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Okay so - this is the challenge: how do we codify that? It's like I'm saying we can look at these, as humans and use our common sense and say "This is reasonable" and "This is not".

Let's look at something I did recently: I came up with an idea for an ORM which doesn't require you to create any boiler plate base classes and uses the primary key structure of your database to intuit how to join tables together.[1]

Do you think that's patentable? I think not and to patent that would be total bullshit. I don't know what prior art exists (I've not seen anything that does this before but then I didn't really look all that hard) but even without prior art patenting this process would seem ludicrous to me because it's like patenting a workflow or a formula.

It's almost like the hardware analogue of that is patenting a way of using something, rather than an actual invention. Is that the distinction? Software patents that are awarded for figuring out how to improve the way we use existing inventions, as opposed to real inventions?

[1]https://github.com/iaindooley/PluSQL/
All browsers are provided free of charge and will run equally well on an average piece of hardware. Why do you think browser use is related to income?
I was a similar weight. But being 6 foot 3 helps. A BMI of 26-28 is overweight, it's most people don't really notice. It's also really easy to lose, if you can just cut down a little.
Here's one for you to look up: connotation.
I haven't personally. But two close friends have. They both said "it's a good acceleration tool if you already have traction with well known angels". Can spur a lot of fast followers. Your mileage may vary.

Also, have heard very good things about Naval. I've got to meet that guy at some point.
I'm in a similar situation, though I'm going to stick it out and finish the CE degree at my private school. I've heard other students call up University of Washington who once the people there heard the name of my school, they laughed and said "Yeah we won't accept your credits even though your classes are harder than ours and your school average is 20-credit semesters." The main issue there is accreditation. For my school to get the same level of accreditation as universities, basically the only thing that needs to change is the power structure and possibly a few more required "soft" classes. We have a pretty decent Dictator even if he has his faults, the analogy is something like the difference between Python with a BDFL and C++ with a committee.
This should push so many buttons, in particular those belonging to unions & folks who still think minimum wage laws are a good idea.
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If it appears that you need/want a better education/etc, come to UW.

We've got a killer CS/Math program (one of the best in Canada?), and there are pink ties autographed by Bill Gates in the Math department.
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Really? Everywhere I've been in the States the amount of white cheddar is roughly equal to colored cheddar, and in the gourmet cheese section there is rarely any colored cheddar.
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Oversimplifying, Shannon's theorem applies to a single channel between source and destination.

Current Wifi uses the same channel for all destinations, since there is no way to spatially separate destinations - thus the signals to different destinations interfere and proportionately reduce the capacity to individual destinations.

DIDO is creating spatially separated channels to each destination by modeling the spatial domain and creating signals from different APs which interfere to deliver independent channels to each destination.
Is it just me who finds this 'rebate' quite preposterous. Without sounding too critical about the government measures to reduce healthcare costs, I want to point out to this TED video about a chain of hospitals in India and how they have made quality eye care affordable by cutting costs.

http://www.ted.com/talks/thulasiraj_ravilla_how_low_cost_eye...
"you're now operating in the material world, the old rules apply, and good luck to you"

That's where patents and most of us live. Seeing a patent as bad is not logical. Seeing the potential to improve on someone else's idea and acquire your very own patent is logical.
College dropout here and I'm doing just fine. School matters naught if you're smart.
Industrial farming based on huge amounts of cheap oil is not sustainable either. Think about all the oil/gas used in fertilizer production, pesticides, mechanization, harvesting, processing, storage, trucking, packaging.

Every step of the industrial food production process involves fossil fuels, which have a limited production flow, more or less flat since 2005. Large and growing countries like China and India will demand and are receiving increasing amounts of global oil production. This forces prices to rise, and smaller, poorer players are priced out, reducing demand.

Google for Export Land Model, to read about this and other topics.

An example of this predicament is the UK who fairly transparently did a deal with Libya in return for securing gas supplies. Odious, but they had very little choice in order to secure energy.

And as the oil price rises, food costs rise too.
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I hope this gets recorded.
For larger-than-memory data sets, your current options seem to be either to shard your data, or to use something other than Redis. Redis doesn't pretend to be the answer to every problem, and fortunately there are a lot of options out there.

