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BitTorrent seems quite awful from that perspective. For quite a while, torrents required a centralized tracker to coordinate operation, which provided a single point of failure. Even now, with trackerless operation, BitTorrent has no directory or search protocols, no privacy protection or built-in anonymity, and otherwise makes it trivial for anyone to obtain a full list of IP addresses downloading any given torrent.

I wouldn't call BitTorrent "underground" or "difficult to kill" at all. For that, you'd probably want something like Freenet or GNUnet.
> We already know the DoD already has tech that is years ahead.

You'd be amazed at the age of a lot of the tech involved in military technology.

Once a design gets approved there's very little opportunity to change it, and so years later people are having to try and source obsolete ICs or transistors. And if the designers are careless things get obsolete really quickly; I know a design that used a Bourns resistor network with a 1% tolerance. This package was once offered by Bourns, but the standard was 2% tolerance, and the 1% part was rare and thus very expensive. See the number of brokers offering new-old stock or obsolete components at expensive prices. (Obligatory "YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK" quote here.)
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I've been looking for something like this for a long time - thanks. I'm also interesting in finding something that operates at a level removed from this - making diagrams of the creative process itself, as you go down routes and reach dead ends, and then fork from an earlier path. If readers know of anything like this please let me know.
This is a good point. I actually trimmed this out of a larger piece, which is probably why it feels that way. I've edited the first few paragraphs to make it a little less jumpy - thanks for the comment.

Aside (not directed at you): I watched the article drop from #6 all the way down to #20 in the space of a minute. Does anyone know why that might happen?
Yes, this is important.

There's a big difference between talking directly to a person who may be suffering, when you should be direct and then be able to guide them towards help; and talking in a thread like this with a lot of speculation and abstract talk about suicidal behaviours.

tl:dr - you're right, and I missed the point you made in my post.
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Most probably he is talking about the fact that proper time for all events in Photon's own frame is zero, i.e. a frame that move with speed of light will notice that all events are instantaneous.
why is every body talking about it like adobe is giving up on flash on desktops- they are not a new version just came out friday and they have huge list of things to come in the next releases
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That's what stable marriage is for. With some reasonable heuristic it should just give you the best partial ordering, which when flattened into a total ordering should give you the most likely picture.

How do you calculate your certainty?
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Awesome to see both Andrew Ng (ml-class.com) and Sebastian Thrun (ai-class.com) involved in these projects.
Sounds like we know not a lot about what they are doing there. For all we know? Foosball.
are there hotels being left half constructed?

Yes, but this is normal for Greece; leave your building unfinished, even if only cosmetically, and you pay no tax on it. A desperately needed tweak to the law is to start taxing buildings when they are actually used.
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What you're describing doesn't seem lean. Why "build a thing" if you haven't first identified a demand for it? A landing page can be a part of identifying this demand.
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It allows MG to reference himself, so that has to be worth something. /s
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MacPorts, brew and fink add up to a more complex, less reliable system than a typical Linux vendors' repository. Currently my brew is broken and I can't upgrade anything until I figure out why some obscure Gnome lib isn't compiling... I have not had any sort of issue like that with Linux in the past 8 years when it comes to upgrading routiney used software.

OSX's command line utils are BSD style... so going between OSX and Linux shells, I often end up with messages such as 'ls: -l: No such file or directory' because I expected to be able to put flags anywhere in the arguments.

Even between the vaunted Mac editors such as TextMate and Coda, I haven't found a text editor I like as much as Kate.

There are various other issues I've struggled with, mainly relating to installing and upgrading open source software. Projects simply expect that you will be using Linux, and using this proprietary BSD offshoot is simply inconvenient due to it's usual *nix differences.

Also, my own preferences and habits come into play. I like KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker... being able to press ctrl-alt-Fkey and get a fullscreen terminal... Gimp integrating with the window manager properly (to the extent it does at all, sure)... knowing where my Flash LSOs are saved... and so on.
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Flot looks interesting, but the examples aren't qutie there yet. While I know it's all possible using the canvas, where are the data change animations, decent resizing, animated zooming etc.
"An engineering standard for a terabit per second, 1,000 gigabits, is expected in about seven years."

