skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that. My wishing for next year was for Apple to move to a larger venue to have increased capacity, not to illegally stuff more people into an overcrowded venue.
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In college I tested a video game developed for the army. It wasn't combat related, but rather aimed to help soldiers learn to deal with the middle eastern cultural differences. Like various customs and what sorts of things would be considered offensive.
µTorrent for Mac released
Oh, one other comment regarding population explosions in general. I just got a tip from an inside source at the government that is top-secret classified information:

"SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!"
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But how do you change the actual logo of the podcast?
µTorrent gets a lot of praise, and for all I know rightly so, but I am curious about the advantages of µTorrent on Mac over Transmission. Glancing at the feature list, it seems like they're pretty equivalent.
On servers, Solaris is better than Linux

In terms of the quality of the software this may well be the case. However I've got lots of experience with Linux (especially Ubuntu) and little with Solaris. Familiarity means I can develop more quickly on Linux than on Solaris. T|ime is money. Even if, on the same hardware, Solaris runs faster, with the money I've saved on quicker development times, I can buy more expensive (and therefore faster) hardware.

BTW, of the programs you meantion, the only one I've ever heard of is ZFS; I've no idea what they others are or what they do -- maybe Sun need to be better about getting the message out on how good their system is.
Yeah, they were acquired by Automattic a couple months ago, but the same dudes are running the show at ID.
According to the chart on that page, at a much slower rate than Moore's law. So what is the implication of that for the Singularity? Will the increased demand for energy to power computation cheaply force the Singularity to wait until the energy growth curve catches up?

It is also relevant to note, I think, the current volatility in energy prices. We are having a difficult time already supplying all of humanity's energy demands.

Of course, as I note in another post Kurzweil has considered this and does not think it will be a significant barrier. I'm just curious about how the numbers work out.
Wow, I just saw this. I was an early lender on Prosper to the tune of $15k. I "invested" it over a couple of months in about 100 different loans. I was considering it a test before investing considerably more.

Well, the test didn't go well and I've been steadily withdrawing my money over the past couple of years. At the end of the day, I expect (pending the outcome of this new development) that I'll lose about $3k total.
I will?

Sorry, I've never bothered to recompile svn or python or many other things that my Linux install comes with. And I've use them every single day. For money. To feed my face hole.

Yes, when the time comes I can recompile anything on Ubuntu, but you know what? I'll take their already existing package, add patches, and easily create a .deb I can distribute among all the machines I use. Based on the existing package, with existing Ubuntu patches added that fix existing problems for me. Rather than going from scratch all alone in Solaris land.
The paradox of anti-procrastination: You cannot outsmart yourself.
To me, a big plus is UI. I just love µTorrent UI. If you have few torrents in Transmission, the window gets huge. µTorrent's window doesn't grow as Transmission's.
You would be right, but we've built a system that's stacked against the people I describe. The people I talk about can hack circles around me - but they never got high marks in school (family trouble, learning disability, etc.), and therefore never went to a prestigious college. Many employers' hiring practices are obscenely stacked against coders with no degrees (or even degrees from a "crappier" college).

What you're describing is the precise problem with legacy admissions - the fact that we are judging a person's skill set via the college they went to, and controlling people's futures as a result of our artificial interference with what ought to be a true meritocracy.

If people are objective, and looked at a person's hacking talent instead of whether or not they went to MIT, then I agree - these people can clearly carve a path for themselves despite not going to a prestigious school. But this is not the case.

For the record - the people I'm talking about do work on some insanely cool projects despite the fact that they don't go to well-known colleges, or have degrees at all, but they constantly struggle to be taken seriously. When they walk into an interview (if they're lucky enough to get one) the fact that they come from some podunk college automatically tilts the playing field far away from them.

To try to be objective - I don't think we can really correct people's perception that people from "good schools" perform better. So instead of fighting this false presumption, let's make sure we stack our college student body with truly qualified and talented people.
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Yes but he has 10 years experience developing for the iPhone.
Not sure exactly what you are trying to do, and why you would go through the overhead of one of these programs.

Why not just write the html yourself, or use something like google sites?

I think you'd spend more time learning to use one of these tools (and looking for and deciding which one) than it would take you to build a site.

If you really don't think you have the chops for writing your own html, or don't think google sites or something similar is for you, how about having somebody set up a joomla or drupal site for you?
µTorrent on Windows was leaps and bounds faster than other Windows clients (at least it was a couple years ago when I tested them). I'm not sure if the same is true for the Mac version, but if so I'm looking forward to switching to µTorrent.
it is really not that much. You should not under-charge. Ask for 30% returns, if somebody comes at you with less than $125-$150/hr rate.