Personally, I'm using Redis right now for queueing and API request rate limiting. The portion of my data that's larger than memory is in MySQL. This is working pretty well.
I drink 88oz of coke every day. A gallon is 128oz. I also snack on chips a lot. I'm definitely not skinny, but by your logic, I should be about to overtake Gabe Newell. I'm not.

Most people are arrogant and think they know more than they do. The truth is, we know very little about nutrition (in an absolute sense, like "I absolutely know that if I hit that ball with X force, it will move Y meters").
You specifically want a cheddar that has been aged for multiple years; three years is common. Grafton cheddar from Vermont is considered to be very good cheese.
Anything in there acquired to defend themselves against Oracle?
As a result, patent lawyers, who know zilch about software or technology are making a killing.
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Time and talent are everything. Have you ever patented anything?
I admire Vinh's reserve. Engineering is full of compromises, and few things are more irritating than the guy that walks into the shop and spouts out at the mouth, utterly ignorant of the historical context surrounding the compromises that have been made.

Fresh pairs of eyes are helpful, but there are definitely more constructive ways to offer solutions than operating under the default assumption that everybody else are idiots.
...So I guess they let you stay? That seems like a risky game to me, I didn't think schools really cared about their students individually, just on an aggregate "x% graduated so we get funding" level. When I finished 8th grade, with 7th and 8th being full years of 4.0 GPAs every quarter, my junior high decided to kick me out instead of letting me go into 9th grade because I lived in the neighboring city and they didn't like that. The city JH and HS I went to after though were better anyway.

I kind of wish I took the GED as soon as I could have, would have saved many years. I had the unfortunately lucky 'problem' of liking a lot of my teachers and classes though. Basically what I hated were the prerequisites and the required things like art/p.e./poorly taught history which I had already learned in junior high that I had no interest in those things. (I actually liked weight lifting in p.e., but the running and 'games' I didn't like.) (It's especially bad that many of the required subjects in high school are near-replicas of what was required in junior high since most students had forgotten what they learned by then and when a Ceramics course is available to fill an art requirement the teacher has to construct it for those who suck at art, while the good ceramics people still have to take it to get to Ceramics 2.)
When the package says "100% juice," I think most people assume that means that the juice is squeezed from the orange and it goes into the carton without any processing or additives. I'm sure that's the impression that they're trying to give by putting that on the label. The fact that this isn't the case, and that the juice is actually highly processed in a very unnatural manner, is pretty alarming.
The answer is yes, until you are accomplished as either a founder or a maker.

If you are going to work for yourself, you will be hampered by having no history and not having developed a well connected support network. You will not be given the benefit of the doubt, and it will be hard to get doors to open for you. That will change if you provide a product that investors can understand.

If you are planning on working for a larger company based outside of your region, you will have a hard time getting passed HR prescreens and manager resume shuffles.

If you are graduating, your best bet is either to head to Toronto or Silicon Valley and start your own company, or go to graduate school in hopes of taking an internship at Google, Microsoft, or IBM. After you have a single large company on your resume, you'll be fine.
GNU doesn't really seem to rule their associated projects with an iron fist, so this doesn't stack up. glibc, gcc and gnome all seem to be considerably self-determining.
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Well said. Someone got some perspective into your head before it inflated out of control. Bravo to whoever did it (you or someone who taught you as a youngster).
"The activities that produce software require less motivation than the activities that produce hardware."

Produce software or produce a software product? There is a massive, massive difference.
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Agreed. Quotes seem hard to perfectly attribute. I imagine a lot of quotes are retold and repeated verbally a few times before being written down, so I suppose there's lots of room for errors.
Well, here I am. Judge for yourself: http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/24114_337315700...

I drink over half gallon of soda a day, and survive mostly on $1 McChickens.

So I'm either a freak of nature, or we don't know as much as we think we do about nature.
Not unless you change the world. You will learn a lot and I'm sure it will be valuable, but don't be at all surprised when it is discounted in the views of others.
I was talking to a coworker about software patents, and he said they were terrible. Then I asked about non-software patents, and he thought they were absolutely necessary.

To be honest I don't see the difference. For any given complicated piece of hardware, you can build an equally complicated piece of software. For every simple software patent out there, there is an equally ridiculous non-software patent (e.g., foot-pedal washing sinks)

I think whatever your stance on the issue of patents is, you shouldn't treat software as a special case.
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you and inconditus are both correct - the 'reverse' explanation is ridiculous.
The obvious question is how much work it'll be to turn each NPM into a system package for production use. It took us months to straighten out a nest of servers which had assorted unique versions of code smuggled onto them with ad hoc single-language tools completely lacking RPM integration, and we're not about to go there again. The sample package.json doesn't show any way to list native (non-node) dependencies, which is not a good sign.
I would agree.

