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Of course it's easier to teach a smaller homogenous group than a large diverse group.

Doesn't make sense to try to find a one size fits all solution for a problem with a multitude of unique aspects: culture, race, language, income, etc.

In Finland on the other hand it does, because they are all the same culturally, racially, economically and speak the same language.
Alternatively (and equally bad), upon seeing the karma has fallen, they might strive to post anything that won't be down-voted, but doesn't really add anything either, in the hopes of at least getting 1 vote to stem the tide.

I can see this punishing infrequent, but quality posters and decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio.

Sadly, somethings that work out just fine in math, don't mesh that neatly with human behavior.
The majority of the people who are on dinosaur computers are not, it's probably safe to say, people who are likely to show interest in your software even if they upgrade. It's also probably safe to say that if you win on features and quality, those who would be interested will buy it.

There's a cost/benefit to supporting old hardware, and very often the benefit is vastly outweighed by the cost. Econ 101. Sorry.
> "The issue boils down to the pervasiveness of bad teachers in the system, and an inability to get rid of those teachers and reward/promote good teachers."

As others have mentioned, that is seen as a solution (and one that the US is acting on), however MANY disagree heavily that that is the core issue, as do I. I hope no one is offended by this comparison, but I believe it can be compared to the issue with the massive amount of people in prison in US problem -- can there really be that many bad people, or is the issue something else? I'm 100% convinced it's something else, specifically that (in a lot of cases) the system itself causes the behaviors by motivating/incentivizing it.
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As I say in the story, Google cached the posts:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fsh-blog.a...
I've noticed, however, that most robot-related posts, which were the first to be deleted, are not cached anymore -- I think Google removes things from the index when the links become 404.
If you to see a good selection of the original posts, a Japanese researcher republished them here:
http://staff.aist.go.jp/h.arai/fukushima/warrior.htm
Hope this helps.
A rectangle may be a rectangle, but the fact is that no one actually made a working and workable device in this form factor before Apple. If 2001 and Star Trek are prior art, then where were the hordes of copycats before 2010?
Well they could be playing the long-hand on this.

Oil is obviously a finite resource, and very soon, (when oil becomes much more scarce than it is now) whoever controls the oil will control a large portion of the world's economy.

If Russia (I assume you're talking about Siberian oil here?) has a ton of oil, it would make sense for them to sit on it and wait for the rest of the world to deplete their own supplies before drilling.
There's only plenty of oil in Russia, in central and western Europe the supply is much smaller, and most of it is under North Sea. Many Europe countries strive for diversity of oil and gas sources, so that they're not dependent on Russia in their fuel needs. However I don't think that ridiculously long pipeline from Canada (which would surely go through Russia anyway) would be very satisfactory.
According to this, they're actually both on the same plate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg

Are you sure it's spreading there?
This metric has an attribute which is shared with average karma that I think is extremely bad, which is that it punishes users for making comments that get no upvotes. Or to put it another way, it punishes users for commenting on older articles (as those comments are significantly less likely to garner upvotes).
You can walk into a pawn shop anywhere in the world and convert anything into local currency. That doesn't seem to prove very much.
You don't built it underground, you build it floating in the water (anchored to the sea floor). Build stretch into the tunnel, and then expand it every $foo years as needed.
Let this be a lesson to anyone who happens to read this to have a public portfolio of projects rounded out before you graduate, or before you need your first programming job.
I am particularly thinking of Steve Jobs. Of course, not all of them are as good as Steve Jobs, but it proves the concept is not flawed.
there's several ways to do this.. i just searched ad block and several apps do what you ask, but the easiest is probably using lbe privacy guard.
Indeed, and since this is a copyright rather than a patent IBM could presumably still assert it. For that matter, if this is upheld it seems as though IBM could go after all the makers of IBM-compatible BIOS chips through the years -- the situation seems virtually identical, right down to the clean-room reimplementation.

Careful with that blunt legal instrument, Larry...
I got a lot of value out of it last winter when I was looking for a new job. It helped me learn a lot more about the companies and often the people who I was talking to. Two companies where we progressed to in-person interviews told me in advance the first names of the people who I would be talking to and I was able to figure out who they were and read their resumes before I went in. That made a huge difference for me in feeling comfortable during the interviews and helped me ask good questions pitched towards the actual interests of the interviewers.
In contrast, Apple TELEPHONE support for developer is worldwide (http://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.php). I feel comfortable to pay them $99 per year.
The Zerply 404 page is a wonderful example of why details matter.

http://www.zerply.com/foobar

Poor spelling shouts "limited resources and lack of professionalism" loud and clear.
If you're asking people to trust you with their data and put time into profiles, you need to show that you're big and serious.