Remember, you are doing hard work, and price it accordingly, and what to the market bears.
Engineers tend underestimate they value of their work. Try to find a good lawyer for less than $600/hr.
After my Thinkpad T30 got increasingly flaky (the memory slot failure issue hit me, then a MB flex issue (picking up the laptop on one specific corner causes the unit to freeze) as well as a cracked screw requiring a full disassembly to retrieve the loose metal), I did some extensive research online for a solid laptop which is not the newest model (so that bug reports can filter in).

I also ended up with a Dell Latitude D630. It's built like a tank, much more solid than my T30, easier to disassemble as well. I could not find any widely reported problems with this laptop. Note that because this is a business laptop, it only has a mono speaker buried under the keyboard, it's my only complaint.
It's like defense in soccer. The way you can tell when it's good is that nothing happens.
Tell me about it. That Lifehack top ten list was way off.
UTorrent Releases Long-Awaited Mac Version
Perhaps this cost will be the overhead of managing the increasing amount of information, with its storage, indexing, and relationships.
You could have a computer that can simulate one brain (or whatever "equivalent" means), but runs 6 billion times as fast as a human's -- or any of those factors in between (1000 brains, 6 million times speed).
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I find it amusing that the article quotes Jim Prentice - probably the crony-est corporate lap-dog in Canadian politics. Telecom in Canada is really, really broken, and Jim Prentice keeps preaching about the choice in the free market, despite the fact that there are only two monopolies to choose from (Telus and Bell are the same entity for all intents and purposes, and then there's Rogers), who both share the exact same pricing structure, almost down to the penny.

The CRTC (similar to the FCC in the US) mandated that the major telcos must provide their DSL lines at a wholesale rate to 3rd party ISPs, which worked wonders - except the third parties managed to undercut the existing player's price, with better service. The answer to this was to heavily throttle 3rd party lines, and Prentice will not do jack squat about it.

Canada would be a much better place if that slimebag is out of a job.
Spams even on the Brands of google
16. WebKit
Ditto. I've been working with the SDK since the day it was released, have a few years of Mac dev experience, and am currently working towards releasing my first iPhone app... now I feel like a sucker for not doing this on contract!
Truly. The converse is also true, it has got companies into trouble when these companies offer great opportunities ( names, tasks, relationship, etc ) to students, these students or their professors start to get really cheesy...

nasty stuffs.. IP, lots of companies/people learnt their lessons.
For speed, you can run rtorrent which is just a command line client. It also has a lot of nice options which may not be available in a gui.

http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/rtorrent/rtorrent.1.html

http://rtorrent.darwinports.com/
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Perhaps there is a market for an agent who can negotiate salary and benefits once you've been offered a job.

In theory, the agent will be experienced and can go toe-to-toe with the recruiter on your behalf.
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I'm surprised how easily people equate "duplication of the mind" with "immortality". I'm agnostic when it comes to god, and I'm agnostic about that piece of the singularity. Maybe someday we'll have enough knowledge of the mind and reality to know for sure that "the self" really is just a bunch of organic bits in the ol' noggin, but anyone claiming to know that answer right now is too presumptuous.
I interned at Apple Summer of 2006. I got great reviews and they even asked me to work part-time during the school year, I agreed and mentioned that we can figure out the whole full time thing later (i.e. what group I would work in - I really wanted to work on Apple TV, iTunes, etc...).

Then, one day, I was asked to come into my manager's office. She said "Congratulations, here's your full time offer!" I saw the deadline of 9/11 (2 weeks) and asked if I could have an extension. She quickly said that everyone was expecting that I would sign today and there is no way she can extend it. The recruiter also told me that she couldn't extend it and that she "didn't care about my school's rules." I went to my career counselor to see if he could make something happen (The offer was ok but all my friends got offered at least 10% more - and the recruiter said the don't negotiate).

Then I get a call from my manager, she asks me to come to the office. I walk in, she says "We're going to have to rescind the offer and ask that you stop working part time." It was pretty traumatic, couldn't even check-in my latest work - just had to pack my things and leave - I was actually fired!

Next spring applied to Y-combinator, got rejected...I now work for a search engine in Mountain View, CA where they not only gave me my best offer but gave me a 20% raise within my first year. Still, I wish I had a chance to work full-time at the mothership in Cupertino.
Damn, I need to start billing my clients more for this stuff.
Not trying to sound like a fanboy but perhaps that's because -- aside from Apple's minor faults that any armchair critic can pick out in retrospect -- they are truly one of the few consumer technology companies driving the market forward aggressively.
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The Malthusian curve occurs because progress impedes progress. The more you grow, the less resources you have to grow with.

