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Since you are not looking for a developer you can expand how you look at this.

Do you live near any universities? I would suggest what you need is a grad student that has a few extra hours a week. Small commitment on both your parts, low enough cost, and easier communications for you and your clients.

You may also be able to find a stay at home parent.

In both these cases the person may not be looking for your opportunity. You will need to be creative. Go to campus and find out how to get in touch with students. Look for local parent groups. Think outside the box.
I don't think C++ is the language of the future.

I do think we'll see languages that espouse some of the same guiding principles of C++, namely: multiple paradigms, only paying for what you use, native compilation options, and compile-time metaprogramming.

As it stands now, it has a huge marketing problem that's been perpetuated by a meme of "omg complexity!!!!!111," (aside: it's goofy how fashion-oriented developers are) so C++ in its current form could never rise up.
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Because there is no class library that is multi-platform and integrates somewhat nicely into the platform. Yes, I know GNUStep, but it doesn't come close to e.g. Qt in terms of integration.
Sure there is. Primarily the requirement to have a runtime installed followed secondarily by the fact that many of the useful features are encapsulated in Apple specific libraries (or NeXT Step, although GNUStep takes care of that on many platforms).

Every other complaint I have against the language just stems from my familiarity with C++ and love of static typing (or compiler hints and syntactic niceties useful for writing high performance code - namely games).
They definitely have things wrong here, for example LulzSec is way on the Simple side where as Gary McKinnon is on the Innovative side, Gary looked for blank passwords whereas LulzSec did much more complex cracks. So while the IEEE do lots of good work which I respect, here they have at best made a mistake and at worst are taking a political position which is contrary to the facts to help get Gary extradited. If it is the former, I hope they swiftly correct the error and if it the later, then they have lost me as a customer forever.
If you're from a country which has a visa waiver program in place you don't need a B1. The visa waiver is usable for tourist or business purposes with business purposes being those defined under a B1 visa.

If you come from a country which doesn't have a visa waiver program in place then the B1 is your only option I believe.
This blog post sums up exactly why I wouldn't start a web agency.
I really like the sound of this service, but I just can't bring my self to hand over login details for my bank accounts to anyone else.
It would be great if we could strip URLs of anchors (or rather just see them as the same URL, no need to strip) to prevent people from submitting the same article multiple times, e.g. http://example.com/article would be the same as http://example.com/article#anchor
It may not be obvious to every reader, but Berkelee school would actually be classes prepa here, as it is one of the most prestigious music school in the world. What Sivers talks about here is to go much beyond that.

I would not put "classes prepa" in the challenging category. It is actually rather dull 2/3 years where you learn not so much about the material, but learn how to solve many exercices (I like the example given by Pierre Gilles de Gennes, which reminds me of my own attitude during some kholles: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/fragile-objects/). Most people entering classes preparatoires will get out with something, so per definition it is not challenging: challenging means doing something that you did not think were possible from yourself. While classes preparatoires were not always easy for me, I was never really challenged by it, and I think most people were not either.
This article was a very similar one to ones that biologists were publishing in mid 80's when Kurzweil predicted the mapping of the human genome within 15 years. It's interesting how exponential progress is counter-intuitive even for those who have been experiencing it in their fields for years.
2800/3000ish/too much!
I can't remember specifically, but I think we evaluated Tungsten Replicator and at the time it didn't do multi-master replication.
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I don't see anything here that couldn't be a fabrication on LOMO's part as part of an attempt to smear manning. LOMO isn't exactly a stand-up character, and combined with someone inside the military (which wouldn't be hard to find when the government is looking to create a scapegoat) these logs could be easily fabricated.

I also don't think that text logs, which cannot be authenticated in any way, could be admissible in court. But then, military courts aren't usually concerned with justice.
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I think Yes, C++ is the language of the future. It has several strong points, which are still relevant. Namely:

1. cross platform

2. the programmer can choose from several levels of abstractions, as appropriate for a particular project: low-level c-style coding, OOP, templates, meta-programming.

3. even the very high level abstraction usually doesn't induce performance penalty.

4. not using some property of the language doesn't induce performance penalty ("you pay only for what you use" principle).

5. New ISO C++11 standard makes the language even stronger

6. Many design decisions can be expressed by using templates or multiple inheritance, and enforced during compilation.

From internet discussions, I noticed that quite a few people under-appreciate the points 2) and 3), or don't have good understanding about why abstractions are an important part of software design (especially in larger projects).

