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Has Christianity infected people with a desire for personal immortality?

Where by "Christianity" you mean the Epic of Gilgamesh?

Anyway, simulating a human has the main bonus that we don't have to fully understand how intelligence works to make progress.
Let's see what the barista will say if you ask them about etiquette. "Buy something." Thank you. That's enlightening.

As a side note, I still don't know what a "social media manager" is. When my ears hear those words, my mind hears "online marketer". Are people who post to "Show HN" performing social media management?
Could you link up every item in the table of contents and have more cross links in the text. I like reading things like this on my kindle (using the Readability chrome extension) and anything that makes it easier to navigate would be appreciated.
It depends on your use case - either you accept there is a write hole that the update wont appear until that host comes back online and other hosts can relay the change, or you add application-level checking to not return to the user in the first instance until the change hits at least another host.

In your scenario, yes. The two changes would be a conflict, but hopefully (if the user makes the same change) your conflict-resolution code would realise it is the same and merge them correctly. I fear I don't know how MySQL::Replication handles this, but it has to be application-level logic, so I assume it will allow you to override a default of, say, last-modification-wins.
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I'm in the same boat. Started a web design and development firm 12 years ago, became one of the first Rails shops, and now I'm (finally) doing a product company.

About 6 months ago, I had an idea for a product, designed it, and put together the final team in the last 6 weeks. I've leveraged old contacts for customer development, and getting the demo done. Now we're pitching some of the largest VCs and angels in the world. Exhilarating stuff.

Maybe I just needed to find out myself, but there's a whole new energy level for myself, and those around me. I think the feeling of satisfaction has less to do with dealing with insane clients, and more to do with creating something that is my baby, rather than someone else's, though.
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Exactly, and he's talking about the human practice of neuroscience. When we manage to build a sufficiently advanced AI we can set it to work on these types of problems, that's what's exciting to me.
Interesting demo video. We've actually built something along those lines: www.post.fm
I once made a similar (but less real language-like) site to fool spambots on my now-defunct web consultancy's page (http://www.resolution.nl/food if you care). The idea was that if a crawler that searches the internet for email addresses to spam would fill its DB with bogus, after which, hopefully, the spammer would simply dump that day's result in annoyance, including our real email address. Never figured out whether that really worked but it was fun to make.

What did work, however, was fool a searchbot: The whole thing got me a very angry mail from a Dutch search engine team (ilse.nl) whose bot had been stuck on it for an entire day. I had no robots.txt (didn't even know what it was), which the search engine team decided was a really nasty case of lack of netiquette.
First is most effective. Have you tried like a life pulse illustration?
BTW Apple is third by market cap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_by_market_...
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> * never use time.time() to get a timestamp back because it will munge the value and re-add tz info

Not sure I understand this one. I though time.time() returned the seconds since Epoch?
This could become really(hugely?) popular among "otakus", i have just a few suggestion:

- Update the sample image, weirder the candies in the picture higher the signup rate, imo.

- I'd restructure the page to put the subscribe button in the top half of the page and make it clearly visible.

- A/B test the price (understanding which price/candies_quantity ratio is the right one could make a big difference) and find another way to give the option to choose euro or dollar (location based?), i don't like the fact that you have two buttons with the same function.

- After Tofugu(nice start) you should try contacting some other anime or japan related site/forum/blog.
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awesome idea :). curious to see how it will work out – good luck!
There is a portion of Episode 136 of TechZing [1] that addresses some of these issues as Justin (one of the hosts) is also trying to follow Rob's outsourcing advice for his SaaS product. Rob Walling himself also left some advice in the comments.

[1] http://techzinglive.com/page/772/136-tz-discussion-celebrige...
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Business Insider makes the point, ok again, that the wrong post on Google+ could kill your Gmail account.
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Boy does that help. I kept reading it as "Toola-lip," coupled with an involuntary tick.
Hey, neat, mods.. I too like to be slave labor for a guy who pretends to care about others!
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AIXI is a single algorithm that can solve every problem, given enough time, which is enough to prove that they do exist, however uselessly long it would take AIXI to solve any actual problem.
... while wrapping it to make it look like an early 1970s design.
How can US repay its ~$14 T external debt & ~$7.5 T trade deficit
if dollar ceases to be world's reserve currency
The whole thing got me a very angry mail from a Dutch search engine team (ilse.nl) whose bot had been stuck on it for an entire day.