Technology doesn't work that way. Technology feeds technology. Therefore, the curve will not look like the Malthus curve.

Kurzweil doesn't claim it'll actually go forever. That's a strawman. He simply observes that technology feeding technology is a different shape.

Technology feeding technology would probably look more like a exponential curve that hits a very sudden wall at the limit point, whatever it may be, rather than a gradual falloff.
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Replace "recruiter" with "venture capitalist", "college student" with "entrepreneur", and "offer" with "term sheet" and you have an equally valid essay.
Kurzweil deals with this "S-curve" phenomenon extensively in his books. He shows that each individual computing technology follows an S curve, but the exponential price-performance of computation continues through a smooth transition to the next method. For example, as vacuum tube computing saturated, transistor computing picked up. This is not a coincidence; as one technology reaches saturation, resources flow to the bottleneck, fostering the next technique in the chain.

Intel hit just such a wall a few years ago with the size of its gates. Many had predicted, based on this bottleneck, that Moore's Law might end some time around 2003-2005. Intel's CTO Justin Rattner explained at this year's Singularity Summit that there are smart people at Intel, and they found a way around the problem. In fact, the transition was so smooth that few people even noticed.

And so it goes. The computational capacity of matter is effectively infinite on the scale of current technology, so there's no reason to expect computation to saturate for a long time. Barring a global cataclysm, it's hard to see anything standing in the way of a technological singularity some time in the next 50-100 years.
You're thinking with modern technology, not future technology. What if $1000 (minus change to account for resource usage) bought me a computer seed that grew into a massive supercomputer in some relatively-short timeframe?

If self-replicating technology is possible, then $1000 for that much computer power would actually be a ripoff.

(I'm not claiming that such a thing is possible, per se. But then again, we are such seeds ourselves, or rather, seeds that grow one human's worth of computing power, so it's hard to argue that this is physically impossible. People who doubt this is possible need to explain why we're going to run out of progress before we figure out enough about biology to trick some existing organism into doing something like this for us. We don't even have to build the things ourselves...)

Arguing about whether the singularity is possible is a waste of time. Truth is that according to the original definition, it's pretty much inevitable, according to the physics we already know and the engineering that we can almost already do. The real argument people are trying to have is over the final limits of technology, and an awful lot of people argue for limits that are far, far too low, with very feasible paths for passing the limits plainly in view even today.
And hope you never want to work there in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if some companies blacklist you for doing something like that.
Genius, scambaiting salespeople and recruiters.

We need a variant of 419eater.com for this.
No, that's not what I said.

I don't know why my post was modded down. Apparently atheists are highly discriminated against, even within "enlightened" groups.

To my astonishment a very recent Gallup poll indicated that, of many groupings, atheists were _least_ likely to be elected President of the US (e.g., _well_ behind Mormons, homosexuals, 72-year-olds, etc.):

http://www.gallup.com/poll/26611/Some-Americans-Reluctant-Vo...

I knew it was bad, but didn't realize just _how_ bad.
It depends how far away our ability to reanimate them is. I don't know how many thousands or tens of thousands of unidentified people (or ones otherwise taken care of by the state) die every year. In a stable population the per capita cost of keeping them all would keep increasing.

Moreover, what would we do with them? Copy their consciousness into a computer some day? Who pays for that? And does it really soften the blow of losing a loved one? I don't think having a copy of my dead mother would make me feel any better about the real one having passed on.

Would we grow them new bodies? What does that cost and who pays for that? Would they even want that? Do we have the right to make that decision for them? If we reanimate everyone who dies, how quickly can our country no longer sustain such a rapidly increasing population?

All of this just seems like an illogical reaction to the death of a loved one. I don't mean that to be rude (I've had my own illogical reactions) but it's just not feasible, especially for a technology that we're not sure will ever amount to anything.
Eh, banks weren't really ripping people off (I'm assuming you're talking about subprime mortgages) because the banks didn't stand to gain from it unless the people they lent to did as well.

They weren't malicious, they were just stupid.
go for it!

It's quite a kick seeing your code running on the iPhone (or iPod in my case), much different to just writing normal code and having it run on the screen.
Shameless plug: if you're sitting on the right data to make any of these happen and are interested in trying to throw something together, drop me a line. There are a couple of the wishlist items on there that map pretty well to the model that we use in our recommendation engine.
If you need an iPhone developer and are prepared to pay that much, contact me... (email is in profile).
I think Sun should offer Sparc chips at half the price of Intel chips.
Due to the intrinsic cultural diversity, each State in India cannot efficiently govern (legislate,administer,justice) more than 2 million citizens per State.

