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EDIT: In response to the skepticism being expressed, I've just had a message from Wendy Grossman saying:

"... his daughter phoned me. I'm the
ultimate source for the wikipedia entry."

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Someone else posted the news first over here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151233

Much skepticism is being expressed, but within that there are various posts and comments that claim more information:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151563

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151358

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151578

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151382

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Google translation of this article here:

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=auto...

The mathematician and researcher in the field of computer science John McCarthy, credited with coining the term "artificial intelligence" and inventor of the Lisp programming language, died last Sunday (23) in Palo Alto, California region known as Silicon Valley .

McCarthy, who worked at the universities of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was 85. No details about the cause of his death.

Considered one of the pioneers of Artificial Intelligence Development also, McCarthy is the father of technologies such as Lisp programming language and computing systems by time-sharing, allowing multiple people to use the idle computing power of so-called "mainframes." The so-called "personal computers" would only be more than ten years after the creation of the concept of "time sharing".

The Lisp language created by McCarthy to facilitate the development of Artificial Intelligence is one of the oldest still in use. Its first version was published in 1958, just one year after the arrival of Fortran. The first use of technology was the creation of programs that deal with humans in chess.
I don't see how these two companies are competitors. Start2Cloud appears to be akin to a directory or online magazine centered around providing information on "Cloud" services from many companies.

GoodData appears to be providing some sort of data collection and analysis services.

GoodData would just be another company/service reviewed by Start2Cloud, no?
The death has not been added to nndb, so I'm slow to believe it. nndb, for those of you who don't know, is the information source used by wolframalpha for its people results
A few years ago, at my previous employer (the one that was bought by my current employer), the consultants responsible for redesigning the company Web site walked us through the new home page, describing the rationale behind various elements. The link to a video describing the company’s products had a head-shot of the company’s VP of Marketing on it, because (the consultant explained) having a woman’s face on a home page increased the click-through rate.

Then the company missed its sales targets and had to lay off a third of its staff... including that VP of Marketing.
I love it, but downvote for lack of substance related to the article. :/
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Thanks for understanding. I really appreciate it.
http://i.imgur.com/Y02DM.jpg

RIP. Thanks for inventing all that awesome stuff modern languages are constantly rediscovering.
This has been one of the more interesting posts I've seen on HN in a while. Imagine if you presented all this evidence to each parent before they decide to have kids. I wonder if most people would still go through with it?

I'm glad my parents did! But the more I hear about parenting the more it seems that you lose your life. I hope that one day my DNA forces me to override my logic unit and find a nice lady to have kids with.
I'm boring white western European, but signed up and should get my swab kit in 2 weeks. Maybe I can help someone else.
I have to agree with him. I don't think top 1% are to blame, definitely somewhere in the top 1%... Maybe top 0.20% are the thiefs, the rest are opportunists.

However it is true, many of the OWS are unskilled laborers, we need those less and less, and care less and less about them. We care about them as luxuries, and when the going gets tough, we get rid of these luxuries. We also have a population growth and a parralel technological growth (you may even say technology allowed population growth), and of course more population = more needed jobs, and technology = less needed jobs. Go figure.

The failing of the government is forseeing this. The only solution is a complete gutting of the education system. The #1 most desired job in America needs to be a teacher, specifically a math teacher, and that job should be insanely hard to fill.
Sure - buy "enough" stock and make a tender offer for the rest.
Its funny that I was about to post this on Twitter here when I saw Jeff's post:

Successes and Failures melt away in front of a two year old. Validations and affirmations happen by way of a smile.

That being said, I cant wait to go home and wrap my hands around my two year old son.
Of course, a lot of things mean people die. Not having information is one thing. Also, for example, not having money means a country can't afford healthcare for its citizens. Should we give them all money for free healthcare? Hey, if you don't, PEOPLE WILL DIE. Can you live with that? Can you? Maybe you should give all the countries all the money they need, just in case. Because people could DIE.

I'm not against open access, but this is a bit of a silly argument. Charity is charity, and it's a good thing, but we shouldn't pretend that it is unethical _not_ to be charitable, otherwise charity loses its meaning and instead it's just.. I don't know... something else.

Again, don't misconstrue what i'm saying (I predict it will be miscontrued.) I agree with the principle that journals charge too much and that the whole academic publishing system is pretty much a racket. But the argument that DO THIS OR PEOPLE WILL DIE just makes you sound as bad as right-wing extremist political rhetoric.
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This is a good example of hilarious EULA terms. I imagine start2cloud would win, but I don't blame them for not wanting the enormous hassle.
The SF situation is completely different. Padmapper shows studios ranging from 1400-1900 depending on your distance from the financial district, and areas really close (SOMA) have few openings, mostly 1-2 bedrooms in towers (3000+ easy).