Its also the case that how copyright law is interpreted is different from country to country.
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Interesting point: It's the messy, opportunistic, gestalt-driven activity of thinking that we still don't know much about.

I have a couple of questions that I would love someone well-versed in AI to answer:

1. Does the difficulty of systems like driverless cars arise because we haven't been able to replicate the feedback loop mechanism that is largely hardwired? Is it some limitation of control theory (I'm just speculating). How is this so fundamentally harder than the ability to exponentiate one 1024-bit numer to another mod a third 1024-bit number (which is done in microseconds)?

2. With regards to aspects of AI that we might want to interact with, is human vision and visual post-processing done in the brain the hardest to replicate? Is it a matter of unknown algorithms or rather massive parallelism that gives humans a large advantage? If not, are other senses, like hearing (voice-recognition) or haptics harder to replicate?
The main difference is that with prisons, the "customer" is the government. Inmates do not have a voice in society, and they are routinely raped and tortured (and often murdered) in both private and public prisons.
100 ms / 10 ms = 10 steps

But that's a straw man argument. The brain is a massively parallel net of neurons connected by synapses. Saying that it takes "10 steps" to respond to a stimulus is like saying that a GPU only applies a few pixel shaders on a scene per frame. Perhaps, but that's over millions of pixels.

Also, human DNA is unique from that of close mammals on a set of base pairs of size the order of 1-5 percent of our genome. So that means 10-50 MB. That's actually a pretty substantial size: it can even store a small operating system kernel (Linux can be compiled to under 10 MB).

Edit: The 1 GB figure comes from the fact that the human genome size is almost 3 billion base pairs, where each base pair exactly encodes 2 bits. So, (3x10^9)*2/8=750 MB which rounds up.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v431/n7011/abs/nature03...
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If you are just starting your second year, and you know you want to accomplish a lot in this field; attempt to transfer to a larger school with more opportunity, say Waterloo, by the end of the year.
Thank you PJ for the clarification. I have no problem with "the right tool for the right job", just wasn't sure how to fit all the pieces together.

If redis wants to focus on ultra-fast/in memory I can take advantage of that in the right ways. Just wanted to make sure I understood the constraints correctly.
They would also be aware of game theory, and may choose to use adblock but not tell anyone, or even actively campaign against it while using it themselves.

I'm not suggesting smart people are unethical, but rather that ethicality and intelligence are fairly orthogonal, and that your proposed means seems to have more to do with the former than the latter.

As to the speculation, you are of course right. I'm just putting off studying. Speaking of which...
The more important questions is whether Google has developed self-awareness.
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How could his feeling not be hurt—at least a little bit—when someone ostensibly knowledgeable comes in and dismisses his work as crap and proceeds to replace it with something stylish and trendy, but failing to meet the requirements?

Vinh's response was measured and appropriate and professional, much more so than Rutledge's original post. I see absolutely no reason why he should waste his time engaging in explanations and dialogue with someone doing a drive-by hit piece on his work.
Why not commit yourself to a project instead?

It might be possible to learn work ethic from, say, the military, but college is unstructured enough that you have to push yourself through it, unless your peers are working as hard as you are.

It sounds like you're weighing your intellectual interests in college against your interest in startups. If you're sure you want to do tech, it sounds like you live in a town where talent is sparse enough that once you have a project to pitch around, you could get paid a good amount.
Thanks. I have no idea. I've just always been modest / hated bragging. (In fact it feels silly to post this since it seems similar to "whoooo look at me I'm so modest!")

If you want to read what the childhood of a true genius is like, or just read a really great book, then check out Feynman's "Surely You're Joking". It helped me to realize how much of a monkey I am in comparison.
I'm in exactly the same boat you are. I recently finished one book and am now mostly finished with LPTHW. I feel like I have some of the basics down but I don't really know what to do next. It feels like there is this big gap and I don't know how to cross it.
As a hiring manager, a top tier school will matter for a long while. It matters not only in salary (20%+) for a top tier school, but also in the opportunities people will trust you with.
I remember watching a Sunny Delight commercial as a kid. Someone is digging through the fridge listing the drink options... "We got OJ, Purple Stuff, Soda... And Sunny D!"

