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Thanks for posting that quote, the speech transcript is one of the most touching works I've ever read.

If anyone's interested in reading more, it's available online here: http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in...

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The main problem is that 99% of programmers don't know how to prototype. They assume that whatever they commit is what goes into production. No. Try an idea quickly and throw it away if it's bad. That's why we have languages like Perl, Python, and Ruby. While it's 50/50 on using them for production, they are absolutely the right tool for testing your ideas quickly.

That's one possibility. However, I can't help but find the idea that you have some kind of arcane knowledge that 99% of all programmers don't have is a bit... well, egotistical. Prototyping certainly has its place, but its purpose is completely orthogonal to that of a meeting. Meetings serve to plan. They get everyone on the same page. Prototyping serves to test ideas out.

The problem is that meetings are almost always ruined by a small minority of people who insist on dragging them out. However, a good meeting is very helpful.
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There is a another point to that though: because the money has been taken from those people they are essentially being forced to pay to lower their own standard of living and to upgrade others to get closer to them. No wonder they are pissed at this tripple whammy.
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I think if I was dumb enough to leave display_error on in production, I'd have a bigger problem with crackers being able to figure out sensitive details about my system from said error messages than worrying about them injecting scripts into them. Not saying that I have not seen this in the wild, but I have zero sympathy for those that don't carry out these basic steps to secure their production servers.
Regarding 1) — I very much doubt so. Some amount of social grease is needed but not in ammounts where it turns into mud where we are stuck. Believe me, I have read quite a few of the books in the fields you metioned.

2) There is a difference between refusing to learn, and learning and seeing no meaning in some of that stuff. The problem with so called people-skills is that they tend to become automated actions, some kind of cargo cult. You can execute them perfectly, and not care a bit about the people you so smoothly interact with. When you see that real thought are dilluted beyond any reconition in a sea of polite babbling you know that something is wrong.
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From reading (not viewing the videos), it appears to be an [artificial] neural net implemented in hardware. So, it's a novel, brain-like architecture for multi-core, programmed in the same way as neural nets (i.e. 'trained')

I have doubts about [artificial] neural nets, since they never really went anywhere, and I don't think scale or hardware implementation will automatically change that.

But playing with novel hardware can give novel perspectives, leading to new insights - and IBM is quite right that our present architectures seem to have stalled. That is, apart from GPGPUs.
How will they reduce the costs of putting someone in orbit from $30-40mil like it is today?
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Basically nothing. I drag-drop the produced site via S3 Browser.app. I need to fix that part of the workflow; it's a little awkward here.
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I would add one-click "beardify me" links for Twitter and Facebook. With some luck it could start a movement.
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Um.

One of the main reasons beta versions of an OS are made available is to find bugs in the OS. Apps can crash because the OS isn't doing what it's supposed to. Which is why we're up to iOS Beta 5. [edit: didn't see your FWIW - was that an edit?]

I'm afraid this reads like a hacker rant who is angry that lesser mortals get to write code too. I'm a bit disappointed this comes from someone as influential as yourself.

[edit] It is a great luxury to have a standardised platform to write for and it cuts development costs. Any Android devs want to comment on their experience of writing code for diverse hardware and setups vs iOS? Or indeed Android users wanting to comment on the quality of software being written?
I see plenty of people I know of but have never interacted with online (in fact I just found the previous-unfound profile of a coworker with a very common name). Facebook is /smart/--though I wouldn't doubt for a second that they've used your friend finder data to strength their edgerank data I would not be surprised to learn their seeming precognition comes from more esoteric sources.
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Downvotes are deserved.
You may not want to see HTML, but the thing is, it impacts performance of the page. Client side performance has direct and measureable business impact.
Also, let's not forget, that more and more people browser the web on their mobile phones. Some still pay a lot for bandwidth or have a traffic cap, so every byte counts there. Also, so far mobile phones are pretty restctricted in resources, and if you go over some limit compontents of your page won't be cached and browser will have to redownload them, then see the first point.
If you use any kind of DOM manipulation having gaziilion of unneeded elements will slow script down a lot. Once again, on the phones and tablets that is even more important than on desktops.
Others already mentioned accessibility.
There should never be ecscues for a sloppy code not to metion a horrible code like this.
Oh and btw: Dont repost the same thing three times.
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Assuming that people show up on time, do what they have agreed to, etc obviously isn't stupid social rules. They have practical utility.

Sugar-coating peoples screw-ups, pretending they aren't wrong when they are or have a point when they don't, playing politics or favorites, etc however tends to make smart people look with distain on all social rules.
As I believe the zoom makes it more unique, "multi-user whiteboard offering unlimited zooming", or the likes. But you're absolutely right.
But you were able to do this before SmartOS... I'm curious about this too, and how Joyent have architected their cloud arrangement. I feel like perhaps hypervisors have local ZFS storage, as opposed to large SAN-backed virtual machines, but I can't really find much useful information on how Joyent/SmartOS implement/architect storage...
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Thanks. I did actually look for something like this, but I was looking for it under 'about'.

