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I can understand strong arguments for and against abortion, but please don't mis-characterize your opponents reasoning. I've met and actually talked with strongly anti-abortion women (one is my mother, actually), and their reasoning has absolutely nothing to do with the anti-feminism/"traditional values". They feel that abortion is taking an innocent life, period.

Now, feel free to debate with them whether that is true or not, but don't lie about their reasoning.

That said, please, please, please keep these kind of topics off of hacker news. I've never seen abortion end in anything but a flame war.
The production of Apocalypse Now was by any account HELL. Far worse than any game development example I can think of. (Well, DNF jokes spring to mind, but at least they essentially built multiple games there. Apocalypse Now wasn't released until two years after it finished shooting.)

It didn't chase Francis Ford Coppola away from film. It was an isolated example of how bad things can get, a living worst-case-scenario. It wasn't "Tuesday at the office."

Are people dying during game production? No. But they're not in experimental spacecraft, and they're not balancing on I-beams hundreds of feet in the air, either. Given the sleep deprivation you hear about in game production, if they were in either of those scenarios? Yeah. Games would probably take more than eleven lives a year.

/edit:
Also, do you consider the eleven men who died during the Sydney Harbor Bridge heroes? Or guys that got stuck with shitty, dangerous jobs in search of a paycheck, for whose deaths I feel more pity for, than respect? I'm more with the latter. Astronauts, well, that I can kinda get as a "hero". The gang that made Guitar Hero: Van Halen? Not on that level.
There are a handful of commercial success stories with Scala, like the messaging engine behind Twitter, but not a lot.

I can definitely see how an individual or small team could build something fiendishly clever in Scala that's maybe 2,000 lines of code that does the work of 20,000 lines of code in some other language.

On the other hand, I'm not sure that systems 10x that size developed by bigger teams would succeed in Scala, and I fear for what happens when that 2,000 line Scala system falls into the hands of maintenance programmers.
Interesting. I'm in the same space, but we don't compete. This seems to be trying to do a lot. It's both an event listing service _and_ a ticketing service? Can you explain how you differ from EventBrite? I don't think anyone uses Facebook Events to handle event ticketing, which is why I ask that.
"Paraplegics are often unhappy, but they are not unhappy all the time because they spend most of the time experiencing and thinking about other things than their disability. When we think of what it is like to be a paraplegic, or blind, or a lottery winner, or a resident of California we focus on the distinctive aspects of each of these conditions. The mismatch in the allocation of attention between thinking about a life condition and actually living it is the cause of the focusing illusion."

http://edge.org/response-detail/1703/what-scientific-concept...

In other words, when you're reading how someone improved their life by paring down possessions, it may sound like they define themselves by compulsively purging possessions, but they probably don't. It just seems that way because all you're seeing while reading their writing is one aspect of their life. You are focusing your attention on only one of hundreds, if not thousands, of the author's opinions and life decisions.
As Eckermann recorded Goethe saying, on Friday 1831-03-25:

Goethe showed me an elegant green elbow-chair, which he had lately bought at an auction.

"However," said he, "I shall use it but little, or not at all; for all kinds of commodiousness are against my nature. You see in my chamber no sofa; I always sit in my old wooden chair, and never till a few weeks ago have I had a leaning-place put for my head. If surrounded by convenient tasteful furniture, my thoughts are absorbed, and I am placed in an agreeable but passive state. Unless we are accustomed to them from early youth, splendid chambers and elegant furniture are for people who neither have nor can have any thoughts."

http://www.hxa.name/books/ecog/Eckermann-ConversationsOfGoet...
I have the same problem with learning Ruby. The official tutorial basically runs you through "regular" style imperative programming. But when you see real-world Ruby in the wild, it's always so cryptic, and uses popular language features that don't really get touched on in the tutorials.
Look at the chapter in the book on DSLs
and the take-away is "don't try to build
internal DSLs".

Which book do you mean? Also, do you mind elaborating on why one should avoid building DSLs with Scala? In my own experience [1] I've found it extremely nice for internal DSLs.