Also, even in 2011, in a lot of projects the performance achievable only by native code is still very desirable or even required.
That isn't the point of the parent. Anything that is not better than the current kernels is a waste of time.

I am sure someone will chime in that the Hurd is a microkernel. Microkernels have been around for decades, and did not gain much traction. (Perhaps with the notable exception of Darwin, but this is a single-server kernel.)

Something like Singularity/Midori is actually interesting, since it provides memory protection in the kernel, but without the expensive context switches.

Edit: yes, deleting messages is going to improve the flow of conversation :p.
Let's see, we have FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris. Two of them have even been integrated in current GNU systems (Debian/FreeBSD and Nexenta). How does yet another kernel help?
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Goedel's theorem is not about nonexistance of foundation in mathematics, it's about existence of true but nonproveable statements in every nontrivial formal system.

One could imagine a hypothetical stronger result - maybe every nontrivial set of axioms can actually derive p^(not p)?
Or a word processor and calling it Word?
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Where have I seen that SMS feature before? I think it's been a key feature of the webOS app pages for the last year and a half, as seen at http://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=com.rovio.a...
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Good article, but the title is a bit too sensational for me.

I agree that a good teacher and motivation can help you reach your potential very fast.

I would say there are two range of domains:

- 1. almost only synthetic, axiom system has small 'Kolmogorov complexity': mathematics, algorithmization (on non-research level)

- 2. more pattern matching, processing of huge amount of information: history, politics, industrial software development, business and everything on research-level.

In the first range, if you find a good teacher and you are motivated then you can go to your potential extremely fast. Miracles happen within weeks. After a point you reach the 2. range, where you are already playing in a league with similarly skilled people, and you progress only extremely slowly.

That's why some geeks are much better in math at the age 12 than the average adult, but they have to learn and practice for long years to become a professional mathematician or to create a successful software business.
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It's "a sleazy Indian (operated) casino" vs. "sleazy American (cuisine) diner".

The first is referencing the ethnicity of the casino's operators, the second is referencing the style of the diner and doesn't infer anything about the ethnicity of the owners.
Clearly I would build a time machine to go back to 1996 and invent Google.
What about looking up consumers via email address instead? Some consumers would get around that by using a different email address, but I bet the majority of consumers consistently use the same email address when making purchases online.
I agree. I gave that code as an example of a bad idea. For me, "If you can, then use that relative size in your CSS", has never been an option. Ems also have the same sizing problems regarding not knowing the browser's base text size.

I'm sticking with the quite capable pixel unit for the foreseeable future. :)
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> I think the first driverless vehicles we'll allow on the roads will be unmanned trucks. They don't need a human onboard since they only transport goods, not people, and there's a huge efficiency gain if you can remove truck drivers, since they need to eat and sleep.

Rail and water-transport are a lot mot cheaper than trucks (either manned or un-manned). The only thing that keeps them (the trucks) running is the cheap price of gasoline in the States.
It might be nice, but from a purely selfish point of view I'd rather people (not just coders) spent time improving Linux (which is already in widespread use) than tinkering with Hurd.
What I meant about it being impossible to patch the ECU was, if they used one of the single-write chips to store the firmware it couldn't be hacked/patched except by being replaced, or possibly manipulated from the inputs.

> Indeed, researchers can disable electronically controlled brakes via Bluetooth

That I didn't know. That's a major security problem, and another reason I'm glad for my 9 year old car.
see here for a spec how the robots.txt is parsed

http://code.google.com/web/controlcrawlindex/docs/robots_txt...

the robots.txt of http://picolisp.com (found at
http://picolisp.com/robots.txt) allows the indexing of http://picolisp.com/21000 and all follow up pages.

why? see the spec:

The disallow directive specifies paths that must not be accessed by the designated crawlers. When no path is specified, the directive is ignored.

see here https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/robotstxt for coffeescript implementation of a robots.txt parser
> (02:56:04 PM) info@adrianlamo.com: i mean, showed up – for you – if Julian were to slip up.

> (02:56:46 PM) bradass87: he knows very little about me

> (02:56:54 PM) bradass87: he takes source protection uber-seriously

> (02:57:01 PM) bradass87: “lie to me” he says

> (02:57:06 PM) info@adrianlamo.com: Really. Interesting.

> (02:57:34 PM) bradass87: he wont work with you if you reveal too much about yourself

So it seems that Assange really does take source protection seriously and isn't a co-conspirator as has been suggested. Why did they redact this previously?
A car is much more that the power output of its engine. It therefore has a role to play in this limit.

