it on some of their older devices and it's easy to do via ADB.
Depends. If Apple announce and start selling a new iPhone in 2 months time that's radically different from the iPhone 4 they give Samsung, then Samsung will sue again. They would have been caught going against judges orders. This would jeopardize their fort case against Samsung and piss off the judge. This is not a clever thing to do for the sake of some pedantic hair splitting.
When miners can't produce coins anymore, will there still be enough honest people contributing compute to secure the transactions?

Right now the deflation makes it very worthwhile for a miner to participate.

Wouldn't transaction costs need to be quite high?
Would anyone use a system where one pays 10% for every transaction to be hashed?
I would love to see this feature implemented in a similar way for Emacs.
The article seems to make the unstated assumption that every commute is in a car. My bike commute is one of the best parts of my day. In fact, I turned down a telecommute job so that I could continue riding to work.
Or alternatively, "How I convinced more people to invest in bitcoin and then made bank when I pulled out my savings right before the crash."
My dad works in the airplane industry and had an interesting story to tell me that relates to this. (I'm not sure exactly how accurate it is or what the source is, sorry). Apparently, it is illegal for pilots to read while flying. Even if they are heading in a straight line with no one around for miles. This is because one time an pilot wasn't paying attention and due to a series of software failures, the plane turned into a mountain. Interestingly, the plane was tuning at a very exact amount so that the number of Gs remained constant.

In any case, this single crash caused regulation to state that computers can never fly planes by themselves. This strikes me as rather unfair. If a single human crashed a plane, it does not make it illegal for humans to fly planes by themselves.

Another example is that in London, subways must be driven by a human. Even though driving a subway may be trivial (there is no way to steer), Londoners apparently do not feel comfortable being driven by a non-living thing. They want to be sure that if they die, the driver dies too, adding a level of accountability.

It seems that this sort of wide-spread mistrust of machines is driven more by socially normal paranoia than any kind of logic. I for one am rooting for machines to take over all forms of driving. There may be a few mishaps, but it will probably become hundreds of times safer eventually.
Come on, Joachim, do a little work, e.g. and check your links before chiding someone else.
http://blitz.io
It is obviously a copyright thing and they had to comply with removal requests.
So the "fall" rerouted the recurrent laryngeal nerve. Makes sense!

Anyway, you asked why some people might think humans are perfect, and wnoise answered why some people who read the bible might reasonably make that assumption. What exactly is your continued issue here?
Gold isn't really a non-consumption commodity. It's used in things like jewelry and compter circuits.

Yes, but... (you know the drill) World gold reserves are 60 times its annual production, which means that gold is mostly a non-consumption commodity.
IMO, the Turing test is conclusive to the extent one accepts Berkleyian idealism and abandons a belief in the necessity of other minds. Under those premises, solutions to the Turing test are, at this point, trivial as ELIZA long ago demonstrated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
"Thus it is in a simple substance, and not in a compound or in a machine, that perception must be sought for"

This is an incorrect conclusion. You can inspect individual grains of sand as long as you want, you will never find a beach. Yet beaches are composed of sand with no magic involved.
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Doesn't financial services have value?
Not regularly but I used it recently at work to compute symbolically the sum of a non-trivial series. Turned out the sum has a closed form, which allowed me to replace an O(n) for loop with an O(1) bunch of additions, multiplications and divisions. Felt nice.
I constructed it in my head when I was in college. I think lots of people do that; it's not a very complicated idea at all. It's just that some people wrote it down and their writings somehow became famous.

When I constructed a similar argument, it was simply an argument I was having in my head with an imaginary person who was arguing with me that computers can have perception just like humans.
I put a disparaging remark here, but I really shouldn't insult Leibniz based on one partial quote.

More politely, I think it wrong to say "compound substances cannot be perceptive therefore humans have supernatural souls". Brains and bodies are compound substances and have perception. The next step is "I don't understand how" not "tada, souls!".
Yeh Good to Great has levered it's validity to the success of those companies. When I was reading it Merck was being eclipsed by Pfizer as the market leader.
An oldie but goodie:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6687
'...we could make YC work more peer-to-peer. Or we could build a robot that would walk around telling everyone "don't make users register," "delete half the text on your frontpage," "face the audience when you're presenting," etc, and I could just hang out in the next room with a book and a cup of tea.'