[1]: https://github.com/fogus/baysick
Another Segway? Lets see if any reviewers ever get their hands on one.
Firefox does have extensions. I believe, in FF parlance, that extension is synonymous with add-on. (please correct me with a citation to the contrary, though)

The MS incident was not a plugin (see link) so one cannot assume that all things quietly installed are plugins.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963707
I wouldn't say average haskell programmers just want to tackle hard problems, I'd say it's more that average Haskellers are experts or have interests in very specific fields that don't tie in with the 'mainstream' programming mindset.
Most of the points in the essay (there's more than three) seem to me to be wrong or off target. I started typing a point-by-point response but it turned out quite long. If someone has the impression that the essay has some decisive strong point, could you point it out so I can respond to just that?

EDIT: as a demonstration, I will deal with the first point in the essay. It says: "super-intelligent AI is unlikely because, if you pursue Vernor's program, you get there incrementally by way of human-equivalent AI, and human-equivalent AI is unlikely". Actually, getting to strong AI through math (rather than through mimicking humans) sounds more probable to me. We already have formalisms that can compute the most accurate possible prediction and the most efficient possible way to optimize a a utility function (inferring the right physical laws in the process) if given tons of computing power, for example look up Solomonoff induction or Marcus Hutter's AIXI. These count as superintelligences, or at least superweapons that can destroy the world. Stross's argument does not demonstrate the unlikelihood of someone implementing a fast approximation to AIXI tomorrow.
awesome, was totally going to bring this up.
I was going to make a comment, but I agree with your last sentence.
That it pretty impressive. I've had good experience with apple as well, replacing an iPhone and CPU on my unibody MBP.

I've had other complaints with them, though. I bought my 17" MBP to run WinXP (all my software is winXP), which they advertise as being fully supported. Running it through Boot Camp works great, but Apple made some.. frustrating design decisions, such as not having a dedicated delete key, or publicly releasing downloadable driver like every other hardware manufacturer, and not updating them for that matter. I know I know, it's my own fault for wanted to run XP on a Mac, but since they advertise the capability I assumed they would do at least as good a job of it as an average XP-supporting comp manufacturer.
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You may feel like you got a late start, but the key is to figure out what you can get an early start on now.

There's always the new new thing.
In the eyes of Eldar Murtazin whatever Nokia does is wrong. The only time he posts something accurate is when he posts pictures of leaked devices.

Even for the N9 he keeps contradicting himself, one day it's great, the other day it's copying Apple and other such nonsense.
"Using Jquery to do ajax requests and updating part of a web page is emulating state over http."

Only if you use it that way. Also, Sproutcore/Cappuccino are not add-ons to Rails. They're stand-alone client-side frameworks.
I had fun being an early adopter. Not that early, but my miner paid for itself. What more can I wish for? So it made me more money than watching TV.

And when will be the next chance to experience a bubble life (if it is a bubble - or a boom, or whatever)?
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Congratulations! You must be very excited, I know I would be.

I wonder, did you think about positioning your product for Facebook Page owners only? I guess you could price your product a bit higher then if you did. Or maybe you are aiming at individuals?
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He made his statement in the general sense, and I responded in the general sense. I don't know scala and can't speak to it. But I've heard that exact same sentiment applied to ruby (rails, specifically). But ruby has enabled huge increases in productivity for me over php. So I can safely say that the sentiment that if one is doing something fashionable one must not care about shipping, is full of shit.
small team could build something fiendishly clever in
Scala that's maybe 2,000 lines of code that does the
work of 20,000 lines of code

I actually provoke you to pick a language, any language other than assembler, and write a piece of software with both languages, of reasonable complexity (no micro-benchmarks shit), as concise as you can.

If the source-code in Scala is at least 3 times smaller, I'll buy you a drink.
Apart from the timelines, my impression is that implementing fountain codes has some IP issues. Also, there is some code complexity in getting them implemented correctly (as hard to get right as paxos). Anyone know a game that used these? Any body have first hand experience?
and glorified bookmarklets.

Seriously, you can see the differences of the API installing the Web Developer Toolbar on both browsers. If you get used to work with it on Firefox and switch to the Chrome's version you'll notice you are missing some tools. Even basic ones-- like deleting cookies.
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PowerAMP is a great app for all the Android users, you can listen to songs using it, the main screen comes with a large album art.
Yeah, the author basically started with the argument that Google should have Sun then so that Android would have been protected. Then he realized, the price was too much for what is just a license, and then started piling on unconvincing arguments, one after the another.
Google already has a platform. They call it the web. And Google tends to use whatever language seems convenient to them then.
eru makes a really good point, and I suddenly feel much less confident. My intention was to sketch the idea for a protocol that was reliable (with very high probability, just like anything in the real world). So, to repeat the argument: if there's some information we need reliably, whatever cunning thing we layer on top of UDP, we're just reimplementing what TCP does. It seems unlikely we can do better than TCP unless we're doing something very problem specific.

