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The sufficiently advanced AI is going to have to be able to do pretty much the same things humans can do for the thing to work, so it'd be a game-changer in itself, not something that gets waved off as an aside.

Re. the preservation thing, the question is exactly what counts as humanity. If you have limited resources and can only pick one, would you choose a planet colonized by biological humans who have lost all of the present civilization and language, and are reduced to stone-age conditions (assuming for the moment that the alien environment wouldn't kill them instantly), or synthetic beings with the sufficiently advanced AI with all human cultural knowledge and skills they'd need to survive on an alien planet and a cognitive and psychological makeup very close to actual humans they'd need to be able to raise babies into sane adults, and the ability to build more of themselves?

Basically, is humanity more about a culture or about being made of the correct chemicals?
I once told an Objective-C joke, but nobody got the message.

The thing about NTP jokes is you have to get the timing right.

I broke up with Java last week, and I still couldn't get any closure.

(I could go on, but I'll spare you - yes, I just thought of these, is it that obvious?)
wht do you call a machine so complicated that we do not know its source code?

Its called the human body and the black box is known as Medical Science..:)
If I add a calendar event to google calendar I'm still a bit surprised when I later notice it in my iPhone calendar.

Same with updating contacts across devices.
(Just to be clear, my practical argument isn't "just send robots", it's "you're not going to know how to build good enough robots for the in-vitro thing to work".)
Hmmm... I don't think your analogy is correct. There is a very solid reason that all the air in the room will never only be in one half of that room. It's a matter of pressure, not probability. I don't think the 'rogue' planets are subject to such things, and on a sufficiently long time scale, it could very well be possible for one to travel through our system.
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* My line of thought was perhaps there's something written where it states that only the official currency is taxed.*

That's true, but all those Bitcoins are getting converted into dollars/euro/yen/etc. at some point, so that's when the IRS (or tax agency) collects its due.

Its like stocks. You pay capital gains taxes on stock when you cash them out dollars. I'd expect you would have to pay some sort of tax when you cash your Bitcoin out for dollars too.
I'd really love it if somebody made a website which successfully connects these two 'worlds'; particularly in the hacker/startup context.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up. Didn't think about that side of it. :)
I wouldn't be so sure about that. The Bitcoin market is even less liquid than emerging market currencies. If there's a rush for the exit, there might not be enough buyers to allow a quick bitcoin->hard currency conversion.
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Or he could literally be insane [1]. When someone invests past a certain level, it no longer matters if they're trolling or not. They either really believe what they say, and are therefor insane or they're dedicated to trolling to the point of insanity.

[1] http://www.happehtheory.com
SMS are plaintext... d'oh. My bad. I guess a revised part of my question would be: do they save what I send them in a database?
Oh, I wasn't thinking of places that far north as part of Silicon Valley. Didn't mean to exclude them.
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Yeah, it didn't seem like an absolute impossibility to me either (in the distant future). That much energy (9x10^17 Joules) translates to about 400kg of lithium deuteride in a 100% efficient fusion reactor. We're not even close to being able to burn that fuel efficiently at all but it's theoretically possible and I would hesitate to say that we'll never figure it out.
The issue is that there isn't any real evidence that the depression springs from a chemical imbalance

Well, if its not a chemical imbalance, what is it? Neurotransmitters do the work of transporting signals through the brain - they tell neurons when to fire and what intensity to fire with. If its not a neurotransmitter issue, then what is it?
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He's talking about Xiamen Wushipu oil painting village. It's a part of Xiamen, there is a subsection about it farther down the wikipedia page.
I'm a little surprised the review doesn't mention the Thomas Szasz critique of the idea of 'mental illness':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz
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> I hate to be the killer of dreams, but I've talked more than a couple of devs in to tackling less-than-interesting problems, with the promise that I'll do the footwork of getting the client on board for doing interesting things within their problem domain.

Are you still looking for any devs like this? I'd be interested in working on something practical even if not sexy.
remember this time comes off the term of the patent) :)

Not at the moment, no. As I understand it, patents in the US are judged from the time of approval, not the time of filing, so the length of the approval process doesn't affect the amount of time a patent is in effect.

This makes sense. Otherwise, a competitor could tie any disagreeable patent up in litigation, ensuring that the patent would be in effect for only a very short period of time.
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Interesting. All of a sudden a deep space radio telescope seems like a good scientific mission. It would be a fascinating discovery if we poked our noses out of the heliosheath just to discover that all of the missing mass in the universe was to be found in cosmic rays that never reach the inner solar system.
People don't complain about taking a pill a day when they have a disease like diabetes. Why do people complain about taking pills when they have a mental disease?
It would be great if we would send one or two such probes out per year, in different directions. We could find so many interesting things. There are currently only two.
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As a Vietnamese American, I've always been interested in the Vietnam market since the number of internet user's growth is astounding! The country's literacy level is very high and majority of people are either online or trying to be online daily. But this is more of a developing country and the majority of regular Asian population.