Living outside the city isn't too bad, south of SF you can find 1 bedrooms for ~1200 if you don't mind a 30+ minute commute (traffic/train), or Oakland there's plenty of 1br/studios for ~1000, but you deal with higher crime and a social stigma that you live in Oakland.
Fantastic, GoodData wants to put a nail in the coffin of clickwrap contracts. Petard, meet hoist.
Her work's amazing. She's taking the intent and smoothing out the rough edges, filling in the undefined aspects. I've worked with a few really great illustrators and designers as either a designer or an art director. I can't name more than three in the last ten years, and all have been women. She has the rare quality they have of being able inernalize an original vision that's not their own, immediately and viscerally grasp the ineffable qualities that give it its unique personality, and turn it into a final product that looks polished while communicating exactly what the original artist intended.
And reading her blog, it's obvious how she does it. She TALKS to the people who she's doing the work for. So how exactly would this scale without losing quality? Clone her? This takes patience, communications, personal integrity and a huge amount of skill and vision.
I think it's the most impressive piece of work I've seen on HN this year. There's no reason at all to look at it through the narrow filter of what you'd do if it were an IT startup. It's just awesome for what it is.
Yes, the point seems to be exactly that --- how ridiculous the terms of use are which prevent a media review, acting as if they are competitors.

Why would a (seemingly) strong, funded business-startup be scared of competitors using their service? Is their business model that precarious?
Depends if you want to "change the world", or just live a very happy active life doing things you love.

How much of this decision should I put in your hands?
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I don't understand why blood, marrow, and organs have to be donated. I agree that the concept is discussing, but in a life and death situation people should be able to pay to "encourage" a donor.

Already there are a lot of people who go to third world countries to buy organs. If it was legal to buy organs people wouldn't have to risk the unsanitary operation condition.

Furthermore, seeing as giving blood or marrow is less dangerous there should be no reason not to allow people to buy them.
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It would at least be nice to have the parentheses in some sense represent the parse tree for the sentence, like:

(He (will be) (dearly missed))

That's not very Lispy, and I'm sure some linguists would have a thing or two to say about my tree, but it at least has a structure related to the meaning.
Parse's reliance on globals (singletons) grates on my quite a bit, and has largely prevented me from bothering to read further. [1]

I think of global variables as a cardinal sin of OO API design. They create unnecessary dependencies, lock down architecture, and reduce/eliminate composability.

Taken to the extreme demonstrated in Parse, they remove most of the advantages of using an OO language that supports polymorphism.

[1] That, and serious questions about whether something so general purpose can adequately meet the needs of anything but the most basic application. For instance, the lack of schemas and the lack of server-side code means that upgrading of data (and validation of data) is pushed to the client-side application. I'm not sure I'd like to be the one debugging the kinds of issues that arise when you have different end-user application versions potentially corrupting one another's data.

[Edit] Can someone that's downvoted me into the serious negatives please explain what portion of my architectural / API / OO arguments they disagree with? This perfectly reasonable technical complaint was also voted into the negatives (I just voted it up), which implies some odd voting behavior by Parse proponents: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151570
If it's so highly regulated, why is FaceCash's experience one of vagueness and ill-defined boundaries?
The context for thinness was comparing it to other laptops brought up in this thread (I mentioned the Toshiba Portege a lot). The 13" Macbook Air is ~3 lbs, within 10% of tons of other laptops.

So coming back to Intel, you mentioned they are making a fund for PC makers to be competitive. On my end, I've been using a 3.3 lbs (10% heavier than Air though 60% thicker) Latitude E4300 since mid-2009 that cost me far less than an Air would then - I certainly consider it a competitor to the Air. Would you not consider it as such?
More often they do it just by using non-garbage-collected heap strategies. PHP, Perl, Python and (I believe) Ruby all use reference-counted allocators and don't exhibit the kind of latency explosions you see with GC algorithms.
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I just meant to provide an option for development of the situation which is not unlikely to happen. Especially in some less developed countries and/or different cultures this might not be the right approach (but it may very well be, so you have to try)
Haha. Well, damn. Leopard or tiger then.
Agreed. It's dirt cheap. I know dozens of parents who would pay five times that.
I'll cross my fingers and hope it's just a hoax of really, really, really bad taste.
The app is free.
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I didn't down vote, but it could be because you stated a belief as if it was a fact.
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My point is simply that people haul out the "cyclists don't stop at stop signs" argument, in a selective way, without applying it to all traffic rules that are targeted at safety.

