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Thanks for the reply. Yep, I'm assuming that the benefits will get shared (which is not guaranteed) but I think capitalism and exising human charity will work. Here's my amateur economic analysis:

If you can supply widgets more cheaply, you can underprice the competition and capture the market (I'm talking more about basic commodities for survival, food, clean water, shelter, etc.). And of course the other companies will compete, have better robots, etc. and you'll have a race to the bottom (this even happens with 'luxury' goods like USB drives). If I can provide aluminum for cheaper, I can flood the market with it (which drives prices down, but I get the profit).

Secondly, we have plenty of charities -- if advanced labor saving devices existed, governments and others would funnel exising funds to acquire them and put them to use. Why pay for food stamps when you can give everyone their daily bread?

I think capitalism based on survival would eventually have to phase itself out -- it would move to virtual currency where people traded currency for optional goods/services they couldn't acquire with the machines (handcrafted xyz, live concert tickets, etc.).

I may really be on this plant thing, but I imagine a world where, at minimum, we get food/water "for free" from the tireless robotic background workers (like air) and everything else is based on human interest. I think humans have enough demonstrated charity to donate something like that once developed.

But, I think the bigger threat is this: a world where robots are advanced enough to provide everything is probably one where a sufficiently powerful country could take over everything.
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Or the user experience is superior as in you bought a car that just works and you don't have to service. As opposed to, say, a kit-car that you can build yourself if you like cars that much, and you have much better control over.
That's nuttery. Borderline hero-worship. There are loads of epsilon-accurate proofs in math. Similarly, there are loads of non-perfect-but-more-efficient algorithms in CS.
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The language of the patent is such that all browsers post 1996 will violate it. So, my questions:

1. Can Netscape (1994) be quoted as prior art?
2. Can an anti-trust case be made against Apple/MSFT etc if Apple does not bring these claims against MSFT? Because, one can claim that there is no other reason except to punish Android if no claims are brought against any of the other violators.
Agreed. Even server-side, the software is awful - setting up a root-CA-signed certificate chain with the OpenSSL command-line tools (and java's keytool) is an absolute nightmare. Apart from anything else, it's astonishingly difficult to tell when you've got it right, and by extension, it's astonishingly difficult to tell when you've got it subtly (or not so subtly) wrong. This has nothing to do with the principles at play, and everything to do with how the information is presented.
I have no expertise in these areas, but let me point out that you didn't give an example of where you got the idea that the gwan author was not knowledgeable enough. If this was so apparent to you, then it should be easy to enumerate your concerns.
In addition the gwan author continues to release detailed benchmarks against all competitors, in which Gwan always leads. Nginx and others do not do that.
I don't know what your criticism is supposed to accomplish, but I hardly think the number of syscalls matters when Gwan is still faster.
I'm not defending the guy and certainly not his attitude but I just don't agree with how you laid out your criticism.
You're right, I shouldn't have taken the bait. Entirely deserving of the downvotes ...
I looked at the patents. Can't Netscape (1994) be quoted as prior art for U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647?
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This is perfect. I was looking for something exactly like this. How are you reading the posts? How often?
Here is his bio:

http://www.siquest.ca/jbradley.asp

He seems heavy on law enforcement credentials, but rather light on Computer Science. Not sure that is the right combo here.
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There definitely are tons of startups, but yeah you'll probably need to look around a bit. We're looking to hire a developer in South Africa (Cape Town): http://www.snapbill.com/jobs/developer

If you're moving away from the US you'll see a significant drop in salary though. The market salary down here (even for top developers) is significantly lower at around $60k/year; but so are the costs of living. I live comfortably off $8500/year.
Or we could just get rid of the death penalty altogether, because:

a) It's cheaper to incarcerate people than it is to kill them: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29552692/ns/us_news-crime_and_co...

b) Sometimes, our judicial system gets it wrong. Wikipedia counts about 140 exonerated death row inmates over the past forty years in the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_in...
The board was not "designed" to punish, but that was always the practical outcome. Something around 90% of cases resulted in punishment while I was there.