So, somehow their ill-coded bot crashing was your fault? It's not like you forced them to crawl your site.
Don't be. Trust me, they have crippled node on the device. You cannot run any compiled binaries and there is no native SSL support. I have the same handle here as I do in their support forums you can see some of my discussions. Also, just getting started on how to write a "JavaScript service", which is what they call using node, is a exercise in guess work; there is no documentation.
so what should his robots.txt look like? at the moment it is:

User-Agent: *

Disallow: /21000/
One problem is with the product-as-service. You have a basic product - for example a project management system - but to sell it to the big enterprise clients you have to add that one feature they need to integrate with their backend accounting system, or put the logo on the right instead of the left just because.

With a good design you should be able to customize without losing the integrity of the product, but if you didn't design with that in mind you have a problem. Customer requirements may also go beyond what even a good, decoupled design is capable of. You can therefore end up in the same situation as the consultancies, only with lots of customized, hard to upgrade or refactor versions of your product.
What we need is not a language of the future but a platform.

Look at Java today with it's language ecosystem; scala, clojure, jruby, ...
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You can assign each home screen a task, and put apps for that task in each screen. You might usually use these apps together, so it gives a bit of a logical ordering. Then you can find apps you don't usually use in the list of every app.
My bet is on Go. Once the gates are open, the flood will bring em to the top. Go on the browser, server, mobile, desktop, os, everywhere. By Google.
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I have to say, I considered it. But 3 things stopped me:

1) It has to be relatively expensive (to cover shipping and profit), so the candy would have to be both good and interesting to justify the cost, and my experience has been that foreign foods are very hit-and-miss.

2) I have an asian supermarket near me in Orlando, FL that carries a lot of candies and drinks.

3) The picture showed Pocky as one of the 2 products that went into that order. I can buy Pocky at Walmart (and the asian store mentioned above), so I would feel like I really wasted my money if that was in an order. And pretty much anything else I can buy at the Asian store. He has no way to know what I could buy locally, so I'd always be taking a chance that I'm paying way too much for something.

However, if the system was changed so that I can pick the candies from a selection, that might be more interesting. It's quickly approaching a standard storefront at that point, though.
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I've read some goods things, and did some personal research and came to the same conclusion.

BUT I've been trying to get it working all week. Spent an entire day on it to no avail. I can get scala running fine, I can get play running fine with Java, but I can't get the two of them working together, I keep getting IO errors on my PC, and missing library errors on my mac.

So I'd appreciate some links if your team has them incase I'm missing a step on either machine. And I'm sure other here would appreciate it as well if they want to try. I'm not quite prepared to give up just yet :)

Bookmarked myself I have:

Installation instructions:

play
http://www.playframework.org/

play-scala site
http://scala.playframework.org/

Installing scala on windows:
http://www.scala-lang.org/node/310

Installing scala on windows:
http://just-thor.com/2009/09/02/installing-scala-on-window/

Installing Scala on snow leopard
http://arvinderkang.com/2009/09/01/installing-scala-on-snow-...

Installing scala on OSX
http://paradox1x.org/2009/06/very-quick-star/

Installing Scala for .net
http://hestia.typepad.com/flatlander/2009/01/getting-started...

Scala tutorials:

Building a MUD
http://www.kotancode.com/2011/06/03/building-a-mud-in-scala-...

Scala tutorial
http://scalabound.org/?p=323

Scala for C# programmers
http://hestia.typepad.com/flatlander/2009/01/scala-for-c-pro...

scala actors tutorial
http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242

More on scala actors
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1251666/scala-actors-rece...
Agreed, I've always thought of it in these terms.

With a service, how much you earned is directly linked and therefore constrained by effort your able to apply. Ultimately limited to the number of hours in a day.

Alternatively, when developing and selling a product, the amount of money you can make is more limited by how good (and how well marketed) the product is than it is the effort you are able to put into developing the product.

My view is that you can make living providing s service, sometimes even a good living. You can make a fortune selling products.
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it does, but it assumes that the timestamp you are giving it is from your current timezone. compare:

>>> time.mktime(datetime.datetime.now().utctimetuple())
1310737652.0
>>> int(datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime('%s'))
1310701659

my local timezone is +10, and mktime is adding it back in, hence why I always use strftime
James notes the uncertainty surrounding Java following Oracle's acquisition of Sun, and the uncertainty around .NET as Microsoft seems to be de-prioritizing it in Windows 8.

I can't imagine Java and .NET developers moving to C++ much less enterprises changing course.
> The "game of life" is really about statistical inference and people aren't that good at it -- the success of Las Vegas proves it.

Las Vegas is run by human beings. Having members of your species be worse at a task than other members of your species doesn't prove that your species as a whole is not good at the task.

