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I'm always in favour of technology which solves the replication issues in mysql. It's been one of the most painful parts of managing databases for myself.

I would like to throw in the tungsten replicator into this discussion http://code.google.com/p/tungsten-replicator/. I have been researching it for the past few weeks as a replacement to mysql's built in replication hoping to solve a lot of the current pitfalls especially in 5.0.x. There is a very thorough guide here http://tungsten.sourceforge.net/docs/Tungsten-Replicator-Gui...
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Remember that anon service that turned out to be funded by the CIA? Is it a coincidence that Google started just a few blocks from SRI the premier spook work contractor on the planet. Tell me just how useful would it be for the US gov to be able to monitor everyone's searches of the net?
"Lots of smart scientists really believed that once the human genome was sequenced, we would have the keys to the biological kingdom."

Here's my (a computer scientist's) view on the matter:

Imagine that you have a relatively complex computer system written with object oriented principles. Now, imagine that you are looking at the binary representation of this system and trying to make sense out of the whole thing. Also, imagine that you have no knowledge of how computer systems work and how the layers between the computer program, programming language, possibly virtual machine, and native code work.

There are layers involved between these objects and their binary representation. I imagine that there are also layers between our genome (analogy to binary code) and the leveraged representation of ourselves (analogy to object oriented system).

I think that this is why it is hard to make much sense out of the genome, even though the human genome was sequenced.

I also imagine that this is why it is hard to make sense out of the brain by looking at the brain directly. An analogy would be that we are again looking at binary representation of information.

It would be far more useful to figure out how this stuff works. I am not sure how this is done at this time.
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For one i loathe Facebook's interface. But by and large nearly all of my communication is by instant messenger, skype, email, phone, or some combination of the above.

And I basically live online since i work in a distributed team.
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I am not sure if it is that challenging, but calculating the impact of different pricing schemes on revenue is quite a mess.

You have hundred of thousands of product numbers. That are sold in different quantities, bulks, countries, regions.

You have to record data at order and billing levels. This means millions of records each month.

Finally, you have to provide different scenarios of impact on revenue based on price variations of products...

You have to separate the effect of different product mixes from the effect of price variation on revenue.
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I don't think it's ignoring robots.txt, it's probably just cached at another thread/machine/datacenter. It will pick up the new robots.txt eventually. This behavior is well-known.
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I still work for my first employer after I graduated from college 6 years ago. I took their first salary offer without negotiation. I thought it was a good offer and I didn't know any better. Turns out, I could have asked for 10% more and still been in their range.

In the 6 years I've been with the company, I've gotten a good number of raises. I now make 39% more than I did 6 years ago. Due to the recession, some hard work, and raise freezes for higher earners, I've now caught up to those who came in making more than me that first year out of college.

You can do the same thing I've done (stick it out and hope for raises), or now that you have a good understanding of what you think you're worth, go and ask for that. Why not just ask your boss for more money? They won't fire you for asking, worst they'll do is say no.
Hehe, it looks nice. But more than an iPad it looks like a mini iMac.
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The main problem with this pie in the sky stuff is that any new tech brings with it a whole new set of problems. Nano bots, how about nano bots with viruses? Get the picture.

If the Singularity was to happen, do you think the entity would announce itself or go about first securing its security and control of us. We are already ruled by the 0s in our financial system.
Flying total OT here but how is it prejudice to describe the place that way? "sleazy Indian casino" is obviously a personal opinion of an Indian casino; why does he have to give less information simply because he dislikes the casino?

If I say "sleazy American diner" is that prejudice too?
Serious question: what's this for? It doesn't seem to be an interesting research project, and shows no sign of being useful in a pragmatic sense.

Surely a clean-sheet design started _now_ would be more interesting and perhaps even useful than a 21-year-old microkernel. Think about all the changes in architecture, networks, storage, etc.

We're in a world with consumer processors with 4-8 cores and hardware multithreading, GPUs that rival or exceed (in certain domains) the processing grunt of the CPUs, network cards that can talk to L2 cache, SSDs, etc.

Surely enough has changed that a clean-sheet design could be a lot more exciting - and even more practical - than trying to finish a design that hasn't succeeded for 2 decades. A clean-sheet design would at least be interesting - we already know you can build a workable system on top of a microkernel.

This isn't a claim to know what a clean sheet design would look like; I haven't really looked seriously at OS research in 15 years. I just strongly suspect you might do radically different, interesting designs in 2011 vs 1990.
I voted up the story because it is a very good question, but the title is awful, as you say. Something like "An unexplained anomaly in Google's Q1-Q2 earnings" would have been better for our site.
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Indeed, your writing makes much sense and most of it I am aware of. It may not be as useful to me as to other members of the community.

