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Indeed. I like the OP as a SF writer, but I have to disagree with him in this case. All you can say for sure is "With our current knowledge of science and level of technological development we will never leave the solar system".

If you would have said a man would walk on the moon 100 years ago, you'd be regarded as crazy.

What happens in the far future is impossible for us to predict right now. 100 years ago we didn't know everything there is to know, and now we don't either. History is full of these kind of closed-minded extrapolations.

Appropriate other post on the frontpage right now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639701
“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”

James Arthur Baldwin

That being said, I don't disagree with most of the post.
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Here's my theory (from right field) on where the free lunch is coming from:

Bitspend is a hosting company that has invested a lot of extra rack space into mining equipment. They see the giant bubble brewing and have realized that bitcoin needs some legs to stand on. If bitcoin survives, Bitspend's mining operation makes a huge profit. If it crashes, they lose a lot. So giving people an easy way to use bitcoin as an actual currency rather than a speculative investment has a huge long term benefit for them.

Whether my theory is true or not, I think many other heavy mining operations would benefit through similar services. If there are any other big miners out there, I hope you see the value you can add to your investment by doing things like bitspend.
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There is a Terence McKenna quote from the early 80's where he says that basically everything we know about the (largescale) universe comes from radio telescope data, and all the bits from all the data ever recorded have roughly the same amount of energy as a piece of cigarette ash falling about two feet. And this is what our entire understanding of the cosmos is based on.

Not sure of the validity of the measure/comparison, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless. One does have to wonder though, if it's so obvious now why this phenomenon is happening then why didn't they predict it before seeing the data? Especially if we see the same thing in solar flares. It seems like it's generally a good idea to bet on the laziness of the universe, but beyond that anyone who pretends they know what's going on is probably full of shit.

edit: The Terence McKenna quote is from this talk about his life: http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1509

The talk in general is about his formative intellectual influences, and about why he finds psychedelic drugs to be intellectually interesting. He has another talk that's more about his views of physics, epistemology, and cosmology here: http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=297

Perhaps my two all time favorite talks on any subject, albeit you need a high tolerance to ideas that are at times highly speculative. (And sometimes flat out wrong.)
It is a property of document dbs, though I'm pretty sure implementations could internalize field names. Imma guess 99% of all Mongo collections ever created are pretty damn structured. When creating a collection, you could specify {internalize: false} or something to disable this when you do lean heavily on the schemaless behavior, but otherwise I'd like to see MongoDB take care of this.
And similar sentiments were repeated with iPhone and even more with iPad.
Apple does not do focus groups research for a reason.
This is excellent! I read your posts a while back that inventoried the various libraries and algorithms for text extraction. Ever since, I've been wishing someone would actually measure and compare performance. Thanks so much.

Readability’s poor performance came as a surprise, moreover, it’s varying results of it’s two ports. Relatively low precision and high recall indicate that readability tends to include large portions of useless text in its output.

Subjectively, I've thought this for a while -- decruft (the python port of readability) has not given us particularly good results. (And it's insanely slow.) But I share the same misgivings as you, that the port may not be faithful to the original used by readability the service.

Definitely looking forward to your evaluation code.
And god help you if you reach that limit on an already repaired/compacted db. You can't even connect your shell to delete some data. I had to rm -fr a collection out of the /data folder..thankfully it wasn't production..but I can only imagine...
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Resources have always been a problem throughout history and prehistory.
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A very valid anti-Darwinian argument was that if the sun was made out of something similar to coal (densest known energy source at the time) evolution would not have had the time to take place. Far to many generations are required. They even allowed a two or three orders of magnitude to account for possible unknowns (maybe the sun has super coal) and still were didn't have enough time to make rats into cats, nevermind lizards into birds.

The argment was valid argument till when" The Curies? Einstein?

100 years is a long time to figure stuff out. Thinking in millenia is impossible for us. "What would William the Norman have thought of all this?" is a pretty ridiculous thought and that's not even a whole thousand years ago. Nine year old crack babies today are more literate than most of his learned advisors and better technology meant sharper swords, less leaky boats and smoked bread. Their objections to the idea would have involved Loki chasing you around in a canoe.