Now...

> Has Christianity infected people with a desire for personal immortality? Are people inured to flushing billions and billions down the drain on biomedical research?

Why wouldn't one want personal immortality? To be fair, religious groups are those least likely to support personal immortality of many sorts (e.g. brain uploading) because of questions such as "what happens to the soul", and "isn't this meddling in our creators work?".

Rather, I'd think that anyone who believes that this life is all that exists would want to prolong it indefinitely. It's better to be than not to be.

Do you have an argument against that?
No apology? You just made a completely baseless accusation and are passing it off as a conclusion that other reasonable people should have made.
The comments on this page are just like C++ itself - all over the place, some of everything. I heard the same comments in the early 90's, when I was doing exclusively C++.

That's why it will still be around 5, 10 and 20 years from now - as long as there's something for everyone to dislike it will also make enough people happy enough to continue using it.
I can relate to this.

I have high aspirations and expectations for myself. These often create very good opportunities and reinforce my work ethic. But they also have consequences outside of work that I have to pay for. I'm not good at relaxing and I believe I always need to be working on something. Quite frankly, it is a neurosis. Hand-waving comments about "reaching one's potential" as it relates to evolution don't address the topic fully. There needs to be a balance, a time to relax and say, "this is sufficient." The emotional side of your being needs to be allowed the space to breathe.

Perhaps more nuanced thinking on this topic can bring down the level of alpha worship we have in our culture.
D is pretty nice. It has implemented almost everything people suggest when they mention how to fix C++, but it has some major problems as well. It'd have to be supported by a lot of different vendors on different platforms and architectures, and the standard library would has to be straightened out.

What I was proposing is a C++ compiler that could enforce a specific subset of standard C++, along with making things that are generally regarded as best practices default. Because of the complexity of C++ it might have to be a somewhat simplified version of it to work (something like http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProp...).
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Have any HNers taken a portion of their dollars and converted them into hard metals? How much, why so and do you hope to convert back one day?
Precisely.

Here's the difference: Replacing a customer is easier than replacing a client. If you build widget X, but then your customer decides they want Y instead, all you have to do is find one other customer in the world that wants X and you sell to them instead. Whereas in a consulting relationship you tend to have to throw X away and build Y, because hey, you're under contract and the client must be appeased.

(In theory you can write a contract stating that if you build X for a client and they refuse delivery you can repurpose X and sell it to a different client. In practice... consultant-built work product and an actual product are different in so many annoying little ways - assumptions about client's specific workflow and IP baked in, for example -- that this is never as easy as you think, and rarely easy enough to be worthwhile.)

Firing a customer is also easier than firing a client. They buy in little discrete chunks. Just apologize that your product no longer meets their needs and they won't buy the upgrade, or they'll cancel their subscription. In the absolute worst case you'll issue a refund. But compared to the soap-operatic stress-filled lawyeriffic delights of contract negotiation such events are almost a delight.
There is, if a person's diet is consistently high in sugary foods. They can build up insulin resistance as a result of a constantly high insulin level, and ultimately develop type 2 diabetes.
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> computers have won at chess

But still suck at go (board game, not programming language).
At some point, we will have to realize that debts are a bad thing. No one can spend money he does not own without paying the consequences. The Euro seems to be exacerbating this race towards a tipping point.

It seems that some kind of serious crash is inevitable. But it is yet to be seen whether Europe (and the world) will come out of this united or in flames.
That was exactly his point, wasn't it? His examples used to be considered problems in AI. Now that the problems are understood, they are simply considered to be algorithmic problems. Lots of output of the MIT AI labs in the early days is now simply taught in algorithms courses, yet back then, those researchers considered themselves to be doing AI research.

That is the moving of the goalposts.
$23 a month? Wow.. too costly. My email marketing service costs less and it provides way more in ROI.
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A better title would have been, "Android app surge still not enough to overtake Apple."
It is actually rather dull 2/3 years where you learn not so much about the material, but learn how to solve many exercices

That was absolutely not my case (but I know it has been the case for some in other cities). In my case the exercises, while numerous, were not that many, but were selected and crafted to push and bend the mind. The goal each time was to produce not someone who knows but someone who builds. The most striking example was one of my professors who had a habit of yelling "Et là, c'est fini!" ("And then, its over!"), halfway through a proof and sometimes as early as the second line, or even once having completed writing the first line, when the crux of the problem was to ask yourself the right question and express it the right way. This was a kind of recurring joke while at the same time the signal of the crux, the apex of the proof, where once you get past that point the rest is downhill freewheeling (although as with downhill driving, you should not get too carried away). It was the mark at which you could find the pattern, the point which defines the line (as in racing) that you will be able to build upon to come up with your own solutions.