I don't use LinkedIn because it's the coolest kid on the block, I use it because I need to find people to hire, network with, and in the past I've needed it to find gigs and jobs.

I'm going to go where the most people are, and where I feel most confident that my data will be managed professionally.

I'm not going to jump ship for a startup just because LinkedIn is requiring me to opt out if I don't want my picture to appear near an ad. That's not Armageddon, it's just a minor, and ultimately inconsequential, annoyance.
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What about in a peer-to-peer/multi master scenario where nodes can be added or removed at whim?
okay, thanks, makes more sense now.
I think this brings up something that has bothered me a little bit about the comment system here. I would really like some kind of notification system when someone has replied to a post of mine because once a link falls off the front page, the conversation pretty much dies unless I randomly check my comments page.
Verizon does offer up to 150Mbit/35Mbit for their business packages. They probably don't see a market for it on the residential side. CableVision, Comcast, TWC, etc do offer 100Mbit+ connections for residential use in some limited markets. From what I've head they are not big sellers. (less than 1% of customers upgrade) That has probably slowed down wider deployment.
The plan alone worries me greatly for the wildlife in Alaska, it's one of the world's last refuges for untouched nature and the last thing we need is to send any sort of human traffic in that direction.

If I were the richest person in the world I would probably buy up as much land as possible and keep civilization away from it. Keep it wild for future generations.
It's the online gambling part that's the hugest hurdle.
After that it's the business deals.
And you're conceding you're gonna do it in a narrow niche.

Add those three together, and you got a business model that's not worth doing. "Cool" idea but not worth it.
Russia's biggest problem is centralized major cities: Moscow and St Petersburg, everything else is a "province".

US major cities are spread geographically: Boston, NYC, DC, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, SF, LA.

Seattle was the gateway to Alaska.
What's a gateway to Siberia? Vladivostok?
Does Vladivostok has something comparable to Amazon, Microsoft and Boeing?
Haven't you noticed that people give out recommendations like it's going out of style?
Also I don't have the numbers in front of me so it would be cool if anyone can back this up, but I believe transport by ship is cheaper per container-mile than both rail and highway transport. Is there a reason that balance would drastically change in the near future?
People from my university had just recently created a startup with similar mechanics, based in Poland -- it has English interface too, though no support for other currencies yet.

http://clicxs.com/how-does-it-work/

Basically, you pay a small amount of money to uncover a price of a given item, decreasing it as a byproduct. For instance, if a price is 50 PLN, uncovering a price (which costs 2.50 PLN) decreases it by 1 PLN. The more people uncover the price, the cheaper it gets, until someone actually buys it.

1 PLN is about 0.35 USD, by the way.
I like the idea of adding game mechanics to daily deals, but I'm not really sold on the idea of doing it for travel. Seems like it would be best if it were applied to products that can be sold in more locations. Travel would need to be city specific and it requires a major commitment.
Seriously, humor should count for something, it is actually an important method of comentary.
A lot of game companies get around this hurdle with virtual currency, although this might get a little over-complicated for your average deals site user. You're probably right though.
Is 100 a day enough? Wouldn't it take forever to get statistical significance? (unless the results are really dramatic)
"our Amazon AWS servers were all in Virginia, right near the epicenter."

Very little is near the epicenter. The epicenter was in one of the least populated areas of the entire state. Here's a map:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake...

There are probably less than 50,000 people living inside the yellow circle and there are no cities.

Amazon's data centers are in northern Virginia. This earthquake did not happen in northern Virginia, it happened in central Virginia, between Richmond and Charlottesville, about 60-90 miles away from northern Virginia.
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I thought you had noble intentions when you said "... last refuges for untouched nature and the last thing we need is to send any sort of human traffic in that direction.".

but when you mentioned "...for future generations.", turned out not.
Also what about code in a non-standard language? Suppose no one knew about Brainfuck and you included your software solution implemented in Brainfuck without an explanation of the code and how it corresponds to the patent. Do you need to include compiler/interpreter details, explain what the machine code generally looks like and does? What about hypothetical computing devices like quantum computers?