Lets not get too cocky.
I made an order through them tonight. I was worried too, so I made the order through "Clearcoin," which is a bitcoin escrow service (created by the founders of bitcoin from my understanding). So, one way to know to know it is not a scam is to use an escrow service (always a good policy, actually).
This seems like a sort of analog to the way hurricanes sometimes spawn tornadoes. At the boundary where the relatively still external air/space meet the rapidly spinning air/magnetic field generator, you get some turbulent interactions.

I would love to see the equations or programs they're using to model this.
Is magnetic reconnection an established phenomenon, i.e. verified in a lab or at least strongly theoretically founded?
The problem is that virtually every form of sensory or neurochemical novelty elevates mood: acupuncture, aromatherapy, sex, exercise, socializing, sensory deprivation, electrical stimulation, god helmet, music, binaural beats, self-mutilation, menthol, etc.

Similarly, every conceivable way you can possibly monkey around with your brain also raises your mood: raising dopamine, lowering dopamine, raising serotonin, lowering serotonin, raising norepinephrine, lowering norepinephrine, etc. You'd literally be hard pressed to find any form of novel sensory stimulation that didn't improve mood, at least in the short term. So why the focus on serotonin depletion? There's no real evidence for it, it was just an arbitrary decision made by drug companies based on the very early research in the field.

I don't think anyone would argue that messing around with a person's serotonin levels can't elevate their mood, at least for a while. The issue is that there isn't any real evidence that the depression springs from a chemical imbalance, and there is definitive proof that longterm messing with your neurotransmitter levels causes semi-permanent changes to the structure of the brain which we don't really understand.

Also, for what it's worth, St. John's Wort is believed to be an SSRI, at least according to Wikipedia.
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I never cared one bit about grades my entire life (despite constant prodding by teachers and parents), and my grades ended up all over the place. Consequently, my GPA was pretty bad (Not that I remotely remember what exactly it was).

I've never once regretted any of that. (In fact, the only thing I do regret about college is ever going in the first place. Colossal waste of time and money. Libraries are a far more effective and vastly more economical form of education. Never forget: Post-secondary education is big business.) One you leave the overrated academic ivory tower, nobody will ever give half a shit about your GPA, and for good reason.
Is this a leak from some slightly utopian future timeline or has the Atlantide been discovered and connected to the Internet?
Git, Chef, and big data
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It's not a flame bait. I'll gladly do one on the flipside later. Technical guys looking for a cofounder aren't all perfect either. Far from it. It's just between the two sides, I run into more problems with the business cofounders.
Not the GP, but, in short, because space is very, very big, and very, very empty.

By way of extremely loose analogy, consider a large pea (1 cm in diameter) hanging by a string in the middle of a football stadium. Let's say that represents our solar system (minus the Oort cloud) and its environs. That's a slightly scaled-down version of Stross' analogy, where the diameter of the solar system (again, minus the Oort cloud) is about an Imperial foot. Now, without aiming, start firing individual molecules around the space. Those molecules are roughly to scale with a rogue planet.

On average, how long do you think you'd have to keep shooting molecules around before one of them passed within an inch of the pea? Within a centimeter? What about actually hitting it?

Even that's stretching the actual probabilities to the point of breaking, because your molecules are already in the neighborhood. For a more realistic example, take our 1cm pea and put it somewhere in some hypothetical space the size of the Milky Way, itself 6.4 * 10^9 AU in average diameter. At our scale of 1cm = 30 AU, the Milky Way would be a little over 200k KM across, or slightly more than half the distance between the earth and the moon. Now start shooting molecules around that space — from random locations, in random directions, again without aiming — and give me a call when one of them hits the pea...
Reads like something written by a self-professed "mover and shaker" who wants to talk about coordinating and connecting, but who never does any real work. Traveling, sipping coffee at the cafe, and showering may be when my subconscious churns out insight, but there's no escaping long, long stretches in front of the workstation for getting actual work done.
Before you learn or when your contemplating to learn how to program its best you don't tackle programming as a whole. Get the basics first then start work on an idea you might have. Its suprising how solutions will stream in fast because you have a well defined problem in your mind no matter whether the idea is a desktop or web app. The best way to learn is to work on a real problem a few days after getting the basics. The hardest part isn't getting the answers but defining the problem at hand clearly.
the K&R book is a really good starting point, and if you can do most of the hard programming exercises, you're already reasonably good.