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/170/439422722_047705186c.jpg
So much of technical progress happens through delivering most of the value of the previous solution at a fraction of the cost (email vs postal mail). Society seems to rule this kind of progress out for a few industries like health care, I assume something similar is happening here.
Yup, I forsee the current seat belt system, where even in situations when it's advisable not to be wearing a seatbelt and/or the other mandated safety systems it's still illegal.

The problem is a systemic one that stems from the belief that the gov't is the omnipresent nanny of its citizenry.

Note: Before I get downvoted, I recognize that statistically seat belts save lives, however, there are conditions in which seatbelts cause fatalities (even when used properly), and that the choice of whether to wear or not wear one should be that of informed consent.
Likejacking is already a widespread plague, and this is even worse. Instead of tricking users into invisibly clicking a like button, they can trick users into invisibly giving away their login info. Expect to see a lot of Facebook spam from this in the coming months as the bad guys learn about this.

Especially since it sounds like Microsoft is not going to fix this anytime soon.
Not to mention that if you let untrusted people control VMs on the host side, you have bigger problems than this attack.
I then asked 'how many people are using Linux?'. It seems to think I'm asking 'how many people use the word 'Linux', as it returns the same result set as my initial query (word definitions and such). I ran the same query again with 'Linux' as an operating system topic, and it tells me that "Development of this topic is under investigation.."

Then it asks me to leave my email address to show interest.
Already exists in the form of ack mode, which is better integrated with the editor.

https://github.com/defunkt/emacs/blob/master/vendor/ack.el

http://nschum.de/src/emacs/full-ack/

There are others, but this should suit anybody's needs.

Edited to provide examples.
Actually, I believe only AT&T blocked non-Market installs, and they are removing that restriction going forward.
Unions have a lot to do with this as well.
Thats ok, we can then connect a more traditional coprocessor to offload the math heavy work to (perhaps some kind of SIMD stream processor).
it has a few problems with lockinfo, in the lock screen because sometimes it overlaps notifications. it's a matter of changing some lockinfo settings anyway.

a part from that i would say it's very good. it lacks some important configurations but the overall experience is very well integrated.

i had no problems so far!

btw... the system to reply to sms messages with only a tap in the notification is a godsend for me.
Or they introduce a robot-only lane where the cars can decide for themselves what a safe speed it, making speed limits obsolete. When cars can communicate with each other about dangers, much higher speeds are possible with less distance between cars.
Well, despite acting pretty similar in the past in a few key cases (I crack my self up :P), TI has usually acted more or less sane when dealing with their hacker community. They have no issue with the numerous emulators out there for their calculators so long as you don't distribute one of their roms.

EDIT: occurs to me people might not have gotten that pun: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Texas_Instrum...
Totally - I've been saying this forever: make the current HOV system enabled for driverless cars. Then it's a competition between fast driverless & slow driven - let's see what people do.
I want a blog where I can put in IP addresses of my family so they can't see certain posts..
How about having a command to manually reseed the PRNG?
Microsoft is porting Office. There is no way a current ARM can emulate a modern x86 with performance comparable to real hardware. Microsoft can make it easy for companies to compile their codebases for ARM, provided they use Microsoft tools. C# and Java should be able to run cleanly, but there is a lot of VB6 code still floating around.

There are ways to use the transistor surplus an ARM code has (it's much simpler than a comparable x86) to hardware-assist the translation, but, by the time you have a functional silicon, you will be in the x86 size range, negating all the advantages ARM has.
Not to say we shouldn't keep trying, but we all seem to think that the best computer will evolve from solving lots and lots of partial differential equations into being like the brain, but animal brains have evolved to solve really different questions than why we have been making computers.

The thing that always strikes me as interesting about the evolution of intelligence is that it's a mostly unnecessary latecomer to the evolutionary party: plenty of things thrive in nature without anything even remotely resembling human intelligence, even plenty of large animals that function quite well in complex environments rely mostly on hard coded "unintelligent" systems in their brains.

The fact is, most of the problems that need to be solved to survive and reproduce can be solved very effectively without much general intelligence. Sure, once evolution discovers intelligence it turns out to be a very efficient way to implement a lot of functionality that would otherwise need to be hard coded, but it's not strictly necessary, and nature did just fine without it for a long time.

The good news: that also means that it's unlikely that significant evolutionary pressures went into designing the complex systems responsible for intelligent thought, so they were probably accidentally "designed" via random drift. If you think about that, given the complexity of the algorithms involved, it means that the algorithm space at that level complexity is probably fairly dense with algorithms that function intelligently (where by "fairly dense" I mean that it's a lot denser than we might assume otherwise, and the solution that evolution came up with is probably not the only possible one).