I guess the argument is that a scheme based on UDP can have very low latency a lot of the time, only occassionally stalling while waiting for more data. Whereas TCP, which needs acknowledgements and to keep packets in order, has a uniformly high latency. For this particular type of application, the tradeoffs are different from typical internet use?
I had the opposite reaction. I thought it was poorly-researched, esp. in that it parroted MtGox's explanation for the compromise. I don't think the BBC should be so quick to accept that story, given this information: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2676263
Props to the innovation, but in terms of reaching the consumer market I doubt the appeal will suffice for widespread reach. Even if it did, a licensing deal would be more appropriate just for the sake of them investing in the innovation which is what they're good at, not distribution.
My main issue with the Singularity is the idea of exp-exp growth (growth that makes exponential look linear). Or am I misunderstanding things?
I completely agree with that, too. Like what were they thinking? I won't even go into explaining why that's such a bad idea, because I think it's obvious to most people that was a stupid idea.

They have Google Voice Search, and they didn't even use it for Google TV. They could use that for saying commands and doing the searches on Google by speaking to it..

But I don't even think that should be the main way to interact with Google TV. I know they've been working on Kinect-like stuff for Android and that they hired I believe the former tech lead from Kinect, so I think they should be using Kinect-like technology to allow you to use the Google TV interface with your hands.

Would those 2 be the perfect interaction models for Google TV? I don't know. But I think it sounds a whole lot better than using a full QWERTY keyboard.

I think the lack of content hurt Google TV, too. Did they even have Netflix at launch? I think they didn't. I know Hulu is up for sale. It might be a good idea to buy them.

I also think video chatting on TV is pretty revolutionary and might be a huge thing in the future, so they should take advantage of that with GTalk. The only problem I see here is that people will have to buy cameras for their TV's, too, so adoption for that might be a little slow, but it would get there.
I've given up PHP for Scala recently, and it doesn't seem too difficult yet. Do yourself a favor, pick up a copy of "Programming In Scala" by the languages author, and read it starting from page one, even if you think you're an expert programming.

I can't learn a new language quickly, so to learn I'm blogging about my experiences at http://leftnode.com and trying to write as many small programs as possible, moving into larger ones when I'm ready.

I'm trying to ignore many of the larger projects and in-depth Scala projects for the time being so I don't overwhelm myself and give up on learning the language.
Yesterday on HN, someone from FourSquare said they have 150k lines of Scala.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2679041

Is it safe to assume that would be 300k-450k if written in Java?
> Also, do you consider the eleven men who died during the Sydney Harbor Bridge heroes?

Kind of off topic but to answer your question:

If you define hero as someone who puts forth a heroic effort, then sure I would. Does them dying make them heroes? No. Maybe someone was hungover and slipped. But the type of work they were doing I respect.

If you defined hero as a role model, I have no idea of course (didn't know any of them).
3 guys wrote the world's first game that rendered a truly three-dimensional world, and they did it in software, and it ran at 20+ frames per second on my Pentium 75. It's not quite correct to talk about Quake the way you would talk about almost any other software project.

BTW, if you're curious, Abrash goes into greater depth at the end of his "Black Book of Graphics Programming", which I think is now freely available online.
My parents always thought I was wasting time on the computer and berated me at every opportunity about it. They still do, even though I make all of my money at this point using one and am 24. Back then they criticized me for not being involved in sports or at least chess club; they didn't give out trophies for computer programming at my school so I never received one. Sure, I played games, but I was learning new skills and programming all the time. When I was injured from skateboarding I made a GBA game in C. The next time I injured myself I learned PHP and started using it to connect to databases on my websites. I just wish I could understand programming then like I do now - the concepts make sense now but I don't have the free time I used to.
I don't buy the argument that we won't construct conscious AIs because they're not useful. Many of our most celebrated achievements don't have a direct practical use, yet that doesn't stop us from climbing mountains or sending rockets to the Moon.