Though a general solution to proprietary hardware that you have rights over would be to include an FPGA implementation... whether that should be required or not is another story, especially if you don't have rights over it.
I'm not sure what my uni's stance on torrenting is, but it definitely has not stopped me from downloading over 1TB of... "legitimately vague" content http://i.imgur.com/oQE4J.png
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Good stuff, but only as strong as its weakest link - what's reported to the government, and corruption can creep in at many levels. But this is a great step.
That might be what the "notifo" field on your profile is for. They're some kind of notification service (YC2010) but I don't see any docs on how to use them on HN. (Not in the faq anyway and hnsearch just returns a bunch of articles about them making plugins and getting investors)
Kudos on a well implemented use of AppEngine - It's really zippy.

Do you have any plans to write a technical overview of your implementation?
Perhaps he meant for future generations to admire from a distance?
This looks like a thoroughly useful product. I love the fact that it basically tells you what the most important thing you should work on to improve customer happiness is!

If you have lots of customers making lots of noise about lots of different issues it's going to be very hard to prioritise which of the various and apparently equally important squeaky wheels should get the grease (ie. your limited time) and this looks to me as though it would be an invaluable asset in helping make those types of decisions.
@jpitz - In those scenarios the keys can be pre-partitioned. Server A gets 0-N keys, Server B gets N-2N keys... If you have a situation where the peers pop up or come down dynamically, then you can build some sort of keymaster that does a sexier job allocating these blocks of keys to the nodes. If stuff is crazy dynamic, then I start to see value in the GUID.. but I frankly don't think most of us have problems that deserve them.
If this were allowed it would be quite the interesting blow to patent law. Much of what is _modern tech_ could be attributed to Sci-Fi: Cell Phones, Speech Recognition, all kinds of transportation.

I for one hope this does work... Primarily because I love 2001.
Actually we've received good responses. In one case, we had a user app comment that was simply lots of Russian profanity. Google removed it within a few days.
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I think perhaps comment points should count for more than the ones you get for story submissions, have they tried that in the past before?
Yeah, it did occur to me after commenting that it might be difficult to extract the specific patentable invention chunk from the overall application.

I can't think of a single approach that would work everywhere, but logically isolating it as a library or service might work, similar to the way in which you can implement an IPC/RPC shim for interfacing to GPL'd code from your proprietary app.

Inventions that don't fit that model (Operating Systems, Embedded Firmware, Massive Scale, etc) complicate the matter, but I imagine a set of disclosure options could be devised, and the inventor/patent office would select the most appropriate.
What does first to market have to do with a design patent?
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Yes, exactly... and if the cost of getting new keys piece-meal is too expensive, the 'ticket machine' can dole them out in blocks to nodes for fast local-allocation.
For me one of the coolest ways of using closures was to implement undo system. It's not very efficient, but easy to write and compose.

Basically every editor operation can return a function that does the opposite. For example (some lua-like language)

function DeleteLine(lines, line_number)

local deletedLine = lines[line_number]

-- do the actual deletion - move elements up

return function() InsertLine(lines, line_number, deletedLine) end

end

function InsertLine(lines, line_number, deletedLine)

-- do the actual insertion

return function() DeleteLine(lines, line_number) end

end

Again, not very efficient - but easy to grasp. Without closures would be hard to compose - you would have to take care of a lot of extra parameters where they need to be stored, etc.
That article is four years old. The project was greenlighted by the Kremlin last week, according to this: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3764606/Plans-for-...
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Thanks, I tried that too, though it was a few years ago. What made you think it was too simple to work though?
That's pretty cool, kind of like a reverse auction. Only one person gets to buy the item though?
> unable to do a single chin-up

To say nothing about the willingness to salute someone who just learned they can copy and paste text.
Any particular reason this article from 2007 has been resubmitted now? Has a deal been struck at last? Any developments? Or...?
Ah yes, that's the one. Imho, it's an interesting concept and very useful for niche information, but can't replace the more semantic tags in html5.
Yeah, it might work if you only started in one city, just to test the product though.
I agree that average karma is a very poor metric, and I found that my usage of HN changed drastically when pg started showing it more prominently. One optimizes for average karma by not commenting on stories that are older or less popular, as those are likely to produce a 1 or 2 rating due to lack of eyeballs. However such comments are often interesting and useful contributions, and it hurts HN to discourage them.

