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Yeah, I don't get why they have to hedge with the "as it has been proposed". Which of its constituents is looking for that hedge?

Why can't they just say they do not support the bill. Or, better, that they oppose the bill? Does "as currently proposed" add anything?
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11th place's code:
https://github.com/a1k0n/ants/tree/master/bot

and profile so you can watch how it works in action:
http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=432
I think there are plenty of people (who arguably are not in their right mind) who would. Remember one million people is only 0.00014% of the global population.
Amen to all of that!

As far as loan institutions go and trying to create something that lets people invest in one another, the UK already has something along those lines: http://uk.zopa.com

I think the idea is great and wish Zopa got more press than they do.
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There's no real reason to have the end users connecting to the database directly. Any advantages of this approach are far outweighed by the disadvantages. Having a server process that handles input from the game and then write the results to the DB is far simpler and more secure in the end.
16th place's description of how their code works:
http://www.decompilinglife.com/

and profile:
http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=4728
>where they are against the law

Is there a reason for that? To stop loan sharks, for example? (Which is a highly valid reason).
Ask them what they think about the TechCrunch and Kotaku redesigns. If they actually like them, let them go on for a few more minutes, thank them for their time, escort them out, and throw their application away.

Those redesigns are everything that's wrong with young designers (me included). Looks over usability, creative over predictable is the WRONG way to design. Good design is about usability and usability is about predictability, not over complicating what isn't broken for the sake making it different, not hiding elements and loading up info on rollovers just to give the site a "cold, heartless, minimistic, look at me I'm the next Steve Jobs, look", not segregating information pointlessly.

If they can't tell you what's wrong with the designs in detail, let them go.
It's a valiant effort, but my point was that end-user boycotts aren't a sound way to affect those companies (unless, perhaps, those end users started boycotting employers that support these companies -- more and more of a possibility, as power shifts into the hands of hackers)
27th place's code and description of how it works:
http://forums.aichallenge.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2169&...

and profile:
http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=3845
Easy, just stop watching/purchasing movies. Visit your local library for volumes of great entertainment.
See harrylove's definition of misogynist below this. It's not a word that should be doled out frequently... just because an ad appreciates the female form.
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Back story, my brother and I own a data backup business and we are in the process of migrating to a new data center in Souther California. As part of our migration strategy we will be left with a Sun Microsystems Server running Open Indiana with 15TB of direct attached SAS storage.

Basically we have a nearly unlimited amount of bandwidth based on our current consumption, and we are looking for ideas for what to do with the machine.

We would be open to almost anything - if you can come up with a cool idea for how to use the gear or if you have a project that needs storage, let m know and we can see if we can work something out.
"After further analysis it has become clear that SOPA is not constitutional and we cannot, in good faith, support this bill?"
Agreed. It'd be nice if people continued sticking to their guns with other issues. i.e. Net Neutrality and AT&T, but if this is a first step, I will take it.
Um.. most PhDs in the experimental sciences involve lots of drudge work, and 14 hour days, and the people who make it are generally very hard workers. This may not be true in theory or engineering.
The problem though, with bills like SOPA is that if the incumbents don't like what you're doing they can just switch it off.

#define competition illegal

is bad, m'kay?
Thanks for your reply, I just hope I manage to escape the dragons and save the heroine ;)

Do you use a simple pen-paper method for taking notes? How do you keep it all together?
db4o is not unique in the claims it makes. I can store objects from any language in any database. The only requirement, and the reason why db4o only supports java and .NET, is that the language must support serialization of the object in both directions.

I have used this methodology along with Memcache (as a real-time database) in C#, PHP, Python, and Java, as well as storing those objects to PostgreSQL databases.

That said, I don't think I would use db4o simply based on it's claim to be able to store serialized objects. PostgreSQL, my database of choice, has trillions of user hours on it and is well supported by hundreds of thousands of users.

NoSQL databases store the tuples (or tuple-like structures) in indexed form, which is convenient but can be inefficient. I prefer to store only the pertinent tuples for indexing, and the serialized blob by itself as a non-indexed element.
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More info:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111223/09051617180/law-fi...
FWIW, Smith's district is very similar to, and adjacent to, Ron Paul's district. So it's thinkable that the seat could be held by a better Republican… although the advantages of incumbency are many and on most issues Smith is acceptable to his constituents.
If I had to use the database, I'd probably aggressively shard the data so that it's spread across multiple databases/tables. That way the load of counter updates could be spread across machines. I'd probably also store the counters in a separate table from the rest of the levels, for the same reason, but also to ensure that the rest of the information about a level isn't locked during every increment.