Can you really imagine a group of scientists sitting around a large computer cluster and saying "Well, we could create the first sentient AI and ensure our names are enshrined in the history books, but why bother?"
The main problem of other markets outside the US is their propension to download only free apps.
If considering using fountain codes, I would definitely want to check out the IP issues; there are certainly some patents in that space. For the application being discussed, fountain codes wouldn't be an exact fit anyway. I pointed to them because the ideas used in fountain codes are fantastic, and it might be possible to do something with that flavor.

(I too would love to hear first-hand experience of anyone who's used this type of code.)
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> In the 21st century, authoritarian governments still fear their own people talking to each other and asking questions.

I loved this quote. Would "irony" define this construct or is there a more specific term that would apply here?
If you're shipping products and making things of value using great tools (however fashionable they are) it means you spend more time shipping and adding value and less time dealing with the limitations of your tools.
The whole debate is about whether you believe in transcendence and what you consider the mind to be.

Not transcendence in the Physics/Metaphysics sense but rather in the (at least to our knowledge) fact that dumb matter transcended into aware matter at one point.

I.e. life happened through transcendence from "dumb" matter into aware matter. Pattern recognizing feedback loops with memory that can reflect on our own existence.

I do not have the knowledge to determine the feasibility of the various methods but I do believe that the mind isn't a thing as such but rather a system that simulate a reality, the reality that we experience from our vantage point.

So to me the question is not as much whether we can transcend from one physical form to another but rather how we will connect with more and more external computation that again will mold our internal computation maybe even take over some parts. At least the IO can be replaced (eyes, ears etc.)

But if that can be replaced then what's to stop other areas? Nothing dictates that as far as we know right now.

Somehow the argument reminds me of the Searles (misguided) Chinese Room argument.

The fact is that we don't know whether it's possible. So why not just let those who think it is, work on a solution.
No need to be jealous - you've got lots of time and there are always new things to start. My grandpa was 80 when he bought a TRS-80 and learned basic, then he upgraded to a PC to organize the seniors in his retirement home.
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While we're now on this subject, here's Neal Stephenson's scifi tale on cryptocurrencies from 1995:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982610-1,00...
The device looks a bit low tech though...
Not for daily use, no. But for simple tasks like having a stats-box on-screen during a game or being able to "throw" content from your phone to your tv, it has potential.
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But then you'd be violating copyright. Also it'd be stupid; It's not like people won't realize that the pop-stars aren't real.
Many high-profile Sun employees already left Oracle and joined other companies. There is an influx of Sun employees at Google in the last few months.
Pentadactyl. Not trying to be a pedant, just trying to help if someone wanted to find it.

There are actually sort of similar addons for Chrome. Vimium has the keyboard navigation, but the full command line and customization is completely gone. It's basically just for keyboard navigation, and last time I checked, that was a little weird with Chrome's focus models (something about hitting escape and it working with my muscle memory; I don't recall exactly).
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Good, if you are interested be sure to check Silva Rhetoricae [http://rhetoric.byu.edu] too.
Foveon was supposed to revolutionize digital photography too. Hell, there was even a book written about it.
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We got to the moon because of massively political support at the highest levels because it was viewed as a strategic necessity.

Climbing mountains doesn't seem that comparable to going to the moon.

Scientists need funding in order to act if it requires many man years.

Thus military uses of AI are likely to be well funded to the tune of hundreds of millions if not billions because they can be viewed as a strategic necessity if it seems like the Chinese could possibly develop an AI before us. But if the general feeling is that a real AI isn't feasible in both Chinese and US circles in the near or medium term future, or there are more valuable/useful near and medium term objectives, there will not be a well funded race to create one.
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Yeah, a card without any power sources is likely to transmit audio up to 20 km (~12 miles) away
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There are a handful of commercial success
stories with Scala

Correction: There are a handful of commercial success stories with Scala made public. There are companies trying to solve hard problems with Scala that are not necessarily interested in language advocacy.
To repost a link from last discussion, there are three major schools of though on "The Singularity":
http://singinst.org/blog/2007/09/30/three-major-singularity-...
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While this article discusses some pros/cons of Go for implementing a web server, I'm surprised there's absolutely no mention of how fast his working (?) server runs or the memory footprint relative to python.
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