The biggest problems I have with Vietnam and Asian developing countries right now, and this isn't unique to just Vietnam as far as I can tell:
1. The postal system isn't uniform/consistent throughout the country, so there's a real problem in mapping people with a clear home address.
2. Not having a clear home address combined with a lackadaisical sense of infrastructure planning, it's making things like loans and credits and ultimately credit card ownership is very difficult. So online transaction can be difficult. There is a population of Vietnamese population with ATM debit cards, but the commitment and buy-ins with online transactions are still at an early stage. As far as I can tell, most transactions to push money to an online vendor still go through a brick & mortar proxy (go to shop, load up on digital points --> pay with points like old school phone cards)
3. Speed/ownership of private internet connections is also an issue. A lot of the general population are still using the internet from internet cafe. As more and more people are getting personal internet connections at home, this is getting better; but it's a long way from where we are in the US. Imagine the early AOL modem era.

I don't disagree that the market is huge and there are countries and locations that are ready: South Korea, Hong Kong, Philippines and Malaysia etc. But the big market you're looking at are still made up of low to middle Asian population, which is getting ready but not there yet in term of online-marketing ready. FYI, a lot of successful services for Vietnam right now are mostly free or supported by ad revenue.

These are just a few of my personal thoughts though. Perhaps someone else with more solid data on Asia would really be insightful for everyone.
I just linked a bunch of them into one of my networking modules for my highschool kids. Little evaluation exercise on whether they understand the concepts or not :)
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I agree with the premise, but I disagree with the examples provided. I don't view switching from Javascript client code to Python or C# server code to be a context switch. What is a context switch is switching to a different type of task (e.g. looking up documentation, talking to a co-worker, etc.).

Another point is that the cost of the context switch isn't automatically higher than other costs when programming. Yeah, you might save on a context switch by running your shell inside emacs. However, that savings may be more than canceled out by the fact that you have to learn a new environment. In other words, if you're already very productive with the shell as it is, you might be better off taking the hit of the context switch, as it'll be less costly than your lowered productivity from running the shell inside emacs.
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> Has someone ever succesfully entered their market? How?

Why, yes, of course. There are plenty of Western megacorps doing business in Asia. What do you really mean?
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ideas:

- make bitspend a place for users to buy bitcoins

- make bitspend a place for users to cash out bitcoins

- build a reputation and move into ebay and amazon payments (can you become some type of power buyer or affiliate)

- collect testimonials

- provide a bookmarklet or plugin so users can browse the shopping sites transparently but pay on bitspend

- a person could have an item they want to buy for say $30, instead of paying with bitcoins, they pay $100, and then get $70 change in bitcoins
>3- We got a 25% memory/storage reduction by shrinking our field names. YMMV. I knew how data was stored, but I didn't know what amount we would specifically save :P

I really wish they just had an internal lookup table to do that. I don't want to have to deal with keys like "c1, ba, la" in my application.
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i do not mean megacorps i mean normal startups like many, for example i create a new product and start selling it in the US/EU but i want to start selling it in Asia, open for a larger business... how can this be accomplished?
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> Why would it be necessary?

I have no idea; it's a purely hypothetical question meant to demonstrate that wars are "easy" compared to changing a culture.
That's a simile, not a metaphor...
I always find it annoying that you can't really restrict MongoDBs memory consumption.

I'd love to run it alongside a ElasticSearch process and a small redis server on a machine, but while I can limit ElasticSearch and I could theoretically limit Redis, MongoDB would just grow as far as I understood (mmapped I/O).
I'd love to use it as a second copy of the data in ElasticSearch
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I remember an article here on HN a few days ago about the storage of antimatter for about half an hour.

In a few decades from now, the energy necessary for such a long distance space flight could come from half a ton of anti-hydrogen.
This one is gold:

"As Bruce Sterling has put it: "I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live."
I completely disagree. I've assisted multiple start-ups with their first few hires. The process is entirely different to how you would assist an established business and I can categorically say that helping start-ups with recruitment issues is infinitely more rewarding than helping corporates.

I understand where you are coming from though. Your perspective is that if you know your product and you know your business then you should know the people with the skills to make the business a success without the need for a middle-man.

Recruiters/headhunters aren't just keyword matching, human search engines. I'm a consultant and the service I offer is entirely consultative. I have years of experience assisting all sorts of companies, big & small with their various requirements. I know what works and to dismiss that experience is pointless.

We aren't all gold digging, phone bashing, clueless pests. Some of us (only a few admittedly) actually try and help people.

I have had a few people from this particular community approach me and ask for advice on various issues concerning their startup, something I have yet to charge a single penny for, so to say that all hackers avoid people like me is the opposite to what I have experienced in my time on HN.
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And what about japan? china?
This question came to my mind after i developed a small mmorpg for android and published it asking for beta testers, one of the people who contacted me was a chinese guy who explained me something i didn't know. They have many mmorpgs already published in the android market, and i never seen or heard of them. So i stared thinking of how many things we are doing parallel to them but without(except some occasion) touching.