I still personally think the resemblance (not just the monochrome, but the overall look - the layout, the individual entries, the top nav, the bottom nav) is pushing the limits of good taste, but oh well.
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Bullshit. Steven Hawking can't even move his arms yet he produce more value than most people.

What we need is the social equivalent of a wheelchair and then get back to more important matters.
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I was just in Seoul a few months ago and I saw about equal numbers of iPhones vs Androids. And as a mobile developer I pay extra attention to these type of things =)

The percentage of people who even have smartphones in SK seems far higher than the US. It's difficult to find anyone without an iphone or android.
Very neat; reminds me of http://swimbots.com, which focuses more on locomotion and the evolution of locomotion. But still, nice.
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You say that like you don't have an ancestor room in your house :)

I also refute any study involving only 150 people to describe human nature.
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We've already trod this path and it lead us to dark places.
Being able to uncover what profiles have been viewed is a significant problem for a lot of people. And they aren't worried about malicious users - they are worried about their partners/parents/children seeing which profiles they've viewed. Who looks at what profile is one of the most sensitive pieces of information facebook has, and I'm a little surprised that they do this.
Really Apple should't be making changes that break apps between one major release and another. There should be at least one round of deprecation first. Microsoft used to be really good about this kind of thing. Admittedly Apple has always been much more willing to break working code.
I guess the grandparent was suggesting that, yes, it’s unfair but Apple has no incentive for banning reviews. They are ok with users heckling developers for updates since developers aren’t exactly scarce.
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>Sociopath is a tough word because it means a lot of things and it really isn't used in clinical diagnosis

When understood as a synonym for an acute case of antisocial personality disorder (this is how virtually all people educated in clinical psychology understand it), it's actually one of the primary commonalities of criminals and is an incredibly meaningful way to understand some people.

> Based on the historical patterns though a sociopath was typically someone lacking any type of empathy, so they would do things hurt other people just to amuse themselves by watching the results.

That's a pretty gross over-simplification, there are many comorbid behaviors with sociopathy and they form a whole constellation with which a clinician can diagnose/identify it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder

Here's a good start, you may want to educate yourself before you pontificate on the subject. Sociopathy is a very misunderstood disorder by most of the public, although there was a recent book that covered it semi-okay.
thanks for the hint. I changed the title, better?
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Why? I don't use Facebook, but visiting people's profiles on social sites doesn't mean much on the other ones. Most of the people I look at on Twitter or Google+ have done something so brazenly spammish that I have to go to their profile to find the "report spam" link or whatever. These people aren't my friends, they're just people that spam me that I want to go away.

Hardly a social disaster.
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My experience is that 99% of the time in meeting is spent on some issue that the computer could tell you very quickly. "This is O(n^2), but it's faster than the O(n log n) algorithm on modern hardware." Rather than debate, benchmark and explain the results to the group. Speculating gets us nowhere.
Sure, if you don't know how to prototype.

Think about it. Did Linus Torvalds sit down at a big meeting and design Linux on a whiteboard? Did the Mozilla team design Firefox at their daily stand-up meeting? Did Emacs evolve from detailed discussions and specs, or did someone write some macros for their favorite text editor and it evolved over time?

Great software isn't planned. Great software happens. Bitching about minor details in multi-person meetings is just a waste of time.

If you want to waste time, get a beer and read HN for a while.
Slightly less dramatic stat here, but still reckons it's 70% Android in terms of sales in the most recent months: http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/06/22/android-powers-70-of...
I recall Cydia being pretty broken in iOS 4 beta days, and using undocumented APIs for no reason (it was obviously written before the public SDK, but there was no reason NOT to rewrite it once the SDK was out).. So that seems pretty hypocritical of you to want Apple to 'weed out' apps using a special environment that app can't even be tested against by the dev. Also, average iOS app lifetime isn't long enough to even remotely justify such draconic testing measures - most will be out of the app store charts long before there's a breaking change in iOS.
As I am currently trying to implement the A* pathfinding algorithm in C++ this is both timely & very cool.

Most interesting is the selectable distance heuristic function (never thought about doing that in my own limited experience) which could mix things up a bit with a pathfinding game AI or similar.

Kudos for sharing this little gem :)

[edit]
implementing A* on my own for educational purposes, but here's a good reference implementation in C++ on google code:

http://code.google.com/p/a-star-algorithm-implementation/
Yes, another way to give you extra brain power. It will receive sensory input from say, your eyes, ears, touch, taste, smell, and then it will output signals to surrounding neurons.

Great way to keep up with Strong AI. Depending on how powerful the chips are you could potentially have the equivalent of hundreds or thousands of brains in your head. It will give us answers to problems the same way we already receive answers to problems, the answers will just pop into our consciousness. In fact, it could be made so that it replaces most of your neural cortex. This way you will be able to upload those chips into a computer and voila! Instant immortality.