Basically, a group of students is selected to oversee the trial. They are repeatedly instructed that they must issue a guilty verdict if a preponderance of the evidence (51%) points that way. An overseeing officer (captain or admiral) supervises the proceedings and assigns a punishment after a guilty verdict. This combination creates a strong expectation that students will issue a guilty verdict. (If this does not make sense, then you have not been around "real" authority and I cannot succinctly explain.) For juniors or seniors, punishment is typically expulsion and a $100,000 fine to cover training expenses. For underclass, it is typically a six-month probationary period (this is closer to a jail sentence than a normal college probation).

In some respects, the Navy is an exceptional circumstance. Most people would rather have lots of innocent people be punished than have a potential cheat graduate and be placed in control of nuclear weapons. Still, I have seen lots of innocent people punished (or guilty people punished way too severely) to not be skeptical of a system that has any chance of going this direction.

As for personal experience, I was never accused of an honor violation, but I testified at honor hearings for friends. In my opinion, both were unfairly convicted and punished. All midshipman get training on the procedure at least once per semester, and it is severely indoctrinated in our version of boot camp.
Good point -- thinking out loud, it seems to me that automation would just drop the price of goods.

Imagine Moore's law applied to food and transportation -- wouldn't grocery stores and fedex have to lower their prices to match competitors? Suddenly food becomes cheaper and cheaper, until you can buy a lifetime supply of rice for $5 (unfathomable today, but you can buy a "lifetime supply" of textual data storage for probably the same price).

I mean, there could be collusion and cartels to restrict supply (diamonds), but something as important as food production wouldn't be kept restricted long (food could become a utility).
Isn't it waiting to execute anything that follows after a twait code block?

If so, then it is blocking. Otherwise, how do you manage to let other code be executed, except the code you don't want to be executed until all functions in the twait block have returned?

The would need to be a callback attached to the twait block, but there isn't. So it's blocking.

Because that is it's purpose, to block further executing until all data from the non-blocking functions have returned.
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Am I the only person who read this headline and thought it was an article about John Draper, a.k.a. Cap'n Crunch?
You forgot the part where someone with limited education and no employment prospects steals a car or holds up a store because they have nothing left to sell and a loan shark threatening them with broken kneecaps. Some unemployment is good for the economy, employee surplus keeps wages lower and ensure there is necessary labour available for short term needs. Most modern, capitalist economies try to maintain at least some level of surplus in the labour market, because history has shown that it is a good idea.

The scheme I worked for was an attempt to rehabilitate the long term unemployed and attempt to train them in a marketable skill. In my view, it was a failure for 95% of people there but it taught me a lot about managing difficult people. Note that I wasn't sent to work there, I worked for an employment company that managed the implementation of the government's idea.

The present education, family, societal and financial system is creating people who have no practical skills, no motivation to work and very little prospects. You have to deal with them as a nation somehow. Doing nothing will lead to social unrest, crime, bankruptcy and a whole swathe of other issues. Giving them money for nothing just creates deadweight dragging down the rest of the economy and basically gives them a life of subsistence poverty. Solving this issue is not easy. Get to work or suffer is a bad solution because suffering isn't limited to the individual, it is inflicted on those closest to them and the rest of us too.
Most of you will know it already, but Steve Job's commencement speech at Stanford speaks in essence about finding the 'right' path as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

(for those who haven't seen it: it's a must...)
With clearing houses trademark holders don't need to buy domains, they can block their trademark from being registered, albeit with a one off fee.

So pay us, or... pay us? Those are the two options?
There is something of a low brow version of this in Japan - manga kissa - But they evolved into a refuge for the working homeless, runaway teenager, salaryman wanting porn while out pretending to be drumming up sales... Very weird but a cheap place to sleep when traveling on a shoestring.
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The original post has disappeared. Here's the google cache:

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It's great that those proofs exist - but this isn't one of them.
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How pleasantly surprised I am to find that the work of Amir Ali Ahmadi, a friend and former student at Maryland where I was his EE TA, appeared on Hacker News. We both took the same graduate-level class on optimal control; despite being an undergrad, he was one of the best students in the class.