Of course, this is given that IIRC, MySQL uses row locking and used to even use table locks at times during writes. The last thing you want is for your spew of counter updates to lock out other, more important operations (like deleting a level). MySQL locking behavior might be better now.

The real 'right' solution to a high-traffic counter like a death count is to store the realtime counter(s) in something like memcached: High throughput, low overhead, and built in support for operations like increment.

As counter traffic increases, you could partition the counter itself (and approximate the actual value by taking partition_value * num_partitions) or only record a percentage of the time (say, +4 the counter on 25% of deaths). Both solutions reduce load and could produce 'good enough' numbers as long as you don't have wildly different behavior on each partition.
Great post. Reminds of a recent interview I had. After we discussed my resume and a myriad of topics on tech, software, time management, and people the interviewer gave me a programming problem to solve in order to get a second interview. I asked about gotcha questions or if I was going to need to code with someone staring over my shoulder and he said that none of his employees would ever code that way while working there so what would that test?

It makes complete sense. So what if someone can answer how many ping pong balls are in a school bus, if they can't produce or get along with the team they will not be a good hire (unless of course the job is figuring out how many ping pong balls are in a school bus).
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This is pretty interesting. How many original lurepets were there initially, and how many are there now? Do they die?
While I agree that a live test like this might be a good indicator, I don't know if the candidate would get a vibe that you're trying to get free work (A bunch of suggestions to try after you show them the door). Maybe using some other site, like a competitor or something unrelated.
They called me up too and told me they reversed their SOPA stance and I told them if they have to wait for customer backlash to do their right thing, it's already too late.

On a separate note, I think they're a lightning rod for the anti-SOPA crowd now. GoDaddy is now an example for other SOPA supporters
Overall Winner's Code and description of how it works:
http://xathis.com/posts/ai-challenge-2011-ants.html
aprsdroid is pretty nice. I've used it to test messaging when I'm RF only, and I've gated messages to the internet from my phone using the speaker and an HT. Glad to have it. :)

I didn't know it was written in scala, though. That adds extra awesome to it.
I do like paper, its very reliable with WiFi signals and very efficient with battery life. Pencils are nice because they provide undo. If I just need to find the answers for a one-off change or fix, I'll use plain white printer paper (dated and labeled at the top for future archival or disposal). I'll draw boxes/diagrams/mind-maps like crazy if I need them.

If its a major system that I'll be working with a long time, I go with insanely cheap composition books of the same width and height (standardize!) Seriously, don't spend more than a dollar for a notebook that has a good chance you'll throw it away in a year. If you're going to use one for your own journaling/designing and not mere notetaking, go ahead and splurge--spend $2.

Edit wrt Archival: Mostly, its being able to put the composition books away. Label and date the front of them so you can flip through them. I use different colors of covers so for any 4-5 of them I have "active" stand out and have fewer problems grabbing "the wrong book" when I know which color is which project. That's on the outside. On the inside, I reserve the first 5-6 pages for a handwritten table-of-contents that I update approximately monthly. All I do is dedicate one line per page in the book and summarize the contents of that page. This makes is easier to find relevant content inside without having to flip through 80 double-sided pages, I can skim 4-5 pages of topic lists.
When things get too old or irrelevant, dating them helps you figure out if you need to throw the books away. (This is why you don't spend big money on these books, e.g. I would feel really guilty about throwing away a nice Moleskine book, but no qualms at all about tossing a $2 comp-book.)
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"Actually that's the whole point, and that's what the Dart guys said they don't want to do and it's not fast enough."

Im 99% sure that the Dart team is building a VM with a JIT for Dart. There goal is to be faster then JS this will not be possible without some kind of JIT. Like I said, the question is if the have some kind of bytecode (any IR) that can be targeted. How else can the make a it fast? They send the sourcecode from the server to the client there is no time for a fully optimizing compiler.

"Like what? Name one (1) problem the JVM has had because of making bytecode available as a target."

Well the JVM dosn't have any problems the language running on it have problems.

"And the theoretical Dart VM would not even have to have those problems, because unlike Java/JVM, it can be designed from the start to be dynamic."

Dynamic typing is not the only problem of the JVM. Implmenting everything that every programming language needs is not possible. Sure you can design any VM and with time make it better for more and more languages.