That means if we ever figure out how to do a guided search through algorithms of the right complexity in the right way, we may yet stand a chance of "accidentally" discovering intelligence rather than deliberately designing it.
A homunculus is a homunculus, but nevertheless Searle's Chinese Room is perhaps a bit more radical - not so much conceptually but rather because it was proposed in contradiction to a well entrenched belief system - behaviorism.
So, from Honeycomb onwards, Android is no longer open source aside from the places where they are forced to be

That's factually incorrect and sounds like flamebait. They've stated that they're going to begin releasing the code again with Ice Cream Sandwich and not wanting to release bad code that was forced by a deadline isn't totally unreasonable.

the market is more of an Apple app store.

It's always been moderated. As has already been mentioned in another response the big difference is that on Android you can install apps from a different app store.
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Moreover, it must be confessed that perception and that which depends upon it are inexplicable on mechanical grounds, that is to say, by means of figures and motions. And supposing there were a machine, so constructed as to think, feel, and have perception, it might be conceived as increased in size, while keeping the same proportions, so that one might go into it as into a mill. That being so, we should, on examining its interior, find only parts which work one upon another, and never anything by which to explain a perception.

That seems like too big of a leap. Why can't "parts which work one upon another" not create perception? Is this assumption justified? (I really hope the justification is not "because mills that perceive are self-evidently absurd". If it is then my next question is: Why?) If that assumption doesn't stand the rest of the argument falls flat. I would like to hear a bit more about why compound parts can't create perception.

The brain certainly looks like it consists of compound parts. We obviously cannot (yet) explain consciousness so it is possible that it is impossible to create consciousness with compound parts, we just don't know. In that light Leibniz's argument seems unconvincing, at least as far as I can understand it.
> That is incorrect on many levels. Gold has applications in MANY things.

We still have a more gold that it is put productive uses. Gold reserves/production ratio is 60. No other commodity comes even close. So most of the world's gold is similarly useless as bitcoin, and more will be if some day gold will be re-monetized.

But, maybe, a better analogy would have been, dollar (outside of USA) is similarly useless as bitcoin.
I just wanted to mention one thing about this video. It's missing the first 3 minutes or so where I introduce myself and my team. It's also missing the part where I gave credit for some of these slides to John Allspaw and Paul Hammond from flickr who gave an awesome talk at the 2009 O'Reilly Velocity Conference. Their talk inspired me to put together this presentation.
Where does the data go after it has been submitted? I'd be careful when entering data on a web form where the source and intention for the data is unknown.
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With computerized drivers, it will finally be possible to fully enforce speed limits

Why the hell would you want speed limits on a road with computerized cars? That's the whole point of eliminating human error and human limitations from the control loop, that 200 mph+ driving can be extremely safe.
You can watch the TED video here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eli_pariser_beware_online_...
We are pushing travel first which will launch within the next 10 days via Rentul and Konaa with general stores and travel layer to follow shortly after. We already have people using our other company so customer and client base is already in place for this mechanism. We have also confirmed a huge story to be done around demo day of TechStars Boulder which will bring us 200k users almost instantly. For other details you can contact me privately.
The nanny state is what you get when you involve government in issues of health insurance and its kin.

The laws and regulations then turn towards cost reduction along with "taxes" to discourage higher health costs.

We only have the cigarette laws, seatbelt laws, and other 'endanger self only' actions that are regulated.
It's a bit noisier than pure SERP position, but tracking actual weekly traffic from transactional keywords should naturally normalize the value of SERP gains across keywords of differing popularity and rank.
We don't need driveless cars, we need carless people:

http://www.carfree.com/
Hmm, so, if their metaphor really held, the brain's computation could be simulated with a 45MHz CPU? Well, let's fix this up a bit...

(1) Give it 1000 clock cycles of cpu work to simulate a single neuro-tick.

(2) The clock is actually variable 5-500Hz (from the article).