Id just like to clarify that I am not looking for investment advice I am merely collecting opinions. It just so happens that opinions of this community are more valuable since on average members of this community are the very intellectual elite of the world - as far as communities go.
Half of your examples are, in the grand scheme of things, trivial applications of decades-old techniques. Recommendation, for example, is based on techniques which are almost 100 years old (SVD). Winning chess has been rendered possible through increased machine power, the algorithms necessary for it are hardly ground breaking. If this is AI, then many things are AI: almost any quantitative usage of statistics is AI, for example.

There is no agreement on this, but some leading AI researchers consider that most AI problems should be solvable with decades old computers (i.e. we need some completely new paradigms that nobody has yet thought about). See Mc Carthy for example: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/node1.html
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I played seriously with Hurd in the early 2000s, and remember really loving many of its ideas. The user space file systems (which Fuse does for other OSes) were quite cool. I can't imagine that much of the good stuff Hurd promised hasn't already been adopted by others.
It's like spaghetti code that's been written by trial-and-error for a billion years.
The whole framework is extremely abstract. Unless human brains are doing magic that's beyond what a Turing machine can do, whatever humans are doing probably does boil down to something resembling the Solomonoff induction AIXI is based on. It's also pretty trivial to observe that humans are running some kind of very clever approximation instead of the full abstract AIXI, since we can actually do useful stuff with the amount of sensory information we get in reasonable time.

What humans do belongs to the part where you need to figure out how to make this stuff efficiently computable.
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success. Bruce Lehman, the architect of the DMCA, acknowledged as far back as 2007 that the
DMCA was failure where blame solely rests on the shoulders of the RIAA for failing to adapt
to a modern marketplace. It’s very unnerving the idea that not only was the US basically
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casting failed policy as success stories. It defies logic. [...]

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interests.[...]

[...] Overall, I think it is infuriating the way the US has conducted themselves on copyright
on the international stage. In New Zealand, they are even pushing the country to implement
laws even the US wouldn’t dare pass themselves because of it’s over-restrictiveness. I think
Americans would be equally offended if, say, Chinese diplomats went to the US and dictated
what laws should be passed on, say, internet laws for instance. If the US government wants
to know why there is so much resentment directed to the US, maybe they should look at how the
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That's a pretty good article, and has some of what "Start Small, Stay Small" says. I guess what's tripping me up is that for something like customer support, you want to put on a really good face, not have some guy answering with poor English 36 hours later. I'm starting to wonder how that might work economically. I began trying to find people right away, figuring (correctly) that I'd want to start working on this part of the business from the get-go, because for me it's one of the most difficult parts to figure out. So far, I'm not terribly impressed, and am wondering if I just have expectations that are too high, or what.
Not really. The idea behind hard AI is that you can have one algorithm that can solve general problems, not lots of different algorithms to solve specific problems.

Take IBM's research as an example. Deep Blue is very good at solving chess problems, Watson is very good at solving textual analysis problems, but taken together they don't solve any problems that aren't chess or textual analysis.

The hard AI problem is a direct parallel of the psychological debate over whether a general intelligence capability (the 'G factor') exists in humans, and whether this can be measured (IQ).
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Also, change in technology may find itself outstripping society's ability (or willingness) to integrate it. In fact, I'd say it already is, and has been for quite some time.

We have the technology already to facilitate incredible intelligence - it's just extremely unevenly distributed, and stifled by lack of political will and social inertia.
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Yeah, no matter how useful, you just can't give third-party services your bank logins.
This is a good analogy. Unfortunately however things could be even worse. At least in computing their is some logical design to be discovered. Biology isn't constrained by this. It might well be layer after layer of spaghetti code.
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Google has become a publisher and an affiliate marketer, dabbling in mortgages, loans, flight search, even clothing (Boutiques.com). The search results are clobbered more and more with results to Google's own properties.

Less long tail, more Google properties, outprice and drive out the small enterpreneurs. That's the reason.

Have a look at the screenshots in this article, especially in the second half

http://www.seobook.com/category-killer-domain-names

Don't mind the name, but read it anyway, Aaron Wall is today probably the most inquisitive watchdog of Google.
For me this complexity problem could insurmountable. I think the best approach may be to side step this issue and try selective breeding of virtual (increasingly) intelligent beings.
As much as I despise PHP, I think it's a valid language for taking your first steps in.

From your post it's not easy to tell what you're exactly having trouble with, but I suspect it's a general feeling of being lost.

Be aware that for your project you probably need to read up a bit/learn a little of the following:

- Programming basics: Variables, types, expressions and statements, control flow (loops, if/else)

- Web development basics: HTML and CSS to build your pages, a little knowledge about HTTP can't hurt either (GET vs. POST for you form, maybe Basic-Authentication). PHP will take care of the gritty details here

- Not sure if you want to store your forms in a database. If you do, you'll have to look for a php/mysql tutorial. There should be plenty around the web.

- Finally you need to set up some kind of development environment. WAMPserver comes with everything you need. On Mac there's MAMP, which is easier in the beginning than setting it up on your own.