The era of the uploadable human brain is here (OK, probably not for one, two, or three hundred years). The chip essentially takes over your human brain recording all experiences. It is implanted at birth. When you die the chip can just be implanted into a humanoid robot or a clone or you can live in virtual reality. Of course, there will be a 1000 and 1 problems to solve but sounds like one way to create uploadable humans. And to prevent death you are constantly backed up a la cylon stile (Battle Star Galactica).

Wow, this could definitely work!

A nice twist would be if a virtual heaven were created. And you could only get in if you were "good" (whatever definition they decide to use). This heaven would be necessary because there are not enough resources to keep running all the servers necessary for this virtual heaven. So at some point in history somebody decided that to control virtual population only those that were "good" would be able to get in. Those that were bad would receive eternal death.

After several thousand years a two layer system evolves. Virtual Reality and Virtual Heaven. The ones in virtual heaven hold all the strings and choose new members from Virtual Reality to join them if they have been "good". The ones in virtual reality have forgotten about their initial history and don't realize they are in a virtual reality. Hence many don't believe in this "heaven" and consequently very few actually make it through. Entire religions are created to worship this heaven and to try to get in.

Well, you get the idea. Sort of got side tracked there. Sounds like an idea for a book.
That is really strange to me. Maybe I don't stalk enough or something, but often when I look up a friend (someone who is actually in my friend list and I communicate often with) it seems to be impossible for Facebook to find this guy and I have to go directly to the friendlist search to get this person's profile. Always (or so often that I don't remember the exceptions, which is in usability terms "always") when I use the normal search bar I get people I don't know, have not even indirect relations with or be in any way interested in. Sometimes the names don't even consist of the words I was putting in the search bar. That's why I really wonder why people can think of facebook's people search as something cool or "stealable".
Because it's like complaining about the weather. It doesn't do anything to make things better. I think there's too much negativity on the Internet already.
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That factor is exacerbated on a smartphone. Plus, some of them pay for bandwidth.
Come on, "coming up with a good 128 bit or 256 bit key" is only a very small part of key management (and, as you note, probably also the easiest part of key management).

You know this.
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I have doubts about neural nets, since they never really went anywhere

That's an ironic statement for a blob of mushy neural nets to make
Lots of buzzwords in the article and in the video, lots of "completely new", "revolutionary" etc., yet it's hard to see what's exactly new about their approach. It's certainly interesting to investigate computers with a neural-network-like architecture, but it is hardly a new concept, actually the first neural networks were implemented in hardware. Strangely I have trouble finding English-based resources about that, but even if you don't speak German you can have a look at Frank Rosenblatt with his original Perceptron here:

http://www.enzyklopaedie-der-wirtschaftsinformatik.de/wi-enz...

The article also contains my favourite kind of pearls of wisdom, I guess coming from the journalist:

IBM wants to build a computer with 10 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses, Modha said. That’s 10 times more powerful than the human brain.

Will it be able to play 10 pong games at a time ;) ?
You don't even have to take it that far; imagine suddenly being able to do square roots in your head with ease!
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Just the concept of the proposition of this paper is pretty amazing. The author Philip Maymin is a serious bad ass for doing this proof. What a dude.
I'm not in the field of AI, but as best I can tell imitating the brain's setup is not about "seeming more human". Passing the Turing test is not about having more compute power.

Rather, it's an exploration into a fundamentally different form of computing, right up there with dreams of transistors with more than 2 distinct states, or light transistors, or biological transistors... It's only different in that it is a foray into alternate architecture, rather than alternate physics.
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In the paper he states "I also prove the converse", meaning the iff clause is justified.
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I would love to try this on an iPad with a pen.
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Pretty much exactly what I was going to say about this (I'm #3 on my list). I just posted the article and my top 10 on my wall, tagging everyone in it. Curious as to what the non HN crowd thinks.
I think you're leaping to a bad conclusion. Keith's post mentions "computer-generated guesses" to fill in the list. Looking at the guesses in my list, they appear to be friends of friends. (The prefill list is probably using logic similar or identical to the logic that presents "people you may know.")

Find somebody on your mystery list who isn't a friend of your friends, and then you can get paranoid.
To some extent this is like a peer-review. If I submit a paper to a journal, should my response to all criticism be, "Well, if you think I didn't do the experiment right, then you do it!"
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It's possible for an algorithm to be obvious and trivial, and also the only way to do it.
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Facebook's reps haven't said the list is based on just on profiles you view, they said it's based on "people you interact with" -- there may be other stuff in there, like messaging activity, or commenting, or liking. Even if you don't go directly to Arrington's profile, you can be interacting with him in the newsfeed.
I'd be more worried about people accessing my Internet banking or my email than who I look at on Facebook. Log out of your bloody accounts before you leave your PC!
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