if you're looking to venture out, and want to deal with networking, then an IM client may actually be quite good to work with. you'll want to look at sockets in UNIX (although windows sockets are very similar, if that's your sort of thing), and use that as a starting point for communications.

it depends exactly what you want to get out of programming though. do you want to stick with C and the low level stuff? making tools/programs from scratch is very rewarding, and imparts a very complete understanding of the subject matter.

i didn't feel like i was a "real" programmer until i started making GUI (so, qt/cocoa/.net) applications, at which point i realised i could really do pretty much whatever i wanted (and have since realised that such a standard for being a "real" programmer was rubbish).

most of the programs you'll make will rely heavily on libraries, or external tools, which you might not have access to. so i recommend, whatever it is you do, that you include something you didn't create.

aside from that, i don't really have much to suggest, other than keep going, keep pushing yourself, and keep learning.

good luck.
I dont know if its just my setup of FireFox 4 but this is really difficult to read
I never went to college, but I felt like you do about my high school grades. Now that I've spent 15 year in industry, on the other side of the table interviewing college graduates, I know that I haven't given up anything verses the _average_ college CS graduate.

In spite of this I'm looking to start going to college for the first time this fall. While I believe the average college CS student has no advantage over a motivated self-starter I think those who really strive to achieve their best and take advantage of the resources available to them will end up ahead of the self-educated. So now that I look back, I believe that attending a good college and putting forth 100% effort will give me both personal satisfaction and afford more opportunities than I would have available to me otherwise.

What I'm trying to say is: if you don't care about performing as well as possible, you're not getting much of a career advantage from going to college. On the other hand, if you strive for your best you can open up opportunities that you'd never be able to reach otherwise.
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I know that I haven't given up anything verses the average college CS graduate.

Except...
It depends (on the particular startup). In my experience there isn't an average startup, they all vary quite a bit.
If you can build robots smart enough to keep babies alive and raise them not to end up stone-age level feral children, you could probably save some effort, skip the human part entirely, and just send the robots to do colonist stuff.
Why no SSRI's? Just curious.
Boring. With that title, I was expecting a monolith!
If you're using them in bed, you absolutely can. Even an ounce makes a huge difference when you're holding it up for hours on end.
TL;DR

"The sun's magnetic field extends all the way to the edge of the solar system," explains Opher. "Because the sun spins, its magnetic field becomes twisted and wrinkled, a bit like a ballerina's skirt. Far, far away from the sun, where the Voyagers are now, the folds of the skirt bunch up."
Apparently it is: http://mrx.pppl.gov/
Evolution is perfectly "happy" to sacrifice the interests of the species for those of the individual organism or gene.

That said, we're not slaves to evolution and can make our own choices for our own reasons.
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Google overtook Yahoo as the largest display network last month, so it's a bit more then making a move at this point :)

http://mashable.com/2011/05/26/google-yahoo-display/
Except what?
In writing circles variants on this idea are very common advice. It can be hard to follow in the middle of flow, of course, which is why I rarely do it <_<.
Damn this is getting interesting. I'm a HUGE fan of bitcoin but I'm too chickenshit to accept payment for our business. (chickenshit being a summary for issues relating to IRS, fraud, currency stability, deflationary risk, etc)

When the IRS throws their hat into the ring it's going to get serious, both in terms of positive PR for bitcoin and risk. That will happen once there's a full service economy in the currency i.e. ability to reliably: earn, spend, exchange, borrow, lend and save. 99% of this activity will be off the IRS radar and thus will be off their books.
Actually the old style wasn't "fear of employees" — back then they'd hire employees and not use freelancers, contractors and outsource everything. If anything a fear of hiring is really the "new style" but in a bad way...
The stirred-up crazy in the comment thread there is almost more interesting than the post itself. I never realized how religion-like this stuff has ended up being for a lot of people before seeing that.
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A simple app which allows you to send text messages to your Dropbox. It's a least viable product. Maybe someone will find it useful.
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Makes you wonder whether using IDEs make sense. I have a friend who's really good and he's using Eclipse/Java, and never context-switching from Editor to the Terminal. But hell ... I can't give up on Vim and the Terminal within Vim is not that good.
Excellent response, to my flame-bait about monkeys in the first comment :) I personally respect technical guys more than the said business co-founders...
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I don’t know of a single other way to take a document
I am working on with my iPad and jump to my Mac having
the document up-to-date

I do, it's called Google Docs.
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As someone who buys regularly from Admeld and Google, this makes a lot of sense to me. Admeld's RTB platform is possibly second in size to Google AdX/GDN. Rolling up all their publishers under the same platform means even more inventory that Google can control.