This however comes with a price, for example VM complexity. Cliff Click who worked on the original Sun JVM and did a complete rewrite of it for Azul talks about this, why do you think it to that many years until the JVM bytecode changed? Complexity. If you really want to evolve the language your bytecode will have to change witch means the VM must change two. If Dart ran on an open Dart VM it would be much harder to change the VM and the overall implmentation.

My Final points:
(1) Designing a fast VM (bytecode, JIT, GC ....) is hard.
(2) If you want to make a VM that is good for many languages it even harder.
(3) Goole wants Dart not a generic VM (or at least the rather have a fast Dart short term then a generic VM with a Dart impmentation that takes much longer to develop and much more work to maintain.)
(4) I agree that we want generic Web VM.
(5) Somebody (w3c for example) should start a process to work on something like this. Gathering proposals, encourage smart people to thinkg about this.
Those are great questions.

I'm not sure the answer is clear.

What I do know for sure is the current system for paid research and funding is broken on several levels.

The advisor/advisee relationship and the whole idea of PhDs is a medieval system.

There are amazing PhDs doing amazing work. Norvig, Thrun and Ng certainly are, but there are some who have made a career out of publishing recycled variations on marginal insights, while it is increasingly difficult for young PhDs with fresh ideas to even get consideration for grants.

Open vs Closed is orthogonal to paid vs volunteer. Sure there is a lot of unpaid open source work, but a ton of the oss in use was written by people who were paid.

There is also an implication of what it means to develop and claim intellectual property, which I think most people on HN would agree is also somewhat broken in our current system.

I'm not the one with the answers, but I'm definitely going to keep asking questions.

I just want to finish with a Star Trek movie quote someone said the post reminded them of:

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The economics of the future is somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century.
Lily Sloane: No money? You mean, you don't get paid?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: We work to better ourselves.
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Couldn't you periodically poll the Clojure runtime for votes instead of processing logs? I thought Clojure made stuff like reporting easy. Just curious as someone new (1 day in) to Clojure.
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GoDaddy is exempt from SOPA
Didn't pledge but Jimbo's move made me make my first time Wikipedia donation.
Any chance you have any documentation on it or a bug report in to redhat/cent? details man, details!
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Relevant snippet from the article:

Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), the only member of Congress present at the hearing with any tech experience, having founded several web companies, introduced two amendments: one to exclude universities and non-profits from being subject do having to shut down their own domain servers if accused of piracy under SOPA, and the other to exempt dynamic IP addresses, such as those found on web-enabled printers. Both were voted down.

Polis pointed out that SOPA and Smith’s amendment already excluded certain operators of sub-domains, such as GoDaddy.com, from being subject to shutdowns under SOPA.

“If companies like GoDaddy.com are exempt, why aren’t non-commercial domain servers exempt?” Polis asked.
All you can do throwing money at the problem is buying time. The MPAA/RIAA/etc. will throw more money than us, because they can. It will be endless. They can create a new bill that is almost the same as SOPA, and then we would need to throw money against it again. And again, and again, and again.

If someone raises money to lobby the congress against SOPA, I'll contribute, but just to show that it won't work.
> Gandi.net [...] offer a free SSL certificate with each domain.

For one year. http://startssl.com/ offer them for free to anyone.
I wouldn't recommend stopping there, but it's fine for starting. I haven't moved forward since I'm barely using my tech license and have too many hobbies anyway. :)

I'm really pretty interested in learning CW, but haven't been able to dedicate time to it yet. I'm not even quite certain how to pick any up. Most of the time I go looking, I don't hear anything (I've only got 2m/6m/70cm equipment, though).
I was always pretty happy with the stability and speed of the DVs, but the prices are a lot higher than you can get elsewhere (linode, for example). You can get a dedicated dual quad with a heap of RAM and an SSD at a low price place like Server Beach for the same price as MT's 4 GB DV.
@wh-uws I meant that I have tried my hands at coding but I succumb to it and give up feeling I cannot grab the concepts
and the system admin stuff I have no issues with but although i could take system admin as a focus I feel with being an admin I cannot create something of my own and thats what keeps me going back to learning code. I keep switching languages and I believe that is what is screwing the efforts up.

Thank you for the link. Looks like a good read.
> have to update DNS records every time something changes on the host.

On the other hand, you might want to be able to do that rather than not be able to.

I'm thinking of the situation where your host goes down. If it is host-wide, your (their) DNS servers might be down too.