In front of the blackboard, solving the exercise was never a goal in itself, but the path mattered just as much, if not more. It was common to actually not achieve an academic solution but demonstrating an ability to build an overarching path, though incomplete in its proof, that would lead to the solution would be rewarded. It was not uncommon either to solve the problem much quicker than expected, and the remainder of the kholle would be spend either enhancing the solution, finding an alternative solution, or extending the problem with a follow up or a generalization.

We were not meant to be dumb technical toolboxes (which the PGdG example is a perfect example) but brand new problem solvers. I would draw much parallels between those problem solving abilities and hacking solutions, refactoring arcs, encapsulating problems and caring about the bigger scope, to produce elegant and rewarding solutions.

Granted, this kind of teaching is not ubiquitous to every single prépa out there, but my point is that it cannot occur at all in a "common denominator" environment, where by design people that can keep up will have to look elsewhere by themselves to be challenged, whereas prépa or schools like Berkelee can act as a catalyst.
the leaks about manning's sexuality, etc. which is why this is now being released (unless i misunderstood the article).
Ask HN: Best DB for power outages?
There are rolling blackouts where I'm planning on deploying a lightweight DB on a regular PC. Which DB would be the most well behaved in case of sudden power failure? (So far I know of SQLite & FireBird to be the top contenders)
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Yes. The quantity isn't important, but the premise underlying the decision is.
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Wow, thank you very much for the excellent response. It makes me feel better on two levels, first that a lot of the ideas of how to make it work are similar to what I had in mind and have started to document, although you've gone into much more detail.

Second, I find it very interesting that you're still handling support, and something of a relief - it means I've got a lot of runway before I have to think seriously of giving that up. I'll keep working on it with the idea that if I start now, hopefully I'll be more or less prepared when I really do need to pass it on.
... and the Queen visited Bletchley Park today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14164529
SSL or binaries is not necessary for my use case. I just want to get https://github.com/bergie/noflo to run.
In the context that Lamo ratted out Manning after the chats

(03:21:11 PM) bradass87: >sigh<

(03:22:14 PM) info@adrianlamo.com: i get that

(03:22:45 PM) bradass87: get what… that connection?

(03:23:38 PM) info@adrianlamo.com: yeah.

(03:24:08 PM) info@adrianlamo.com: which is why i’m sad for the people i sometimes have to hurt.

(03:24:10 PM) bradass87: we’re human… and we’re killing ourselves… and no-one seems to see that… and it bothers me
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Top one. Seen at iPhone app icon size it is far clearer.
I don't understand why it's not a crime to have sensitive information on computers attached to the internet (or having usb ports for that matter).

Imagine if nuclear silos were built today and powered by Windows and attached to the internet - insane, right? Well at what level is anything else that would cause headlines if hacked, okay to be attached to the internet?
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Is there some concept of money that doesn't (almost) directly link money to debt? (so money wouldn't be completely worthless without debt)
This is definitely the direction i see things going.

Node.js is also perfectly suited for it, and I recall hearing that it's also on the core team's mind.
Publishers can log in and see their current split. It's in account settings and I'm currently getting about 70% with the "AdSense for Content" product which is what I use. If you use the Google Analytics hook-in you can get very detailed statistics about which pages/visits are paying you what too.
Thanks for posting that, jgc, and once again, thanks for your efforts on Turing's behalf. It was a hell of a thing you did.
It seems such a shame that every new language has to learn this - I read a similar post relating to .Net a few years ago
A half complete SDK with minimal docs? So it's just like before HP bought Palm then.

I think I spent half the year I had a pre1 waiting for an decent SDK, and the other half putting it back together and getting replacements. Then I gave up and got an android phone.
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Ask HN: When is Google+ coming out of "field trial"?
....so that under-18 users can join too?
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The US government (and governments in general) has/have killed many, many, many more people than Google (and corporations in general).

Not sure why you think of them as so benevolent.

Maybe you trust the agencies entrusted with our transportation (DMV and TSA, anyone?) over Google. I think most rational people would make the opposite choice.
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For any given vehicle, the design of the highway given the design of the vehicle will impose a speed limit, which may be lower than the limit of how fast land vehicles can move, and may be lower than how fast the particular vehicle can move.

The analogy does hold for the purposes of a fluffy motivational blog post, of course.
Let's call it the Gathering of the New Herd!
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