"Power is nothing without control" - Pirelli

"Fun is not a straight line" - BF Goodrich

"The analogy of the blog holds" - GP poster
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To keep something going you have to make it news again. In some ways this is easier, because it already was news and this is more of an update. In some ways its a lot harder because it is time sensitive.
IANAM, but I do know it was an unassailable problem in Russell + White's efforts to found mathematics on a firm basis in Principia Mathematica [1].

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_mathematica#Consisten...
I think he's playing off the fact that some people consider the term "Indian" pejorative for Native Americans.
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Well, that's the point. Take away the weasel word 'magic', and saying that humans are doing what a Turing machine can do is the same thing as saying they're algorithmically representable.

Turing machines are not handed down to us by God; there is no reason to believe they are some kind of Ultimate Representation of Everything.
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Product: iPhone running app called "PaceWave."

Every running application out on the marketplace right now has some generic running silhouette as icon and logo. We want to differentiate our app from the rest, of course. If you have any neat suggestions for a logo that'd be appreciated as well!

Thanks and please vote on which logo you like best. :)
There's a ton of stuff been and being organized for next year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_Year and http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/
Yeah, you need to get a little better at detecting sarcasm.
The concurrency model will be a key ingredient in "the language of the future" -- right now I would put my money on Google's Go in part because of its concurrency model.
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I'll add one more reason I don't think we're in a gold bubble: as long as countries around the world continue devaluing their currencies, the nominal price of gold will continue to rise. While it's possible that the inflation-adjusted price of gold could fall, I can't imagine that happening in an environment where fiat currencies globally are being debased. I should say that this isn't just true for gold, but for any hard asset that hasn't seen an explosion of supply (like apartments in Nevada or China for example).

When central banks worldwide stop printing and start raising interest rates, that's when I'll start scrutinizing further accumulation...
Based on the biography and attitude, I assumed it was George Soros, who is pretty damn smart, financially. I could be wrong, though.
Have you tried to staff a C++ project? If you don't have the ability to easily fire people, it's a horrible pain.

There are tons of people who think they know C++. There are a smaller subset that do.

If you get people who A> Refuse to follow the subset of the language your group is using on the project or B> deeply misunderstand one or two features, you're in total utter hell if you can't fire the person.

Most places don't have an easy enough ability to fire people to do C++ in my opinion, therefore C++ is not suitable for them.
most worms have an 'installed' marker somewhere on the system. the loader will check the mark and if not present, will install and reboot. my sense is that the marker wasn't being set properly resulting in this bug.

I had the same bug in a worm I wrote. I was storing the marker in the local user part of the registry, which was being loaded from the domain controller, so the bit wasn't being retained.
Well the Holy Grail of automating software development has been supposedly coming for a long time and still isn't here, check out The Last One from 1981-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_%28software%29
As macavity23 said (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2766974), C++ has certain strengths, and because of that, I think it will be around for a long, long time.

But at the same time, developers will prefer working in higher-level (more productive) languages whenever possible.

So, IMHO, C++ is a language of the future, not the language of the future.
Actually those companies only handle slicing a PSD into HTML/CSS -- this is a very small portion of a "web design" job. There's still spec'ing and estimating and implementing it in a CMS and adding custom functionality and testing it and deploying it, and of course actually designing the thing in the first place :)
Hurd isn't stuck in the seventies and aims to do more than re-implement a 40-year-old design.
He would be correct if creation of AI depended on a thorough understanding of neuroscience. But I hope we needn't wait that long.

It's the old "Birds fly. To fly, man must fully understand bird flight." argument. Yet today we still don't completely understand bird flight but planes _do_ fly.

The analogy is not complete: we have yet to find the "air", the "turbulence", a "Bernoulli principle", etc. of intelligence. That is to be determined. But this approach is the only reasonable one.

As the author implies, waiting for neuroscience is like waiting for Godot.
Obviously they're making a profit too. My point was that they determine prices for most of the world on a mass-production manufacturing basis, while for the US they also include recovering the research and testing costs. That's why we get charged more. (That, and because most of the drug costs are hidden behind the insurance system which helps them get away with this practice.)
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At the end, we can't talk about exponential or linear growth. We have no 'mesure' for scientific advance. and we need mesure for mesuring something. Or maybe somes exist but I'm not... okay so I googled it before posting some stupid stuff: It seems that there's no 'real' mesure.. scientific paper to prove it: http://www.springerlink.com/content/m1h2150x02u153x3/
Without seeing absolute numbers, it's impossible to determine if this is actually Android devs jumping ship to iOS, or if it's just that brand new devs to either ecosystem have decided to start out on iOS for one reason or another.