1Tb/s network speed! In which score would that kind of technology set us in the Carl Sagan's information based Civilization scale?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Extensions_to_t...
> Photons have no ticking time at all, which means, as far as they are concerned, they are absorbed the instant they are emitted, even if the distance traveled is across the universe itself

Yes. Or another way of looking at it, from a photon's perspective the Universe has no size at all! I love that.
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Lisp machines typically had direct hardware support for these tags - Symbolics machines used 36 bit words, 32 bits of data and 4 bits of tags:

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In its defense, the page does explicitly say that it gets you nowhere. The only link that does work is the one that wants something from you. The rest just say they ignore your input after promising to take you somewhere.

Its like a tiny little allegory of modern politics playing out right in front of you. If I were still in middle school, I'd jam my ipad into a shoebox and turn it in as a diorama on American politics.
Big cognitive leaps? Judging by the first paragraph of the article: "the future is being imagined...It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low."

the answer is "no". Of course that could just reflect a lack of imagination in NYT journalism, but really? I remember writing about that idea in early 1995 - about the same time that there was a fashion for universities to wire their Coke machines to the net, and about 5 years after Cambridge University frst wired its coffee pot to a network: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html
That is easy, all we have to do is to sell collections of stock from, say, fifty, start ups.

How much would it be worth it to buy a share of YC S12?
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Oh God, the FUD... it's... palpable. And what in the world do AWS and Gmail outages have to do with Internet protocols?

That said, their new tech sounds interesting, but it's buried in buzzwords and non-comprehending journalism. I don't have the slightest idea if it's just a self-healing mesh with a new sticker on it, or if it's something actually different.
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So they didn't QA the 404 page... this is not very interesting news.
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I think you need to read that line in the content of a few others within the letter, in particular the "he's a second durac, but this time human" quote. Oppenheimer also points out that he is a good communicator and in particular can bridge the divide between theoretical and experimental physicists. Being that brilliant and that nice can be an unusual combination.
But if your growth is in some way viral/exponential due to word of mouth/recommendations, then you're better off having 5x as many users today.

In very crude terms:
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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler uses tagged pointers to implement lazy evaluation. Suspended computations are created as heap-allocated "thunks", and the runtime will tag any pointers to a thunk that is known to have already been evaluated, which can save one indirection when you need to "force" the thunk to get a value.

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This last trick doesn't work if the number of alternatives is > 3 (for 2 byte alignment) because there aren't enough bits available.
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Now there's the new G650: Mach 0.925. :) But fastest single-pilot-rated is the Hawker 200, which does 465kt, but only 1500nm range.

(An F-15 can do 3000nm in ferry configuration... Or I wonder if you can contract with USAF to arrange in-flight refueling over Nebraska?)
This seems to disagree with what I've heard of Valve and Steam sales. That the bigger the discount, the more (total) revenue is made, almost across the board.

$50 game -> 50% off, 100 sales
$50 game -> 75% off, 500 sales etc
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And an open source alternative I just discovered here on HN a week or so ago is Moai: http://getmoai.com Also Lua, also with media & physics libraries.
It's very easy to just drift along making default choices & lead a very comfortable life. It's easier and safer. As well as individual choice, a huge amount of societies resources is dedicated to making people as comfortable and entertained as possible, the opportunity cost is doing great things, discovering or pushing things forward.

I think you are right that you have to work hard (which is uncomfortable) in order to achieve anything. People still do it, though, for various motivations.
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It is purely a "I knew about this story, just so you know" pissing contest between tech 'journalists'.
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I guess one thing i found useful is to go to meetups, get to know people, and give a few presentations.
I think Google is perfect company to make those future products that have been 5 years away for the last 15 years. Intelligent fridge probably comes to mind first, but there are a lot. Some of those ideas just need clever people to work on it (check), resources for research (check) and ability to produce it in scalable way (check). Maybe we'll finally see an affordable house robot that helps more than disturbs.
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Here's a collection of quotes from the triumvirate about artificial intelligence.

http://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/google-fou...

(Except, ignore the Moffett field thing. That has nothing to do with AI research as far as I know.)

Anyway, any Googler will confirm that Sergey Brin, in particular, keeps returning to this idea: that Google's ultimate destiny is to realize Strong AI.