You're right, the "65 in a 60" was a rhetorical device. I used it, of course, because it's a law that so many people break.

But seriously, rhetorical devices aside: speeding in residential districts is a real problem for pedestrian (and driver, and cyclist) safety. And I think that's pretty clear.

Why don't we talk about how consistently cyclists obey posted speed limits? ;-)
3d printing in this case would be faster than manually using a milling machine. cnc could work though. I thought it would be more of a "this is clever" though i can't imagine charging more than $1-2/block and no clue if anyone would pay that. I haven't bought a lego in 20 years.
A poster above cited the 1 in 500 chance of being called if you're on the registry. For me that's both a good chance you won't have to bother with getting poked with a needle, and a decent chance that you might have the opportunity to save someone's freaking life.
What singletons are we using besides one for the current user?

I think you may be confusing singletons with class methods.
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This link helps explain why lack of correlation does not imply lack of causation: http://blog.cholesterol-and-health.com/2011/01/lack-of-corre...
> Before you start bashing, consider that Microsoft might actually hold at least 1 legitimate patent that is being clearly infringed on.

Isn't a big part of the problem that they "might" have such a patent, but we can't know?

In other words, if you enter a market Microsoft cares about, you may find Microsoft lawyers at your door with demands. But you can't tell before you make a huge investment and enter that market. You can write all your own code from scratch, make a terrific product, and you still don't know if Microsoft can sue you or not.

How does this benefit innovation?
This must be high in the runnig for "the stupidest EULA agreement" contest somewhere. If it doesn't exist yet, please someone start one...
Always happy to see companies support developers and open source (even happier when I work for those companies) ^_^
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Unfortunately, you can. There is money in nearly any societal state. The ruination of a country just presents different opportunities, not necessarily fewer.
Here is an article explaining why lack of correlation does not imply lack of causation:
http://blog.cholesterol-and-health.com/2011/01/lack-of-corre...

Ignorance is excusable, but the insulting tone you take on is not. Please stop ruining Hacker News.
Could start2cloud just say something like, "GoodData refuses to let us review them or they threaten a law suit. We will let you draw your own conclusions from that."
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I use gas as the example because it has the by-far fastest price adjustment _and_ the broadest commodity usage. Other prices will also catch up, but take longer to do so.

(Keep in mind we're talking in short posts, not peer-reviewed treatises. The ability to extrapolate to reasonable consequences is assumed.)

Consider an extreme case. A popular retort to minimum wage laws is "well, just set the minimum to $1000/hr and everyone will be rich!" Doesn't work that way because paying someone $1000 to sweep a floor for an hour means $1000 represents no greater value than sweeping a floor for an hour. Given that $1000/hr for any/all menial jobs does not mean that all workers can run out and buy ~300 gallons of gas after working an hour - supply-and-demand will kick in and the sudden demand for "cheap" gas of limited supply means prices will shoot up to ~$500/gal to match "normal" sales/usage. Ditto other prices, commodities in particular. If the clerk behind the gas station register is making $1000/hr, the gas sure won't go for $3.25/gal.

Why would the conclusion be surprising? It's supply and demand. The currency acts as a ratio modifier adapting the value of one thing to the value of another; whatever the units of that ratio are, a gallon of gas will (given current social norms) always be worth about half an hour of menial labor. Raise the minimum wage, the dollars available to the mundane laborer will increase, the supply of goods/services remains about the same, so the price of goods/services will rise to match the availability of dollars earned thru mundane labor. Prices rise to what the market will bear; ensuring everyone earns more currency means it will take more currency to buy.
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Wasn't Reed Hastings named CEO of the year last year? $300 to <$90 in around 4 months. Hmmmm....
You seem to think the term "privacy" (i) can be applied to large organizations such as governments, and (ii) it bears a significant resemblance with an individual's privacy. I can understand (i) (though I would prefer the word "secrecy"), but you really really need to explain (ii).

By the way, even if (ii) is correct, it makes little matter, because of the power balance. As Chomsky often points out, when the powerful obtain information about the powerless, they gain even more power over them than the powerless would have gained over the powerful from similar information. Which means that a more "open" society, with less privacy for individuals and less secrecy from trusts and governments, will inevitably tip the power balance even further.

It is just unreasonable to treat state (and corporate) secrecy and individual privacy the same way. Assange may be a hypocrite, but on this particular issue, he's clean.
Yep, it really does seem to work. At least it worked for 2 of our customers who increased their conversions by 50% and 100% respectively just by adding human faces.