Before that commercial, I was one of those people who thought Sunny D was OJ.

Call it bad advertising: I looked at Sunny D as "Orange Stuff" after that ad and no longer wanted it.

EDIT: I guess I'm not the only one who remembers the commercials, there's a spoof on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiOaBTpKqnk&NR=1&feat... (and of course the real thing is on YouTube if you care to find it)
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If someone has a great interest in something, finds the work energizing, has a goal, is organized and people around him always set the bar a little bit higher and are there to help, I can see how that can bring you most of the way there to finishing high school by 12. I can become a genius violinist if I had an all consuming drive to become one. It's that bloody motivation issue.
But why Spotify and why now? Couldn't they have hit Apple, Real, Microsoft, (new) Napster, Amazon, Pandora, Last.fm and a zillion other drm-music-to-device streaming services before now? Have they summonsed these services already but we just don't know about it? Who exactly is trying to keep Spotify out?
> It's the messy, opportunistic, gestalt-driven activity of thinking that we still don't know much about.

Sometimes I have a feeling that the reason we don't know much about our own thought processes is because we like to imagine them as we would prefer them to be rather than trying to face our thinking the way it really is.
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Yeah, that is what I was looking for, an 'easy track'. Not a recommendation from someone in the field based on the fact that I am a programmer with a science background.

Thanks.
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I don't know that it would exactly answer your questions, but if you're interested in these topics, I would highly recommend Jeff Hawkins' book "On Intelligence".
Good for them. As much as I hate the software patent system, until it is fixed or eliminated it is a necessary evil for a large tech corporation. Tech patents are the nuclear arsenal of big tech business. I have my stockpile, you have your stockpile, and if we're relatively balanced we'll all just sit here because it's too dangerous to start throwing heat around. Google just picked up a nice set of silos for their defense.
I wouldn't worry about not having non-work projects or open source contributions. Most startup and Google engineers I know are in the same boat. Don't worry about trying to measure up to the Hacker News image of what a well rounded startup engineer rockstar ninja should look like:)

That being said, check out some hacker spaces, specifically Noisebridge (in the city), and Hacker Dojo on the peninsula.

If you happen to be around for SHDH(shdh.org) or Hackers and Founders (http://www.hackersandfounders.com/), go. They're both really stellar events, where you'll meet lots of cool people.

Lastly, if you'd like to meet up for a cup of coffee, send me an email (it's in my profile). I'm down in Palo Alto. I've worked at Google and a few startups, and am now working on my own company. I'd be happy to share any advice that might be helpful.
Here's another couple images I've found: http://blog.thenickstevens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ch... http://www.flickr.com/photos/claire_waverly/4686708528/ I guess I have seen white cheddar, but most often mixed with the yellow/orange coloring people are familiar with. e.g. "cheddar jack": http://www.osceolacheese.com/catalog/images/hickory%20smoked... In any case I'd bet people associate white cheese more with mozzarella (pizza cheese, cheese stick/string cheese) than cheddar. Another cheddar product I associate with is Mac&Cheese.

The gourmet cheese section/island is different! And I agree there's rarely coloured cheese. I suspect few shoppers who go straight to the Cheese Aisle (which is dominated by yellow cheddar/cheddar varieties) even know of its existence, even if they walk by it, let alone dare sample anything new/different/highly priced.
While the US doesn't exactly have an untarnished record with free speech, at least it is a constitutional right. The UK, on the other hand, doesn't guarantee freedom of speech and has in recent years banned certain forms of literature. Michael Savage is banned from entering the UK and was compared to violent religious and racial zealots, even though he never told anyone to use violence.

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Don't you think it's a bit insightful that the two most sophisticated OSs widely available are either direct descendents of or largely inspired by AT&T 60's technology?

That these technologies were highly modular, focused on a simple core, emerged as an independent (an unauthorized) side project at AT&T, and were immediately adapted and extended by the academic and research communities?

The principle change that's come about in the descendant / inspired instances present today is that there's a strong assurance that the license of these projects is and will remain free, allowing, say, independent entities, individuals, and organizations to try new ideas, prove them with a large audience, and see what you can get from them.

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