I'm not saying they've achieved anything. But I would not be surprised if they were putting substantial resources into it. It's even directly related to their bottom line. It doesn't have to end in HAL 9000. They may come up with some technology that is just more insightful about search queries. But even that would be worth billions and billions.
I think the choice between using existing libraries and implementing your own mostly depends on how central particular algorithms are to your product. If a better algorithm makes a great difference for my customers then it's insane for me to use an existing library.

I don't even find much value in looking at existing code as a starting point because it's bound to be either obscured by lots of optimizations or naive or it's university code left behind by someone finishing their thesis in a hurry. For code beyond a certain level of complexity I prefer to either use it as a black box or implement it myself.

Obviously, if the algorithm is not a core component of my product it's insane to waste time on reimplementing it, provided there is a good quality implementation that has the right license.
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It means nothing. It's Web 3.0 all over again.
I can't help but feel the article starts by missing the point. Connecting random devices to the internet is only a good thing when you get something neat out. Sticking a 3G modem in random devices & a bit of hardware is low-hanging fruit.
I've actually seen Linux kernel panics on a lot of video systems on planes too. I suspect there are a lot of *nix os's on various parts of the planes.

This probably shows how much I travel though :-P
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It's cool, it's both stupidly fast (wormhole switched, etc) and very configurable. Just costs an arm and a leg.
How would one change things?
I wasn't aware that OSX was open source.
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I really dislike the footnote [3]. I think he shouldn't argue that the remaining margin of error doesn't matter, but instead should argue that it happens less often.

This is why safety critical systems are sometimes verified using model checking and so on. In some cases (airplanes, etc) even the best programmers cannot garuantee a necessary level of quality.

In your every day app where a user could crash teh program by using an obscure value, this still IS a significant problem. Especially if the error happens rarely it mike take a lot of time to be noticed for the first time and might have critical impact (loss of money?) by that time.

The important point is that the great developer will introduces less of those subtle errors.
I think it's a bit difficult to explain this to someone that isn't experiencing it as a problem. It's similar to the way some people react to DLP projectors with color wheels ("rainbow effect") while some don't. People are sensitive do different things. I find the flicker jarring even though it's short. I do enjoy the benefits of e-ink, but I'm perfectly fine with staring at a backlight display for hours, so I'm OK with reading on an iPad as well.
A small minority of people don't need much sleep. They are bound to be over-represented among workaholics.
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You know, when you see all the quotes in one place like that, it does make their goals pretty obvious.
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Maybe it's somehow an important proof-of-concept AI challenge, but restocking my fridge does not make the list of things I desperately need better technology for.

The driverless cars are old news and space elevators are a niche at best. Whatever makes Google X interesting must truly be top secret.
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Luckily, such legislation isn't yet enforced in France, and, I guess, most of Europe (though it will come with LOOPSI, ACTA…).

It is rather difficult to hold an ISPs accountable for its users, unlike content providers. The first is akin to snail mail, while the second it akin to journals. No one ever sued FedEx for mailing Anthrax or hate pamphlets. But the one who sent those? You bet he's accountable!

I agree with you, by the way. Just pointing out that a legislation that forces ISPs to filter the net is a Major Screw-up that should flag its country as an active Enemy of the Internet. I have hope (though I wouldn't count on it) that they won't put a Great Firewall of China.
I think that's pretty much what would be expected at this stage.

High-performance devices will probably require custom silicon for a while yet, but they can charge a premium.

Lower end devices will probably have less custom silicon, more software and be cheaper.
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>I suspect most people still want the comfort of a stable job or career.

I suspect a lot of people are starting to realize there is no such thing.
I think that having alternatives to try/catch is generally worthwhile. Exceptions should only be thrown in exceptional circumstances.

So (to take some C# code as an example), I'd only call int.parse(myString) if it really, really should only get called when myString contains something that's parseable to an integer.

If it just probably contains an integer, then I'd call int.TryParse(myString, out returnedInt), and check the boolean return to see whether it was valid.
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I didn't mod you down, but it does seem a bit strange to focus on the screen flicker. It's a bit jarring at first, but in a way it's visual feedback that you've turned the page, and it doesn't affect your eyes like a backlit panel would. Is it purely an aesthetic problem?
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> Given that Oppenheimer was Jewish himself

Good point.
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