I gained a lot from this experience and i think that opening to each other would be good for everyone but there are many obstacles, like language, different minds etc...
Currently, yes, so you can go back see the messages you have received. I will make it an option to not store it in the DB in the future.
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In addition to supporting multi-threaded map-reduce, it'd be nice if they

1-
Eliminate any memory limits on inline map reduce, or bring back output to temporary collections. If they bring back output to temporary tables, allow them to be run on slaves and not participate in replication

2-
Polished and released a production-ready version of their MongoDB Hadoop Adapter: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-hadoop
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Does anyone know a way to maybe use Tumblr API to seamlessly port one blog into the other, and then change names/settings? Do you have any other ideas? Anything goes!

Thanks folks!
Some drivers/mappers support it. However, as much as MongoDB likes to lean on the drivers, this clearly belongs in the server.
This is false, pressure is the result of atomic collisions with things contained within the gas as the atoms fly around at high velocity. It's extremely unlikely that a large percentage of a large number of oxygen atoms will randomly fly into the same area at once, but it's not completely impossible. It is governed by probability.

Refresher on pressure: http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/activities/atmos1/Wh...
Interesting to see a seemingly premium domain devoted to geeky jokes, with no ads or solicitation.
I'd tell you an X11 joke, but you don't have the PROTOCOL_JOKE extension.

etc.
To speak the truth - the Android integration with Google's contacts could be better.

To transform all my locally stored contacts and make them Google contacts I had to first export them to a file, copy them on my laptop, upload to Google, mix&match duplicates and other corrections, download an export again on my computer, delete all my contacts from my phone (which also deleted my contacts from Google), reupload that export to Google, then synchronize my phone with Google's Contacts.

Now everything I do on my phone or in Google's Contacts is kept in sync nicely. I also have Facebook sync set so I get faces of people for free and sometimes email addresses or phone numbers that I didn't have :-)

But it was a painful experience to export my old sim-stored contacts and sometimes I get the feeling that while Google has the right idea about what people want, they are moving too slowly to fix their shit.
Actually, the analogy is rather correct. They both describe highly improbable events.

The gas molecules in the air don't know anything about the room's overall pressure, and don't individually obey any "pneumatic" laws. Pressure, in essence, is just a huge amount of molecules bouncing off a surface.

The air in a room is usually very evenly distributed, because it would be extremely unlikely that all the molecules happened to be in the same half.

Here's a link that might explain it better: http://webs.morningside.edu/slaven/physics/entropy/entropy3....
I second the idea of implementing small utilities. It's also good when you're an experienced programmer and are learning a new language.

OP, besides that I suggest you try and write a simple, text-based chat program before trying to write an IM. For instance, start with a 2-way chat, add error handling, then start adding support for multiple users, chat rooms and irc-like commands.
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I agree being able to put a hard limit, in some situations, might be nice. However, I believe the current implementation pretty much leaves memory management up to the OS, which, hey, I'm no expert, but sounds reasonable to me.

MongoDB won't starve other processes of memory unless the OS decides it should. It seems like the best way to leverage the most amount of available memory.
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Wrote a simple GAE python application that would search for a particular hash tag and post the selected tweets to your tumblr blog. Fixing some usability issues. Will post the link soon :)
Tangentially related: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=156
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A few things I didn't know about MongoDB when I started using it (admittedly, this was last year, things might have gotten better):

http://www.korokithakis.net/posts/my-experience-with-using-m...
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Java is write once, run anywhere. Perl is write once, turn and run.

OO is like real life: you inherit properties, you cheat a little, then you get divorced, and you're left with an old, broken model

Bash is named after the monkey who successfully typed out Hamlet.

Korn shell was named after the band, and even though America won the cold war, UTF-8 was a notable casualty, so we couldn't use the backward R

The whole class was confused after Jimmy sang 10 little endians and stopped at the second one.

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Thanks. I ll try to find it on the Economist site.

Living in China, I don't see much difference between Walmart and Carrefour supermarkets, both in decoration and in products, even compared with Chinese chains like Wu-Mei or Lianhua. They all have fresh meats (life frogs and turtles) and fish (a wall of water tanks with life fish), etc.
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The default state machine

thought: if good, go to grasping. if bad, go to repressing. if neutral, ignore.
grasping: increment mood, repeat until fail. go to fail //always fail
repressing: repeat until fail. go to fail. //always fail
fail: decrement mood, goto thought.

The enlightened state machine

thought: go to observe
observe: go to thought

http://www.urbandharma.org/pdf/mindfulness_in_plain_english....
with 6.5 billion people

Actually 7, in 1 to 3 months.
Can anyone tell if this is connected to the RSA SecurID compromise?
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