A possible solution is to scale by the number of people who look at the comment, although this might be difficult to do well. You could probably get better results by estimating a regression containing the following variables: age of post, score of post, number of comments, average score of comments in the thread, and the depth of the tree in which the comment was posted to get a good determination of how many points an average comment in that situation would get.
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You're all almost making me switch. Almost...

Quick! Help me, vimsters.
http://notifo.com/hackernews

The process is actually relatively painless and still seems to work.
Zerply is LinkedIn for creative people. Suits and propeller-heads won't like it.

It'll do well.
Wow, nice find, never even thought to dig in to that. If you check out the notifo services, they have the information on setting everything up.
Ask HN: Are there any services for collecting emails pre-launch?
I'd like to build up a little hype for a game I'm making by having a landing page with a video, and collecting emails before I launch.

Are there any good services that create something like this? I would make the page myself, but I think my time is better spent improving the app.

Thanks
The translated posts of the (now removed) original content contain some fascinating details about the capabilities of the robots and realities of operating them. As the article mentions, it's interesting for anyone even interested in commercial robotics, and must be solid gold for commercial manufacturers - how often do you get the chance to test in these conditions? The reports are quite detailed and informative.

More generally I couldn't agree more with the decision to publish the removed content, and am also 100% behind the expressions in the article to utilise the experience of the current operators in other nations before they're needed.

Disclaimer: My enthusiasm for the article may be influenced by my opinion that guys like this are the closest thing we have so far to mech pilots ;)
Given Russia's history in high-tech construction (and particularly tunnels, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefortovo_tunnel) I'm surprised that an oligarch-financed tunnel would get a positive response from the US.
I went to zerply, clicked on a url in one of their testimonials, saw a page where I had to scroll waaaay down to get past all the huge header text and pointless graphics to read a few small snippets about the person. Then I clicked on the person's link to linkedin, and immediately got much more information about them, without pointless "I'm so hip" graphic over-design.

LinkedIn isn't perfect, but I use it for the following purposes:

To find out about companies (who do I know who works there? how big are is the company? what sort of people do they employ?)

To find out about potential co-workers (job applicants, or interviewers when I'm on the other side of the desk, or people I meet other ways): who do we know in common (maybe someone I know who's worked with them can tell me how they were), what else have they done, etc.

Some of their discussion groups are interesting, some are useless.

I haven't yet used them for job hunting, but I expect eventually I may. I have used them for background research on a company I was already considering working for.

I don't go to LinkedIn for the "beauty" of their design, I go there for information. I don't need "profile pages themed by world-class designers" for that.
Harder to transmit electricity and data with ships (not that you need a road for that either though, but the article seemed to hit on the non-transport benefits quite a bit).
Service to collect emails via a form you can embed in a page, and manage said mailing list? Yes. You can find a few mentioned on this page:

http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/

FWIW, I chose MailChimp for that, but there are plenty of other choices.

If you want something that goes even further, that is, doing the page, video, and everything, plus email, then the answer is "I'm not sure." Probably there are, but I haven't really looked.

You might find value in something like LaunchRock.com, but I'm not sure they're exactly what you're looking for.
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I suspect that ship would beat train hands-down on costs, but train could still win for time-critical uses.
Rail is faster than sea and truck but can't do last-mile like trucks and is more expensive than sea. Sea is the cheapest, slowest form and obviously only works port to port. Truck is fast and flexible but most expensive.

Not sure how the math works out if you have to ship stuff across Siberia, Alaska, and Canada.
Given the propensity for users to downvote comments they disagree with and upvote populist but empty rhetoric like anything that bashes Gruber, I'm not sure that the karma formula should be HN's first concern.

Before we optimize how we weight karma, we should first ensure that points are awarded for valuable behavior. Right now, I think it's measuring conformity. Is that true? And if true, is that deireable?
Wow, I've seen functions like these in Erlang, but I didn't realize their usefulness until reading this.
This is AWESOME. Well, at a naive and fleeting glance it is. I'm sure it has political, environmental, etc. etc. implications. And it got the green light. I'm wondering how big the tunnel is. I would assume it would have to fit many many trains at once, I mean one or two tracks would probably be a waste...