The result is intriguing and reasonably accessible: for all (multivariate) polynomials whose degrees are even and at least four, determining convexity (of any type! strong, strict, regular, pseudo-, quasi-) is strongly NP-hard. To prove this, the authors equate the problem of determining convexity to the problem of determining the nonnegativity of biquadratic forms -- a known NP-hard problem.

Find the paper here: http://aaa.lids.mit.edu/publications. (Edit: direct PDF link http://mit.edu/~a_a_a/Public/Publications/convexity_nphard.p...) See Table I on page 18 for a concise summary.
Respectfully disagree - if your goal is private sector employment.

If you want to go down the academia path, I'm sure the optimal course of action is different, but for private sector employment it doesn't get better than internships.

I've done a lot of interviewing, and while open source projects are valuable, they are largely not as valuable to a company as real industry experience. Now, this differs in degrees - if you're a core contributor to a well known library for example, I'd give that a lot more credence than "hacked on various open source things".

Research on campus also pales in effectiveness to industry experience. Software in industry has a lot of constraints and differences to hacking on your own time, at your own pace, and similarly has a lot of differences to academia.

This is supported by my interview experiences - I interview a lot of masters-level people with impressive rosters of research projects on their resumes, but many of them cannot code at all, to the point where I wonder what exactly they contributed to these projects, if anything. On the other hand, I've never interviewed someone way out to lunch who has a background interning at the "big names" (e.g., Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, etc).

Having a company with a very high hiring bar on your resume is like a gigantic stamp of approval - people know these companies hire tough, and if you passed their bar (and spent time there, and didn't get fired), you automatically have more cred than someone who worked on anonymous FOSS projects or his/her own projects.
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Buy nothing in exchange for real money! Sorry? This new site is actually a tongue in cheek way to buy traffic or ad-space but goes under the pretense that you are buying nothing.
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Cameron's problem is that he hired former NoTW editor Andy Coulson to be his press secretary, and Coulson was forced to resign last January because of these hacking reports.

Not only did he apparently approve of and even commission hacking while a newspaper editor, he hired a private investigator who had been jailed for trying to plant drugs on other people (to create a newspaper scandal) and who later turned out to be an axe murderer. I don't mean that as a figure of speech; the fellow murdered his business partner with an axe. Now coulson did not know this was going to happen when he hired him, but Cameron (or at least his chief of staff) apparently knew about it before hiring Coulson and decided that he would make a fine addition to the team anyway, desite his extremely dodgy social circle. Add in the fact that Cameron has had a meeting with Murdoch or one of his top lieutenants on average every 2 weeks since becoming PM, at either 10 Downing Street or at Chequers (the PM's official country house, like Camp David for the President), and he looks uncomfortably close to a bunch of rather villainous people.

Remember that Cameron is governing as part of a coalition with the Liberal Democratic party, who are allied with him by necessity rather than by choice. If they pull out and Cameron loses a vote of confidence in Parliament, the government falls.
I remember once doing my assignment witch consisted of nothing but citations. it was perfectly valid by rules of writing such papers. as long as citations are proper. but that school was not very good, anyway.
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To be fair, the "heavy on the law enforcement" bit was doing exactly the kind of thing he's designing the software for. You don't need a CS degree to write a program to dig through a cache, and designing the in-house software for the RCMP is probably experience enough. We all make mistakes, but he went out of his way to make his known as soon as he learned about it. I'm happy to have people with that moral fiber heading forensics departments and designing software.
Except that nations with socialized health care have single or few providers yet manage to get extremely low prices because they have the negotiation power of an entire nation behind them and lots of alternative providers.