Don't expect this to go fast. There's a lot of reading and playing around involved.
If you start enjoying this and feel comfortable in PHP, you should look for a different language though. While PHP is comfortable to learn and good for first steps, I think it's actually counterproductive to try to build anything bigger with it.

The PHP ecosystem is poised with mediocrity and bad code. While it's actually possible to write good code in PHP, it's hard to find examples of good programming and the languages horrible design makes it actually difficult (though not impossible) to express yourself well and write good code.
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I enjoyed reading along about this on the Langner blog during late last year and early this year.

He was often the first to break news about new understanding in the PLC related code, and at the time was given very little credit for it. Yet without him it would probably have taken a LOT longer to get to the bottom of this.

If you want an example of an interesting post from his blog:
http://www.langner.com/en/2011/02/22/intercept-infect-infilt...
Here he talks about a nice attack vector, that seems obvious if you have access to bits of the postal infrastructure in Germany...

And:
http://www.langner.com/en/2010/11/15/417-attack-code-doing-t...
Here he talks about the man in the middle attack, which meant that the PLCs reported back correct frequency/speeds to the operators, whilst doing something nasty underneath.

I'm waiting for a good book to come out that details all of the stuff in this attack. It's pretty stunning work.
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Not interested in arguing about his time table, but the example of DNA sequencing only affording a linear increase in undersanding is bogus and he ought to know that. It has significantly accelerated genetics research by making mapping a matter of a browser search. As an example, the fly lines developed by Gerry Rubin et al, which can be manipulated to express any reporter gene in any genetically defined brain locus. That would have been completely infeasible prior to complete genomic sequencing of the fly.
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Presumably you suggested a hash of the credit card number, because passing them the actual credit card number would be bad?

Well, you couldn't use a hash for this. It would take hardly any time at all to generate a rainbow table which covers all possible credit card numbers.
Can you show me a Times, Newsweek, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, or NBC article, that's not an editorial, taking a pro-gold position? That's the mainstream. That's what the mostly-unsophisticated read and believe.

The genuinely unsophisticated have a negative net worth, and they're not holding gold. They haven't dug themselves out of the hole they got into during the housing bubble.

Do you know where we can find statistics of financial holdings by households in the USA? I'm sure it will show an increase in gold holdings, but the vast majority of people who have any savings at all have them in naive instruments like mutual funds. Even holding individual stocks is a level of sophistication that puts you above probably %80 of the population.

Holding gold is probably at the level of holding stocks in terms of sophistication right now... to do so you have to recognize the fundamental error in the worldview held by essentially the entire media-- and that takes a lot of thinking.

I do see a lot of people who aren't completely unsophisticated, but not very sophisticated who bash gold. These are the people who hold mutual funds and don't understand why paying %1 of your total assets to a mutual fund in order to underperform the market (which they think they're not doing because they have an "index" fund) is a bad idea, even after you try to explain it to them. ("Stocks are too risky, that's gambling" they say).

For the past 10 years, I've been seeing the same arguments, mostly ideological, against owning gold. I won't call these people unsophisticated, as it take some sophistication to understand why gold is a threat to their ideology.
Those predictions are a lot less impressive if you read the text of them rather than a short summary written after 2009 came to pass. The prediction about portable computers for 2009 that he actually made back in 1999 (in the book The Age of Spiritual Machines) reads:

"Personal computers with high-resolution visual displays come in a range of sizes, from those small enough to be embedded in clothing and jewelry up to the size of a thin book."

People don't really use wearable computers now, at least not powerful enough to drive high-resolution displays. And the desktop is still with us, as are laptops in the same large form factors that were all that was available in 1990.

Looking at his other predictions for 2009, I'm not sure its fair to say that cables are disapearing since you still need them for the highest speed connections, but the statement is ambiguous enough that I'll give him that one.

"The Majority of text is created using continuous speech recognition" is totally false.

"Most routine business transactions take place between a human and a virtual personality. Often the virtual personality includes an animated visual presence that looks like a human face." No.

"Intelligent courseware has emerged as a common means of learning". Sure, but I'd already done this back in '99 so it wasn't a hard prediction.

"Pocket sized reading machines for the blind" AFAIK these exist.

"Translating telephones are commonly used for many language pairs" well, its in development. I imagine it'll be common by 2015.

"Widespread deflation" well, both the US and Japan have had bouts of deflation recently, that wasn't due to technology but rather central bank decisions.

"The neo-Ludite movement is growing" its less of a problem than in 1999, as far as I can tell.

If you look at all his predictions rather than cherry picking the best ones and rewriting the rest to sound better he doesn't come out so well.
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Trying to overhang the market may be trendy, but it's certainly not new.

Anyway, in the absence of any reason to believe that this thing, whatever it is, will solve some problem in a compelling new way, revealing it's existence doesn't accomplish much. I'd say it seems more likey that this is simply a mistake, rather than a weak marketing stunt.