Hence India should 'decentralize' 604 districts into States or Cantons as in Switzerland.

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I'm not a developer but I've managed to lasso a few guys together through equity-based compensation on the profit from sales of version 1-1.x. At version 2, terms are open for renegotiation by either party. This clause is to protect myself in the event we need to raise money for aggressive features, or the developer's interest begins to taper. There are other clauses in place if the developer doesn't want to support the app, but that's getting into details.

I'd rather keep my partners around because of the trust we've established. What's good for them is good for me, especially if they can quit their day job off the sales of our products. Version 2 features are going to take a lot of hard work.

I really don't have any interest in paying developers cash because to maintain a competitive app in the store, you can't just build it once and put it out there. For some apps, that may work... but if you're trying to build a lasting mobile app company, you have to stand behind your product(s), add features, and continuously improve... I wish I had the money to pay these guys for their full-time attention, month after month... but I don't so the only way to get that is to share the success.

It's not easy finding partners this way, especially with the markets taking a dump... What I did that I believe helped was in the presentation of the idea to the developers. I'm the designer, so I was able to mock up very solid prototypes for them to get a better understanding of what I was looking to accomplish.
uTorrent has awesome RSS functionality built in. I seem to remember Transmission's being nonexistent. Plus I just generally liked the UI much better. I had both running side by side at one point.
DNSSEC is a debacle of epic proportions. It has taken over 13 years for that one standards effort to solidify to the point where it is today, which is a "secure DNS" protocol where there is still no real agreement on how to prevent arbitrary people on the Internet from dumping the contents of your zone files.

I predict, without any real evidence to back me up, that DNSSEC is DOA for a simple reason: the total Internetwide deployment of resolver libraries with a "gethostbyname()" interface; none of these libraries can handle transient or "soft" DNS security failures. SSL, a protocol that is far, far easier to deploy and manage than DNSSEC, sees transient errors so often that users are rebelling against the size of the error messages Firefox generates for them. DNSSEC transient failures kill your lookup.

I can give lots of other reasons why DNSSEC isn't going to work, but that's one you might not have thought of.
Ask HN: How do you experiment to determine the right model w/o alienating users?
We learn a ton by making tweaks and seeing how our potential customers react (pricing, how products are bundled, how trials work, terms of the subscription, etc). At some point though this experimentation process has diminishing returns in the form of alienating users (they get confused or pissed off and we're perceived as wishywashy).

So my question is how do other startups juggle the tradeoff of wanting to rapidly iterate and get to the optimal "configuration of dials" vs. keeping consistency of the offering to earn the trust of users?
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Nah, if Twitter actually had revenue, it would be too easy to evaluate what the company is worth.
The Storm is good hardware wise, but crappy software wise. It uses BB OS 4.7, which is the 4.x code base with some improvements, basically a 4+ years old OS, NOT designed for multimedia and the average consumer in mind.

Giving Rim's history, I wouldn't be suprised if they are working on a brand new 5.0 OS, and they will release it for the current phones (BOLD and STORM). After all they did the same, where many devices with 3.6 could upgrade to 4.0 for free.
We're operating on different technological assumptions here. Cryonics reanimation takes nanotech and quite possibly machine superintelligence, both of which are self-replicating technologies. The software might be expensive, as 'twere, but that's a one-time cost.

Regarding the thing with "copies", that's a complex issue and I can only refer you to the entire sequence on personal identity on Overcoming Bias:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/qm-and-identity.html
Nice release, but looks like there's a lot of features missing in this beta, like Labels, RSS, etc.
I don't know why you think pointing our that Card is harming America is in bad taste. A bit off-topic perhaps. The guy is a decent writer and persuasive, but repeatedly writes articles full of blatant fallacies to convince people of harmful things. Homophobia, liberal media bias, global warming, etc. He's like a conservative Michael Moore.
30% returns sounds like a "You give me large amounts of labor at below-market prices today and in return I give you equity!" This sounds like a fairly decent arrangement for an engineer straight out of college who wants to make a go of a startup and, uh, stupid for a professional with an in-demand skill in a sellers' market.

You think their lawyer is getting paid $20 an hour with the remainder to come as a percentage of revenues assuming Marketing does their jobs right? (That's always the stickler with engineers getting equity: you might think you are contributing the most important piece of the puzzle, but really, your contribution can and will be squandered if everybody else doesn't perform at or above your level. There are many, many startups who had top-flight engineers married with "We'll sell pet food on the Internet and make a fortune!"-esque business models.)
I'm not sure what point you think this makes. That comment would be an appropriate response to someone writing an article about how space travel will free us from the fear of death and how we can only really have hope if we are spacehumanists.