Here's the detailed case study: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/human-l...
As a childfree individual, I'm amused by the euphoric claims of parents regarding the improved quality of their lives after having children. All the science seems to point in the opposite direction:

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/why-does-anyon...

I have to confess: from the outside looking in, parents resemble nothing so much as cult victims gushing with conversion stories, complete with the requisite, "It'll be so much better once you join!" It's even creepier than that, though: cults may have leaders, but parents merely have genes flipping switches. It's like we all have a brainwashing trigger implanted at birth, waiting for the right circumstance to arise. This makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint, though: if raising kids is extremely hard, something would have to get tweaked in the parents' minds to convince them to stick around.

(Sometimes I wonder if some aspects of my genetic "kid trigger" were co-opted by my cat. She reduces me to a babbling puddle of mush, and I'm enormously protective of her. When she nearly died, I was reduced to tears, and I made large sacrifices in time and money to save her life — and I'd cheerfully sell a kidney if that's what it took to do so again. I plan on having her cryogenically preserved if the worst happens someday. But throw myself under a bus? No — although I'd throw someone else under a bus for her.)

The hardest part of being childfree, I've found, is the realization that I don't even live on the same planet as people who are, or will be, parents. Each side looks crazy from the other. I've found it impossible to maintain a close friendship with someone once they've had kids; schedules and priorities diverge, and you become increasingly convinced that it's best to "stick to your own kind" in the first place.
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I got a call this morning from his daughter that he has died this morning. Sorry to have him go.
I agree. That's another problem with the current system -- secret settlemnts that affect us all, but only the parties can read, preventing Linux devs or Google from working around the problem.

However, even if the "invention" in question originated at Microsoft, it may have been obvious given work done by Netscape, Sun, academia, etc.
I thought that was an old jazz musician's adage ;-)
or how is this for the company slogan: "Good Data, bad people"...
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You're right. Making arguments like this are a way to shortcut a complex system of possible actions. It's like the old story about a computer's long boot time costing lives.

If only there were some mechanism we could use to assign value to all possible actions, content, and products. Some way of determining how much life/value each action would create and then pursuing the actions that provide the most efficient value. Seems too complex of a search space for a single authority though, and people would disagree on how many lives are saved/value.

Perhaps a crowd sourced method where everyone individually voted what was most important to them, and those votes assigned value. To avoid spam we could make people provide things of value themselves in order to benefit from the value created by others. So the higher the assigned value, the more people are trying to provide it.

(TL;DR)free market.
Seems to me you could just patch the library that handles the secure renegotiation for an option to keep stats on reneg per client so you can put a threshold for reneg handshakes per X time. Any more than 100 renegotiated handshakes in 10 minutes sounds excessive to me (but i'm not sure how often they're used in the real world)
I recently integrated Parse in my application only to run into a huge wall.

I implemented the Relational Data as described on the site but failed to realize that it is not possible to drill down into these relationships in queries. I want to be able to find objects with a related object where something is true. Obviously, I could rearrange my data in such a way to work with Parse's existing offerings but it would require more processing when importing the data than I'd prefer.

Unfortunately, this has turned me off from Parse and I'm now beginning to look at other solutions like StackMob even though they have no client side caching (I can implement my own using something like RestKit).

Is there any status on being able to drill into relationships in PFQuery?
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I was actually referring to the use of global variables (but I'll tackle the class method issue below). Take, for example, this instance (not class) method:

-[PFObject delete];

Where is the object deleted from? Where was it created? It uses a global variable to achieve this behavior.

Likewise, there are methods like:

+[PFObject saveAll:]

This also relies on a global variable somewhere to do its magic. Where are the objects saved? How do I interject different behavior? How do I modify the behavior for a specific subsystem of my application?

That said, I can also address the use of class methods. Similar to how singletons make it quite difficult to leverage OO polymorphism and decoupled architecture, class methods literally throw away OO polymorphism by providing direct bindings to what amount to global functions.

One can not leverage polymorphism with class methods, as the bindings are direct and fixed -- one can not modify the behavior of class method by configuring a specific instance (since there's only one global instance). One also can not modify the behavior of a method by providing a different instance that conforms to the required protocol.
Are they even legally enforceable? I know at least in the UK that a contract cannot supersede any statutory rights or existing legislation, any any offending clause is null and void.

Not that I could name what that particular EULA infringes, but I would hope it gets laughed out of court.
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"Reduce the interest"? No, they're going to reduce the principal on underwater home loans!
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