Your theory may be interesting but is completely opposite from reality.
Samsung don't copy technology from from Apple, despite their designs being somewhat... inspired by them. They're up there with everyone else battling on the forefront of component development, e.g. bright colorful S-AMOLED displays, better camera sensors, etc.
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One question: Do the world save files all end in .dat, or do some end in .mcr?

I ask because some of my code (optimized save file format) was first included in Minecraft 1.3, but from the article it's not apparent which version Chain World is based on.
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Your last statement is incorrect for one of the problems mentioned in the parent comment ("airline/package routing" which I take to be linear programming problems).

Simplex-type algorithms are typically used for these problems. These algorithms also have exponential time complexity in worst-case. In practice, well-designed simplex algorithms are of low-order-polynomial complexity. They terminate with an exact optimum.

This case, and others, are examples of situations where conventional complexity analysis fails to provide insight into real-world performance.

Last I knew, people were trying to analyze expected time complexity of certain (analysis-friendly) simplex algorithms under distributional constraints on the input structure matrices. But it's important to understand that this is mathematical back-filling to explain what is already known to hold in practice.
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Why do we even have TLDs in the first place?

I guess really I'm asking why we have 2nd level domains. Why not just charge everyone $9/yr for a word at the top level? This seems unlikely to be a technical issue.
So in exchange for some traffic they want

- their branding on your app

- you to pay all the bills / labor / support / etc

- 50% of the revenue

The revenue's the real killer, them funneling some traffic to you is almost certainly not worth 50% of your revenue, especially when they're just sending a pair of eyes (quality eyes perhaps, but still) that you have to effectively monetize.

Adwords and Facebook ads can also do that and they won't cost you anywhere near as much.
C'mon, at least link back to the original ;)

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You're high.

Employing someone who 10 years ago may have engaged in some, or known about dodgy journalistic tactics is hardly much to write home about.

Of course he had meetings with execs from NewsCorp. They own a bunch of newspapers! Blair and Brown did exactly the same.

It sounds like you'd like the government to fall. I don't think most people in the country would.

I think most people are thoroughly bored of this 'scandal' about a bit of corruption that happened 10 years ago. There's more important news out there. Like the collapse of the Euro.
That's the thing that is bugging me the most as well.
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Is there a good 'diff', detailing what's changed between revisions?

I need to read up on the latest version - anyone know if it avoids breaking http, and will work with proxies out of the box? (ie no essential body data without a content-length header)
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Excellent!

Once I enabled, it shared my latest public post (from 2 days ago) to twitter. Didn't seem to share the plug for your service though... yet
Yep, they use masking to prevent security holes in proxies from being exploited.
To be honest, Reddit has always been a Python stronghold. (may be because Reddit itself is written in Python)

And if it wasn't for the excellent http://railsforum.com, Rails could have got several thousands more tags on Stackoverflow.
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The "low hanging fruit" argument is fascinating. Is there any more information about this somewhere?
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Children only come into their own after their parents have left the picture, however it is that happens.

Can you imagine being a part of the younger generation when immortality is discovered or extended longevity? Would jobs ever open up, or promotions be available? Nobody will retire at the top, so there will be extremely little turnover. How can the young hope to surpass the old if the old hold all the keys and never let go?

Sure, aging is scary, but have you really thought through all the implications of curing it? Heck, have you even thought about why it exists in the first place? There are many cancer lines that never age, so why haven't organisms evolved that never get old? If you have an answer, I'd love to hear it.
I had thought the same thing until I read the comment from anigbrowl - police are not saying there is nothing to investigate, just that, in UK police jargon, there are no obvious signs of a homicide.
It makes a huge difference to the case against it.
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Thanks! We've got a fairly mature spidering architecture, so we're just using that to scrape the posts at scale. It's possible Google will block us, but we're pretty careful to rate limit and load balance across IPs. Plus, you know Google's business is built on scraping :) They don't seem to mind other apps that do it, so I figure we're moderately safe. Once there's an API, we'll use that.

We check every 5 mins if you post frequently, progressively slowing out at around once every 20 mins currently. If traffic builds up we'll slow it down to max at around 1 hour.