Linkbait headline is linkbait.
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Use a tortoise, or a hamster on a wheel. Or Debra, the zonkey - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/8618302/Rare-zonke...

Funny animals are memorable.
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It's not illegal to use dominance in one market to enter another. That's called good business.

Antitrust requires monopoly, which google does not have. There are many competitive and successful ad networks and search engines, and there is no lock in to the search product.
It's been done before, I believe the website was badcustomer.com (no longer active). I think there's another one that's still active, but I'm not having much luck finding it.

There was a lot of negative press about this when it came out, I'm not really sure of why. It would probably be tough to overcome that if a similar service was launched.
In the US MLM schemes for gold have been going on essentially since forever, so it's hard to tell signal from noise. This covers the full spectrum from the cheap survivalist magazine advertising gold coins next to weapons and emergency kits to upscale hedge funds trying to sell shares to smart money. A pretty well known media personality (Glenn Beck) has been plugging gold investing (but also conversion to cash) through one of his sponsors on his show. Whatever you think of Mr. Beck's political views, that he managed to tie them into simple ad sales shows good business sense. I'm sure our American friends here can come up with some more examples. It's hard for me to say if there's more signals recently or I'm just discovering them.
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I've never been impressed by the "simulate a single human" approach to AGI.

I don't know why it appeals to people. Has Christianity infected people with a desire for personal immortality? Are people inured to flushing billions and billions down the drain on biomedical research?

Another issue is that humans aren't that great anyway. The "game of life" is really about statistical inference and people aren't that good at it -- the success of Las Vegas proves it. If you can eliminate the systematic biases that people make dealing with uncertainty, you can make intelligence which is qualitatively superhuman, not just quantitatively superhuman.

It's much more believable that steady progress will be made on emulating and surpassing human faculties. This won't be based on any one particular methodology (symbol processing, neural nets, Bayesian networks) but will be based on picking and choosing what works. Progress is going to be steady here because progress means better systems each step of the way.

Sure, the Richard Dreyfuses will be with us each step of the way and will diminish our accomplishments... and they might still be doing so long after we're living in a zoo.
"boil the ocean"

This particular ocean should be fairly easy to boil with a browser extension for all popular browsers.
It's a reddit-style joke. ("Most interesting man in the world.")
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This is completely shameful for the USA government, and indicates a total failure on the legislative branch's part. The citizens of the USA need to vote more carefully. The USA also needs some kind of effective campaign reform, to prevent the elected officials from ending up beholden to major campaign contributors.
There are a number of consumers that abuse the chargeback process in order to get a service without paying for it, or to get a refund on something when they accepted an agreement saying it was non-refundable. It's pretty difficult for companies to fight fraudulent chargebacks, and I believe they get charged for it even if it's overturned.
Or we all can just stick with Windows XP. Wouldn't it be great?
My intention was that a single branch could have an unambiguous revno.

As pointed out elsewhere in the thread, that requires that branch identity is maintained across a fork+merge, but that seems reasonable to me?
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How did you not hear about it? It is basically what made wikileaks front page news for months when it happened. Maybe you just didn't realize that was this?
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Why isn't Larry Page using circles on Google+?
If you pay attention to Larry Page's google+ profile you'll notice he has not placed anyone in circles yet. Yeah you could say he's busy launching the network, but that's why he should be using it too right ? Whatever happened to eating your own dog food ?
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It almost certainly is.

When you ask a genetic algorithm to design a lego bridge, you get something that looks like this: http://www.thinkartificial.org/artificial-intelligence/evolv...

If our DNA was designed by the same process, it almost certainly looks the same way. There should be no abstraction beyond the strictly functional. If it's comprehensible at all, that would be a miracle.
>Storing time as Unix timestamps is often not possible.

If only there were mechanisms that could use a stored set of predefined rules enabling those other values to be derived when given a unix timestamp.
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As the closest relative to C, and the cross-platform language, tech world can't really live without it. But you can, of course... is it the programming language of the future? I think the programming language of the future hasn't been created yet.
Hmmmm, maybe he just did: http://picolisp.com/robots.txt