This is consolidation in the traditional sense- Google is trying to commoditize display inventory and end up as the monopoly provider of display inventory. Interestingly enough, Yahoo! sells a boatload of inventory through Admeld... I'm curious to see what changes in that relationship, and if Yahoo! really is going for more of a content strategy while Google goes for the advertising tech play.

While it was a pretty dumb comment and off topic, the top comment on the TC article got the gist of it: "this is why android is still laggy and fragmented, because google cares about ads more than software quality."
No, 8000 miles sounds about right for the great-circle distance on the surface from Iowa to Egypt.

First, the diameter of the Earth is not quite 8000 miles, but 7926. So if anything says more than 7926 (plus maybe the height of a mountain or whatever), it's not calculating a straight line in Cartesian 3d space.

Second, that distance of 7926 miles would be from a point to its antipode. Iowa is not antipodal to Egypt, not even close. The antipode of Iowa is in the Indian Ocean and hundreds of miles from any land. The straight-line distance from Iowa to Egypt through the Earth's sphere would be more like 6000 miles.
i think fezzl's point is that you can't know what you missed. You can look at others and say that you dont think it was necessary, but that could be because you didn't have access to the top pool of CS students.
Ability to spell, maybe: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/verses.html
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really? dribble.com has loads.
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Context-switching is slow, yes, but in the first example the cause of evilness is not context-switching, it's that you must program web apps' client side in JS.
How exactly does one build a black hole without obliterating ones host species/planet/solar system?
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I second this. I've learned a lot by cloning functionality and then adding on my own. In the end you end up with a cluster-fuck of complex crap, that when you look over it, you cringe at how bad it is. Good programmers will always look over previous work and go "WTF!" -- it means you've learned something since then. That's when you do a rewrite. :)
There's a reason that he was on shows like Art Bell's. Not quite the guy I'd be quoting in a discussion of science.
I quite like the idea behind this, really cool.

Just one niggling question... how secure is it? Is it encrypted? Or can you see what I send?

Also, why is everyone getting silly domain names?! .me .us .ly etc... what's wrong with the good ol' .com :)
In the XP glory days we used to go home leaving one failing test in the workspace so we knew where to start in the morning.
That would not preserve our species, should planet Earth become inhabitable.
A black hole doesn't have any more gravitational pull than normal. If you turned the Earth into a black hole by somehow compressing it past the required radius, the moon would still orbit it the same way. From what I understand anyway, I am not a physicist.
It looks like 'Facebook for Desktop' is gonna come out soon. They wouldn't wanna leave any platform unattended.

Next they might be adding cloud services for its users and for that they need to capture all of the platforms for their clients.

Every few months there is an ipad Facebook app. No official app. It's about time.
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Right, that's the whole point. It's not an economic venture, it's a backup plan.
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In my opinion, I have absolutely no idea what's going on in most parts. I'm technical, and I can see you're adding something, viewing something, and showing PayPal... but why?

I didn't play it with audio, because I'm hearing impaired which means I wouldn't really understand anyway.

In my opinion, make the video understandable without audio. That should mean it won't go too fast, you won't be showing stuff that people have absolutely no idea about, etc.

Also remember, when people are browsing a site, and they have everything on mute... can they really be bothered to pick up their headphones, unmute their computer just to listen to a sales pitch?
Here's my guess:

* people eat shit

* people don't exercise, not even a little, like walking a couple of miles

* doctors are too eager to medicalise everything so that they can put you on drugs
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Not if the "colonist stuff" is "fork the human race".
It's still really, really hard to obtain bitcoins. And until that changes, what good does it do to be able to spend them?