I intentionally use a different company for DNS than hosting, so if the host goes down I can point my DNS to somewhere else.
Seconded. I've been using Media Temple for a couple years now and they have always been pleasant to deal with.

GoDaddy has always been sketchy.
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I wonder if you have much to add to http://www.amazon.com/Debugging-Indispensable-Software-Hardw... (which I really like).

Rule 5: "Quit thinking and look" is (I think) equivalent to your "don't assume".

Rule 6: "Divide and Conquer".
I went with name.com as well. With the "NODADDY" coupon you get 10% off on transfers. My .coms were 6.65 I think.
Well, free in a sense, they charge $5+/year more than budget registrars.
So what if they are exempt, supporting SOPA is unacceptable.
How do you mean 'concealed'? If you fix the typo in your URL (Rogue, not Rouge) the list loads just fine.
They're guaranteed to be just as evil as before. They're just doing damage control: "Please stop leaving us in droves!"

It's naive to believe anything else.
@apsurd Thanks. Appreciate your response.
Yes I realize what you mean by getting involved in a complete application.
I set out to achieve the same but ever so often I try to choose a language to learn and then I just cannot grasp the concepts.

I keep figuring out should I learn Java first or should I go back to C that I learnt years ago. This is where I am stuck and I needed help with.
It appears to have been removed, although it's available in the history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:P_versus_NP_p....

Of course the proof is almost surely wrong...
Could you explain your archival system? If you're looking for something later do you have an index or something to find the right page?

I'm also one of those people who is obsessed with speed and neatness (a terrible combination) and if my notes are not beautiful I am loathe to keep them. How can one manage this tradeoff?
A prime example of the bubble the Valley is and how disconnected that can cause people living there to get from the reality of those that don't.

Writing a post on this idea soon coincidentally.
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I'm not sure on what basis you picked the comanies named on your list, but at least three of the four software companies you mentioned are incorrect, and two of those were never in support of SOPA other than by association with the BSA.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/246461/the_case_for_sopa_legi...
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This is the piece that allows you to telnet /into/ a new shiny FreeBSD box, for which there are no legitimate uses in 2011.

If they take this bit out, you can still telnet out to your embedded hardware, L2 switches, and the like.
I had never read Hacker Monthly. I will now probably subscribe.
Or they realize that "Occupy" is ineffective and has lost their "focus". Nobody where I work talks about it either.
Its a tough choice. If you stick to your guns then GoDaddy says "Gee it doesn't really matter what we think they left anyway." and go back to their SOPA money. Or people don't leave after they switch and they internalize that they have to be a bit more aware of their customers concerns and get better.

Of course there could be no level of 'customer' rational discourse at all they could just be trying to mitigate the damage and move on. But one would like to believe they could be trained by rewarding them for good behavior.

Just sayin'
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Sums up my feelings pretty well. Transferred everything to Gandi. Not so many domains (maybe 10), but I couldn't have my personal domains associated with a brand like Godaddy.

The casual sexism and stupidity of their ads always grated, but I simply didn't want to drop the money to leave. That was stupid of me, "carrying a poisonous scorpion on your back" stupid. No more.
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This doesn't happen to me often, but should I feel dumb for not knowing about kernel machines?

I'm thinking it's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_methods

Note to self: Put a very simple explanation (with at least one link) on every project landing page even if a total newb would have no use at all for your project.
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Schmidt's comment doesn't seem to be attacking their effectiveness, though; he seems to instead be arguing that there's no problem in the first place, because the economy is doing great, everyone is hiring, etc. Which, as the article notes, is only true in a very specific segment of the economy. Schmidt presumably just doesn't talk to anyone outside of that bubble.
No where in the article was there a call for a DDoS campaign. They're saying to be active in the protest of SOPA by putting it on your website and by encouraging other to do so as well:
"Encourage friends, businesses, organizations, social media to take a stand along side us in the same way. Use/distribute the OpBlackOut material we’ve provided for this purpose, or make your own (but please try to be concise and indict SOPA specifically so the message is clear, unanimous and omnipresent)"
It's only been a day or two. GoDaddy is getting free press but bad press. It's getting name recognition but not the kind it wants. This will have a dramatic effect on the image of the company, and personally I want to see how GoDaddy handles this and what effect it has on the company and its competitors, if any, as well as the effect on the bill's passage, if any. I'll agree that some of the revelry may be unwarranted, but this submission is still entirely relevant.