So, 500Hz*5m = 2.5GHz, at 1000 cycles required, so 2500 Ghz of CPU power. An amazon large-instance cluster box is 8 cores of xeon at 2.93 Ghz, about 110 cluster instances to simulate a brain?
Totally unrelated: interesting phrase, that "The market is completely controlled by Google". Especially given the (accidentally, I assume) missing capital M, it made me think of the "is App Store a generic term?" discussion. I think your post shows that generic words can, at the least, come very close to being specific terms.
It's unfortunate that colleges and universities collude with textbook publishers to ensure that they use a different textbook/edition each year that can only be bought at the university bookstore. Really you should be able to find out exactly which textbook your course will be using and obtain a copy beforehand.
What's factually incorrect? It's not open source if they don't release the code (no matter how bad it might be).
I have almost 3000 subscribers to Hacker Newsletter that would argue with that. :)
But then, so was 15 years ago that whole Internet thing "too geeky", very insular with no connection to the non-geek world out there. So I suppose the BTC crowd sees that as a promising beginning.
The emulator apps have companion apps which download copyrighted ROMs for you. They push the download system in the emulator app description, as well as within the emulator itself. I wonder if that was the problem? Looking forward to the details.

I'm pretty annoyed with this, as I've purchased two of yongzh's apps, and don't have them installed on my phone currently - I was expecting to be able to reinstall them anytime.

So now Android has lost the two main things I liked, emulators and Grooveshark. If they're going to bring us all the bad things about Apple's system and none of the good, I might as well just get an iPhone next time. Or, if yongzh was infringing GPL as a few comments say, never mind! Hopefully someone normal will release these apps soon. There's plenty of emulator code out there to go by.
>So, from Honeycomb onwards, Android is no longer open source aside from the places where they are forced to be (through the GPL)

As others have pointed out, that's only for Honeycomb. Google has said all along that the code would be going public again once it's been cleaned up and the phone and tablet versions have been remerged for the next major release.

>(or were there some copyright claims involved here? e.g. making a TI-89 emulator should be ok for the market, but you can't include TI's ROM)

The comments over on reddit are suggesting that these emulators were based on GPL'd emulators and the developer wasn't complying with the GPL. If that's the case, Google was absolutely right in pulling them from the market. The market is minimally moderated, but blatant copyright infringement is still a no-no for obvious reasons.
Is this bitcoin article wave an organized thing like the erlang articles of old?
Or do people really find it that interesting?
>Maybe Amazon's Android store will allow the emulators back in?

If the speculation that these emulators were pulled because they were infringing on GPL code is correct, I wouldn't count on it.
"Londoners apparently do not feel comfortable being driven by a non-living thing."

The Dockland Light Railway in London is driver-less, although there is a staff member on each train to operate the doors and check tickets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway
I put up a poll on the subject:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2597256
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While it's true that some cells, e.g. pyramidals in the hippocampus can exhibit intrinsic oscillations, it's not true for most of the brain. Plus rhythms usually arise in networks, not single cells, and require the network to sustain themselves (that's why for example theta doesn't persist in vitro). Is there an example of a cell that can generate rhythms?
For the benefit of everyone in a hurry: those attacks are very real. If you're running on AWS, assume that the NSA [EDIT: or anyone with deep pockets, or plenty of time on his hands] can break any crypto algorithm you use.

You are still secure from script kiddies, of course, and you've done a fairly good job if this is the easiest way to hack you.
> nobody can check where money flows

The government actually provides a system with exactly that property.

> Indirect government control over inflation and interet rates? Forget it.

A lot of people see that as a benefit.
I think they are incredible rewards, contact me privately for them.

I hear and understand what you are saying about Facebook etc. One of the things about me is, I recognize that getting to the level of these companies will no doubt be a challenge. That there are some incredibly smart people out there that work hard. What makes me different is my strategy is already proven, I know how to use my companies to make money and provide a great user experience. What I see no one else sees. And a billion people could work on a project like this, but I will still win. I'm that confident about what I am working on.
This is easy... just make the engineers who built the subway sit inside. You're welcome.
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Eggs have pretty good long-term yields. One egg produces one chicken. One chicken produces an egg every day. At this rate you'll have 10^23 chickens in just a few short years.
The author seem complete asshole to me. I don't think , he thinks about anything he write. You can see his other article the kind of bias he has in mind. ( I completely understand some bias , but this level is insane ) . No credibility.
Why do you feel a poll is useful?
This is a great start!

I have ack.vim installed, but I frequently open the project in TextMate to search with TM's AckMate bundle. Project search one of the last things with Vim that I haven't had a good solution to.

ack.vim works, but it blocks vim so you can't do anything while it's working, and also the quickfix window is not ideal for a lot of uses.
A friend at Union Switch and Signal told me that the Chinese subways (which can run full-auto) had to provide work for two people for each train.

One guy presses a large "Go" button to leave the station, which is automatically stopped at, and there's also an emergency stop button.

The other guy has an "open / close door" control.